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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02160	A quip for an vpstart courtier: or, A quaint dispute betvveen veluet breeches and cloth-breeches Wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all estates and trades.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 12301A.3; ESTC S105865	42,290	48

are the more welcome What is it qd he Mary said I whether Clothbréeches or veluetbréeches are of more worth and which of them hath the best title to bee resident in England At this the lawier smild and veluet bréeches stepping forth tooke acquaintance of him and commending his honestie said ther could not be a man of better indifferency of the iurie when cloth bréeches stepping in swore hee maruelled bee was not as well as the Surgion exempted by act of parliament from being of any quest sith as the surgion was without pittie so hé was without conscience and therevpon inferd his challenge saieng the Lawyer was neuer frend to clothbréeches for when lowlinesse neighbourhood and hospitality liued in England Westminster hall was a dyning chamber not a den of controuersies when the king himselfe was content to keepe his S. Georges day in a plaine paire of kersie hose when the duke erle lord knight gentleman and esquire aimed at vertue not pride and wore such breeches as was spun in his house then the lawyer was a simple man and in the highest degree but a bare scrinener except Iudges of the land which tooke in hand serious matters as treasons murthers felons and such capitall offences but sildome was there any Pleas put in before that proud vpstart veluet breeches for his maintenance inuented strange controuersies and since he begā to dominier in England he hath buzd such a proud busie couetous incroaching humor into euery mans head that lawiers are growne to be one of the chéese lims of the common wealth for they do now adaies de lana caprina rixare goe to lawe if a hen do but scrape in his Oarchard but howsoeuer right be might carries away the verdict if a poore man sue a Gentleman why hee shoots vp to the skie and the arrow fals on his own head howsoeur the cause goe the weakest is thrust to the wall lawiers are troubled with the heat of the liuer which makes the palmes of their hands so hot that they cānot be cold vnlesse they be rubd with the oyle of angels but the poore mā that giues but his bare fee or perhaps pleads in forma pauperes hee hunteth for hares with a taber gropeth in the darke to find a needle in a botle of hay tush these lawiers haue such delatory foren pleas such dormers such quibs quiddits that beggering their clients they purchase to themselues whole lordships it booteth not men to discourse their little cōscience great exhortatiō only suffice they be not so rich as they be bad yet they be but to welthy I inueigh not against law nor honest lawiers for there be some well qualified but against extorting Ambodexters y ● wring the poore because I know not whether this be such a one or no I challenge him not to be of my Iury. Why thē qd I his worship may depart thē I questioned what he in the buffe ierkin was mary quoth he I am a serieant he had no sooner said so but veluet breeches leapt back and drawing his rapier swore hee did not only challenge him for his iury but protested if he stird one foot towards him hee would make him eate a peece of his po●…ard And what is the reason qd I that there is such mortall hatred betwixt you and th●… serieant Oh sir qd veluet breeches search him and I warrant you the knaue hath precept vpon precept to arrest mee hath worne his mace smooth with onely clapping it vpon my shoulder hee hath had mee vnder coram so often oh that reprobate is the 〈◊〉 executioner to bring such Gentlemen to Limbo as hee hath ouerthrowne with his ●…ase brocage and bad commodities and as you s●… him a fat knaue with a foggie face wherein a cup of old sack hath set a seale to marke the bowsie drunkard to die of the dropsy so his conscience is consumed and his hart ro●… of all remorse and pitye that for mony he wil betray his owne father for wil a cormorant but fée him to arrest a young Gentleman the rakehel wil be so eager to catch him as a dogge to take a beare by the eares in Parish garden and when he hath laid hold vpō him he vseth him as courteously as a butchers c●…r would do an oxe cheeck when hee is hungry if he see the Gentleman hath mony in his pursse then straight with a cap and knée he carries him to the tauerne and bids him send for some of his friends to bale him but first he coue●…āts to haue some brase of angels for his paines and besides hee calsin for wine as grée●…ily as if the knaues mother had been brocht against a hogshead when hee was begotten but suppose the Gentleman wants pence he wil either haue a pawne or else drige him to the counter without respect of manhood or honesty I should spend the wh●…le day with displaying his villanies therefore breefly let ths suffice hee was neuer made by the consent of God but his 〈◊〉 carkase was framd by the Diuell of the rotten carian of a woolfe and his soule of an 〈◊〉 damned ghost turnd out of hell into his body to do monstrous wickednes again vpon y ● earth so that he shal be none of my iury neither shall hee come nearer mee then the length of my rapier will suffer ●…im In deede quoth Cloth-bréeches generally serieants bee bad but there bee amongst them some honest men that will do their duties with lawfull fauour for to say truth if serieants were not how should men come by their debts marry they are so cruel in their office that if they arrest a poore man they will not suffer him if hee hath no mony to stay a quarter of an houre to talke with his creditor although perhaps at the méeting they might take composition but only to the counter with him vnles he will lay his pe●…vter brasse couerlets sherts or such housholdstuffe to them for pawne of paiment of some coine for their staying therfore let him depart out of the place for his roome is better then his company Well then quoth I what say you to these three and with that I questioned their names the one said hee was a Sumner the other a Gaoler and the third an Infourmer Iesus blesse me quoth Cloth breeches what a Ging was heere gathered together no doubt ●…elis is broke loose and the Diuel meanes to kéep holiday I make challenge against them al as against worse men than those that gaue euidence against Christ for the Sumner it bootes me to say little more against him then Chaucer did in his Canturbury tales who said hee was a knaue a briber a bawd but leauing that authority although it bee authenticall yet thus much I can say of my selfe that these drunken drosy sonnes go a tooting abroad as they themselues term it which is to heare if any man hath got his maid with child or plaies the good felow with his

the poore but in veluets sattins cloth of gold pearle yea pearle lace which scarse Caligula wore on his birth day and to this honourable humor haue I brought these gentlemen since I came from Italy what is the end of seruice to a man but to countenance himselfe and credite his maister with braue suites the scuruy tapsters and ostlers sex po puli fill pots and rubbe horseheeles to prancke themselues with my glory alas were it not to wear me why would so many apply them selues to extraordinary idlenes Beside I make fooles be reuerenst and thought wise amongst the common sort I am a seuere sensor to such as offend the law prouided there be a penalty annexed that may bring in some profite yea by me the chéefest part of the realme is gouerned and therefore I refer my title to the verdit of any men of iudgment To this mildly Cloth bréeches aunswered thus As I haue had alwayes that honest humor in mee to measure all estates by their vertues not by their apparell so did I neuer grudge at the brauery of any whome birth time place or dignity made worthy of such costly ornaments but if by the fauour of their Prince and their owne desarts they merited them I helde both lawfull and commendable to answere their degrees in apparell correspondent vnto their dignities I am not so precise directly to inueigh against the vse of veluet either in bréeches or in other sutes nor will I haue men goelike Iohn Baptist in coates of Camels hair Let Princes haue their Diademes and Caesar what is due to Caesar let Noblemen goe as their byrth requires and Gentlemen as they are borne or beare office I speake in mine owne defence for the antient Gentilitye and yeomanrie of Englande and inueigh against none but such malapart vpstart as raised vp from the Plough or aduanced for their Italian deuises or for their witlesse wealth couet in brauerye to match nay to excéed the greatest Noblemen in this land But leauing this digression mounster veluet bréeches againe to the perticulars of your fond allegation Whereas you affirme your selfe to be both original and final end of learning alas proud princox you pearch a bow to hie did all the philosophers beat their braines and busie their wits to weare veluet bréeches Why both at that time thou wert vnknowne yea vnborne and all excesse in apparell had in high contempt and nowe in these daies all men of worth are taught by reading that excesse is a great sin that pride is the first step to the downefall of shame They study with Tully that they may seem●… borne for their countries as well as for themselues The Deuine to iustice the Phisition to discouer the secretes of Godes wonders by working strange cures to be bréefe the end of all being as to knowe God And not as your worship good maister veluet bréeches wrest●… to créep into acquaintance I will not denie but there be as fantasticall fooles as your selfe that perhaps are puft vp with such presuming thoughts and ambitiously aime to trick themselues in your worships masking sutes but while such climbe for great honours they often fall to great shames It may be therevpon you bring in Honos alit Artes but I gesse your maistership neuer tried what true honour meant that trusse it vpe within the compasse of a paire of veluet●… bréeches and place it in the arrogancy of the hart no no say honor is idolatry for they make ●…ooles of themselues and idols of their carcases but he that valueth honour so shall reade a lecture out of Apuleius golden asse to learne him more wit But now sir by your leaue a blow with your next argument which is that marchants hazard their goods and liues to be acquainted with your maistership Indéed you are awrie for wise men frequent marts for profit not for pride vnlesse it be some that by wearing of veluet bréeches and apparell too high for their calling haue prooued bankeroutes in their youth and haue beene glad in their age to desire my acquaintance and to trusse vp their tailes in homespun russet whereas thou dost obiect the valour of hardy souldiers to grow for the desire of braue apparell T is false and I knowe if any were present they would proue vpon thy bones that thou wert a lier for their countreys good their princes seruice the defence of their frends the hope of fauor is the finall ende of their resolutions estéeming not only them but the worlds glory fickle transitory inconstant Shal I fetch from thine own country weapons to wound thy selfe withall What saist thou to Cincinnatus was he not caled to be Dictator from the Plough and after many victories what did he iet vp and downe the court incosty garments and veluet bréeches No he dispised dignitie contemned vaine glorie and pride and returned againe to his quiet contented life in the country How much did Caius Fabritius value their Numa pompilius Sceuola Scipio Epaminōdas Aristides they held themselues wormes meate and counted pride vanity and yet thou art not ashamed to say thou art the ende of soldiours worthy honor I tell thée sawcy skipiack it was a good and a blessed time here in England when K. Stephen wore a pair of cloth breeches of a Noble a payre and thought them passing costlye then did hee count Westminster hal to litle to be his dining chamber his almes was not bare bones in stead of broken meat but lusty chiues of beefe fel into the poore mens basket Then charity flourished in the Court and yoong Courtiers str●…ue to excéede one an other in vertue not in brauery they rode not with fans to ward their faces from the wind but with Burgant to resist the stroke of a Battleaxe they could then better exhort a soldior to armor then court a lady with amorets they caused the trumpette to sounde them pointes of warre not Poets to write them wanton Eligies of loue they soght after honorable fame but hunted not after fading honor which distinction by the way take thus There be some that seeke honour and soome are sought after by honor Such vpstarts as fetch their pedigrée from their fathers auncient leather apron and créepe into the court with great humility redy at the first Basciare li piedi di la vostra signoria hauing gotten the countenance of some Nobleman will strait be a kindred to Cadwaller and sweare his great grand mother was one of the Burgesses of the parliamente house will at last steale by degrees into some credite by their double diligence and then winde some woorshipfull place as far as a hungry sow can smell a sir reuerence and then with all their frends séeke day and night with coyne and countenance till they haue got it Others there be whome honor it selfe séekes and such be they whome vertue doth frame fit for that purpose that rising by high desarts as learning or valour merite more then eyther they looke for