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A01953	The schoole of abuse conteining a plesaunt [sic] inuectiue against poets, pipers, plaiers, iesters, and such like caterpillers of a co[m]monwelth; setting vp the hagge of defiance to their mischieuous exercise, [and] ouerthrowing their bulwarkes, by prophane writers, naturall reason, and common experience: a discourse as pleasaunt for gentlemen that fauour learning, as profitable for all that wyll follow virtue. By Stephan Gosson. Stud. Oxon.	Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624.	1579 (1579)	STC 12097.5; ESTC S103345	29,663	88

nature ouer throwē The meane must labor to serue the mightie the mightie must studye to defende the meane The subiects must sweat in obedience to their Prince the Prince must haue a care ouer his poore vassals If it be the dutie of euery man in a common wealth one way or other to bestirre his stumpes I cānot but blame those lither cōtemplators very much which sit concluding of Sillogismes in a corner which in a close study in the Uniuersity coope themselues vp fortie yeres togither studying all thinges and professe nothing The Bell is knowen by his sounde the Byrde by her voyce the Lyon by his rore the Tree by the fruite a man by his woorkes To continue so long without moouing to reade so much without teaching what differeth it from a dumbe Picture or a deade body No man is borne to seeke priuate profite parte for his countrie parte for his friendes parte for himselfe The foole that comes into a fayre Garden likes the beawtie of flowers and stickes them in his Cap the Phisition considereth their nature and puttes them in the potte in the one they wither without profite in the other they serue to the health of the bodie He that readeth good writers and pickes out their flowers for his owne nose is lyke a foole hee that preferreth their vertue before their sweet smel is a good Phisition When Anacharsis traueled ouer all Greece to seek out wise men hee founde none in Athens though no doubt there were many good scholers there But comming to Chenas a blind village in comparison of Athens a Paltockes Time he found one Miso well gouerning his house looking to his grounde instructing his children teaching his family making of marriages among his acquayntance exhorting his neighbours to loue friendeship preaching in life whō the Philosopher for his scarcitie of woordes plenty of workes accompted the onelye wise man that euer he saw I speak not this to preferr Botley before Oxeford a cottage of clownes before a Colledge of Muses Pans pipe before Apollos harp But to shew you that poore Miso can reade you such a lecture of Philosophie as Aristotle neuer dreamed on You must not thruste your heades in a tubbe say Benè vixit qui benè latuit Hee hath liued well that hath loitred well stāding streames geather filth flowing riuers are euer sweet Come foorth with your sicles the Haruest is greate the laborers few pul vp the sluces let out your springs geue vs drink of your water light of your torches season vs a little with the Salt of your knowledge Let Phaenix and Achilles Demosthenes Phocion Pericles Cimon Laelius Scipio Nigidius and Cicero the word and the sword be knit togither Set your talents a worke lay not vp your tresure for takingrust teach earely late in time out of time sing with the swan to the last houre Folowe the dauncing Chaplens of Gradiuus Mars which chaunt the praises of their god with voyces and treade out the time with their feete Play the good captaines exhort your souldiers with your tonges to fight bring the first ladder to the wall your selues Soūd like bels and shine like Lanternes Thunder in words and glister in works so shall you please God profite your country honor yourprince discharge your duetie giue vp a good account of your stewardship and leaue no sinne vntouched no abuse unrebuked no fault vnpunished Sundry are the abuses aswell of Uniuersityes as of other places but they are such as neither become me to touch nor euery idle hed to vnderstand The Thurines made a Lawe that no common finde fault should meddle with any abuse but Adulterie Pythagoras bounde all his Schollers to fiue yeeres silence that assoone as euer they crept from the shel they might not aspire to the house top It is not good for euery man too trauell to Corinth nor lawfull for all to talke what they liste or write what they please least their tongues run before their wites or their pennes make hauock of their Paper And so wading too farre in other mens manners whilst they fill their Bookes with other mens faultes they make their volumes no bettern then an Apothecarics Shop of pestilent Drugges a quackesaluers Budget of filthy receites and a huge Chaos of foule disorder Cookes did neuer long more for great markets nor Fishers for large Pondes nor greedy Dogges for store of game nor soaring hawkes for plentie of fowle then Carpers doe nowe for copye of abuses that they might euer be snarling and haue some Flyes or other in the way to snatch at As I woulde that offences should not be hid for going vnpunished nor escape without scourge for ill example So I wish that euery rebuker shoulde place a hatch before the doore keep his quil within compas He that holds not him self contented with the light of the Sun but liftes vp his eyes to measure the bignesse is made blinde he that bites euery weed to search out his nature may light vpon poyson and so kill himselfe he that loues to be lifting of euery cloude may be strooke with a thunderbolte if it chaunce to rent he that taketh vpon him to shew men their faules may wound his owne credite if he goe too farre We are not angry with the Clarke of the market if he come to our stall and reprooue our ballance when they are faultie or forfaite our weights when they are false neuerthelesse if he presume to enter our house and rig euery corner searching wore then belongs to his office we lay holde on his locks tnrne him away with his backe full of stripes and his hands loden with his owne amendes Therefore I will content my selfe to shew you no more abuses in my Schoole then my selfe haue seene nor so many by hundreds as I haue heard off Lyons folde vp their natles when they are in their dennes for wearing them in the earth and neede not Eagles draw in their tallants as they sit in their nestes for blunting thē there amonge drosse And I will caste Ancor in these abuses rest my Barke in the simple roade for grating my wits vpon needelesse shelues And because I accuse other for treading awry which since I was borne neuer went right bet cause I finde so many faultes abroade which haue at home more spots in my body then the Leopard morestaines on my coate then the wicked Nessus more holes in my life then the open Siue more sinnes in my soule than heares on my bed If I haue beene tedious in my Lecture or your selues be weary of your lessou harken no longet for the Clock shut vp the Schoole aud get you home FINIS Tusc 1. 2. A desperate conflict Poets banished by Plato Poetes and Cookes compared togither Poetrie in Scythia without vice as the Phoenix in Arabia without a fellow Qualities allowed in women Salust Poets thiefe Maistees in Greece Poets banished frō Rome Dion in vita

the same to be aduaunced that young men maye bee taught that in greene yeeres that becomes them to practise in gray haires Anacharsis beeing demaunded of a Greeke whether they had not instrumentes of Musicke or Schooles of Poetrie in Scythia answered yes and that without vice as though it were either impossible or incredible that no abuse should be learned where such lessōs are taught such schooles mainteined Salust in describing the nurture of Sempronia commendeth her witte in that shee coulde frame her selfe to all companies too talke discretely with wyse men and vaynely with wantons taking a quip ere it came too grounde and returning it back without a faulte She was taught saith he both Greek and Latine she coulde versifie sing and daunce better then became an honest woman Sappho was skilfull in Poetrie and sung wel but she was whorish I set not this downe too condemne the giftes of versifying daunsing or singyng in women so they bee vsed with meane exercised in due tyme But to shew you that as by Anacharsis report the Scythians did it without offence so one Swalowe bringes not Sommer nor one particular example sufficient proofe for a generall precept Whyte siluer drawes a blacke lyne Fyre is as hurtfull as healthie Water as daungerous as it is commodious and these qualities as harde to bee wel vsed when we haue them as they are to be learned before wee get them Hee that goes to Sea must sinel of the Ship and that sayles into Poets wil sauour of Pitch C. Marius in the assembly of the whole Senate at Rome in a solemne oration giueth an account of his bringing vp he sheweth that he hath beene taught to lye on the ground to suffer all weathers to leade men to strike his foe to feare nothing but an euill name and chalengeth praise vnto him selfe in that hee neuer learned the Greeke tongue neither ment to be instrucced in it heerafter either that he thought it too farre a iorney to fetche learning beyonde the fielde or because he doubted the abuses of those Schooles where Poets were euer the head Maisters Tiberius the Emperour same somewhat when he iudged Scaurus to death for writing a Tragidie Augustus when hee banished Ouid And Nero when he charged Lucan to put vp his pipes to stay his penne and write no more Burrus and Seneca the schoolemaisters of Nero are flowted and hated of the people for teaching their Scholer the song of Attis For Dion saith that the hearing thereof wroonge laughter and teares from most of those that were then about him Wherby I iudge that they scorned the folly of the teachers and lamented the frenzie of the Scholer who beeing Emperour of Rome and bearing the weight of the whole common wealth vppon his shoulders was easier to bee drawen to vanitie by wanton Poets then to good gouernment by the fatherly counsell of graue Senators They were condemned to dye by the lawes of the Heathens which inchaunted the graine in other mens grounds and are not they accursed thinke you by the mouth of God which hauing the gouernment of yoūg Princes with Poetical fātasies draw them to the schooles of their owne abuses bewitching the graine in the greene blade that was sowed for the sustenance of many thousauds poisoning the spring with their amorous layes whence the whole common wealth should fetch water But to leaue the scepter to Iupiter and instructing of Princes to Plutarch and Xenophon I will beare a lowe sayle and rowe neere the shore least I chaunce to bee carried beyonde my reache or runne a grounde in those Coasts which I neuer knewe My onely endeuour shal be to shew you that in a rough cast which I see in a cloude laking through my fingers And because I haue bene matriculated my selfe in the schoole where so many abuses florish I wil imitate the dogs of Aegypt which cōming to the bancks of Nylus too quenche their thirste syp and away drinke running lest they bee snapte short for a pray too Crocodiles I shoulde tel tales out of the Schoole and bee Ferruled for my faulte or byssed at for a blab yf I layde al the orders open before your eyes You are no sooner entred but libertie looseth the reynes and geues you head placing you with Poetrie in the lowest forme when his skill is showne too make his Scholer as good as euer twangde hee preferres you too Pyping from Pyping to playing from play to pleasure from pleasure to slouth from slouth too sleepe from sleepe too sinne from sinne to death from death to the deuill if you take your learniug apace and passe through euery forme without reuolting Looke not too haue mee discourse these at large the Crocodile watcheth to take me tardie which soeuer of them I touche is a byle Trype and goe for I dare not tarry Heraclides accounteth Amphyon the ringleader of Poets and Pypers Delphus Philammones penned the birth of Latona Diana Apollo in verse and taught the people to Pype Daunce rounde about the Temple of Delphos Hesiodus was as cunning in Pyping as in Poetrie so was Terpandrus and after him Clonas Apollo which is honoured of Poets as the God of their Art had at the one side of his Idol in Delos a Bowe and at the other the three Graces with three sundrie instruments of which one was a pype and some writers affirme that he pyped himselfe now and than Poetrie and pyping haue allwaies bene so vnited togither that til the time of Melanippides Pipers were Poets hyerlings But marke I pray you how they are nowe both abused The right vse of auncient Poetrie was too haue the notable exploytes of woorthy Captaines the holesome councels of good fathers and vertuous liues of predecessors set downe in numbers and song to the Instrument at solemne feastes that the sound of the one might dram the hearers from kissing the cupp too often the sense of the other put them in minde of things past and chaulk out the way to do the like After this maner were the Baeotians trained from rudenesse to ciuilitie The Lacedaemonians instructed by Tyrteaeus verse The Argiues by the melody of Telesilla And the Lesbians by Alcaeus Ddes To this end are instruments vsed in battaile not to tickle the eare but ton teach euery souldier when to strike and when to stay when to flye and when to followe Chiron by singing to his instrument quencheth Achiles furye Terpandrus with his notes layeth the tempest and pacifies the tumult at Lacedaemon Homer with his Musicke cured the sick Souldiers in the Grecians campe and purged euery mans Tent of the Plague Thinke you that those miracles coulde bee wrought with playing of Daunces Dumpes Pauins Galiardes Measures Fancyes or new streynes They neuer came wher this grewe nor knew what it ment Pythagoras bequeathes them a Clookebagge and condemnes them for fooles that iudge Musicke by sounde and eare If you will bee good Scholers and

away our eyes from beholding of vanitie the greatest storme of abuse will be ouerblowen and a fayre path troden to amendment of life Were not we so foolish to taste euery drugge and buy euery trifle Players would shut in their shoppes and carry their trashe to some other Countrie Themistocles in setting a peece of his ground to sale among all the commodyties whiche were reckoned vppe straightly charged the Cryer to proclaime this that hee which bought it should haue a good neighbour If Players can promise in woordes and performe it in deedes proclame it in their Billes and make it good in Theaters that there is nothing there noysome too the body nor hurtfull to the soule and that euerye one which comes to buye their Iestes shall hane an honest neighbour tagge and ragge cutte and longe tayle goe thither and spare not otherwise I aduise you to keepe you thence my selfe will beginne too leade the daunce I make iuste reckoning to bee helde for a Stoike in dealing so hardely with these people but all the Keyes hang not at one mans girdle neither doe these open the lockes to all abuses There are othe which haue a share with them in their Schooles therefore ought they to daunce the same Rounde and bee partakers together of the same rebuke Fencers Dycers Dauncers Tumbles Carders and Bowlers Dauncers and Tumblers because they are dumbe Players and I haue glaunced at them by the way shall bee let passe with this clause that they gather no assemblyes and goe not beyond the precincts whiche Peter Martyr in his commentaryes vppon the Judges hath set them downe That is if they will exercise those qualyties to doe it priutlye for the health and agilitie of the body referring all to the glorye of God. Dicers and Carders because their abuses are as commonly cryed out on as vsually shewen haue no neede of a needelesse discourse for euery manne seeth them and they stinke almoste in euecy mans nose Common Bowling Allyes are priuy Mothes that eate vppe the credite of many idle Citizens whose gaynes at home are not able too weighe downe theyr losses abroade whose Shoppes are so farre from maintaining their play that their Wiues and Children cry out for bread and go to bedde supperlesse ofte in the yeere I woulde reade you a Lecture of these abuses but my Schoole so increaseth that I cannot touch all nor stand to amplyfie euery poynte one worde of Fencing and so a Conge to all kinde of Playes The knowledge in weapons may bee gathered to be necessary in a common wealth by the Senators of Rome who in the time of Catilins conspyracyes caused Schooles of Defence to be erected in Capua that teaching the people howe to warde and how to locke howe to thrust and how to strike they might the more safelye coape with their enemies As the Arte of Logique was firste sette downe for a rule by which wee mighte Confirmare nostra refutare aliena confirme our owne reasons and confute the allegations of our aduersaryes the end beeing trueth which once fished out by the harde encounter of eithers Argumentes like fyer by the knocking of Flintes togither bothe partes shoulde be satisfyed and striue no more And I iudge that the crafte of Defence was firste deuised to saue our selues harmelesse and holde our enemies still at aduauntage the ende beeing right which once throughly tryed out at handye stroakes neither hee that offered iniurie shoulde haue his will nor hee that was threatened take any hurte but bothe be contented and shake handes Those dayes are now chaunged the skil of Logicians is exercysed in caueling the cunning of Fencers applied to quarrelling they thinke themselues no Schollers if they bee not able to finde out a knotte in euery rushe these no men if for stirring of a strawe they prooue not their valure vppon some bodyes fleshe Euery Duns will bee a Carper euery Dick Swash a common Cutter But as they bake many times so they brue Selfe doe selfe haue they whette their Swoords against themselues pull the house on their owne heds returne home by weeping Crosse and fewe of them come to an honest ende For the same water that driues the Mill decayeth it The woode is eaten by the worme that breeds within it The goodnesse of a knife cuts the owners finger The Adders death is her own broode the Fencers scath his own knowledg Whether their harts be hardened which vse that exercise or God giue them ouer I know not well I haue reade of none good that practised it muche Commodus the Emperour so delighted in it that often times hee slewe one or other at home to keepe his fingers in vre And one day hee gathered all the sicke lame and impotent people of Rome into one place where hee hampred their feete with straunge deuises gaue them softe spunges in their hands to throw at him for stones with a greate clubbe knatched them all on the hed as they had bin Giauntes Epaminondas a famous Captaine fore hurte in a battaile and carryed out of the fielde halfe deade When tydinges was broughte him that his Souldiers gotte the day asked presently what became of his Buckler whereby it appeareth that hee lo●ed his weapons but I finde it not sayd that he was a Fencer Therfore I may liken them which woulde not haue men sent to war til they are taught fencinge to those superstitious wisemen whiche would not take vppon them to burye the bodyes of their friends before they had beene cast vnto wilde beastes Fencing is growne to such abuse that I may wel compare the Scholers of this Schoole to them that prouide Statues for their owne shoulders that foster Snakes in their owne bosoms that trust Wolues to garde theyr Sheepe And to the men of Hyrcania that keepe Mastiffes to woorrye them selues Thoughe I speake this too the shame of common Fencers I goe not aboute the bushe with Souldiers Homer calleth them the Sonnes of Iupiter the Images of GOD and the very sheepeheards of the people beeing the Sonnes of Iupiter they are bountifull too the meeke and thunder out plagues to the proude in heart beeing the Images of GOD they are the Welspringes of Justice which giueth to euery man his owne beeing accoumpted the shepeheards of the people they fight with the Woolfe for the safetie of their flock and keepe of the enimie for the wealth of their Countrie How full are Poets works of Bucklers Battails Lances Dartes Bowes Quiuers Speares Iauelins Swoordes slaughters Runners Wrestlers Chariots Horse and men at armes Agamemnon beyonde the name of a King hath this title that he was a Souldier Menelaus because he loued his Kercher better then a Burgonet a softe bed then a hard fielde the sounde of Instrumentes then neighing of Steedes a fayre stable then a foule way is let slippe without prayse If Lycurgus before hee make lawes too Sparta take counsel of Apollo whether it were good for him to

teach the people thrift and husbandry he shal be charged to leaue those precepts to the white liuered Hylotes The Spartans are all steele fashioned out of tougher mettall free in minde valiaunt in hart seruile to none accustoming their flesh to stripes their bodyes to labour their feete to hunting their handes to fighting In Crete Scythia Persia Thracia all the Lawes tended to the maintenance of Martiall disciplyne Among the Scythians no man was permitted to drink of their festiuall Cuppe which had not manfully killed an enemie in fight I coulde wishe it in England that there were greater preferment for the valiant Spartanes then the sottishe Hylotes That our Lawes were directed to rewarding of those whose liues are the firste that must be hazarded to mayntaine the lybertie of the Lawes The gentlemen of Carthage were not allow ed too weare any moe linkes in theyr chaynes then they had seene battayles If our Gallantes of Englande might carry no more linkes in their Chaynes nor ringss on their fingers then they haue fought feeldes their necks should not bee very often wreathed in Golde nor their handes embrodered with pretious stones If none but they might be suffered to drinke out of plate that haue in skirmish slain one of her maiesties enemyes many thousands shoulde bring earthen pots to the table Let vs learne by other mens harmes too looke to our selues When the Aegyptians were most busy in their husbandry the Scythians ouerran them when the Assyrians were looking to their thrift the Persians wer in armes ouercam thē when the Troians thoughte them selues safest the Greekes were neerest when Rome was a sleepe the French men gaue a sharpe assaulte too the Capitoll when the Iewes were idle their walles were rased the Romans entred when the Chaldees were sporting Babylon was sacked when the senators were quiet no garisons in Italy Pōpey frō home wic ked Catiline began his mischeuous enterprise We are like those vnthankfull people which puffed vp with prosperity forget the good turnes they receiued in aduersitie The patient feeds his Phisition with gold in time of sicknesse when he is wel scarcely affoords him a cup of water Some there are that make gods of soldiers in open warrs trusse them vp like dogs in the time of peace Take heed of the foxefurd nightcap I meene those schoolemen that cry out vpō Mars calling him the bloody God the angry God the furious god the mad God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bloody god These are but castes of their office wordes of course That is a vain brag a false allarme that Tullie giues to soldiers Cedant arma togae cōcedat laurea linguae Let gunns to gouns bucklers yeeld to bookes If the enemy beseege vs cut off our victuals preuent forrain aide girt in the city bring the Rāme to the walles it is not Ciceroes tongue that cā peerce their armour to woūd the body nor Archimedes prickes lines circles triangles Rhombus rifferaffe that hath any force to driue them backe Whilst the one chats his throte is cut whilest the other syttes drawing Mathematicall fictions the enimie standes with a sworde at his breast He that talketh much and doth litle is like vnto him that sailes with a side winde and is borne with the tide to a wrong shore If they meane to doe any good indeed bid them followe Demosthenes and ioyne with Phocion when they haue giuen vs good counsell in wordes make much of Souldiers that are redy to execute that same with swords Bee not carelesse Plough with weapons by your sides studye with a booke in one hande a darte in the other enioy peace with prouision for war when you haue lefte the sandes behinde you looke wel to the rocks that lye before you Let not the ouer cōming one Tempest make you secure but haue an eye to the cloude that comes from the South and threateneth raine the least ouersight in dangerous Seas may cast you awaye the least discontinuaunce of Martiall exercise giue you the foyle When Achilles loytered in his cent giuing eare too Musick his souldiers were bidde to a hot breakefast Hannibals power receiued more hurte in one dayes ease at Capua then in al the conflicts they had at Cannas It were not good for vs too flatter oure selues with these golden dayes highe floodes haue lowe Ebbes hotte Feuers coulde Crampes Long dayes shorte nightes Drie Summers moyst Winters There was neuer fort so strōg but it might be battered neuer groūd so fruitful but it might be barrē neuer coūtrie so populous but it might be wast neuer Monarch so mighty but he might be weakened neuer Realme so large but it might be lessened neuer kingdom so florishing but it might bee decayed Scipio before hee leuied his force too the walles of Carhage gaue his souldiers the print of the Citie in a cake to bee deuoured our enimies with Scipio haue already eaten vs with bread licked vp our blood in a cup of wine They do but tarry the tide watch opportunitie and wayte for the reckoning that with the shot of our liues shoulde paye for all But that GOD that neither stumbreth nor sleepeth for the loue of Israel that stretcheth out his armes from morning to euening to couer his children as the Hen doth her chicken with the shadow of her wings with the breath of his mouth shall ouerthrow them with their own snares shall ouertake them hang them vp by the haire of their owne deuises Notwithstanding it behooueth vs in the meane season not to stick in the myre and gape for succour without vsing some ordinary way our selues or to lye wallowing like Lubbers in the Ship of the common wealth crying Lord Lord when wee see the vessel coyle but soynely laye our handes and heades and helpes together to auoyd the danger saue that which must be the suretie of vs all For as to the body there are many mēbers seruing to seuerall vses the eye to see the eare to heare the nose to smell the tongue to taste the hande to touch the feete to beare the whole burden of the rest and euery one dischargeth his duetie without grudging so shoulde the whole body of the common wealth consist of fellow laborers all generally seruing one head particularly following their trade without repining From the head to the foote from the top to the coe there should nothing be vaine no body idle Iupiter himself shall stand for exāple who is euer in woork still moouing turning about the heauens if he shuld pull his hand from the frame it were impossible for the world to indure All would be day or al night All spring or all Autume all Summer or all winter All heate or all colde all moysture or al brought No time to til no time to sow no time to plant no time to reape the earth barren the riuers stopt the Seas stayde the seasons chaunged and the whole course of