A
Breef
Discourse
HAuing
tasted
of
the
insatiable
sea
of
sowsing
sorowes
,
and
drunk
of
the
careful
cup
of
peruerce
perturbations
aswel
of
minde
as
of
body
:
I
finde
by
proof
that
dreadfull
Death
(
at
the
naming
wherof
we
tremble
,
is
the
dissoluer
of
our
continuall
cares
,
troublesome
cogitations
&
mans
moste
miserable
misery
,
which
to
approoue
&
verifie
,
let
vs
first
call
vnto
rememberance
the
gréeuous
gronings
of
our
painful
Parents
in
the
time
of
our
natiuitie
and
education
.
For
with
what
wéeping
,
wayling
,
sobing
and
sighing
at
our
first
enterance
into
this
vale
of
misery
are
we
beyond
all
measure
moste
gréeuously
afflicted
?
The
wery
watchings
the
colde
and
long
winter
nights
,
the
rising
,
the
rocking
the
lulling
,
the
lamenting
&
all
to
asswage
our
passions
intollerable
(
which
we
then
scarsly
knowe
although
we
moste
sharpely
féel
)
might
be
a
meane
to
daunt
our
haughty
harts
,
&
to
a
bandon
our
lewd
liues
,
liuing
in
these
careful
calamities
oppressed
with
sorowes
innumerable
.
But
(
alas
)
the
first
Act
being
finished
:
we
enter
into
another
kinde
of
life
(
seuere
and
strict
,
as
yunglings
doo
think
it
)
which
is
going
to
scoole
to
lern
the
precepts
of
Philosophie
,
&
wayes
to
vertu
,
wherby
we
become
of
monsters
:
men
,
of
sencelesse
soules
:
learned
lights
,
(
notwithstanding
indéed
some
for
the
attaining
therof
bide
many
a
sharp
shower
,
with
carefull
and
gréeuous
correction
)
which
in
my
minde
might
often
be
wun
sooner
with
mildnes
of
the
Maister
,
then
with
much
seueritie
.
When
we
haue
got
learning
,
by
reason
wherof
we
are
called
in
the
Commonwelth
,
to
some
publike
Office
,
and
are
the
méeter
to
deale
in
our
priuat
affaires
,
wherin
our
studyes
are
incessant
,
our
cares
continuall
,
&
our
seruice
moste
painful
to
perfoorme
our
pretended
purposes
and
the
discharge
of
our
desired
duties
.
Héer
,
héer
beginneth
the
tragicall
discourse
of
our
gréeuous
gronings
&
vnfortunat
troubles
,
at
which
time
we
think
to
reap
some
solace
for
our
late
sustained
sorowes
,
but
euen
then
a
thousand
of
troubles
,
nay
a
hel
of
miseries
vpon
our
heads
,
when
we
think
our selues
in
greatest
safetie
and
moste
securitie
.
For
Matrimony
so
presseth
vs
diuers
wayes
as
scarsly
can
we
bend
our
studyes
to
any
good
perfection
,
it
taketh
away
our
liked
libertie
and
bringeth
these
incombrances
,
a
Iangling
wife
,
vnquiet
Children
,
brawling
(
&
sometimes
)
vntrustie
seruants
,
with
innumerable
such
like
torments
,
therfore
all
these
being
wel
wayed
,
it
may
séem
to
the
vertuous
and
honest
minde
,
such
a
warfare
of
woes
,
and
such
a
tempest
of
troubles
as
he
might
think
(
and
iustly
say
)
that
Death
is
the
looser
of
mans
moste
lamentable
liuing
,
and
the
dissoluer
of
this
wretched
state
&
cares
incomperable
.
Morouer
there
is
such
Enuy
in
many
,
such
Pride
in
generall
,
and
such
séeking
for
gain
:
as
the
vnquietnes
of
this
life
is
rather
to
be
lothed
,
then
the
pleasuers
therof
to
be
wished
or
desired
.
Doo
we
not
sée
,
what
priuie
detracting
,
what
Enuious
maligning
,
what
cruell
conspiring
,
and
all
for
offices
,
libertie
and
lordly
liuing
.
The
husbandman
not
content
with
his
estate
,
séeketh
to
liue
like
a
Lord
rather
then
an
inferior
person
and
would
become
of
woorse
then
a
yeoman
:
a
gentleman
and
so
forwards
.
But
marke
the
vnquietnes
of
their
mindes
,
for
though
no
delay
may
daunt
them
,
no
calamities
controule
them
:
yet
the
supernall
powers
perceiuing
their
ambitious
intention
in
a
moment
(
by
Death
)
throweth
downe
hedlong
that
they
vainly
pretended
and
deuelishly
attempted
.
O
if
we
which
beare
the
names
of
men
,
would
but
once
remember
the
end
of
all
which
is
Death
,
assuredly
,
assuredly
,
then
would
burning
hatred
be
cold
,
secret
matire
ly
dead
and
be
quite
quenched
in
the
ashes
.
But
care
to
maintaine
this
life
with
abundance
,
ambition
,
pomp
,
pleasures
,
riches
,
ryot
,
Libertie
,
same
,
good
fortune
,
fauour
,
Fréendship
and
goodly
countenance
is
so
super
abundant
,
as
neither
can
we
take
our
desired
rest
quietly
,
eat
or
drink
merily
,
nor
doo
any
moderat
action
to
the
contentation
of
our
afflicted
mindes
,
so
gréeuously
are
we
turned
on
the
whéel
of
carking
care
continually
.
I
haue
red
in
the
auncient
Annualls
of
the
renowmed
Romains
of
the
ciuil
warres
betwixt
the
puisant
Pompey
and
the
coragious
Caesar
,
only
for
Ambition
and
desire
of
a
sole
Regiment
,
whose
cares
were
continuall
,
the
one
séeking
the
ouerthrowe
of
the
other
,
which
Death
first
vsing
the
Tutors
of
young
Ptolome
as
his
instrument
sléew
Pompeyus
and
sent
his
head
vnto
Cesar
,
who
séeing
it
:
(
as
writers
report
)
wept
.
But
by
the
hands
of
Brutus
and
Cassius
,
Caesars
life
was
shortly
after
finished
,
for
they
in
the
stately
Senat
house
of
Roome
gaue
three
and
twentie
wounds
with
Penkniues
or
bodkins
moste
cruelly
bereuing
Caesar
of
his
lofty
life
.
O
detestable
desire
of
glory
,
Oh
deuelish
deuice
for
honor
,
Oh
vanquisher
of
Vertue
,
couldst
thou
not
be
satisfied
vntil
thou
hadest
the
life
of
goodly
Caesar
,
who
(
as
Ignatius
saith
)
was
moste
wise
in
counsail
,
ful
of
eloquence
,
profound
in
wisdome
,
valiant
in
strength
of
body
,
expert
in
marshall
affaires
,
and
finally
in
him
no
exellent
qualitie
lacked
that
was
requisit
for
any
noble
man
?
I
could
tell
you
likewise
how
Tiberius
was
dispatched
by
the
hands
of
Caligula
for
the
gouernment
and
domination
of
the
Empier
of
the
Romains
,
and
how
Caligula
had
his
deadly
wound
of
Tiberius
Drusus
,
who
gouerned
a
short
time
,
the
Regiment
of
that
kingdome
with
infinit
such
like
.
Thus
may
you
sée
héere
that
Death
hath
ended
their
couetous
conceits
and
ambicious
desires
,
bridled
their
wilful
wils
,
and
restrained
their
wicked
entents
.
Death
is
feareful
,
yea
but
the
losse
of
eternall
life
is
more
to
be
feared
,
death
depriueth
vs
of
honors
,
worldly
renowne
,
riches
,
Fréends
,
Parents
and
children
:
yea
but
if
we
forgoe
the
Crowne
of
imortall
glory
,
the
heauenly
Riches
,
the
company
of
our
déer
fréends
Moyses
and
the
Prophets
,
and
the
societie
of
our
first
Parents
Adam
&
Eue
,
and
their
children
;
Seth
,
Enos
,
Kenam
,
Mchalael
,
Iered
Henoch
,
and
Methuselah
,
who
liued
in
this
Pilgrimage
nine
hundreth
thréescore
&
nine
yéeres
,
this
is
a
greater
losse
&
much
more
to
be
feared
.
Death
abandoneth
our
delicate
delights
,
our
pleasant
Pastimes
,
our
worldly
solace
,
&
taketh
from
vs
all
our
bagges
golde
of
&
siluer
,
our
treasures
,
our
famous
buildings
with
all
the
rest
of
our
ioyes
.
Yea
but
in
stéed
of
them
it
restoreth
vs
to
a
celestiall
place
fol
of
blessednes
&
inspekable
felicities
which
no
eye
hath
séen
,
But
yet
you
think
that
golde
can
redéem
you
from
gréet
,
Siluer
from
sorowe
,
and
déeds
from
Death
,
no
I
tell
you
they
are
rather
means
to
hasten
your
dispatch
,
then
to
linger
your
delay
.
For
(
as
Bion
reporteth
)
Arristippus
a
very
wise
Philosopher
had
a
Seruant
who
was
ouer
charged
with
the
waight
and
charge
of
his
Maisters
money
,
therfore
bidden
by
his
maister
to
cast
away
the
ouerplus
and
carry
that
which
he
might
with
his
ease
,
which
doon
:
Aristippus
happening
to
be
on
the
Sea
with
Pirats
threw
all
his
Golde
and
Siluer
into
the
waues
therof
,
saying
:
better
it
were
that
all
this
géere
be
throwne
away
by
Aristippus
then
Aristippus
by
them
:
meaning
that
the
kéeping
of
the
money
might
procure
him
a
dismall
day
he
béeing
in
the
company
of
such
falce
and
fained
fréends
.
Not
much
vnlike
to
this
I
finde
(
as
the
worthy
Poets
record
in
their
moste
sacred
Verses
,
)
how
Arion
the
exellent
and
cuning
Musition
,
who
for
to
encrease
his
knowledge
in
forren
contries
,
and
to
augment
his
estate
in
gathering
golde
,
for
sooke
Lesbos
his
owne
natiue
soyle
and
Contry
,
and
sayling
into
Scicile
remained
there
a
season
,
from
thence
he
traueled
into
Italie
,
where
hauing
got
his
wished
desire
of
gaine
,
and
pretending
to
passe
to
Corinth
being
a
Ship
boord
in
moste
safty
as
he
thought
with
his
owne
contrie
men
,
they
vnderstanding
what
riches
he
had
:
sought
by
all
meanes
priuily
how
to
slay
him
:
but
he
perceiuing
their
intent
:
desired
of
them
to
take
his
golde
and
other
treasures
and
saue
his
life
,
which
they
would
not
agrée
vnto
,
but
graunted
him
that
he
should
throwe
him self
into
the
waues
of
the
Sea
hedlong
and
so
stoppe
his
breth
for
that
he
should
not
bewray
their
mischeuous
Act
of
Robbery
,
wherfore
with
abundance
of
teares
:
he
requested
the
Marriners
,
nay
rather
.
Théeues
and
Pirats
(
for
no
other
term
can
I
better
giue
than
)
to
grant
him
his
lamentable
Lute
and
eke
his
mourning
Roab
,
which
béeing
obtained
,
he
sung
to
his
sollemn
Lute
a
sory
song
,
and
so
amiddest
the
surging
Sea
did
sée
the
face
of
Death
yet
being
aliue
.
But
for
all
that
he
was
deliuered
by
the
help
of
a
Dolphin
fish
who
presently
receiued
him
on
her
back
and
moste
safely
conuaied
him
a
shore
when
he
least
looked
for
any
such
mater
.
I
remember
that
the
renowned
Poet
Maro
in
his
Eneidos
of
the
destruction
of
the
famous
Citie
of
Troy
writeth
how
the
ancient
and
wise
King
Priamus
fearing
lest
the
mightie
Gréekes
should
ouerthrowe
and
vtterly
destroy
all
the
regall
blood
and
Issue
there
:
sent
his
yungest
sonne
Pollidorus
to
his
cosen
Pollimnestor
being
a
King
,
hauing
a
great
some
of
Golde
with
him
to
minister
vnto
the
Infant
necessaries
.
Polimnestor
made
much
of
Pollidorus
so
long
as
his
Father
Priamus
liued
,
but
he
being
dead
:
the
cruell
Tirant
for
the
gréedines
of
his
golde
,
slew
him
moste
vnnaturally
to
his
shame
,
dishonor
,
reproch
,
and
perpetuall
infamie
.
Wherin
we
may
perceiue
what
little
saue
gard
is
in
golden
riches
,
&
how
vnstable
fortune
is
,
somtimes
fauning
,
sontimes
frowning
,
somtime
content
,
somtimes
displeased
,
and
lastly
the
little
looue
of
fained
fréends
&
vnkind
kinsmen
for
their
priuate
profit
how
it
is
soon
forgotten
and
ended
,
so
that
we
may
wel
think
,
it
is
better
to
rest
from
our
Labours
then
with
paine
continually
to
toyl
against
nature
,
the
common
miserie
,
the
vnknowne
paines
,
the
pinching
penurie
,
the
sobbings
,
the
sorowings
the
trauelings
,
the
toylings
,
the
sower
Bread
of
heauynes
,
the
bitter
drink
of
carefulnes
,
the
afflictions
,
as
imprisonment
,
derth
,
Fire
and
swoord
,
which
before
our
eyes
we
rufully
doo
beholde
,
the
innocent
opressed
,
the
poore
man
persecuted
,
the
rich
man
regarded
,
Falshod
fauored
,
Trueth
neglected
&
all
goodnes
quite
deuoured
,
dooth
or
may
driue
vs
to
think
the
happy
and
thrise
happy
is
he
that
hath
passed
this
laborsome
Laborinth
in
the
pathes
of
Vertue
,
goodnes
&
honesty
,
and
come
to
the
happy
Hauen
of
rest
&
quietnesse
which
is
through
Death
the
disoluere
of
mans
misery
.
For
what
other
thing
meanes
the
Poets
when
they
paint
out
Vlisses
,
tedious
troubles
,
his
perilous
passages
,
somtimes
lighting
on
Poliphemus
a
terrible
Giant
redy
to
deuower
him
,
somtimes
on
the
wanton
Dame
Calipso
redy
to
allure
him
,
otherwhiles
passing
by
the
shoares
where
the
subtel
Sirens
were
redy
to
drowne
his
Barke
by
the
inchantment
of
their
meruelous
Mellody
,
for
the
resisting
wherof
(
being
gouerned
by
the
graue
aduice
of
prudent
Pallas
)
he
was
faine
to
stop
his
eares
with
wax
,
to
binde
him self
to
the
Mast
of
the
ship
&
to
feed
of
the
swéet
hearb
Molie
which
was
giuen
him
by
Mercury
to
auoid
all
the
incantations
of
Circe
,
with
the
rest
of
like
trechery
?
Nothing
I
say
but
to
paint
out
vnto
vs
(
as
in
a
glasse
)
that
Man
is
a
mirror
of
misery
,
subiect
to
many
hard
aduentures
,
and
in
daunger
of
many
perrils
:
Sathan
our
olde
Enemie
redy
to
pray
on
vs
if
our
owne
mighty
captain
Christe
were
not
(
in
our
distresses
)
redy
to
defend
vs
against
his
subtil
assaults
,
without
all
doubt
wée
should
soone
become
Bondslaues
to
all
sinne
and
iniquitie
,
the
wanton
Allurements
and
wicked
entisements
of
Dame
Pleasures
with
her
minsing
mates
are
so
dressed
vp
in
gallant
brauery
as
hardly
can
we
saue
our
Barkes
and
bodyes
from
drowning
in
the
waues
and
woorks
of
wicked
vanitie
,
were
it
not
that
our
great
God
Iehouah
the
heauenly
wisdome
by
his
good
Counsaile
dooth
giue
vs
Vertuous
Precepts
of
good
liuing
to
the
contrary
.
I
cannot
forget
the
notable
misfortunes
and
euill
chaunces
of
Oedipus
(
written
by
Euripides
)
in
slaying
his
Father
Laius
marying
his
owne
Mother
Iocasta
of
whom
he
begat
his
two
infortunat
sonnes
Polynices
and
Eteocles
,
who
after
the
Citizens
of
Thebes
had
exiled
their
Father
:
fel
in
contention
one
with
another
for
the
seat
of
gouernment
.
For
the
gréef
of
these
former
wickednes
Oedipus
plucked
out
his
owne
eyes
and
became
an
exile
,
and
would
often
if
his
Daughter
Antigone
had
not
hindered
him
with
glistering
blade
wrought
his
owne
finall
destruction
,
but
he
often
wished
to
dye
in
vaine
,
yet
at
the
last
he
was
with
a
flame
of
lightning
from
heauen
sudenly
strooken
to
death
.
The
mening
as
we
may
partely
gather
by
sence
&
reason
is
,
that
the
wickednes
of
our
desires
in
Venus
deuelish
delightes
are
so
great
that
(
for
the
attaining
therof
)
we
wil
not
let
to
murther
our
Parents
,
kinsmen
&
fréends
yea
&
then
to
mary
in
our
owne
blood
and
consanguinitie
,
whervpon
it
comes
to
passe
that
our
ofspring
,
our
children
or
some
of
them
througth
the
sinne
of
the
Parents
violently
and
with
all
rigor
séek
by
all
means
to
percecute
one
another
,
yea
euen
to
Death
.
All
which
detestable
dealings
being
séen
of
the
thundering
Iupiter
:
he
of
his
mercy
striketh
vs
vnawares
with
his
Rod
of
correction
and
whippeth
vs
with
his
scourge
of
Vengeance
by
lightenings
,
thunderings
,
earthquakes
,
Tempests
,
strange
noyses
,
rumors
of
warres
,
visions
,
inundations
of
waters
,
Pestilences
,
new
and
strange
diseases
called
Gentle
warnings
,
and
somtime
sudden
Death
to
the'nd
we
might
repent
vs
of
our
sinne
and
be
the
more
redier
when
awful
Atropos
shall
with
her
deadly
darte
sommon
vs
before
the
great
and
terrible
Iudge
,
either
to
our
saluation
if
we
repent
and
amend
:
or
els
to
our
condemnation
if
we
liue
and
dye
without
repentance
.
Now
what
is
the
life
of
man
wherof
he
so
much
bosteth
?
I
wil
answer
partly
with
Arristotle
,
the
pray
of
Time
,
the
play
of
Fortune
,
the
image
of
vnconstancie
,
the
slaue
of
Enuy
,
the
sea
of
worldly
calamitie
:
a
fading
flower
,
a
buble
of
water
,
a
blast
of
winde
,
a
fléeting
shadow
,
a
smothering
smoke
,
a
péeuish
pilgrimage
:
a
slumbering
sléep
(
which
as
graue
Homer
tearmeth
it
)
is
the
brother
of
Death
,
a
Stage
play
the
Acts
wherof
are
vncertain
and
the
length
before
we
come
to
the
Catastrop
or
end
of
our
Comicall
action
is
inforsed
with
infinit
mischefes
,
the
relefer
where
of
is
dolful
Death
that
inuincible
Champion
.
For
euen
as
he
which
saileth
on
the
Sea
by
winde
,
time
,
and
tides
whether
he
be
sitting
or
standing
,
lying
or
going
,
sléeping
or
waking
at
last
(
all
perils
passed
:
)
entreth
the
wished
port
of
saftie
.
So
the
life
of
man
by
course
of
age
and
yéeres
wil
he
nil
he
(
how
soeuer
he
spend
his
tickled
time
:
)
continually
is
caried
to
the
end
of
his
painful
dayes
,
and
to
the
finishing
of
his
carefull
course
to
the
happy
harborow
of
eternall
life
,
for
as
life
flieth
a
way
with
the
wings
of
time
:
so
Death
draweth
on
with
the
féet
of
age
.
But
forasmuch
(
as
Enius
thinketh
)
that
that
Death
is
not
to
be
lamented
the
which
immortall
Fame
foloweth
.
Therfore
he
which
hath
sung
much
is
not
the
best
Musicion
,
nor
he
that
hath
gouerned
the
Ship
longest
is
the
perfetest
Pilot
,
nor
he
that
hath
béen
longest
at
the
Vniuersitie
is
the
best
student
:
but
he
which
hath
doon
it
the
soonest
,
quicklyest
,
and
perfectest
.
So
to
knit
vp
in
bréef
(
if
alredy
I
haue
not
béen
to
tedious
)
I
wil
end
saying
that
not
he
which
liueth
longest
is
moste
blessedest
because
of
his
siluer
heres
and
long
time
:
but
he
which
hath
liued
wel
and
soonst
trod
his
footsteps
in
the
path
of
Vertue
,
and
dyed
an
honorable
Death
,
is
the
man
that
may
be
accounted
moste
hapyest
.
Death
dissolueth
Dollors
.
The
Authors
muse
vpon
this
life
in
manner
of
a
Dittie
.
I
Musing
in
my
mestiue
minde
,
of
this
vaine
fléeting
life
:
By
perfect
proofe
this
doo
I
finde
,
t
is
nothing
els
but
strife
.
Which
when
I
sée
the
pinching
,
paine
wherwith
poore
men
are
prest
:
I
déeme
him
happiest
that
hath
this
gaine
,
by
Christe
eternall
rest
.
For
héer
I
sée
our
cares
abound
,
and
sorowes
stil
encrease
:
And
neuer
lin
til
vnder
ground
,
our
corps
doo
lye
at
ease
.
Our
labor
then
is
ended
sure
,
and
blessedst
is
that
wight
.
That
greatest
gréefs
did
here
endure
,
and
led
a
life
moste
right
.
For
héer
such
spitefulnes
dooth
raine
,
such
swelling
Pride
aloft
:
Such
séeking
all
for
worldly
gain
.
such
sinne
so
déerly
bought
.
Such
carking
cares
to
kéep
this
life
,
in
brauest
port
and
Fame
:
Such
séeking
stil
for
pleasures
ryfe
,
such
follyes
fond
and
vaine
.
Such
breaking
sléeps
,
such
tugging
toyle
,
such
watchings
and
such
wiles
:
Such
séeking
one
of
others
foyle
,
such
teares
of
Crocodiles
.
Such
laying
traps
for
th'
innocent
,
such
séeking
of
his
blood
:
Such
subteltie
,
when
trueth
is
ment
,
such
ill
,
such
little
good
.
Such
woorking
woe
to
harmeles
harts
,
such
cloking
Vice
and
sinne
:
Such
playing
of
moste
cruell
partes
,
such
lustes
our
liues
are
in
.
Such
framing
of
swéet
hunnyed
talk
,
such
luring
of
the
wicked
wil
:
Such
going
wrong
,
that
few
right
walke
,
such
sights
the
soule
to
spil
.
Such
ielious
fits
,
such
frantick
partes
,
such
anger
all
for
nought
:
Such
close
deseits
in
holow
harts
,
such
secret
mischéefs
wrought
.
Such
facyng
of
fine
forgid
tales
,
such
swearing
all
for
pence
:
Such
falshood
bothe
in
waights
and
scales
,
such
sauing
of
expence
.
Such
little
hospitallitie
vsed
,
such
pinching
of
the
poore
:
Such
forsing
them
to
be
abused
,
such
Vice
doon
euery
ower
.
Such
haunting
of
vile
Venus
trulles
,
such
brawling
for
their
cause
:
Such
cutting
,
slashing
,
knocking
skulls
,
such
breaking
of
the
lawes
.
Such
Auarice
in
euery
man
,
such
Vsury
out
of
measure
:
Such
tossing
of
Liaeus
Can
,
such
spending
of
their
treasure
.
Such
biting
with
malicious
tunges
,
such
scoffing
at
the
wise
:
Such
slothfulnes
,
such
open
wronges
,
such
stormes
doo
still
arise
.
As
when
I
think
vpon
this
life
,
which
nothing
is
(
I
say
:
)
But
only
cares
and
mortall
strife
,
and
smoke
that
flyes
away
.
Then
happy
ten
times
blest
is
he
,
whose
ruthful
race
is
run
:
And
dooth
enioy
Felicitie
,
when
all
his
cares
are
doone
.
Which
mightie
Ioue
graunt
vs
I
pray
The
true
Felicitie
:
That
we
may
at
our
ending
day
,
Receiue
his
great
glory
.
And
that
likwise
héer
in
this
vale
,
of
sorowes
and
of
mone
:
We
may
enioy
without
ten
faile
,
heauens
blisse
when
life
is
gon
.
Our
gratious
Quéen
Elizabeth
,
doo
kéep
O
Lord
we
pray
:
In
glorious
pomp
,
and
after
Death
,
in
ioyes
that
rest
she
may
.
Amen
.
Life
is
strife
.
His
prayse
of
Vertue
,
Felicitie
,
and
Ientillytie
.
To
the
curteous
and
gentle
Reder
.
THese
simple
lines
which
heer
I
written
haue
Declare
the
force
of
Vertues
good
effect
:
(
Good
Reader
)
beare
with
rudenes
mine
I
craue
,
For
here
therby
no
man
I
wil
detect
.
Vprightly
iudge
and
then
I
need
not
feare
:
But
thou
with
it
in
freendly
sort
wilt
beare
.
Iudge
iustly
,
In
prayse
of
Vertue
.
Vertue
only
bringeth
Felicitie
.
ALthough
Apollos
filed
phrase
,
and
Pallas
learned
skill
:
Within
my
brest
took
neuer
place
,
to
féed
my
muse
at
wil.
Yet
I
like
Pan
in
rurall
rithme
,
for
good
wil
that
I
beare
:
Vnto
the
race
of
Gentlemen
,
wil
wright
as
shall
appéer
.
It
is
not
Fame
ne
flattering
force
,
ne
hoordes
of
heaped
golde
:
But
onely
Vertue
forceth
me
,
this
sentence
to
vnfolde
.
Dame
Vertue
she
that
heauenly
Quéen
,
and
Perragon
of
price
:
Is
only
cause
that
silly
soules
,
to
honor
doo
arise
.
She
bringeth
true
felicitie
,
and
Vice
she
dooth
expell
:
She
teacheth
how
to
feare
the
Lord
,
and
saue
thy
soule
from
hell
.
I
read
a
wise
Philosopher
,
which
Aristotle
hight
:
In
stately
stile
,
hath
left
her
force
,
apparant
to
our
sight
.
Saying
:
that
Vertue
aptest
is
,
to
those
of
youthfull
race
:
A
pleasant
thing
to
ancient
men
,
to
Riche
a
goodly
grace
.
And
to
the
poore
she
profit
bringes
,
aduauncing
him
ful
hye
:
For
Vertue
only
is
the
cause
,
of
true
Felicitie
.
Vnnoble
men
she
noble
makes
,
and
glory
is
their
hap
:
Whose
chaunce
is
such
to
take
their
ease
,
in
Vertues
lulling
lap
.
A
solace
she
to
woful
wights
,
whome
carking
cares
oppresse
:
She
bringes
them
perfect
Pacience
,
and
makes
their
gréef
séem
lesse
.
Who
sowes
the
séeds
of
Vertue
swéet
,
shall
reap
eternall
Fame
:
And
true
Fame
ouercommeth
Death
,
through
Vertue
this
we
gaine
.
A
Sage
of
Gréece
was
asked
once
,
what
thing
to
man
was
best
:
Euen
Vertue
(
answered
he
)
because
,
in
her
consists
great
rest
.
Without
the
which
no
good
thing
may
once
wrought
or
spoken
be
:
For
she
alone
brings
perfect
blisse
,
and
true
Felicitie
.
Wise
Solon
tolde
rich
Craesus
King
,
it
was
not
flowing
welth
:
Ne
strength
of
men
,
ne
Tagus
sands
,
Ne
Gallens
mery
helth
.
Ne
Lordships
great
,
ne
honors
hye
,
ne
Pleasures
hunnyed
bait
:
That
happy
made
his
stiffing
dayes
,
his
frail
and
brittle
state
.
But
if
he
made
a
godly
end
,
and
vertuously
did
dye
:
He
,
he
,
it
is
that
knowes
the
vse
,
Of
true
Felicitie
.
But
now
who
vertue
dooth
frequent
?
who
séeks
this
virgin
pure
?
Euen
men
of
basest
Parents
born
,
whom
Honors
doo
allure
.
Minerua
ioyn'd
with
Diligence
,
makes
many
woorthy
be
:
Because
that
Vertue
giues
the
light
,
of
true
Felicitie
.
The
ancient
race
of
Gentlemen
,
haue
wun
theire
Shéelds
of
Armes
:
Through
Vertue
and
through
valiancie
,
defending
Prince
from
harmes
.
But
now
a
dayes
some
Gentlemen
,
doo
giue
bothe
speare
and
shéeld
:
Although
indéed
they
neuer
came
,
in
any
foughten
féeld
.
Nor
yet
by
Counsail
graue
at
home
,
did
profit
Common
welth
:
But
sought
their
owne
vtillitie
and
eke
their
priuate
helth
.
Golde
makes
the
Heraldes
paint
such
foorth
,
as
liketh
best
their
haps
:
Yet
Apes
are
Apes
though
golden
Roabs
,
oft
times
be
on
their
backs
.
True
Gentlemen
of
worthy
race
,
through
Armor
,
Speare
and
Shéeld
.
Haue
woon
their
Armes
by
dint
of
swoord
,
and
push
of
Pikes
in
féeld
.
But
now
(
alas
)
I
must
lament
,
that
Gentlemen
of
Fame
:
Let
passe
their
ancient
Gentery
,
forgetting
clean
the
same
.
Some
scrape
vp
goods
by
crafty
meanes
,
Some
royatly
all
spend
:
Some
through
excesse
of
pounsing
pride
,
are
brought
to
balefull
end
.
By
thousand
meanes
good
Gentlemen
,
are
brought
to
dire
decay
:
The
reason
is
,
that
vertues
loare
,
in
them
dooth
beare
small
sway
.
Vpstarts
contrarily
,
attend
,
on
Vertues
rayall
traine
:
From
step
to
step
,
from
grace
to
grace
,
til
honors
step
they
gaine
.
T
is
better
farre
a
mean
man
born
,
in
Vertue
to
exséed
:
Then
one
who
Vice
dooth
still
frequent
,
though
Gentle
man
indéed
.
For
noblenesse
begins
in
him
,
and
in
the
other
dye
:
Which
dooth
appéer
that
Vertue
brings
the
true
Felicitie
.
Who
now
is
the
true
Gentleman
?
euen
bée
(
as
Seneca
said
)
Whome
Nature
with
Mineruas
skill
,
to
Vertues
lore
hath
made
.
If
any
man
to
praise
thou
chaunce
,
because
he
Gentle
is
:
His
Parents
and
his
Ancestors
,
thou
praysest
them
iwis
.
It
is
not
Parents
progenie
,
(
As
Ouid
dooth
vs
tell
:
)
But
Vertue
maketh
Gentlemen
,
alone
for
to
excell
.
Wherfore
to
Gentle
men
I
write
,
your
ancient
bloods
renew
:
With
Vertuous
Artes
and
Gentlenesse
,
bid
filthy
Vice
adieu
.
And
as
the
names
of
Gentlemen
,
deseruedly
you
haue
:
So
frame
your
liues
that
you
may
passe
,
with
Vertue
hence
to
graue
,
Let
Iustice
mixt
with
Mercyes
méed
,
And
Wisdome
be
your
guide
:
Riches
contemn
,
and
Pleasures
hate
,
from
Faith
doo
neuer
slide
.
Pride
,
Couetousnesse
,
Ambition
,
Vnreuerentnesse
likewise
:
Vaine
glory
,
Discord
,
Enuy
eke
,
at
any
hand
despise
.
Be
humble
to
inferiors
,
and
haue
a
lowly
hart
:
Then
wil
the
common
people
say
,
a
Gentle
man
thou
art
.
Séek
learnings
déep
Philosophie
,
and
peace
doo
thou
ensue
:
Hate
ireful
rage
and
tirannie
,
and
Backus
blisse
eschew
.
So
in
the
end
this
glorious
Gem
,
Dame
Vertue
will
thée
giue
:
A
Garland
of
Immortall
Fame
,
wherby
thou
aye
mayst
liue
.
For
after
Death
our
Vertues
raines
,
wherby
we
neuer
dye
:
But
finde
that
she
alone
it
is
,
bringes
true
Felicitie
.
Vertue
winneth
Woorship
.
A
pretty
pamphlet
of
faithful
Freendship
.
THe
truethlesse
trust
of
fained
fréends
,
the
wayward
wily
wayes
:
The
déep
deceits
of
hollow
harts
,
which
hap
in
these
our
dayes
.
The
silly
soule
so
soone
betraid
,
the
Poore
man
so
opprest
:
That
scarce
Rich
Diues
wil
him
giue
,
a
Crum
to
be
refresht
.
These
things
doo
mooue
my
mestiue
Muse
,
of
Fréendship
to
declare
:
That
it
a
Vertue
is
wherwith
,
no
Iewell
may
compare
.
The
Spring
wherby
our
life
is
fed
,
the
Iewell
of
our
ioye
:
The
very
meane
which
helps
the
hart
,
all
sorowes
to
destroy
.
In
time
of
great
prosperitie
,
a
pleasure
to
the
minde
:
A
solace
in
Aduersitie
,
a
faithful
Fréend
we
finde
.
Fine
Tullie
termd
a
faithful
fréend
to
be
another
I
:
As
who
should
say
like
to
my self
,
in
euery
propertie
.
A
faithfull
fréend
is
such
a
one
,
as
makes
thy
sore
his
smart
:
The
pricking
of
thy
finger
eke
,
the
pearsing
of
his
hart
.
Thy
misery
his
mestiue
moue
,
thy
paine
his
present
gréef
:
Thy
sorowe
sower
his
hatefull
hap
,
thy
helth
his
sole
releef
.
In
doutful
dangers
thou
shalt
finde
,
that
he
wil
doo
thée
good
:
And
for
thy
sake
not
stint
at
all
,
to
spend
bothe
life
and
blood
.
He
sticketh
fast
at
all
assayes
,
mischaunces
him
approoue
:
To
be
of
trustie
Troylus
kinde
,
in
fréendship
and
in
looue
.
It
s
he
who
absent
seemes
to
be
,
in
presens
euery
houre
:
Yea
dead
,
aliue
and
all
this
springs
,
through
this
moste
fragrant
flower
.
The
very
mean
wherof
dooth
mooue
,
the
fearse
Barbarians
minde
:
In
myserye
abooue
all
welth
,
a
faithful
fréend
we
finde
.
It
is
not
flashing
flames
of
fire
,
his
freendship
may
restrain
:
Ne
Midas
muck
,
no
Irus
gréef
,
ne
blisse
ne
pinching
pain
.
But
like
the
purest
Franckensence
,
which
yéeldeth
foorth
a
smell
:
●ore
swéeter
in
the
flame
then
out
experience
this
dooth
tel
.
●r
as
the
golden
Glasse
woorme
shines
,
moste
brightest
in
the
night
:
●e
miserye
tryes
faithful
fréend
,
to
be
a
trusty
wight
.
●r
not
vnlike
the
redolent
Rose
,
of
dulsed
Dammask
kinde
:
Which
swéeter
is
in
stil
then
stalke
,
as
we
by
proofe
doo
finde
.
●●thagoras
did
once
pronounce
,
that
Fréendship
looue
doth
binde
●nd
in
two
bodyes
fast
conioyne
,
an
equallnesse
of
minde
.
●he
Poet
Empedocles
said
,
that
all
things
firme
did
stand
:
●ea
all
the
world
and
all
therin
,
vpholde
by
Fréendships
hand
,
●●gratitude
neclecting
looue
,
and
Fréendship
put
to
flight
:
●his
followes
then
an
end
of
all
,
life
is
dissolued
quite
.
●ertue
begets
this
Iuell
rare
,
and
it
conserues
alwayes
:
〈◊〉
very
fréendship
Vertue
is
,
(
as
Aristotle
sayes
.
)
〈◊〉
such
a
League
as
neither
time
,
●y
péecemele
may
deuide
:
Nor
Fancies
fond
affects
nor
fraud
,
infrindge
at
any
tide
.
A
Fréend
wil
hazard
life
and
lims
,
yea
goods
yea
welth
and
all
:
Ere
that
hée
see
his
fréend
take
harme
,
in
daunger
dyre
to
fall
.
Of
Damons
looue
to
Pithias
,
example
is
lese
to
vs
:
Of
Nisus
and
Euriolus
looue
,
the
Poet
dooth
discusse
.
To
Gysippus
his
fréend
did
prooue
.
a
trusty
Titus
true
:
And
Theseus
to
Pirotheus
,
like
fréendship
did
ensue
.
Wise
Sipio
and
Lelius
,
in
fréendship
did
excell
:
And
Palemon
with
Crates
eke
,
for
fréendship
bare
the
bell
.
The
looue
of
fréendly
Lincius
,
(
Iosephus
writeth
plaine
:
)
Vnto
his
déere
Artorius
,
to
their
eternall
fame
.
And
Ionathas
sau'd
Dauids
life
,
in
sacred
writ
we
finde
:
So
that
no
Iewell
here
on
earth
,
is
like
a
fréendly
minde
.
It
is
not
strength
of
mightie
men
,
that
fréendship
dooth
obtaine
:
●●e
heaps
of
Golde
,
but
faithfulnesse
,
and
kindenes
it
dooth
gain
.
●indenes
annext
with
Gentle
déeds
,
true
fréendship
dooth
enflame
:
●nd
Loyall
looues
fidelitie
,
dooth
still
increase
the
same
.
The
likelynesse
of
manners
makes
,
coniunction
of
the
minde
:
●nd
Vertue
ioynd
with
honestie
,
true
fréendship
firme
dooth
binde
.
●ike
wil
to
like
(
the
Prouerb
saith
,
)
the
Turtle
looues
her
make
:
●nd
mournes
til
death
for
want
of
féehr
,
and
all
for
fréendships
sake
.
But
hot
looue
soone
is
could
(
some
say
,
)
the
sequell
is
too
true
:
●nd
faire
woords
makes
fooles
faine
,
which
alwayes
dooth
ensue
.
The
purest
wine
makes
Vinagre
,
to
be
of
sharpest
kinde
:
●nd
déepest
looue
to
deadliest
hate
,
is
often
chaungd
we
finde
.
True
triall
prooueth
trustinesse
,
in
trust
is
treason
found
:
Who
climbs
vpon
a
rotten
bough
,
may
catch
a
fatall
wound
.
For
in
aduersitie
we
sée
,
the
flattering
faithlesse
féend
:
To
start
a
side
and
here
vs
make
,
in
misery
our
end
.
As
Swallowes
comes
in
somer
time
,
when
pleasures
growe
full
gréen
:
But
when
the
winters
rage
comes
on
,
are
no
where
to
be
séen
.
So
fained
fréends
when
welth
a
bounds
wil
speak
what
we
doo
say
:
But
when
as
Fortune
frownes
on
vs
,
they
quite
doo
flée
away
.
Then
are
they
like
the
Bée
which
hath
,
the
hunnie
swéet
by
kinde
:
Within
her
mouth
,
but
yet
she
beares
,
a
smarting
sting
be
hinde
.
For
as
they
erst
with
sugred
woords
,
did
promise
golden
grapes
:
So
now
their
Tippets
clene
they
turne
,
and
leaue
vs
in
the
brakes
.
In
fellowship
lyes
falshood
hid
,
and
fraud
in
fréendly
lookes
:
And
vnder
swéet
and
hunnied
baites
,
doo
lurke
the
harmful
hookes
.
An
painted
pots
swéet
poyson
is
,
wherby
our
bane
dooth
rise
:
In
cléerest
streme
the
vgliest
Tode
,
in
grasse
the
Serpent
lyes
.
The
filthy
rotten
bones
some
time
,
in
curious
graue
we
finde
:
●nd
in
a
Iudas
kisse
there
lyes
,
a
priuie
galling
minde
.
Like
Siren
with
her
siluer
songs
,
whose
notes
doo
oft
allure
:
The
silly
ship
man
to
the
sands
,
his
death
for
to
procure
.
Or
as
the
Crocodile
who
yeelds
,
a
sory
solemn
sound
:
Til
she
haue
brought
the
wailing
wight
,
lye
sprawling
on
the
ground
.
The
Spider
weaues
a
curious
web
,
the
silly
Flye
to
wile
:
The
woolfe
dooth
weare
a
smiling
face
,
the
Lambe
for
to
beguile
.
The
Panthers
breth
dooth
swéetest
smell
,
when
pray
she
dooth
ensue
:
I
fréendly
face
meanes
falsest
faith
,
experience
is
to
true
.
In
fréendship
all
that
séemes
to
shine
,
it
is
not
purest
Golde
:
Nor
euery
woord
is
Gospell
sure
,
which
Friers
haue
vs
tould
.
〈◊〉
Leaden
Dagger
oft
is
found
,
with
in
a
golden
sheath
:
And
sure
a
flattering
faithlesse
fréend
,
dooth
bring
vs
present
death
.
●n
extrem
néed
when
Fortune
faites
,
few
fréends
a
man
shall
finde
:
But
then
like
to
the
Réed
they
shake
,
with
euery
blast
of
winde
.
In
Prison
if
thou
chaunce
to
lye
,
when
worldly
welth
dooth
faile
:
My
Skin
is
néerer
then
my
Shirt
,
this
suer
wil
be
their
tale
.
Wherfore
if
I
may
Counsaile
giue
,
I
wish
thée
to
take
héed
:
Of
him
who
beares
a
knife
to
kill
,
yet
weares
a
fréednly
wéed
.
Let
no
faire
woords
dim
perfet
sight
,
but
carefully
beware
:
Full
swéetly
dooth
the
Fouler
sing
,
to
catch
the
Bird
in
snare
.
Be
sure
whom
as
thou
mindst
to
make
,
to
be
thy
faithful
fréend
:
Thou
eat
a
peck
of
salt
with
him
,
and
thus
I
make
an
end
.
No
fraud
to
fained
freendship
.
qd
.
Leonard
Staueley
.
¶
The
censure
of
a
freend
concerning
the
former
Verses
.
SIth
freendships
lore
you
doo
commend
,
accoumpting
it
a
Iewell
rare
:
And
that
so
highly
you
extend
,
such
prayse
as
nothing
may
compare
.
Vnto
the
same
(
so
much
of
price
:
)
and
trust
me
,
I
like
your
deuice
.
Indeed
firm
freendship
now
a
dayes
,
is
very
geason
I
speke
plaine
:
For
Sicophants
deuise
still
wayes
,
falcely
to
flatter
,
fleere
and
faine
.
For
deep
dissembling
now
dooth
rest
:
doutlesse
almoste
in
euery
brest
.
But
what
mean
I
to
speake
so
blunt
,
as
to
condemn
in
generall
?
Although
some
faithlesse
freends
be
wunt
,
to
haue
disembling
at
their
call
.
Yet
some
doo
hap
on
such
a
freend
:
as
faithfull
bides
vntil
the
end
.
Prayse
after
proofe
.
Quoth
Iames
Yates
.