they gree in one Arme not vnskilfulnes with mightie power He who his owâe cause makes doth still deuise To make too âââch to haue is more than sure Great is the daunger of vnmastred might Too many great one kingdome cannot hold Where power hath decreed âo find offence Thâ cause is better still than the defence Might makes a title where he hath no right Mân count that wrong is compassed by might He onely trââds the sure and perfect path To greatnesse who loue and opinion hath Vncertaine power cannot it selfe retaine Custome hath power to kill with weakest might Who falls buââow may quickely rise againe Who falls ârom hâight is mercilessely slaine Loue is not alwaâes dignââies companion The tallest trees are shaken most with winds When one selfe-power is common made to two Their duties they nor suffer nor will doe Preferment is the first step to disquiet In equall play-fellowes no perill lyes The man that giues a weapon to his stronger Is like himselfe to carrie rule no longer Ech little spot appeares most in the face Great might is like a fortified tower No man can manage great affaires of state And yet content a wayward multitude Where many lead they lead to many blowes Let Gods with Gods and men with men contend What ere he be with his superiour playes Stands in the mouth of daunger many wayes He hardly will entreat that may commaund All dignitie on tickle stayes doth stand With mightie men 't is better ceasing strife Than an vnequall quarrell to maintaine There is no hell like to declining pompe He sits not safest that is mounted high In high degree small faulâs are quickely spyde But low estate a many errours hyde No high estate can yeeld a quiet life The power of vertue euer-more preuailes What though our sinnes goe braue and better clad They are in ragges as base and all as bad Might breakes the law the sacred Senat makes The more our greatnesse makes our faulâs the more Similies on the same subiect AS in fine cloth the brightest staines we see So faults are most discern'd in high degree As ââstie clâmbers oft catch suddaine falls So might mis-vsde doth kindle nought but braules Aâ he that stands on high stands still in feare So they that manage states doe want no care As Rasors are not fit for childrens hands So fooles no way beseeme authoritie As presidents are aptest meanes for youth So rulers goodnesse giues example best As the great Elme supports the spreading vine So might ought still support humilitie Examples hereof are generally through the booke as in Kings Princes Kingdomes Magistrates c. and therefore no need of other collections Of Courage c. Courage is foe to faint-heart cowardise And man-hood teacheth valour to be wise COurage emboldneth wit wit courage armes Without experience valour wants his armes Daunger and feare like cowards turnes aside Whân man-hood is by resolution tryde Skill valour guides and valour armeth skill Who hopes a conquest leaues no means vnsought The inward thoughts that haughtie courage bearâs Griâucs moââ at words than deaths pale-faced fâarâs Courage with cowardise will not be matcht The valiant man doth most in warre delight Seldome shall any liuing creature seâ That courtesie and manhood disagree The coward seekes to liue at home in ease Valour is neuer knowne till it be tryed They that attempt high daângers âuident Vpon no reason are not valiant Actions doe kill imaginations sway Vnequall warres t'vnequall shame is sold. The man that dares not caring how he darâs Sells vertues name to purchase foolish skarres Rebellious natures must be roughly vs'd Repining courage yeelds no foe a foot Cowards doe onely wish and call for death While valiant hearts in silence banish breath Vaine words cannot bewitch a valiant mind Measure not manhood by the outward shewe The noble courage neuer weeneth ought That may vnworthie of it selfe be thought Chaffer no words high courage to prouoke Courage may lend a cloake to cowardise Nothing the praise of manhood more doth marre Than foule reuenge and base contentious iarre Action is fierie valours soueraigne good True valour lodgeth in the lowliest hearts High courage with true wisdome alwayes backe Winnes perfect fame and shunneth each mishap Weakenesse is false and faith in cowards rare Gloriâ doth follow courage goes before The man that couples courage with desire Runnes freely through his daunger and preuailes True valour aimes at honour euermore A cowards heart keepes words and deeds asunder A iewell in a ten-times bard-vp chest Iâ a bold spirit in a loyall breast Courage and industriâ can neuer want In conquering will true courage most is shewen In vainâ hee seeketh others to suppresse Who hath not learn'd first to subdue him-selfe All strength is fraile and full of ficklenesse No fortunes frowne can daunt true valors heart Beggers but âeigning brauerie are the proudest And cowards bragging boldnesse wrangle loudest A valiant mind disdaines to hide his head It 's cowardise vnworthie wrongs to beare Where wronged valour reignâs it 's hard to find Such pittis as may honours pride controll True valour feeles nor griefe nor miserie Resolute courage makes loue fortunate Cowards in pâace doe dread the weapons sight But vrg'd by need will venture then the pikes Courage to die exceeds a captiu'd life Courage despiseth dread and conquers death Similies on the same subiect AS courage addeth wings to braue desire So bloodie shewes doth quench incensedire As it is valour to be conquerour So wisdome maketh vse of victorie As courage keepes the mind from base assaults So cowardise infects it with all faults As courage is esteem'd a wise mans coat So cowardise is follies cognisance As Faulconers doe in Faulcons most delight So mightie men reioyceth in their might Examples likewise on the same THe Romanâ Sergius loosing his right hand Slew with his left hand foure in single fight Scaeuola entred king Porsennaes Tent Either to kill him or be slaine by him Agis disswaded from the fight replyed No man wonne shame that with true courage dyde Stout Alâibiades cheerd vp his followers By his couragious leadâng them to field Courage saith Seneca is of such power As it can conquer any miserie Plato saith Courage eleuates the mind To all things that are laudable and iust Of Pleasure c. Pleasure and sweet Delights doe much beguile Expecting ioy griefe happens oft meane-while PLeasures are poore and our delights soone dye Where pleasure is displac'd care keepes his âarte Where care killes pleasure life not long endures Who tries shall find that pleasures long restrain'd Be farre more pleasant when they once are gain'd Where strife is stirr'd there pleasure hath no part Worlds pleasure lasts not long but griefe abides Farewell delight when graueld is all grace Neuer haue vniust pleasures been compleat In ioyes entire but feare still keepes the doore The sweetest pleasure hath the shortest date Long wished things a sweet delight doe beare Pleasure and penaunce still are mortall foes Enforced
young men so âââ old men wiâe Dâllâââ ãâã learninâ dâe desire Buâ ãâ¦ã e wise To vnlââââââuill hat'hest learning is Opinion without lâârning is not good Some men so ãâ¦ã That oââ ther âârre the worke before was well Knowledge continues when all wealth else wastâ Knowledge in all things is âight prositable The mind withdrawne ârom studie for supplies Is learnings wracke where want doth tyrannize To know and want performance is mishap Best knowledge is âor men to know themselues Coy readers deeme that dull conceits proceed From ignorance the cause being onely need Poets are borne but Oratours are made Poetrie quickeneth wit sweetens discourse Poets scant sweetly write except they meet With sound rewards for serâoning so sweet Learning and knowledge good minds most desire Knowledge before all else should be preferd True learning hath a bodie absolute That in apparant sence it selfe can suâe Breuitie is great praise of eloquence Silence in wise men is sweet eloquence The man that scorneth all the Artes of schoole Lackes but a long coat to be natures foole Eloquence is the ornament of speech Eloquence makes bad matters oft seeme good They which doe like all Artes which can be thought Doe comprehend not any as they ought Experience is the mistresse of old age Men rich in knowledge hate all other wealth Arts which right hard doe seeme at our first sight By triall are âade easie quicke and light Experience times characters racâth out Knowledge distinguisheth twixt âen and beasts Learning will liue and vertue still shall shine When follie dyes and ignorance doth pine Learning with courage make a man complete Let Guns serue gownes and bucklers yeeld to books Arts want may stop our tongues but not our teares Similies on the same subiect AS learning helpe to purchase all men fame So truly leâân'd doth more renowme their name As ground vntil'd can neuer bring âoâth gâaine So vnlearn'd valour ãâã taketh paine As men by folly ââââââââ the Gods Euen so by ãâ¦ã they neerest them As Bees sucke honey out of diâers flâweâs So out of Scienceâ men knowlâdââ learne As seales iâpâinâââââââly âoââe in waâe So Poets in dull mindâââââââhouâhts ââpresse As Musque quicâânâ ãâ¦ã heaâtâ So drowsie soules are cââââ'd wâth eloquence Examples likewise on the same ALexander honoured Aristotle And made his pillow Homers ââades In campe or else-where ââsar alwaies bare His Commentaries as hiâ bosome friend Robert king of Sciâill vs'd to say Kingdome and all goe ââââ I learning loose Ptolomie Philadelpâââ lâââiâgs friend Fiue hundred thousand bookes had in his studiâ Man as saith Aristotlâ was create To vnderstand and afterward to doe Oh Science said graue Plato how would men Loue and esteeme thee if they knew thee right Of Kings and Princes Kings are the images of Gods on earth And therefore they are cal'd Gods of the earth KIngs like to Gods should gouerne euery thing Monarchs misdeeds cannot be hid in clay Vnhappie kings that neâer may be âaught To know themselues or to discerâe their saulââ Princes are glasses to their subiects eyes The liues of princes are their subiects bookes To whome should suâiects for true iustiâââsââe When Kings themselues doe reigâe by ãâã The greatest scandale waiâs on greatâ sâsâaâe Poore groomes are sightlesse night Kings glorious day A king should euer priuiledge his pleasââe And make his peeres esteeme it as tââir treasure The cares of kings wast liââ and hasten age Within one laâd one single sway iâ best Princes like Sunnes are euââââre in sight All see the clouds that doe ecclipse their ligât Diuided kingdomes make diuided hearts Good deeds from kings must not be drawne perforce A Princes wealth in spending still doth spread Like to a poole with many fountaines fed Minions too great argue a king too weake Kings sleeping see with eyes of other men Whereas proud conquest keepeth all in awe Kings oft are forc'd in seruice âokes to draw A kings great arme doth reach from shore to shore Kings vse their loues as garments they haue worne Princes haue but their titles for their glorie And outward honour for an inward toyle Kings pardon death but can not pardon shame Kings want no means t' accomplish what they would Princes for meere vnseli imaginations Do often feele a world of resilesse caâeâ It shames a Prince to say IF THAT I COVLD Kings liues reputed are their subiâcts lights Betweene kings titles and their lowly name There 's nothing differ but the outward fââme No common fortunes can once blemish kings A begging prince what begger pitties not Where Angele in the cause of Kings doe sight VVeake men must fall for beaâân regards the right A king woes slaue must kingly woe obey Kings may winne kingdoms but not conquer hearts Not all the water in the rough rule sea Can wash the balme from an annoiâted king The linkes of princes loue are blood and warre Poore priuat men âound not their princes hearts This fault is euer incident to kings Too much to credit ouer pleasing things Princes respect their honour more than blood To be a Prince is more than be a man The man that at a subiects use doth anne To the princes bodie giues a priuie maime Princes like Lyons neuer will be tam'd Kings will be onely competirors must downe Gnats are vnnoted where-soe're they flie But Eagles gaz'd vpon with euery eye A kings great name makes not his fault the lesse Desire of soueraigntie respects no faith Foolish the begger that to touch a crowne VVould with the scepter strait be smitten downe The threats of kings are like the thunders noise Kings haue long armes and rulers reach at large Princes are as the glasse the schoole the booke VVhere subiects eyes doe learne doe read doe looke Maiestie shines like lightning from the East A princes will ought not exceed his law Mildnesse doth better sute with maiestie Than rash reuenge and rough seueritie Princes desires are many times corrupt Princes oft fauour flatterers more than friends Kings doe approach the nearest vnto God By giuing life and safetie to their people Vnworthie mens preferment shames the prince Kings Courts are held as vniuersall schooles Succeeding heapes of plagues doe teach too late To learne the mischiefes of misgnided state Kings by example sinne more than by act Kings seates for soules distrest are sanctuaries The youth of Princes haue no bounds for sinne Vnlesse them-selues doe make them bounds within Princes oft purchase quiet with price of wrong Wish for good princes but endure the ill Subiects may well complaine but not correct A princes faults they beare more high respect No ruler yet could euer all content The face of kings makes faultie subiects feare Kings Lords of times and of occasions May take aduantage when and how they list It 's hard to rule and please both good and bad New kings doe feare when old Courts furder straine Poore maiestie that other men must guide Whose discontent can neuer looke aright When princes worke who
then will idle stand Peasants may beare but kings must needs requite Who would all mastring maiestie defeat Of her best grace that is to make men great A princes wrath is messenger of death What els is pompe rule raigne but earth and dust Kings must haue some be hated worse than they On whome they may their weight of enuie lay Pride is no ornament for diademes Selfe-loue doth very ill beseeme a prince Blest is that league where citties further Kings And kings doe further them in other things Kings that would haue lawes kept must rule themselues Graue heads are meetest Councellors for kings Looke what a King doth most of all embrace To that his subiects will encline as fast The strength of princes is their subiects loue Kings ought be free from partialitie Sleeplesse suspition pale distrust cold feare Alwaies with princes company doth beare Kings should be fathers to their common-ââaleâ Kings should preferre them most that ãâ¦ã least A Prince not fear'd hath oft his death ãâ¦ã And dreaded Princes haue their deathâ deâââââ Maiestie scornes to looke on cowardise Kings reasons should be more than their opiâââââ What else are kings when regiment is gânâ But like to shadowes in a Sun shine day In âââiâcts wrongs princes sustaine abuse It'ââââater care to keepe than get a crowne Kings fauours in their eye-lids vse to hang. Ready with euery winke to be wip'te out He is no king that is affections slaue No fall like his that falleth from a crowne Kings are not tearmed Gods for wearing crownes But for o're fame and fortune they are Lords Misgouern'd kings are cause of common wracke Kings chaunging customes euer feare a chaunge Iest not with Princes if that thou be wise For in vnequall iest great daunger lyes Kings are their subiects ioy their countries hope True subiects hearts are princes chiefest stay In Princes these two qualities well sit For strength a Lyon and a Foxe for wit Great perils are compriz'd within a crowne Beggers make maiestie a gazing marke True iustice is the chiefe and onely thing That is reâuir'd and lookt for in a king Mislikes are sillie lets where kings resolue Iust soueraigntie can neuer be displac'd A king hereft of all his trustie friends Is dead aliue for fame and honour ends All lawfull princes first or last preuaile A princes safetie is his peoples loue Who hath been kneel'd vnto can hardly kneele Or begge for that which once hath been his owne Kings greatnes stands on the great king of heauen No maiestie where vertue is despis'd Similies on the same subiect AS princes wills are commonly held lawes So life or death dependeth on their lookes As often burials is Physicians shame So many deaths argue a kings hard raigne As beasts obey the Lordly lyons looke So meane estate must mightie princeâ brooke As the Sun-beames doe lighten all the world So princes liues are lânternes to their lands As Princes wanting wealth learne tyrannie So too much treasure makes them vicious As biggest winds enkindle greatest flames So much submission makes a king most mild Examples likewise on the same THe Kings of Persia alwaies shewed themselues More subiect to the law than to their Lords Antiochus told his sonne Demâtrius That kingly rule was noble slauerie Bâlus the sonne of Nemrod was first king That in this world had title of that name The Romane kings did vse to weare no crownes But alwaies bare their scepters in their hands Tully saith then 't is best to checke a prince When he forgets himselfe to be a prince Sâââates wil'd good kings preferre their friends And shewe some kindnesse to their enemies Of Kingdomes c. The Kingdome Countrey and the Common-weale Are things that subiects loue doe most reueale KIngdomes are Fortunes slattering gifts soone lost Kingdomes are burd'nous to the wiâest men Conâârd doth keepe a Realme in stable stay When discord brings all kingdomes to decay Wretched the state where men desire to die Who striues to alter lawes disturbes the state Kingdomes are commonly much sooner lost Than kept desir'd than had with mightie cost Kingdomes are Fortunes âatall tenise balls A wicked king makes a more wicked land A man that takes delight in doing all To trouble all the State deuiâeth ââiâl In a well-gouern'd state one head is best Some men vnwilling benefit their land Fooles set in office doe their spleâes âeâeâle And meaning well mâst hâât the common-weale Some vnawares their countries good proâerre All earthly kingdomes euen as men mâst perish Kingdomes are rul'd but badly where the base Will checke the chiefe that sit in highest place No state stands sure but on the grounds of right Realmes neuer get by chaunge but paine and losse When lawes are maâe they ought to be obey'd And rulers willes with reuerânce to be weigh'd Wisdome and care are kingdomes chiefest propâ Rude multitudes are kingdomes ouerthrow By nature man vnto the woâst iâ bent If wholsome statutes stay not his intenâ Innocent men are common-wealeâ bâst treasure Innocence makes kingdoms florish more than arms That kingdome ought of right to be destroy'd Which once was vertues âlower now vices weed Wise princes are their kingdomes conââoâters Vniust exâââons killes a common-weale No greater da ânger to a common-wealth Than when vnskilfâll ãâã âide her powers Kingdomes are nothing elâe but common care Where tools bâare râle the common wealth decaies In â calmeâ a many see how ãâã ââgin But few respect the enâ and emââlie Where wiââ mân are neglected kingdomes perish No nâarâr kinred can be than our countrey Theâe âââ no common-weales more loose and bad Tâaâ wâeâe the câmâânâââue most libertie Our countrey parents kin claime part in vs. Our countries loue ought be most deare to vs. And ââties of common-weales dââay âââââ bâilâingâââââ and carelâsse heads beare sway Where any may liâe well that is his countrey Remembrance of ouâ countrey is most sweet In common-weales such should be honour'd most As shew their care both insterne warre and peace âââ countrey first by nature claimeth vs. ââââât is the death in cause of common-weale The gouernment of common weales and state Will without wiâdome soone he ruinate Reward and punishment are kingdomes keyes Peace in a common-wealth is mellodie There 's nothing cân impresse so deare constraint As countries cause and common foes disclaine Men of desert their countrey least esteemes Discretion best doth rule a common-weale That kingdome may be counted fortunate Where no man liueth by anothers sweat Seditious heads disturbe the common good Vnruly members soone should be lopt of Similies on the same subiect AS spring and Autumne hazard health by chaunge So ânnouations harme a common-wealth Looke how the body void of members is Euen so are kingdomes dispossest of lawes As ships in tempests need all helping hands So in a kingdome none must idlely stand As many Elements one temper frame So diuers mens endeauours helpe the state As from the heart all members haue their life So from the common-wealth
comes each mans good As Captaines are the eyes to lead their men So kings are Load-starres to their common-weales Examples likewise on the same VLysses lou'd so deare his natiue land As for it he refus'd to be immortall Aglaurus to redeeme his countries peace From Athens walls himselfe threw headlong downe Faire Iphigenia for her kingdomes good Made willing sacrifice of her owne blood King Codrus rather than his realme should perish Gladly did runne vpon his foe-mens swords Xenophon did thinke them vnworthie life That made no conscience of the common-wealth He that denyes to die in countries cause Deserues saith Tullie hate of all good men Of Nobilitie Nobilitie is a sir-name or praise Which to our selues by vertue we doe raise A Noble nature no mishap can daunt Vertue feeds scorne and noblest honour shame A noble mind doth neuer dread mischaunce That which in meâne men we call patience In noble breasts is pale cold cowardise Noblenes neuer stoupes to seruile feare A noble heart doth still contemne despaire Oft noble deeds by falshood are desac'd Good gisââare sometimâs giuen to men past good And noblesse stoopâs oât times beneath his blood Our vertues make vs noble nothing else Nobilitie from kinred is but borâowed It is thine owne desââts ânnobles thee He is not noble but most basely ââed That ransacks tombes and doth dââace the dead A noble nature is to all men kind Nobilitie contââneth âlatterie A noble resolution makes men iust Nobilitie is best continued ââ those conuânient meanes that made it rise In boldest actions noblesse shines most cleare He is not noble beares a niggaâds mind True noblâsse is a signe of happie life In chaunge of streames âch fish makes shifâ to liue And euery place a noble mind contentâ Nobilitie to bad men is reproch To vertuous men nobilitie brings glorie Nothing are noblâ tiââes worth if life be bad If noblenesse geââ bât a minutes slaââe An hundred yeares sâant makes it well againe Truth is the title of true noblenesse 'T is vertue only giues nobilitie In vertues loue no noble mind dismayes Faire speech with vsage affable and kind Wipes malice out of any noble mind Much babbling doth offend a noble ââre A noble nature is religious Pouerties best friend is the noble mind Noble discents make vertue more diuine Similies on the same subiect AS none but Eagles gaze against the Sunne So none but vertuous eyes discerne nobilitie As credit from opinion often comes So from desert ensues nobilitie As bricks from clay haue their originall So noblesse first rose from meane parentage As grosse thicke clouds obscure the Suns faire light So muddie crimes disgrace nobilitie As bitter roots may yet yeeld pleasant fruit So meane discent may bring forth noble minds As in the barren grounds best gold doth grow So poorest race sâaines not true noblesse Examples likewise on the same CAmillus did expresse a noble mind In safe returning tâe âalâriân youthes Pyâââus well found ââbâitiâs noble nature When his Physicion would haue poyson'd him Lysander in his famous viâtoâies Euer declar'd his minds trââ noblenesse Catilines wicked life disgraced him And quite obscur'd his former noble race The name of Noblenes saith Cicero Must giue them place that by their vertue claime it Plato affirmeth that a noble heart Will not by base attempts once wrong it selfe Of Honor dishonor Honour is that the mind doth couet most And no dishonour like that honour lost HOnour once lost can neuer bâ repair'd Honor ambitious womens sexe doth please It is no honour to be Princes heires When we can boaât but only birth is theirs Their fall is great that from high honour slide Honour is least where oddes appeareth most Honour was first ordained for no cause But to see right maintained by the laweâ To honour beautie is a due by right Die rather then doe ought dishonour yeelds True loue doth alwaies bring forth bourteous deeds And in good minds desire of honour âreeds It is more honour to preserue than sâill Who cheapneth honour must not stand on price Fie on the fawe for which good same is sold Or honour with indignitie embaâ'd Honour is grounded on the tickle Ice No kingly vaile can couer villanie An honourable graue is more esteem'd Than the polluted closeâ of a king No scepter serues dishonour to excuse No subtill plea reuokes dishonours error Prâfiâe with honour still must be commixt Or else our actions are but scandalous Honour and enuie are companions Honour is purchas'd by the deeds we doe To frustrate them that but expect their due Doth ill beseeme an honourable mind On generall bruit honour doth most depend With painfull âoyle is honour soonest found Honour will hardly fellowship endure Nor neuer Crowne corriuall could abide Some honour liues in honourable spoile 'T is honour to forgiue a yeelding foe The mightier man the mightier is the thing That makes him honour'd or begets him hate Daunger hath honour great dessignes their fame Honour 's a thing without vs not our owne It 's honour to depriue dishonour'd liâe The one will liue the other being deâd Honour by oath ought right poore Ladies wrongs Honours are smoakes and dignities haue cââes Honour and beautie in the owners armes Are weakely fortrest from a world of âarmes Honour relieues a foe as well as friend It is no honour to be swolâe with pride Honour doth scorne dishonourable thoughts The vââtor can no honour iustly claime To loose the meanes that should aduance the same Where hate beares soueraigntie there honour diâs He that regards his honour will not wrong it Disquiet honour hurteth more than helpes Honour and wealth oft times too dearely cost The death of all so altogither lost Honour doth euer iudge with lenitie No greater honour than a quiet mind Honour 's no priuiledge against defame Alwaies doth great employment for the great Quicken the blood and honour still beget Honour to many is more sweet than life Honour is fruit of vertue and faire truth Honour once gone bids farewell to all hope The inward touch that wounded honour beares Findeth no helpe till death cure the disease Honour and glorie labours in mistrust Honour is first step to disquietnesse How hard is princely honour to attaine High honour not long life the treasure is Which noble mindes without respect defend Dishonest deeds no honour can attaine The praise of honour is not alwaies blood Neuer retire with shame bright honour saith The worst that can befall thee is but death Honour doth scorne the height of Fortunes pride Great honours youth may loose it selfe in age Report that seld to honour is true friend May many lies against true meaning mint No honour comes by spilling aged blood Who seekes for honour lingers not his time Vilde is that honour and the title vaine The which true worth and honour did not gaine Honour doth hate with base delights to dwell Honour helpes nothing where contentment wants He that contends with th' inferiour sort May
D DArknesse vide Day and Night Daunger vide Feare Day 29 46 57 92 Death 230 Deceit vide Falshood Deeds 177 c. Delay 28 78 Delight 201 c. Desert 19 65 67 68 Desire 161 Despaire 24 26 33 43 45 47 66 74 Desperation vide Despaire Destinie 154 Deuill vide Sinne. 2 Deuotion vide God 37 Diligence vide Labour Discord vide Concord Discretion 18 48 49 50 53 65 c. Disdaine 165 Dishonestie 39 43 71 Dishonour vide Honour Dissimulation 29 174 c. Distresse 20 21 26 59 75 76 80 Distrust vide Trust. 24 ââiuision vide Discord Doctrine vide Learning ââââbt 144 Drâââd vide Feare Drunkennes vide Gluttonie Dutie vide Subiects 41 E EArth 2 5 6 12 19 42 57 60 63 87 Education vide Children Election vide Choice Eloquence 30 55 56 Enuy. 117 c. Equalitie vide Equity Equity 1 3 13 33 76 c. 94 Error 12 18 Eternity 18 37 39 54 Euill Deeeds 181 c. Example 51 59 Excesse vide Drunkennesse Exile 82 Experience 48 54 55 Extremitie 32 39 46 48 78 82 90 98 F FAith 21 c. Falshood vide Friends and Friendship Fame 88 c. Familiarity vide Friendship Fancie vide Affection Father 60 Faults 14 19 21 22 32 35 36 42 c. Fauour 2 26 31 35 59 61 Feare 144 c. Felicitie vide Happines Flatterie 174 c. Foes vide Friends and Friendship Folly 1 5 17 24 30 41 49 50 52 213 Fortitude 39 54 85 Fortune 149 c. Force vide Strength Fraud vide Deceit Friends 94 c. Friendship vide Friends Frugality 38 Fury vide Tyrants G GAine 18 26 32 35 Generall vide Warre Gentlenes vide Kindnes Gladnes vide Ioy. Glory 31 38 67 71 89 Gluttony 135 c. God 1 2 3 4 11 24 26 37 41 59 79 Gold vide Riches 80 Goodnes 14 17 18 36 50 Good Deeds 177 c. Good name vide Fame Good will vide Loue. Gifts 2 21 26 27 38 40 48 c. Grace 21 24 26 37 42 44 Greefe 138 c. Guile vide Fraud Guiltines 46 77 78 H HAp vide Fortune and Fate Happines 5 17 25 27 36 51 67 81 98 Hate 34 c. Health 26 Hearing vide Iustice and Iudgement Heauen 5 6 7 Hell vide Sinne. 2 6 7 29 45 72 Honestie 14 15 27 39 82 92 93 Honour 69 c. Hope 24 c. Hospitalitie vide Bountie Humanitie vide Manhood Humilitie 191 c. I IDlenes vide Sloth Iealousie 45 c. Ieasting vide Pleasure Idolatry vide God and Religion Ignorance 9 11 27 49 55 Immortalitie 18 19 43 Impietie vide Religion Impudence vide Shame Incontinence vide Lust. Industrie vide Learning 51 Infamie vide Fame Ingratitude vide Loue. Iniury vide Wrong 44 85 Iniustice vide Iustice. Innocence 10 11 15 64 77 224 Instruction vide Arte. Intemperance vide Gluttonie Inuention vide Learning 32 Ioy 5 8 9 25 29 32 61 89 Ire vide Anger Iudge vide Iustice. Iudgement 3 77 78 92 Iustice. 76 c. K KIndnesse vide Pittie 3 7 Kingdomes 63 c. Kings 57 c. Kinred 3 64 67 Knighthood 22 Knowledge 13 53 c. L LAbour 16 71 92 Lamentation vide Sorrow Teares Lawes 3 60 61 c. Learning 53 c. Lecherie vide Lust. Lenity vide Kindnes Liberalitie vide Bountie Libertie 17 38 39 64 Life 226 Light vide Day 30 Loue. 28 Lowlinesse vide Humilitie Loyaltie 47 95 Lust. 120 Lying 15 71 92 M MAdnesse vide Furie 47 Magistrates 64 86 Magnanimitie vide Courage and Warre Maiestie 17 59 60 61 Malice vide Hate 67 Man 101 Manhood vide Valour Marriage vide Loue and Lust. Meane vide Equitie Melancholly vide Griefe 64 Memory vide Learning Mercie 1 2 35 78 Might vide Power Mind 157 Misery 19 26 30 46 75 Mishap 2 55 66 89 98 Mistrust vide Trust. Moderation vide Law Modestie vide Temperance 39 Monarch 27 40 57 86 Money vide Wealth 87 Mourning 188 c. Muses vide Poetrie 53 Musicke 20 32 56 98 N NAture 29 34 40 48 50 54 55 64 c. Necessitie vide Need. Need. 19 26 39 55 74 87 95 Negligence vide Sloth Neighbour 34 47 68 82 Niggardise 67 93 212 213 Night 29 46 57 73 Nobilitie 66 c. Nurture vide Children O OAth 37 70 Obedience vide Subiects Obliuion vide Memory Occasion 22 24 69 Offence 9 21 36 77 97 Offers vide Gifts Office vide Authoritie Old age vide Age. Opinion 17 19 22 50 54 60 68 96 Opportunitie vide Occasion 50 Oratory vide Oratours Oratours 15 18 31 42 55 Order vide Iustice. P PAine 25 29 31 32 33 64 70 204 c. Painting 40 c. Parasites vide Flatterie Pardon vide Obedience and Age. Parents 64 66 68 Partialitie vide Iustice. Passions 26 33 46 50 Patience 99 c. Peace 81 c Perill vide Daunger Periurie vide Oath Perseuerance vide Patience Pittie 32 35 41 43 45 47 77 84 Plainnesse vide Honestie 15 Play vide Pleasure Pleasure 201 c. Plentie vide Abundance and Wealth Poetrie vide Learning Pollicie 79 c. Poore vide Need. 207 Pouertie 1 15 31 35 50 51 57 58 c. Power 5 14 18 25 26 35 42 49 54 Praise 18 38 41 50 66 91 c. Prayer 11 79 80 81 Precisenesse vide Pride Preferment vide Promotion Presumption vide Ambition and Pride Pride 124 c. Princes 57 58 c. Prodigality vide Bountie and time Profit 50 54 70 Promise 36 34 70 Promotion 26 59 Prosperity vide Wealth 35 Prouidence 2 6 85 Prudence vide Wisdome Punishment 65 77 78 Q Qualitie 36 61 Quietnes 10 48 59 71 77 R RAge vide Anger 35 45 49 Rashnes 21 22 49 59 75 85 93 Reason 12 15 32 39 43 45 60 72 82 Religion 11 c. Repentance 6 8 29 213 217 Report 19 71 89 91 Reproch vide Shame and Slaunder Resolution 22 25 39 61 67 Reuenge 5 35 46 59 72 Rhetoricke 11 Riches 9 18 38 51 76 81 Right 13 14 64 69 77 Rigour vide Cruelty 42 Riot vide Prodigality 39 Ruine 84 90 97 Rule vide Authority and Kings Ruth vide Pitie S SAdnesse 26 Sapience vide Wit and Wisdome Science 56 86 Scoffing 165 c. Scorne vide Disdaine Selfe-loue 33 40 60 Selfe-will vide Vain-glory. 22 Secrecie 46 Security vide Idlenesse Senses vide Learning Seruice vide Duty Shame 2 18 29 42 58 59 66 67 71 73. Sicknes vide Death 43 74 75 87 224 Silence vide Talke Sinne. 2 6 9 12 17 c. Sight vide Loue. Slauery vide Tyrants Slaunder 167 c. Sleepe vide Death Sloth 130 c. Sobriety 9 48 Solitude vide Griefe Sorrow vide Woe Souldiours 86 87 Soule 5 7 Sparing vide Niggardise Speech vide Words Spending vide Bountie Spoile vide Warre Sport vide Delight Stabilitie vide Resolution State vide Kings and Common-wealths Strength vide Power Study vide Learning Subiects 57 c. Subtilty vide Fraud Sufferance vide Patience Surfet vide Gluttony Suspition vide Iealousie Swearing vide Oath Sword vide Warre T TAlke vide Words Taunts vide Disdaine Tasting 38 42 Teares 188 c. Temperance vide Sobriety Temptation 3 17 Terrour vide Tyrants and Feare Thankfulnesse vide Kindnes Thoughts 185 c. Time Tongue 170 c. Treason 114 c. Treasure 28 40 43 57 62 64 71 Triall 3 14 21 24 55 78 82 97 98 Trouble vide Affliction 10 63 Trueth 13 c. Trust. 14 22 25 45 Tyranny vide Tyrants Tyrants 111 c. V VAliancie 86 c. Valour 18 29 56 80 82 84 85 Vaine-glory vide Pride 94 Vanity 18 26 44 50 53 Variety vide Pleasure Venery vide Lust. Vertue 16 c. Vice 17 c. 62 82 Victory 2 85 86 Violence vide Crueltie Virginity 37 Vnderstanding vide Wisdome 56 Vnity 12 38 82 96 Vnkindnesse vide Affection 29 Vowes vide Oath Vsury vide Riches W WAnt 39 55 82 89 Wantonnesse 31 33 38 39 41 Warre 84 c. Wealth 9 20 26 33 38 42 48 c. Weeping vide Mourning Wife 38 46 Will. 18 29 30 43 44 46 49 c. Wine vide Drunkennes 10 20 Wisdome 48 c. Wit vide Wisdome Wickednes 3 63 86 89 93 Woe vide Griefe Women 104 c. Words 170 c. Workes 22 32 60 75 86 World 12 17 19 26 53 74 87 VVretchednesse vide Misery VVrath vide Anger 1 2 60 85 Y Youth 219 Z Zeale 21 22 23