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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03705	The felicitie of man, or, his summum bonum. Written by Sr, R: Barckley, Kt; Discourse of the felicitie of man	Barckley, Richard, Sir, 1578?-1661.; Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1631 (1631)	STC 1383; ESTC S100783	425,707	675

finding there a Lion shee hid her selfe for feare leaving behinde her for haste the things which shee did weare upon her head which being taken away by the Lyon and found by Pyramus supposing his love was devoured by the Lyon he slew himselfe Thisbe not long after returning to the place appointed and finding her lover dead slew her selfe with his sword But this love that followeth wrought not so evill an effect A French Gentleman lying with his love a Courtisan in Rome as hee was in the morning about to put on his chaine of gold which was wont to come foure times about his necke it would then go but three times about And as hee was musing with himselfe how this matter should come to passe the Courtisan who had untyed secretly the lincks and stolen part of the chaine away made shew as though shee marvelled why hee looked so sad and asked the Gentleman whether hee felt any griefe It seemeth quoth shee you have taken some cold because your head is waxed great and your face swollen and therewith she put a glasse in his hand of that sort that maketh things shew greater and larger than they are indeed The Frenchman looking in the glasse beleeving that his head was swolne and that hee was fallen into some strange disease left musing upon his chain bewailed himselfe afterward to his friends as though he had been dangerously diseased There was a young man in Friburge so desirous of the companie of a young maiden with whom he was in love that being promised by a Necromancer hee should enjoy her companie and for that purpose withdrawing themselves into a secret place of the house he caused the divell to shew himselfe to them in likenesse of this Virgin and when the young man offered to take her by the hand the spirit casteth him against the walls and slue him and cast his carkasse with such violence at the conjurer that hee lay halfe dead a great while Abusahid King of Fez by the report of Leo of Africa was slaine and his sixe children by his Secretarie for abusing his wife In the time of Philip the Fayre King of France two Knights were flayed alive for whoredome with the Queen of Navarre the Countesse of March and they condemned to perpetuall prison Iulius Casar that great Monarch after hee had made conquest of Germanie Spaine France England Italic Greece and of Pompey his enemy had like to have suffered a shamefull death through the pleasure he tooke in the fond love of Cleopatra whose company to enjoy he went to Alexandria in disguised apparell where an Eunuch and a childe were like to have slaine him if hee had not cast himselfe from an high tower into the sea and saved his life by swimming to his campe under the galleyes of his enemies These passions of love doe worke wonderfull and strange effects in many that yeeld themselves to bee overcome by them Historiographers report of a yong man in Athens of very good parentage and rich that was so enamoured upon an Image of Marble very artificially made and set up in a publicke place that he would embrace it and make love to it as though it were a living Creature and could not endure it to be out of his sight but alwaies remained by it And if it chanced him to be from the Image he would weep and lament so grievously that it would pitty any hard heart to behold him This Passion grew so strong in him that hee made sute to the Senate to sell the Image to him for such price as themselves would demand that he might remove it from thence to his own dwelling place But the Senate denying his request because it was a publicke thing he caused to be made a rich Crowne of gold with other jewels and sumptuons attire and put it upon the Image which hee beheld and adored in such extremitie that the people being moved at his folly forbad him to come any more neare it whereat he conceived such griefe and displeasure that he killed himselfe Durius in terris nihil est quod vivat amante Nec modo si saplas quod minus esse velis None suffers more than they that love professe Which the more wise we are we practise lesse And though this bee very strange yet that which credible Authors write of the King Xerxes is more strange or rather monstrous They report that he was so farre enamoured upon a Plane tree that hee would make love to it as if it had been a very faire woman The desire of this fleshly pleasure brought forth a most vile and wicked sect among the Friers and religious men at Naples in the time of Pope Egidius As there happened a dissention among the Popes these Friers in contempt of Christian Religion would assemble themselves together in the night both men and women in caves and secret places fit for their purpose where to cover their villanie with some shew of honesty the Priests that were among them would sing Psalmes after the manner of Christians Which being finished the Priests as it were beginning a Sermon would say something to confirme their wicked errour the effect of whose speech should bee That above all things Charitie ought to bee embraced which by the testimonie of holy Scripture was the head of all vertues and that the principall exercise of this Charitie among men God himselfe being Author thereof consisted in the coupling together by the holy Ghost of male and female in the worke of Venus And when every man had defiled that woman the lights being put out whom before hee had set his eyes upon then the divine service was finished These men taught publikely that this was not the Testimonie of Christ My peace I give unto you my peace I leave unto you But this Increase and multiply and replenish the earth And if any of these women happened to be with child the Priests commanded the childe to be brought to them who assembling together in a place appointed for their sacrifices after a solemne sort would burne the infant to ashes which they would gather up and keep in a pot as a holy thing And when any new Priest was to receive Orders by them he must drinke of those ashes in wine And when their chiefe Bishop happened to dye to avoyd envie and that a new might seeme to bee chosen to supply his roome rather by some divine power than by themselves they would command the mother of some childe borne in that wicked sort to bring it to some of their secret places appointed for that purpose and the Priests as they sate the people standing by would take the childe and deliver it from one to another every one brusing it with his hands continuing this order still untill the poor wretch were killed then in whose hands it dyed that was the man that must bee the chiefe Bishop These be the effects that the desire of fleshly

sentence was given against him First that his two dogs whose help he had used in his Magicke matters should be shot through with Muskets and himselfe should have his head stricken off For this milde sentence hee gave thanks to the Prince alledging he had deserved a much more severe judgement and at least was worthy to be burned The next day a new gallowes was set up covered with copper an halter tyed in the middest covered likewise with copper signifying his deceit in making gold Hard by the gallowes was set up a scaffold aloft covered with blacke cloth upon the scaffold was placed a seat wherein this Alcumist sate arrayed in mourning apparell And as hee sate the Executioner strake off his head The Poet cryeth out not without cause upon this love of riches Aurum destructor vita princepsque malorum O quàm difficiles nectis ubique dolos O utinam natum nunquam mortalibus esses Dulcia suppedit as quae nocumenta viris Gold lifes destroyer and of mischiefes Prince That every where by snares dost us convince Would thou hadst nere been seene by mortals eyes Who with delightfull harmes still man supplyes CHAP. IIII. Of sundry men most remarkeable for Avarice Of an English Cardinall Of Hermocrates Cardinall Sylberperger Hermon Phidon Antonio Batistei c. Of such as voluntarily parted with their Riches Of Antippus the Philosopher Ancrates the Theban and Sabbas Cast a Knight of Malta Pope Alexander the sift Tiberius Constantine Emperour Anacreon the Philosopher Epictetus Seneca the Philosopher reproved by Snillius for avarice before Nero A notable example of the Romane Fabricius Of Pertinax Of Hassan Bassa The covetousnesse of the Fortugals the French and the Spaniards reproved Concluding that no sovera●…gne felicitie can subsistin Riches c. YEt there want not Examples of some wise men who having abundance of riches and means to increase it willingly made choice to part with their riches as an enemie to vertue and hinderance to many good things and reserve to themselves a small portion Democritus a very rich man gave all his patrimonie to his Countrey reserving to himselfe but a little summe of money to live withall that hee might have the more leasure to study Philosophie for which cause he went to Athens The Prophet David perceiving our vaine estimation and wondering at riches forewarneth us thus Be not affra●…d when thou secst a man made rich and the glorie of his bousc multipl●…ed for when he dyeth he shall take nothing with him nor shall his glorie descend to the place whither be go●…th Hee shall passe into the progenies of his Ancestors and world without end hee shall see no more light The Prophet Baruch with more bitternesse asketh this question Where are they now that heaped together gold and silver and which made no end of their scraping Where be the Princes and they that rule over the beasts of the earth Hee answered himselfe presently Exterminat●… sunt adinferos descenderunt They are rooted out and gone into hell Saint Paul writeth to Timoth●…e Give commandement to the rich men of this world not to bee high-minded nor to put hope in the uncertaintie of their riches And yet for all that nothing even in these daies puffeth men up more in pride than great store of riches neither can men forbeare to put great trust in them Wee had a Cardinall here in England in the time of Henrie the sixth so exceeding rich that hee thought nothing was able to prevaile against him And when he lay on his death bed and perceiving that hee must dye hee murmured and grudged If quoth he the Realme of England would save my life I am able to get it with policie or buy it with my riches Fie said he will not death be hyred will money doe nothing Saint Iames saith Now goe to ye rich men weepe and howle in your miseries that come upon you Your riches are rotten and your gold and silver are rustie and the rust thereof shall be a testimonie against you it shall feede on your flesh like fire You have hoorded wrath for your selves in the last day This the holy Ghost pronounceth to signifie unto us how vaine and dangerous a thing woldly wealth is and how foolish they are that labour so earnestly for it to the perpetual perill of their soules Iob saith Wee came naked into this world and naked wee must goeforth againe Yet some have beene so wedded to their riches that they have used all the meanes they could to take them with him Atheneus reporteth of one that at the houre of his death devoured many peeces of gold and sewed the rest in his coate commanding that they should be all buried with him Hermocrates being loth that any man should enjoy his goods after him made himselfe by his will heire of his owne goods The Cardinall Sylberperger tooke so great a pleasure in money that when hee was grievously tormented with the gowt his onely remedy to ease the paine was to have a bason full of gold set before him into which hee would put his lame hands turning the gold up-side-downe Hermon was so covetous that dreaming on a time hee had spent a certaine summe of money for very sorrow he strangled himselfe And one Phidon was so extremely overcome with that passion of covetousnes that being fallen into desperation through a losse received he would not hang himselfe for spending of three-halfe-pence to buy him an halter but sought a way to death better cheape One Antonio Batistei an Italian having lost in a ship that was drowned five hundred crowns determined like a desperate man to hang himselfe and as he was about to fasten the rope to a beame for that purpose he found by chance there hidden a thousand crownes And being very glad of this good fortune hee exchanged the halter for the crownes and went away Not long after hee was gone the owner came thither to see his gold but when hee perceived the crownes to bee gone hee fell into such extreme griefe that hee presently hanged himselfe with the halter that he found in their place Antippus the Philosopher following a contrary course having turned all his patrimonie into ready money went to the sea side and there cast it into the water saying Hence with a mischiefe ye ungracious desires for I drowne you because you should not drowne me Ancrates a Theban being weary of worldly cares and houshold affaires forsooke his patrimonie that was of the value of foure thousand and eight hundred crownes and betooke himselfe to a staffe and a Philosophers bagge and departed Hee that desireth over-great riches or possessions seemeth to be wiser in the choyce of his garment which hee will rather have to bee meete for his body than too long or too large Hee that is wise will content himselfe with that which is sufficient and feeleth no want but the foolish man troubleth himselfe with cares and thoughts and though hee wallow in