The hauen of pleasure containing a freemans felicitie, and a true direction how to liue well : profitable and del[i]ghtfull to all, hurtfull and displeasing to none, except it bee to such pecuish dames as do either foolishlie reiect, or carelesly neglect the dutie of chast matron[e]s / gathered out of the best approued authors.
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The hauen of pleasure containing a freemans felicitie, and a true direction how to liue well : profitable and del[i]ghtfull to all, hurtfull and displeasing to none, except it bee to such pecuish dames as do either foolishlie reiect, or carelesly neglect the dutie of chast matron[e]s / gathered out of the best approued authors.
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I. T.
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[London] :: Printed by P.S. for Paule Linley, and Iohn Flasket, and are to be solde at their shop in Paules churchyard at the sign of the black Beare,
1597.
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Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The hauen of pleasure containing a freemans felicitie, and a true direction how to liue well : profitable and del[i]ghtfull to all, hurtfull and displeasing to none, except it bee to such pecuish dames as do either foolishlie reiect, or carelesly neglect the dutie of chast matron[e]s / gathered out of the best approued authors." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13314.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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What Authors we may best vse to file the toung and in∣struct the mind, and what artes ought most especiallie to be learned. Chap. 12.
TAke vnto thee such choice Authors, that▪ thou mayst set them before thee as most ho¦nest to read, and profitable to follow. For it is a verie foolish thing in imitation or emu∣lation, not to follow the best patternes. Sowing hath taught vs that in the verie nature of it, in which we are vvont to commit the best and finest vvheat to the fur∣rovves of the earth. The same also is vviselie regarded in grafting, in vvhich vve take the best and fruitfullest siens or shootes, and graft them on another tree. Yea and which is also wont to be obserued and kept in pain¦ting, Musick, Poetry & Oratorie: in al which ye curious aemulator doth desire to imitate the perfectest pat∣terns & such as are don at an inch.
And this doth Paul also teach vs to obserue in those things that belong to
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godlinesse and the giftes of the spirit, that wee might attaine and come to those things that are most power∣full and excellent. For vvhosoeuer frameth either his studie or course of life after this sort, shall neuer repent himselfe of his labour & paines bestovved ther∣on. This also is a common practise amongste them, that addict themselues to anie kind of superstitious li∣uing, and of such also as are ••ude of speech, which be∣cause it is not in vse among the learned, are forced to take great pains to vnlearn their Barbarisme. In which practise, methinkes the mother and nurse of good learning, Italie and the learned Greece are much to be praised: vvhose custome France & the Low coun∣tries cease not to follovve, in that they laie before their youth the best patterns of learning. For by this means it falleth out the••r youth are not onely indued with pu∣ritie of vvords, and elegancie of speech, but also quick∣lie attaine to the knovvledge of the matter.