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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16767	An olde mans lesson, and a young mans loue. By Nicholas Breton	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1605 (1605)	STC 3674; ESTC S104769	26,174	52

AN OLDE MANS LESSON AND A YOVNG MANS LOVE By Nicholas Breton LONDON Imprinted for Edward VVhite and are to bee solde at his Shop neere the little North-doore of S. Paules Church at the Signe of the Gun 1605. To the Right VVorshipfull and worthy Fauourer of Learning and nourisher of vertue Sir Iohn Linwraye Knight Master Surueyer of all his Maiesties Ordinance within his Highnes Realmes of England Ireland Nich. Breton wisheth encrease of all happinesse on earth and the ioyes of heauen heereafter I Haue often noted that the wisedom of experience hath bene the Schoole of a good wit where youth giuing eare to age may the better determine of his courses And againe that nature weying loue with reason worketh the best effectes of vnderstanding The truth of this you may finde made good in this little Dialogue where the Father kindely deales with the Sonnes duetie and the Sonnes loue with the Fathers discretion many prettie tractes haue passed among them where each was so pleased in the Summarie of their discourse that if all Fathers would be as kinde and all Children as wise there would be a blessed common wealth but the world is to be weyed as it is and their rules to bee made examples of much good the discourse is Diagolicall and the varietie not vnpleasant where nature with wit wit with learning and learning with iudgement may prooue some paines in the writing and worthie patience in the reading Such as it is with my better seruice I cōmēd to your good fauour hoping that as in this little you may see my loue so in a greater seruice you will commaund the bonds of my affection in which with hearts thankfulnesse for your euer vndeserued kindenesse I take my leaue Yours Deuoted and obliged Nich. Breton To the Reader MY good Friend if you be so if not I would you were so at least if you be worth the being so I haue met of late with a discourse written by I know not whom and how well iudge you that reade it it is written in the manner of a Dialogue betwixt an olde Man and his Sonne the Father was a Widdower and the Sonne a Trauailer who after a long absence came home to his Father at whose comming after kinde greetings there passed many pretty passages in which was handled An olde Mans Lesson and a young Mans Loue I will not commēd the hādling of it but rather leaue it to correction of the wise then the allowance of the contrarie and so wishing it may displease none that are worthy to bee pleased and not to be worse thought on then it deserues I leaue it to your patience and my selfe to your kinde regard and so rest Your Louing Friend Nich. Breton An olde Mans Lesson and a young Mans Loue. Chremes and Pamphilus Chre. SOnne welcome home God blesse thee and make thee his Seruant Pam. I thanke you Father and say Amen to your praier Chre. Well said Boy but let me talke a word or two with thee Thou hast been abroade in the world and hast seene more then thou hast eaten and hast left many a good Towne behinde thee for fault of carriage tell me I pray thee whence camest thou now Pam. Directly from the Vniuersitie where I haue made no long stay for had it not lyen in my way I had not come at it at all such was my haste home as well first to shewe my duetie to you as to acquaint you with the occasion of some matters which at leysure I wil impart vnto you Cre. I vnderstand you well me you come to see but my money is the matter you would talke of for certaine occasions you thereunto moouing but by the way let me aske you what newes are abroad Pam. Newes enough but fewe worth the hearing and in the place from which I came I meane the Academe there are but two pointes the Schollers stand vpon and one point the Townes-men Chre. And what are the Schollers pointes Pam. Truely neither leather threed nor silke-points nor pointes of pinnes nor needles nor pointes with the finger but the full point of eyther truth or falshood for in argument wit and learning to trye their best vertue is in finding out a falshood or maintaining a truth Chre. Why then wit and learning can make a faire shewe of truth where there is none Pam. Yea but bettter wit better learning can lay it open that it may be knowne as it is Chre. And when it is knowne what then Pam. Then to be regarded as it deserues Chre. As how I pray thee Pam. If one holde an opinion that a man is wise because hee is rich and an other holde the contrarie and both hauing shewed their reasons hee that findes out the truth of wisdom what it is and in what it lies makes it knowne so apparantly to all good vnderstanding that wisedome is to be honoured as a vertue and grace of the deuine Essence and wealth to bee esteemed as a Seruant of necessitie Chre. And this is your Schoole talke Pam. Yea Sir Chre. Good talke for Schollers but doe their Maisters holde it so that money is but a seruant of neede Pam. Yes and learned it themselues before they teach it vs. Chre. But how vnderstand you a seruant of necessity Pam. For prouision of apparell which is necessarie meate and drinke and lodging which are necessarie horse and furniture which are necessarie maintenance of wife children and seruants all which are necessarie to keepe good courses with good company which is necessarie to procure aduauncement which is necessarie to keepe off want which is necessarie to helpe the needie feede the hungrie and relieue the oppressed which is necessarie In all which necessarie causes the spirit being mooued by grace and reason to effect that which cannot be done without money he is to be employed as a necessarie seruant and a seruant at all necessities but wisdome which is a directer of the spirit in all good and necessarie courses the employer of wealth in all necessarie causes is to bee honoured aboue all thinges whatsoeuer man can be master of Chre. Well said but superfluity then money hath nothing to do withal as thus better want money then waste it vpon drunkennes wantonnesse or wickednes for when one hath a coate that will keepe him warme which was the cause garments were first made and money is employed for them to lay on needeles lace of threed Silke or Siluer or Golde which makes the garment more weightie then warme money is to be pardoned for any such vnnecessarie expence Pam. Pardon me Sir it makes the garment more comely and comelinesse is necessarie so farre that it exceede not reason in measure furthermore it is an vtterance of Silke an vpholder of traffique and maintainer of Arte. Chre. So Sir well said Maister Scholler how finely you can make superfluitie in pride be a reliefe of necessitie and necessarie to maintaine traffique but content your selfe cloath the backe

warme satisfie hunger and thirst and so farre my money hath bene my Seruant and so farre hee shall bee yours Why so you may say of a house when the first cause was to keepe Man drie to make more roomes then there is vse for more Chimnyes then is fier for more Windowes then there is wit for and more Painting and Guilding then there is good reason for why should not monye lie still rather then bee employed in such vnnecessarie humors Pam. Oh Sir are not many poore men emploied in their labours many men of trade exercised in their Arte and is not the beautie thereof comely to the eyes of the beholder which may as well praise God in the worke-man-shippe as haue pride in the profession of it oh it is the ill minde of one that misconstrueth the good meaning of an other and therefore monye being made for necessarie vses and many necessarie vses in the building of faire houses monye is to bee employed and the builder for his wisdome to bee honoured Chre. I thanke you Sir but for my selfe hee hath serued me to builde roomes necessarie for my vse and no further and for a house fit for your calling my monye shall serue you and no further why you perhaps will defend feasts and banqueting when monye is onely to bee employed for necessitie to satisfie hunger and thirst Pam. Without offence I thinke I may say that Feastes are as necessarie as Fasts for as the one doth pull downe the flesh from rebelling against the Spirit so doth the other giue the Spirit more life in reioycing vpon a iust cause of ioy as in many excellent Histories as well Diuine as humaine wee may reade but to allowe thereby of Drunkennes or glotonny I haue no such meaning As at mariages holy daies and honest merrie meetings a little too much is better then much too little further-more the varieties of meates and drinkes as Ale Beere Wine Sugar and Spices are the better knowne wherein God is glorified and praised for his blessings and the Vintner the Grocer the Comfit-maker the Cooke the Brewer and the Butcher doe by the venting of their wares the better maintaine their trades so that I thinke I may well say that monye in the prouision of Feastes and banquets is to bee employed as a seruant of necessitie Chre. So Sir you say well but money hath serued mee for the good loafe and the Cheese Beefe and Mutton and nowe and then a Goose and a Chicke or a Ducke of mine owne breede or your Mothers and a cuppe of Ale or Beere of our owne brewing this outlandish drinke this Wine is more costly then wholsome I warrant you the greatest part of this Countrie standes vpon Corne and Sheepe and where haue you a Plough-man or a Shepheard that almost knowes what Drinke it is or cares for it when he sees it No Ale and Beere is our best liquor and therefore so farre as may kill hunger and quench thirst monye hath serued mee and so farre shall it serue you but whether is more wisdome in getting money to serue necessities and keepe it for necessarie causes or to studie trickes to lay it out vpon nice inuentions Pam. Truely Sir as I said before monye is but reasons seruant wisdom is reasons maister thē if reason the Seruant to wisdom can finde meanes euen among fooles to get money either by Labour Arte or Fortune and wisdome onely be the director of reason in the imployment of that money to the necessarie comfort and honour of man I holde it a greater wisdome well to dispose of a Seruants businesse then to come by the Seruant for money is euerie mans Seruant in one sort or other but wisdome liueth but with a fewe whome shee maketh more honorable then the money-Master Chre. Yea how can that bee what honor is there without money the best Scholler without money may make a hard dinner and goe in a threed-bare Coate and for all his grace in the Schooles haue little grace in the world Pam. Yet learning in it selfe is honorable and if he be gratious in patience either to beare his Crosse or to attend his comfort then deserueth he the honour of that vetue that learning hath taught him is wronged if he haue it not giuen him for shall an Asse be held wise because hee hath put on a Foxes skinne or like a wolfe can pray on a lambe or if a foole that hath but so much wit as to play the knaue by his cunning to gather coine shal such a Deuil in the shape of man be honoured as a God God forbid no the Golden Calfe of Horeb was an Idoll and couetousnesse is the witch of wit and the roote of all euill Chre. And which is the Toppe Pam. Pride Chre And what is the body Pam Sloth Chre. And what is the Armes Pam. Glotony and drunkennes Chre. What is the Sappe Pam. Letcherie Chre. What the Barke Pam. Enuie Chre. What are the Leaues Pam. Vanities Chre. The fruite Pam. Shame and paine Chre. Oh braue a Tree for the Deuils garden God blesse my ground from such Trees Pam. Amen Chre. But heere me a little I thinke if a man should touch you with a tickling humor of an effeminate nature you would defend it to bee good and money necessarie to bee vsed in such a seruice and were not that a prettie piece of learning Pam Howsoeuer Sir you thinke of it I can shew good reason for it for Loue is an humor of the minde infused into the heart by the vertue of the Spirit which by the grace of wisdome the art of reason and the Seruice of money worketh honorable effectes in nature for when the eye beholdeth beautie nature is pleased in the obiecte when reason findeth wit wisdome is delighted in the Subiecte and when wisdome findeth grace reason is ioyfull in vnderstanding and then all these meeting together in conceite must needes work together for contentment for the accomplishment of which money must be a seruant of necessitie As thus If your neighbour had two Sonnes the one were wise learned valiant and honest yet did want money to aduaunce his vertues the other had much monie and no other good matter to mooue the least humor of good liking my sister to whom my grādmother hath left a good Portion should effect this younger Brother without monye and leaue the other to his all money is it not fit and necessarie that her money should rather bee an aduauncement of his vertues and a content of her kindenesse and perhaps increase of her comfort rather then bee a choaker of Midas with more money then he can swallowe and be an increaser of Idolatry and perhaps a griefe to you in the Prime of her owne comfort so if it should fal out with me to affect the hope of my fortune would you spare your Pursse to procure my preferment beleeue it father the best loue is begotten by the eyes bred in the Braines