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A01949	The ephemerides of Phialo deuided into three bookes. The first, a method which he ought to follow that desireth to rebuke his freend, when he seeth him swarue: without kindling his choler, or hurting himselfe. The second, a canuazado to courtiers in foure pointes. The third, the defence of a curtezan ouerthrowen. And a short apologie of the Schoole of abuse, against poets, pipers, players, [et] their excusers. By Steph. Gosson, stud. Oxon.	Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624.	1579 (1579)	STC 12093; ESTC S105684	72,417	199

eclipseth his glorie to shoulder them out displaceth him to pinche them nippeth him to strike them woundeth him to rayle at them reuileth him All which inconueniences quickly growe where the Courtier like a good Aiax doth not holde out his buckler to couer Vlisses Iosua calling the rulers of Israel together before his death chargeth them bicause the Lord hath giuen them landes which they neuer purchased Cities which they neuer built Vineyardes which they neuer planted to serue him in holines and truth which is religion And when they had confessed the Lorde to be their God vowing obedience vnto him he presently registred their promise in the booke of God and erected a dumbe stone for a witnes of their beleefe to crie vengeance against them if they slipt the coller Doutles the bringing vp of Iosua with Moyses was a good meane to make him a captaine to Gods people whose word was appointed to be his directiō If courtiers borowe this clue of a godly Theseus to match with Chimaera and beare vp their swordes with Iosua in the Lordes quarell Iordan shall drie for their armies to passe their spies shall be harbored in the middest of Iericho the Sunne shall stoppe to giue them victorie and all shall prosper that they take in hande Bicause the weapons of ministers are prayers and teares and the Church hath no authoritie to compell it is the duetie of Princes by good lawes and statutes to establish religion force euery man to liue in order Where this is foreslewed the wrath of God is kindled against the Court his plague lighteth on the whole coūtrie Solomon had no sooner forgotten God and fallen to Idolatrie but God swore that he would teare the crowne from his head disherite his sonne and deliuer his kingdome to a stranger Runne through the scriptures you shall finde them very sharpely scourged which went about to supresse Religion Ieroboam stretcheth out his hand against the Prophet and it withereth Ahab robbed God of his honour empriprisoned his messengers and was slaine with an arrowe Azahia for flying to straunge gods is threatened death his souldiers consumed with sier from heauen Herod forgetting religion and dishonouring God is eaten with wormes I haue often wondered with my selfe Philotimo knowing Princes to be placed in their chaire by God howe they dare suffer any wickednes in the Court which representeth the throne of his heauenly Maiestie howe they can possibly blaspheme with that tongue which is giuen thē to honour him how they presume with that hād to murder his shepheards which they haue receiued to fight for religion In that wee haue abundance of worldly blessings we are earthly in that we frame our selues to the worshippe of God we are made heauenly The eies of brute beastes are turned downe to the earth to seeke nothing but meat for their bellies The countenance of man is lifted to heauē to behold the glorie of God in his works which hath made al things for vs vs for him selfe that we might acknowledge his goodnes in the same and honour him for it all the daies of our life If we do not this wee spend our time in beholding the earth wee seeke nothing els but to garnish our bodies or pamper our flesh which maketh vs like vnto sauage beastes Then what is the glory of a Courtier without religion What is his gouernement without godlines If thou wilt prooue a good Courtier Philotimo depart from Ferara the pit of Ignorance the storehouse of greedines the palace of Flatterers the slewes of Idolatrie and trauell to Englande where thou shalt finde a countrie so gouerned with good lawes a people so instructed in the feare of God a church so reformed in religion a Court so learned so liberall so vertuous so godlie a Debora so victorious ouer Sisara so thankfull to God so dreadfull to the wicked so beloued of the good so iust in iudgemēt so many yeeres quiet that thou wilt dout whether thou shouldest thinke her Maiestie fortunate in obedient subiectes or pronounce the whole land to be blessed for so good a prince By this little shadowe of a courtier which as time will serue I haue roughly drawne cunning workemen may gather the breadth of his bodie You may see by this that he ought to be learned bicause it is necessarie for them to knowe many things which gouerne many and to bridle them selues when they sitte so high the one cōfirmed by the exāples of Alexander of Darius of Agamemnons eyes and head of Craesus of Philip of Dionysius and all those which receiued Philosophers into the court to be instructed by them The other layde open in Clitus Lysimachus Clearchus and Caesar which trauelled to fight for renowne in other countries but neuer sayled into them selues to boult out the power that God hath ouer them and to confesse their owne weakenes which stand at his checke To be liberal by the comparison of a spring the end of wealth the daughters of nature the doctrine of Plato the societie of man the neede that themselues may haue ere they die as Craesus Cyrus Antigonus Crassus the maner of Cyrus Archelaus the day peale of the Persians the propertie of the Graces and the glorie of bountie passing nobilitie of birth honour in Court riches of Fortune or conquest in fielde To banishe all Flatterers for their apishe imitation their vnprofitable frēdship their studie of gaine and their hypocrisie Last of all to seeke the aduaūcement of religion by the dutie of a prince by the examples of Alexander Ptolome by the image of God the footesteps of Iosua the authoritie of scriptures and the happines of England which enforteth me heere through want of skil in describing the beautie of that Court to shut vp my lippes as the banquished painter who finding him selfe vnable liuely to set out the sorowes of Niobe was driuen to wrappe vp her head in a cloude Truely saide Ieraldy In my simple iudgement you haue shewed your selfe a verie good workeman For Alexander desired to haue his picture cut in brasse and wrought in such metall by none but Lysippus bicause none but he did labour to expresse his Liōs lookes others spoyling him quite of the shape of a souldier blased the rolling of his eyes and his amorous gesture Diuers haue paynted the Courtier in smoothe speeche wittie replies comely behauiour excellent daunsing which are like to the wanton gloses of Alexander but thou hast cast his Idol with perfecter metall in a good mould and carued him out the face of a man And Man of an old Poet is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth brightnes according to your Etymologie of one of the Graces Some Philosophers thought the substance of the mynde to be a light bicause it is fearefull in the night it is troubled with darknes it shunnes it as a foe and is comforted agayne when the daye peepes Learning is often compared to light Ignorance contrarie likened to

iudge Let Ismenias the graūd fidler that was takē prisoner by the Scythians in a battayle vtter all his cunning when Antaeas the king is at supper he will laugh him to scorne and sweare that his Horse hath brayed sweeter When Philippe of Macedon tooke vpon him to realon with a newe Msition of his new chordes and was not able to go thorowe stitche bicause they haue euer a crotchet aboue commons adde where they liste when they see their time God forbidde quoth the piper that your maiestie should be so miserable as to knowe these fantasticall toyes any better their effeminate stops are not worth a straw Dionysius made such accompt of their cunning when they iudged it to be at the beste that hearing the notablest Harper which was in those dayes hee promised him a talent for his labour next day whē he came to craue his rewarde Dionysius tolde him that he had it already For said hee thou diddest but tickle mine eares with an emptie sounde and I did the like againe to thee promising that which I meane not to giue delighting thee as much with hope of my coyne as my selfe was pleased with the sounde of thy instrument Bicause I would ha●e Dionysius folowed let thē not think 〈◊〉 hor●e Musique if they put on their spectacles or take their eyes in their hands looke better in the Schoole of abuse they shal finde that with Plutarch I accuse thē for briging their rūning into Theaters that I say they haue wilfully left or with ignorance loste those warlike ●unes which were vsed in auncient times to stire vp in vs a manly motiō and founde out new descant with the dauncers of Sybaris to rocke vs a ●eepe in all vngodlinesse If they had any witte any learning or experience they might knowe that Excellens sensibtle laedit sensum their daintie censortes will make vs wantens Aristonicus the Musition for his memorie with all posterities had a brasen I doll erected to him by Alexander and was wonderfully honoured for his arte This was not done for ●●ūding Les guāto spagntola or inuenting sweete measures or coyning newe daunces but for kindling his souldiers courage and hartening them all to take armour Such a Musition was Antigenides whome Alexander had no soner hearde but hee startled as though hee had beene then in battaile bent his siste at all them that were in presence whiche of oure Musitions that are so perfect is able with his instrument to make a freshe water souldier runne to his weapons or enforce the Dolphin in the Sea to saue his life if he suffer wracke Which of all their instrumentes that are so absolute can performe that which other haue doone before If ancient Musitions haue gone beyonde vs where is our cunning If their instrumentes haue passed ours where is the perfectnesse that our Pipers imagine why say they you play with antiquities wee builde vpon scripture Iubal was father of their harpe but how many stringes hee put to it or what songes he played they can not tell me Dauid did playe on the Lute and the Harpe and vsed instrumentes of many stringes but to prooue these instrumentes were better then such as had been practised many hundred yeeres before he was borne Hic labor hoc opvs est there goeth the Hare away And though I be of Plutarches opinion that when we haue done or sayde all that wee can the oldest fashion is euer best that newe cuttes are the paternes of running heads strange blockes the very badges of fonde conceites yet do I not forbidde our new founde instrumentes so that we handle them as Dauid did to prayse God nor bring them any more into publique Theaters to please wantons London is so full of vnprofitable Pipers and Fidlers that a man can no sener enter a tauerne but two or three caste of them hang at his heeles to giue him a daunce before he departe therefore let mē of grauitie examine the case iudge vprightly whether the sufferance of such idle beggers be not a greeuous abuse in a common wealth For my parte though I haue sayde more then they will like off yet set down lesse then they deserue I meane not too trouble my wittes about them it shal be enough for me which haue no authoritie to giue them a plaister to launce the sore frendly let it runne that in processe of time it may heale of it selfe Playes are so tolerable that Lactantius condemneth them flatly without any maner of exception thinking them the better they are penned or cunninglier hādled the more to be fled bicause that by their pleasant action of body sweete numbers flowing in verse we are moste inchanted And Tully a Heathen crying out against Poetrie for placing baudy Cupide among the gods vttreth these wordes in the ende De comoedia loquor quae si haec flagitia non probaremus nulla esset omninò I speake of playes which if our selues did not loue this filthinesse should neuer be suffered If plaiers take a little more counsell of their pillowe they shall finde them selues to be the worste and the daungerousest people in the world A theefe is a shrewde member in a common wealth he empties our bagges by force these ransacke our purses by permission he spoileth vs secretly these rifle vs openly hee gettes the vpperhād by blowes these by merry iestes he suckes our bloud these our manners he woundes our bodie these our soule O God O men O heauen O earth O tymes O manners O miserable dayes he suffreth for his offence these stroute without punishment vnder our noses lyke vnto a consuming fier are nourished stil with our decay Lacon thought it impossible for him to be good that was not bitter to the wicked then how shal we be perswaded of Players which are most pleasant to abhominable liuers Diogenes said that it was better to be a mā of Maegaraes Ramme then his sunne because he prouideth a sheepherde to looke to his folde but seeketh no instructer to teach his chylde hee hath a care that his sheepe be wel tended and washt but neuer regardeth his sonnes discipline hee forbiddeth the one too runne in daunger of the wolfe but keepes not the other from the Diuels clawes and if Diogenes were nowe aliue to see the abuses that growe by playes I beleeue hee would wyshe rather to bee a Londoners bounde then his apprentice bicause hee rateth his dogge for wallowing in carrion but rebukes not his seruaunt for resorting to playes that are ranke poyson So corrupt is our iudgemēt in these matters that wee accompt him a murderer whome we see delight in sheading of bloode and make him a iester that woūdeth our conscience we cal that a slaughter house where brute beastes are killed and holde that a pastime which is the very buchery of Christian soules We perceiue not that trouble and toyle draw vs to life ease idelnesses bring destruction that sorrowe and anguishe are vertuous bookes pleasure

maister to be seruāts to pleasure that shoulde be our slaue too make that our blisse which Cooks which Phisitions which women may geue and which fortune at witch may take away Aristippus was iump of your opiniō seeking onely sweete meat for his belly a Saint for his bed wherein if we followe the print of his feete I finde that we differ not from sauage beastes They knowe eche other as well as we they vnderstād themselues likewise as well as wee they seeme too talke they seeme too laughe when pricking vp their eares lowing neying and fawning they expresse their ioy they seeke to their sexe for some encrease which is a token of mutuall loue they followe that which they knowe will profite them they flie from the thing that they finde to hurt them whereby they do shewe some sparks of reason making a difference betweene good and euill So suttle are they that wee finde them many times too craftie for vs so wise that they gather in Sommer too serue them in VVinter so cunning that the Spider in her webbe the birde in her nest may seeme too geue vs instruction of building so ciuill so obedient that we are no more diligent to serue one prince then euery hearde is readie too followe one leader euery swarme of bees to honour one king Elephantes are reported to be so curteous that they bring strayed passengers into theyr way so witty that they vnderstand the speach of those people with whom they liue so skillful in the moouing of the heauenly bodies that by bathing them selues in running waters they bewray the approch of the new Moone so mercifull that one of them in Rome catching a boy that had pricked his nose with abodkin tooke him vp presētly with his snowee shoke him aloft to put him feare laide him downe softly againe with out hurt last of al they seeme so attached with knowledge of God that eighteene of them beeing ●●ine at a triumph in the Theater of Rome the rest by running aboute the place with a pittifull rore mournfully tossed their snoutes vpp too Heauen as though they accused the crueltie of man or cryed for reuenge of their fellowes blood By what Cognisance then shall wee be knowen from beastes Plato did not think a man to be a reasonable creature consisting of a soule and a body but a reasonable soule vsing the body as his bondslaue Aske Aristippus why we are borne he will say for pleasure Demand Anaxagoras his answer shal be that we might looke vppon heauen the one followes that which is common to vs with bruite beastes the other robbeth blinde-men of their commodity because they are not able to see the starres Therefore taking the opinion of Plato That euery mans selfe is but his soule let vs acknowledge from whence we came that is from God the giuer of life And sath we haue receiued this benefit at his hāds it is our duetie to shew our selues thankefull by seruing him He hath made vs hee hath redeemed vs hee hath sanctified vs to his owne selfe whatsoeuer we are wee are the woorke of his hands the image of himselfe wee are altogeather his and not our own This is the marke we must beare in our forheades to be knowne from blockishe and brute creatures they seeke for nothing but that with is earthly wee must desire the thing that is heauenly they are sensible bodies we reasonable soules they serue their bellies we our god O Poliphile where is the life which you require what is become of Sabina which neuer dreaming of this but drowned in wantonnesse vsually bathed her selfe in the milke of fiue hundred shee Asses to preserue her beautie How is Galeriaes sight daseled with the pompe of this worlde which scorned the golden palace of Nero as not curious enoughe too shrowde her carkase Beware you seeke not so much to pranke vp your selfe that you forget god Cleopatra was thought of some writers not to bee slayne with venemous snakes but with the same bodkin that curled her heare Bridle the wantonnesse of your speech the ouerlashing of youthfull dayes Posthumia was accused of lewdenesse because she was seene but to be merrie in companie and although she had very wel cleared her selfe Minutius returned her home with this clause that her tongue shoulde neuer be woorse then her thought her gesture no wantonner then her life The women of Calcedon neuer shewed vnto strāgers any more then one cheeke the wife of Hieron was acquaynted with no bodies breath but her husbandes the women of Egypt did weare no shoes because they shoulde neuer bee gadders abroade the Damselles of Beotia that day they were married had the Axeltree of their coaches burnte at their doores that wanting the meane to carrye them out they might learne by the same too abide at home Lysander refused the riche Garmentes that were sente out of Sicilie to his daughters because hee feared suche a present wold be a greater spott to their minds thē an ornament to their bodyes disfigure them sooner than become them Beholde the sweete cuppes that haue made you drunke are kepte from their lippes that intend to be modest You vse your Glasse to turne vp your locks that you mighte please the gazers eye other stand tooting in them to this ende that if they be faire they blemish no iotte of the same with vice if they bee foule they amend it with vertue You like the moone shine brightest of all when the Sunne is away they glister most in their husbāds presence you are a glasse for euery Gallant smiling with them mourning with them frowning with them and what cheere soeuer you perceiue in their face representing the same in your hollowe lookes they only reioyce and weepe with them with whome they are growne into one fle she you are a shadowe to euery louer mouing with them from place too place and cleauing to no particular body they like true geometricall lynes are neuer pulde from their bodyes but by death neuer seene abrode without their stay neuer founde in the streetes without their husbandes You make your belly your God your luste your heauen your pleasure your blisse and hunt greedilie for suche delightes as though they bee drawn with a twine threed cānot be kept with a Cable rope for they houer like fethers in the wind are blown away like chaff with euery blast So dāgerous a sea is our delight that in euery calme we feare a storme in euery storme wee are swallowed quick in euery case wee looke for paine in euery paine we pine to death in euery peace we dout a broyle in euery broyle we goe to the potte Philip winning the garland at the games of Olimpia when tyding was brought him too encrease his ioy that the same day Parmenio his Captaine had foyled his enemies his Queene was deliuered of a young prince cast vp his hands vnto heauen desiring God to dash those pleasures but