no nor Faith it selfe without charitie is any thing at all but is all as nothing To loue my neighbour as I loue my selfe is of all other the richest and the greatest Sacrifice because it is offred vp in the Temple of the euer-liuing God And the merit is as great through the mercy of our Sauiour Iesus Christ to be truly sensible of our brothers miserie and vndoing as is the pleasure that we take that our selues should bee saued Charitie is the end of the Commandements it is the only marke whereat the precepts of the Law doe shoot And hee that shall be charitable shall finde the Lord mercifull vnto him in the day of his tryall And because without God we are not able to merit any thing of our selues and for that Charitie is the gift of God it is very fit and necessarie that we should begge it at his hands with teares and doe workes worthy the obtaining of it moystning with those precious drops the great drought that we suffer in our soules and mollifying there with the hardnesse of our hearts that they may bring forth the fruits of good Workes which are the effects of a true and liuely faith For the humble and contrite spirit shall neuer be forsaken but God will rather still succour and supply him with his grace bestowing his best fauours vpon him and inriching him with many notable and knowne benefits And albeit Riches being so neere a neighbour as it is vnto Pride be an occasion of Vice weakning and infeebling those our other Vertues though it bee dangerous to it's Owner though it be a tyrannizing Lord and a trayterous Slaue yet notwithstanding it is of the nature of Sugar which hath this condition and propertie belonging vnto it that if it be sweet and good and hath not lost his fauour with warme things it warmeth and giueth heat and with cold things it cooleth and refresheth To the rich it serues as an Instrument and meanes by the helping hand of Charitie to buy eternall blessednesse And that man shall be charitable and truely rich who making the poore man rich shall make himselfe of a rich man poore For thereby hee shall make the world to know that hee is a true Disciple of his Sauiour Iesus Christ. I stood one day in the outward Court of a Cardinals house hard by the Porch closely wrapt and muffled vp in a great Russet Cloake iust of the same colour as it came from the Sheepes backe without any other Dye in the world which was so full of Patches one clapt vpon another which I had sowne so of purpose that where it had least it was no lesse then of three threds so that you could not at all or very hardly discerne the ground of it 's owne true colour It was as hard and as stiffe as any boord and for all weathers farre better then your fastest Felt or your closest-wrought Rugge or any other frized cloth in the world for it was wondrous warme and no ayre water nor cold would passe thorow it and I was about to say please it you to excuse the excesse of the phrase that no arrow was able to pierce it Whilst I was thus waiting there comes mee in a Cauallero to visit the Cardinall seeming both by his Person and his Attendants to bee a Gentleman of principall ranke and quality Who when he saw mee standing there in this manner thought verily with himselfe that I was sicke of an Ague and that I had then my cold fit vpon me when as indeed the cause that I lookt so pittifull was that I had layen there in the Porch the night before and because it was winter time and that the ayre was fresh and the winde blew cold I was willing to keep me where I was till the day had aduanced it selfe a little more forward He look't earnestly vpon me and after he had well view'd me he stood still and beckned me vnto him I sneak't out my head when I came neere vnto him and being amazed on the sudden and much astonished to see a man of his worth approche so neere vnto â—…ee my countenance did come and goe and began strangely to change and alter it selfe not knowing why or wherefore or what should be the cause of this sudden alteration He good Gentleman thought that I did shake and tremble and kindely said vnto me Put on thy Hat my Boy put on I say and couer thy head God comfort thee and send thee well And with that putting his hand into his pocket he tooke out all that he had which vvas a matter of some thirteene Royals and a halfe and gaue them mee I tooke them and was so rauished therewith that I was almost beside my selfe as well in regard of the liberalnesse of the Almes as to see how he went away from me lifting vp his eyes vnto heauen And I verily beleeue that he said to himselfe as he went along Let O Lord the Angels blesse thee and all those Courtiers that wait on thee in thy heauenly Kingdome Let all the spirits of heauen praise and magnifie thy holy name for men doe not know how to honour thee they are rude and ignorant creatures O Lord how much am I bound vnt thee that I beeing made of no better metall then this poore man and perhaps borne of no better bloud then he should sleepe and take my rest in my soft bed whilest he is forced to lye on the hard ground should goe thus well clad as I doe whilest he remaines naked and comfortlesse should be thus rich as I am and hee so poore that I should be sound and he sicke I admitted and he despised And whereas thou mightst by exchanging only of our places haue bestow'd all that vpon him which thou hast conferr'd on me Yet O Lord thou hast been pleased to deale otherwise with me and thou thy selfe best knowest why and wherefore Saue me sweet Iesu by that precious bloud which thou sheddest for my sinnes For this shall be my true riches to lay fast hold vpon thee for hauing thee I haue all things and not hauing thee I haue nothing I say that this Gentleman knew very well how to imploy those Talents vvhich God had put into his hands not considering so much to whom he gaue as for whose sake he gaue Looking well vpon me and looking well into himselfe weighing my wretched and his happy condition he gaue me all that he had with a franke hand and a free heart the one being as full of bounty as the other of compassion Such good soules as these did in the exercising of their Charity gaine heauen by our hands and we wicked Villaines haue lost it by theirs since through the greedy desire that we haue to receiue being still crauing begging when we haue no need we rob those thereof that are in true want suffering this Vice of ours to vsurpe vpon anothers Office We went still full gorg'd greater
que siruen las palabras donde ay â—…bras What need words where there are Workes I say and say it againe and that confidently that this Conserue is of that which was brought in yesterday and not onely this but a whole Barrell thereof is now at this present whole and vntoucht in my chamber saue this little that I haue set before his Lordship The Cardinall crost himselfe and wondred how this should be And vntill dinner was done and the table taken away he did nothing else but blesse himselfe with both his hands And being desirous to bee certified of the truth thereof he rose vp and went into his lodging to bee an eye-witnesse of it himselfe He lookt vpon all the Barrels whereon he had set certaine markes he found them faithfull and true the number full and iust the key in his owne custody and could not deuise how this should be Herevpon he did verily beleeue that I had bought a barrell of the very same Conserues as his were and said vnto me Guzmanillo doest not thou thy selfe know that thou broughtest in thus many hither count them now and see if they be not right I did so And when I had done telling I told him My Lord heere is the full number Pero de lo contado come el lobo But it is like the Shepheards numbring of his Sheepe whereof when he hath cast vp his reckoning he shall finde that the Woolfe hath met with one of them by the way I see they are well but not all so well as they should be And that you may see I tell you no lye let that be brought hither which is in my Chamber and let this be opened that stands there and you shall finde that I haue changed the one for the other They opened it whereby they discouered as well the truth as the vvit I had vsed therein For the dust the grauell the old ragges and the like trumperie which I had fill'd it withall did manifest as much They remained all as men amazed not knowing what to thinke of it nor being able for their liues to imagine how this should be brought about They did all aske me the question but I would not acquaint any of them with it But presently besought his Lordship that he would be pleased to performe his promise with me He did so So that I had that and one more which vvere two in the whole And because they should know that I carried a Noble minde as it was deliuered to me with the one hand so I gaue it with another to my fellow-Pages who diuided it amongst them And howbeit my Lord was some-what offended at the finenesse of my theft yet he did much more wonder at my liberalitie and thought the better of me for this my free disposition He was much afrayd of these cunning and subtill tricks of mine and questionlesse would haue then put me away but that he was so good and holy a man and therefore considered with himselfe If I should now cast off this yong fellow some great mis fortune will befall him by reason of his mis-demeanour These things that he hath done heere in mine owne house are but idle tricks of his youth and I am ne'reawhit the poorer for them It is lesse harme that hee should hurt me in a little then through want offend others in much And out of this apprehension he did the better to dissemble what was past make of this Vice a Vertue And it is great wisedome in any man when a hurt may be healed for to cure it and to remedy those things that may bee remedied if not to dissemble it the best he can He made himselfe merry with it And as often as any Princes and great Lords came to visit him as occasion was offered he would not sticke to make report thereof vnto them CHAP. IX Guzman de Alfarache treats of Charitie Discourseth of Masters kinde and vnkinde Telleth of another theft of Conserues His exercises and distastes being a Page He recounteth the tricks he vsed at Primera That it is good to know play but better not to vse any gaming at all And how for playing hee was put out of the Cardinals seruice And how proud-ignorance is the cause of all euill THe Ordination of Charitie howbeit I haue pointed at it heretofore had its first beginning from God Next in order follows that of Fathers and Mothers then of children and after them of seruants who if they be good are more to be made of and to be better beloued then children that are bad And because my Lord had no children he did dearely loue those that seru'd him and was very tender ouer them placing next after God and his Image which is the poore all his loue vpon them He was generally charitable towards all men as being the first fruit of the Holy Ghost and the first fire that inflameth mans soule It is the prime good of all other goodnesse that flowes from our actions it is the first beginning of a happy ending It containes in it Faith and Hope it is the way that leades to Heauen it is the bond that binds God vnto Man it is the worker of Miracles it is the scourge of Pride and the fountaine of Wisedome My Lord did desire so much my amendment as if his owne had lyen vpon it He sought to oblige me vnto him by loue that he might not affright mee with feare And for to try if he could reduce me to a vertuous course of life he did that he might remoue from me all occasion of longing regalar me at his owne Table feeding me from his owne Plate with all the choysest dainties and delicacies and with all manner of sweet Meates there was not the thing that he did eate of whereof I had not my share telling mee in gentle tearmes Guzmanillo I giue thee this to be at truce with thee in token of peace and amitie Behold that I as well as my Secretarie will hold no contention with thee Content thy selfe with this morsell whereby I acknowledge my selfe to be thy Vassall bestowing this vpon thee by way of Tribute This would he smilingly vtter and with a pleasing countenance without respect of whosoeuer sate at Table with him were they neuer so great persons or of what qualitie or condition soeuer Hee was a maruelous kinde Gentleman he treated and esteemed his seruants well he fauoured and lou'd them exceedingly doing for them as farre as his abilitie would reach so that all of them did loue him with their very heart and soule and did doe him all true and faithfull seruice For without all doubt the Master that respecteth his seruants is wel serued by those seruants and if he pay them well they will deserue their payment but if he be louing and kinde withall they adore him as a God Whereas on the contrary if a Master be proud a bad Pay-master vnthankfull to his seruants he shall neither haue
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Alaxu a The Spanish word is Hermano de mesta A certaine iurisdiction belonging to Heards-men and Shepheards The Etymology thereof is not so easie but I will deliuer what I thinke remitting my selfe to others better opinion It is termed Mesta quasi mixta By reason of the concurrency and mixture of diuers Herds and Flocks one amongst another And because they make restitution of those that are thus inter-mingled one with another which are knowne by some Markes branded with hot irons Or it is said to be Mesta of amista because of the great conformitie and friendship betweene these kinde of people who are very obseruant of their Lawes This the Idiome of Aragon doth confirme who name that which the Spaniards call Mesta Ligallo which is as much as Liga and Liga is a confederation or friendship a The Spanish word is Rentilla The Italian Gattacieca It is some Tosse-pols game wherein your Ale-Knights and idle Rogues sit ouer their Cups and censure and deride all estates a The Spanish word is Calabaça wherein Pilgrims and beggers carry their beuerage b Alforjas is a Wallet deuid e into two parts that it may the more easily be borne vpon a mans beast It is an Arabicke word to wit Ahfodja of the Verbe Ahfad which signifies to keepe because in it Trauellers keepe their prouision a Xauega is the Spanâ—…sh word which is a Fishers net at Sea wherewith by little and little they goe drawing and haling the fish to the shore where certaine Picaros and Rogues are still waiting for to pull and tugge at the câ—…rdes of the net whom they call Los de la Xauega It is an Arabick word which in it's owne termination is said to bee Xibquetum of the Verbe Xebque which signifieth to intrap or bring into the Net Mizer Morcon Generall and Superintendent ouer the beggers b Euery Açumbre we deuide into foure measures which we call in Spaine quartillos An Açumbre may be said also to be a great â—…ig Iarre or Pitcher fillâ—…d with wine Orders set downe by Morcon King of Beggers a In Italy in that 〈◊〉 it is 〈◊〉 at that time of day Guzman recâ—…s the tricks vsed by Beggâ—…rs And a 〈◊〉 that was put vpâ—… 〈◊〉 A Bâ—…gger that was a Cordouese teacheth Guzman many lessons concerning the Art of begging a Sestear i. reposar ala Sombra en la hora de Sexta Que es la del medio diâ—… Yâ—…r Spaniards generally 〈◊〉 after dinner all the Summer time Prou. La bezerra mansa mama de madre agena y dela suya a Bota quasi imbuta of the Latine Verbe Imbuo It is in briefe a Bottle or Boracha made of Letâ—…r to carry Wine in This word is margented before The fashions of Beggers in begging an almes a I conceâ—…e 〈◊〉 Serro de Potosi to bee some hill or mountaine in the West Indies being a principall Mine among the rest that yeelded great store of treasure b The Spanish word which is Aqua de los Angeles is so called by the Spaniards because it is of an extraordinary sweetnes distilled out of diuers different flowers and Aromaticall drugges a The Spanish word is Puchero An earthen Pot or Pipkin wherein they boyle las Puches Now Puches is a kinde of dressing and seething of meale and Oyle together Which in ancient time was much vsed before the inuention of baking bread was found out Latinè Pultes Couarruuias Verbe Puches y Puchero A good marke of Predestmation Charity of what force it is To loue our neighbour is a great Sacrifice The charitable man is fauoured of God Riches compared to Sugar What manner of Cloake Guzman had A Gentleman sees Guzman he lookes vpon him piâ—…es â—…im giues him an almes and praiseth God A worthy consideration To begge without need may get vs money but lose 〈◊〉 heauen The great priuiledges belonging vnto Beggers Why it grieues a mans heart to begge Man whereunto he is inclined Euery man loues his owne Gods greatâ—…esse and mans basenesse To â—…aue wâ—…ewith to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great 〈◊〉 to a man A râ—…ble spirit cannot begge What kinde of almes is nobly bestowd * The Spanish phrase Esse â—…amo socorro con el que corro A poore begger to whom he may be compared The libertie of the fiue Senses by whom most inioyed The Taste The Hearing The Seeing The Smelling The Touching To haue money to pay it againe away is not the inioying of money Prouerb Petit à petit l'offeau faict son nid The proudest and hardest-harted people in Italy are your Genoueses a The Spanish phrase is Echarles las cabras Now Echar las cabras is when many hauing plaid together who should win or lose when they did rifle for any thing there should be two losers and that they might not part or deuide but that one should pay all and the other scape scot-free they returne againe to play And this they cal Echar las cabras Alluding to that which shepheards vse to doe when they make a merry-meeting and haâ—…e kill'd some Goats to make a feast who play who shall pay for all laying the losse vpon the two last Couarruuias Verbe Cabra Conscience lost by whom and how b Alcauala is a Tribute Taxe Tole or Subsediâ—… The common people haue a tale That King Don Alonso the Wise holding a Parliament at Burgos said vnto the Procurators Dadme gente delque vâ—…la And from thence comes Alcauala A supply of monies which they gaue him Wholesome lessons for our Consciences To let other mens consciences alone and to looke into our owne Seuill of all other Cities the richest for Consciences The Story of Pantalon Casteleto a Genouese and poore Begger in Florence a Dichoso el hijo que tiene à su padre en el infierno De malè quae sitis vix gaudet tertius haeres The cruelty of a Father Pantalons last will and Testament The Duke made his sole heirâ—… and Executor Pantalon dyâ—… The Duke sends for 〈◊〉 Legacy Artifices to winne Opinion a The Spanish word is Loba that iâ—… Vestidura clerical â—…alar que llega al suelo cortada à todo ruedo con golpes para sacar los braços Es vestiâ—…ura honorifica Este vso se conserua en la Capilla real Han le dado varias â—…mologias y â—…ntre las dâ—…mas vna que por comer tanta tela la llamaron Loba Pâ—…rò su â—…timologia trae Origen del nombre Griâ—…go 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 genero de vestidura quae hominem ambit vt cortex tunica arboâ—…em y puede ser Hebreo del verbo labas induere y asâ—…i Valdra indumenâ—…m Couarruuias b The Span sh word is Saya which is that garment which a womâ—…n weares from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 downeward The 〈◊〉 ed condition of Pretenders Guzman playes the 〈◊〉 in Gaeta 〈◊〉 The Gouernour of Gaeta cures Guzman of his sore legge and how he did it Rome commended by Guzman Wisedome gotten by Time