VVits miserie, and the vvorlds madnesse discouering the deuils incarnat of this age.

The fearfull race of Leuiathan, with the generation of his Incarnate breed.

LEuiathan the eldest, after that (in the former ages and infancie of the world) hée had per∣uerted Nembrod, brought Nious to confusi∣on, begun tyranny in the first, and monar∣chie in the next; when in the kingdoms of the East hée had left no regall seate vnstai∣ned with blood; & in the West, the true faith affronted by many herefies: at last waxing old (& more fruit∣full and subtill in doing mischiefe) hée raised vp these contenti∣ous spirits to peruert our world (which retaining now a daies and that very scarsely the only memory of the temperance of their forefathers, are wholly diuerted and turned from the meane, and accustomed for the most part in the extreames of all vertue and godlinesse.) His first sonne is Vainglory, who séeing his father waxen old in complotting villanies, broken by fatall contentions, spent by many poisons, and impouer•…•…h∣ed by meere-excesse, hath preferred him to the mastership of an hospitall, where hée now teacheth new paintings, to couer ages wrinkles; strange pollicies, to supplant zealous procée∣dings; and subtill heresies, to infect the hearts of the simple. This lustie yonker (taught to play the Protheus by his old Grandsire the deuill) appeareth in diuers shapes to men, ap∣plying himselfe to all natures and humors. To Eue hée appea∣red like a Serpent, Et eritis sicut d•…•…, And you shall be as gods, said he: but in this world hée is Incarnate, méeting gentle∣men commonly at their ordinaries, schollers in their schools, handicrafts men in their shops, soldiers in their exploits, shrou∣ding himselfe alwaies in the shaddow of vertue, wheras in truth he is but the effect of vice: he is backed with Boasting his familiar brother; grounded in Discord, a braunch of his nature; attended by Inobedience, the fruit of presumpti•…•….

In chiefe places he appears not but in the coat of Singularity, reioicing vainly in those stratagemes, which at last are deter∣mined in his owne ruine: witnesse Alcibiades, who (as Plu∣tarch reporteth) nourished in his vaine felicities, perished vn∣happily by inconsideration and incontinencie. Of late daies knowing that his grandfather determines to keepe graund Christmasses in hel, he hath insinuated himselfe into the city in these kind of furnitures & apparitions, to prouide him store of fuell to furnish Sathans house of Distresse, and common place of Confusion. In Powls hée walketh like a gallant Courtier, where, if hée méet some rich chuffes worth the gulling, at euery word he speaketh, hée makes a mouse of an elephant, he telleth them of wonders done in Spaine by his ancestors: where, if the matter were well examined, his father was but Swabber in the ship where Ciuill Oranges were the best merchandize: draw him into the line of history, you shall heare as many lies at a breath, as would breed scruple in a good conscience for an age: talke with him of trauels, ware thirty thousand crownes in eggeshels at a Venetian banquet: if any worthy exploit, rare stratageme, plausible pollicie, hath euer past his hearing, hée maketh it his owne by an oath: nay, to speake the whole pith of his commendations, truths are as rare in his mouth, as a∣dulteries in Sparta. Touch me his hat, it was giuen him by Henry the second of Fraunce, when hée kist the Reintgraues wife at his going into Almaine: commend the fashion of his beard, hée tels you it is the worke of a Turkish barber: his band was a prize gotten in Transiluania; where the truth is, he bought it in the Exchange for his mony: Charles the Emperour gaue his cloake: his sword was Mountdragons, all that hée hath if you beléeue him, are but gifts in reward of his vertue: where (poore asse as he is) were hée examined in his owne nature, his courage is boasting, his learning ignorance, his ability weak∣nesse, and his end beggery: yet is his smooth tongue a fit bait to catch Gudgeons; and such as saile by the wind of his good fortune, become Camelions like Alcibiades, féeding on the va∣nity of his tongue with the foolish credulity of their eares. Sometime like a Merchant he haunteth the Exchange; there

iets hée in the dispo•…•…ls of a Brokers shop, graue in lookes, courtly in behauiour, magnificent to the simple sort, affable to the wiser, now enquiring of newes from Tripoly, straight boasting of his commodities from Ozante, filling all mens ears with so great opinion of his wealth, that euery one holdeth him happy that trust him, till in the end, hoth hée and they, prooue bankrupts. In his hood and habit hée will prooue Ramus, to be a déeper Philosopher then Aristotle, and presume to read the Mathematiques to the studious, when he knowes not what ei∣ther Axis, Equator, or Circulus is: draw him to Geometry, hée will protest that Dodochedron is not a figure of twelue angles: vrge him in Musike, he will sweare to it, that he is A per s•…•… in it, where hée is skillesse in Proportion, ignorant in Discord, negligent in Time, vnapt for Harmony, being both in soule & body a méere aduersary to all Science. For he that delighteth to challenge all things to himselfe, defraudeth his reason of Light, and his mind of Iudgement. Beware of this Deuill friends, for if you make him a souldier, you shall find a false heart, or howsoeuer you thinke him, a very ideot. A Father speaking of him, saith, Et seipsum perdit, & alium i•…•…sicit, He loo∣seth himselfe, and infecteth others. Those only that haue calcu∣lated his natiuity, say this of him, that if euer he be attached by good counsell, hee will hang himselfe: or if he be crost in his opi∣nion, kill himselfe in despaire, that all the wiser sort may haue cause to laugh at him.

The next sonne Leuiathan presenteth, is Ambition, catching at nothing but stars, climing for nothing but crownes. This gallant Deuill moouing at the first (before his Incarnation) a mutiny in heauen among the Angels, hath now assumed a bo∣dy to raise tumults on the earth, and breake sacrum societatis vinculum, the sacred bond of society. In former times it was he only that peruerted lawes, neglected affinity, inuented conspi∣racie, circumuented authority, giuing those pens occasion to report his excéeding tragedies, who were resolued to ground their eternity on the happy peace earnestly affected among all ciuill pollicies. It was Ambition at first that of Deioces a iust Iudge, made an vniust Mede, and a tyrant. It was hée that

brought Tarquinius in hate amongst the Romans: it was hée that corrupted Nero, seduced▪ Chabades of Persia, incensed Ti∣berius and Maximinus, prouoked Policrates to assault the Sami∣ans: and not content to worke these troubles on the Conti∣nent; Sicilie standeth amazed at the murthers contriued by him, and the waues were an ins•…•…fficient wall for the Isles of the midland sea, to keepe out adulteries, murthers, and ambi∣tions. Phalaris and Agathocles grone vnder his burthens: and Gréede, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 yet in memory, that hée alone made Athanaeus murther his sonne, and Aiax through enuie and emulation as∣sault his friends: neither hath his sinister influence had wor∣king only in mens hearts, but it in•…•…amed women also, as Se∣miramis; Athalia, Agrippina in Neros time, Brunechild in France: so that whosoeuer readeth the ancient and moderne Chronicles, shall scarsely find any memorable act, except it be either grounded, seconded, c•…•…tinued, or ended in Ambition. But since the obiect of the sence is a helpe to the memory, I will shew him particularly in his right coat, discouer him by his due circumstances, so that whosoeuer considerately weyeth how I describe him, shall be able to know him if hée meeteth him. If hée arise from obscurity, (as Changuis a smith, who as Lewis Regius witnesseth became Emperour of the Tarters) or from the potters furnace, as Agathocles:) hée laboureth tooth and naile to be skilfull in those things which are most plausible to the greater sort, and tollerable among the commons: his stu∣die is for ostentation, not vertues sake: his bookes like Manso∣lus tombe, are comely without, but within nothing but rotten bones, corrupt practises▪ his apparell increaseth with his for∣tune, and as the inconstancy of worldly affaires direct him, so suteth hée both fashions and affections: and as vainly he de∣sireth all things, so miserably feareth hée all men. In his study hée affecteth singularity, and is more proud in being the author of some new sect or heresie, then a good man is humble in the ful∣nesse of his knowledge: come hée into the eye of the world, hée créepeth into seruice with men of good credit, in féeding whose humors (hauing perhaps for want of some issue, made intrusion into some heritage) he matcheth not according to his birth, but

the increase of his fortune: and by hooke or creeke so st•…•…reth in the world, that not only he attaineth preheminence in the city, but some place in Court: there begins hee with gifts to winne hearts, by fained humility to auoid emulation, by offices of friendship to bind his equals, by subtill insinuations to work his superiours, that he is both held worthy to be a statesman, or a state himselfe. Growne this step higher, the authoritie likes him not without the stile, wherin if any crosse him, look for poi∣son in his cup, or conspiracy in his walks, or detractions among his equals: yea, so pestilent is his nature, that (like fire in the embers) he neuer sheweth but to consume both himselfe and o∣thers: if hée perceiue any that by ripe iudgement c•…•…nteiteth his courses, with him he ioineth as if he sought his only prote∣ction vnder the wing of his glory: but the very truth is, he hath no other intent but this, to impe the wings of his renowme for feare he flie beyond him. Will you know his method? mary this it is: if the nature of the noble man whom hee enuieth be flexible, he bringeth him in feare either of his faithfull seruants in his priuat family, or his trusty familiars that loue his honor, or (if hée hath but some inckling of suspect, or some mislike be∣twixt his Prince and him,) hée plaieth Lucian in lying, lea∣uing no meanes vnsought, but (as the Oratour saith, Om∣nem moltens lapidem) either to enforce feare or mooue hatred: this done, hée worketh on the contrary side, incensing the Prince by some probable surmises (sworne and confirmed by his flatterers and intelligencers,) till the Noble looseth ei∣ther his land, authority, or place, and hée attaine both his stile and promotion. Then at his buriall who mourneth chie∣fest but hée? yet play he neuer so cun•…•…ngly, as Cornelius Gal∣lus saith:

Certè difficile est abscondere pectoris oectus, Panditur & clauso saepiùs ore furor.

If hée endeauour to strengthen himselfe, hée doth but auoid his owne daunger, that after his owne assurance, hée may

be more able in others mischiefes: to those he fauoureth, and such as further his procéedings, hee is a Patron to protect their writings, and a Iudge to dissemble their escapes: yea, if any of his traine hath offended the law, he writes as Agesilaus did to Hidrieus Cares in the behalfe of Nicias, Niciam si nihil peccaui•…•…, dimitte; sin peccauit, nostri causa dimitte: omnino autem dimitte. If Nicias (saith he) hath offended nothing, dismisse him; if he be faul∣ty, release him for my sake: howsoeuer it be, set him at liberty. If (according to Machiauels doctrine) he haue a great State opposed against him to preuent his encrease, with him he plai∣eth as the Ape with his yong ones, he kils him with coaksing him, he giues aime to his error, shewes patience if hée thwart him, encourageth him to dangers, vrgeth on his rashnes, and thus like a little worme, eateth through a great tree, and by ob∣seruing times, winneth his triumph: of all things a likes not to heare of Theophrastus lesson, that cum viuere incipimus, tune morimur: when we begin to liue, then we die: for of all his suspects this is the greatest, that his actions in this world can not work felicity in another: yet with Alexander in his life time he lon∣geth to be flattered: and though in soule he knowes himselfe to be a Deuill; yet to the world forsooth he would be deified. A∣las, how many are shipwrackt on this rock? (as that Atheist Iulian the Apostata) how many of these sorts (as Caesar, Phocas) in their age, Caesar Borgia (otherwise called Duke Valentini∣an) Corradine in Naples, Christierne of Denmarke, Ericus of Swethland, haue vnhappily drowned thēselues in this puddle?

But leaue we him as sufficiently discouered, and let vs see the third Diuel incarnate, which Leuiathan hath brought forth to corrupt and haunt this world: and who is he thinke you? Forsooth no begger, but a gallant of the first head, called Bo∣sting, who hath an impure Cleon flattering at his héeles (as had Alexander) or a lasciuious Martiall (as Domitian.) He with Nabuchodonoser will bost that he hath builded Babilon, with the King of Ti•…•…e vaunt that he is God, and with the prowd Pharisie accuse the Publican, and iustifie himselfe. This is a lustie bruit amongst all other Diuels, his beard is cut like the spier of Grantham •…•…eeple, his eies turne in his head like the

Puppets in a motion, he draweth his mouth continually a∣wry in disdaine, and what day soeuer you méet him, he hath a sundrie apparell: Among Sectaries he walketh poorely, daw∣bing his face with the white of Spaine to looke pale; fixing his eies still on heauen, as if in continuall contemplation; de∣meaning himselfe like an Anabaptist, (as Sleidan disciphereth them) to the end he may be reputed as mortified, and a contem∣ner of the world: then backbiteth he the Cleargie, commen∣ding the simplicitie of his conscience, and getting Presumption, Pertinacitie and Contention, his sworne brothers, into his com∣panie, he maligneth all men that commend him not, sweares that Gospeller to be a dronckard whom he neuer knew, pro∣tests this Bishop to be a Nestorian, who notwithstanding with Cirile and the Counsaile of Ephesus condemneth his say∣ing, Ego •…•…imestrem & trimestrem haud quoquam confiteor deum. He condemneth all mens knowledge but his owne, raising vp a Method of experience with (mirabile, miraculoso, stupendo, and such faburthen words: as Fierouanti doth) aboue all the learned Galienists of Italie, or Europe. Bring him to counsaile, he di∣sturbeth the fathers: make him a Lawier, he nourisheth con∣tentions: thwart him in his opinion, he will sweare that Capi∣canu Muscio the Spaniard, was a moderate souldier, where in the expedition against the Turke (whē Sebastiana Venero was Generall of the Armie of the Uenetians, and Marco Antonio Colbuno Generall for the Pope, and Leiutenant of Don Iohn D'Austria) he and two of his companions, were hanged for se∣dition and insolence. Though he looke with a counterfait eie, none must see further then he, and whatsoeuer he saith, must he held an Aphorisme, or he flings house out of the window with his boastings. If he heare any man praised, he either ob∣scureth his fame by condemning him of dissolutenesse, or detra∣cteth from his credite by vrging some report of intemperance. So that he wholy ascribeth desert to himself, and laies the bur∣then of imperfection on all others mens backs. In the Statio∣ners shop he sits dailie, Iibing and flearing ouer euery pam∣phlet with Ironicall ieasts; yet heare him but talke ten lines, and you may score vp twentie absurdities: I am not as this

man is is his common protestation, yet a more aranter Diuel is there not betwixt S. Dauis and London. Make him a schoolemaister and let him liu•…•… on his Accidence, no man passeth the same foord with him but he drownes him; Perseus is a foole in his stile, & an obscure Poet. Statius, nim•…•…um tumidus, too swel∣ling. He hath an oare in euery mans boat; but turne him loose to write any Poeme, God amercie on the soule of his numbers: they are dead, dul, harsh, sottish, vnpleasant, yea Eldertons nose would grin at them if they should but equall the worst of his Ballads. But soft who comes here with a leane face; and hol∣low eies, biting in his lips for feare his tongue should leape out of his mouth, studying ouer the reuertions of an ordinarie, how to play the ape of his age? I know him wel, it is Derision, a pret∣tie Diuel I promise you, at his héeles waits Rash Iudgement in a cloake of Absurdities: Ho Apelles look to your pictures, for these Diuels will reprooue them; Sirha, cut not your meat with the left hand, spit not without the comely carriage of your head, speake not an accent amisse I charge you; for if Derision catch you in one trip, Rash Iudgement shal condemn you, and he wil execute you. But how I pray you? Marry he will run ouer all his varietie of filthie faces, till he light on yours: beat ouer all the antique conceits he hath gathered, til he second your defect, and neuer leaue to deride you, till he fall drunke in a Tauerne while some grow sicke with laughing at him, or consult with Rash Iudgement how to delude others, that at the length hée prooueth deformity himself. This cursed Cam cares not to mock his father; & as the Rabin Hanany saith, He neuer sitteth but in the chaire of Pestilence, his méerest profession is Atheisme: and as Iob saith, To mocke at the simplicitie of the iust: to be briefe with Seneca in Medea.

Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis.No time too sho•…•… for bad men to doe hurt.

It is meat and drinke to him when he is mocking another man: Christ his Sauior is a Carpenters sonne: Christians, Galileans in contempt: Nay such blasphemie vttereth he be∣twixt the Holy ghost and the blessed and Immaculate Uirgine Marie, as my heart trembleth to thinke them, and my tongue

abhoreth to speake them.

Next him marcheth Hypocrisie in a long gowne like a schol∣ler; how like his father Leuiatha•…•… he looks? But that his horns are not yet budded, because he moulted them verie lately, in the lap of an Harlot. Oh how ancient a Gentleman would hée be! he claimes from Simon Magus his petigrée, and by discent tels of Silene the Harlot his first by the mothers side, thē comes he to Menander the coniurer, from him reckons he to the Nico∣la•…•…ts, who held y^• a•…•…ome of Aristotle in a sinister sence, Bonum qu•…•… communius e•…•… melius, A good faire wench the commoner shee were, the better she were: Then Cherinthus, Ebion, the one con∣firming that circumcision was necessary, the other, that Christ was not before his mother: next these the yeare 109 Marcion, denying God the creator to be the father of Christ: then Valen∣tinian, alleaging that Christ participated nothing with the Uir∣gine Marie: From them to the Cataphrigi, Tatiani and Seueri∣ans; after these to Florus and Blastus in the time of Eleutherius the first. It were too long to recken the whole of them, but this I am sure of, the last sectarie of his kin now aliue (as he saith) is a Brownist, and an Hereticke he is I warrant him. This Di∣uel (as most coniured by the constant and ghostly writings of our fathers and schoolemen,) I leaue to discouer, only this much of him as a true marke to know him by; he begins his innoua∣tions, because he is crost in his requests, as Blastus; neither is he fauored but by the ignorant and vnlettered, as by Theodotus a cobler: to be short, as Augustine saith, Ad hoc haereses sinuntur esse vt probati manifesti fiant, Therfore (saith he) are heresies suffred to florish, to the end that being proued they may be made manifest.

Another sonne hath he, and his name is Curiositie, who not content with the studies of profite and the practise of commen∣dable sciences, setteth his mind wholie on Astrologie, Negro∣mancie, and Magicke. This Di•…•…l prefers an Ephimerides before a Bible; and his Ptolomey and Hali before Ambrose, golden Chrisostome, or S. Augustine: Promise him a familier, and he will take a flie in a box for good paiment: if you long to know this slaue, you shall neuer take him without a book of cha∣racters in his bosome. Promise to bring him to treasure-troue,

he will sell his land for it, but he will be cousened: bring him but a table of lead, with crosses (and Adonai, or Elohim written in it) he thinks it will heale the ague, and he is so busie in fin∣ding out the houses of the planets, that at last he is either faine to house himselfe in an Hospitall, or take vp his Inne in a pri∣son: he will not eat his dinner before he hath lookt in his Alma∣nake: nor paire his nailes while Munday, to be fortunat in his loue: if he loose any thing, he hath readie a siue and a key; and by S. Peter and S. Paule the fool rideth him: hée will shew you the Deuill in a Christal, calculate the natiuitie of his gelding, talke of nothing but gold and siluer, Elixer, calcination, aug∣mentation, citrination, commentation; and swearing to en∣rich the world in a month, he is not able to buy himselfe a new cloake in a whole yeare: such a Diuell I knew in my daies, that hauing sold all his land in England to the benefite of the coosener, went to Antwerpe with protestation to enrich Mon∣sieur the Kings brother of France, Le feu Roy Harie I meane; and missing his purpose, died miserably in spight of Hermes in Flushing. Of this kind of Deuill there was one of late daies flourishing in Lions (a famous cittie in France) who was so much besotted with starre gazing, that he credibly beléeued that there was a certaine Diuinitie in the Sunne, the Moone, and other Planets, saying that the Sonne was true God, which he tearmed the chiefest light and Supremum genus, aboue all the Ca∣tegories of Aristotle, but after a little Eleborus had purged him, and reason conuicted him, he recanted. This Diuell if he fall ac∣quainted with you (as he did with the Arians) he ties you to Martinet their familiar, maketh you honour Sathan in forme of a Bull, binding you to horrible and abhominable crimes, as first to adore the Deuill as God, then to disauow your Bap∣tisme, next to blaspheame your creator, fourthly, to sacrifice to the Deuil, fifthly, to vow and dedicate your own children to his seruice, sixtly, to consecrate those that are vnborne, seuenthly, to seduce others to your power, eightly to sweare by the name of the Diuell, ninthly, to procure abortion to preuent Bap∣tisme, tenthly, to eat your children before birth as Horace wri∣teth and partly insinuateth.

Neu pransalameae viuum puerum extra•…•…at alu•…•….

Then teacheth he you to kill and poison, againe to rot eat∣tell by charmes, then to raise stormes and tempests by inuoca∣tion of Diuels: what need more horror? Blasting of corne, in∣ducing of famine, prodigious incests, the sonne with the mo∣ther, the daughter with the father, Magicall ingendrings •…•…e∣twixt the sorcerer and the Diuel, called by the Hebrews Titeth; al this (as Barkly C•…•…prian in his Recantation confesseth, Malleus maleficorum: and Prieras in his Booke De demonum mirandis wit∣nesse) are the fruits of Curiositie, and the working of sorceries, and the instructions of the Diuell. There are many in Lon∣don now adaies that are besotted with this sinne, one of whom I saw on a white horse in Fléets•…•…réet, a tanner knaue I neuer lookt on, who with one figure (cast out of a schollers studie for a necessary seruant at Bocardo) promised to find any mans oxen were they lost, restore any mans goods if they were stolne, and win any man loue, where, or howsoeuer he setled it; but his Iugling knacks were quickly discouered, and now men that in their opinions held him for a right coniurer, dare boldly sweare that he is a rancke cousener.

Another sonne Luiathan hath that deserues disceuering, for of all the children his father hath, he is most befriended & least suspected: his name is Superfluous Inuention, or as some tearme him Nouel-monger or Fashions. Sometimes he is a cooke, inuen∣ting new sauces and banquets, sometimes deuising strange confections to besot an idolater of his bellie, sometimes for an irefull man he deuiseth strange reuenges, sometime for a fear∣full, strong towers to kéepe him in: he is excellent at billiment laces to deuise new, and for pouders to breake the cannon, and poisons to kill lingeringlie, he yéelds neither place to Fierouanti nor any Italian. If Ladies lacke paintings and Bele•…•…ze, Ue∣nice affoords not the like; and if your mastership lacke a fashi∣on, commend me to none but him. This is he who first found out the inuentions to curle, and to him it is ascribed the chan∣ging and dying of haire: For he could be no lesse then a Diuell in my opinin, that durst falsifie Gods words, where hée saith, Non potes vnum capillum facere album aut nigrum, Yet dare he ad∣uenture

to know all. Cleopatra in her time was his dear friend, and in our age he is sought too both in Towne and Countrie. The chines of Béefe in great houses are scantled to buie chains of gold; and the almes that was wont to reléeue the poore, is husbanded better to buy new Rebatoes: it is monstrous in our opinion to sée an old man become effeminate, but is it not more monstrous to sée the old woman made yoong againe! the Ele∣phant is admired for bearing a litle castle on his back, but what say you to a tender, faire, young, nay a weakling of woman∣kind, to weare whole Lordships and manor houses on her backe without sweating? Vestium luxum (saith Tully) arguit ani∣mum parum sobrium, Alasse sobrietie where shalt thou now bée sought, where all men affect pompe? The Plowman that in times past was contented in Russet, must now adaies haue his doublet of the fashion with wide cuts, his garters of fine silke of Granado to méet his Sis on Sunday: the farmer that was con∣tented in times past with his Russet Frocke & Mockado sléeues, now sels a Cow against Easter to buy him silken géere for his credit. Is not this Fashions a iolly fellow that worketh this? Urge the constitution of the Apostles to our gallants, O hom•…•… mors aeterna •…•…ibi parata est, quoniam propter ornatum tuum illaqueasti mulierem vt amore tui flagraret, Man eternall death is prepared for thee, because thou hast allured women to sinne by thy dissolute garments. Tut say they, we stand not on credite nor on consci∣ence; and yet they lie too, for so long they stand on their credites that they vtterly fall by them. Crie out with them to the wo∣man, and will her not paint her visage; now I faith Sir foole (will she say) helpe of nature is no sinne, to please my husband: Nay, whispers Fashion in her ears, if you be Gods works, you had the more reason to be adorned because his. Impiety thus al∣waies attending on this Deuill, he forgeth excuses to dispence with conscience. It is a great matter saith Tertulian to sée the vanitie of women in these daies, who are so trimd and trickt, that you would rather say they beare great forrests on their necks, then modest and ciuill furnitures: Tut answers Fashion, it kéepes their faces in compasse; To weare wiers and great ruffes, is a comely cops to bide a long wrinckled face in. Boul∣sters

for crookt shoulders, who but Fashions first sold them in Uenice? and since busks came in request, horne 〈◊〉〈◊〉 growne to such a scarcitie, that Leuiathan hath cast his owne beakers of late to serue the market. There are boulsters likewise for the buttocks as wel as the breast, and why forsooth? The smaller in the wast, the better handled. Beléeue me, I thinke in no time Ierome had better cause to crie out on pride then in this, for painting now adaies is grown to such a custome, that from the swartfaste Deuil in the Kitchin to the fairest Damsel in the cit∣tie, the most part looke like Uizards for a Momerie, rather then Christians trained in sobrietie: O poore woman (cried the Fa∣ther) canst thou lift vp thy face to heauē, cōsidering God knows thée not? Tut all this moues not (quoth Inuention of Nouelties) we must haue more new Fashions: well be it so master Diuell, yet let your dames take this verse of Martials for a conclusion:

Omnia cum fecit Thaida Thais olet.When Thais hath done all, yet Thais smels.

But let vs leaue this Diuell at his cutting bord intentiue for new fashions against next Christmas, and sée what Diuell and sonne of pride marcheth next, forsooth Ingratitude, carelesse both in apparrell and lookes: This is a generall fellow, and thinkes scorne to be vnséene in all the sinnes of the world. If hée receiue graces from God, it not his mercie that giueth them, but his owne industrie; he is a right Pelagian, presuming by naturall vertue (without the grace of God) to attaine Paradise: Giue him what you can, hée condemnes you for your labor: he cals his maister old dunce that taught him learning; and to his fa∣ther that brought him vp, he protests he knows him not poore groome, nay if he beg he scornes to reléeue him: his benefactors might haue kept their money with a vengeance: and for his Lord (if he serue at any time) none but Ingratitude if hée decay, will soonest sell him to a sergeant, he is the fittest instrument to hang his Maister, so that of Plautus is verie aptly applied vnto them.

Si quid benefacias lenior pluma gratias. Si quid peccatum est plumbe as iras gerunt.

Lighter then feather, thanks if thou befriendest.

But leaden wrath they beare if thou offendest.

To be short with Ieuenal in his Satires.

Ingratis ante omnia pone sodales.Of all men flie vngratefull friends.

Nihil augetur ingrato (saith Barnard) sed quod accipit, vertitur •…•…i in perniciem, To an vngratefull man nothing is encreased, and that which he receiueth, turneth to his destruction. Pliny in the Prologue of his naturall Historie calleth them fures & infeli∣ces, Theeues, and vnhappie, that acknowledge no benefites: and Seneca the Philosopher counteth them worser then Ser∣pents, for Serpents (saith he) cast out their poison to other mens destruction, but vngratefull men without their owne dis∣grace cannot be vnthankfull. Hermes Trimegestus counteth the best sacrifice to God to be Thankfulnesse, it followeth then à contrarijs that the worst thing in his sight is Ingratitude. The commenter vpon Aristotles Book De animalibus telleth a storie to this purpose: A certaine husbandman nourished an Aspis in his house, féeding him daily at his own table, and chearing him with his owne meat; it fortuned a little while after that hée brought forth two yong ones, the one of which poisoned the hus∣bandmans sonne, and brought sorrow to his houshold: The old bréeder considering this (in the sight of the father) murthered the offender, and as if ashamed of his ingratitude, departed the house with the other. Behold sence of benefite in a Serpent, and will man be vnthankfull? The Lion that was healed by Andronicus in the wood, did he not saue his life in the Theator? Man consider this, and to bring thée the more in hatred with this fiend, weigh this one example of Seneca written in his fourth Booke De beneficijs: A certaine sould for indangered by ship∣wracke, and floating (for the space of twentie daies) on a bro∣ken mast in a sore tempest, was at last cast a shoare in a Noble∣mans Lordship, by whom he was reléeued with meat, clothes, and monie: This Nobleman comming to Philip of Macedon his King, and encountring a little after with this vnthankfull souldier, was by him accused of false Treason: and so much for the time did iniquitie preuaile, that not only he indangered the Noblemans life, but possest his goods likewise, by the beneuo∣lence

of the King: notwithstanding truth (which according to Seneca in Oedipus, adit moras, hateth delay) being at last discoue∣red, and the king assertained of the wretched souldiors ingrati∣tude, he branded him in the face with a burning yron, and dis∣poiling him of his ill gotten goods, restored the other: so deale you by this Diuell of our age, and beware of his subtilties, for if once he proue an intelligencer, he will helpe to hang you.

The next Harpie of this bréed is Scandale and Detraction, This is a right malecontent Deuill, You shall alwaies find him his hat without a band, his hose vngartered, his Rapier punto r'enuerso, his lookes suspitious and heauie, his left hand continually on his dagger: if he walke Poules, he sculks in the backe Isles, and of all things loueth no societies: if at any time he put on the habit of grauitie, it is either to backbite his neigh∣bor, or to worke mischiefe: well spoken he is, and hath some languages, and hath red ouer the coniuration of Machiauel: In beleife he is an Atheist, or a counterfait Catholicke; hating his countrie wherein hée was bred, his gratious Prince vnder whom he liueth, those graue counsailors vnder whom the state is directed, not for default either in gouernement, or pollicy, but of méere innated and corrupt villanie; and vaine desire of In∣nouation. He hath béene a long Traueller, and séene manie countries, but as it is said of the toad, that he sucketh vp the cor∣rupt humors of the garden where hée kéepeth; so this wretch from al those Prouinces he hath visited, bringeth home nothing but the corruptions, to disturbe the peace of his countrie, and destroy his owne bodie and soule. If he studie, it is how to dis∣pence and frustrate statutes, and (being grounded by ill counsel, and prepared for mischiefe) he laboureth (as the Legist saith) not to auoid the sinne, but the penaltie. This fellow spares nei∣ther Nobilitie, Clergie, nor Laietie, but (like that Roman Em∣peror, vnworthie the naming) desireth that the whole people and comminaltie had but one head, that he might cut it off at one stroake. Let him haue no cause, he wisheth Vitellius mise∣rie to maiestie, and swears by no small bugs, that all the world is imprudent that imploies him not: This is hée that in priute Conuenticles draws discontented Gentlemen to conspiracies,

and hauing brought thē past the •…•…ercie of the law, he bewra•…•…es them first; bringing them to a violent end, and binding himselfe to perpetuall prison: But woe be vnto him (saith Christ) by whom the scandale and offence commeth, it were better for him that a milstone hung about his necke, and that he were cast in∣to the bottome of the sea: It is a position in the Apophthegmes of the Rabms, that he that draweth many men to sin, can hard∣ly settle himselfe to repentance; then in what miserable estate is this wretch that delighteth in nought els but traiterous and deuillish stratagems? his daily companion in walke, bed, and bord, is rebellion and disobedience; and of the séed of this Ser∣pent are raised so many monsters, that no cittie in Italie hath béene vnstained with them, and no Kingdome in Europe vn∣molested by them. Ill would they obserue that golden sentence of Cornelius Tacitus registred by Machiauel, who saith, That men ought to honour things past, and obey the present, desiring and wishing for good Princes, and howsoeuer they proue to en∣dure thē: I but (answeres Scandale) I neuer respect how things bée, but how I wish them to be: notwithstanding (sir Deuil) let this be your looking glasse, That neuer scandale or conspiracie hath ben raised, •…•…ut the practiser hath at last rewd it. The little Spaniard that assailed Ferdinando the wise king with a knife; Deruis the Turkish Priest that assaulted Baiazeth, what end came they to? Either their enuie (to their shame) was discoue∣red by their feare, or drowned in their blouds. The schoolemai∣ster that betraied the P•…•…alerians children, was hée not whipt home by Camillus? Antigonius, Caesar, and all these Monarchs, haue they not loued the Treason, but hated the Traitor? Read all the annals and obseruations of antiquitie, and there hath nothing begun in corruption, but hath ended in mischiefe. But for your detraction, Scandale, blush you not to vse it? No, say you, the Diuell delighteth in mischief•…•…, yet will I giue your Mastership short hornes since you are so 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a beast, that you may hurt no man: your course is you say to backebite superiors, to scandale the fathers and gouernors of the church, to bring Christians and Catholique Religion in hatred; but wretch as thou art, know this, that he that toucheth the credite

of the Cleargie, toucheth the apple of Gods e•…•…e; and who so lo∣ueth to detract, is hateful to God: the wise man saith, that the detractor is abhominatio hominum, the abhomination of men: and Gerson saith, that detraction is gréeuouser then theft. This Di∣uell is fitly figured in that beast which Daniel saw hauing thrée rancks of téeth, to whome it was said, Arise and eat m•…•…ch flesh: These thrée orders of téeth are thrée manners of detra∣ction: The first is to deminish or misinterprete the action of a man, as if done vnder corrupt intention; or comparing one de∣sert with another, to shew that the action was not done so ver∣tuously as it ought, neither so perfectly as it might haue béene: The second maner, is (vnder an intent of de•…•…amation) to pub∣lish a mans hidden defects, which by the law of charitie should bée hidden, and in reason may be wincked at: The third man∣ner is the most mischieuous, which is to imagine treasons and impose them on innocents. These téeth Peter teacheth al Chri∣stians to beat out when hee saith, Laying apart all malice, and deceit, simulation, enuse, and detraction, desire milke: And what milke is this? Trulie swéet, and charitable words, for it is the nature of the tongue to speake good and vertuous things; what otherwise it vttereth, it is but the corruptions of the heart. A detractor (as a father saith) may rightly be compa∣red to Cadmus of Gréece, who sowed Serpents téeth on the earth, out of which arose men who slew one another: so the Detractor spreddeth nothing but corrupt and venomous séed, out of which spring contentions, warres, and discenti∣ons among men. A Detractor likewise (saith Holgot) is like a stincking sepulcher, for as out of the one issueth foule and poysonous sauours, so out of the others mouth commeth sedious, and pernicious conspiraces. It is a conclusion of Au∣stines, that Qui negligit famam crudelis est, He that neglecteth his fame is cruell; and another Philosopher witnesseth, that hée that looseth his credite, hath nought els to loose. Beware therefore of this diuellish Scandale, Rebellion, and Detraction, and crosse you from this Deuill, least he crosse you in your walkes.

Another Diuel of this age (and the sonne of Leuiathan) is A∣dulation, who goes generally ietting in Noblemens cast apar∣rell, he hath all the Sonnets and wanton rimes the world of our wit can affoord him, he can dance, leape, sing, drinke vp-se-Frise, attend his friend to a baudie house, court a Harlot for him, take him vp commodities, féed him in humors; to bée short, second and serue him in any villanie: If he méet with a wealthy yong heire worth the clawing, Oh rare cries he, doe hée neuer so filthily, he puls feathers from his cloake if hée walke in the stréet, kisseth his hand with a courtesie at euery nod of the yon∣ker, bringing him into a fooles Paradise by applauding him; If he be a martiall man or imploied in some Courtly tilt or Tour∣ney, Marke my Lord (quoth he) with how good a grace hée sat his horse, how brauelie hée brake his launce: If hée bée a little bookish, let him write but the commendation of a flea, straight begs he the coppie, kissing, hugging, grinning, & smiling, till hée make the yong Princocks as proud as a Pecocke. This Da∣mocles amongst the retinue caries alwaies the Tabacco Pipe, and his best liuing is carrying tidings from one Gentlemans house to another: some thinke him to be a bastard intelligencer but that they suspect his wit is too shallow. This is as courtlie an Aristippus as euer begd a Pension of Dionisius, and to speak the only best of him, he hath an apt and pleasing discourse, were it not too often sanced with Hiperboles and lies: and in his ap∣parell he is courtly, for what foole would not be braue that may flourish with begging? The sword of a persecutor woundeth not so déepely as he doth with his tongue. Neither dooth the voice of a Syrene draw so soone to ship wrack as his words: yet (as Aristotle and Cicero thinke) he is but a seruile fellow, and according to Theophrastus, he is an ant to the graine of good na∣ture: Of al things he cannot abide a scholer, and his chiefest de∣light is to kéepe downe a Poet, as Mantuan testifieth in these verses:

Est & apud reges rudis, inuida, rustica turba. Mimus, adula•…•…or, leno, assentator, adulter, Histrio, scurra quibus virtu•…•… odiosa poetas.

Mille m•…•…dis abigunt: vt quande cadauera cer•…•…i. Inuenere, fugant alias volucresque ferasque.

There is in Princes and great mens courts (saith he) a rude, enuious, and rusticke troupe of men, ieasters, flatterers, bauds, soothers, adulterers, plaiers, and scoffers, who hating all vertue find a thousand inuentions to driue Poets thence, like to •…•…ar∣rion crowes, that hauing found a carkas, driue all other birds from it: and as the Culuer (as Ouid saith) alwaies séeketh and haunteth the cleanest Douecoat, so this flattering Diuel is stil conuersant in the house of the mightie: and as in the fattest ground growes the ranckest grasse, so with the men of greatest ability dwelleth the chiefest flatterie (S. Ierome cals him a Do∣mestical enemie.) This 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as the Gréeke •…•…earmes it, hath but litle difference from rauening, for if we beléeue Caeleius Rodegi∣nus, & Erasmus in his Apophthegmes, the only changing of a let∣ter, will make Corachas & Colachas crowes & flatterers all one. Alexander méeting with this Diuell in the person of Aristobu∣lus, coniured him quickly, for as Politian writeth on Suetonius, he not only scorned his flatteries, but cast his Chronicles into the riuer of Hidaspes, telling him that he deserued no lesse, who had so fabulously handled his victories: had Herod done no lesse when the Tyrians cald him God, his pride had not béene notifi∣ed to the world; neither strooken by an Angell, should hée haue béene deuoured by wormes. This feind is continually attended and accompanied with foure of his brethren, Lightnes of mind, Vaine Ioy, Singularitie, & Defence of a mans sins: Lightnes of mind teacheth him to presume, Vaine Ioy swelleth him with tempo∣rall prosperities, Singularitie makes him affect innouations to please, Defence of his sinnes groundeth him in his owne mis∣chiefes; This sin is the only peruerter of friendship, and distur∣ber of societie, and vnhappily saith Tully is that possession good, which is purchased by simulation & flatterie: so that great cause had both the fathers and Philosophers to detest this sin, because they knew that man is naturally apt to flatter himselfe, and is best pleased to heare his imperfections dissembled. The anci∣ent Emperours desirous to auoid this error, and to banish this

poison from their pallaces, sought out the wisest men to be their Counsailers, who most of all detested this vice, as Salomon who was aduised by Nathan and Sadoch: Carolus P•…•…us the Em∣perour, by learned Alcuinus: Traian the iust, by learned Plu∣tarch: Nero the vniust, by graue Seneca: Alexander (though a conqueror) by ingenious Aristotle: Prolomey of Egypt, bp the 70 interpreters. To conclude therefore the discourse of this Deuill, I will end with two notable actions of the Ro∣manes, whereby you may perceiue by them, to make estima∣tion of truth, and to grow in detestation of Flatterie and Falshood: The Emperour Augustus in his triump•…•… •…•…er An∣thonie and Cleopatra, led to Roome (amongst his other spoiles) a graue Egyptian Priest of sixtie yeares old, whose life was so full of continence, and words so stored with truth, that it was neuer heard of him in all his life time that hée had told vntruth, or vsed flatterie; for which cause it was concluded by the Se∣nate, that hee should presently bee set frée, and made cheife Priest, commanding (that among the statues of famous and renowmed men) one in especiall should bée reared for him. Spartianus on the contrarie side, sheweth an example quite op∣posite to this, and this it was: during the Empire of Claudi∣us, there died a certaine Romane called Pamphilus, who as was clearely prooued, had not in all his life time spoke one true word, but wholly delighted in lying and flatterie: for which cause the Emperour commaunded that his bodie should bee left vnburied, his goods should bée confiscate, his house ouerthrown, and his wife and children banished Roome, to the end that the memorie of a creature so venomous, should not liue and haue residence in his Commonweale. In which two things Messia vseth this obseruation, that in the time that these first effects happened, the Romanes were mortall enemies of the Egyptians, for which cause it may easilie bée séene how powerfull the force of truth is, since the Romanes raised a statue to their Enemie, and depriued their homeborne sonne and Cittizen of buriall for being a flattering lier: He∣therto hée, and here conclude I the description of this fiend.

Behold next I sée Contempt marching forth, giuing mée the Fico with this thombe in his mouth, for concealing him so long from your eie sight: He was first nursed by his owne si∣ster, Custome to sinne, and therefore according to Thomas A∣quine, Magis peccat peccans ex habitu, quam aliter, He sinneth more, sinning in habitude then otherwise: Contumacie hath stéeld his lookes, so that he disdaines his superiours, and Rashnesse so con∣founds him with will and passion, that hée is wholly subiect to headlong Precipitation: Arrogancie maketh him sumptuous in apparrell, loftie in gate, affecting in spéech, and thus marcheth forth thi•…•… •…•…ncarnate Deuill, God blesse your eie sight. This is he dare breake statutes, bl•…•…b the lip a•…•… superiours, Mocke Prea∣chers, beat Constables, and resist Writs, nay, which is the sin of the Deuils, contemne God. If a poore man salute him, hée lookes as if he scorned him, and if he giue him but a becke with his finger, hée must take it as an almes from an Emperour: The wisest man is a foole in his tongue, and there is no Philoso∣phie (saith he) but in my Method and carriage: he neuer speaks but hee first wags his head twise or thrise like a wanton mare ouer hirbit, and after hée hath twinckled with his eies (as hée would read his destinie in the heauens) and chewed the wordes betwéene his lips (as if nought but the flower of his Phrase could delight or become him) out braies hée foorth so simple a dis∣course as would make a mās heart burst with laughing to hear it: To the cobler he saith, set me two semicircles on my suppedi∣taries; and hée answeres him, his shoes shall cost him two pence: to his seruant hée chops the fragments of Lattin in eue∣rie feast of his phrase, My deminitiue and defectiue slaue (quoth hée) giue mée the couerture of my corpes to ensconse my per∣son from frigiditie; (and al this while he cals but for his cloak.) Get him write letters to his friend, and marke mée his Method: Sien of my Science in the Catadupe of my know∣ledge, I nourish the Crocodile of thy conceit; my wrath-ven∣ger (hee meanes his sword) shall annichilate their identities, and seperate the pure of their spirits from the filthie of their flesh, that shall frustrate thy forwardnesse, or

put out the candel of thy good conceit towards me. Should I re∣gister the whole, it would rather waxe tedious then delightfull: and as his spéech is extreamely affected and fond, his writing ridiculous and childish, so is his life so far out of square, that no∣thing can reforme him: Talke to him of obedience, he saith itis the seale of a bace mind: Tell him of good gouernment, it is the gift of fortune, not the fruit of consideration: Rip vp the successe of battels, he saies they were not well followed. In briefe, no∣thing can please him, who despiseth all things. If you say that (as Publius Mimus saith) the smallest haire hath his shadow (& with Rabin Ben-Aza•…•…) that no man liuing is to bée contemned, for euerie man shall haue his hower, and euerie thing hath his place; Hée will answere aquila non capit muscas, Eue∣rie bace groome is not for my companie. Beware of this Doemon, for though hée bée the last of Leuiathans race, yet is hée the arrantest and subtillest Atheist of all these Deuils. Hitherto haue I discouered pride and his children; now ha∣uing taught you to know them, let me instruct you to auoid them.

As euerie mischiefe is best auoided by opposing against him his contrarie, so arme your selues with Humilitie against Pride and his faction, and he shall not confound you: For as Augustine saith, Pride sinketh to Hell, and Humili∣tie leadeth to Heauen: Pride is the step to Appostasie, and being opposed against God, is the greatest sinne in man. All other vices (saith Augustine) are to bée taken héed of in sinnes, but this, in good doings, least those thinges that are laudably done, bee lost in the desire of praise. Follow Christ quia mitis est, and heare a Father crying to you, Ecce habes humilitatis exemplum superbiae medicamentum, Behold thou hast an example of Humilitie, and a medicine a∣gainst Pride: Why swellest thou therefore Oh man? Thou lothsome and carrion skinne, why art thou stretched? Thou filthie matter, why art thou inflamed? Thy Prince is humble and thou prowd; Caput humile, & membra superba, The head humble, the members loftie, thus farre hee. Let vs resemble the Pecocke (according

to the counsell of Ierome) which no longer delighteth in the brightnesse and beauty of his feathers, but whilst •…•…he beholdeth them, and séeing the deformitie of his féet, is confounded and ashamed: so let vs, considering our infirmi•…•…ies, be ashamed of our lostinesse, remembring daily that of Seneca:

Sequitur superbos victor à tergo Deus.Reuenging God attends vpon the proud.

Amongst many other plagues of a proud man this is one, that Dominus deridebit eos, as the Psalmist saith, Our Lord shall laugh them to scorne: where, of the iust and humble man it is said, Laetabitur cum viderit vindictam, He shall reioice when hee seeth the reuenge. Uery rightly is a proud man compared to smoke, the which the more it ascendeth, the more it vanisheth▪ so the loftie and proud minds of this world, the more they are mounted, the more suddenly are they consumed. To be short, (and in a small lesson to shut a true remedie against Pride and all his followers) vse this: first, consider how God hath grie∣uously punished that sinne: next, call to thy consideration mans mortall weaknesse and infirmity: thirdly, kéepe in memorie the reward of Humilitie, and the hainousnesse of Pride, expres∣sed in Boetius by these words, Cum•…•…mnia vicia fugiant à Deo, sola superbia se ei opponit, Whereas all vices flie from God, only Pride opposeth herselfe against him. And let this serue for a due con∣clusion set downe by Salomon, that Vbi supērbia, ibi & contume∣lia est; vbi autem humilitas, ibi sapientia cum gloria, Where pride is, there contumely is also; but where humility is, there is wisdome with glory.

Tut preachers can better teach this (say you) returne you to your deuils: I confesse it my friends, absolue me therefore, and you shall heare me tell of strange deuils raised by Auarice and cursed Mammon: your silence saith, Doe, and therefore thus make I an entrance to my second discourse.

Notes

• 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 16.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 1.
• Sleid. lib. 10. de stat. relig.
• Iob. 12.
• Niceph•…•…r. lib. 3. cap. 7. Au∣gustin Psal. 67. vers con∣gregatio.
• Matth. 5.
• Con•…•…it. A∣po•…•…. lib. 1. ca. 4. & 9.
• Lib. 6. 1 pag.
• 3.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 2 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•… Prou. 24. Da•…•…. •…•….
• 1. Pet. 2.
• Ouid 4. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Holg•…•…▪ 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sapi.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Psal. 6. 9.
• •…•…icero lib. 2. Tuscul. quest.
• Mant. in 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Aspicis v•…•… veniant ad 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 columb•…•…?
• Herome in Pro. 1. s•…•…er illud si •…•…e la∣c•…•…auerit. Cal. Ro•…•…. lib. 11. Er•…•…s. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 4. chap. 33.
• Cicer. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 3.
• Second. sel de Messia lib. 2. cap. 117.
• August. E∣pist. 38.
• August. ad Di•…•…scor.
• Prou 1. Et ego quo∣que in interi∣•…•…u vestro ri∣debo.