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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06341	The prouerbes of the noble and woorthy souldier Sir Iames Lopez de Mendoza Marques of Santillana with the paraphrase of D. Peter Diaz of Toledo: wherin is contained whatsoeuer is necessarie to the leading of an honest and vertuous life. Translated out of Spanishe by Barnabe Googe.; Proverbios. English	Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.; Pedro, de Toledo, Bishop of Málaga, d. 1499.	1579 (1579)	STC 16809; ESTC S108829	87,267	250

well doing For if he be ioyfull take delight in the vertuous actes that he doeth it is a token that he wil proue well in his age and be verie vertuous But if he goe about them with an euill will and seeme to take no delight therein it is a signe that his vertues will not long endure And therefore as the wise man sayeth By the pleasauntnesse and heauinesse of a child in his youth we shall easily ghesse what he will be in his age 16. That most renowmed Solomon for wisedome chiefely sought Whereby his Empire and his state to order good he brought He gouernd of himselfe alone and neuer did debate Nor counsaile callde for anie thing that longed to his state The Paraphrase AS it is written in the thirde Booke of the Kinges Solomon the sonne of Dauid after the death of his Father was chosen to be king And the first thing that euer he did because he would lay a good foundation he went to a hie Mountaine that was neare about him called Gabaon to offer sacrifices to the lord And that night the Lorde appeared to him in his sleep and said vnto him Aske what thou wilt that I may giue it thee And Solomon sayd Thou hast shewed vnto thy seruant Dauid my father great mercie in that thou hast giuen him a sonne to sit vpon his seate and to succeede him in his kingdome And now O Lord my God it is thou that hast made thy seruant king in stead of Dauid my father and I am but yong and know not how to goe out and in and thy seruant is in the middest of thy people which thou hast chosen and verely the people are so manie as can not be tolde nor numbred for multitude Giue therefore vnto thy seruant an vnderstanding hart to iugde thy people that I may discerne betwixt good bad And this pleased the Lord well that Solomon had desired this thing And God said vnto him Because thou hast asked this thing and hast not asked long life neither hast asked riches nor the soule of thine enemies but hast asked vnderstanding and discretion in iudgement Beholde I haue done according to thy petition for I haue giuen thee a wise an vnderstanding hart so that there hath been none like thee before thee nor after thee shall anie arise like vnto thee This storie serueth here for this Prouerbe that sheweth how Solomon sought chiefly for wisedome by which without debating of anie matters or calling of any counsaile hee was able sufficiently to gouerne his kingdome and dominions 17. If thou be eloquent great praise thereof to thee will rise But much more commendable it is to be discrete and wise For he that wisedome hath will all his life obedient be Vnto the rules he learned hath in sweete Philosophie The Paraphrase THe Marques here sheweth in this Prouerbe what is the marke that a man ought specially to shoote at and sayth that although it be a goodly thing for a man to be eloquent and to haue a good tongue yet it is a great deale more worthie praise to be wise Eloquence is a fine and sweete kinde of speaking by the pleasantnesse whereof it draweth men to the opinion of the speaker The figures and rules whereof are set foorth by Tullie in his Rethorike And if this eloquence be ioyned with wisedome and knowledge it is a speciall ornament but if a man haue more wordes then wit he shall be counted a vaine iangler and a pratteler And therefore sayeth Tullie That farre better is wisedome voyde of eloquence then foolish pratteling without discretion Wisedome among all the moral vertues that Aristotle in his Ethicks intreateth of is the most principall vertue or rather as he saith the onely vertue meaning that all the vertues are chained and linked together in one And therefore the Philosophers commonly say that whosoeuer hath one hath al. For if he haue one vertue he must needes haue wisedome thorowly he that hath wisdome thorowly hath all vertues therefore hee that hath one vertue hath all vertues Wisedome as the Philosophers say consisteth of three partes the first is memorie to remēber such things as hath passed the second knowledge to know such things as are present the thirde prouidence to foresee such thinges as are to come And he that hath these three partes may be counted wise and a seruant obedient to morall Philosophie For as I sayde before wisedome conteineth in her selfe all morall vertue And as Aristotle sayeth It is a thing vnpossible for a man to bee wise and not to be good And therefore the Prouerbe sayeth The wise man is all his life obedient to morall Philosophie 18 Roboam being one that had no skill but did assay In euerie thing to striue against the streame did soone decay For vexing and molesting of his subiects kept in thrall Whē least he look'd for such a change they quite forsooke him all The Paraphrase of the Marques ROboam was the sonne of Solomon and King of Israel who after his fathers decease did vse such tyrannie ouer his subiectes that verie woorthily hee was depriued of the moste parte of his gouernment The Doctour TO proue the harmes and mischiefes that he that wanteth wisedome runneth into the Marques here bringeth in the Storie of Roboam the sonne of Solomon Of whom it is written in the thirde Booke of the Kinges that after the death of Solomon the people assembled togither to make him King and spake vnto him saying Thy Father made our yoke grieuous nowe therefore make thou the grieuous seruice of thy father and his heauie yoke that he put vpon vs lighter we will serue thee And hee sayde vnto them Depart yet for the space of three dayes and then come againe to mee And the people departed And King Roboam tooke counsaile with the olde men that stoode before his Father while hee yet liued and sayde What counsaile giue you that I may haue matter to aunswere this people And they sayde vnto him If thou be a seruant to this people this day and folow their mindes and answere them speake gently vnto them this day they wil be thy seruants for euer But he forsooke the counsaile that the olde men had giuen him and called vnto his coūsaile yong men that were growne vp with him and waited on him said vnto thē What coūsaile giue you that we may answer this people And the yong men that were growne vp with him answered him saying Thus shalt thou say vnto the people My little finger shall bee weightier then my fathers whole bodie and where as my father did lade you and put a grieuous yoke vpon you I will make it heauier At which words the people greatly disdaining ten tribes of them presently forsooke him and chose Ieroboam for their king Wherby is concluded that Roboam because he was not wise nor aduised nor carefull to preuent such mischiefs as might happen ouershooting himselfe shamefully in his foolish answere was worthily