The golden meane Lately written, as occasion serued, to a great lord. Discoursing the noblenesse of perfect virtue in extreames.
      
       
         
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             The golden meane Lately written, as occasion serued, to a great lord. Discoursing the noblenesse of perfect virtue in extreames.
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           THE
           GOLDEN
           Meane
           .
           Lately
           written
           ,
           as
           occasion
           serued
           ,
           to
           a
           great
           LORD
           .
           Discoursing
           The
           Noblenesse
           of
           perfect
           Virtue
           in
           extreames
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           :
           Printed
           for
           
             Ieffery
             Chorlton
          
           .
        
         
           1613.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           BEST
           VVORthy
           Reader
           .
        
         
           
             SYR
             :
          
        
         
           (
           as
           for
           any
           other
           Nobler
           titles
           they
           are
           but
           separable
           Accidents
           )
           if
           Vertue
           be
           not
           too
           partially
           ouerswayed
           
           by
           Fortune
           ,
           I
           haue
           heere
           cast
           into
           a
           small
           Volumne
           a
           large
           summe
           of
           Loue.
           Such
           a
           loue
           as
           is
           rather
           warranted
           by
           a
           dutifull
           obseruance
           then
           any
           shadow
           of
           Complement
           .
           I
           may
           once
           open
           my selfe
           when
           either
           Opinion
           is
           without
           eares
           ,
           or
           Suggestion
           without
           eyes
           .
           Heere
           you
           may
           view
           and
           read
           Vertue
           personated
           in
           moderation
           :
           
           heere
           you
           may
           know
           and
           proue
           Moderation
           to
           be
           the
           life
           of
           Vertue
           .
           Bee
           a
           president
           to
           your selfe
           what
           you
           should
           bee
           ;
           as
           you
           are
           a
           president
           to
           others
           of
           what
           you
           are
           .
           It
           sufficeth
           me
           that
           I
           maske
           in
           the
           true
           simplenesse
           of
           a
           loyall
           honesty
           ,
           and
           there
           shall
           no
           time
           steale
           from
           my
           remembrance
           ,
           wherein
           I
           will
           fayle
           to
           witnesse
           the
           payment
           of
           a
           due
           
           debt
           of
           thankfulnesse
           to
           one
           principally
           great
           in
           beeing
           Nobly
           stiled
           in
           his
           owne
           worthinesse
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
         
           THE
           Golden
           Meane
           .
        
         
           MEN
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           all
           the
           sons
           of
           their
           Mothers
           ,
           are
           all
           the
           subiects
           of
           misery
           ;
           borne
           to
           liue
           few
           dayes
           in
           many
           dangers
           whose
           glory
           (
           if
           they
           were
           Monarches
           of
           their
           owne
           desires
           )
           may
           be
           well
           
           compared
           to
           their
           shadowes
           in
           the
           Sunne
           ;
           For
           ,
           as
           the
           bodies
           shadow
           is
           at
           Morning
           before
           vs
           ,
           at
           Noone
           beside
           vs
           ,
           and
           at
           Night
           behinde
           vs
           ;
           so
           is
           earthly
           glory
           ,
           at
           Morning
           or
           in
           the
           prime
           before
           vs
           ,
           in
           a
           goodly
           lustre
           ;
           at
           Noone
           or
           in
           the
           full
           ,
           besides
           vs
           ,
           in
           a
           violent
           heat
           ;
           at
           Night
           or
           in
           the
           wane
           ,
           behinde
           vs
           ,
           in
           a
           neglected
           pitty
           .
           The
           difference
           is
           amongst
           some
           ,
           that
           at
           Noone
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           Meridian
           of
           their
           greatnes
           ,
           in
           stead
           of
           hauing
           their
           glory
           beside
           them
           ,
           they
           are
           beside
           their
           glory
           .
           But
           such
           vndoubtedly
           ,
           
           are
           rather
           strangers
           to
           the
           bloud
           of
           Vertue
           ,
           then
           any
           way
           indued
           with
           the
           spirit
           of
           perfect
           Noblenes
           .
           But
           so
           vnsetled
           are
           the
           grounds
           of
           frailties
           courses
           ,
           as
           here
           is
           yet
           not
           the
           totall
           sum
           of
           being
           miserable
           .
           If
           men
           could
           as
           well
           frame
           their
           mindes
           to
           their
           change
           of
           fortunes
           ,
           as
           their
           change
           of
           misfortunes
           doth
           corrupt
           their
           mindes
           ,
           greatnesse
           would
           as
           truely
           welcome
           calamitie
           ,
           as
           the
           base
           doe
           reioyce
           in
           being
           great
           .
           Heereunto
           not
           the
           outward
           actions
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           but
           the
           inward
           remper
           
           of
           the
           minde
           must
           be
           framed
           ,
           since
           the
           first
           are
           but
           hand-maides
           to
           the
           latter
           .
           Euen
           as
           one
           lying
           in
           the
           bed
           of
           visitation
           &
           death
           ,
           doth
           not
           therefore
           die
           because
           hee
           is
           sicke
           ,
           but
           because
           he
           liues
           (
           for
           the
           depriuation
           of
           life
           is
           death
           ,
           not
           sicknesse
           )
           so
           the
           minde
           of
           man
           diuided
           by
           the
           consumption
           and
           disease
           of
           humor
           ,
           being
           touched
           with
           affliction
           ,
           is
           not
           therefore
           miserable
           because
           it
           suffers
           misery
           ,
           but
           because
           it
           hath
           once
           tasted
           (
           and
           bin
           lifted
           vp
           to
           )
           happinesse
           .
        
         
           
             The
             Golden
             Meane
          
           ,
           so
           
           aunciently
           commended
           ,
           is
           onely
           there
           perfectly
           obserued
           ,
           where
           true
           Wisedome
           and
           true
           Nobilitie
           are
           the
           speciall
           ornaments
           of
           a
           prepared
           minde
           :
           In
           which
           ,
           if
           those
           two
           meet
           ,
           is
           figuratiuely
           included
           an
           allusion
           to
           the
           Sea
           :
           which
           ,
           though
           clouds
           raine
           downe
           into
           it
           waters
           from
           aboue
           ,
           and
           waters
           send
           flouds
           here
           beneath
           ,
           yet
           doth
           it
           retayne
           all
           ,
           either
           without
           Iosse
           of
           saltnesse
           ,
           or
           any
           shew
           of
           ouerflowing
           :
           The
           minde
           of
           a
           Wise
           and
           Noble
           man
           is
           such
           ,
           that
           what
           or
           how
           many
           gusts
           and
           tides
           of
           
           aduersity
           assault
           him
           ,
           they
           may
           at
           all
           times
           rather
           arme
           ,
           then
           at
           any
           time
           oppresse
           him
           ,
           since
           his
           resolution
           cannot
           ouerflow
           with
           the
           rudenesse
           of
           passion
           ;
           for
           that
           his
           excellent
           and
           refyned
           temperature
           will
           euer
           retaine
           the
           salt
           of
           iudgement
           and
           moderation
           ;
           the
           one
           prouing
           a
           Wise
           ,
           the
           other
           a
           Noble
           man.
           
        
         
           In
           sorrowes
           or
           aduersities
           nothing
           is
           so
           fearefull
           as
           feare
           it selfe
           ;
           which
           pashion
           of
           weakenesse
           is
           so
           below
           the
           heart
           of
           vertue
           ,
           that
           a
           minde
           trained
           vp
           in
           the
           exercises
           of
           honour
           ,
           
           cannot
           as
           much
           as
           let
           fall
           one
           looke
           to
           behold
           it
           .
           If
           it
           be
           inquired
           what
           it
           is
           ,
           or
           to
           what
           vsefull
           ende
           ,
           either
           of
           ease
           or
           pollicy
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           imployed
           ?
           in
           the
           first
           will
           be
           found
           little
           lesse
           then
           a
           desperate
           basenesse
           ;
           in
           the
           latter
           nothing
           more
           then
           an
           vngrounded
           desperatenesse
           .
           A
           man
           in
           the
           float
           of
           prosperitie
           to
           feare
           that
           he
           may
           fall
           ,
           argues
           both
           the
           distrust
           of
           his
           owne
           merite
           ,
           or
           the
           danger
           of
           his
           disposition
           .
           A
           man
           in
           the
           ebbe
           of
           his
           plenty
           ,
           to
           feare
           a
           worse
           mischiefe
           then
           that
           of
           being
           poore
           
           or
           despised
           ,
           argues
           both
           his
           vnworthinesse
           in
           procuring
           ,
           &
           his
           impatiencie
           in
           bearing
           his
           fortune
           .
        
         
           Feare
           with
           hope
           ,
           is
           the
           readie
           witnesse
           of
           basenesse
           :
           Feare
           without
           hope
           ,
           the
           proclaimer
           of
           folly
           .
           And
           if
           there
           can
           be
           any
           miserie
           superlatiue
           ,
           or
           if
           it
           were
           possible
           that
           there
           could
           be
           an
           extreame
           in
           measure
           ,
           it
           is
           in
           the
           feare
           of
           those
           twaine
           ;
           yet
           doubtlesse
           the
           heauiest
           of
           the
           two
           torments
           is
           to
           feare
           without
           hope
           .
           Either
           of
           which
           ,
           to
           a
           minde
           Noble
           &
           vertuous
           ,
           are
           so
           much
           a
           stranger
           ,
           as
           there
           
           cannot
           be
           found
           an
           interpretor
           ,
           who
           to
           an
           honourable
           resolution
           can
           inforce
           either
           the
           construction
           or
           vnderstanding
           thereof
           For
           it
           is
           as
           meerely
           impossible
           for
           a
           great
           and
           excellent
           spirit
           to
           conceiue
           thoughts
           tending
           to
           basenesse
           ,
           as
           for
           the
           base
           to
           apprehend
           the
           singular
           designes
           belonging
           to
           the
           Noble
           minded
           .
           Soone
           then
           it
           is
           to
           be
           obserued
           ;
           that
           the
           distinction
           betweene
           a
           worthy
           and
           a
           seruile
           person
           ,
           must
           be
           rather
           sound
           out
           in
           the
           qualitie
           of
           their
           mindes
           ,
           then
           the
           command
           of
           authority
           
           and
           complement
           .
           In
           which
           it
           is
           also
           further
           to
           be
           obserued
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           composition
           of
           their
           mindes
           ,
           there
           is
           as
           great
           and
           exquisite
           choise
           to
           be
           made
           ,
           aswel
           how
           as
           wherein
           the
           excellency
           of
           such
           a
           composition
           must
           bee
           remarked
           .
           The
           seruile
           weakenes
           of
           such
           ,
           whose
           education
           ,
           nature
           ,
           experience
           ,
           and
           wisedome
           cannot
           claime
           any
           prioritie
           in
           desert
           ,
           is
           so
           great
           ,
           as
           it
           onely
           shewes
           that
           it
           distasteth
           not
           calamitie
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           it
           is
           full
           fed
           with
           the
           happinesse
           of
           plenty
           and
           ease
           .
           In
           the
           worthy
           
           and
           desertful
           it
           is
           nothing
           s●…
           :
           for
           they
           truely
           considering
           the
           custome
           and
           necessitie
           (
           as
           they
           are
           men
           )
           of
           feeling
           change
           of
           states
           ,
           doe
           euer
           arme
           their
           resolution
           before
           it
           come
           for
           calamitie
           ,
           as
           when
           it
           comes
           ,
           in
           it
           ,
           against
           calamitie
           ;
           wherein
           if
           the
           great
           and
           vertuous
           accidentally
           (
           not
           to
           speake
           of
           diuine
           prouidence
           )
           fall
           ,
           they
           therein
           chiefly
           shewe
           the
           vertue
           of
           their
           greatnes
           ,
           and
           the
           greatnes
           of
           their
           vertue
           ,
           in
           that
           they
           know
           they
           then
           feele
           no
           more
           then
           at
           all
           times
           they
           were
           ordained
           to
           beare
           .
           Such
           
           referre
           all
           accidents
           of
           infelicitie
           ,
           to
           the
           incidence
           of
           their
           frailtie
           ;
           measuring
           that
           being
           Men
           ,
           they
           are
           but
           the
           miseries
           of
           men
           that
           befall
           them
           .
           It
           was
           (
           not
           to
           be
           tedious
           in
           examples
           )
           a
           wonderfull
           noblenesse
           and
           constancy
           in
           ●…socacius
           ,
           a
           chiefe
           man
           of
           Antioch
           ,
           who
           standing
           at
           the
           Barre
           of
           iudgement
           ,
           was
           spoken
           too
           by
           Posaeus
           the
           Soueraigne
           ,
           who
           said
           ;
           
             Seest
             thou
             not
          
           Isocacius
           
             in
             what
             plight
             thou
             art
          
           ?
           ISOCACIVS
           answered
           him
           ,
           
             I
             see
             it
          
           (
           qd
           .
           he
           )
           
             and
             maruell
             not
             ;
             for
             since
             I
             am
             my selfe
             humane
             ,
             I
             am
             come
             into
             an
          
           
           
             humane
             miserie
          
           .
        
         
           Rare
           and
           wonderfullwas
           the
           courage
           and
           temperance
           of
           this
           vnimited
           Nobleman
           :
           and
           surely
           ,
           where
           the
           minde
           is
           conformable
           to
           remember
           it
           is
           carryed
           in
           a
           body
           of
           Flesh
           ,
           Discretion
           is
           the
           plotter
           ,
           and
           moderation
           the
           actor
           of
           a
           notable
           worke
           .
           This
           worke
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           to
           be
           continued
           with
           singular
           fortitude
           ,
           so
           must
           there
           a
           foundation
           be
           layde
           of
           an
           especiall
           wisedome
           ;
           for
           he
           who
           will
           climbe
           to
           the
           full
           height
           of
           deserued
           glory
           ,
           must
           ascend
           by
           the
           degrees
           of
           
           deseruing
           fore-cast
           :
           which
           fore-cast
           ,
           is
           euen
           the
           ground-worke
           or
           basis
           of
           
             perfect
             Vertue
             in
             extremitie
          
           .
           It
           behoueth
           then
           a
           Noble
           and
           wiseman
           so
           to
           order
           the
           frame
           of
           his
           minde
           ,
           that
           in
           what
           Sun-shine
           of
           greatnessoeuer
           he
           be
           ,
           he
           may
           euer
           expect
           a
           storme
           to
           onercloude
           his
           eminence
           .
           And
           this
           is
           to
           be
           done
           by
           iudicially
           examining
           ,
           what
           the
           greatest
           temporal
           blessings
           a
           pproued
           by
           the
           vulgar
           opinion
           ,
           in
           their
           owne
           properties
           are
           ,
           and
           how
           subiect
           to
           monthly
           ,
           daily
           ,
           hourely
           alteration
           :
           As
           what
           
           riches
           are
           they
           (
           as
           wealth
           is
           vnderstood
           )
           whom
           pouertie
           and
           famine
           may
           not
           suddenly
           follow
           ?
           what
           honour
           is
           that
           (
           as
           pollitique
           dignitie
           is
           vnderstood
           )
           whose
           power
           ,
           whose
           largenesse
           ,
           whose
           dependences
           may
           not
           be
           followed
           by
           blemish
           ,
           by
           enuy
           ,
           or
           by
           extreame
           contempt
           ?
           what
           Kingdome
           is
           that
           (
           as
           commaund
           and
           worldly
           gouernement
           is
           vnderstood
           )
           to
           which
           may
           not
           ruine
           be
           ordained
           ,
           depopulation
           ,
           and
           mischiefe
           ?
        
         
           Prosperitie
           and
           aduersitie
           are
           not
           by
           long
           times
           often
           sundred
           ;
           for
           sometimes
           
           is
           scant
           an
           houres
           difference
           betweene
           a
           Ihrone
           and
           a
           Cottage
           :
           
             whereby
             all
             men
             may
             know
             that
             the
             condition
             of
             euery
             man
             is
             changeable
             ;
             and
             the
             wise
             may
             know
             that
             whatsocuer
             may
             happen
             to
             another
             ,
             may
             happen
             to
             himselfe
             .
          
        
         
           In
           auncient
           Records
           Pompey
           for
           wealth
           ,
           Seianus
           for
           honour
           ,
           Ptolomy
           for
           Kingdomes
           ,
           are
           memorable
           :
           yet
           was
           Pompey
           for
           all
           his
           wealth
           poore
           ,
           &
           begd
           .
           Seianus
           for
           all
           his
           honour
           disgraced
           and
           executed
           :
           Ptolomy
           for
           all
           his
           Kingdoms
           forgotten
           &
           extinguisht
           .
           If
           we
           would
           inquire
           
           into
           our
           owne
           moderne
           Chronicles
           ;
           we
           may
           read
           of
           VVoolsey
           the
           Cardinall
           ,
           abounding
           in
           riches
           and
           abounding
           in
           miserie
           :
           ROBERT
           ,
           Earle
           of
           ESSEX
           ,
           propt
           vp
           in
           honours
           ,
           and
           cast
           downe
           by
           enuie
           .
           Many
           of
           the
           Henries
           ,
           Kings
           of
           much
           power
           and
           small
           fortune
           :
           other
           our
           Histories
           mention
           ,
           who
           might
           as
           fitly
           be
           heere
           induced
           ,
           but
           that
           those
           beeing
           freshest
           in
           memorie
           ,
           and
           all
           within
           the
           compasse
           of
           one
           age
           ,
           will
           sooner
           stirre
           vp
           our
           hearts
           ,
           and
           worke
           an
           impressiō
           in
           our
           beliefes
           ,
           then
           
           others
           who
           are
           with
           vs
           of
           lesse
           credite
           ,
           because
           of
           more
           antiquitie
           .
        
         
           Another
           effectuall
           consideration
           to
           the
           building
           of
           this
           excellent
           worke
           of
           a
           resolued
           and
           prepared
           minde
           ,
           is
           euen
           in
           the
           foundation
           to
           be
           thought
           on
           .
           For
           if
           there
           be
           no
           certaintie
           in
           VVealth
           ,
           in
           Honour
           ,
           in
           Soueraignty
           (
           in
           the
           fruition
           of
           whom
           ,
           chiefely
           ,
           if
           not
           onely
           ,
           resteth
           the
           Paradice
           of
           an
           earthly
           Heauen
           )
           much
           lesse
           assurance
           may
           be
           dream't
           of
           in
           any
           inferiour
           pleasures
           :
           for
           which
           a
           wiseman
           (
           who
           is
           the
           true
           Nobleman
           )
           ought
           
           thus
           to
           resolue
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           not
           lord
           of
           his
           owne
           mind
           who
           is
           vndaunted
           ,
           as
           long
           as
           his
           fortunes
           are
           ministers
           to
           his
           will
           :
           but
           when
           he
           is
           cast
           downe
           ,
           or
           rather
           cast
           away
           in
           his
           hopes
           ,
           vndone
           in
           his
           expectation
           ,
           set
           below
           his
           owne
           heart
           ,
           vnfriended
           ,
           and
           the
           subiect
           of
           vncomforting
           pittie
           :
           Hee
           then
           who
           now
           witnesseth
           by
           his
           moderation
           in
           those
           sadnesses
           ,
           the
           courage
           of
           his
           Noblenesse
           ,
           by
           the
           Noblenesse
           of
           his
           VVisedome
           ,
           is
           both
           perfectly
           wise
           in
           being
           so
           couragious
           ,
           and
           as
           perfectly
           couragious
           in
           beeing
           so
           
           noble
           .
           It
           was
           well
           said
           of
           one
           ,
           that
           
             A
             calme
             Sea
             and
             a
             faire
             VVinde
             proues
             not
             a
             Sailers
             skill
             .
          
           A
           sure
           Pilot
           is
           proued
           in
           a
           doubtfull
           storme
           ,
           and
           a
           wise
           noble
           minde
           is
           truely
           tried
           in
           the
           storme
           of
           aduersitie
           ,
           not
           in
           the
           calme
           of
           felicitie
           .
           Fortune
           enuies
           nothing
           more
           then
           a
           setled
           and
           well
           gouerned
           resolution
           ;
           and
           such
           a
           Marriner
           deserues
           remembrance
           to
           posteritie
           ,
           who
           in
           Shipwracke
           dies
           ,
           imbracing
           the
           Maste
           ,
           rather
           then
           hee
           who
           faintly
           for
           feare
           of
           drowning
           leapes
           into
           the
           Sea.
           
        
         
         
           Lastly
           ,
           if
           neither
           the
           respect
           of
           the
           instabilitie
           of
           humane
           endowments
           ,
           neither
           the
           regard
           of
           honor
           ,
           being
           prone
           to
           fall
           ,
           nor
           the
           vnstaidnesse
           of
           Kingdomes
           (
           the
           Scepter
           beeing
           the
           highest
           flight
           of
           Ambition
           )
           cannot
           imprint
           in
           the
           minde
           an
           abandoning
           of
           itselfe
           ,
           by
           reputing
           earthly
           delights
           and
           acquisitions
           to
           be
           in
           their
           owne
           nature
           ,
           as
           in
           their
           owne
           nature
           they
           are
           ,
           passable
           and
           vncertaine
           ;
           yet
           may
           the
           surenesse
           of
           paying
           a
           debt
           (
           which
           cannot
           be
           excused
           )
           to
           death
           ,
           be
           a
           mayne
           and
           singular
           motiue
           to
           a
           
           noble
           and
           wise
           man
           ,
           for
           sufferance
           of
           all
           changes
           of
           conditions
           and
           estates
           ,
           with
           the
           sweetely-vnited
           blessings
           ,
           Iudgement
           and
           content
           .
           He
           that
           remembers
           that
           hee
           liues
           a
           life
           ,
           cannot
           but
           forethinke
           that
           hee
           must
           dye
           a
           death
           :
           If
           hee
           looke
           into
           what
           life
           it selfe
           is
           ,
           hee
           shall
           finde
           (
           by
           experience
           of
           the
           past
           ,
           and
           proofe
           of
           the
           present
           age
           )
           that
           it
           is
           none
           other
           but
           a
           iourney
           to
           death
           .
           If
           a
           man
           examine
           the
           scope
           of
           his
           owne
           desires
           ,
           they
           will
           fall
           out
           to
           be
           a
           desiring
           to
           hasten
           to
           his
           graue
           Death
           and
           the
           graue
           (
           two
           tortures
           
           to
           the
           memory
           of
           worldly
           foolish
           men
           )
           are
           the
           onely
           principa●…l
           ends
           to
           which
           the
           vanitie
           of
           pleasures
           runne
           at
           :
           For
           men
           in
           wealth
           ,
           in
           honour
           ,
           in
           gouernment
           ,
           desire
           the
           time
           to
           come
           ;
           the
           one
           in
           hope
           of
           increase
           of
           his
           gaine
           ,
           the
           other
           of
           his
           greatnesse
           ,
           the
           third●…
           of
           Empyre
           .
           So
           what
           else
           doe
           they
           but
           couet
           by
           growing
           elder
           in
           dayes
           ,
           to
           flye
           to
           the
           full
           race
           of
           their
           liuing
           ,
           which
           is
           death
           ?
           Of
           this
           a
           〈◊〉
           Noble-man
           should-not
           ;
           and
           a
           true
           wise
           man
           cannot
           feare
           .
           It
           was
           an
           answer
           (
           worthy
           the
           fpeker
           ,
           )
           
           of
           the
           Philosopher
           ,
           who
           hearing
           of
           his
           Sonnes
           death
           said
           :
           
             When
             I
             had
             begotten
             him
             I
             well
             knew
             hee
             should
             dye
             :
          
           and
           who
           would
           be
           so
           ignorant
           as
           not
           to
           confesse
           that
           whosoeuer
           is
           brought
           out
           of
           the
           wombe
           is
           destined
           also
           to
           the
           sepulchre
           of
           the
           earth
           ?
           To
           a
           man
           prepared
           by
           the
           light
           of
           the
           minds
           vertue
           ,
           this
           is
           euer
           seeming
           necessarie
           ,
           as
           well
           willingly
           to
           restore
           that
           when
           it
           is
           required
           of
           him
           ,
           though
           it
           were
           by
           death
           ,
           as
           to
           enioy
           that
           which
           is
           giuen
           him
           if
           it
           were
           his
           life
           ,
           since
           one
           being
           borne
           into
           the
           one
           ,
           
           cannot
           escape
           the
           other
           .
           The
           Minde
           should
           euer
           keepe
           measure
           ,
           what
           of
           necessitie
           it
           must
           suffer
           let
           it
           not
           feare
           :
           what
           is
           doubtfull
           that
           it
           may
           suffer
           ,
           let
           it
           alwayes
           looke
           for
           :
           So
           shall
           it
           not
           be
           afflicted
           before
           afflictions
           doe
           come
           ;
           nor
           vnprouided
           when
           they
           are
           come
           .
        
         
           All
           men
           ,
           yea
           all
           things
           ,
           must
           be
           freed
           by
           an
           end
           ,
           though
           the
           end
           bee
           not
           a
           like
           to
           all
           ,
           neither
           in
           manner
           or
           time
           ;
           some
           forgoe
           their
           liues
           in
           the
           middle
           of
           their
           time
           ,
           some
           in
           the
           dawning
           of
           their
           life
           ,
           some
           liue
           till
           they
           are
           euen
           weary
           
           of
           liuing
           ,
           some
           dying
           naturally
           ,
           some
           violently
           ,
           others
           enforcedly
           ,
           many
           (
           in
           respect
           of
           men
           )
           casually
           ,
           but
           all
           at
           some
           time
           dying
           .
           In
           this
           kinde
           then
           it
           is
           questionable
           ,
           whether
           it
           bee
           more
           foolish
           not
           to
           know
           ,
           or
           more
           shamefull
           not
           to
           imbrace
           nature
           :
           Hee
           that
           liues
           well
           needeth
           not
           to
           feare
           the
           vglines
           of
           death
           appearing
           in
           any
           forme
           ,
           or
           in
           any
           disguise
           ;
           if
           he
           first
           resolue
           ,
           that
           whensoeuer
           or
           howsoeuer
           hee
           comes
           ,
           yet
           it
           is
           but
           death
           ,
           and
           it
           must
           come
           .
        
         
           Some
           one
           that
           is
           to
           
           trauaile
           of
           necessitie
           vpon
           the
           hazard
           of
           his
           life
           ,
           vnto
           Constantinople
           by
           land
           ,
           being
           vnexperienc't
           in
           the
           dangers
           ,
           and
           the
           many
           miseries
           of
           his
           ioumey
           ,
           for
           his
           better
           instructions
           ,
           seekes
           comfort
           in
           the
           councel
           of
           another
           ,
           who
           hath
           bought
           knowledge
           of
           the
           way
           with
           the
           price
           of
           many
           weary
           and
           distressed
           paces
           ,
           and
           being
           come
           ,
           learnes
           this
           for
           an
           app●…ued
           certainty
           ,
           that
           first
           the
           iourney
           it selfe
           is
           long
           and
           tedious
           ,
           the
           way
           troublesome
           and
           vneuen
           ,
           the
           change
           of
           ayres
           infectious
           and
           vnhealthy
           ,
           the
           desarts
           
           wast
           and
           vncomfortable
           ,
           directions
           chargeable
           and
           vncertaine
           ,
           here
           theeues
           prepared
           to
           spoyle
           ,
           there
           beasts
           set
           all
           on
           rauine
           ,
           surety
           no
           where
           ,
           danger
           on
           all
           hands
           ,
           and
           what
           is
           the
           worst
           of
           these
           aduentures
           ;
           if
           hee
           obtaine
           the
           scope
           of
           his
           desires
           ,
           and
           arriue
           euen
           to
           the
           furthest
           of
           his
           iourney
           ,
           yet
           shall
           he
           there
           finde
           a
           Turke
           that
           is
           Emperour
           ,
           cruell
           in
           nature
           ,
           boundlesse
           in
           command
           ,
           faithlesse
           of
           truth
           ,
           treacherous
           and
           full
           of
           the
           bloud
           of
           Christians
           :
           what
           comfort
           resteth
           to
           bee
           hoped
           for
           from
           this
           afflicted
           trauailler
           ,
           
           or
           what
           should
           he
           doe
           ?
           To
           goe
           is
           the
           hazard
           of
           life
           ,
           to
           stay
           the
           certainty
           of
           death
           :
           now
           the
           Noblenes
           of
           Wisedome
           must
           direct
           ,
           &
           the
           Vertue
           of
           Noblenesse
           incourage
           his
           resolution
           ,
           to
           resolue
           a
           steaddines
           of
           minde
           to
           countermaund
           the
           heauinesse
           of
           both
           fortunes
           :
           And
           it
           behoues
           such
           a
           man
           ,
           so
           trauailing
           ,
           to
           be
           prepared
           ,
           aswell
           to
           beare
           danger
           when
           he
           mee●…es
           with
           it
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           instructed
           before
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           danger
           to
           be
           met
           with
           .
           In
           like
           manner
           is
           euery
           man
           borne
           to
           greatnesse
           ,
           so
           likewise
           borne
           to
           
           iourney
           to
           death
           .
           To
           which
           ere
           he
           come
           ,
           (
           death
           being
           the
           furthest
           home
           of
           all
           our
           trauailes
           )
           wee
           must
           know
           that
           wee
           are
           to
           passe
           through
           the
           miseries
           of
           mortallity
           ,
           and
           particularly
           informe
           our selues
           that
           life
           it selfe
           (
           how
           short
           soeuer
           )
           in
           respect
           of
           it's
           frailty
           ,
           is
           long
           and
           tedious
           ,
           the
           manner
           of
           liuing
           troublesome
           and
           vneuen
           ,
           the
           change
           of
           estates
           infectious
           to
           the
           minde
           ,
           vnhealthy
           to
           the
           soule
           ,
           the
           wildernesse
           of
           opinion
           and
           iudgement
           wasted
           by
           the
           cause
           ,
           and
           comfortlesse
           in
           the
           effects
           of
           folly
           :
           
           directions
           to
           reformation
           chargeable
           ,
           if
           wee
           respect
           our
           ignorance
           ,
           vncertaine
           if
           wee
           remember
           our
           wilfulnesse
           :
           Here
           on
           the
           one
           side
           are
           theeues
           ,
           euen
           our
           affections
           to
           spoile
           vs
           of
           vertue
           ;
           there
           on
           the
           other
           side
           Beasts
           ,
           which
           are
           defects
           of
           reason
           ,
           set
           on
           to
           deuoure
           vs
           ;
           euen
           our
           manner
           of
           liuing
           is
           a
           baite
           to
           allure
           vs
           from
           the
           surety
           of
           life
           ,
           and
           when
           wee
           are
           come
           to
           the
           deadly
           sickenesse
           that
           must
           finish
           our
           course
           ,
           the
           worst
           of
           euill
           is
           ,
           that
           hauing
           past
           all
           the
           quicksands
           and
           perils
           of
           life
           ,
           wee
           haue
           within
           vs
           
           death
           it selfe
           in
           our
           owne
           consciences
           to
           bring
           vs
           to
           death
           .
        
         
           Nothing
           is
           left
           therefore
           to
           a
           man
           borne
           to
           liue
           ,
           but
           a
           stayed
           and
           a
           sure
           resolution
           to
           be
           armed
           to
           die
           .
           In
           which
           hee
           is
           to
           care
           ,
           not
           where
           hee
           shall
           die
           ,
           or
           in
           what
           manner
           ,
           or
           in
           what
           estate
           ,
           but
           that
           hee
           must
           die
           ,
           and
           in
           what
           minde
           ,
           and
           in
           what
           memorable
           vertues
           .
        
         
           Heere
           ,
           the
           foundation
           to
           the
           erecting
           the
           Master-piece
           of
           the
           
             Golden
             Meane
          
           being
           layd
           now
           vpon
           these
           or
           some
           other
           considerations
           ,
           not
           much
           
           differing
           from
           these
           ;
           a
           Noble
           wise
           man
           is
           then
           to
           know
           his
           owne
           worth
           ,
           wherby
           calamity
           may
           not
           cast
           him
           so
           downe
           ,
           as
           that
           hee
           cannot
           call
           to
           minde
           that
           hee
           hath
           beene
           once
           happy
           ;
           as
           greatnes
           might
           not
           so
           lift
           him
           vp
           as
           that
           hee
           should
           be
           secure
           that
           he
           could
           neuer
           be
           vnhappie
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           much
           needfull
           that
           worthy
           personages
           hauing
           merit
           to
           commend
           their
           bloud
           ,
           and
           birth
           to
           make
           goodly
           their
           merit
           ,
           should
           in
           such
           sort
           be
           both
           knowers
           and
           directors
           of
           their
           own
           vertues
           ,
           
           
           
           
           
           as
           neither
           honorable
           estimation
           should
           so
           purchase
           the
           opinion
           of
           vanitie
           ,
           to
           be
           blowne
           vp
           with
           the
           simplicitie
           of
           pride
           ;
           neither
           a
           too
           low
           discent
           to
           the
           weakenesse
           of
           seruilitie
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           become
           the
           miracles
           of
           pittie
           .
           He
           that
           knowes
           himselfe
           ,
           not
           that
           he
           is
           so
           much
           a
           great
           man
           as
           a
           good
           man
           ;
           knowes
           likewise
           it
           is
           a
           labour
           of
           as
           rare
           desert
           to
           preserue
           Goodnesse
           ,
           as
           to
           finde
           it
           ;
           as
           on
           the
           other
           part
           ,
           the
           meerely
           ambitious
           rather
           studie
           to
           finde
           greatnesse
           ,
           then
           being
           found
           and
           enioyed
           to
           preserue
           it
           .
           Such
           
           principles
           ingenerall
           ,
           being
           by
           a
           discerning
           iudgement
           cont●…iued
           ,
           the
           contriuer
           cannot
           be
           far
           from
           the
           parts
           that
           leade
           to
           this
           
             Golden
             Meane
          
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           many
           times
           seene
           that
           those
           who
           leade
           their
           liues
           according
           to
           the
           measure
           of
           their
           will
           and
           power
           ,
           doe
           not
           measure
           their
           will
           and
           power
           according
           to
           the
           frailtie
           of
           their
           liues
           ;
           yet
           certainely
           they
           lead
           an
           euill
           life
           who
           are
           still
           beginning
           to
           liue
           ,
           for
           that
           life
           is
           euer
           vnperfect
           which
           hath
           learned
           but
           the
           first
           onely
           rule
           to
           goodnesse
           :
           certaine
           other
           ,
           
           then
           chiefly
           begin
           to
           liue
           when
           they
           are
           certaine
           to
           end
           the
           race
           of
           so
           liuing
           by
           death
           ;
           and
           some
           also
           there
           are
           ,
           who
           end
           their
           liues
           before
           they
           can
           well
           be
           said
           to
           haue
           begunne
           to
           liue
           .
        
         
           Most
           men
           subiect
           to
           those
           vnhappinesses
           ,
           like
           things
           floating
           on
           the
           water
           ,
           doe
           not
           goe
           ,
           but
           are
           carried
           ;
           not
           the
           counsell
           of
           prouidence
           directs
           their
           steps
           to
           goe
           by
           the
           staffe
           of
           discretion
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           wholly
           rather
           carried
           by
           the
           violent
           streame
           of
           opinion
           and
           conceit
           ,
           precisely
           termed
           
           Humour
           .
           To
           vnmaske
           the
           vizour
           that
           hides
           the
           deformitie
           of
           this
           customarie
           vilenesse
           ,
           much
           guilt
           is
           to
           be
           laid
           on
           the
           change
           of
           the
           times
           ,
           or
           indeed
           on
           the
           change
           of
           men
           in
           the
           times
           .
           For
           ,
           whiles
           the
           World
           was
           yet
           in
           her
           infancie
           ,
           neither
           was
           such
           plenty
           of
           temptation
           to
           inuite
           ,
           neither
           was
           vanity
           so
           plentifull
           to
           tempt
           the
           happinesse
           of
           that
           age
           to
           the
           miseries
           of
           this
           :
           But
           as
           dayes
           grow
           more
           numberles
           in
           number
           ,
           so
           men
           in
           those
           dayes
           waxed
           more
           irregular
           in
           manners
           :
           which
           irregularitie
           
           of
           manners
           ,
           increased
           by
           the
           deprauation
           of
           reason
           in
           men
           of
           all
           conditions
           ;
           in
           fooles
           euer
           ,
           in
           the
           wise
           often
           ;
           for
           euen
           the
           wise
           do
           themselues
           ,
           not
           seldom
           suffer
           an
           eclipse
           of
           reason
           .
        
         
           The
           difference
           that
           is
           ,
           is
           for
           that
           such
           a
           defect
           proceeds
           rather
           out
           of
           the
           firmitie
           of
           Nature
           ,
           then
           out
           of
           any
           subiection
           of
           the
           minde
           :
           for
           ,
           where
           the
           minde
           is
           subiected
           to
           the
           grossenes
           of
           errour
           ,
           there
           doth
           the
           man
           so
           for
           the
           time
           (
           so
           subiected
           )
           forsake
           the
           course
           of
           Wisedome
           ,
           which
           like
           a
           fixed
           Starre
           should
           (
           how
           soeuer
           
           the
           heauens
           moue
           )
           be
           vnmoueable
           ,
           and
           vnmoued
           in
           the
           Center
           of
           his
           place
           ;
           and
           such
           as
           so
           is
           ,
           is
           truely
           said
           to
           be
           true
           Noblenesse
           ,
           true
           Vertue
           ,
           true
           Wisedome
           .
        
         
           Euen
           as
           one
           that
           is
           to
           frame
           a
           goodly
           building
           on
           a
           delightfull
           plot
           of
           ground
           ,
           doth
           first
           prouidently
           forecast
           aswell
           of
           the
           hazards
           and
           hinderances
           that
           may
           come
           ,
           as
           the
           charge
           which
           daily
           must
           come
           .
           Amongst
           which
           must
           principally
           be
           considered
           ,
           the
           title
           of
           the
           right
           ,
           and
           what
           claime
           may
           belayd
           thereto
           ,
           and
           
           what
           meanes
           may
           be
           vsed
           to
           remoue
           that
           claime
           .
           Then
           the
           necessitie
           of
           prouision
           ,
           the
           casuall
           change
           of
           weather
           ,
           the
           wearinesse
           of
           working
           ;
           for
           all
           which
           ,
           if
           interaccidents
           of
           extremity
           should
           happen
           remedies
           for
           the
           same
           must
           be
           thought
           on
           .
           So
           a
           man
           in
           his
           minde
           wisely
           resolued
           to
           the
           building
           of
           this
           excellent
           frame
           of
           the
           
             Golden
             Meane
          
           ,
           on
           the
           plot
           of
           a
           prepared
           resolution
           ,
           must
           endeuour
           to
           prouide
           cures
           against
           the
           fates
           of
           extremitie
           .
           A
           few
           of
           which
           extremities
           that
           doe
           many
           times
           assault
           the
           
           temper
           of
           a
           Noble
           vertue
           ,
           it
           shall
           not
           much
           differ
           from
           the
           purpose
           and
           present
           to
           point
           at
           .
        
         
           With
           men
           of
           Honour
           and
           Nobilitie
           ,
           the
           chiefe
           misfortunes
           that
           can
           ,
           or
           doe
           vsually
           ,
           happen
           ,
           are
           either
           
             Disfauour
             ,
             Neglect
          
           ,
           
           forfeite
           of
           
             Estate
             ,
             Banishment
             ,
             Imprisonment
          
           ,
           or
           Death
           .
           The
           remedies
           against
           all
           which
           ,
           shall
           easily
           in
           perticular
           bee
           subserted
           .
        
         
           Disfauour
           ,
           often
           times
           
           comes
           either
           through
           
             Priuie
             malice
             ,
             selfe-vnworthynesse
             ,
             Enuie
             ,
          
           or
           sometimes
           through
           the
           variablenesse
           
           of
           an
           vnguided
           Prince
           inclination
           :
           To
           each
           〈◊〉
           those
           ,
           a
           wise
           man
           may
           ,
           and
           a
           good
           man
           will
           soone
           apply
           a
           medicine
           ,
           and
           in
           tha●…
           a
           recouery
           .
           To
           deser●…
           the
           grace
           of
           a
           Prince
           is
           an●…
           honorable
           happines
           ;
           yo●…
           is
           not
           the
           losse
           of
           it
           (
           being
           once
           deserued
           )
           a
           misery
           ;
           especially
           to
           wise
           men
           ,
           since
           vvise
           men
           may
           bee
           made
           subiect
           ,
           but
           neuer
           subiects
           to
           misery
           :
           calamity
           may
           exercise
           ,
           but
           not
           ouersway
           their
           vertues
           :
           misfortune
           may
           bee
           an
           vsurping
           tyrant
           to
           paine
           them
           ,
           but
           neuer
           a
           receiued
           soueraigne
           to
           command
           
           them
           :
           If
           the
           Prince
           his
           gracious
           fauour
           be
           lost
           through
           the
           
             priuie
             malice
          
           
           of
           some
           ,
           who
           fill
           the
           eares
           of
           Maiestie
           with
           the
           dis●…ord
           of
           slander
           and
           vntruth
           ,
           grounded
           vpon
           the
           sandy
           foundation
           of
           vncertaine
           discontent
           ,
           or
           dishonourable
           reuenge
           ,
           then
           hath
           a
           wise
           Noble
           man
           ,
           out
           of
           those
           very
           wrongs
           ,
           strong
           arguments
           to
           perswad
           his
           reason
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           much
           reason
           why
           hee
           should
           be
           perswaded
           to
           moderation
           :
           for
           being
           innocent
           of
           any
           voluntary
           action
           or
           intent
           that
           might
           make
           his
           faith
           questionable
           ,
           
           or
           his
           serui●…
           dangerous
           ,
           or
           his
           merit
           〈◊〉
           lesse
           value
           then
           a
           voy●…
           of
           generall
           commenda●…
           ,
           hath
           formerly
           〈◊〉
           ,
           his
           owne
           cleerenes●…
           may
           euer
           rest
           vpon
           the
           vnmoued
           pillars
           of
           his
           own●…
           Noble
           integritie
           .
        
         
           Where
           a
           man
           in
           grace
           
           with
           his
           Soueraigne
           falls
           from
           it
           by
           a
           selfe-vnworthynesse
           ,
           it
           is
           far
           otherwise
           :
           &
           vndoubtedly
           ,
           whosoeuer
           is
           so
           impoisoned
           with
           the
           diseases
           of
           his
           minde
           ,
           or
           the
           infirmity
           of
           his
           body
           hath
           great
           &
           principal
           causes
           to
           moue
           him
           to
           seeke
           for
           remedy
           against
           the
           dispertion
           
           of
           the
           one
           ,
           &
           the
           asper●…ion
           of
           the
           latter
           .
           To
           this
           ●…elfe-unworthynes
           ,
           either
           in
           ●…inde
           or
           body
           ,
           may
           be
           re●…erred
           Ambition
           ,
           the
           Mo●…her
           of
           disloial
           plots
           &
           practises
           :
           Discontent
           ,
           the
           Nurse
           〈◊〉
           conspiracies
           ;
           Couetous●…es
           ,
           that
           kindling
           fires
           with
           the
           fuell
           of
           Monopolies
           ,
           is
           inforced
           to
           quench
           them
           with
           the
           teares
           of
           disgrace
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           soone
           followes
           thereon
           ,
           Contempt
           .
           ●…aine-glory
           ,
           or
           Pride
           ,
           which
           whiles
           with
           Pompeys
           minde
           it
           cannot
           brooke
           the
           title
           of
           a
           superiour
           ,
           is
           with
           Pompeys
           fortunes
           cast
           down
           beneath
           the
           pittie
           of
           their
           equals
           .
           
           Faction
           ,
           vvhich
           like
           foolish
           flye
           in
           the
           cand●…
           labours
           her
           owne
           dea●…
           with
           other
           diseases
           ,
           〈◊〉
           many
           to
           be
           tediously
           rected
           :
           or
           to
           this
           
             self
             -
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           through
           the
           infi●…mitie
           of
           the
           body
           ,
           which
           more
           especially
           consists
           in
           action
           ,
           may
           bee
           referred
           Ryot
           ,
           in
           all
           men
           a
           madnes
           ,
           in
           Noble
           men
           a
           blemish
           ,
           and
           to
           good
           Princes
           most
           displeasant
           ;
           or
           Quarrelling
           ,
           which
           euer
           brings
           danger
           ,
           with
           too
           late
           repentance
           ;
           or
           Wantonnesse
           ,
           the
           ouerthrow
           of
           many
           goodly
           kindreds
           and
           familyes
           ;
           or
           Scurrilitie
           ,
           with
           other
           such
           
           like
           .
           Since
           when
           mention
           was
           made
           of
           the
           unworthi●…esse
           of
           body
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           any
           defect
           in
           Nature
           ,
           or
           naturall
           proportion
           ,
           but
           in
           manners
           outwardly
           acted
           :
           For
           many
           times
           it
           is
           commonly
           seene
           ,
           that
           where
           Nature
           hath
           fail'd
           in
           some
           parts
           of
           the
           outward
           man
           ,
           shee
           hath
           oftentimes
           supplyed
           those
           wants
           with
           a
           pregnancy
           of
           minde
           .
        
         
           A
           president
           whereof
           is
           (
           not
           to
           borrow
           of
           auncient
           Histories
           ,
           )
           euen
           in
           the
           CHRONICLES
           of
           our
           present
           memories
           ,
           in
           the
           person
           of
           ROBERT
           ,
           the
           late
           Earle
           of
           SALISBVRY
           ,
           
           a
           man
           whose
           vneuenes
           〈◊〉
           shape
           was
           perfected
           with
           the
           perfect
           furniture
           of
           〈◊〉
           reaching
           and
           industrio●…
           wit.
           So
           was
           the
           crookedness
           of
           Aesape
           made
           straight
           in
           the
           sweetnes
           〈◊〉
           his
           inuention
           .
           And
           Scorates
           ,
           that
           odde
           man
           of
           Athens
           ,
           is
           said
           to
           haue
           said
           of
           himselfe
           ,
           
             that
             education
             &
             Art
             in
             him
             ,
             had
             changed
             the
             course
             of
             Natures
             vnfurnished
             workmanship
             .
          
        
         
           Of
           these
           ,
           and
           such
           imperfections
           of
           body
           ,
           〈◊〉
           is
           not
           heere
           intended
           ,
           but
           of
           such
           as
           by
           their
           owne
           selfe-vnworthines
           in
           body
           in
           minde
           ,
           &
           often
           in
           both
           ,
           
           doe
           loose
           the
           intrest
           ,
           their
           Blood
           ,
           Birth
           ,
           and
           Noblenesse
           (
           being
           noble
           indeed
           by
           those
           both
           )
           hath
           in
           their
           Princes
           opinion
           .
        
         
           A
           remedy
           against
           self-unworthinesse
           ;
           must
           be
           found
           out
           in
           a
           selfe-reformation
           ;
           which
           being
           sincerely
           performed
           ,
           the
           follyes
           of
           the
           past
           times
           belong
           not
           to
           the
           reformed
           .
        
         
           If
           one
           should
           call
           such
           a
           one
           (
           as
           hath
           bin
           knowne
           for
           a
           notorious
           robber
           .
           )
           Theefe
           ,
           being
           certainely
           sorrowfull
           ,
           penitent
           ,
           and
           accomptable
           for
           all
           his
           errours
           in
           that
           kinde
           ,
           doubtlesse
           it
           were
           much
           indiscretion
           
           in
           the
           Agent
           to
           speake
           so
           to
           him
           ,
           &
           more
           in
           the
           Patient
           to
           esteeme
           it
           as
           spoken
           of
           him
           ,
           since
           wise
           and
           good
           men
           as
           they
           do
           not
           repute
           those
           things
           theirs
           which
           they
           haue
           not
           done
           ,
           so
           must
           they
           neither
           acknowledge
           for
           theirs
           which
           they
           now
           presently
           doe
           not
           .
           
             Non
             vocamus
             ●…nostra
             quae
             non
             ipsi
             fecimus
             ,
             at
             quae
             non
             ipsi
             facimus
             ,
          
           as
           the
           right
           sence
           of
           the
           olde
           Verse
           contayneth
           .
        
         
           So
           then
           :
           Hath
           a
           great
           PEERE
           loft
           his
           Princes
           fauour
           ,
           because
           he
           deserued
           to
           loose
           it
           ?
           let
           not
           this
           deiect
           or
           caft
           him
           downe
           in
           
           mind
           ,
           since
           as
           by
           a
           change
           from
           good
           to
           worser
           hee
           forewent
           his
           Princes
           loue
           ,
           or
           rather
           his
           Princes
           louehim
           ;
           So
           yet
           by
           a
           change
           from
           bad
           to
           better
           ,
           he
           still
           is
           worthy
           of
           a
           repossession
           of
           that
           loue
           ,
           though
           hee
           repossesse
           it
           not
           :
           And
           what
           worth
           cannot
           be
           seen
           by
           the
           publique
           little
           eye
           of
           the
           great
           world
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           being
           clouded
           from
           the
           Sunne
           of
           his
           life
           and
           glory
           ,
           his
           Prince
           ;
           let
           it
           bee
           so
           much
           the
           more
           seene
           by
           the
           priuate
           great
           eye
           of
           his
           own
           little
           world
           (
           euen
           himselfe
           and
           his
           owne
           comforts
           )
           and
           teach
           
           him
           to
           know
           the
           difference
           betweene
           a
           great
           and
           a
           good
           man
           ,
           the
           one
           preferring
           vertue
           onely
           for
           greatnesse
           ,
           the
           other
           preferring
           greatnesse
           for
           the
           greatnes
           of
           vertue
           onely
           .
        
         
           Another
           cause
           ,
           which
           
           not
           seldome
           procureth
           disfauour
           from
           the
           Prince
           ,
           is
           that
           old
           enimie
           to
           desert
           Enuy
           ,
           who
           is
           so
           auncient
           a
           Courtier
           ,
           and
           so
           tryed
           in
           the
           passages
           of
           all
           ages
           ,
           that
           such
           a
           man
           as
           is
           in
           fauour
           with
           his
           Soueraigne
           ,
           deseruing
           so
           to
           be
           ,
           and
           imagining
           himselfe
           to
           bee
           without
           the
           compasse
           of
           Enuy
           ,
           is
           too
           securely
           ,
           &
           
           in
           that
           security
           ,
           too
           simply
           armed
           against
           his
           owne
           ruine
           .
        
         
           Heere
           now
           is
           a
           broad
           path
           ,
           leading
           ,
           or
           more
           truely
           teaching
           the
           ready
           course
           to
           the
           excellent
           meane
           of
           Temperance
           and
           Moderation
           .
           Euery
           man
           ought
           to
           reioyce
           and
           solace
           himselfe
           in
           his
           owne
           perfections
           :
           for
           it
           is
           as
           beast-like
           not
           to
           know
           his
           proper
           value
           at
           all
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           diuellish
           to
           know
           it
           too
           much
           .
           Humble-Pride
           is
           a
           proud
           humilitie
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           exercise
           it
           with
           innocence
           rather
           then
           curiositie
           ,
           doe
           but
           shew
           the
           difference
           
           betweene
           a
           nobly
           and
           generous
           ,
           and
           a
           basely
           fantasticall
           Nature
           .
           Whereby
           then
           should
           a
           man
           be
           perswaded
           that
           he
           is
           an
           imbracer
           of
           vertue
           ,
           more
           then
           in
           that
           hee
           is
           prosecuted
           by
           the
           restlesse
           venome
           of
           the
           enuious
           .
        
         
           Hath
           this
           secret
           mischiefe
           displaced
           any
           desertfull
           fauorite
           of
           the
           benefite
           of
           the
           fauour
           royall
           ?
           assuredly
           hee
           hath
           little
           cause
           to
           distaste
           it
           any
           thing
           ,
           or
           to
           be
           moued
           from
           the
           commendation
           of
           a
           resolued
           minde
           ,
           that
           as
           hee
           shall
           by
           tempering
           his
           disgrace
           vvith
           sufferance
           ,
           
           increase
           the
           honor
           of
           his
           merit
           ,
           so
           shall
           hee
           giue
           matter
           still
           of
           more
           enuie
           to
           the
           enuious
           ,
           who
           are
           oftentimes
           as
           much
           afflicted
           with
           the
           patience
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           with
           the
           prosperitie
           of
           the
           party
           enuied
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           better
           to
           be
           enuied
           then
           pittied
           :
           pitty
           proceeding
           out
           of
           a
           cold
           charitie
           towards
           the
           miserable
           :
           enuie
           out
           of
           a
           corruption
           of
           qualitie
           against
           the
           vertuous
           :
           If
           it
           be
           obiected
           that
           the
           losse
           of
           a
           Princes
           fauour
           ,
           through
           the
           instigation
           of
           some
           enuious
           opposite
           ,
           hath
           
           most
           cause
           to
           afflict
           a
           noble
           minde
           ,
           in
           that
           his
           enemie
           hath
           preuailed
           against
           him
           ;
           the
           same
           reason
           may
           be
           answered
           with
           the
           same
           reason
           .
           That
           such
           an
           enemy
           cannot
           be
           said
           to
           preuaile
           ,
           who
           fights
           with
           the
           weapons
           of
           a
           dishonourable
           treachery
           ;
           and
           what
           greater
           triumph
           or
           conquest
           can
           a
           Wise
           or
           a
           Noble
           man
           wish
           to
           enioy
           ,
           then
           to
           torment
           his
           aduersary
           with
           the
           perfections
           of
           his
           vertue
           ?
           But
           in
           the
           meane
           time
           enuy
           ouer-rules
           ?
           True
           ,
           and
           heere
           is
           an
           inducement
           to
           a
           steady
           moderation
           ,
           in
           that
           it
           is
           
           but
           enuy
           .
           But
           the
           Princes
           fauour
           is
           by
           this
           meanes
           lost
           ?
           So
           is
           a
           Noble
           mans
           selfe-worthinesse
           by
           the
           same
           meanes
           found
           :
           and
           it
           is
           a
           greater
           blemish
           to
           the
           iudgement
           of
           a
           Prince
           so
           traduced
           ,
           not
           to
           examine
           the
           particulars
           why
           he
           doth
           reiect
           a
           worthy
           subiect
           ,
           then
           to
           the
           subiects
           worthinesse
           ,
           without
           particular
           examinations
           from
           his
           Prince
           to
           be
           reiected
           .
           So
           ,
           neither
           then
           should
           enuy
           remoue
           ,
           but
           for
           that
           it
           is
           enuy
           ,
           confirme
           and
           strengthen
           a
           noble
           resolution
           .
        
         
         
           Sometimes
           the
           variablenesse
           
           
             of
             the
             Princes
             inclination
          
           ,
           his
           addiction
           to
           change
           from
           royall
           Vertues
           to
           horrible
           Vices
           ,
           is
           the
           reason
           of
           his
           disfavour
           with
           those
           who
           are
           of
           the
           best
           desert
           :
           Such
           and
           of
           such
           conditions
           were
           ill
           England
           ,
           RICHARD
           
             the
             second
          
           ,
           in
           Rome
           ,
           NERO
           ,
           in
           Sicile
           ,
           DIONISIVS
           ,
           and
           such
           are
           for
           the
           most
           part
           all
           Tyrants
           ,
           who
           if
           they
           exercise
           not
           their
           〈◊〉
           ouer
           the
           liues
           ,
           yet
           certainly
           exercise
           it
           ouer
           the
           harts
           of
           their
           faithfullest
           subiects
           .
           Such
           Princes
           are
           rather
           vvanton
           in
           their
           
           fauours
           then
           iudicious
           ,
           and
           the
           weakenesse
           of
           vertue
           is
           the
           cause
           of
           that
           depriuation
           of
           iudgement
           .
           How
           happy
           is
           that
           man
           who
           hath
           lost
           that
           grace
           (
           with
           a
           Prince
           of
           that
           condition
           )
           which
           he
           may
           rest
           confident
           he
           neuer
           surely
           had
           ?
        
         
           And
           aboue
           many
           other
           motiues
           ,
           this
           is
           most
           generall
           and
           most
           effectuall
           to
           rectifie
           a
           wise
           mans
           minde
           ,
           for
           such
           a
           one
           as
           layes
           the
           foundations
           of
           his
           hopes
           on
           the
           moueable
           sandes
           of
           his
           Princes
           fauour
           ,
           is
           like
           a
           foolish
           Marchant
           that
           aduentures
           
           all
           his
           substance
           in
           a
           broken
           vessell
           :
           and
           hee
           that
           relyes
           on
           the
           vnhappinesses
           of
           such
           fauour
           ,
           must
           of
           necessitie
           banish
           al
           Noble
           resolutions
           from
           his
           dissignes
           ,
           for
           it
           is
           a
           headlong
           folly
           ,
           and
           a
           wilfull
           detraction
           that
           such
           a
           one
           seekes
           ,
           if
           he
           doe
           not
           aswell
           resolue
           to
           endeuour
           to
           preserue
           and
           continue
           his
           Princes
           grace
           ,
           as
           to
           finde
           and
           enioy
           it
           .
        
         
           Now
           this
           is
           a
           direct
           ,
           or
           indeede
           indirect
           running
           away
           from
           the
           maine
           worke
           of
           goodnesse
           :
           for
           to
           as
           many
           vices
           as
           the
           Nature
           &
           life
           of
           a
           wicked
           
           man
           may
           be
           inclined
           ,
           to
           〈◊〉
           many
           must
           he
           addresse
           ●…imselfe
           to
           be
           a
           bawd
           ,
           if
           not
           an
           actor
           in
           them
           ;
           and
           of
           all
           vnhappines
           this
           is
           the
           first
           .
           Certainly
           good
           Clarkes
           haue
           said
           ,
           and
           experience
           doth
           vvitnesse
           ,
           that
           an
           exact
           Courtier
           is
           ●…eldome
           a
           good
           man
           ;
           for
           not
           to
           speake
           of
           generall
           enormities
           in
           particular
           ;
           Courtiers
           are
           most
           times
           giuen
           ouer
           to
           those
           two
           wonderful
           madnesses
           Pride
           and
           Riot
           ,
           Pride
           countenancing
           their
           Riot
           ,
           and
           RIOT
           making
           glorious
           their
           Pride
           .
           What
           a
           blessing
           (
           for
           it
           is
           more
           then
           a
           
           happinesse
           )
           the
           〈◊〉
           of
           those
           common
           errors
           〈◊〉
           the
           wiseman
           will
           acknowledge
           ,
           and
           the
           fortunate
           Noble
           may
           proue
           .
        
         
           Princes
           sometimes
           an●…
           
           vnguided
           in
           their
           dispositions
           ,
           and
           then
           he●…
           who
           is
           neerest
           in
           fauo●…
           is
           in
           greatest
           danger
           of
           his
           place
           ,
           which
           happening
           many
           times
           ,
           puts
           him
           in
           many
           feares
           ,
           in
           so
           much
           as
           euen
           the
           ground
           work
           that
           beares
           vp
           his
           ambition
           is
           shaken
           with
           euery
           breath
           of
           an
           vnpleasant
           word
           :
           And
           what
           miserie
           then
           can
           that
           be
           ,
           to
           be
           out
           of
           this
           miserie
           ;
           especially
           when
           the
           Prince
           is
           of
           a
           
           changeable
           and
           deuided
           minde
           ?
           So
           that
           hee
           that
           will
           ingeniously
           looke
           into
           the
           worst
           of
           a
           Princes
           dis●…auour
           (
           himselfe
           not
           detected
           of
           vnworthynesse
           )
           may
           likewise
           ingeniously
           confesse
           that
           there
           is
           much
           gaine
           in
           such
           a
           losse
           .
        
         
           Of
           other
           miseries
           (
           which
           
           are
           so
           reputed
           amongst
           men
           )
           that
           may
           happen
           to
           〈◊〉
           Noble
           〈◊〉
           ,
           Neglect
           〈◊〉
           〈◊〉
           another
           ,
           that
           〈◊〉
           ,
           when
           his
           seruice
           for
           his
           〈◊〉
           ,
           or
           aduise
           for
           the
           〈◊〉
           ,
           or
           indeuours
           to
           〈◊〉
           his
           Soueraigne
           ,
           are
           〈◊〉
           not
           commended
           ,
           or
           〈◊〉
           least
           not
           rewarded
           ;
           here
           
           is
           required
           indeede
           much
           vertue
           to
           conquer
           that
           part
           of
           man
           vvhich
           is
           meerely
           man
           ,
           and
           to
           stand
           resolute
           vpon
           the
           gard
           of
           his
           owne
           worthynesse
           .
           This
           Neglect
           in
           a
           Prince
           ,
           comes
           from
           an
           insensible
           ingratitude
           ,
           or
           want
           of
           〈◊〉
           quicknesse
           in
           the
           faculties
           of
           his
           soule
           .
           If
           from
           ingratitude
           ,
           (
           a
           sinne
           〈◊〉
           full
           in
           all
           men
           ,
           but
           in
           Kings
           ,
           estates
           ,
           or
           〈◊〉
           nours
           horrible
           )
           then
           〈◊〉
           fortune
           ,
           or
           (
           if
           you
           so
           〈◊〉
           to
           terme
           it
           )
           misery
           of
           〈◊〉
           is
           〈◊〉
           to
           be
           〈◊〉
           for
           by
           how
           much
           a
           〈◊〉
           is
           vnt
           hankfull
           in
           rewarding
           
           the
           seruice
           of
           his
           subiect
           ,
           by
           so
           much
           the
           more
           is
           hee
           ingaged
           to
           all
           memories
           of
           being
           a
           dishonorable
           debtor
           .
        
         
           And
           though
           a
           man
           is
           bound
           to
           pay
           the
           best
           of
           his
           seruice
           either
           to
           his
           KING
           or
           COVNTRY
           ,
           in
           the
           safety
           of
           the
           one
           ,
           and
           preseruation
           of
           the
           other
           ,
           and
           dutie
           to
           both
           ,
           yet
           so
           are
           both
           his
           KING
           and
           Country
           interchangeably
           bound
           to
           fauour
           ,
           cherish
           ,
           and
           respect
           worth
           in
           a
           worthy
           deseruer
           .
           But
           if
           Neglect
           proceede
           out
           of
           a
           want
           of
           iudgment
           ,
           or
           a
           decerning
           Vertue
           ,
           then
           hath
           the
           
           neglected
           much
           mo●…
           cause
           to
           beare
           that
           iniu●…
           A
           man
           is
           not
           to
           expect
           thankes
           from
           a
           Oxe
           ,
           or
           Horse
           ,
           for
           feeding
           ,
           〈◊〉
           ring
           ,
           dressing
           and
           smoothing
           of
           him
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           an
           Oxe
           or
           a
           Horse
           〈◊〉
           whom
           hee
           doth
           it
           .
           Truel●…
           a
           gouernour
           of
           people
           that
           can
           eate
           ,
           clothe
           an●…
           feede
           another
           mans
           labours
           ,
           and
           cannot
           giue
           acknowledgement
           at
           least
           to
           him
           who
           by
           the
           working
           of
           his
           braines
           ,
           expence
           of
           his
           bloud
           ,
           and
           consumption
           of
           his
           estate
           ,
           or
           such
           like
           seruices
           ,
           doth
           in
           peace
           feede
           and
           clothe
           his
           King
           
           and
           Country
           ,
           such
           a
           ruler
           ●…ffers
           ,
           in
           this
           ,
           little
           from
           a
           ●…east
           ,
           that
           hath
           not
           rea●…on
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           the
           vse
           of
           ●…eason
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           Neglect
           come
           ●…om
           the
           vnsteddinesse
           of
           ●…he
           common
           people
           ,
           then
           〈◊〉
           is
           nothing
           strange
           :
           for
           〈◊〉
           they
           are
           wonne
           in
           an
           ●…oure
           ,
           so
           are
           they
           lost
           in
           a
           minunte
           ;
           &
           whosoeuer
           co●…etech
           popular
           applause
           ,
           ●…or
           depends
           vpon
           the
           〈◊〉
           of
           the
           vulgar
           ,
           doth
           with
           the
           dogge
           in
           
             Esope
             ,
             〈◊〉
             carnes
             ,
             captare
             vmbres
          
           ;
           ●…imbrace
           clouds
           ,
           and
           beget
           Centaures
           ;
           and
           doth
           iustly
           deserue
           no
           commendations
           
           at
           all
           for
           so
           seeking
           to
           be
           commended
           .
        
         
           If
           yet
           it
           be
           fit
           to
           inqui●…
           further
           into
           the
           maine
           construction
           ,
           what
           ,
           or
           of
           what
           value
           and
           ,
           moment
           this
           Neglect
           is
           ,
           experience
           〈◊〉
           others
           will
           learne
           vs
           to
           be
           Schoole-masters
           to
           our selues
           ;
           for
           let
           a
           man
           be
           n●…uer
           so
           iminent
           in
           authoritie
           vnder
           his
           PRINCE
           ,
           let
           him
           haue
           what
           greatnesse
           he
           can
           imagine
           ,
           and
           what
           adoration
           and
           reueren●…
           the
           humilitie
           of
           the
           publique
           wonder
           can
           giue●…
           Let
           his
           words
           be
           obserued
           as
           Oracles
           ,
           his
           commands
           as
           Lawes
           ,
           his
           displeasure
           
           ●…s
           death
           ,
           yet
           with
           the
           flight
           of
           a
           thought
           if
           vpon
           some
           dislike
           grounded
           or
           vngrounded
           ,
           the
           King
           at
           any
           time
           shorten
           his
           Royall
           fa●…our
           ,
           or
           the
           Law
           in
           any
           point
           take
           hold
           on
           him
           ,
           ●…hereby
           hee
           appeares
           to
           ●…he
           iudgement
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           to
           bee
           entring
           into
           ●…he
           way
           of
           miserie
           ,
           how
           ●…ensibly
           and
           how
           soone
           〈◊〉
           all
           hefeele
           an
           alteration
           of
           those
           large
           flatteries
           which
           the
           seruilitie
           of
           the
           ●…ncertaine
           people
           promi●…ed
           ?
        
         
           A
           witnesse
           hereof
           in
           his
           time
           was
           ,
           and
           in
           this
           time
           may
           be
           ,
           Iohn
           ,
           that
           great
           
           and
           last
           Duke
           of
           No
           〈◊〉
           THVMBERLAN
           〈◊〉
           whose
           pride
           and
           〈◊〉
           were
           at
           once
           hastened
           by
           the
           too
           much
           confident
           he
           had
           in
           the
           harts
           of
           the
           Cominaltie
           ;
           with
           what
           speed
           was
           hee
           disgran●…
           of
           his
           Soueraigne
           ,
           〈◊〉
           of
           the
           Lords
           ,
           and
           〈◊〉
           of
           the
           multitude
           〈◊〉
           who
           is
           onely
           couetous
           of
           any
           〈◊〉
           ,
           though
           〈◊〉
           be
           change
           from
           the
           good
           to
           the
           worst
           ?
           A
           iust
           man
           therefore
           (
           whose
           soundnesse
           of
           minde
           like
           〈◊〉
           Centre
           of
           the
           earth
           〈◊〉
           euer
           vnmoued
           )
           by
           the
           light
           of
           those
           few
           〈◊〉
           
           dent
           reasons
           may
           vnderstand
           how
           easie
           it
           is
           for
           the
           popular
           iudgement
           as
           ●…ell
           in
           distinctions
           of
           mi●…eries
           as
           of
           happinesse
           to
           ●…rre
           :
           for
           as
           they
           account
           ●…states
           and
           conditions
           miserable
           ,
           which
           are
           not
           〈◊〉
           with
           the
           vanitie
           of
           outward
           glory
           ,
           or
           fulnesse
           of
           substance
           ;
           so
           doe
           they
           likewise
           reckon
           that
           felicity
           the
           truest
           happinesse
           ,
           whose
           dignitie
           and
           migh●…inesse
           is
           like
           the
           blazing
           Starre
           ,
           for
           the
           present
           ,
           as
           strange
           as
           fearefull
           :
           and
           for
           a
           wise
           ,
           a
           good
           ●…noble
           spirit
           to
           be
           〈◊〉
           with
           the
           neglect
           of
           〈◊〉
           in
           such
           
           creatures
           ,
           would
           be
           strong
           proofe
           that
           hee
           neuer
           〈◊〉
           the
           perfect
           relish
           eythe●…
           of
           perfect
           wisedome
           ,
           perfect
           goodnesse
           ,
           or
           perfect
           Nobilitie
           .
        
         
           Like
           as
           hath
           before
           
           beene
           said
           of
           Neglect
           ,
           〈◊〉
           much
           or
           more
           may
           be
           inferred
           of
           that
           misery
           called
           the
           
             forfeiture
             〈◊〉
             Estate
          
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           of
           all
           〈◊〉
           plenty
           or
           fulnesse
           of
           temporall
           substance
           ,
           as
           with
           worldly
           men
           the
           name
           and
           possession
           of
           riches
           doth
           include
           .
           Of
           all
           〈◊〉
           ther
           miseries
           this
           in
           th●…
           iudgement
           of
           such
           as
           〈◊〉
           not
           truly
           directed
           by
           true●…
           
           iudgement
           of
           such
           as
           are
           not
           truely
           directed
           by
           truest
           iudgement
           ,
           is
           reputed
           the
           most
           miserable
           :
           Insomuch
           as
           most
           men
           thinke
           ,
           and
           so
           thinking
           ,
           so
           resolue
           ,
           that
           Death
           ,
           in
           any
           forme
           ,
           is
           much
           more
           tollerable
           then
           beggary
           (
           for
           so
           they
           terme
           pouerty
           )
           by
           any
           casualty
           .
        
         
           One
           example
           or
           president
           to
           both
           Noble
           and
           vnderstanding
           men
           ,
           of
           what
           commendation
           the
           abandoning
           of
           rich
           fortunes
           ,
           being
           reported
           by
           
             Quintus
             Curtius
          
           ,
           may
           be
           remembred
           with
           immortall
           glory
           ,
           of
           Abdo-hominas
           ,
           
           a
           poore
           man
           ;
           rich
           in
           all
           plenty
           ,
           except
           plenty
           of
           riches
           ,
           to
           whom
           Alexander
           of
           MACEDON
           ,
           profferring
           the
           Kingdome
           of
           Sidon
           to
           him
           ,
           who
           was
           beefore
           but
           a
           Gardener
           ,
           was
           by
           him
           refused
           ,
           who
           replyed
           that
           hee
           would
           take
           no
           care
           to
           loose
           that
           which
           hee
           neuer
           cared
           to
           enioy
           .
           The
           Historie
           is
           worthy
           ,
           &
           the
           answere
           full
           of
           obseruation
           ,
           and
           will
           bee
           euer
           memorable
           .
        
         
           Of
           all
           other
           things
           ,
           free
           spirits
           &
           wise
           men
           should
           least
           respect
           the
           losse
           of
           temporall
           wealth
           ,
           which
           is
           no
           part
           of
           a
           man.
           
        
         
         
           Riches
           were
           fitly
           by
           the
           Philosophers
           called
           
             bona
             Fortunae
          
           ,
           vncertaine
           endowments
           ;
           to
           figure
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           that
           as
           fortune
           is
           euer
           variable
           ,
           so
           should
           her
           benefits
           bee
           reputed
           but
           vnconstant
           friends
           :
           in
           regard
           whereof
           they
           were
           excluded
           from
           the
           gifts
           as
           well
           of
           the
           body
           as
           of
           the
           minde
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           neither
           Health
           ,
           Beautic
           or
           vertues
           of
           any
           sort
           ,
           did
           neede
           the
           ornament
           of
           those
           gifts
           of
           Fortune
           .
        
         
           A
           good
           man
           ,
           if
           of
           his
           owne
           industrie
           and
           merit
           ,
           hee
           hath
           purchased
           vnto
           himselfe
           wealth
           ,
           hath
           little
           
           reason
           to
           grieue
           at
           the
           losse
           of
           them
           ,
           since
           he
           remaines
           still
           as
           perfect
           in
           the
           cunning
           of
           gayning
           as
           when
           he
           first
           began
           :
           but
           another
           of
           more
           aboundance
           ,
           whose
           possessions
           come
           to
           him
           by
           inheritance
           ,
           without
           any
           care
           of
           his
           owne
           ,
           he
           hath
           no
           reason
           at
           all
           to
           distaste
           the
           seizure
           of
           his
           estate
           ,
           since
           he
           doth
           forgo
           but
           that
           which
           hee
           neuer
           laboured
           for
           .
           Truly
           in
           respect
           of
           this
           it
           behoueth
           euery
           resolued
           minde
           to
           beare
           the
           courage
           of
           the
           wise
           man
           of
           GREECE
           ,
           that
           said
           ,
           he
           at
           all
           times
           carried
           all
           what
           was
           his
           with
           him
           
           wheresoeuer
           he
           went.
           
        
         
           
             Wisedome
             ,
             Temperance
             ,
             Valour
             ,
             Iustice
             ,
          
           are
           the
           substance
           and
           hereditary
           possessions
           of
           a
           perfectly
           happy
           man
           ,
           and
           these
           riches
           cannot
           bee
           forfaited
           ,
           except
           by
           a
           decay
           of
           Vertue
           ,
           they
           cannot
           be
           seized
           except
           the
           owner
           cast
           them
           off
           ,
           they
           cannot
           suffer
           contempt
           so
           long
           as
           they
           bee
           nourished
           in
           a
           noble
           minde
           .
           Indeede
           riches
           are
           to
           a
           good
           man
           like
           a
           light
           silken
           Cloake
           vpon
           his
           backe
           ,
           who
           is
           else
           prouided
           against
           the
           extreamitie
           of
           colde
           with
           warme
           furres
           :
           So
           hee
           that
           hath
           his
           owne
           
           goodnesse
           and
           resolution
           to
           warme
           him
           in
           all
           winters
           of
           aduersitie
           ,
           needes
           wealth
           but
           as
           a
           thinne
           silken
           Cloake
           vpon
           a
           furred
           Gowne
           ,
           rather
           to
           shew
           the
           vanitie
           of
           his
           disposition
           ,
           then
           any
           vsefull
           imployment
           to
           the
           sustenance
           of
           life
           .
        
         
           If
           nature
           be
           prouided
           for
           against
           hunger
           with
           meate
           ;
           against
           frosts
           with
           apparell
           ;
           against
           contempt
           with
           comelinesse
           ,
           the
           desire
           of
           money
           or
           large
           Lordships
           ,
           argues
           but
           the
           base
           filthinesse
           of
           an
           vnsatisfied
           couetousnesse
           .
        
         
         
           There
           may
           be
           obiected
           ,
           that
           ô
           my
           estate
           being
           forfeited
           ,
           mine
           Heires
           are
           beggard
           ,
           and
           the
           antiquitie
           of
           my
           ancestors
           house
           made
           the
           spectacle
           of
           ruine
           .
        
         
           This
           being
           admitted
           ,
           it
           is
           soone
           answered
           ,
           that
           the
           houses
           of
           most
           continuance
           ,
           and
           personages
           of
           Noblest
           births
           account
           that
           antiquitie
           of
           best
           estimation
           which
           is
           deriued
           from
           the
           longest
           discent
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           shall
           finde
           ,
           that
           the
           first
           of
           their
           honors
           were
           gotten
           by
           him
           ,
           who
           was
           in
           as
           low
           an
           ebbe
           of
           fulnesse
           ,
           as
           hee
           is
           now
           
           at
           the
           present
           :
           for
           all
           greatnes
           had
           a
           beginning
           ,
           and
           the
           beginning
           of
           that
           greatnesse
           is
           desert
           .
           Am
           I
           Noble
           ,
           let
           me
           know
           that
           this
           noblenesse
           is
           the
           least
           part
           of
           mine
           ;
           for
           my
           fathers
           wonne
           it
           by
           their
           vertue
           ,
           they
           had
           the
           glory
           ,
           but
           I
           enioy
           the
           Titles
           .
           Haue
           I
           robd
           mine
           Heires
           of
           those
           Titles
           ,
           Honours
           ,
           or
           Possessions
           ?
           let
           them
           striue
           to
           haue
           more
           honour
           in
           deseruing
           more
           ,
           that
           their
           Successors
           may
           asmuch
           remember
           their
           vertues
           ,
           as
           I
           haue
           remembred
           the
           vertues
           of
           my
           Ancestors
           .
           Questionlesse
           
           howsoeuer
           the
           reputation
           of
           a
           continued
           Family
           in
           ancient
           Honours
           ,
           be
           preferred
           aboue
           any
           men
           of
           latter
           greatnesse
           ,
           of
           some
           whose
           worth
           hath
           raised
           his
           house
           to
           a
           noble
           stile
           ,
           yet
           is
           it
           in
           the
           lawes
           of
           reason
           most
           reasonable
           ;
           that
           hee
           should
           deserue
           more
           respect
           ,
           that
           by
           his
           owne
           atchiuements
           hath
           purchased
           dignitie
           ,
           then
           others
           that
           onely
           haue
           it
           by
           the
           priuiledge
           of
           bloud
           ,
           since
           the
           one
           weares
           but
           the
           shaddowes
           of
           his
           Predecessors
           triumphes
           ,
           the
           other
           the
           substance
           of
           his
           owne
        
         
         
           Pouerty
           is
           no
           burthen
           to
           them
           as
           can
           susteine
           it
           ,
           is
           no
           enemy
           to
           such
           as
           will
           imbrace
           it
           :
           He
           is
           only
           miserable
           that
           knowes
           not
           to
           be
           content
           with
           his
           Fortune
           ,
           especially
           if
           his
           fall
           be
           procured
           by
           his
           owne
           errours
           .
           Then
           the
           surest
           ,
           the
           Noblest
           ,
           the
           only
           meanes
           to
           redeeme
           publike
           calamitie
           ,
           is
           by
           a
           publike
           (
           and
           yet
           inward
           profession
           of
           sufferance
           ;
           for
           in
           all
           persons
           and
           personages
           ,
           reformation
           of
           folly
           is
           a
           worke
           of
           more
           praise
           then
           the
           working
           of
           folly
           is
           a
           cause
           of
           disgrace
           .
        
         
           What
           misery
           can
           it
           
           then
           be
           to
           be
           eased
           of
           that
           care
           ,
           which
           onely
           brings
           care
           in
           the
           possession
           .
           Of
           all
           mischiefes
           ,
           the
           greatest
           mischiefe
           is
           to
           be
           a
           rich
           man
           ,
           with
           a
           rich
           mans
           minde
           .
           There
           is
           no
           more
           reason
           why
           a
           meerely
           couetous
           man
           should
           loue
           Gold
           ,
           but
           for
           that
           it
           is
           yellow
           or
           faire
           ;
           Pastures
           ,
           because
           they
           are
           greene
           ;
           and
           so
           hath
           the
           enuious
           much
           more
           reason
           to
           Co●…uer
           abundance
           of
           wealth
           ,
           because
           other
           men
           should
           want
           it
           .
           A
           couetous
           miser
           ,
           is
           rightly
           a
           malicious
           consumer
           ,
           for
           in
           heaping
           for
           himselfe
           ,
           he
           consumes
           
           the
           maintenance
           of
           the
           needy
           :
           yet
           it
           is
           to
           be
           noted
           ,
           that
           plenty
           is
           not
           alwayes
           to
           be
           dispraised
           ,
           if
           the
           hauing
           of
           it
           doe
           no●…
           procure
           a
           scarcitie
           .
           But
           what
           losse
           is
           so
           great
           in
           a
           worldly
           estate
           (
           considering
           how
           weake
           it
           is
           more
           then
           in
           opinion
           )
           which
           a
           wise
           man
           should
           not
           beare
           with
           moderation
           ?
        
         
           It
           is
           a
           misery
           to
           want
           ,
           but
           a
           greater
           misery
           to
           haue
           too
           much
           :
           but
           for
           a
           good
           man
           to
           hugge
           the
           loue
           of
           abundance
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           imagine
           the
           losse
           of
           it
           ,
           should
           make
           him
           miserable
           ,
           
           I
           must
           conclude
           this
           point
           that
           he
           hath
           neither
           goodnes
           nor
           resolution
           :
           if
           goodnesse
           ,
           his
           content
           should
           be
           his
           best
           estate
           ;
           if
           resolution
           ,
           his
           want
           cannot
           be
           esteemed
           the
           worst
           pouertie
           ,
           since
           extremity
           is
           a
           singular
           teacher
           to
           learne
           vs
           that
           we
           are
           men
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           is
           both
           a
           diuine
           power
           and
           a
           prouidence
           aboue
           vs
           ;
           the
           one
           consisting
           in
           being
           a
           God
           ,
           the
           other
           in
           hauing
           a
           God-head
           .
        
         
           The
           difference
           between
           
           a
           wise
           man
           ,
           reformed
           by
           counsell
           and
           instruction
           ,
           and
           an
           ignorant
           man
           ,
           informed
           
           in
           will
           and
           folly
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           the
           wife
           will
           make
           good
           vse
           of
           all
           aduersity
           ,
           when
           the
           ignorant
           thinks
           all
           aduersitie
           intollerable
           .
           This
           is
           proued
           in
           the
           greatnes
           of
           a
           Noble
           courage
           ,
           when
           it
           is
           enforced
           to
           forsake
           (
           either
           vpon
           publike
           disgrace
           ,
           or
           some
           priuate
           causes
           )
           the
           comforts
           of
           his
           friends
           and
           Countrie
           ,
           which
           men
           of
           low
           hearts
           )
           doe
           account
           a
           misery
           of
           mischiefes
           ,
           and
           reckon
           that
           banishment
           is
           a
           bad
           kinde
           of
           torture
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           not
           be
           denied
           but
           that
           such
           may
           be
           the
           vnworthinesse
           of
           the
           action
           
           for
           which
           a
           man
           is
           banished
           ,
           that
           his
           owne
           conscience
           will
           in
           all
           places
           be
           a
           tormentor
           to
           his
           memory
           ,
           and
           then
           the
           wound
           which
           he
           beares
           with
           him
           can
           neuer
           by
           change
           of
           place
           or
           time
           be
           wholy
           cured
           .
           Such
           a
           one
           ,
           another
           of
           this
           latter
           times
           ,
           well
           compared
           to
           the
           wounded
           Doe
           in
           Virgill
           ,
           
           who
           (
           as
           the
           Poet
           sayes
           )
           fled
           ouer
           Hils
           and
           Mountaines
           to
           escape
           death
           ,
           but
           all
           in
           vaine
           ;
           for
           still
           in
           her
           sides
           the
           Bow-mans
           killing
           Arrowe
           sticks
           .
           So
           ,
           those
           men
           who
           haue
           the
           arrow
           of
           some
           mischieuous
           
           art
           ,
           piercing
           their
           afflicted
           hearts
           ,
           although
           they
           be
           banished
           from
           the
           place
           where
           they
           haue
           committed
           villanie
           ,
           yet
           they
           doe
           but
           goe
           from
           it
           ,
           they
           cannot
           forget
           it
           .
           They
           flie
           the
           detraction
           of
           their
           sin
           ,
           but
           cannot
           shunne
           it
           ;
           or
           if
           they
           could
           shun
           the
           deed
           (
           as
           they
           cannot
           )
           what
           can
           that
           auaile
           when
           the
           doer
           is
           the
           man
           himselfe
           ?
        
         
           In
           good
           men
           ,
           who
           through
           diuers
           misfortunes
           are
           sequestred
           from
           their
           natiue
           Countries
           vpon
           wrongfull
           or
           sleight
           occasions
           it
           is
           nothing
           so
           :
           for
           to
           them
           if
           they
           rightly
           
           (
           as
           beeing
           good
           they
           will
           )
           instruct
           themselues
           in
           the
           first
           rules
           of
           wisedome
           ,
           all
           Countreyes
           are
           a
           home
           .
           A
           noble
           and
           free
           resolution
           is
           a
           stranger
           no
           where
           ;
           in
           which
           respect
           men
           perfectly
           wise
           ,
           are
           said
           to
           be
           perfectly
           valiant
           ,
           since
           as
           true
           wisedome
           is
           perfect
           vallour
           ,
           so
           is
           true
           vallour
           perfect
           moderation
           .
        
         
           Many
           men
           haue
           abandoned
           their
           Countries
           ,
           &
           made
           themselues
           voluntary
           exiles
           vpon
           a
           desire
           and
           greedy
           hope
           of
           gaine
           ,
           or
           better
           prosperitie
           :
           such
           haue
           beene
           the
           Romans
           ,
           
           Romulus
           and
           Aeneas
           ;
           of
           the
           
             Patauynes
             ,
             Antenor
          
           ;
           of
           the
           Britaine
           's
           (
           if
           the
           history
           bee
           of
           credite
           )
           euen
           our
           owne
           Brute
           ;
           yet
           truely
           the
           end
           of
           those
           men
           was
           no●…
           vvay
           glorious
           ;
           for
           they
           may
           more
           rightly
           be
           called
           fugitiues
           and
           〈◊〉
           ,
           then
           exiles
           or
           trauailers
           .
        
         
           He
           deserued
           well
           of
           the
           Common-vvealth
           of
           Athens
           ,
           who
           hauing
           instituted
           excellent
           lawes
           for
           th●…
           state
           publique
           ,
           tooke
           Oat●…
           of
           the
           Magistrates
           tha●…
           his
           lawes
           should
           be
           day●…
           and
           duely
           practised
           ,
           〈◊〉
           his
           returne
           from
           a
           iourne●…
           
           vvhich
           hee
           vvas
           to
           vndertake
           :
           the
           oath
           being
           receiued
           ,
           the
           good
           man
           freely
           liued
           banished
           from
           his
           Country
           ,
           neuer
           returning
           ,
           that
           for
           the
           safety
           of
           his
           Country
           ,
           his
           lawes
           might
           ●…ee
           kept
           inuiolable
           :
           Yet
           ●…as
           this
           wise
           man
           so
           farre
           in
           this
           banishment
           from
           reproofe
           ,
           that
           his
           action
           and
           memory
           in
           his
           action
           ,
           will
           neuer
           be
           forgotten
           .
        
         
           Of
           all
           accidents
           that
           can
           happen
           to
           a
           prepared
           minde
           ,
           this
           of
           banishment
           hath
           little
           cause
           to
           trouble
           the
           quiet
           calme
           of
           a
           steady
           resolution
           .
           It
           is
           often
           seene
           that
           sundry
           persons
           for
           rarities
           
           sake
           ,
           for
           morall
           instruction
           in
           complement
           or
           in
           behauiour
           ,
           willingly
           some
           times
           trauaile
           into
           forraine
           lands
           ,
           and
           there
           spend
           their
           time
           for
           three
           ,
           sixe
           ,
           tenne
           yeeres
           or
           more
           with
           great
           delight
           ,
           taking
           pleasure
           and
           content
           in
           so
           growing
           old
           :
           Euen
           so
           〈◊〉
           like
           manner
           let
           a
           good
           man
           resolue
           him selfe
           tha●…
           this
           hard
           word
           of
           banishment
           is
           but
           a
           iourney
           of
           pleasure
           into
           some
           outlanding
           country
           ,
           not
           proposing
           or
           limitting
           to
           the
           minde
           a
           time
           of
           comming
           backe
           ,
           but
           alwayes
           minding
           some
           fit
           imployment
           
           why
           hee
           should
           goe
           :
           as
           if
           ●…ee
           were
           but
           Ambassador
           from
           his
           owne
           to
           some
           vnknowne
           Prince
           :
           and
           with
           what
           dishonor
           can
           an
           Ambassadour
           be
           blemished
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           seruice
           of
           his
           Soueraigne
           leaues
           his
           life
           as
           a
           pledge
           of
           his
           dutie
           ?
           It
           may
           be
           in
           the
           bondes
           of
           Nature
           ,
           some
           man
           will
           esteeme
           it
           an
           heauy
           misfortune
           to
           forsake
           ,
           or
           (
           as
           in
           the
           vvorst
           sence
           they
           terme
           it
           )
           to
           be
           thrust
           from
           the
           fruition
           of
           the
           comfort
           of
           his
           Friends
           ,
           Children
           ,
           Allyes
           ,
           and
           Kinsfolkes
           :
           such
           a
           thought
           can
           no
           more
           moue
           the
           temper
           
           of
           a
           resolued
           minde
           ;
           the●…
           it
           should
           doe
           if
           hee
           were
           to
           leaue
           the
           world
           ,
           since
           in
           dying
           ,
           and
           in
           being
           banished
           ,
           heere
           is
           the
           difference
           ,
           that
           the
           one
           necessitie
           is
           commanded
           by
           an
           vnchangeable
           decree
           from
           Heauen
           ,
           the
           other
           by
           a
           seuere
           imposition
           of
           man
           ;
           both
           being
           a
           seueration
           of
           old
           friends
           .
        
         
           What
           a
           madnesse
           were
           it
           in
           any
           to
           repute
           death
           (
           being
           thereto
           naturally
           called
           )
           a
           misery
           ?
           Euen
           so
           let
           him
           thinke
           of
           banishment
           ,
           and
           withall
           ,
           compare
           the
           great
           fortunes
           that
           some
           haue
           attained
           
           vnto
           in
           that
           estate
           of
           〈◊〉
           ,
           with
           the
           possibilitie
           of
           his
           owne
           .
        
         
           THOMAS
           MOV●…RAY
           ,
           Duke
           of
           Norffolke
           ,
           in
           the
           Reigne
           of
           RICHARD
           the
           second
           ,
           being
           by
           the
           said
           King
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           Kings
           youth
           and
           indiscretion
           ;
           and
           in
           regard
           of
           some
           other
           differences
           between
           Mowbray
           and
           other
           Princes
           of
           the
           bloud
           ,
           vpon
           an
           appeale
           of
           Treason
           ,
           banished
           ;
           was
           so
           far
           from
           being
           heerewith
           deiected
           ,
           that
           adding
           practise
           to
           the
           noblenesse
           of
           his
           courage
           ,
           hee
           vndertooke
           a
           glorious
           warre
           in
           the
           land
           
           of
           Palestine
           ,
           against
           the
           common
           enemie
           of
           God
           and
           Truth
           ,
           the
           Turke
           ,
           and
           willingly
           made
           his
           bloud
           a
           sacrifice
           to
           the
           redemption
           of
           his
           Fame
           .
           Happy
           man
           ,
           that
           sought
           out
           death
           with
           victorie
           ,
           before
           that
           death
           could
           make
           him
           vnhappy
           by
           finding
           him
           out
           with
           ouerthrow
           :
           Happy
           banishment
           ,
           which
           hath
           beene
           the
           meanes
           of
           such
           a
           memory
           ,
           and
           happy
           cause
           of
           banishment
           that
           was
           the
           first
           occasion
           to
           such
           meanes
           of
           being
           memorable
           .
        
         
           In
           like
           manner
           ,
           Hem●…
           
           of
           Richmond
           ,
           being
           for
           his
           interest
           in
           the
           Crowne
           by
           that
           monster
           of
           men
           and
           Kings
           ,
           RICHARD
           
             the
             third
          
           ,
           found
           (
           by
           his
           euen
           carriage
           and
           vvell
           tempered
           moderation
           )
           such
           fauour
           and
           loue
           in
           the
           Courts
           and
           hearts
           of
           forraine
           Princes
           ,
           as
           that
           being
           strengthened
           with
           their
           strengths
           ,
           and
           encouraged
           by
           his
           owne
           right
           and
           vertue
           ,
           he
           not
           onely
           returned
           to
           challenge
           but
           to
           recouer
           his
           owne
           ,
           and
           to
           purge
           the
           Land
           of
           so
           intollerable
           mischiefe
           as
           the
           gouernement
           
           of
           that
           cruell
           vsurper
           and
           bloudy
           King
           had
           made
           it
           sigh
           vnder
           .
           Happy
           banishment
           ,
           in
           so
           glorifying
           that
           Prince
           :
           Happy
           Prince
           ,
           in
           so
           disposing
           that
           banishment
           :
           for
           it
           is
           certainely
           true
           ,
           that
           not
           any
           accident
           of
           misfortune
           (
           as
           the
           world
           accounts
           )
           but
           the
           minde
           of
           the
           patient
           in
           suffering
           ,
           or
           not
           suffering
           ,
           makes
           it
           a
           misery
           .
        
         
           If
           examples
           be
           of
           any
           force
           (
           as
           they
           must
           be
           )
           by
           the
           president
           of
           former
           times
           to
           instruct
           the
           present
           ,
           then
           may
           Pompey
           for
           greatnesse
           ,
           Affricanus
           for
           
           Counsell
           ,
           Hanyball
           for
           courage
           ,
           and
           Ouid
           for
           wit
           ,
           tell
           vs
           that
           banishment
           doth
           not
           alwayes
           happen
           to
           miserable
           men
           ,
           except
           their
           owne
           impatiencie
           worke
           their
           owne
           calamitie
           .
        
         
           In
           short
           ,
           a
           VVise
           and
           Noble
           man
           ,
           by
           what
           hath
           beene
           said
           ,
           may
           consider
           what
           might
           more
           haue
           beene
           said
           ,
           to
           the
           building
           in
           this
           life
           this
           structure
           of
           the
           
             Golden
             Meane
          
           against
           the
           stormes
           and
           infelicitie
           of
           being
           a
           banished
           man
           ,
           since
           a
           wise
           man
           resolued
           in
           all
           trials
           ,
           
           is
           neuer
           confined
           within
           the
           limits
           of
           place
           ,
           but
           vpon
           all
           necessary
           occurrents
           doth
           repute
           himselfe
           euen
           in
           his
           birth
           to
           be
           the
           worlds
           Citizen
           .
        
         
           Heere
           yet
           followes
           Imprisonment
           ;
           which
           often
           happening
           to
           men
           of
           great
           place
           and
           qualitie
           ,
           is
           not
           thought
           the
           least
           kinde
           of
           miserie
           ,
           which
           men
           of
           such
           mindes
           doe
           with
           their
           bodies
           restraint
           locke
           vp
           and
           imprison
           all
           the
           best
           faculties
           of
           their
           reason
           ,
           forcing
           Reason
           to
           be
           a
           slaue
           to
           Fortune
           ,
           and
           rewarding
           the
           excellent
           
           dignitie
           of
           the
           soule
           ,
           with
           the
           corruption
           of
           Iudgement
           and
           Nature
           .
        
         
           Such
           a
           man
           as
           is
           kept
           within
           the
           inforcement
           of
           restraint
           ,
           must
           imitate
           that
           Daedalus
           whom
           the
           auncient
           Poets
           faine
           to
           haue
           wings
           ,
           with
           which
           he
           fled
           from
           that
           inaccessible
           Castell
           where
           he
           was
           detained
           with
           his
           son
           Icarus
           a
           prisoner
           .
        
         
           The
           Morall
           cannot
           but
           giue
           matter
           of
           note
           and
           application
           :
           lcarus
           the
           son
           betokens
           or
           may
           betoken
           the
           incapacitie
           of
           mens
           bodies
           ,
           and
           Daedalus
           the
           
           quickenesse
           of
           minde
           :
           both
           which
           ,
           being
           the
           one
           with
           the
           other
           imprisoned
           ;
           the
           one
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           body
           ,
           personated
           in
           Icarus
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           moderation
           falls
           into
           the
           attempt
           of
           escape
           :
           the
           other
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           minde
           ,
           pattern'd
           in
           Dedalus
           ,
           conquers
           aduersitie
           by
           flying
           from
           it
           in
           bearing
           it
           :
           
           The
           GOLDEN
           MEANE
           
             super
             at
             ferendo
          
           ;
           tryumphs
           on
           the
           rigour
           of
           imprisonment
           by
           the
           freedome
           of
           a
           noble
           minde
           .
        
         
           To
           a
           man
           arm'd
           in
           his
           extremities
           ,
           often
           trials
           are
           
           but
           as
           many
           often
           praises
           ,
           and
           euery
           triall
           giues
           a
           seuerall
           crowne
           of
           commendation
           in
           bearing
           many
           troubles
           with
           one
           and
           the
           selfe-same
           resolution
           .
        
         
           If
           the
           vse
           of
           imprisonment
           be
           but
           onely
           a
           little
           made
           vse
           of
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           found
           that
           there
           is
           no
           means
           vnder
           the
           ordinances
           of
           Heauen
           so
           auaileable
           for
           a
           man
           to
           consider
           the
           miserie
           of
           greatnesse
           ,
           as
           the
           feeling
           the
           miserie
           (
           so
           mistermed
           )
           of
           imprisonment
           .
        
         
           Men
           ,
           accompanied
           with
           
           the
           imployment
           of
           worthy
           thoughts
           ,
           are
           neuer
           lesse
           idle
           then
           when
           they
           are
           alone
           ,
           neuer
           more
           seriously
           busied
           then
           when
           they
           are
           onely
           busied
           (
           and
           haue
           time
           so
           to
           be
           busied
           )
           with
           remembring
           that
           they
           are
           men
           :
           not
           that
           such
           a
           remembrance
           should
           cast
           them
           lower
           then
           the
           consideration
           of
           frailtie
           ,
           but
           raise
           them
           higher
           then
           the
           acting
           of
           folly
           ;
           not
           to
           depresse
           the
           motions
           perswading
           temperance
           ,
           but
           to
           rectifie
           the
           perswasions
           mouing
           to
           vertue
           :
           Hee
           is
           stronger
           that
           conquers
           
           his
           owne
           passions
           ,
           then
           hee
           that
           after
           winning
           many
           Countries
           ,
           becomes
           a
           passionate
           conquerour
           .
        
         
           The
           life
           of
           instruction
           is
           reading
           ,
           and
           leisure
           the
           life
           of
           reading
           ,
           and
           a
           retired
           restraint
           the
           life
           of
           leisure
           :
           which
           restraint
           is
           onely
           terrible
           in
           being
           called
           imprisonment
           .
           One
           that
           for
           a
           great
           some
           of
           money
           would
           pledge
           himselfe
           to
           liue
           in
           a
           chamber
           a
           ye●…re
           or
           two
           ,
           or
           seauen
           ,
           will
           not
           thinke
           such
           an
           indurance
           a
           misery
           ,
           because
           the
           hope
           of
           gaine
           doth
           
           lessen
           or
           rather
           annihillate
           the
           seuerity
           of
           that
           iniunction
           .
        
         
           Miserable
           men
           ,
           and
           Miserable
           mankinde
           that
           will
           vndertake
           such
           an
           affliction
           for
           bettering
           of
           their
           temporall
           estates
           ,
           which
           being
           imposed
           for
           the
           bettering
           of
           the
           estate
           of
           their
           reason
           and
           iudgment
           ,
           they
           account
           insufferable
           .
           Basenesse
           of
           Nature
           that
           suffers
           that
           for
           greedinesse
           ,
           which
           being
           had
           ,
           is
           not
           certaine
           one
           houre
           to
           be
           possessed
           ,
           and
           yet
           will
           in
           the
           same
           kinde
           forgoe
           that
           which
           being
           
           once
           possest
           is
           neuer
           lost
           ;
           O
           the
           furniture
           of
           the
           minde
           ,
           vvhich
           being
           indeede
           the
           true
           lasting
           and
           onely
           best
           Riches
           !
           variety
           of
           bookes
           are
           sweet
           companions
           ,
           and
           plenty
           of
           noble
           thoughts
           happy
           recreations
           :
           If
           I
           be
           a
           prisoner
           I
           will
           either
           talke
           with
           my
           Library
           ,
           or
           sport
           with
           my
           thoughts
           ,
           since
           one
           being
           learned
           ,
           will
           proue
           sure
           instructers
           ,
           the
           latter
           being
           Noble
           ,
           vvorthy
           delights
           .
        
         
           A
           man
           that
           is
           restrained
           from
           liberty
           ,
           hath
           the
           liberty
           of
           retaining
           his
           
           owne
           worthynesse
           ,
           as
           worthily
           may
           be
           seene
           in
           Massinissa
           vvho
           being
           made
           captiue
           to
           Scipio
           ,
           told
           him
           ,
           
             thou
             must
          
           SCIPIO
           (
           qd
           .
           he
           )
           
             enioy
             the
             benefit
             of
             thy
             fortune
             ,
             by
             taking
             from
             me
             my
             life
             ,
             or
             of
             thy
             mercy
             by
             lo●…sing
             my
             bondes
             :
          
           Take
           my
           life
           thou
           freest
           mee
           from
           bondes
           ,
           free
           mee
           from
           bondes
           ,
           thou
           bindest
           mee
           in
           bondes
           of
           loue
           ;
           but
           if
           thou
           lettest
           me
           liue
           a
           cap
           tiue
           ,
           know
           Scipio
           I
           haue
           a
           heart
           that
           did
           neuer
           ,
           nor
           euer
           can
           seele
           seruile
           capti●…ty
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           certaine
           that
           such
           
           as
           see
           their
           friends
           in
           bondage
           and
           in
           durance
           ,
           who
           haue
           Noble
           mindes
           ,
           see
           them
           ,
           and
           see
           them
           not
           :
           they
           see
           them
           as
           men
           ,
           but
           not
           as
           they
           are
           more
           then
           men
           .
        
         
           Imprisonment
           is
           an
           excellent
           preparation
           to
           goodnesse
           ,
           since
           euer
           after
           ,
           in
           all
           fortunes
           ,
           a
           man
           that
           hath
           beene
           a
           prisoner
           may
           knovv
           by
           himselfe
           hovv
           subiect
           a
           humane
           estate
           is
           to
           the
           brittlenesse
           of
           alteration
           ;
           and
           he
           that
           doth
           not
           much
           amend
           his
           errors
           by
           this
           kinde
           of
           triall
           ,
           is
           neither
           destined
           to
           
           be
           an
           attemptor
           of
           any
           notable
           vertue
           ,
           or
           a
           desire
           of
           any
           vertuous
           note
           .
           It
           is
           a
           milde
           Tutor
           ,
           to
           teach
           as
           vvell
           how
           to
           gouerne
           as
           how
           to
           serue
           ;
           for
           he
           who
           can
           serue
           aduersitie
           with
           meekenesse
           ,
           can
           guide
           prosperitie
           with
           discretion
           .
        
         
           Hee
           who
           is
           a
           prisoner
           ,
           hath
           herein
           great
           cause
           to
           finde
           his
           friend
           ,
           for
           such
           as
           are
           ingaged
           in
           a
           promise
           of
           loue
           ,
           that
           loues
           not
           the
           person
           for
           his
           fortune
           ,
           will
           shew
           likewise
           that
           they
           feare
           not
           his
           misfortune
           ,
           because
           they
           loue
           his
           person
           .
           The
           saying
           
           is
           old
           ,
           and
           verified
           in
           this
           age
           of
           the
           VVorld
           ,
           
             that
             a
             man
             may
             haue
             many
             friends
             and
             yet
             little
             friendship
             :
          
           but
           here
           a
           man
           shall
           soone
           be
           taught
           to
           distinguish
           the
           difference
           betvveene
           friendship
           and
           friends
           ,
           although
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           vrged
           that
           therefore
           it
           is
           fit
           that
           euery
           one
           who
           vvould
           know
           truely
           his
           friends
           ,
           should
           make
           himselfe
           ,
           or
           bee
           made
           a
           prisoner
           ;
           but
           that
           euery
           one
           beeing
           a
           prisoner
           should
           then
           haue
           fit
           time
           to
           know
           how
           hee
           is
           esteemed
           .
        
         
           Imprisonment
           is
           not
           of
           
           such
           vertue
           in
           it selfe
           that
           men
           should
           seeke
           to
           be
           prisoners
           ,
           thereby
           to
           be
           happy
           ,
           but
           being
           by
           casualtie
           enforced
           vpon
           any
           ,
           the
           vse
           thereof
           may
           be
           so
           happy
           ,
           that
           hee
           who
           is
           imprisoned
           may
           not
           think
           himselfe
           miserable
           .
        
         
           Euen
           as
           hee
           who
           being
           followed
           by
           the
           memory
           of
           some
           euill
           act
           ,
           though
           he
           haue
           his
           body
           at
           libertie
           ,
           yet
           is
           still
           imprisoned
           in
           the
           guilt
           of
           his
           〈◊〉
           So
           hee
           that
           reformeth
           the
           crookednesse
           of
           his
           condition
           ,
           by
           the
           imitation
           of
           goodness
           ,
           though
           his
           body
           
           be
           imprisoned
           ,
           hath
           by
           the
           selfe-same
           reason
           the
           freedome
           of
           the
           minde
           .
        
         
           Imprisonment
           is
           a
           gentle
           sickenesse
           ,
           not
           to
           kill
           ,
           but
           to
           chasten
           the
           patient
           :
           and
           as
           men
           naturally
           proud
           may
           be
           humbled
           ,
           but
           will
           neuer
           be
           humble
           ,
           so
           men
           of
           a
           meeke
           condition
           may
           be
           launced
           for
           the
           recouery
           of
           health
           ,
           but
           not
           wounded
           to
           the
           hastening
           of
           death
           :
           which
           a
           Wise
           and
           Noble
           man
           ,
           well
           fore-casting
           ,
           may
           arme
           himselfe
           against
           reputed
           miseries
           ,
           and
           amongst
           them
           all
           ,
           against
           
           this
           one
           of
           imprisonment
           ,
           that
           whensoeuer
           it
           should
           come
           to
           him
           ,
           it
           should
           come
           to
           him
           rather
           to
           exercise
           then
           to
           ouerthrow
           him
           .
        
         
           Finally
           ,
           amongst
           such
           
           men
           ,
           whose
           reason
           is
           ouerswayed
           by
           nature
           ,
           Death
           is
           reckoned
           for
           a
           misery
           ,
           and
           is
           to
           them
           a
           misery
           indeed
           ,
           but
           to
           others
           guided
           by
           the
           refined
           light
           of
           Iudgement
           :
           it
           is
           esteemed
           (
           as
           it
           is
           )
           the
           onely
           remedie
           and
           securest
           ease
           against
           misery
           .
        
         
           Death
           to
           a
           wiseman
           cannot
           come
           vnlooked
           for
           ,
           
           nor
           to
           a
           good
           man
           vnwisht
           for
           :
           since
           the
           wise
           ,
           knowing
           that
           they
           must
           die
           ,
           know
           likewise
           that
           resolution
           is
           the
           best
           comfort
           to
           welcome
           death
           ,
           and
           the
           good
           being
           confident
           of
           their
           owne
           innocencies
           ,
           desire
           the
           change
           of
           a
           better
           life
           .
        
         
           He
           that
           will
           ouercome
           affliction
           by
           sufferance
           ,
           beare
           calamitie
           with
           courage
           ,
           weary
           out
           feare
           with
           hope
           ,
           let
           him
           be
           resolute
           ,
           that
           the
           worst
           of
           trials
           is
           death
           ;
           and
           for
           that
           be
           armed
           whensoeuer
           it
           shall
           come
           ,
           and
           be
           ready
           to
           
           imbrace
           it
           .
        
         
           If
           a
           Noble
           or
           a
           Wise
           man
           after
           disfauour
           of
           his
           Prince
           ,
           neglect
           of
           his
           Countrey
           ,
           forfeiture
           of
           his
           Estate
           ,
           banishment
           from
           his
           Friends
           ,
           imprisonment
           of
           his
           Person
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           esteemed
           extreames
           bee
           threatned
           ,
           with
           the
           losse
           of
           his
           head
           ,
           or
           execution
           in
           any
           manner
           ,
           certainely
           hee
           hath
           great
           cause
           to
           reioyce
           ;
           for
           he
           is
           not
           worthy
           to
           see
           any
           end
           of
           his
           sorrowes
           ,
           who
           is
           not
           prepared
           to
           meet
           it
           with
           a
           merry
           heart
           .
        
         
           The
           end
           of
           all
           sorrowes
           
           is
           Death
           ,
           if
           the
           party
           to
           die
           be
           truely
           reconciled
           to
           his
           God
           and
           to
           his
           conscience
           .
        
         
           The
           old
           Poets
           did
           fitly
           faine
           Death
           to
           be
           the
           childe
           of
           the
           Night
           ,
           and
           Sleepe
           to
           be
           the
           Sister
           of
           Death
           ;
           wisely
           including
           ,
           that
           as
           Night
           and
           Sleepe
           wrap
           vp
           all
           in
           stilnesse
           ,
           so
           should
           Death
           more
           perfectly
           finish
           the
           course
           of
           euils
           ,
           by
           burying
           them
           in
           a
           graue
           ,
           neuer
           to
           arise
           .
        
         
           And
           no
           doubt
           ,
           but
           heerein
           Death
           and
           Night
           haue
           much
           affinitie
           ,
           that
           as
           the
           Night
           is
           fearefull
           ,
           
           because
           darke
           ;
           but
           sweet
           ,
           because
           giuing
           rest
           :
           So
           is
           Death
           in
           his
           shaddowe
           (
           which
           is
           the
           night
           of
           opinion
           )
           before
           it
           ,
           comes
           full
           of
           horrour
           ,
           but
           in
           substance
           (
           which
           is
           the
           quickening
           to
           a
           better
           life
           )
           when
           it
           comes
           ,
           full
           of
           ioyes
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           be
           here
           obiected
           ,
           that
           to
           die
           for
           some
           supposed
           offence
           by
           an
           enforced
           death
           ,
           is
           scandalous
           ,
           and
           therefore
           miserable
           .
        
         
           But
           it
           may
           be
           answered
           ,
           that
           such
           an
           obiection
           betokens
           but
           the
           feare
           of
           
           frailty
           .
           For
           if
           it
           be
           examined
           ,
           we
           must
           consesse
           that
           the
           houre
           of
           
           death
           ●…uen
           to
           them
           that
           most
           ●…oke
           for
           and
           desire
           it
           ,
           is
           ●…ncertaine
           ,
           and
           they
           cannot
           be
           so
           prouided
           at
           an
           ●…stant
           as
           others
           that
           ●…now
           the
           instant
           when
           they
           are
           to
           suffer
           .
        
         
           Heerein
           men
           destined
           〈◊〉
           death
           for
           some
           offence
           ,
           ●…re
           (
           as
           it
           may
           seeme
           )
           ●…ore
           happy
           in
           their
           end
           ,
           ●…hen
           they
           are
           vnhappy
           in
           their
           disorder
           of
           liuing
           ●…hat
           hath
           brought
           them
           〈◊〉
           that
           end
           .
        
         
           Men
           ,
           appointed
           to
           die
           ,
           
           knowing
           the
           time
           certain
           ,
           haue
           reason
           ,
           and
           no
           doubt
           ,
           doe
           accordingly
           fit
           themselues
           to
           forsake
           and
           cast
           off
           all
           those
           parts
           and
           thoughts
           that
           might
           make
           them
           mortall
           ,
           then
           others
           who
           onely
           dreame
           of
           a
           dying
           time
           ,
           but
           not
           resoluing
           that
           they
           draw
           neerer
           to
           the
           time
           ,
           are
           many
           times
           suddenly
           taken
           in
           the
           fulnesse
           of
           their
           filthinesse
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           high
           tide
           of
           acting
           vnlawfull
           pleasures
           or
           abuses
           :
           and
           here
           surely
           betweene
           the
           manner
           of
           dying
           ,
           the
           last
           is
           most
           fearefull
           ,
           since
           the
           
           former
           ,
           knowing
           the
           minute
           in
           which
           they
           are
           to
           depart
           from
           the
           World
           ,
           doe
           by
           the
           stroake
           of
           Iustice
           enioy
           that
           benefit
           which
           wise
           and
           good
           men
           doe
           in
           mercy
           sigh
           and
           hope
           for
           .
        
         
           Death
           is
           a
           happy
           Hauen
           ,
           and
           men
           shipwrackt
           in
           the
           Sea
           of
           this
           earth
           cannot
           but
           couet
           it
           :
           It
           is
           a
           safe
           Inne
           ,
           and
           men
           poasting
           in
           the
           iourneyes
           of
           wearinesse
           ,
           cannot
           but
           seeke
           it
           :
           It
           is
           a
           path
           to
           blessednesse
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           are
           good
           will
           finde
           it
           :
           It
           is
           a
           banquet
           of
           all
           goodnes
           ,
           
           and
           such
           as
           be
           blessed
           haue
           found
           it
           .
        
         
           Hee
           is
           vnworthy
           to
           liue
           that
           is
           not
           worthy
           inough
           to
           dye
           ,
           and
           hee
           is
           not
           vnworthy
           to
           dye
           that
           hath
           liued
           worthily
           .
           The
           woman
           that
           demaunded
           of
           Iupiter
           that
           hee
           would
           giue
           to
           her
           two
           sonnes
           the
           greatest
           happinesse
           that
           could
           bee
           bestowed
           from
           heauen
           on
           men
           ,
           had
           the
           same
           night
           her
           sonnes
           both
           dead
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           greatest
           humane
           felicitie
           were
           to
           bee
           freed
           from
           beeing
           humane
           .
        
         
         
           To
           conclude
           (
           for
           something
           hath
           beene
           said
           of
           this
           before
           )
           he
           which
           will
           wisely
           and
           nobly
           practise
           the
           obseruation
           of
           the
           
             Golden
             Meane
          
           ,
           and
           shew
           the
           greatnesse
           of
           Vertue
           in
           extreames
           ,
           must
           keepe
           truce
           with
           his
           passions
           ,
           &
           prepare
           his
           courage
           with
           this
           resolution
           ,
           that
           Misery
           is
           no
           Misery
           ;
           for
           that
           is
           onely
           a
           misery
           which
           is
           lasting
           ,
           and
           thought
           so
           :
           and
           reputed
           misery
           is
           not
           lasting
           ,
           because
           death
           out
           vveares
           it
           ;
           is
           not
           thought
           so
           because
           death
           vvill
           finish
           it
           :
           in
           the
           resoluing
           
           on
           the
           one
           Wisedome
           will
           proue
           a
           Noble
           minde
           ,
           in
           the
           other
           Noblenesse
           will
           patterne
           out
           a
           wiseman
           :
           for
           moderation
           in
           extreames
           make
           perfect
           both
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           view
           of
           vvhat
           hath
           beene
           said
           ,
           vnder
           the
           titles
           of
           a
           wise
           and
           a
           Noble
           man
           ,
           are
           comprehended
           all
           men
           ,
           of
           all
           degrees
           and
           fortunes
           ,
           whose
           Vertues
           doe
           make
           them
           wise
           ;
           as
           their
           wisedome
           doth
           make
           them
           Noble
           .
           For
           vvisedome
           consisteth
           not
           onely
           in
           gray
           heads
           ,
           but
           in
           a
           
           steady
           prouidence
           hovv
           to
           doe
           ,
           and
           Noblenesse
           consisteth
           not
           onely
           in
           an
           Honorable
           race
           ;
           but
           in
           a
           prudent
           resolution
           what
           to
           doe
           .
           Wisedome
           informes
           the
           minde
           ,
           and
           NOBLENESSE
           commends
           the
           actions
           ;
           in
           somuch
           as
           euery
           one
           who
           can
           act
           wisely
           ,
           and
           deliberate
           Nobly
           ,
           squaring
           his
           resolution
           to
           resolue
           steaddinesse
           in
           both
           fortunes
           ,
           may
           of
           merrit
           be
           inrolled
           amongst
           the
           memorable
           :
           and
           bee
           remembred
           by
           the
           desertfull
           to
           bee
           truely
           wise
           
           because
           Noble
           :
           to
           bee
           perfectly
           Noble
           because
           wise
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A07373-e140
           
             Sixe
             Miseries
             that
             may
             befall
             a
             Noble
             man.
             
          
           
             1
             Disfauor
             .
          
           
             Priuie
             Malice
             
               1.
               cause
               of
               Disfauour
            
             .
          
           
             Selfe-vnworthynes
             ,
             
               2.
               cause
               of
            
             Disfauour
             .
          
           
             Enuy
             
               the
               3.
               cause
               of
            
             Disfauour
             .
          
           
             The
             Princes
             inconstancy
             ,
             the
             last
             cause
             of
             Disfauour
             .
          
           
             Quinquennium
             Neronis
             .
          
           
             Of
             Neglect
             .
          
           
             Forfeiture
             of
             Estate
             .
          
           
             Of
             Banishment
             .
          
           
             Lipsius
             .
          
           
             Of
             Death
             .