with the spirite of GOD and they whyche be the children of GOD doubtlesse be furnished wyth godlye vertues Well then this is the conclusion and a signe for euer certaine that where godlye vertues in Christian children be wanting there is no right fayth no victorie ouer sinne no following of holy religion as in the Prologue to the Paraphrase of Erasmus vppon the Epistle to the Romaines righte godly and cunningly is handeled prate they neuer so fast run they to Sermons neuer so ofte gadde they neuer so vsuallye to the Church haue they the worde about theyr houses neuer so garnished or the Bible neuer so often in their hands as the Pharisies hadde and suche other Hipocrites all is but counterfayting vnlesse they doe so and therewyth liue godlye iustlye and quietly For of perfitte fayth of right religion of the feare of GOD of due obedience all godlinesse vnitye loue equitie iustice innocencie seruisablenesse stayednesse temperance and whatsoeuer is good groweth and no wickednesse nor suche horrible Simony as too too manye vse nor composition betwéene diuynes themselues vpon resignations in most countries cried out vpon and forbidden by al such godly gouernors as our maiestie is not only before Christes comming amongst the Israelits as in the old Testament appeareth but also sithence of them of the primatiue Church vntyl couetousnesse bare the sway and that sinnes were promised to be satisfied for siluer by euerye parasite pardoner by our soueraigne GOD be thanked through all hir dominiōs for euer banished and dissanulled bycause diuinitie reason experience haue taught to condemne it And therfore Pastors Preachers and ministers of righteousnesse each where maye not forget to prouide for all such calamities Neyther al other to remember that for as much as we haue the most certayne and vndoubted truth so in all verity and sinceritie of life must we walke and the professing preaching visiting and teaching the glorious Gospell to all Creatures according to the diuine lawes for al kinds of estates and professions are to yéeld thervnto as the Prophets Apostles Martirs confessors and Catholike Doctours haue done in times past and as they doe at this present chosing such places of Scripture as make most against such wickednes as then there raigneth according to the Methode by Erasmus Melancton Hipperius and Hemingius deliuered wherat none ought to be offended although the letter word for word doth not expresse the same forséeing that vncharitably they fall not to rayling nor plausibly to lul anye in theyr lewde liuing for that slie and wilye way of wresting the Scriptures to mens manners like a rule of lead bycause they saw them vnwilling to imbrace the truth that at the leaste by some meanes they might agrée togither is hateful nowe as it was of old to al the godly CHAP. XLVI What foode and doctrine the Apostles deliuered and in what the summe of the Scripture doth consist and who only after S Augustine shall possesse the kingdome of Heauen IN fine Louest thou me sayth our Sauioure too Peter then feede my sheepe sée that they be sounde and kept from corrupt pastures féede my lambes in brief féed yong and olde Which sheweth and setteth forth his pastorall cure and not a Monarchie as Nicholas Okam Bullinger writeth besides infinite others for the Church hath not the power of the sworde but spiritually and therfore Christ had Peter put it vp But howe shall they féede when suche as be most worthye for life doctrine for siluer by Simon sel Benefice be put back and the vnworthy by Magus the Merchaunt made of In fine Christian babes this is the blessed food and spirituall milke wherewith the holy Apostles fedde the Christian flocke and wherevppon Peter sayeth all the blessed Gospell dependeth the gladde tidings consisteth namely that Christ hath suffered for vs in the flesh that we should die with him frō the workes and lustres thereof and shoulde liue and walke in the workes of the Spirite both afore mentioned by Marlorat largely and learnedly expressed And therefore Saint Augustine willeth all children that be christned to hold this for a certainty and to doubt nothing thereof that is that all those that are baptised in the Catholike or vniuersall Church shall not come to euerlasting life but those only who after their Baptisme liue vertuously that is to wit such as haue refrained vice and the concupiscence of the flesh for euen as neyther Infidels nor Heretickes nor Scismatikes shall attaine the kingdome of heauen no more can sinfull Catholikes disobedient persons haue anye portion therein Hitherto moste excellent Soueraigne for the firste age at large and in brief for the rest of the maintenance of Body and Minde vntyll God will farther Naturallye Ciuilly and Religiously according to the measure of the gifts of the Godhed Heauenly Humaine Diuine and Kingly following and vsing Nature condemning Disobedience confuting Errors banishing Libertines and directing Christians in al Health Wisedome and Godlinesse in the continuall feare and seruice of GOD in Loue Obedience and Duetie to their Prince to your Highnesse and in ordring their Bodies Mindes and Déedes in a Lawful meane bycause that such Children as be only of the Catholike Faith that kéep Gods preceptes the liuing Lorde liketh holy Princes aduaunce and godly Rulers do chearish For it is they and not slaunderous Libellors of Christian Princes Gods Presidents that in the newe Ierusalem shal be celestiall Citizens where is such Ioy prepared for all the elect the Faithfull Obediente and humble Sprited as neyther Tongue can expresse Wit conceiue or Pen prescribe Vnto the which Earthly happinesse Heauenly blessednesse God the Father draw vs God the Sonne guide vs and GOD the holy Ghost bring vs To the which Almightie Euerlasting Immensible and only wise God before all aboue all and in all be all laude honoure glorie dominion and Maiestie for euer and euer AMEN FINIS A Table containing the Summaries of euerie Chapiter set forth in thys Booke VVHat vvriters ought to consider and vvherfore the Author hath made this vvorke Chap. 1. Hovv the Nurse must be chosen and vvhiche is best Chap. 2. Of the age fauoure and manners of the Nurse Chap. 3. Hovv to knovv the temperature of the Nurse and milke Chap. 4. VVhy Nurses are to be changed hovv vvise men vvey of vvriters that Monarkes haue bin marred by Nurses and Princes by euil parents depraued Chap. 5. Of the best Milk and vvhat Teates be good and vvhiche bothe grieue and deforme the childe and that doe cause it to be vnquiet Chap. 6. VVhat pleasure children haue in Musicke of vvhat force it is to alter affections and hovv the Nurse must rule hir passion after vvhat sort lust must be depressed Cha. 7. The definition distinction of Temperance and of the profit and commendation thereof vvith the commoditie that grovveth of keeping the fasting dayes and vvho hathe bin alvvayes tollerated Of the Theologicall and
vvay Faith is obtayned Hovv means and miracles differ of the confutatioÌ„ of diuers heresies VVhat hurt doth grovv of too too costly apparell Paules opinion concerning the vnrighteous and vvhy it is layd dovvne Chap. 41. VVherin a good common vveale consisteth and hovve the Gentiles as vvel as Christians had allurements and meanes to dravve men therevnto A question vvay Christ suffered That God is no lesse iuste than he is mercifull Hovv Princes take their regimeÌ„t from God in that they punishe the euill aduance the good The fruites of the Spirit declared The vvorkes of the fleshe desciphered Oure Sauiours Sermon vppon the mount touched That the Morall lavve is continuall and in some parte the Iudiciall but not at all the Ceremoniall Hovve all men be created to do good vvorks A brief conclusion vppon the drifte of thys vvhole vvorke That euerye Countrey is to liue vvithin the limites of their ovvne lavves Chap. 42. VVho oughte to rule Youth and vvhy A briefe deuisioÌ„ of the faculties of the braine And hovve that luste and courage is more pron◠〈◊〉 Youth than to Age. Chap. 43. The povver of the soule defuted Adams fall 〈◊〉 The Ievves or Israelites losse notvvithstaÌ„ding the lavv of Moses VVhat 〈◊〉 manye albeit they be Christians Of diuers charitable deedes done of late as vvell as of olde The difference that is betvveene them that fauoure Vertue and theÌ„ that further vice although they bothe professe Christe Chap. 44. To vvhom the Author submitteth all his trauelâ— The duty of Diuines Promisse made at their consecration of their liuings vvith the manner of theyr liues And of Simony Chap. 45. VVhat foods and doctrine the Apostles deliuered And in vvhat the Sum of the Scripture doeth consiste And vvho onelye after Saint Augustine shal possesse the Kingdome of Heauen Chap. 46. FINIS First Booke De vanitate seâ—entiarii Liâ— de doct Christ cap. 4. Sectio 1. loue Courage Reason 1. de 4. f. Natural things Not naturall things Things according to nature Things annexed to nature Lib de Dicta De saenit tu lib. 14. De tuenâ—a vale De infant How the Nurses must be chosen lib. 1 de sa tu Nat hâ—st li. de edâ—infan in libel de Amore proliâ— Gelius â— in noct attic Wherfore Nurses are gotten Lib. 2. de Vtopia Lâ—b 14. Lib. 2. The age of the Nurse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lib. 1. de inf â— Art. Par. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Teige Lib. 4. Lib. 5. de reg de 4 au vâ— In trect de opere tri dierium Lib. 2. de Vtopia Lib. 3. de Inueus â—erii Cap. 22. Cap. 4. eccle How to know a frowarde person â—irac 15. Art. Phâ—sog in timeo in câ—r 3. art part De fat for Lib. quot A. in Q. Arguments of a good temperature 1. de tâ— va Libr. de sâ— tu Incoment 3. De. nat Annalâ—m 5. de câ—os Sym de tu va How to know the best milk 1. de tu va 3. â—â—ms Libr. 4. c. 4. In Hist nat Libr. memorabio lium 3. de Aliment 3 Primi 1. Top. Libro 4. 3 Primi Ca. de elig nut Pri. de vs part Causes to chaunge the Nurse That the milke can after the nature of the suckling as wel as the seede Lib. 3. eleg Car lib. 4. Lib. 1. Siluâ—rum Whom the authour coueteth to please Emperours depraued through Nursing Titus Lib. 2. Caesar Caligula Tibarius No counsel can perswade the wicked De tu va How Lions Leoperds be tamed In Satur. Caucasus as the Cosmographers affirme is a mouÌ„taine deuiding in the middest great Asia the which beginneth in Iudea and endeth in Scithia Lib. 7. Good couÌ„sell for mothers A prouerb to often true A straunge remedie In vit Comodi Lib. de in sa Whose milke meetest In coÌ„men de sum medicament facult Libr. de nat puer Lib. 4. Libr. de decorat in pract What brests be both worsh and beste a note to the Nurse Of the grief that ouer great and olittic nibbels causeth Lib. 1. de sa tuâ—â— The force of Musicke Noble musitions Ecclesi 3.2 By Musike man beaste are coÌ„forted all that entiseth to vice is to be abolished A good way to auoyd vngodly affections lib. 2. Peda. sup Psal. Lib. 2. de prepcuäan Ipistâ—â—t â—uid 1. de tu sa 3. Art. part 1. de Offi. 1. Prob. 11.12.14 Lib. 3 ca â—â— Lib. 7. ca. 36 Lib. 9. cap. 12. 1 de san tue 1. The discomodities of venety in a Nurse In Apho. De tuenda va Lib. de med mat Lib. de pri Good counsel to the Nurse Temperance defined 3 Lib. Cicero de finibbon maâ— Lib de florib dâ— temp Sermo 3. The regall graces Gouernours gods Lieutenaunts Rom. â—â— Sap 6. 1. Pet. 2. Lib. 6. Seauen speciall commodities gotten by keeping of the fasting dayes Nine kind of persons not bound to fast The Theorical graces De cad 2. Fol. 242. In trac de dig matr The humain graces al things subiect to the vertues Cap. 3.4.5.121 Psal. 86. Ioel. 2 32. Iere. 31. Hebr. 4. Tim. 2. Lib. de ver sect cap. de prod Sir Iohn Conway â— Aph. 10. Exercise profitable before meate Of the force of the ayre As valiant trauellers as shilful by sea and land in England as in any part of Europe Through custome bad aire doth not so great hurt When is best ayre Lib. de tuen val Ireland a goodly and healthy countrey Lib. 1. de re tust Lib. 1. de repub all the land wel known of the authour Ludlaw an excellent proper towne healthful seate Lib. de act acpâ—â—â— regionib 9. Lib. quod aniâ—m De sanitate 〈◊〉 Why the Athenians wer healthier and wiser thaÌ„ the Thebanes Lib. 4. â—â— 6. De tuenda vale What exercises he best for Nurses The Persians that were noble disdained to worke vpon wool bicause the glorie of their country consisted in silke and not in Wool as other doth An old custome much praysed De saâ—â— De tu va Lib. de regim ReguÌ„ 6. ca. Of vertuous qualities in women What kind of Musicke is tollerable and what is not Lib. 5. What kinds of dauncing both the olde and new diuines disalowe Euery man marketh womens manners but no man loketh into his own Lib. 5. de rec â—â—t In Phil. Lib. 4. In Epit. 4. The benefit of exercise When exercise is best Lib. 1. de vriâ—â—â— Lib. de ind vri Lib. de vâ—in Lib. 6. de sa tuen Lib. de Euch. Lib. de euch cacho In act par gal Lib. 3. Gen. ca. 9. 2. de Sa. pri de alâ—m A reasonable aunswere Iosep de bello Iudaie Pet. Mart. in Decad. De simp med facâ— Pri. de dien Lib. de ench Pri. cap. Lib. de San. tu â— de Alâ—ment Wholesome meates Cap. de agrid â—â—rel Sectio 2. Leuit. 12. Lib. de Tuen va De nâ—â— Cer. 12. De leg as the blind can iudge no colours so the ignorant can giue no counsel Gen. 3.8
that the power wisdome and iustice of kings princed and rulers is the gouernement of God they be his presiâ—â—â—ts for by me sayth he Princes rule as in the holy volume most plainely and very often is expressed Whyche I woulde that some pastours preachers and ministers woulde wiselyer weye and warne in their Synodes SermoÌ„s parishes not to suffer others that haue no liceÌ„ce to preach their inuentioÌ„s contrary to the Quéenes procéedings as I wish that they in their houses wold observe that al other by them might take example to kepe Lent and suche fasting dayes as by the lawes of God and men are commaunded of Courtiers and Lawyers better vsed than of some diuines althoughe the Apostles themselues ordayned Lente and Telesphorus Quinquagesima as Polidor writeth wherby the bodie may be brought obedient to the spirit that Name better maintained land encrease more cherished and the more subiectes be bred and nourished with two partes in sixe of household diet saued the bodie healthilier preserued and the more people exercised let some Libertines busie belly bodies neuer so cunningly voyde of feare or duetie colour the coÌ„trary Howbeit nine sorts of people by lawes haue ben always tollerated as the case hath required Sick Soldiers Sailers Infants Nurses womeÌ„ gret longing or lying in Childe bed aged persoÌ„s prisoners wayfaring meÌ„ whoÌ„ of late they named Pilgrims The seconde from inordinate and vnlawfull touching or venerie as from coueting of goods vnlawfullye as sayth Clemens Alexandrinus as in the last Section where all actuall sinnes are expressed shal be shewed The thirde not only from vnsitting toyes but also from al other vnlawfull déedes be it of séeing hearing or smelling so that through this vertue Temperance the actions inwarde outwarde of vs vppon this earth are kepte in their meane as the heauenly Sunne through his mouing light and influence in the middle Sphere giueth his meane temperature yéelding by gods appointment to this lower world with the rest of the celestiall bodies all flourishing comfort growth and encrease Wherevpon the diuine Doctor Saint Hierome saith that be which obserueth Temperaunce liueth like a reasonable treature but he that doth not like a bruite beast And Bullinger sayeth vnlesse we liue and leade a temperate 〈◊〉 life we are vtterly vnworthy to beare the name of Christians of the louing bush and therefore that feareth god obeyeth his Prince lawes or regardeth reason alwayes to be considered as wel as of the woman bycause hir bodie is subiect to the vertuous man as the sacred Scriptures most diuinely doe teach the Homilies instructeth Peter Lawne handleth and as experience amongst all good Christians sheweth not seuering themselues as it is too commonly practised but rather louingly the one to embrace the other except a lawful and manifeste cause according to the Scriptures and not liberty do coÌ„strain it seeing that they be both but one fleshe two immortal soules the creatures that be only endued with reason courage and 〈◊〉 with power Iustice and wisdome that must abide the terrible sentence according to their déedes to whom al creatures as wel heauenly as earthly serue and obeye as long as they vse folowe and practise the workes of the spirit and forsake the wicked workes of the fraile flesh as by Tobias it is euideÌ„tly expressed and of Paul the chosen Apostle in the Acts in his Epistles at large declared which briefly in this last part is vttered Prayer not being the leaste for through it as the Prophetes Apostles and Doctours of the Churche doe affirme namely Saint Augustine S. Ambrose Saint Ierome Saint Chrisostome with all other holye fathers of the primatiue Church as wel as of latter time as by our godly and lerned Homilies and pestils dayly redde therin appeareth fleshly affections are thereby not only quenched but also God euen our god which guideth al things is therwith best pleased after the phrase of men as the Scripture doeth by the figure Anthropopathia with Lodouicus Viues I speak it and therfore it shall dayly and nightly he vsed The kingly Prophet Dauid hath so willed it of diuerse in our â—ong deuoutlye and dutifullye deuised in their bookes of â—â—â—red prayers of all the zealous sort highly to be imbraced the Meditations and selfe talke of Saint Augustine latelye translated And so before meate shall exercise for Hippocrates hath so willed it that labour should goe before meate that the bodie may be made more pure and cleane for the vncleane the more you nourishe them the more you hurt them CHAP. IX In what aire exercise should be of the force thereof whiche is best and how to know it THys bréeding bringing vp and exercise shold be in a good ayre as the child it selfe must be brought vp in when as the ayre can more alter the bodie and spirits than any nourishment or foode as Diodorus Siculus Consiliator Martin Curtez and Peter Martir of Anglera affirmeth séeing that of the matter of it is breathing as Galen proueth which if it shal be euil or infected the liuing creature can not long be sounde as Rhasis Agricola and Benedictus Victorius testifye and as our valiant trauellers finde true in their Nauigations to Perrow China and Cataya Hence may be proued that the aire is not so hurtful as some iudge especiallye for them that be brought vp and accustomed therevnto neyther in Hollande Holdernesse Rumney marsh Brint marsh the Lowes in Lancashire and hundreds in Essex c. for as muche as in all these and many others that I name not as well in forraine soyle as in our own countrey I haue séene as wel sundry olde men as diuerse healthye and lustie persons The wholesomest ayre as all the Philosophers and Phisitions do affirme is that that is of pure substaunce and that when the Sunne ariseth doth soone waxe hot when it setteth doth soone coole as Mont. declareth as is affirmed to be in iâ— Slemarge in Irelande being the very cause of their greate health and length of life as a hundred sixescore seauenscore yeares and vpwards as they there enformed me the seconde yeare of the raigne of Quéene Mary And as that learned maÌ„ Maister Iohn Chaloner hir highnesse secretarie in Ireland â—aÌ„ testifye There be diuerse meanes by whiche the holesomnesse of the aire and place may be knowen as be places frée from staÌ„ding waters and quickly dispatch of the cloudes of the night as Palladius sayeth and that be likewise from the Sea as Plato sheweth bycause that as the Sea of his owne nature is â—â—try and stormie so the inhabiters mindes do alwayes like it 〈◊〉 and flowe Whiche of my selfe to praise or disprayse according to the nature of places to me for the most part vniuersally knowen throughout all this lande I thinke not requisite for sundrye considerations of the wise easily coniectured This onelye I wish
grauen carued wrought in Arrays in Embrodry or painted A paterne doubtlesse for all suche workemen moste acceptable when as artes do but counterfayt nature And no maruel although men can do things right maruellous and excellent yet is there none no not one that can compare with gods working the euerlasting worker no not althoughe he would excel as sayth Lawne Apelles Timantis Pigmalion Lisippus Xeuxis Archites and Albert. CHAP. XXI What deuises some dames vse for forming of their broode Of the abuse that old Priests had in Christning wherin Baptisme consisteth and how death commeth Of the worthinesse of children with a briefe mention made how they bee prouided for The causes as some thinke why things be so deare in these dayes HEnce therefore these ouer curious and daintie Dames are not vniustlye in this place to be detected reproued that be not contented with the Lordes doings that their babes bodies be framed righte aunswerable to their naturall temperature healthy séemely and comelye but they will take his omnipotent power and heauenly office forth of his most righteous handes as farre skilfuller they thinke I wéene than his euerlasting wisedome vsing instruments and trickes of their owne trifeling and toyish inuention as Brasers Wastes or bodies made eyther of paper bordes plate or Cardes c. to make them slender althought by â—â—ture they be framed rounde and handsome Not knowing 〈◊〉 reading gods indignation for so heathenish an action 〈◊〉 well expressed of the diuine Prophet Esay and to be abolished of Christians sayth Viues bycause as Saint Augustine writeth it is the worke of the Diuel neyther howe that thereby they shorten their childrens liues in hindring as well natures operation by bringing diuerse obstructions and infirmities to the parts but also causeth forth most stinking breathes copper faces redde noses riueled skinne tawâ—ie coloure and lesse fruitfulnesse And no maruel for as Tullie testifyeth to striue against nature is to striue against God of the whiche in the ages following shall he further mentioned forthe of Democritus and Plautus let Cirus the Persian Monarch Ethnicke prince neuer so greatly commende it So that I wil detayne and kéepe you no longer from swadling vp your Odely and gracious babes in sufficient clothes for colde is enimie to growth whiche made Galen to mislike the order of the Germaines of those dayes that vsed as soone as their infants were borne to put them as the Smith doth red hot Iron into cold water hazarding both the naturall growth and strength as he affirmeth The like foolish order I haue séene some of the old Priestes obserue with vs when they Christened putting the babe to the bottome of the fonte not knowing belike what worthye Hippocrates sayth that all sodayne mutations be most daungerous nor that Baptisme doth not consist in the Element abundaunce of water as Bonauenture and Bullinger doe â—â—â—te wherein the childe was ouerwhelmed but in faith and â—â—â—neration whereby we are borne spiritual a new as the â—â—â—opian was mentioned in the Actes and obtayning the â—â—â—enesse of sinnes are adopted the children of God and â—â—â—â—e inheritours of the heauenlye life as by the doctrine of the Scripture and them that were of the primatiue churche appeareth if Tertullian were one as if you reade hys workes you may sée Saint Augustine Saint Ciprian Saint Basil and other the Catholike diuines of oure time condemning all suche Heretikes as deny the children of Christians to néede Christning bycause they prepare the way to al infidelitie and to deny originall sinne as this also is easie for al men to know that if the naturall heate within shoulde bée ouercome of the outwarde colde the liuing creature must néedes perishe when as of the immoderate vse of ElemeÌ„ts death ensueth as Galen proueth where he hath both reason and experience the summe of all natural triall for his warrant as also in my Preface De Elementis doth appeare Henceforth therfore I thinke this will be omitted for who knowing the extreame folly great hinderaunce to the growth and daunger of the déepe ducking wil beare therewith I think verily not a barbarous Scithian but that he loueth his owne childe better for as Euripides testifieth to all men their children is their ioy and a worship to their parents as Salomon saith And the gifte and heritage that commeth of the Lord as the princely Prophet Dauid witnesseth Through the lawful number whereof well broughte vppe or else as the Prouerbe is Better vnborne than vntaught let no man thinke himselfe the poorer but rather a greate deale the richer and the worthyer member forasmuche as only in Isaac alone all Israel were not only blessed and multiplyed but all the kinreds of the earth also were sanctified And by the sacred ioyning in the honorable estate of Wedlocke so highly in the Scriptures commended and so cunningly reasoned of Chelidonius Tigurinus Lodouicus Viues and Peter Bouastiau common weales are well and lawfully peopled Of the Athenians also practised as both by Plato and Aristotle is verified although the Romains as affirmeth Titus Liuius inuented playes to steale away the youth of the Sabians at the first beginning of their state bycause they wanted women to encrease their Citizens as Polidorus writeth as the Beniamites â—â—â—y the Damoyselles that came to daunce in Sylo and the Assyrians and Babilonians boughte their wiues whyche amongest the Sarazens and Arabians is still practised but after vsed mariages regarding therewith their Prolataries as the Spartanes didde them that begatte their men children as diuers Townes of war doth their males therein deliuered entring them forthwith into wages Also the Infants base begotten are Orphanes of the common wealth and of them thoroughe charitable lawes prouided for Albeit suche parentes are greatelye to be punished that of adultry and fornication make small accompte as those also of the poorest commons that contrary to the antient laws â—ary that is before the woman bée one and twenty or thrée and twenty and the man eight and twenty or thirty and such also that haue no occupation trade mistery or stocke of tenne pâ—â—â—â—es at the leaste besides in sight and apparell for their mainteinaunce in sicknesse withoute penury or beggery of whâ—â—nd family And yet I woulde not that any should think that I maintaine either Stews or Brothels in Citie Town Iune or Countrey or any other lewdenesse for them that his single or marryed but that I preferre wyth Saint Hierome Virginitie béefore Marriage especiallye in thys populous age vnlesse it be where issue wanteth and that suche 〈◊〉 neither Nature nor Man hathe made chaste make themselues for the loue of the kingdome of Heauen whether they be man or woman spirituall or temporall frée or bonde and then it sufficientlye appeareth the greate comforte profite and worthinesse of well ordered and legitimate children And no miserye impouerishement or wretchednesse to them
declare Hence likewise the Countie Castilio and Osorius the Byshop testifye that if nature repugne the Prince all diligence and exhortation of the Courtier is but in vayne for what nature hath made crooked sayeth the Preacher who can make â—reight the same also in the firste parte by the example of the Emperoures depraued I haue shewed in briefe and Mokerus at large Wherefore when we be distempered bycause thys naturall meanes is something wanting through eyther the constitution dyet regiment or euill custome according to the excesse or want thereof all be depraued from oure parente Adam more or lesse inducing sicknesse trouble and sinne CHAP. XXXV At what time Infantes should beginne to learne and what properties qualities ought to be in a Tutor and what Bookes he shoulde teach the firste age A briefe note of the doctrine that in the other workes and ages shall follow with diuers other things worth the noting NOw that through these infantes may not be further empayred as far forth as by dyet we maye deuise Religion rule and arte inforce as Ambrose Lactantius Firmianus Galen and Palingenius doe shewe Children are to be trayned vp from the first steppe of vnderstanding with louing learned 〈◊〉 discret persons of good Religion experte knowledge and godly â—se as Plutarchus Clemens Alexandrinus and Iohanâ—â— Ioâ—â—us â—â—â—â—meth Although Galen and Boetius dothe not appoynt it vntill the seconde seauenth yeare yet I thinke it most reasonable with Quintilian Lodouicus Viues and Mokerus especially in this age soone ripe soone rotten whereof in the next volume I shall shew the reason from the third yeare the lusty sort and the other not so pregnant or ready witted from the fourth yeare fifth and sixth and that they eschue the sight and hearing of that that might make them worse as is said if they learne not that that might make them better and to appoynte a Tutor a Scholemayster of good nature sufficient knowledge ciuill manners goodly stature and séemely gesture for to be their guide rather than earnestly to teache as yet whose tenne properties with many worthy sayings touching nouriture deuised by Don Anthony Gueuara and traÌ„slated by Mayster North I omitte bycause it is extant in Englishe in most places and doe thinke good to expresse these of Gordonius First that he be apt to teach wittie and ingenious and that he can interprete the holy Scriptures applye them for the amendment of life and agrée them for the strengthening of our faith Secondly that he be good and honest of conuersation for to speake well and worke euil is but to condemne and falsifie a mans owne wordes Thirdly that he be humble in teaching and not loftie and proude harted nor a tormentor with stripes Fourthly that he be eloquent for science without eloqueÌ„ce is as a Sword in a lame mans hand Lastly that he be cunning and haue the perfite way of teaching so excellentlye well set out by Maister Ascham for all sharp wittes as hitherto hath not bin done in his booke of instruction of youth dedicated to the noble and righte prudente couÌ„sellor the Lord Burleigh high Treasourer of England And as for the other sortes of baser capacities or pleasanter wits as their Tutors shal thinke best the Kings Grammer Foxes long musicke wrighting or any other méete for their weake wittes delicate deuises and trades ensuing chosen for theyr 〈◊〉 and learning and not for fauour or kindred but at the seuenth yeare for further in this first worke I intend not bycause that the rest of the order of our trayning vp in al health holynesse and maners of life with such kind of discipline and trades méete to garnish a Christian Diademe and what complexions are best to learne and what Authors méetest to bée might shall be left for diuers volumes answerable to the diuersitie of ages for others to performe according to this platâ—â—â—e if I be hindered or discouraged aunswerable to eache nature office time and place c. séeing those be better preferâ—â—â— that trauell only for priuate profite than he which to hys â—â—all power with tooth and nayle seketh the common benefite CHAP. XXXVI At what time Galen willeth ChildreÌ„ to exercise and what pastimes be meetest for gentilitie and what labours and trades be best for the coÌ„munaltie to auoyde as well roâ—gishnesse as idlenesse Of the foreshew of good children and how soone Strangers make theirs get their liuing Of the speedie regarde that woulde be hadde to Scholes and Scholers of England and Ireland as wel for the ouer multitude that is in the one as the ouer few number that is in the other IT shall be time sayeth Galen for such sonnes as shall nobly and worshipfully be descended and that haue such sound parts as we haue afore described méete for the Campe Courte and common affayres with the knowledge afore mentioned to learne to ride runne â—rastle tosse the light launce throw the small dart made fit for their féedle strength vsing Archerie chiefely although euery one caÌ„not atteine to Catenes cuÌ„ning meÌ„tioned by Quintus Câ—â—â—ul The rest of the coÌ„munaltie euery one to some arte or â—â—â—â—rie answerable to their nature inuention place vnlesse as in youth you carefully nourishe them in age you meane cruelly to cast them away and therein what else doe you saith More but then make Roges and then punishe Roges And those persons sayth Plato that passe their lyues without profit ought to haue the rest of their dayes lawfully taken from them Also the Scriptures saye that they that will not labour ought not to eate Hence it séemeth that oure profitable lawe made againste Roges and vagrant persons is iustly broughte And in childhode labours should beginne bycause the twigge you knowe the Prouerbe will easelyest twine whiles it is gréene he seene prickes that will be a thorne soone â—roketh the trée that good camocke will be and vse maketh maysterie as by dayly experience and the strangers children it appeareth for at four and fiue yeares many of them get their liuing being therefore no suche burthen to the common wealth as some fantastically imagine but rather greatly beneficiall if you will well wey the sundrie wayes and trades that they teache howe our children maye get some part also of their maintenance with the profit that sundry Townes and Cities hath by the industrie of them learned as in open shew most excellently in the eye of your maiestie at Norwich was handled wishing that in sundry corporations of VVales and the North some were planted that so the idle mighte be both taught to get their liuing and also that the voyd and emptie houses mighte be maynteyned and that the greatest part of all youth hauing gotten some streÌ„gth as well of theirs as of ours shoulde be brought vp in husbandrie and dayly laboures and not in toyish deuises néedelesse for our commons a lesser parte of all kinde of Artificers and Merchants