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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03079	The right rule of Christian chastitie profitable to bee read of all godly and vertuous youthes of both sexe, bee they gentlemen or gentlewomen, or of inferiour state, whatsoeuer. Collected and written by one studious to gratifie his freendes, and profit his kindred: first (priuately) for the instruction, forewarning and forearming of certayne younge gentlewomen his neare and deare cosins: and after published by the same, in hope to profit the Church & common wealth, according to his talent. The methode wherof is to bee seene immediatly after the preface to the reader.	Hergest, William.	1580 (1580)	STC 13203; ESTC S118310	81,356	114

THE RIGHT RVLE of Christian Chastitie Profitable to bee read of all ●…dly and vertuous Youthes of both ●…e bee they Gentlemen or Gentle●…men or of inferiour state whatsoeuer Collected and written by one studious to gratifie his freendes and profit his ki●…ed First priuately for the instruct●… forewarning and forearming of certayne younge Gentlewomen his neare and deare Cosins and after published by the same in hope to profit the Church common wealth according to his Talent The ●…thode wherof is to bee 〈…〉 mediatly after the Preface to the Reader Imprinted at London by Richard Johnes and are to ●olde at his shop ouer against S. Sepulchers Church without Newgate TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull godly and vertuous Gentleman Maister Henry Bromley Sonne and Heire apparant of the right Honorable Sir Thomas Bromley Knight of the Queenes Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell and Lord Chauncellour of England and to all his godly and vertuous Brethren and Sisters VVilliam Hergest their Honorable Fathers most humble Seruaunt and daylie Drator wisheth all temporal prosperitie in this life and in the life to come euerlast inge blessednesse AFter I had deliuered this Pamphlet to certaine learned profound graue persons right vertuous worthy Gentlemen and Gentlewomen to be perused that I might vnderstand and receaue their iudgements touchinge the same whether it were to be consecrated if Christians might so speake to * Feigned of Poets to bee president of the fier Vulcane or a One of the nine Muses supposed to bee president of celestiall matters such as are most worthy the meditation and practise of all chaste persons but specially of Virgins and single folkes Vrania And after that they by fauourable sentence had not onely acquited it from the firie flames of vulcane but also adiudged it to be enlarged out of the darke prison of if I might so terme it vnknownnesse to walke at libertie in the light of edition as beeing profitable in their indgement to confirme chaste mindes in their godly purpose and by Gods grace to stop and stay such as be not altogeather gracelesse from beeing caried hedlong into the deepe and daungerous Sea of raging affection and so except God in great mercy stay them into the bottomlesse gulfe of endlesse perdition After these euentes I say so fallen out I studied with my selfe to whom I might most fitly dedicate the same And pondering the matter deeply in minde in respect of dutie matter and persons I found i● in a manner due vnto you right worshipful vertuous Youths For respectinge my dutie vnto the right Honourable your Father my verye good Lorde and Maister and his bountifulnesse towards mee of his meere beneuolence without any desertes on my behalfe VVhat can bee more due then that the person maintained defended and preserued in such commodious and quiet state as by Gods fauour and prouidence hee enioyeth though in it selfe it bee but poore meane and simple should bestow and imploye all his study endeuours and labours to the vse commodity pleasure or contentation of his maintayner and defender Or if his preseruer and protector in such quiet state should bee of such excellency praeeminence and dignitie and himselfe of such basenesse pouertie and vnabilitie that in no wise hee should bee able to pleasure him yet to assaye and endeuour to the vttermost of his small power to profit his especially his Children in time to come supplyers of his roome here vpon the face of the earth and Heyres of his vertues Renowme and Honour Agayne hauing relation to the matter and persons what is more fit meere or conuenient then that a Discourse or Treatice of Christian Chastitie collected and written by a Batcheler and singleman by vocation and profession studious of chastitie should bee dedicated to young vertuous youthes not only chast but as yet euen Maydes and Virgins I thought it therfore no lesse conuenient vnto my bounden dutie then meete for your persons and professions to present the same vnto you Not for that I am so rude or sencelesse that I thinke any of you to stand in neede of any such discourse or admonition whom I know by the great wisedome and prouidente care of my good Lorde your Father and by the dilligente instruction and nurturinge in the Lorde of my good Lady your Mother and by the godly and vertuous domesticall examples of them both togeather with your owne good natures vertuous dispositions rare towardnesses to be so grounded and setled in all godlynesse and vertuousnesse as you neede not greatly any exhortations to the same especially such as are destitute of Rhethoricall exornations as this is but as a token of thankefulnesse or signification of a gratefull minde and humble dutie Neither yet peraduenture shall you at any time repent you of the reading hereof or thinke it a losse time bee it neuer so destitute of eloquence trapped wordes or filed speech as tending rather to playne profite then vayne pleasure For besides the methode and order beeinge such as the lyke wherof I haue not as yet seene in our English tongue I hope the pith substance of this matter is so plainly set downe as it will delight your vertuous and chaste eyes to consider and vew the shew sight and prospect therof seeinge your owne vertues so plainly displayed and the daungerous Rockes of the contrary vices wherupon many lusty youthes now a dayes alas for pittie do make wofull and vnreparable shipwracke and which you by Gods grace vertuous education and the prudent and carefull prouidence and domesticall example of your honourable Parents and godly kinsefolkes haue hitherto I trust euer shall prosperously escaped so clearely discryed This much I dare be bold to affirme because I know the Authors wherout I collected the greatest part of this Treatice to be godly vertuous and learned yea and eloquent also though in this matter for the most part studying Breuitie and perspicuitie they neglect and omit the same But in reading hereof this I am most earnestly to request that though in some place vice be induced and represented in its lothly forme and shape and with termes and Phrases vnfit for VVorshipfull eares yet that you would of your goodnesse beare with the same seeinge it was first written for Children mine owne neare deare kinsewomen for whō I thought it was expedient that vice and the filthy practices of the vitious should be set out in their blacke and lothly colours to the intente that youth might euen from the very hart shun hate abhor and detest the same as of all the godly and vertuous it is and ought to bee And that which the Axe of courteous interpretation and of taking and construinge of thinges in the better part which is an excellent vertue especially beseming all Gentlefolkes in Latine commonly called Candor a proper name in English for the which vertue such is the barennesse of the tongue in some parts we lack you would at once shred away cut of all