Here begynneth a ryght frutefull treatyse, intituled the myrrour of good maners co[n]teynyng the .iiii. vertues, called cardynall, compyled in latyn by Domynike Mancyn: and translate into englysshe: at the desyre of syr Gyles Alyngton knyght: by Alexander Bercley prest and monke of Ely.

¶ Of Temperaunce.

BEfore haue we treated / of myndes inuyncyble* 1.1 Nowe place / tyme / & purpose exorteth our scripture In meter for to wryte: as playne as is possyble Of myndes temperate / well manerde and demure Who brydeleth his lustes / well orderyng his iesture Kepyng comelynesse / in dede / worde and countenaunce Suche one ought be counted / a man of temperaunce

Therfore / that thou mayst be suche one: of gouernaūce* 1.2 By comely temperance / thy dedes to dispose Thy mocyons of mynde / note well in remembraūce Whether they be honest / or nothyng to purpose If they be laudable than after them compose Thy maners and lyueng / if thy desyres be Repugnant to reason / than vtterly them fle

Those onely be good desyres / clene and sure* 1.3 Whiche nature requyreth / obeyeng to reason Nat they / whom haute purpose / makyng reason obscure Desyreth of proude mynde / end blynde ambicion One hauyng hym owne selfe: in his possession Hym rulyng by reason / doth nat moche requyre Suche hym selfe possessyng / nought forther wyll desyre

For moche he nat nedeth / whiche of hymselfe is lorde* 1.4 But hymselfe he counteth / ryches sufficient Who can hymselfe gouerne / in dede / in thought / & worde Abundantly is euer: great / ryche / and opulent In all nedefull treasour / and neuer indigent What man / wolde afferme / suche one without treasour Whiche of all his dedes: is lorde and gouernour

Thus euery man may make / hymselfe full of ryches* 1.5 Replenysshe hym with welth / ioye / and felycyte His owne inwarde gyftes / if he can well possesse Stablyng his desyres / on thyng of honeste But myserable / carefull and euer nedy / is he Whiche can nat welde hymselfe / subduyng all errour With hymselfe nat content / sekyng outwarde treasour

Whiche thynketh nat ynough / the treasour of his mynde* 1.6 But of outwarde ryches seketh / hymselfe for to store For certayne / the ryche / is so gredy and blynde That though he haue plenty / hymselfe he coūteth pore And euermore in mynde / doth coueyt moche more As his coyne increaseth / and treasour temporall. His gredy appetyte / increaseth styll with all▪

Forsoth he possesseth hymselfe / most parfytely* 1.7 And eche parte to reason / is due obedient Whiche is of hole mynde / beholdyng inwardly All thynges to be sene / to ryght expedynt Suche one hymselfe ruleth / by parfyte Jugement And is called parfyte / as men hym {per}fyte call Whiche hath his hole membres / and {per}tes corporall

But contrary wyse / this parte to vnderstande* 1.8 That man is nat parfyte / whiche is noselesse or blynde Or wanteth any parte / as arme / legge / fote / or hande In lyke wyse that person / is nat perfyte of mynde Whiche one thyng parfourmeth / another left behynde Or whose lyght of reason / is drowned in derknesse Or whom sondry errours / inuoluyng doth oppresse

Inough can it nat be / the to defende from yre And to be subdued / of beastly glotony What vayleth to auoyde / frayle Uenus ragyng fyre And ouercome to be / with malyce and enuy What helpeth pacience / where reygneth lechery Or what helpeth mekenesse / where reygneth couetyse An hole mynde and parfyte / subdueth euery vyce

And stryueth to vaynquysshe / all errour crymynall* 1.9 From his mynde excludyng / all braunches of myssyueng For this cause ouercome / thy desyre fyrst of all And thy selfe possesse thou / as was my fyrst byddyng Than care nat / nor seke nat / for no farther thyng It is nat a tokyn / of man discrete nor wyse To seke outwarde thynges / and inwarde to dispyse

The prudent man spareth / no treasour temporall To dryue from his body / sicknesse / and euery sore* 1.10 To haue in possession / his lymmes corporall That kepeth good dyete / whan he is hole before Than shuldest thou dispyse / vayne treasour mykell more And all outwarde thynges / vtterly dispyse Thy treasour of vertue / to put in exercyse

Beholde what abusion / subdueth frayle mankynde* 1.11 All seketh for socour / of peynes corporall But veray fewe or none / regarde the soule or mynde Let se / who receyueth with wyll poyson mortall Or in a pyt profounde / wyllyngly wyllfall But rather / if he take a drynke in toxicate Soone doth he seke for physyke / and ayde investigate

If any brake his legge / by sodayne aduenture* 1.12 Anon abone setter / he hyreth sodaynly Or if his syght hym fayle / or gynne to ware obscure Nature hym constrayneth / to seke for remedy But yet shall I touche / one thyng more largely If an asse go lame mentary nat a weke But streyght to the smyth / for remedy they seke

This cure thou cōmittest / for helpe of the body* 1.13 If disease haue greued / thy reason and thy mynde Why sekest nat socour / for helpe and remedy Namely syth the same / so easy is to fynde Alas man thou slepyst / thy reason is to blynde Thou sholdest of thy mynde / haue moche greater cure Than of thy frayle body / a sacke of vyle ordure

Nowe moche more the mynde / excelleth thy body* 1.14 In noblesse of nature / and emynent valour So moche more thou sholdest / for it fynde remedy Whan it by thy folly: is wounded by errour Consyder of thy soule / the excellent honour It hath shape and ymage / of god omnypotent Thy body is mortall / as beast / or vyle ••ument

Than puruey for thy soule / thy vyle body dispyse Why hast thou suche plesour / to lose so great treasour* 1.15 In so great vayne labours / drownyng thy mynde this wyse It tournyng as a wele / in vyces euery hour And in doutfull domage / inuoluyng and errour What meanest to tourment / it nyght and day in fyre And most feruent flames / of thyne vnclene desyre

Say / what delyte hast thou to lose without profyte Thy dere inwarde iewell / and pryncipall treasour* 1.16 Unkynde is thy pleasour / O vayne is this delyte Unpytefull art thou / and cruell tormentour Whiche / thyn owne {pro}per mynde / thus drownest in errour If he be moche cruell / whiche doth his body quell Who kylleth his owne soule / is moche more cruell

Wherfore doest thou cōtende / tynuolue & wrap thy mynde* 1.17 In snares and great nettes / of thought / labour / and peyne From whiche at thy pleasour / thou shalt no meanes fynde The same to lyberte / for to get forth agayne Beholde it is troubled: wakyng with cures bayne And nyghtly whan nature / demaundeth quyete rest Thy mynde most with cures / is tossed and opprest

As a shyp is tossed / in vehement tempest So prycked is the mynde / inquyete by furour* 1.18 Thou chasest / it fleyth / in ragyng without rest Thy mynde is myserable / thy selfe art tourmentour With 〈…〉〈…〉ge it persuyng / and lasshyng with ••ygour As cru••••l Bellona / the goodes of batayle So thy wofull mynde / thyne owne selfe dothe assayle

To lose from thy body / a fote or els an hande* 1.19 Were it nat lesse domage / and losse more tollerable Than to lose that parte / whiche maketh vnderstande And maketh man dyffer / from beast vnresonable This is our soule or mynde: whiche is incomparable Gyuen vs from heuyn / without whose gouernyng From wylde and brude beastes / we dyffer lytell thyng

But well myght be counted / with them vnresonable* 1.20 O / what hope disceytfull / hast thou both quicke & deade If thy mynde be from the / sicke / blynde / and inable Whiche both in lyfe and deth / is graunted the to leade Wherfore here what counseyll / of reason doth the reade Fyrst clens all disases / out of thy mynde and thought Than art thou sure and safe / and fayle thou canst nought

than art thou sounde and hole / than art thou hole perfyte* 1.21 If thy mynde and reason / be pure and without vyce So that thou gyde thy mynde / ryght vnto thy profyte In wayes good and holsome / and ryghtwyse exercyse Than shall it to the do / iust dutye and offyce But brefely to shewe the / O reder••ere and kynde Thynke this is the dutye / of perfyte and hole mynde

An hole mynde and perfyte / desyreth that onely* 1.22 And that onely hopeth / whiche lasteth {per}durable Whiche all tyme doth profyte / the mynde to fortify And good without measure / or ioye intermynable On the other party / it dredeth payne damnable And all thynges noyeng / with endlesse dolour Wherin none assysteth / with confort nor sorour

More brefely to declare / the mynde desyreth blys* 1.23 And wolde flye that tourment / whiche is interminable With all crafty study / and meanes / glad it is To seke that sure glory / and ioy incomparable Whiche non infyrmyte / to vyolate is able It onely doth sorowe / those losses and domage Whome no ioy succedeth / nor plesant auauntage

But by whome lyfe endlesse / and soules helth is lost* 1.24 This dredeth an hole mynde / and feareth inwardly In other erthely pleasour / it fareth lyke and hoste A shorte tyme soiournyng / and flyttyng by and by Thyng erthly and caduke / dispysyng vtterly Than vse the lyke a ghest / take ryches in lyke case As one nat longe wyllyng / to tary in one plase

Consyder this moreouer / and stedfastly beleue* 1.25 That temporall treasour / of frayle mūdayne richesse Is nought but a burthen / the soule & mynde to greue And in sondry troubles / blynde wretches to oppresse With thought / labour / sorowe / care and heuynesse Whiche burthen doth outher oppresse / fale thy mynde Or els in thy iourney / hynder the farre behynde

Away faryng parsone / ought gladly to auoyde* 1.26 Both ponderous burthen / and all disease also Wherby in his iourney / he myght soone be accloyde This lyfe is a passage / or way / wherin we go Circundate in compasse / with mysery and wo But the lyfe ensuyng / is countrey permanent Of rest / ioy / solace / or els endlesse tourment

Thus outher he graūteth / sure rest or exyle* 1.27 If it graunt vs rest / than endlesse ioy is ours Among blyssed lyuers (in this lyfe counted vyle) Among our forefaders / and olde progenytours Were fylled with gladnesse / and voyde of all dolours We shall all together / haue rest interminable And one lyke fruicion / in blysse in estimable

But if the lyfe cōmyng / put vs in banysshment* 1.28 Than extreme distruccion / shall vs wretches oppresse In endlesse perdicion / fyre: mournyng and tourment And all maner kyndes: of dolour and distresse But suche shall in ••urete: the lande of lyfe possesse Whiche ruled by the gyft / of hole mynde haue ben fayne To ryd them from synnes / and vyle pleasours mundayne

But on the other part: suche entreth in exyle* 1.29 Whiche dryuen in errours: to theyr confusyon Coude fynde in theyr hertes / to tourne no tyme nor whyle To vertue and goodnesse / from blynde abusion The mynde blyndly erreth / as often as reason Nat ruleth / but seyng / clerely what thyng is best The worst it ensueth / by frowardnesse opprest

But ouer long digression / we make as I suppose* 1.30 The mater requyreth vs / forwarde to auaūce And brefely to retourne / agayne to our purpose To speke of the vertue / of worthy Temperaūce Of well ordred maners / and goodly gouernaūce And what order shyneth / and worthy comlynesse Whan men lyst theyr dedes / discretly to redresse

In this thyng our speche / hole wrytyng / and our style* 1.31 Or cōmunicacion / shall hensforth procede As playne as our ingyne / vs graunteth to compyle Wherfore / fyrst and namely / endeuoyre and take hede To kepe comly order / in euery worde and dede In all dede and duyte / most of effect doutlesse Is to rule thyne actes / in ordred comelynesse

This comelynesse resteth / in dewe conuenience* 1.32 And semely proporcion / orderyng thy dedes all Of whome to reduce the / to clere intelligence One comelynesse is called / proporcyon specyall Another comelynesse / cōmon and generall The fyrst one belongeth / to mannes owne body The other to behauour / with outward company

¶ Of outwarde comelynesse in behauour.

This outwarde comelynesse / cōmen and generall* 1.33 Is so sure annexed / to lyfe of honeste That without it / honest / can be nothyng at all So is it aparent / and opyn to the eye Opyn to beholders / both for to heare and se Without this behauour (after my iugement) No lyfe can seme honest / ryght nor conuenient

This comelynesse called / nought ••ls ought to be* 1.34 But of mennes dedes / adewe conuenience That is / whan theyr wordes / and warkes wele agre Wele syttyng and semyng: by wysdome and prudence Nought done without measure▪ nor without prouydence This wyse vpon prudence / is graunted Temperaunce As next vnto reason / gyde of good gouernaunce

And as forme and beaute / is in the hole body* 1.35 yet is it nat the body / but ioyned thervnto Ryght so is comelynesse / comoyned semblably To mannes behauour / the same adornyng so With order / loke: iesture / and cyrcunstances mo That men taketh pleasour / ioy and felycyte Thyng ryght and wele ordred / so semely for to se

And lyke as the fayrnesse / and corporall beaute* 1.36 Delyteth and moueth / with pleasour to beholde So comelynesse of lyfe / with great felycyte Reioyceth to mannes mynde / moche more a hūdred folde For good men count vertue / more pre••yous than golde And wele ordred maners / surmoūtyng all rychesse And namely adourned / with plesant comelynesse

This cōmon comelynesse / or order generall More playnly appereth / and sheweth more persyte By the lyght of reason / and in his mynde one shall More playnly perceyue it / than any pen may wryte Or that man with wordes / is able to resyte Wherfore this omyttyng let vs our style addresse Compendiously to touche / the seconde comelynesse.

¶ Of the seconde comelynesse in behauour.

¶ The seconde comelynesse: concernyng honeste* 1.37 Belongeth to mankynde: in proper gouernaunce To temper his mocyons: that all they wele agre In habyte: voyce / iesture / in loke and countenaunce In shamefastnesse / measure / tyme / place / & cyrcūstaunce So that all thy maners / in worde / loke and iesture Is the tyme requyreth / be ordered by measure

Suche maners shall the make / plesant and acceptable* 1.38 Among cōmon people / haue great laude and fame And before all other / accept and amyable Nor after my counsell / dispyse thou nat the same Whether a multytude / do the commende or blame The iugement of many / is greuous to dispyse And oft cōmon rumour / is trouth: I the promyse

It n••des must be trewe / which euery man doth say Th•••••••• / fame dispyse nat / and se that thou attende Unto the cōmon voyce / of people to obey* 1.39 For he / which his credence / no ferther wyll extende But hym selfe and actes / all onely to commende Nat forsyng what other / hym hynder or auaunce Is Juged nat partlesse: of pryde and arrogaūce

Some maners vncomely / by theyr dyfformyte* 1.40 By theyr yll example / or vnkynde iniury Offendeth mennes myndes / and woūdeth as we se Howe vyolent weapyn / oft woundeth the body But suche of vyle maners / are called cōmonly Uyle persons vnmanered / and wretches without shame Them hurtyng the body / vnryght wyse may we name

Nor thynke it nat ynough / nor thyng suffycient* 1.41 All onely for to kepe / order: and comelynesse Of iesture / of body / as is conuenient Also thou must study / with gretter busynesse The comelynesse of mynde / inwarde to redresse And inwardly to kepe / that beaute most of all Moche rather than hauour / or iesture corporall

This comelynesse is kept / and good order of mynde* 1.42 Whan clere reason ruleth / as regent souerayne Or if it be subiecte / agaynst nature and kynde Than soone to his power / it to restore agayne And styll in holy trone / it after to mentayne For where reason ruleth / or is sure rep••rate By no lust vncomely / can mynde be vyolate.

¶ Of yre to be eschued.

In this part most namely / defende the from foule yre* 1.43 This foule vyce dysfourmeth / both coūtenance & mynde The tong it distayneth / brynnyng the herte on fyre What canst thou consyder / more lothely in mankynde Than a wrathfull vysage / raygne as tyran blynde? Oft grynnyng / oft gnastyng / and fomyng in furour Or gapyng as a bere / poore wretches to deuour

As a bore assayled / with dogges roūde about* 1.44 Or as a proude pal••ray / chafed with spur or byt From theyr mouthes casteth / whyte fomyng strem•• out So fareth this blynde wretche / ragyng for wāt of wyt As redy in his furour / all meschefe to commyt No man wolde suppose hym / a man of wyt laudable But turned to fures / lyke beest vnresonable

And as one furyous / mad / ragynge without mynde* 1.45 He loseth all counsell / and ryghtwyse tugement His reason subdued / his wittes all made blynde And oft he cōmitteth / hasty and vyolent That dede / whiche long after / hym causeth to repent He sodenly stryketh / with worde or els knyfe And wenyng to correct / depryueth name or lyfe

Than streyght he repenteth / and pensyfe is therfore And without remedy / his wrath turneth to wo For neyther name nor lyfe / can he agayn restore Thus losyng another / hymselfe is lost also And by his occasyn / oft dyuers other mo The dere wyfe and chyldren / and oftyn all the kyn Long sorowe and bewayle / one hasty wretches syn.

¶ Howe man may retrayne and beware of yre.

This pestylent plage / to vanquysshe or auoyde* 1.46 Or yre take his entre (consyder wele this clause) That if inflame the / thy reason is accloyed Therfore at begynnyng / resyst a space and pause Wele ponderyng & musyng / what is the groūd & cause And whether by rasshe anger / thou remedy mayst fynde If nat / than refrayne the / and mytygate thy mynde

Lyke as wyse warryout / sygneth a sowdyour* 1.47 For enmyes approchyng / to watche and to espy Beholdyng forthe a far / from wyndowes of a towre So watche thou for wrath / and anger semblably Consyder his assautes / and wysely put them by Resyst at begynnyng / ponder that pacyence More oftyn preuayieth / than yre and vyolence

As passyng thy lodgyng / prepare the to batayle* 1.48 Drawe nere the thyne armour / as wyse and prouydent At the fyrst mocyon / whan yre shall the assayle Stande stoutly resyst hym / strongly incontynent Lyke as thou wolde withstande / thy foes vyolent Or as if thou feared / theues approchyng nere Of thy lyfe to reaue the: or thyng to the most dere

But if thou vnwarely / be fallen in to yre* 1.49 Than suffer nat thy selfe / therin long to remayne But ryse thou as quyckely / as from a flamyng fyre To fall / lesse rebuke is / so man soone ryse agayne But in the mean season / whyle yre doth the distayne Take nat rasshe punysshment: of any crat••re For yre hath no maner / no mercy nor measure

At all tyme abhor thou / to moche cruelte* 1.50 For great offences / take lytell punysshment Reuenge thy wronges / with mercy and pyte But namely thou father / be meke and pacyent Anenst thy dere chyldren: and nat to vyolent For small punysshment: doth sore and great appere Of a tender father / agaynst his chyldren dere

Whyle men thynke by rygour / foly to myttygate* 1.51 Oft tyme the transgressour / correcte beyonde measure Is proner vnto syn / more harde and obstynate Sith prone vnto mercy / the fourmed hath nature Folowe nat in maners / a beastly creature Blast nat after blode / by cruell vengeance Thus art thou cōmaunded / by worthy Temperance.

¶ Of to moche bourdyng or sporte to be eschewed.

Another wylde mocyon / to ragyng yre contrary* 1.52 As dyssolute sportes / and wanton game or play Also must be voyded / as thyng nat necessary Mankynde is nat borne / to sporte and bourde alway Though lust this requyreth / yet reason wyll say nay Of nature to tryfels / product none of vs be But to sadder pastyme / and worke of grauyte

Be rather in wordes frutefull / and profitable* 1.53 Than iocondly iestynge / with worde of wantōnesse Men iugeth the lycour / to the vessell semblable And oft tyme the wordes / doth mannes thought expresse Use syldom tyme bourdes / but often vse sadnesse yet temperance chargeth nat / sportes to refuse But in tyme and measure / all thynges for to vse

Neyther it semeth / to vse the in that wyse* 1.54 That all men forsake the / for solem grauyte Nor to be so wanton / that all men the dispyse For companable sportes / and famyliaryt•• Seke nat to get glory / nor laudes vnto the Of a cōmon iester / or bourder hauyng name Thou countest this worshyp / but certesse it is shame

Lyke as it is lefull / to people fatygate* 1.55 And wery with labour / theyr bodyes to comfort And some tyme them restyng / theyr strenght to recreate Ryght so is it lefull / to bourdes to resorte And somtyme the spyrytes: to recreate with sporte But mengle so in measure / myrth and ••o••undyte That men nat repute the / forgottyn grauyte

Use myrth with good maners / and moderate measure* 1.56 With honest shame fastnesse / and nat outragyous Or els in suche wordes / of myrth thy selfe inure Wherby thou mayst appere / quicke and ingenyous Nat ragyng in iestes / as rybalde vylla••ous But whan thou seest season / and felowes lyke to the Than season thy bourdes / with prudent grauyte

And vnder iocunde iestes / close wysdom and substance Nat gyglyng nor laughyng / for others vayne pleasour* 1.57 As the tyme requyreth / after thy countenance And after thy matter / nat to wanton nor soure Exalt nat thy wordes / in dissolute clamour Nor in speche superflue / in going and iesture Be nat rasshe nor hasty / but sober and demure

Hurt no maner persone / with thy iestyng wordes* 1.58 Gyueng them occasyon of anger or sadnesse Auoyde of all checkes / se that thou vse thy bourdes To moue one to malyce / another to gladnesse It ought nat be lauded / but reproued doublenesse Thoughe many by thy myrth / be iocunde in an hall One checked and hasty / soone trouble may them all

And brefely suche bourdes: are lytell of valure Whiche purchase dyspleasour of any creature In causyng one to laugh / another for to loure Nor no man forbyddeth / our wrytyng or scripture To laugh / so it be done / in maner and measure* 1.59 But comelynesse of chere / and shape of countenance By laughyng superflue / is greued of semblance

¶ Of ouer moche laughyng to be forborne

Ouer moche laughyng / is foule and dishonest* 1.60 Unto the face and fygure / nat smal dyfformyte One alway loude laughyng / at euery toy and iest Maketh his hyd folly / playne euydent to be One euery where laughyng / as is a chylde to se Loude gyglyng and laughyng / is but a folysshe sygne And euydent token / of maners femenyne

Gryn nat in derysion / with fayned countenance* 1.61 A fayre iocunde smylyng / is counted cōmendable Who laugheth at myschefe / therin hauyng plesance Of hatred / is worthy / as leude and reprouable To laugh at vyce commytted: is greuous & damnable As theft or auoutry / or others losse or grefe Suche seme by theyr laughyng / menteners of myschefe.

¶ Of ouer moche and dishonest play to be eschued.

Flye gamnynge and playes / as rote of sondry cryme* 1.62 And most namely suche / where lucre is damnable Or where losse ensueth / of goodes name and tyme And falshod commytted / by meanes dysceyuable Where is murder / periury / and othes abhomynable And other his conclusyon / theft / stryfe / and beggery Or goodes falsly gotten / by fraude and trechery

Of fresshe lusty iuuent / yf thou be in the flour* 1.63 Than get the to sportes / as is to the semyng Thy strenght to exercyse / in pastyme of labour But vse must thou measure / and order in all thyng With tyme and company / as semeth best syttyng Obserue these circūstances / and gamnyng is laudable Or els it is folly / and thyng bytuperable

Age neuer sawe I play / and without losse of tyme* 1.64 For gamnyng and age / doth very yll agre A small faute to youth / in age is greuous cryme None olde man can play / and kepe his grauyte Of deth the remembraunce / his gamnyng ought to be It is a fonde fury / and very blynde dotage To haue chyldysshe pleasour / in colde decrepyte age

Age wyse and great player / neuer sawe I in my lyue* 1.65 Nor a yonge man gyuen / to greatly vnto play Whiche in tyme to come / was lykely for to thryue Or come to great honour / but rather soone decay Wherfore youth refrayne the / con••yder this alway Wele mayst thou recouer / ryches and honeste But tyme past and mispent / reuoked can nat be

Of wyse men and lerned / frequent the company* 1.66 Whan thou art dysposed / thy mynde to recreat After wery watchyng / and labour of study Of suche company / if thou be clene pryuate Muse than on some pleasour / nat hurtyng thyne estate Mebytacyon augmenteth / the wyttes semblably And quickeneth / as walkyng doth comforte the body

¶ Of lust of Uenus to be refrayned.

Be nat beastly redy / thy iustes to fulfyll Let Uenus fell brydell / her pleasours to refrayne* 1.67 For if thy carnall desyre / a brode wander at wyll Thy foule name and body / it greatly shall distayne Who to moche on Uenus / fixeth his mynde and brayne Or leaneth to his belly / is beastly of nature Of man onely bearyng / the name / shape / and fygure

Nought lykeneth more mankynd / to passe vnresonable Than glotony and slouth / and lust without reason These thre confederate / in workyng agreable To vertuous maners / are venemous poyson Both wyt and dyscresyon / kepyng in dongion And who that perseuereth in any of these same He loseth / soule / body / lyfe / ryches / and good name

¶ What remedyes are agaynst body lust.

Who wolde of vyle Uenus / alay the feruent flame* 1.68 Or quenche in his body / the nutryment of ••nstes Must take away / the fyry brondes from the same Remembryng it shall tourne / to caryon and dust Nought kyndlyng for this flame / in mynde reuolue he must And sobernesse obserued / he must auoyde excesse Nought kyndleth more Cupide / thā beastly drēkenesse

Whā fayre flateryng Cupyde / shall the with dart assayle* 1.69 Abyde nat the byckeryng / stand nat to stryue & fyght It is a stryle doutfull and daungerous batayle And most for a vantage / it is to take thy flyght Auoyde place and presence / flye wordes flye the syght Flye bedde / borde / and chamber / trust nat to thy wysdome Els art thou made subiecte / and wrechedly ouercome

Nor be thou not in purpose: to proue or to assay* 1.70 Howe thou canst inchastyte / and sobernesse abyde Whan the table charged / and Thays decked gay To tempe and prouoke the: be redy by thy syde But flye and withdrawe the / beware and stande a wyde Conioyne nat fyre to flaxe / the one hote / the other dry It harde is to kepe both / flamyng sodaynly

That thou mayst ouercome: the vyces beastyall* 1.71 Fyght with them aloufe / and neuer approche nye Of the sorte of Thays / suffer thou none at all In the house to entre / farre flye theyr company The gorgious dispysyng / regard nat vtterly Theyr peakes nor pappes / theyr glystryng paynted skyn Aduyse nat / for these are / hyd snares vnto syn

Theyr false hear inuolued / in nettes intrycate Theyr brestes vnbrased / theyr smerkyng paynted chyn Of iouth and cōfusyon / and the fyndes bayte* 1.72 From god to Lucifer / yōge people for to wyn Therfore barre thy gates / let none of them come in A voyde them as fures / yssued out of hell It is extreme peryll / with any of them to mell

For if they ones entre / and ones thy hert inflame* 1.73 Beleue / they departe nat (so come they for the nones) Tyll they haue ouercome the / to thy rebuke and shame And tyll thou be spoyled / and gnawen to the bones Therfore flye theyr clawes / fly and a voyde at ones For it is but folly / to trust thy wyt and myght For here in is gotten / sure vyctory by flyght

And that is more wonder / and moche more maruayle* 1.74 The palme here is gyuen / to suche as wyll nat fyght But flyeth in all haste / and wyll nat abyde batayle Resemblyng a cowarde / and auoydyng out of syght Trust nat thy wysdom: thy grauyte nor myght These femenyne flateryng / and wepyng faynedly Subdueth all cōstance / and myght they molle••y.

¶ Of meanes to redeme y^e from bondage of Uenus.

If thou to vyle Uenus / or blynd•• Cupyde volage* 1.75 Be led as subget / bounde in captyuyte For as small as thou can / thy selfe ryd of bondage Hast the by some trayne / out of pryson to be Sone fyle of thy fetters / get the ••oly••erte If small thynges helpe nat / no pecy••••••e thou spare Use vyolence or strenght / to breake thy deedly snare

Shake of thy color / from thy necks miserable* 1.76 In tary is no trust / but ioperdy mortall As olde roted sores / appereth incurable So is it harde to flye / olde lust veneryall Who flattereth blynde Uenus / hath most bondage of all And whyle man prolongeth / to leaue his wylde desyre Hym Uenus most flameth / with feruenty deedly fyre

Syth thou art man fourmed / to goddes owne ymage* 1.77 Preserue goddes fygure / from beestly vylany Folowe nat thy lustes / as rennyng in outrage But from carnall pleasoure / a voyde the vtterly Remembre thou nat canst / offende so secretly But that thyne owne person / is wytnesse present there Thā why shuld y^t other more / than thyne own self fere

Thou woldest nat offende / before a kyng present Nor any other persone / whiche loueth honeste Than art thou nat aferde / of god omnypotent So foule dede to cōmytte / before his mageste? Doest thou nat cōsyder / that god all thyng doth se? Alas / whether wylt thou flye / to perfourme thy lust But god there is present / and se the nedes must

Flye vp to the cloudes / or hyde the in the grounde Inclose the in tauernes / or place inuestygable In heuyn / hell / and erthe / or in the see profounde Our lorde all beholdeth / O catyfe myserable Consyder this in mynde / and lyue as resonable If thou woldest abasshe / before a lorde or knyght Than feare thou more greatly / to syn in goddes syght

Wherfore / syth our lorde / doth euery thyng espye* 1.78 And sercheth the secretes / of thyne herte and mynde Order and dyspose wele / thy maners inwardly And thyne inwarde mocyons / in comely order bynde And though they be secret / yet leaue them nat behynde For though none perceyue them / y^e thyng forceth but small Syth thyne owyn cōscience / & god beholdeth all

Thoughe vyle lust of Uenus / in all men be damnable* 1.79 yet is it most lothsome / and vyle in croked age In age can no thynge / be more foule and reprouable Nor thyng more resemblyng / to frensy or rage For this thyng belongeth / to fathers olde and sage By theyr good example to gouerne wylde iuuent And nat to enduce them / to worke insolent

And so beholde men aged / in cōmunycacion* 1.80 Before youth begaue them / fyled with none offence That theyr good example / of conuersacyon May reduce frayle iuuent / to vertue and prudence Wherby they may tyll age / haue greatter reuerence For suche good example / and hauour cōmendable In olde tyme men aged: were greatly honorable

And for suche example / sad fathers auncyent* 1.81 Were honoured of fathers / more yonge of theyr lynage Ageyne this belongeth / to duty of iuuent To worshyp and honour / olde fathers sad and fage To susteyne and confort / theyr lyfe and feble age To gyde and assyst them / in chyrche / way and strete Gyueng them stede & seruyce: where euer they them mete

And whether courte or maket / requyre / or solem day* 1.82 This longeth to dutye / of yonge men commendable To f••lowe sage fathers: and cleue to them alway With trusty attendance / and waytyng seruyable Of whom youth shall desyre / sad doctryne profytable To knowe whose example / them semeth to ensue Whose iesture to folowe / and whose they shulde exchue

For trouthe a great token / is in hym of vertue* 1.83 Whiche glad is with seruyce / to honour feble age For his good example / shall many mo ensue And honour shall he haue / after of his lynage But one yonge dispysyng / olde faders sad and sage Is lykely in his age / to be of small valour And nat worthy seruyce / loue / worshyp / nor honour.

¶ Of temperance to yonge men belongyng

¶ yonge men shulde dyspose them / alway to busynesse* 1.84 And laudable labour refusyng for no payne And therin them custome / auoydyng ydelnesse From excesse of wynes / they must them selfe abstayne And vyle lust of Uenus / by sobernesse refrayne For ydell youth disposed / to beastly glotony Ren heedlyng to ryot / vyle lust and lechery

Therfore ought theyr meates / be cōmon and homely* 1.85 Nat ouer aboundant / costly nor deynteous To content theyr body / and nat for glotony Serue thou nat iuuent / with dysshes sumptuous From the costly kychen / of tast delycyous Small thyng pleaseth nature / let them cōtent y^t wombe With scarce meat in measure / of poore kychen at home

Conforted is nature / by meates in measure* 1.86 Mannes lyfe is lengthed / by dyete temperate By meates immoderate / confounded is nature Complection corrupt / and lyfe is breuyace The clere wyt obscured / and reason vyolate And with sluggysshe slouth / the body hole opprest For whan belly full is / the bones wolde haue rest

Thus temperate dyet / labour / and exercyse* 1.87 Belongeth vnto youth▪to bate theyr hye courage And w^tdrawe theyr myndes / frō leude pleasour of vyce In lykewyse is labour / belongyng vnto age It semeth nat olde men / them selfe reputyng sage To gyue them vnto slouth / what wyse man can deny But that to many thynges / men aged may apply

After they at mornyng / at sonnes fyrst rysyng Haue serued deuoutly / our maker fyrst of all* 1.88 Than may they wryte or rede / or do some other thyng Of lyght easy labour / as beest doth them befall But chyldren ought to lerne / and rulers on them call To close in theyr myndes / lernyng as chefe treasour For youth soone is moued / to burthyn of labour

Soone is youth compelled / the yoke strongly to bere* 1.89 Therfore let them lerne / and render busely And as for this matter / haue thou no care nor fere All if they conceyue nat / eche sentence parfytly Though they dyuers bokes / can render by and by For sede is nat sowyn / into the grounde in vayne Though it spryng nat vp / incontynent agayne

For it certayne season / is hyd within the ground••* 1.90 Dyfferryng for to spryng / yet ryseth it at last But in the mean season / it resteth and is bounde Norysshed in the grounde / and rotyng it selfe fast As in the mothers wombe / but whan that tyme is past And it hath receyued / hyd / nutrymēt / and strenght To hundred folde fruyte / it spryngeth at the length

So vnder lyke maner▪a chylde tender and mylde* 1.91 What thyng he hath lerned / in his frayle tender age Shall fynde therof the fruyt / whan he passed chylde And come to mānes estate / with double auaūtage Therfore fyrst recorde thou / as byrde within a cage In thy ioyous iuuent / thy tunes tempryng long And than at mannes estate / forth with thy plesant song

Becomely in clothyng / as semeth thy degre* 1.92 Mete vnto grauyte / to wysdom and sadnesse Flye pompe apparayle / lyst outwarde vanyte Myght shewe thy hyd thoughtes / & inwarde folysshnesse For oft proude apparayle / doth opynly expresse Lyght maners mysordred / hyd in the mynde within As inwarde complexyon / appereth in the skyn

A reed byle or blyster / apperyng outwardly* 1.93 Is token that yll blode: corrupt and putryfyed Is closed in the flesshe: or vaynes inwardly Ryght so / by the clothyng / yll maners are espyed Suche euydent signes / are harde to be denyed Thus dyssolute clothyng: wanton / and varyable Declareth wylde maners / and rasshe myndes vnstable

Suche wanton apparayle: and dysgysyng delicate* 1.94 Belongeth to women / lyght / volage / and vnstable And moche it repugneth / to mannes sad estate yet is it in woman / nat greatly cōmendable Saue onely that foles / reioyce in theyr bable And frayle creatours / of reason vnparfyte In outward dysgysyng / haue specyall delyte

Wherfore / if suche pleasours of pompose vanyte* 1.95 Come to the by fortune / do nat to them apply If fortune deny them / as contrary to the Than lykewyse dispyse them / nor seke them nat greatly A man ought to count it / indigne / and vnsemely To cloth hym repugnant / to custome of nature In womans apparayle / or femenine vesture

Suche maner is worthy / scorne and dyrysion* 1.96 What is more vncomely: repugnant to nature Than man to leade his lyfe / in frayle condicion Under fonde dysgysyng / of femynyne vesture But yet in thy clothyng / be nat vyle and impure Lest some man repute the / a rude rurall vylayne From excesse and contempte / in lyke maner abstayne

Go neyther in clothyng / to wanton nor to vyle* 1.97 In all thyngys measure / is counted cōmendable Though nedy pouerte / all welth from the exyle yet go clene and clenly / as moche as thou art able For though thou be poore / yet honeste laudable Wyll that thy poore clothyng / be nat fylthy / but clene By poore clene apparayle / god lyfe is outwarde sene

But thoughe I ••••r••y•• / the proude ••••••••o••y••e* 1.98 yet do I nat counseyll / nor moueth to rudenesse But measure I cōmende / whiche kepeth honeste Bytwene tender clothyng / and rygour or hardnesse Penury nat prayse I / nor yet cōmende excesse Extremyte in all thynge / is very yll syttyng But meane and measure / is lauded in all thyng.

¶ Of temperaūce / in lyueng & dyet to be obserued.

¶ Content the with measure / of dyet at thy table* 1.99 Nor seke nat for meates / costly nor exquysyte Prepare nat by connyng / swete meates varyable To slake thyrst and hunger: haue onely thy delyte Let fode be sufficient / to slake thyne appetyte Garnysshe nat thy borde: for lust and glotony But onely for nature / and nede of thy body

Let hunger be thy sauce / thy meates to season* 1.100 Prouoke thyne appetyte / by holsome abstynence Care nat if thy dysshes: or meates be gheason Where one dysshe suffiseth / can be none indyg••nce Inough is a banket / and plesaunt opulence By sauour of sauces: the stomake to excyte Is sygne of glotony / and bestyall delyte

Reken nat thy dysshes / but holsome meat desyre* 1.101 Content the with dyet / of fathers auncient Whiche whylom were called / from plough tyll an empyre To rule all the worlde / for lyueng excellent Colde fruytes for theyr fode / thought they sufficient Than what pleasour hast thou / so costely to procure So deynteous disshes / of them to make ordure

Thynke it nat great glory / to get thy selfe a name* 1.102 By smokyng of kechyns / lyke as the smoke doth waste So lyghtly with the smoke / doth vanysshe suche fame And thy laude forgotten / whan hungre is ones paste Whyle the ryche is replete / vnethes at the laste Is one symple morsell / set to the wretched pore Whiche in colde and hungre / forth standeth at the dore

Say what is thy glory / for meates this wyse spent It is for vayne glory / thy meryt is ryght small If thou wylt make feastes / for god omnypotent Than fede goddes seruaūtes / pore people fyrst of all Herin is sure meryte / and laudes specyall And ryght path dyrectyng / to laude and ••oye endlesse Wherfore thus behaue the / or vse thou sobernesse

Of all ••hynges beware / o•• ••ea••ya•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 For it man defyleth / with most deformyte And doth nat for the tyme / moche differ from madnesse Whan it is inflamed / to rasshe audacyte By madnesse it kyndleth / all vyle enormyte It discloseth counseyll / and casteth to the grounde Most famous olde Cyties / the fame doth it confounde

It febleth the body / abrydgyng mann es lyfe It moueth debates / and kyndleth lechery Thousandes it murdreth / without wepen or knyfe It breaketh louedayes▪ and causeth robbery The wyt it confoundeth / with hasty frenesy Whan these vyle dronkard•• / are ingorged as swyne What seke they but braulyng / lust murder and tapyne

No counseyll nor conforte / no grauyte / no grace None order / no maners / no lawe / nor honeste No welth / strenght / nor ryches / can rest wher it hath place But all it confoundeth / by bestialyte Reioysyng in mischefe / and all iniquyte Alas wretched dronkard•• / aduert thy beastly syn Consyder in what state / and blyndnesse thou art in

Whyle thou wastest drynkes / the drynkes wasteth the▪ Whyle thou wyne consumest / by lust insaciable Thy selfe art consumed / in thyne enormyte Before our lorde art thou / counted abhomynable Of angels dispysed / as beast vnresonable Of men art thou scorned / and hated of most parte And of all vertues: playne destytute thou arte

The fendes infarnall / also doth the confounde Thy reason is blynded: and drowned in ordure And as a wytlesse beast / all tredde the to the grounde Alas / grace thou losest / and confoundest nature Fynally / abhorred / of eurry creature In blasphemyng othes / is thy delectacion And head••yg thou rennest / vnto damnacion

Wherfore this consyder / and ponder in thy mynde* 1.103 What mo dyuers peryls / procedeth of dronknesse In boundes of measure / therfore thy lyueng bynde And purchace the vertue / of holsome sobrenesse But though I gyue counseyll / to flye and ••oyde excesse yet gyue I nat counseyll / to be so scarse and harde That men may repute the / a couetous nygarde

And vse in all places / of thy maners to bable* 1.104 So that thy lyueng / to strayt in nygardnesse Among cōmon people / be as a cōmon fable Also in small thynges / vse nat so great hardnesse That no place be graunted / to pleasour and gladnesse Fyre thou no lawes / bytwene other and the But that somtyme gladnesse / may confort grauyte

For ofte of small thynges / cometh great dyshonour yet suche a small tryfell / grounde of dyshoneste Is of lytell substance / pleasour / or valour* 1.105 And playne of no profyte / nor yet cōmodyte Therfore / I counseyl suche nygardyse to flye And solem countenaunce / one peny with gladnesse Somtyme is better spent / than horded great rychesse

But though many poyntes / belong to comelynesse* 1.106 yet / this is the chefest / and most especyall Our maners to vary / and dedes to redresse To tyme / place / and causes / accordyng as they fall One selfe thynge is nat done / honest / in tymes all Our dedes must alter / and vary / be thou sure As monstrous protheous / ofte varyed fygure

Suche thyng as besemed / yonge Juuent and volage* 1.107 Or thynges of a chylde / cōmended as well done These cannat be comely / besemyng man of age For tyme / place / age / office / roume / and condycion Deuydeth and varyeth / all thynges vp set downe That suche thyng semed / erst / honest and laudable Nowe semeth dishonest / vyle / and incōmendable

Suche thynges as thou dyd / beyng of symple name* 1.108 Without roume or office / lauded in dyuers wyse Whan thou art in office / thou must vary the same And of thyne olde maners / the greatest parte dispyse In court or in Cytie / thou must nat vse that gyse In roughe speche and cruell / whiche thou had in batayle There / tygour auaunced / here mekenesse doth preuayle

If thou waxing aged / vse youthes busynesse* 1.109 Knowe thou for certayne thou passest thy nature Thy dutye and boundes / excedest thou doutlesse As an erryng dotarde / of chyldysshe wyt obscure For if thy feble age / in chyldysshe lyfe endur•• And alternat maners / from wylde to grauyte Thyne age as a monster / all people ought to flye

Whan thou wast a yonge man / thy specyall desyre* 1.110 Was to lyue tyll age / but whan thy selfe art olde A newe maner a lyfe / thou nedes must requyre Where thou in youth lyued / rasshe / negligēt: and bolde A gayne age requyreth / wyse maners / sad and colde And olde men aud chyldysshe / of maners ought certayne Be scorned as he lay / in cradell newe agayne

¶ Howe prestes ought to differ frō obter / in maners / as they differ in vesture.

Consyder / O preste sacred / to god omnypotent* 1.111 Thy gowne and thy clothyng / thy name and dignite These are to lay people / moche greatly dyfferent So moche let thy maners / from lay men disagre Howe moche more thou passyst / in great auctorite In myter or order / in office or prebende So moche loke in vertue / and maners to ascende

And as thou procedest / as regent honorable In vertue and maners / lyke wyse be president* 1.112 And though none about the / to the be comparable yet be thou nat more proude / more haute or negligent Nor trust nat more greatly / to thyne owne iugement But do in due order: what longeth vnto the Nat folowyng the lyfe: nor sect of cōmonte

If thou be made lyon / take maners of lyon* 1.113 I meane yf men set the: in rowme and dignyts Use Justyce with mercy / lawe with compassion Of maners lyke a mouse / no longer mayst thou be Clere eyes of an egle / whan Chryst shall graunt to the Than clerely loke vpwarde / and lyue as thou art bounde And be nat as a mole / styll dyggyng in the grounde

Whan thou were a knyght / or a stouborne soudiou••* 1.114 The wepyns of warfare / were plesaunt vnto the But nowe / thou Chrystes knyght / thy weapyn & armour The crosse of Chryst Jesu / of duety ought to be Whan thou of phisicion / vsed the faculte Thou cured sicke bodies / of sores corporall Thou nowe made apastour / cure sore spirituall

Gyue nowe to poore languent / spirituall medycyne* 1.115 And watche well thy fold{is} / as ought a good pastour A pastour well watcheth / by nyght / dredyng rapyne Lest vyolent wolues / myght his weake shepe deuour It can nat be ynough / for meryte and honour Thyne owne pryuate parsone / in saue••arde for to kepe Thou must in lyke maner / preserue thy flocke & shepe

But who that his owne lyfe / in maner doth dispyse* 1.116 And also his pore flocke / exp••seth to deuour Nought caryng for the same / nor hym selfe in lyke wyse Is nat to be called / a heerd but rauynour And ought to be moued / from rowme of gouernour Many be whiche count them / heerdes without blame Whiche rather be wolues: vnworthy theyr fyrst name

For nouther haue they thought / on theyr pore hūgry shepe* 1.117 Or all if they cared them / both to gyde and fede They haue nat the cōnyng / nor wayes them to kepe To cure of theyr sores / thus can they nat take hede But this nat withstandyng / yet loke they for theyr mede Theyr duty they chalenge / and neuer are content Though they in theyr duety / be neuer neglygent

And gredy ambicion / them blyndeth in suche wyse* 1.118 That though they be laded / with cure innumerable And haue but ouer moche / that can them nat suffyse The most feblest asse / ofte counteth hym most able To bere of ambycion / the sacke insaciable The sacke without boto••e / whiche neuer can say ho The more they receyue / alway thy gape for mo

¶ Of beauour to be chosen.

Bueieue we these wretches / inuolued in blyndnesse* 1.119 As people incurable / by pompous insolence And agayne retourne we / to purpose & processe Take hede on all partes / with prudent dilygence That thou want nought longyng vnto cōuenience On all sydes consyder / what personnes behauour To the may be metest / and comly for honour

Some man it becometh / for to kepe grauyte* 1.120 And sadnesse in iesture / in speche and in visage An other best besemeth / mery and glad to be If this ioconde parsone: wolde after his vsage And countersayt in there / an heuy father sage It shulde nat beseme hym / no more shulde it agre For one sad of nature / to mery for to be

An other man is mery / soft / ioconde of langage* 1.121 Lyghtly intreated / all gyuen to gladnesse So moued of nature / as well in youth as in age Suche one shulde ••••••e••••ly dispose hym to sadnesse An other man is symple / all gyuen to playnnesse Without fraude or faynyng / set hole on veryte An other all thyng speketh / with crafte and subtylte

A barbaryke vylayne / to play the oratour Or couterfayt termes / in langage eloquent* 1.122 It were moche vnsyttyng / so wysdome or honour To vse rurall langage: were inconuenient Brefely / euery parsone / ought to be diligent To folowe and to kepe▪ that nature doth inflame So that none vnclennesse / nor vyce be in the same

A worlde it is to se / wyse tyllers of the grounde* 1.123 And husbandes to beholde / howe they be dylygent To cause all theyr fru••es / more largely habounde Cōmyttyng euery sed••: to soyle conuenient Fyrste / is the husbandmen / quycke and nat neglygent Of his felde to know••••••he naturall condicion Than graffeth his plantes / after the region

As nature of the soyle / is most conuenient* 1.124 His vynes he fasteneth / on hylles and mountayns Or on pendant clyffes: than is he dilygent His cornes for to sowe / on fayre feld{is} and playnes Chosyng soyle appropred / to euery sorte of graynes His wyllous and aldyrs / in moyst grounde cōmonly For olyues he choseth / groūde / harde / stony & dry

For chaftaynes / colde places / cōmonly choseth he* 1.125 The myrtre and orange / by sey bankes doth growe In hye grounde or hylles / reioyseth the peare tre But the lote and playne tre / where waters oftyn flowe Thus some loue hye drye grounde: some watery & lowe So knowe thy complexion / and after thy nature Oroer thy behauour / with all labour and cure

And leane to thy nature: and disposicion* 1.126 And with all thy power / {per}seuer in the same For man best becometh / his owne cōdicion As thyne owne maners / and wyt doth the inflame So vse thy behauour / in sadnesse / myrth or game In counterfaytyng other / vse nat to lour nor iest But folowe thy nature / that shall become the best

Harde is it to auoyde: suche inclynacion* 1.127 As man hath by planete / at his natyuite And thyng to man contrary / by constellacion To wyn / is nat easy / but gret difficulte Whan shall the bolde lyon leaue his audacyte Whan shall the hynde or hare / leaue theyr olde drede & feare Or leaue theyr olde rapyne / whan shall the wolfe & beare

To drede the bolde lyon / what tyme leaue shall the bull* 1.128 Whan shall the symple lambe: nat drede the wolfe let se Whan shall the asse forsake / his nature to be dull Or whan shall the false foxe / forsake his subtylte Whan shall the dyuer leaue / in waters for to be The rauyn neuer shall syng / asswane or nyghtyngale Nor the crowe nor cuckowe / lyke other byrdes smale

The Ro / bucke nor do / shall neuer leaue the wodes The frogge leaue poles / nor hogges leaue ordure The turtyll cesse to mourne / nor fysshes leaue the flode Nor bees leaue floures swete / and of fresshe verdure All thyng in theyr kynde / obeyeth theyr nature It is nat lesse folly / to stryue agaynst kynde Than a shypman to stryue / agaynst both streme & wynde

A maryner to wynge / his shyppe by strength of ore Agaynst the streme stryuyng / and wynde to hym contrary Of tyme is cast bacwarde / worse than he was before Arte / small thyng auayleth / where nature doth deny Unto porte desyred suche seldome tyme apply Be they neuer so stoute / so valyant and wyght Ouercome by labour / is all theyr force and myght

Lyke wyse / who dispyseth / his gyftes of nature* 1.129 And others behauour / wolde counterfayt alway His owne oft he lofeth / of others nothyng sure And who sure hath one gyfte / and busy wolde assay As a fadyng shadowe / an other to puruay Whyle he two desyreth / he so deluded is That of one and other / ofte tymes doth he mys

¶ How he ought behaue hym selfe / whiche of necessyre treateth thynge to hym denyed / of nature and arte.

But yf thou constrayned / without any refuge* 1.130 Must take charge and burthen / of vnexpert office To wchyng a cōmon well / as oratour or Juge Knowyng: what therto belongeth / in no wyse As if thou must prepare / after the cōmon gyse To speke in cōmon place / in termes elegant Beyng both in rethoryke / and grāmer ignorant

Than / thou thus constrayned / before must well deuyse* 1.131 Thy cause well discussyng / what is expedient And lerne what thou lackest / of men ornate and wyse Fulfyll thyne ignorance / with labour diligent So / though thou wyn nat laude / nor name preehemynent At leste way / yet mayst thou / auoyde rebuke & shame By suche wyse prouysyon / all if thou get no name

¶ Of maner of lyueng not to be rasshly charged / but with goode ••o••isell •• aduisemē••

* 1.132

Suche maner of lyuēg / as thou hast ones begon Contynewe in the same / and vary nat rasshely By so chaungyng thy state / scorne / & contempte is won But resonable cause: constrayne the to vary And if thyne age also / be nat therto contrary Than do / that in changyng / it may besene profitable That thy cause is honest / ryghtwyse and resonable

Be nat lyght as wynde / but with reason mouable* 1.133 As the cause requyreth / after thy tyme and state Dyfferre longe / assay all / or thou be varyable Be constant discretly / nat harde nor obstynate It is a sygne of mynde / lyght / and infatuate The maner of thy lyueng / to change sodaynly And great faute and foly / if it be done rasshely

By lytell and by lytell / therfore thy lyueng change For sodayne mutacions / repugneth to nature And among acquayntaunce / as well as among strange Suche changyng / nat wanteth / suspecion be thou sure Than / other wysely change / or in none state endure An old tre tranposed / shall fynde smal auauntage Nor an olde byrde taken / and closed in a cage

Hangyng insowre wyndes / blowyng from north & west And vnkyndly serued / suche byrde loseth her songe But yonge fetherles foules / streyght takyn from te nest Nought knowyng of pleasour / may more suffer of wrong An hauke fedde vnkyndly / can nat contynewe long What shulde a chylde do playeng / with syngyng byrde or foule As good (for the season) a cuckowe or an owle

Among olde parrables / this oftyn haue I red A vyllayns subicte / a iolous boyes wyfe* 1.134 And a chyldis byrde / are wo and harde bested In contynuall tourment / abrydged of theyr lyfe And at last consumed / with depe dolour pensyfe Therfore well aduyse the / before thou change estate Els maist thou mourne to deth / as wretche infortunate.

¶ Of the duety & hauyour of men in great roume & office.

If thou be auaunced / to roume of dignyte Than voyde & exclude thou / thyne olde & pryuate mynde* 1.135 Seke nat as before / thyne owne vtylyte Remember howe thy charge / and offyce doth the bynde To seke the cōmon wele / leauyng thyne owne behynde Consyder / thou art set in place of great labour To serue a multytude: as heade and gouernour

And rather hast thou name / of labour / than honour* 1.136 In this wyse promoted / to troublous dignyte All if thou be ruler / thou art but seruitour Therfore / note that people / fele / se / and speke by the Than holy dispose the / for theyr vtylyte Preferre cōmon profite / before profyte pryuate For pryuate behauour / besemeth nat astate

The lawier in pleding / for his pore client* 1.137 Before his owne profite / shulde set Justyce and ryght But agayne retournyng / vnto our fyrst entent Whether thou be prelate / kyng / duke / baron or knyght Or other gouernour / of name power or myght Obserue comelynesse / maners / or maieste In worde / loke / and habyte / as semeth thy degre

To mayre / Juge / and other / set in auctoryte* 1.138 Moche thyng is forbydden / nat comely nor semyng Whiche are nat prohybyte: but sounde to honeste To a pryuate parsone / or man meane lyueng Also the tyme and place / refuseth many a thyng For in one tyme and place / a thyng may be laudable Whiche after and elswer done / were incōmendable

Therfore the sage father / renomed Sophocles* 1.139 Sittyng in Jugement / with great auctoryte Was worthely blamed / of his felowe Perycles Bycause he forgettyng / his rowme and grauyte Stedfastly behelde: and praysed the beauty Of a goodly stryplyng / of stature excellent Whiche was that tyme present / in tyme of Jugement

If this same Sophocles / had after done the same* 1.140 In a place of sportes / in felde or wrastlyng place Perycles shulde haue bad / no matter hym to blame Thus tyme is of sadnesse / and tyme is ofsolace And place is of sadnesse / and pleasour in lyke case The chefe poynt belongyng / to maners and reason Is euer to consyder / place / parson / and season

For lyke as in an harpe / men vseth cōmonly* 1.141 For to tune the strynges / in order and concorde The eares to retoyce / by crafte with melody So tyme / place / age / parsone / iest / countenaūce / & worde To thynges most agre / auoydyng all discorde Whiche thynges obserued / in euery busynesse Gyue beauty and bryghmesse / to plesaunt comelynesse

¶ Of the dutye in behauour of pryuate ••yte••in•• lyuing together.

* 1.142

It also be semeth / one Cytezyn with other If they be of one state / oppression to eschewe And to lyue in quyete / as brother with brother And nat one an other / vnkyndely to subdue Nor the porest parson / symple / playne / iuste / & true Shulde nat hym selfe suffer / subdued for to be Of one ryght admytted / to none auctoryte

And whom lawe cōmaundeth / to lyue in different* 1.143 Nor be so symple / that all men the dispyse Whyle thou wolde behaue the / demure and pacient Beware / be nat remyse / nor shepysshe in no wyse Be nat to desyrous / tyll honour for to ryse Be nat to proude nor pert / suche ryche nat / but decay Submyt thy selfe gladly / but cast the nat away

Be lyke with thy felowes / ioconde and compynable* 1.144 Dispyse nor disdayne nat / thy pore inferyour And honour thyne elders / to them beseruysable Namely if theyr lyueng / be worthy of honour Nor drede nat ouer moche / theyr lokes nor rygour For what man is fautlesse / what nedeth hym to feare Oft blame may he byde / but nothyng can hym deare

Therfore / O howe greatly: shulde thou awayte all tyme* 1.145 And with all thy wittes / intentyfely gyue hede That thou mayst be fautlesse / and clere of syn & cryme For this same thyng onely / delyuereth man from drede Loue thou nat discorde / nor stryfes for to fede But loue cōmon concorde / as moche as is in the Slake stryfe and loue peas: and fayre tranquillyte

Suche as in tyme passed / haue taken great labour* 1.146 To gyde the cōmon wele / without diserued blame Them se that all season / thou worshyppe and honour And suche as nowe present / also entende the same Suche as of iust lyueng / and vertue haue clere name Honour them also / for great is the pleasour For chyldren to beholde / theyr fathers in honour

And oft tyme yonge hertes / are kyndled with desyre To deserue lyke honour: by lyueng vertuous Lyke wyse as a candell / in flamed is by fyre So youth whiche of honour / is alway desyrous In hope to wyn honour / doth artes gloryous So vertue cōmended / ryseth to great flame And yonge noble hertes / are kyndled with the same

¶ Howe a ••orayne•• ought to behaue hym in a strāge cyt••e.

* 1.147

If thou be a forayner / dwellyng in a strange Cytie Medle with none office / nor matters more or lesse Conceruyng the Cytie: nor yet the cōmonte Order thou all onely / thy proper busynesse Lest by moche medlyng / thou wyn vnquyetnesse And some one may bydde the / forth forayner auaunt To thy natyfe countrey / auoyde thou alyaunt

¶ Of the duty of a Cytezyne anenst a forayne

* 1.148

¶ But thou a Cytezyne / dispyse thou no forayne Receyue euery stranger / with maner amyable One harde vnto strangers / sheweth hymselfe vyllayne More lyke to a tyran / than to a man companable And proueth hym as badde / as beast vnresonable Consyder that here after / thy selfe may forrayne be Than dele as thou woldest / that men shulde dele with the* 1.149

All men may nat dyscende / of hye and noble blode Nor all men be borne / in one lande of best name What force of the countrey / so that the man be good Some good / for theyr coūtrey / byde ofte outbrayde & bla∣me And ofte an other wretche / to his hole lande is shame Shulde men out of Englande: our lorde Jesu exclude By cause that he was borne / within the lande of Jude

Whan frō this wretched lyfe / at last thou must departe And come to heuyn gates / to se••be eternall kyng It shall nat be asked / what countrey man thou arte Frenche / englysshe / scot / lumbarde / pycarde / or flē••••ng But onely shalbe asked / thy meryte and lyuyng A poore scot of good lyfe / shall fynde hym better than Than some ryche lumbarde / or noble Englysshe man

Therfore / thou shulde strangers: in no maner dispyse Out••raydyng nor scornyng / with dede or wordes fell For none other cause / but for lyke cruell gyse Lycaon the tyran / as olde poetes do tell Was iustly transformed / to ragynge wolfe cruell To rage amonge beastes / excluded from pyte As he fyrst one strangers / had vsed cruelte.

¶ Of vnclennesse to be auoyded.

¶ Count euery burthen / to the ryght tollerable* 1.150 And all weyght of labour / without dyffyculte But weyght of vnclennesse / repute thou importable Or what euer repugneth / maners of honeste Count that ouer weyghty / and labour it to flye Count all thyng to greuous / whiche may defyle thy fame And nothyng more plesante / than hole and {per}fite name

¶ Of honeste in〈…〉〈…〉

* 1.151

¶ Kepe secrete thy membres / of vnclenlynesse Whiche are in place secrete / of euery creature Wherin very nature / is vnto the maistresse Hydyng them in places: hyd / couered / and obscure A dysgysed Jougler / or vyle iester vnpure Is nat so foule rybaude / but that in test or game His membres he hydeth / for drede of opyn shame

And therfore apperyng / all naked in a play* 1.152 If his parte so requyre / presented for to be He kepeth his foule partes hyd / in a brake alway Nat shewyng what nature / hath set in pryuete Suffer nat thy selfe / be more shamelesse than he Whiche without all blames / may boldly play his parte Honest or dishonest: after his raylyng arte

Nor gyue thou nat credence / to suche people vnpure* 1.153 Whiche openly conioyned / as dogges without shame Cōmytteth nought vnclenly / belongyng to nature And all wordes honest / whiche any man may name Ense we nat this vyle sect / nor thynke thou nat this same But what nature chargeth: that worke thou priuely Nor speke nat vyle wordes / before men openly

Abstayne from vyle wordes / in speche and cōmunyng* 1.154 Whan thou hast to cōmon / of thyng of grauyte For oft tyme vyle wordes / corrupteth good lyueng And are thou shamefast lyfe / nat small difformyte But whan thou must in speche / touche of necessite Suche matters vnclenly / vse circumlocucion And let thy mynde and tonge / be honest all season

For foule wordes spoken / oft tyme doth reason blynde* 1.155 And doth both the spekers: with vyle thoughtes inflame And herers in entryng / the secretes of the mynde And where it erst was quyet / they trouble sore the mynde Wherfore flye suche wordes / whiche soūdeth vnto shame As thou woldest auoyde / vyle place or thyng that stynke Or as thou wolde esche we / assymy slypper brynke

For lyke as yll sauers / hurteth the heed and brayne* 1.156 And as slypper patthes / cast men ofte to the grounde Ryght so suche vyle wordes / doth good maners distayne And persuyng quyete myndes / with hyd & secrete wounde Both thought / wordes / & lyueng / vtterly confounde And brefely to conclude / the lyfe of euery age May clerely be iuged / by iesture and langage

Howe euery man ought to medyll on his owne faculte.

* 1.157

¶ None ought with any craft / nor scyence intrem••t To be busy bablyng / and arguyng the same Without he haue it lerned / and be expert in it For oft some is present / nat moche knowen by fame Whiche in the same science / is worthy haue name And myght wele suche foles wordes / playne deny Or here hym with sylence: and scorne hym pryuely

If thou be somwhat experte / in true latyne* 1.158 What shuld thou do bablyng / of strong wordes of greke Or if thou haue in greke / had all thy discyplyne To dispute in latyn / what nedeth the to seke And surely thy lecture / shall scant be worth a leke If thou take vpon the / a cōment to compyle (Knowyng lytell of latyn) on Duyd or Uyrgyle

What shulde a lawier / dyspute of medycyne* 1.159 Scant wolde an olde wyfe / to hym gyue audience A merchaunt to dyspute / agaynst a dyuyne Were a thyng vnsemely / and signe of insolence Let euery wyseman: mell with his own science For who that wyll meddyll / with euery faculte Is outher a starke fole / or peuysshe proude is he.

¶ Of maners to be kept in goynge.

Ferthermore in goynge / a man ought be dilygent* 1.160 To kepe honest maner / and orded comelynesse Syth the same is outwarde / to all men euydent And oftyn tyme the ga••e / doth mannes mynde expresse The gate she weth constance / or rasshe vnstablenesse Men iuge sore the pace / for by the same we se A wylde mynde vnquyet / or prudent grauyte

And brefely the goinge / oft doth the mynde declare* 1.161 And playnly expresseth / the maners and nature Wherfore go nat dreamyng / nor yet flyenge be ware Of moche hasty or slownesse / both are agayn nurture Wherfore bitwene these both / loue temperate measure It is gate vncomely (as doth a crane) to stryde With countenance a lost / whiche is playn signe of pryde

It semeth nat to iette / with roulyng countenaunce With legges and armes: shakyng on euery syde* 1.162 It semeth nat in strete / as pal••ray to praūce Nor solemly procede / as we beholde a bryde Led stately to the chyrche / on her chefe day of pryde Nor thy pase to temper / I count it nat laudable As men bearyng dysshes / vnto a lordes table

Nouther is it comely / to ren so hastely* 1.163 That thou pant / as wery / faynted / & fatygate Nor yet to go droupyng / in maner of a spy Nor gasyng on the grounde: as one infatuate As in other thynges / is maner temperate So in goyng requyreth / maner and honeste For by outwarde iesture / hyd thoughtes opyn be.

¶ Of temperaunce in spekyng.

Lyke wyse / as in goynge / is laude and comelynesse* 1.164 So soberly spekyng / with semely grauyte Thou mayst fynde great laudes / & praysyng nat the lesse Pronounsyng thy wordes / with humble honeste Among olde companyons / if the fortune to be Or dere faythfull frendes / proued stedfast and sure Pronounce than thy speche / lowe: mery / and demure

But lohan thou must nede speke / before a cōmonte* 1.165 Exalte than thy wordes: with more contencyon Or thy ryght defendyng / speke with audacyte That men may more playnly / here thyne intencyon Beware / by rasshe wordes: to rayse dissencion Though thou speke with stomake / {pro}noūce playn & clere That all may perceyue / whiche shall thy wordes here

If clere voyce to the / be denyed of nature* 1.166 By cure and exercyse: than do thy selfe auaunce If thou speake of sadnesse / loke sadly and demure If thou speke of sportes / take mery countenaunce Use sadnesse in dedes / and other circumstaunce Rather than in wordes / and rather let thy lyfe She we forth sad grauyte / than coūtenaunce pensyfe

Season thou thy speche / with wysdome and prudence* 1.167 Gyue place to thy felowe / and harken his wysdom Somtyme is lesse honoure / to speke / than kepe sylence And often mayst thou coūte / great prayse to be ouercome Say trouth: nor glose nat▪ flatter nat as do some With none cory fauell: if thy party be sure But in thyne opynyon / obserue alway measure

Mayntayne none opynyon / in maner obstynate* 1.168 Contende nat in wordes / with suche as thou shaltse Of wordes superflue / frowarde and indurate In cōmunicacyon / ynough is to shewe the To contrary party: in mynde to dysagre And where as two other / the lyst nat to consent yet speke no rebukes / nor wordes vyolent

Whan thy selfe hast spoken / here thy companions* 1.169 It is agaynst maners / thy selfe to speke only Without suffryng any / to thyne opinions To make any answere / to reason or reply If any kepe opynyon / contendyng frowardly Gyue place for the season / all if his part be wrong Lest both fall to braulyng / or some strypes among

Whan any thyng is sayd / nat plesant vnto the* 1.170 yet trouble thou nat other / wyllyng to here the same For some men hath pleasour / and great felycyte To here that / whiche other dispyse / refuse / and blame If thou wylt be counted / of maners and good name Here other men gladly / what euer they wyll say And speke thou as syldom / and lytell as thou may

Men oft haue repented / of wordes superflue But syldom ofscilence / doth any men repent Wherfore scarce of wordes / is coūted great vertue And a fole is knowen / by speche negligent And to busy babelyng / in wordes imprudent If a fole were able / to kepe hym in scylence He shuld be reputed / a man of sapience

Where man is disposed: to wordes superflue Nat forsyng what he say / but spekyng all by chaunce* 1.171 And is full of wordes / they can nat all be true If thou lust be heuy or sadde of countenaunce As thy kynde requyreth or vsed gouernaunce Obserue thyne owne maner / but whyle thy selfe art sad yet blame thou none other / disposed to be glad

Dispyse thou no parson / all if thou purer be* 1.172 Of clothyng / of connyng / of byrth / of eloquence Of ryches or ought els / oportune than is he Rather helpe hym with dede / and counsell of prudence And whyle thou art talkyng (gyue hede to this sentence) Beware that no wordes / vuwarely fro the start Dysclosyng hyd fautes / and secret in thy herte

Blame thou no man absent: as detractour vnkynde* 1.173 For in thy so doyng / I the repute semblable Unto a cowarde teaytour / assaylyng one behynde Whan his wretched power / in presence is nought able Beware / lest thou blame thyne owne selfe / as culpable Whyle thou blamest other / for faute that is in the Whose lyfe thou dost folowe / in all enormyte

Be no tale berer / vse nat detraction Sowe nat vyle sedes / for mayntaynyng discorde Nor paynt nat thy langage by adulation* 1.174 Dyspers thou no slaunders / in tokyn nor in worde Wysper no newe tales / in churche / strete / nor borde Dispyse no pore parson / with wordes of rigour To all men in spekyng / vse reuerent honour

But rather endeuoyr: thy selfe in cōmunyng* 1.175 To seme vnto all men / louyng and amyable And proue thy selfe louyng / for proued is this thyng Except hym that loueth / no man can fynde loue stable For trewe is this sayeng / and oftyn founde probable If thou wolde fynde fauour / or loue: fyrst sowe the sede Shewe thou loue to wyn loue / in worde / hart and dede

With fayre plesaunt wordes / wyn fauour of all men* 1.176 And vse thou no wordes / to breke olde amyte With speche wyn the fauour / and so demeane the then To mayntayne that fauour / with true humanite A frende sone is gotten / kept with difficulte Demaunde no question / with wordes rygorous And answere / with wordes demure: and amorous

Cōmende none ouermoche / with wordes excessyfe* 1.177 But that thou mayst after / agayn hym discōmende If he fall by fraylnesse-or turne to badder lyfe Nor none beyonde measure-blame nor reprehende Let nat laude nor blamyng / beyonde measure extende But in both vse measure-and do that none the call In any of both partes: to greatly parcyall

Ferthermore in langage-vsurpe thou no delyte* 1.178 To wounde any person / with wordes in absence Nor any out of syght / to slaunder nor backebyte For all suche as here the / than beyng in presence If they haue clere reason / wyt or intelligence Shall thynke that by them / thou shalt commyt the same And whan they are frō syght / them so backebyte & blame

For as thou doest tyll one / so wylt thou do tyll other And that all men marketh / & doth thy maners hate* 1.179 And none shall beleue the: all if he were thy brother But that thou in absence / shall serue hym in lyke rate Agayne newe I warne the / lyke as I dyd but late Let no man the flatter / nor no man flatter thou For both is lyke errour / whiche wysemen dyssalowe

¶ Howe none shulde wyn hym frendes by flatry.* 1.180

Beware / wyn no frendes / by meane of flateryng Ill won and inconstant / shall be suche amyte And suche as the flatter / with fayre wordes glosyng Are nat more sure frendes / nor more louers to the In suche fayned frenshyp / is lytell certaynte If any wycked persone / prayse the / set nought therby For leude wretches praysyng / is shame and villany

Therfore count theyr praysyng / and commendacyon* 1.181 As if thou were nat worthy / but as rebuke and blame Dispyse of yll lyuers / theyr adulacion And if they disprayse the / to blame ascribe the same Theyr disprayse is praysyng / theyr prayse rebuke & shame No token can be better / of honest men laudable Than for to be hated / of vyle wretches culpable

Whan false adulation / with fayre wordes doth glose* 1.182 And flatterers doth trouth: with paynted wordes pall It is dyffyculte: thyne eares than to close And counted a maistry / and labour princypall These are the mermaydes / whom men Serenis call And merueylous monstres / by song and melody Blynde people inducyng: to deedly ieoperde

These flatterers / by whom the worlde is acloyde* 1.183 I counte the same monsters / whose gylefull armony Ulixes dispysed / and manly dyd, auoyde Hym selfe so preseruyng / and all his company In flatterers than chyders / count gretter ieoperdy For chyders and braulers vse vyces for to blame But false glosyng flaterers / are wont to cloke the same

A pacyent perceyuyng / his malady and sore* 1.184 Can kepe hym from daunger / of meate cōtagyous And busy is to puruay / some medecyne therfore But a sore vnknowen / is namely ieoperdous The seke man suspecteth / no matter perylous For hyd sore prouydyng / no cure nor remedy Tyll at last he perysshe / atones sodaynly

What sore forth appereth / in woman chylde / or man Anon is regarded / and lyghtly is curable* 1.185 But hyd sore disceyueth / a wysesurgian So: founde is a blamer / oft season profitable But swete glosyng flaterers / are alway disceyuable Better to be blamed of frende: that faythfull is Than of a flateryng foe / to haue a Judas kysse

Study thou nat outwarde / among the cōmonte* 1.186 To seme any other / than thou art inwardly Nor in thyne owne conceyt / suppose thou nat to be More better than thou art / for both are lyke foly Nor custome nat thy selfe / to bost and magnyfy Of valyant dedes of kyndred / or rychesse For suche vayne wordes / are sygne of folysshnesse

It foly is to boste / of kyndred or lynage The laude is in thy kyn / perchance nought in the Or to boste of ryches / syth fortune is volage And foly is to boste / of strength or beaute Whan sykenesse assayleth / both are but vanyte It foly is to boste: of suche caduke thyng Man onely is noble / by vertue or cōnyng

It semeth none to be / proclaymer by bostyng* 1.187 Of his proper laudes / his precony or name Nor it is nat comely / but very yll syttyng Another mannes dedes / or lynage for to blame Resyst nat with wordes / anothers laude and fame By malyce or enuy / nor yet in case semblable Synge nat thyne owne laudes / both are in lyke culpable

For lyke as the wyse man / dyscloseth nat his faute* 1.188 Nor his vyce bewrayeth: before the cōmonte Ryght so he is wele ware / w^t wordes proude & haute To preche forth his vertues: exalted for to be For this is a prouerbe / soundyng to veryte Of thy proper mouth / thy laude is nat laudale But other mennes prayse: is greatly cōmendable

Suche bostyng besemeth / a braynles soudyour* 1.189 Whiche scarsly durst reaue / yong chykens from an hen Suche crakyng declareth / an hert of small valour For the greattest crakers / are nat the boldest men Some thynke them good ynough / to fyght w^t. ix. or ten But if one scoldyng quean / fought w^t hym hande to hande He were nat so manfull / he dystaffe to withstande

Therfore / cesse thy crakyng / & order thy lyueng* 1.190 In doyng manly dedes / accordyng to vertue That suche as come after / & all thy hole offprynke May se good example / thyne actes to ensue But certaynly that fole / whiche doth his fautes shewe To many / as bostyng / or ioyeng in the same Of all may be counted / a madman without shame

〈…〉〈…〉 wh••ver suche a role / 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hym o•• 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉* 1.191 Alway is he worthy / of vtter punysshment For if his lyfe be suche / as bostyng he doth shewe Than well he deserueth / the galous for tourment But if he boste of vyce / yet be Juge innocent yet the wretche is worthy / of punysshment and care For who sclaundreth hymselfe / whom other can he spare

¶ Howe mā may laufully manyfest his own vertue: without arrogās or pryde

But this nat withstandyng / vnknowen if thou be* 1.192 And if people knowe nat / thy con••yng and science Thou mayst the same shewe forth / if it be true in the But beware (in shewyng) of pryde and insolence Of any faculte / if thou haue experience Do that men may knowe it / but ••e well as thou can That the same be noysome / or greuous to no man

By bostyng of the same / or other busynesse* 1.193 Unto theyr displeasure / or quietnesse cōtrary As by this example / thou mayst perceyue expresse Non closeth in a corner / a kyndled lumynary Nor ouer nere the eyes / the same / agayne doth cary Bytwene both is measure / so hyde nat thy connyng Nor shewe it nat to moche / by crakyng or bostyng

yet suche as inhabyte / among neyghbours vnkynde May prayse his owne gyftes / and his owne parte defende For enuy and malyce / so many wretches doth blynde That els shulde non at al / his vertues cōmende But beyonde his bondes / he shulde nat hym extende Lest his gyftes knowen: heape / and augment enuy And cause hym lyue after / moche more vnquietly

¶ Of vayne glory nat to be coueted.

Syth all worldly glory / is small and transitory* 1.194 And all holy lyuers / the same / in hert dispyse Therfore thou oughtest nat / to study for vayne glory What man it desyreth / ought nat be coūted wyse But vayne is all glory / nowe haue I tolde the twyse For what good we wretches do / any tyme or tyde Our selfe it perfourme nat / but god whiche is our gyde

And therfore all glory / all prayse / laude and honour* 1.195 As dewe to the father / hye and celestyall So teacheth holy churche / spouse of our sauiour Wherfore if glory / or honour temporall Be gyuen here in erthe / to be people mortall Suche honour and glory / may well be called vayne As waynyng & fadyng / nat able to remayne

〈1 line〉〈1 line〉* 1.196

If thou be constrayned / any persone to blame Do that thou nat seme / for wrath hym to reproue But with all demurenesse / behaue the in the same As nat led by malyce: but rather of good loue Oft tyme a great blamer / is lytell for behoue But rather maketh worse / by to great cruelte Where as a mery blamer: is great vtylyte

To the frayle offender / by countenaunce demure* 1.197 So glad chere doth profyte / whan yre rageth in vayne Be lyght to forgyuenesse / and byd gylty be sure Nat to haue lyke mercy / if they trespas agayne If thou loue the synner: and worde can nat constrayne Hym to cesse his foly / than vs•• thou more rygour As fetters or pryson / to sober his furour

Better is to suffer / hym for a tyme to smerte* 1.198 Than wander vncor••ect / to manyfolde errour And after se hym ende / with sadde and wofull herte To his owne confusion / and frendes dishonour Nor go thou nat to farre / blamyng with wordes sour Or ragyng and chydyng / for any cryme or synne Namely agaynst suche / as are nat of thy ••ynne

If thou be wyse / folowe the maner what thou can* 1.199 Of a wyse phesician: or leche experient For deed flesshe they cut out / of woman chylde or man In most easy maner / onely for this entent To restore vnto helth / the paynfull pacyent So blame thou with wysdome / thy frēde aboue all thyng Lest thou wyn but hatred / by rygorous chydyng

Aduert glasse is brytell / but yren stele and brasse* 1.200 Endureth great strokes / or they receyue fygure But the cryspyng yren / suffyseth brytell glasse So man must be treated / as semeth theyr nature Some roughly / some myloly / with fayre wordes demure Therfore blame but seldome / and without iniury And that whan thou seest: none other remedy

¶ Howe he whiche is blamyd for his faute / ought behaue hym selfe.

Agayne / if another the blame or reprehende* 1.201 Or warne the of thy faute / endure hym pacyently If he warne thy profyte / to his wordes entende Bere nat his rebukes / nor wordes heuely For if thou haste mysdome / of blame art thou worthy So dyd he the profyte / if thou be nat culpable yet thought he vnto the / for to be profytable

Thys wy•••• / 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 h•••• good mynde And nat worse art thou / reb••••••e•• innocent And certesse it is better / sharpe wordes and vnkynde To suffer of a frende: spoken for good entent Than of a fo to haue / fayre speche and fraudulent The one wolde thy profyte / all if he seme nat so But ofte glosed langage / cloketh a mortall fo

Howe man ought behaue hym selfe anenst his enmyes.* 1.202

¶ If any testy foes / ioyned as burre to burre Assayle the by malyce / to wrath prouokyng the Grynnyng and gnarryng: as doth a butchers curre For get thou nat suffrance / nor thyne olde grauyte Disdayne thou suche wretches / outher to here or se Syth suche want good maners / all reason and wysdome One (shall) them dispysyng / in best maner ouercome

O / howe moche hath greued / a subtyll for mortall* 1.203 Without swerde or weapen / yfhe by wordes fell From thy wont grauyte / constrayne the to fall Wherfore / if thou be wyse / worke after my counsell Here nat that scolder / and braulyng hounde of hell Though his mouth by malyce: braulyng do fome & blede Let no worde vnworthy / out of thy mouth procede.

¶ Of maner to be kepte in spekyng.* 1.204

Further more intende thou / that thou in cōmunyng Erre nat from thy purpose / to farre / in wordes vayne If thou make digression / go nat so farre wandryng But that thou may to purpose / by lyght retourne agayn Lest some in derysion / warne the in wordes playne Sayeng / syr consyder: it draweth fast to nyght At laste drawe to purpose / retourne whyle it is lyght

Nowe brefely concludyng / whan thou shalt fel•• and se* 1.205 Thy long speche tedyous / to thy felowes present Cesse / and procede no more tedious for to be For short song and plesant / is most cōuenient And short tale cōmended / is best of men prudent As small meate prouoketh / a gredy appetyte So shorte speth? gyueth / to herers most delyte

¶ Of measure to be kept in curyosyte of mancions.

Desyr•• thou nat to dwell / in curyous buyldyng* 1.206 Of marble and pycture / or grauyng curyous Suche buyldyng besemeth / an emperouror kyng But before all other / it semeth goddes house Oft tyme the house sheweth / proude mynde gloryous Wherfore / seke in housyng / holsome cōmodyte Rather than proude buyldyng / or curyosite

And wheder thou shalt bylde / hyt other hyre thy hous* 1.207 Marke if it be nedefull / and competent to the Seke more ease and profite / than grauyng gloryous Syth houses are buylded / for mannes necessyte And only for mannes vse / and cōmodite Prepare thyne abydyng / and habytacyon After thy nede / thyne vse and occupacyon

Nor seke thou nat pleasure / in comely apparayle* 1.208 In deckyng thyne houses / with costly ornament In outwarde ornament / is pompe and small auayle Fyrst garnysshe and clense / the house of thyne entent Than clense thy bedchamber / from all displesant sent In a lytell parler / clene / and of swete odour Is roume sufficient / and plenty of pleasour

* 1.209For in thyne outwarde house / thou seldome doest frequent In chamber thou restest: ofte tyme both day and nyght And therfore / it garnysshe / with herbes redolent And with fragrant odours / thy spyryte for to lyght Make it swete in odour / and comely vnto syght That this thy plesant cell / adourned in best wyse May declare the clennesse / and fulfyll the suffyse

Therfore / the housholder / and mayster of the house * 1.210 Ought nat to be noted / by sumptuous buyldyng Nor by outwarde grauyng / or warkes curyouse But let the house be lauded / more after his lyueng Unto thy laude and honour / it is but lytell thyng That on thy fayre buyldyng: thy name shulde hole depede yet the buyldyng somwhat: the mayster may cōmende

Let nat this olde sentence, whiche people oft frequent* 1.211 Agaynst the be spoken / whiche is this to recorde O noble mancyon / O house most auncient Howe greatly vnto the: discordyng is thy lorde For often in my tyme / my selfe haue harde this worde Alas noble buyldyng / house of antiquyte Howe moche is thy mayster / & lorde vnlyke to the

All thynges here spoken / of buyldyng curyous* 1.212 Cōcernyng the Cytie / thou must them vnderstande In lykewyse forbyddyng / great buyldyng sumptuous And houses superflue / in countrey or vplande For of many folyes / this one I count most fonde To buylde costly cages / in forest / parke or wode Whiche nat to no man nor beest / can fynally do good

¶ Of maner to be obserued in iesture & coūtenaūce.* 1.213

¶ So gouerne thy iesture / of body fote and hande Of countenaunce / eyen / and mouth / with fayre semblaūce That who the beholdeth / may se and vnderstande Thyne inwarde behauour / by outwarde countenaunce And where thou seest other / of fro warde gouernaūce And iesture dyshonest: agaynst nurture and skyll Consyder that lyke iesture / shuld the beseme as yll

And whom thou reputest wele maneted dispose the* 1.214 Theyr maners to folowe / in manerly iesture And if thou in norture / drede of incertaynte Take counsell of frendes / proued louyng and sure So poetes and paynters: in verses & pycture Take counsell of other / inquyryng theyr sentence To theyr owne cōceyte / before they gyue credence

Of honest occupaciōs to be vsed cōueniēt to mānes state.

¶ In lyke wyse behaue the / and this in any wyse* 1.215 I warne the to beware / of artes of vylenesse Or foule occupacyon / to haunt or exercyse By wretched couetyse / to gather great rychesse Fly lucre dishonest / by fraudes or falsenesse Uyle lucre is lothsom / both vnto good and man And causeth the getter / oft ryme his purpose ban

For therby is the soule / in daunger for to spyll And the same defyled / with name of vylany And man wynneth hatred / hyd rancour and ylwyll Therfore / namely flye thou the spot of symony And all maner braūches: of cloked vsery By fraudes and falshod / do nat thy good extende For goodes falsly goten / come syldome to good ende

Wherfore be no toller / catchepoll / nor customer* 1.216 No broker nor botcher / no somner nor sergiaun: Be thou none Inholder: hosteler / nor tauernet No bryggyng exchetour / nor yet baylyf erraunt An Offyciall or Shirife / are honest but ryght skant The most of this nomber / lyueth by double tollyng By cloked extorcyon / by fraudes and by pollyng

Wherfore / these and other / vnto them semblable* 1.217 Ar vyle busynesse / hurtyng both name and thought And all suche craftes are vyle / and skant laudable Whose warke (and nat cōnyng) is vsed or yet bought In shoppes or insale / of good cōnyng is nought Nor yet wyt nor wysdom / but g••le & subtylte Where dysc••yte is wysdom / there is no honeste

Nor nought is prayse worthy / in crafty cokery* 1.218 By saued equyte / and meates prodigall Kyndlyng carnall lustes / by meane of glotony The dyse are damnable / and fury infernall Uayne daunsyng is noryse / to vyle lustes carnall Uyle ioglers and pypers / by wanton melody And songes excyteth / youth oft to rybaudy

A poore pety marchaunt / or pedler is but vyle* 1.219 And suche as nowe beyng / retayle anon agayne These comely frequent / fraude / periury / and gyle And harde is from lyeng / theyr tonges to refrayne Than a vayne periurer / nonght is more vyle certayne For hym selfe forsweryng / by wretched couetyse Both men he defraudeth / and god doth he dispyse

But a famous marchaunt: great / ryche / and habundant And ryghtwysely dealyng / is nat vituperable But worthy with great rulers / for to be conuersant As to court and Cyte / nedefull and profitable But yet suche a marchaunt / is counted more laudable To leaue courte and Cytie / whan he hath full ynough And to be an husbande / to gyde the wayne & plough

For among all craftes / and worldly busynesse* 1.220 No thyng is more lauded / than tyslyng of the grounde Whichefor lytell labour / yeldeth great rychesse And small sede receyuyng / causeth the lorde abounde In plentye / wherwith all / both he / and his are founde And holsom vnto body / is this same exercyse And also to the soule / quenchyng the rote of vyce

Whylom the great Romayns / moste myghty conquerous To whome all the worlde / was made subiecte & bounde* 1.221 Were nothyng ashamed / to take the same labours With theyr propre handes / to turne & dygge the groūde And often suche fathers / were in the fyldes founde That dyuerse were called / from plough to the empyre At prynces requestes / and cōmons great desyre

Some of homely plowmen / iust / symple / and rurall* 1.222 Made ouer the hole worlde / most worthy emperours And some other called / to diguyte royall As Dictatours / Consuls / and prudent Senatours Whiche after great actes / and deserued honours Haue left theyr great lordshyp / & after were ryght fayne Unto the quyete fyldes / and plough to turne agayne

Thus the romayne lawes / constrayned men rurall For sober behauour / and wyse frugalyte From ploughe to be prynces / in rowm imperyall* 1.223 So some / thone day / lyfted to great auctoryte Was yester an heerd / cōtent with pouerte Thus of all labours / and euery exercyse The tylmanes labours / is counted of most pryce

Among artyficers / the wysesurgian* 1.224 Is lauded nat a lyttell / and for necessyte And nat lesse is lauded / the good phesician And lawier whiche leaneth / to ryght and equyte Masons / carpenters: and other suche as be For mannes lyfe nedefull: and greatly profitable May welbe admytted / as craftes cōmendable

But no maner scyence / no craft nor exercyse Can be in it own selfe / so good and necessary But that may be blamed / and obscured by vyce If the same be vsed / wrong and to way contrary In all thynge discression / is gyde and lumynary It weke thynge susteyneth / and lyghtneth obscure And all thynge derecteth / in ordre and measure

Desyre thou none office / nor cure in any wyse* 1.225 If it vnrequyred: be gyuen vnto the If thou thynke the able / do nat the same dispyse And thanke thou the gyuer / with dewe humanyte Gyue thou nat sone credēce / to voyce of cōmonte For oft tyme yll tonges / confederate apply Of customed malyce / to flatter or to lye

And leude vnder colour / of playne simplicite* 1.226 Composyng theyr lyes / oft tymes craftely Supplanteth good people / and men of honeste This is theyr chefe study / and fendly polycy Resyst thou suche wretches / and theyr wordes de••ye Dispyse thou what they say / and theyr dedes dispyse For all is but flattery / or gyle that they deuyse

Shewe thy selfe moste humble / most deboner and mylde* 1.227 Whan most welth and ryches / shall vnto the abounde Than be thou most curtayse / to man / woman / and chylde For the more thou mayst / more straytly art thou bounde And thoughe thou haue but lyttell / yet fall nat to y^t groūde Take comfort to thy selfe / in hope of better spede Nor let nat all men knowe / thy mysery and nede

Whan thy selfe be waylest / thy nede and mysery* 1.228 Comon nat of others / welth / ease / and quyetnesse Lest thou seme to murmur / by malyce and enuy Agaynst others fortune / helth / honour / and rychesse Loue euer for to lerne / ware wysdom and goodnesse Nor of whom thou lernest / thou nedest nat discerne Let it full suffyce the / good maners for to lerne

And what thou hast lerned / teche thou the same agayne* 1.229 To suche as lernyng coūteth treasour and store On obstynate dullardes / breke nat thy wyt and brayne In apt myndes / cōnyng / declared / waxeth more Remember of other / thy selfe lerned before So let other of the: So lerned may delate Nor make nat fre scyence / to many subiugate

Nowe my muse Thalia / assyne me to conclude* 1.230 This my present labour / and instant busynesse And what thynge remayneth / with moresolycytude In tyme more oportune / I gladly shall expresse But good reder pardon / my tedyous rudenesse For onely my purpose / is iuuent to profyce And yong tender myndes / to maners to exyte

For as a rased table / with whyte coler alayde Is redy to receyue / all maner of pycture So youth is disposed / as cōmonly is sayd To all good or yll maners / as men put them in vre But though vnto the worst / youth leaneth of nature yet a erthen vessell / is euer swete or sowre And after styll kepeth / tast of the fyrst lycour

Whiche men at begynnyng / for season put therin So wylde youth abused / fyrst w^t frayle plesours blynde Longe after his proner / and redyer to syn For foly by custome / oft turneth vnto blynde That none holsom doctryne / can rase it fro thy mynde Wherfore: O tender youth / loke on this small treatyse And leaue barayne balades / mouynge the mynde to vyce

Rede this lyttell treatyce / O iuuent of Englande As myrour of good maners: ye chefely of London And whan ye it redyng / shall perfyte vnderstande Gyue ye laude and thankes / to Gyles Alyngton Knyght / at whose precept / this treatyse was begon If this do you profyte / that shall my mynde excyte Of mo frutefull matters / after this to wryte.

¶ Finis.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Dixim{us} inuictas mēte: nunc ferre modestas Et loc{us}: & tempus: pro positum{que} monet. Qui cohibet mot{us}: and mi seruat{que} decorum Dictis: & factis: is mo∣deratus erit.
• * 1.2

  Ergo / vt sis talis: tecū tua vota tependas. Et pōlia {per}sequere: cae∣tera missa face.
• * 1.3

  Sūt bona: quae simplex tantū natura requirit. Nō ea: quae fastu••: am∣bicioque iubet.
• * 1.4

  Non eget hic multis: q se possiderit ipsum. Qui se possideat: se pu¦tat esse satis. Omnib{us} et rebus praedi¦ctes semp abundat: Esse vel abs{que} opib{us} di∣cet ille nequit.
• * 1.5

  Nā se quis{que} potest {per} se praestare beatum / Si modo possideat om¦ne quod intus habet: Cui sua nō sat sūt: ali∣ud sed quaeritat extra:
• * 1.6

  Ille miser sem{per}: sem{per} egenus erit. Nā numero {quam}uis habe at sibi plurima diues: Plura tamē multo sem¦per habere cupit.
• * 1.7

  Sese antē totū (ni fal∣lor) possidet ille: Qui sane ē mētis: qui{que} videnda videt. Corpore ceu totus cēse¦tur: et integre esse. Omnia q validus inte∣gra membra gerit.
• * 1.8

  Contra: nō totus cense tur lumine cas••us. Nec si cui nasus: pes{que}: manus{que} deest. Si etiā: si cui caligant lumina mentis: Mersus in errores non sibi totus ad••st.
• * 1.9

  Ergo te habe primum necres {per}quir̄ remotas. Pars tibi cū desit ••xi∣ma quae{que} tua est:
• * 1.10

  Vt sese prudēs habeat•• de corpore morbos Pellit: & assidue noxia cuncta cauet.
• * 1.11

  Quisnā cōsulto sumit potat{que} venenum? In foueam quis se prae∣cipitanter agit? Quin si quis biberit c•• su: vel fraude cicutam. Antidotū medicos pro tinus ille petit.
• * 1.12

  Sicui crus fractū: subi•• to conducit aliptem. Quin oculis lippis et medicina sua est. Quod magis est dicam claudus si icedit ac••li•• Continuo fabrum tu proprio or•• vocas.
• * 1.13

  Cut quo{que}: si mo••b{us} sen sum mentē{que} grauauit: Nō adh••bes curā•• resti tuisse quae tibi••
• * 1.14

  Ho•• etenim cura ē ma¦ior tibi mētis habēda: Quo su{per}at corpus no∣bilitate sua.
• * 1.15

  Quid iuuat in tātos il¦lam mersare labores: Sem{per} vt ancipiti se ro¦tet illa malo▪ Cur illá in flāmis noc∣tes{que}: dies{que} fatigas▪
• * 1.16

  Et perdis melius: quod potius{que} tenes? Impi{us} e•• nimiū: nimiū crudelis: et asper: In ••e qui {pro}pria•• ••ij••i•• ipse manus.
• * 1.17

  Quid tanti•• certas in∣uoluere retibus illam: Scilicet vnde volē•• ex plicuisse nequis? En quatitur vigilās cu tis: quatitur{que} quiesces
• * 1.18

  Acta velut stimulis ir∣requiet•• furit. Tu tanquā tor••or: tan quā Bellona flagello: Persequeries s••uus illa misella fugit.
• * 1.19

  Nōne foret satius de cor••ore {per}dere dextrā•• Quā partē: cuius viri∣bus ipse sapis? Quā pars {per}tē: e sūmo: quae ē tibi tradita coelo Qua sine cū reli••s an∣numere••e feris?
• * 1.20

  O tibi {quam} falsa ē spes: vi uo: & funere ••uncto: Si vitae: & mortis dux tuus aeger abest? Sūt ergo iprimis mor∣bi de mente fugandi:
• * 1.21

  Quo tibi sis tot{us}: defi∣ciat que nihil. Hanc tu {per} salubres / et rectos dirige calles Sana tibi officiū ••ste•• vt ipsa suum. Sed ne ••e longū teneā ca••issime lector.
• * 1.22

  Officiū sanae mentis id est puta: Vt tātum speret: quod {pro}sit tempore in omni. Quod{que} sit immensum vel sine fine bonū. Vt timeat: quicq̲d pos sit sine fine nocere.
• * 1.23

  In quo nō assit qui fe∣rat vllus opem. Omnibus vt studijs ••o lers ea gaudia querat. Quae nullus morb{us} frā gere. vis{que} potest. Vt soleat solū damnū quod nulla voluptas.
• * 1.24

  Consequi•• / vel quo vi•• ta / salus{que} perit. Caetera nil pendas nis•• quantū penditur vsu•• Hospicij vnde parat. Hospes abire cito.
• * 1.25

  Quin ea tu pōdus cre∣das morbos{que} grauātes Quae te vel perimunt / vel remorantur iter.
• * 1.26

  Debet onus: morbū{que} si mul vitare viator. Vt peregat coeptā: quā cupit ire viā. Est via: qua gradimur: vita haec erit alta vita: Patria perpetuum vel dabit exiliū.
• * 1.27

  Si patria ad caros pro auo••: caros{que} parentes, I••mus: vt constet omni bus vna quies
• * 1.28

  Sin vero exiliū capiet nos vltima labes. Accipiet fletus: perpe∣tuus{que} rogus. In patriā redeunt: qui freti munere sanae: Menti•• ab aduersis se explicuere malis.
• * 1.29

  Exiliū contra subeūt: qui erroribus acti: Vtere se ad verum non potuere bonum. Mēs errat: quoties ra∣tio nō imperat: et cum Quae bona sunt: cernit deteriora sequens.
• * 1.30

  Sed nimiū fuimus di∣gressi: iam{que} redire: Causa monet nostrum: propositum{que} sequi In coeptū fuerat nr̄m moderatio motus. Quod{que} nitet tebus: cō spicitur que decus.
• * 1.31

  Hac in re noster sermo versabitur omnis. Tam liquido: quātum nostra thalia potest. In primis igi•• studeas seruare decorum. Vis magna officijs ei{us} inesse solet.
• * 1.32

  Dicitur id duplex cum quoddā sit moderantis Quoddā cōmune quod generale magis. Quod cōmune serūt••ē quod comita•• honestū Omne: & inest ill•••• nec valeat esse sine.
• * 1.33

  Hoc magis appa••e••••s oculis simul auribus extat. Hoc sine nil ••ectū: nil reor esse bonum.
• * 1.34

  Nō aliud fuerit: quam conuenientia rerum: Quas hoies recte: ve•• sapienter agunt.
• * 1.35

  Et velut •• toto cō••usa est corpore forma. Nec tamē est corp▪sed magis id: quod inest: Sic etiā recto censetur inesse decorum: Quod rectum exo••nat quod{que} videre ••uuat.
• * 1.36

  Sic mouet hoc animo•• oculos vt forma ve∣nusta: Corpotis oblectat: de∣tinet: at{que} mouet.
• * 1.37

  Sed ne{que} desidiae ded••∣••int se etate ciuil••. Quis neget a senibus ••••urima posse ge••••▪
• * 1.38

  Aut leget aut scribit cum primum ex ede re uersus: Sacra vbi iā primo so∣le oriente fuit. At puer addiscat / tum pluria corde repo••at. Nā ••acile est puerū co∣ge••e ferre i••gum.
• * 1.39

  Nec cures sensus si nō percepit ad vnguem. Cū recitat multos or∣dine mente libros.
• * 1.40

  Nā spersum in ••ra ••••e∣men producere germē Differt {per} menses: & ta∣men inde feret. Interea terrae matris nutritur in aluo
• * 1.41

  Cui tacito vires subge ••i•• ille suas. S•••• puer a teneris quae c••••{que} acceperit annis. Reddere iā fructus sen ••••••t illa senex.
• * 1.42

  Ast animū poterit com ponere quis{que} decenter Imperiū ratio si tenet ipsa suum. Aut: si deiecta ē {pro}pria de sede: resumit Confestim soliū: quo se det: illa sacrum.
• * 1.43

  Hic primū turpi tete scruabis ab i••a. Deformat vultum quae simul at{que} animum. Turpi{us} irato qd possis cernere vultu: Cū fluit a rapido spu∣meus ore liquor?
• * 1.44

  Sic dispumat aper: cin ctus latrante cate••ua. Sic etiā: frenis exagi∣tatus: equus. Non hominē dicas: ser uens quē concitat ira. In furias versus: inci∣pit esse feta.
• * 1.45

  Consilium perdit tan{quam} furia sus. et amens Poenitet hūc facti pro∣tinus inde sui.
• * 1.46

  Quo pestē hanc fugias tecū meditaberis ante Vt constes: si te causa furoris adit.
• * 1.47

  In specula tan{quam} vigi∣lat •• praeuidet hostes: Sic vigilat i c••uto ne ruat ita tibi.
• * 1.48

  ••g••ediens{que} dom••••tan {quam} certamen ••dires: Limine sub primo pro∣••idus arma cape. Te{que} para: sicut time as ne forte latrones: Au•• tibi non visus ho∣stis obesse queat.
• * 1.49

  Si tamē incautus fue∣ris prolapsus in iram: Ne tuleris mersum te facuisse diu. Interea nullo sumas de crimine poenas. In poenis vllū non ha∣bet ira modum.
• * 1.50

  Sae••iciam nimiā tu de∣tes••abere sem{per}. Et modicas poenas tu pius vltot ame••. Praecipue dulces geni∣tor si affligis alumnos Cū modica i natos poe na sit apta patris.
• * 1.51

  Ac veniā pronum cum te natura crearit: Siluestres crudus non imitere fcras.
• * 1.52

  Est quo{que} vitandus mo tus contrarius trae: Qui semper ludo ver∣titur / in{que} ioco. Non nos ad ludos ge∣nuit natura: iocus{que}. Sed multo graui•• illa requirit opus.
• * 1.53

  Vtilis in dictis sis plu•• {quam} voce sacetus. Seria sint crebro: ra∣tior ipse iocus. Non tn̄ illa vetat nos ludere. non{que} iocari. Sed iubet in reb{us} om∣nibus esse modum.
• * 1.54

  Nō decet: vt tan{que} dur{us} fugiaris: et asper. Nec quo{que} cōtemptus sis leuitate tua. Gloria nō ludo tibi sit quaesita: ioco{que}: Vt tota fias ludius vr∣be vagus.
• * 1.55

  Vt licuit fessis vites re perate quiete: Sic salibus raris te re∣create licet: Cum{que} iocū misces sic: sic moderabere dictis: Ne facile ex ipsa tu grauitate cadas.
• * 1.56

  Sit iocus īgenuus: mo∣deratus: sit verecūdus. In quo vel multum lu∣ceat ingenium. Ergo vbi tēpus erit nō tan{quam} scurra volabis. Sit salib{us} pōdus gestu•• et ipse grauis.
• * 1.57

  Vox tua nō nimio fue∣rit clamore soluta. Neccitus icessus: cui{que} tumultus inest.
• * 1.58

  Nō laedant quen{quam} ea∣ueas tua verba iocosa. Contristent nullū: sint sine dente sales.
• * 1.59

  Nec ridere vetāt quē{quam} mea scripta modeste. Sed nimiū risum for∣ma decora vetat.
• * 1.60

  Turpis enim risus ni∣mius nam fusus vbi{que} Quid pueri: & fractus quod mulieris habet.
• * 1.61

  Est odio dignus: q̲ fur∣t••m riserit: et qui De dāno alterius sol∣uerit ora iocans.
• * 1.62

  In ••udis vites: quo quae stus quaeritur. et quo Iacturā nimiam tēpo∣ris ipse facis.
• * 1.63

  Si fueris iuuents: ludū tibi quaerere laboris: Qui cām praestet: quem moderate tamen.
• * 1.64

  Ludere non vn{quam} vidi / nec perdere tempus: Egregium: et digna cū grauitate senem.
• * 1.65

  Nec iuuenē vidi nimio se dede••e ludo: De quo praecipui spes sit habenda boni.
• * 1.66

  Sit tibi cōgressus cum doctis: cum{que} peritis: Cū: studio lassus te re∣creare cupis. Ingenij vires auget meditatio gressus. Incolumes artus non minus ille facit.
• * 1.67

  Sentiat & frenū Vene∣ris sibi adesse voluptas Ne quātum libuit: sit spaciata procul. Qui nimis indulget ve ne••i paret{que} palato: Re pec{us} est: tantū no∣mine dictus homo.
• * 1.68

  Quis{que} cupidine as po∣terit cōpescere flāmas. Qui somēta rogis ab∣stulit apta suis. Qui{que} nihil voluēs ani mo quod concitet ignē Nec nisi seruata so∣brietate bibit.
• * 1.69

  In pugnam dubij nol•• prodire duelli. Cū venere: & mēsa pr•• lia in fre caue.
• * 1.70

  Nec tēta••e velis / quā sobrius at{que} pudicus Cum Thais: & mēsa sit tibi structa prope. Difficile est flāmam nō se inclinare repente. Proxima cū rapido sit sita stupa rogo.
• * 1.71

  Turpia quo vicas: fac certes eminus illis. Fac tua ne subeat tecta petulca cohors.
• * 1.72

  Ne veniant intro: cum vestib{us} obstrue portas Nō tutum est illis con seruisse manus.
• * 1.73

  Non sine te victo: cre∣das in fine: recedent. Ipse triumphatus: et spoliatus eris.
• * 1.74

  Quaeri•• hac in resolū fugiēdo triumphus / Quid mirere magis▪ est data palma fugae
• * 1.75

  Deni{que} captiuus si for∣te cupidinis ires. Te propere redimas: {quam} minimo aere potes.
• * 1.76

  Excute de miseris la∣queos ceruicibus ipsos Vim facias: sugias: est mora plena mali. Nâ quicun{que} fuit Vene ri blanditus ab illa. Durius affectus ignib▪ esse solet.
• * 1.77

  Cum{que} homo sis certe diuine mentis imago: Vt deus arcane est: sic procul esse stude. Quamuis clam pecces semp tn̄ es tibi testis. Cur alium quam te: tu vereare magis.
• * 1.78

  Qui latitant intus mo tus compone deco••os. Nec minus id cure••: ij quia sorte latent. Nam{que} parum refert {quam} memo perspicit illos. Quos tacito tecū no∣cte: die{que} vides.
• * 1.79

  Omnibus est vitio Ve∣neris damnosa libido. Sed nihil in senib{us} foe∣dius esse potest. Praeterea senib{us} nimi{rum} conuenit illud. Exemplo vt iuuenes: consilijs{que} regant
• * 1.80

  Se praestent tales corā sermonibus illis: Vt possint multo: sem{per} honore coli. Hoc solo quōdā fuerat veneranda senectus. Hoc solo antiquo•• ij voluere patres.
• * 1.81

  Sed cōtra iuuenes se∣mū venerētur: adorēt. Sint comites lōgae: sub sidium{que} viae.
• * 1.82

  Curia seu poscat: seu sacri festa dei: Haerebit senib{us} officio sa cohors. Ex quib{us} optabūt cui▪ precepta sequantur Gesta simul cuius sint ••••itanda magis.
• * 1.83

  Est (fateor) magnū sig∣num virtutis in illo Obsequio gaudet q̲ ce∣lebrare senem.
• * 1.84

  Confirmet iuuenū la∣bor & patiētia corpus. A••cendi a venere sunt nimio{que} m••ro.
• * 1.85

  Sine{que} cibi viles positi vulgata{que} mensa Nam tantū venter: nō saturanda gula est. Nō epulas iuueni mit tat famosa popina. Sed: quas decoxit par∣ca coquina patri••
• * 1.86

  Apti{us} id cernas inter∣no lumine mentis: Quam verbo aut cala mis id reserare queam
• * 1.87

  Sed dec{us} ē aliud / quod partem spectat honesti Que {pro}prios motus tē∣perat / at{que} regit. Hoc habitu: gestu: mē∣sura: voce / pudore. Est positū: in cultu: tē∣pore tum{que} loco.
• * 1.88

  Hoc facit: vt placeas: gratus sis omnib{us} vn{us}▪ In populū de te fama perennis eat.
• * 1.89

  Nec spernas populus de te quid sentiat ois. Est graue cūcto{rum} sper∣nere iudiciū. Iudicio inserui populi nā{que} esse superbus Creditur is: solus q̲ sua facta probat.
• * 1.90

  Offendūt aīos hominū deformia quaedā: Vt violāt corpus spicu la missa manu. Qui tn̄ offendunt: ho•• dicimus inuerecūdo••. Dicim{us} iniustos: q̲ vio∣lenta mouent.
• * 1.91

  Cor{per}is haud tantū ser uandū crede decorum. Est animi interius sed magis / at{que} magis.
• * 1.92

  •••••• tibi conueniēs cul∣••us grauitate{que} dignus Ne retegat vestis quod tibi corde latet. Vestis eni multos mol les detexit: et intus. Innatū prodit quod la tet vicus ••ners.
• * 1.93

  Que rupit in summo carnis: vesica pusilla Est index infra sangui ni•• ill•• mali.
• * 1.94

  Delicias poti{us} credas mulieribus aptas: Quāuis nec nimias in muliere probem.
• * 1.95

  Quate deliciae si sint. non mollis inbaete. Nec si nō fuerit: anxi•• ipse pete. ••oemineos sultus: & ge¦stus sumere molles. Vir pu••et indignū ridi¦culum{que} simul.
• * 1.96

  Quid magis est contra ••••turā / sine decorum / Quā sub foeminea vi∣••••••e veste virum? Sorde tamē cateas nec 〈◊〉〈◊〉 videaris ag••estis: Molliciē pariter: duri∣••••em{que} fuge.
• * 1.97

  Sis paup quamuis / tu munde viuere debe•• / Nā ne{que} / qui paup: sor∣didus esse licet.
• * 1.98

  Nec qu•• ••e mone pro∣hibet: te suadet agrestā Et durū: quod stat iter vttum{que} probat. Dedecet: extremis: ni∣miū quodcū{que} {per}piquat Est laudi: cent••ū quod medium{que} tener.
• * 1.99

  Simplicitas mēsae pla∣ceat (non arte paratae) Quae possit tantum tol le••e pa••ca famem. Sufficiēs victus tibi sit nec praebeat vllam. Mensa voluptatē: sed tibi nuda cibum.
• * 1.100

  Excitet ipsa fames ie∣iunum longa palatum. Nō sapo•• iuuētus mul ceat arte gulam.
• * 1.101

  Fercula nō numetes of cas sed posce salubres. Et placeat: quae olim coena placebat au••s.
• * 1.102

  Nec magni esse puta: quod gloria pta culina Sit tibi: sed potius so∣brietate stude.
• * 1.103

  Nec tamen parc••••rie subeas {quam} nomē auari.
• * 1.104

  Et fias vulgi fabula trita tui. In minimis rebus ne cures figere leges: Laeticiae vt nullus sit da¦tus vs{que} locus.
• * 1.105

  Nam res {per}ua quidē {per} magnū dedecus affert. Et tamen illa nihil vti¦litatis habet.
• * 1.106

  At cū sint multae {per}tes causae que decori: Praecipua est: sci〈…〉〈…〉us qua variare vices. Non sem{per} fit idem sub quoquo tēpore honestū Vt Protheus: multas vertitur in facies.
• * 1.107

  Quicqd enim iuuenē decuit puerū{que} tenell•• ̄ Nō eadem possunt illa decere senem. Condicio officiū▪ tem∣pus distinguit & etas: Vt / modo quod decuit: nunc tibi turpe putes.
• * 1.108

  Iā{que} magistratus modo quod priuatus agebas Desine: nūc aliud pub∣lica causa monet. Quae fuerāt medijs ti∣bi verba ferocia castri▪ Vrbe mo••ans mitte: respuit illa toga.
• * 1.109

  Si stuijs ageris iuueni libus ipse senescens: Scito: {quam} officium dese¦ris omne tuum. Si ne{que} mutauit mores prouecta senectus: Vt tetrum monstrum: diffugienda tua est.
• * 1.110

  Optasti iuuenis p••in∣gere adus{que} senectam. At nunc optāda est al∣tera vita ••eni. Ridēdus senior: pueri qui su scipit artes Tanquā si in cunis nūc recubare velit.
• * 1.111

  A spice quam differs alijs in veste: sacerpoa: Tantū differre morib{us} ipse velis. Et: quo maior apex ci∣git tua tempora: tanto Est morum cura maior habenda tibi.
• * 1.112

  Nō facias vt qui s{que} fa∣cit: cum non tibi guis•• Collatus fuerit: ••fice maius opus.
• * 1.113

  Si leo sis factus: mores assume leonis. Nō v••tra mores mu••is habere licet. Cum{que} oculos aquilae dederit tibi Christus in altum Suscipe: nec {per}gas ver∣tere talpa solum.
• * 1.114

  Cū sueras miles: castro rum tela mouebas. Nūc Christi miles ac∣cipe rela crucem Cū medicū gerere•• cu∣rabas corpora morbis. Nūc debes factus pas∣cere pastor oues.
• * 1.115

  Aduigilās noctu pastor custodit ouile: Ne pecudes {per}dat vis rabio sa lupi. Nec satis est sese pasto rem reddere saluum. Sed debet ••aluum red∣dere & ipse gregem.
• * 1.116

  At: qui cū propria vit contemnit ouilis Amotus propio ••ure erit ille grege. Pastores ou••ū multi s•• se esse fatentur: Sortiti falso noia tan∣ta tibi.
• * 1.117

  Nā ne{que} ieiuni curam meditantu•• ouilis: Nec quoque: si cupiāt munera ferre sciunt.
• * 1.118

  Quin satur ē pastor ••a ••us licet omnia pleno Suppeditet stomacho luxuriosa gula.
• * 1.119

  Adde etiam: nulla ca∣reas vt parte decori: Prospice persona quae magis apta tibi.
• * 1.120

  Est alij laudi vultū set uare seuerum. Ast alij laeta frons ma∣gis apta sedet. Si velit hic tristem se reddere fiet ineptus. Si velit ille hilarē: nō magis aptus erit.
• * 1.121

  Est alius lenis: facilis▪ sermone facetus. Hic quo{que} tristitiae pos∣sit habere nihil Hic simplex: veri & re∣cti sit semper amicus. Hic nisi cū multa nes∣ciat arte loqui.
• * 1.122

  Quis igi•• teneat: sibi quod natura secūdat: Si modo nil vicij: nil ••ouet ille mali.
• * 1.123

  Est opere precium do∣ctos spectare colonos: Semina q̲ reddunt cō∣grua cui{que} solo. Agricola imprimis na turam quaerit agelli. Inserit hinc plantas: quas regio ipsa cupit.
• * 1.124

  Collibus infigit vites / in vallibus alnos. I••••iccis melius crescit o•• ••••locis.
• * 1.125

  Frigida castaneis sunt pi••gu••a consita malis. Litorib{us} myrt / citr•••• poma vi••ent. Gaudet mōte pyr{us} sed crescit a quatica lotos Et platan{que} riguis ma∣xima crescit aquis.
• * 1.126

  Ergo tuā noscas natu∣ram: haerebis et illi Sedulus: vt proestes nā sua quen{que} decent. Ingenio splendere tuo ••••ta••e labora. Et til•• non pluris sint alie•• tuis.
• * 1.127

  Nō bene deuitat quod quis ••••••titur ab astris. Nec facile acquiret: {quam} sibi stella negat. Quando metum ceru{us} dep••••et? quādo leonē.
• * 1.128

  No time at 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••∣na{que} parua lupum▪ Quado vel assuetā mit tet vulpecula fraudē▪ Aut erit au••••tus abs{que} timore ••epus? Nō vnquam mergus se mergere desinet vndis Nō canet & coruus: vt modulatur holor. Caprea nō siluas / non linquet rana paludem. Nō gemit•••• turtur: ar∣bore moesta can••••s Nō aliter cupim{us} quic quā: renuēte minerua. Quam nauta aduer so flumine serre ratem. Qui trahit aduersis nauē currētib{us} vndis: Gaudere optatis non solet ••lle diu. Quippe ••{quam} amissis su∣perāte labore lacertis Reijcitur praeceps de∣teriore loco.
• * 1.129

  Sic sua q̲ spernit ••cap∣tans aliena: frequēter▪ Amittens propria: n•• aliena capit Qui{que} vnum retinen••▪ aliud studiosius optat. Soepe hic delusus stul∣••us vtto que caret.
• * 1.130

  At si te mun{us} praetoris siue tribuni. Officiū ignotum forte subire iubet: Vt quia verba soro ti∣bi sint facienda diserte Cū ne{que} sis rhetor: grā∣maticus{que} minus
• * 1.131

  Tūc causam meditate prius: scitare perit••s Quod nescis: disca••▪ suppleat ipse labor: Vt: si nō possis nomen▪ ••audem que referre Nō referas s••ltem 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ decus: atque nota••••.
• * 1.132

  Quae semel est aurē vi∣•••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 forma recepta: H•• ••••••ues temere nec var••are velis. S••••amē est ratio mutā di: & perferat aetas Fac mutans doceas {quam} ratione facis.
• * 1.133

  Non leuis vt vētus sed pro••••e: mobilis assis. Constās nō durus: pro∣positique tenax Nā variate genus vitae leuitatis habetur: Si temere: leuitas non leue crimen erit.
• * 1.134

  Tū quo{que} paulatim mu tes: nam facta repente Versio non hominum suspitione caret.
• * 1.135

  Ipse magistratus eū sis tune exue mentem. Priuatam: populi te ca put esse putes.
• * 1.136

  Per te nūc populus lo∣quitur: sentit{que} videt{que} Vtile quod fuerit oib∣ergo vide Publica priuatis p̄ser∣ri cōmoda debent.
• * 1.137

  Iuridicus debet imme mor esse sui. Tum decus obserues quod majestate verēda Sit dignum: mutes os / habitum{que} tuum.
• * 1.138

  Multa quidem praetor {pro}hibit̄ plurima cōsul. Quae neque priuato sunt prohibenda viro Multa etiam damnare solet tēpus{que}: locus{que}: Quae ne{que} sunt alio tē∣pore digna nota.
• * 1.139

  Iurgauit merito So∣phoclen collega Peri∣cles. Quod puerū inspexit: dum sacra iura daret
• * 1.140

  Si fecisset idem campo mediaque palestra Causa fuit iurgi nulla pericle tibi.
• * 1.141

  Ergo velut cytharae cō cordant ordine nerui. Vt cupidas aures mul∣ceat arte sonus: Sic tēpus: {per}sona: locus concordet: & aetas: Officij vt species / eni∣••eatque decus.
• * 1.142

  Est quo{que} priuati ciuis cum cruibus aeque Viuere nec socios sub∣dere velle suos Nec tamē inferius pa∣tiatur subditus esse: Cum quo ••ura volūt vi uere lege pari.
• * 1.143

  Nō adeo simplex: vt cō temnaris ab vllo. Dum{que} velis lenis: lan∣guidus esse caue. Nō cui quam visus sis ambitiosus & audax. Facte submittas: non tamen abijcias.
• * 1.144

  Ae quus eris parib{us} sed nec cōtemne ••ainores. Ma••ores aequa tu quo{que} mente colas. Non tamē hos metuas multa formidīe tristis. Nam: quicun{que} sine est crimine non metuit.
• * 1.145

  O quantum debes tur∣pitu labe carere. Res sola haec hominea ahs{que} timore facit. Factio non placeat: cō munis pacis amator Consule trāquillae: {per}pe tuae{que} rei.
• * 1.146

  Qui bene gesserunt iā publica munera v •• qui Nunc praesunt: merito semp honore cole. Quosquo{que} vulgauit virtutis nomē honora Pulchrū ē et natis esse in honore patres.
• * 1.147

  Ipse pe••egrina si forte moraris in vrbe. Nullius vrbanae sit tibi cura rei. Sed tantū proprij ma∣neat tibi cura negoci: Ne tibi quis dicat: Ad uona vade foras
• * 1.148

  Sed ne{que} tu debes {per}e∣grinos spernere ciuis. Accipias quenque mi∣tis in vrbe tua. Durus in externos: ho minē sese exuit omnē. Et versum in ••ae••am se probat esse feram.
• * 1.149

  Non alia causa vertit sua membra lycaon: Quam{que} in externos saeuus & asper erat.
• * 1.150

  Omne tibi credas {quod} sit tolerabille pondus Sed quod turpe gra∣uat nō tollerabile erit Turpe grauat / ••cquid mores subuertit ho∣nestos. Et quicquid fam•• to facit esse males.
• * 1.151

  Turpia naturae ••••lacis membra verendae. Nā natura: teg••s illa: magistratua est.
• * 1.152

  Histrio. q̲ in scaenā va∣dit: sibi subligat aptat: Ne {pro}dat quicquid lex verecunda tegit. Ne igiur tuleris: {quam} te verecundior is sit Scaenicus: impune cui licet esse malo.
• * 1.153

  Nec cynicis credas qui bus o••a noia honesta. Turpia sed caueas di∣cere verba palam.
• * 1.154

  Turbibus abstineas di∣ctis grauiora locutus. Turpia iacturam dicta pudoris habent. Sit tibi circuitus: cum dicere postulat vsus. M••s etenim: & lingua: debet honesta loqui.
• * 1.155

  Turpia nā subeūt dic∣ta ad penetralia mētis Solicitan{que} animū quē tenet alta quies. Tam{que} ea tu spernas: {quam} res male spernis olētes Quam spernis lubricū progrediendo locum.
• * 1.156

  Nā quod olet: nare•• lae dit via lubrica plantas Sed leedunt mores tur∣pia verba bonos.
• * 1.157

  De qua nil didicit quia {quam} non arte loquatur. Nā saepe est praesens: q̲ sua dicta neget.
• * 1.158

  Graeca parū doctus nō disserat ore la••••nus. Virgili•• interpres nec quo{que} graecus erit.
• * 1.159

  Qui studu it leges: di∣mittat de medici••s Dicere cu•• tantum ne∣scia credat a nus.
• * 1.160

  Praeterea incessu sua debet inesse venustas Cum pateat semp om∣nibus ille palam.
• * 1.161

  Saepe etenim incessus grauiter cencet ab illo Nā{que} animi mores sae∣pe videre potes. Non igitur lentus: nō sit festinus ametu•• Quem neutra in parte dicimus esse nimis.
• * 1.162

  Nō placet: incedas: si∣cut •• fercula portant: Nec sicut solita est tra dita sponsa viro.
• * 1.163

  Nō tamē: vt nimio cut su defessus: anheles. Aut capite ••curuo prae cipitatus eas.
• * 1.164

  Nec minus in verbis speciē: formā{que} decori ••nuenies: laudē ferre loquendo potes. Dū loqueris socios in∣ter caros{que} sodales Tūc insit sermo pres∣sior ore tuo.
• * 1.165

  At cum verba foro fa∣cies: contentio maior-Nis••bus in{que} aures vox tua missa fluat.
• * 1.166

  Verba tamē studeas ••∣clara expromere voce. Claram natura: tū tua cura dabit▪ Seria si tractas vultus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••e seueros. Si: leuis quic{que}: sit tibi fronte lepos.
• * 1.167

  Iuditio sueris: plus{quam} sermone seuerus. Sit tibi: quā vultus: vi ta ••••uera magis. Sit sale conditus ser∣mo••cedat{que} libenter C••sortio: & vinci saepe purato decus.
• * 1.168

  Veridicus fueris: nulli tua verba secundent. Sed tamē hac in re de∣ber inesse modus. Nam satis est certe te dissentire fateri. Cui nō consentis: desi∣ne turpe loqui:
• * 1.169

  Ausculta socios: cū sis tua verba locutus. Te solum turpe est o••a velle loqui. Si q̲s contēdat (vel sal sum) cede proterno Iurgia ne forte sint in eunda tibi.
• * 1.170

  Non ideo turbes alios audire volentes: Hoc: quia delectent te re ferenda parum. Quin patiens alios au di: quecun{que} loquentes Exeat et seimo ratio•• o••e tuo.
• * 1.171

  Si iuuat aut tristem te frōte. vel esse saeue••▪ 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Nō damnes illos: quos iuuat esse hilares.
• * 1.172

  Sit iibi cōtemptus ne∣mo: quia purior illo es Cōsilio et facto sed ma gis ipse iuua. Dum loqueris: caueas ne sermo lapsus ab ore Indidet idmorbi: quod tibi corde latet.
• * 1.173

  Non quē quam carpes absentem nā{que} videris Proditor inca••ti cede re terga viri. Sed spectes eti••: ne sis te carpe••e visus Dū damnas illos: quos imitare viros.
• * 1.174

  Quo scun{que} alloqueris ••ac vt digneris honore Nec minimum e plebe spernere visus eris.
• * 1.175

  Qui poti{us} studeas: om∣nes videaris amare. Nā vere id fertur: non nisi amarus: amat
• * 1.176

  Cunctorū placidis in∣eūda est gratia verbis. Et seruāda vetus sem∣per amicitia est. Non quen{quam} interoges acri nec voce minaci. Respōsum mitis: tu fa∣cilis{que} dabis.
• * 1.177

  Nō nimis extollas quē {quam}. nec presseris vllum. Laudib{us}: & vitijs assit vtris{que} modus. Sic lauda / aut dāna: ne possit dicere quisquā. Iudicij nimiū vel boni tatis habe••.
• * 1.178

  Insuper idcirco nō de∣lectabere lingua: Vulnus in absentes vt iaculere viros. Quis{que} {quam} absentes car pentem signat: & odit: Dū putat absenti non secus esse sibi.
• * 1.179

  Nō tibi blādiri quen{quam} patiare nec vlli Tu blanditus eris: er∣ror vter{que} grauis.
• * 1.180

  Blāditus caueas: {quam} tu merceris amicos Sed ne{que} blanditus te magis vllus emat. Non plus esse putes: si te quis landat iniquus Quā tibi si causa lau∣dis iniqua foret
• * 1.181

  Ascribe ad laudē verā maledicta malorum Summa etenim laus ē displicuisse malis.
• * 1.182

  Difficile est blādis ver bis occludier aures. Egregiū imprimis id{que} refertur opus.
• * 1.183

  Nō puto Syrenas ali∣as quas spreuit Vlixes Quā blandas linguas: sunt ea monstra satis: Semper blanda magis {quam} tu maledicta timebis Nā vitia ostendūt hac magis illa tegunt.
• * 1.184

  Quē sentit morbū: me dicari enititur aege•• At: quem nō sentit: ne∣gligit vnde petit.
• * 1.185

  Quod patet exterius: facile ē curabile vulri{us} Philiriden fallet: quod latet interius.
• * 1.186

  Nō aliud / {quam} sis stude as in plebe videri: Sed ne{que} / quod non est / finxeris esse tibi Non eti ā referas tua fortia facta / genus{que} / Et proauos: quicquid nobilitatis habes.
• * 1.187

  Nō decet / vt laudū qs∣{quam} sit proeco suarum Nec decet alterius ste mata voce premat Alteri{us} famae dictis nō liuides obstes Cantator facti sis min{us} ipse tui.
• * 1.188

  Vt sapiēs nullus popu¦lo sua crimina vulgat. Sic ne{que} virtutes pre∣dicat ille suas.
• * 1.189

  Nā laus (vt fertur) pro prio sordescit in ore / Praesertim falsa: milite digna leui.
• * 1.190

  Sed magis id facito / quo tu referaris ab oī / Ductus in exemplū: po¦steritate tua. At / sua •• ••atuus diuni∣gat crimina multis Omnibus hic iure cre∣ditur esse furens.
• * 1.191

  •••• seu falsa ferat de 〈◊〉〈◊〉 seu crimina vera: Dignior est poena dig∣nior ille cruce.
• * 1.192

  Si tamē acciderit {quam} fi•• ignotus: et ipsa Sint tua: tunc parcue illa referre potes. Fac noscāt hoies: fue∣rit tibi siqua faculta••. Ne tamē ijs fiat illa molesta: vide.
• * 1.193

  Nemo etenim accens•• posuit sub corde luce••∣nam. Aut oculos propius▪ {quam} decet esse locat▪
• * 1.194

  Gloria nam studio non est tibi vana petenda▪ Non sapit is: sicui glo∣ria vana placet. At vana est oisquia: quicq̲d gessimus ipsi / Nō nos sed sūmus dux suit ipse deus.
• * 1.195

  Propterea ē omnis coe lesti debita patri: Gloria sic Christi dice responsa docet. Immeritis igi•• nobis est siqua tributa: Haec poterit vana di∣cie•• atque leuis.
• * 1.196

  At Ti qué obiur••••••: cu∣ra ne percitus ira Sis visus: sed {quam} ductus a more facis.
• * 1.197

  Saepe nihil prodest ni∣•••••• reprehē for acerb{us} Plus prodest hilaris: nā magis ille docet. Errori veniam facilis donabis: et illi Non dandam dices: si repetitus erit.
• * 1.198

  Si ne{que} verba valent: & carior ipse reprensus: Vtere carceribus: con∣pede stringe pedes Non nimiū longe fue∣ris iurgando profectus Inter di••iūctos acrior esse caue.
• * 1.199

  Si sapias: medicos iu•••• gans imitare peritos Qui tantum: vt ••anent putrida mēbra secant. Sic tu quo prosis: pru∣denter corripe car••••. Nō odiū queras: dum male facta refers.
• * 1.200

  Ergo si•• hoc caro: ••ū{que} est••iniu••ia cesset. Sit tūc: cū melior nul∣la relicta via est.
• * 1.201

  Si q̲s te cōtra moneat patiare monentem. Qui monet vt pro••it: non graue dicta feras. Nā si te metito iurga∣uit profuit ille. Sin min••: is voluit vti lis esse tibi.
• * 1.202

  Te siquādo procax in•• micus dente lacessit: Vtere et aduersus hūc grauitate tua.
• * 1.203

  Heu quātum nocu••t sine ferro callid{us} hosti•• Si facit: vt solita tu grauitate cadas Nō quicquā indignum sancto tibi decidat o••e Quāu•••• ille canis im∣proba verba latet.
• * 1.204

  Praeterea intendas. ne sermo longius erret. Digressus propera / lu∣ce reuerte domum Prospice / ne quis•• di∣cat iā luce propinqua: Iam tādem ad causam propositùm{que} redi.
• * 1.205

  Deni{que} / cum sentis so∣cios sermone grauari•• Desine ne pergas lon∣giu•• esse grauis.
• * 1.206

  Nō habitesoedes: pictu ra / et marmore culta•• Sed salubrem cures it coluisse domum.
• * 1.207

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 seu tu fabricas p∣cio seu suscipis emptā. Aspice: qualē vsus exi∣git ipse tuus. Nam domus humanos cum solum fiat in vsus Assit dumtaxat vsibus apta tuis.
• * 1.208

  Nec tibi decult; domi¦bus quaerēda voluptas Sed magis e cella est in¦teriora tua.
• * 1.209

  Hāc si mūdabis: miros tibi fundet odores Sume voluptates: quod cupis inde tibi. Cūque domo verses nō toto tempore vitae In cella maneas nocti∣bus atque die. Propterea assyrio cu∣res hāc spargere odore Haec cures: omni quo decoretur ope▪
• * 1.210

  Nō igitur domin{us} pul¦chra noscatur ab aede. Sed dom{us} a domino sit celebrata suo. Nō decet: vt totus tibi splēdor ab aede petat̄. Splēdorem domini sed iuuet ipsa domus.
• * 1.211

  Nō queat illa frequēs in te sentencia dici. Quā dispar domin{us} est tibi prisca domus▪ Saepe ego dicentes au∣diui tempore nostro. Heu antiqua domus: {quam} tibi dispar herus.
• * 1.212

  Nō etiā condas maior¦a palacia tuti: Quā: modo praescript{us} ••ictet in aede modus.
• * 1.213

  Sic manuum gestns: sic os: oculos{que} gubernes: Indiciū vt prestes: qua liter intus habes. Quos autē gestus alio∣rum ducis ineptos: In te crede illos posse placere minus.
• * 1.214

  At / si quid dubitas: fi∣dos tibi cō sule amicos Vt: quic quid peccas te monuisse velint Sic faciūt docti picto∣res / sic{que} poetae. Interrogāt alios: qua∣le videtur opus.
• * 1.215

  Sed ne{que} tu cupid{us} tur pes sectaberis artes: Multarum vt dominus e••••ciaris opum. Sed pariter f••gias quae sordida lucra parātur: Nā{que} odij causas / inui diam{que} parant.
• * 1.216

  Quare non custos por∣tus: nō foenoris auctor Nō lanius: caupo•• sor∣det id omne genus.
• * 1.217

  Et sordent omnes / quo ••um non artis emetur Ingenium / sed opus: id genus omne fuge.
• * 1.218

  Nil habet ingenij: ge∣quid vulgata taberna Exposuit: quae{que} ē prōp ta popina gulae. Alea: saltator seruant nil prorsus honesti.
• * 1.219

  Mercator tenuis: sordi dus ipse quo{que} est. Quisquis emit merces illas subito{que} reuendit Periurus / vanus sem{per} is esse solet Nil autem vano: & per iuto turpius extat Nā{que} homines fraudat negligit ille deos At si mercat or magnus sit mercis opimae: Vt puto nō magno ver titur ille probro. Hic quo{que} laudari po∣terit si plen{us}: ad agros Se tantem vertēs: agri cola esse cupit.
• * 1.220

  Nil melius cultu tertae nil dignius illa Quae pauca accipiens: plurima donat hero.
• * 1.221

  Hanc quondam mundi victores / ture modesto Vtere / cū propria non rubuere manu.
• * 1.222

  Curia conscriptos pa∣tres cogebat ab agris.
• * 1.223

  Qus{que} hodie est consul¦ante bubulcus erat.
• * 1.224

  Artifices inter medic{us} laudatur: et archi Tectus: qui fabros aedi∣ficare docet,
• * 1.225

  Officij exactor nō sis: si redditur vltro Gratia: nō segnis ipse receptor eris Nō cito credideris vul go quaecun{que} feruntur. Saepe fuit falsum quod mala lingua refert
• * 1.226

  Saepe mali querūt sub nomine simplicitatis: Dū referunt falsa: prae∣cipitare bonos. Artibus istorū / quantū potes ipse resiste Despice / quae dicūt: de∣spice quae faciunt.
• * 1.227

  Te placidū studeas re∣bus praestare secundis. Nam magis id debes: quo magis ipse potes. At / si sint tenues tibi res solatia quaeras Nec fueris visus omni bus esse miser.
• * 1.228

  No tua cū doleas: alio rum cōmoda narres. Ne videare suis inui∣dus esse bonis. Discere sem{per} ama: nec sit tibi maxima cura. A quo tu discas: sit di∣dicisse satis.
• * 1.229

  Quod nosti: doceas alios: id scire volentes Sis memor ex alijs te didicisse prius.
• * 1.230

  Iam{que} operi finē nostro praescribe Thalia. Tempore: quae superāt cōmediore canes. Da veniā lector si sum nimis ipse profectus Nā nisi {pro}desse: nil mea musa cupit.