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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16206	The castle, or picture of pollicy shewing forth most liuely, the face, body and partes of a commonwealth, the duety quality, profession of a perfect and absolute souldiar, the martiall feates encounters and skirmishes lately done by our English nation, vnder the conduct of the most noble and famous Gentleman M. Iohn Noris Generall of the Army of the states in Friseland. The names of many worthy and famous gentlemen which liue and haue this present yeare. 1580. ended theyr liues in that land most honorably. Handled in manner of a dialogue betwixt Gefferay Gate, and William Blandy, souldiars. Anno 1581.	Blandie, William.; Gates, Geffrey.	1581 (1581)	STC 3128; ESTC S104609	42,363	70

pleasure Blandy As there is in the body a fayre or foule a neate or lesse fine an amiable or odible feature that is when euery part according to his accustomed and naturall proportion aunswereth other or as superfluous lumpes resulteth So there is in the minde betwixt which in excellency and creation of nature there is no comparisō a dimme or daynty a cleare or cloudy a rough or royall a harde or gentle and haughty Image for both which according to their vnsemely or swéete cleane or corrupt state some are lothed some loued some refused other raysed to honor and dignity Whose héele excéeds his head in quātity whose arme swelleth and hath in it as it were a blowing billow as bigg as his wast we not reckoning so much of his miserye and wretchednesse wherewith he is most pittifully wrapt in scarse number him and that for right good cause among men In like maner in whose minde there is an intrusion made that is where lustfull pleasure fond faneye wilfull desire taketh reason with all her powers and faculties prisoners and bring them in most lamentable and mourning maner like Captiues fast chayned to the lothsome darcke dungeon of scilence there the excellency of Proportion in that part is as much euerted as if the earth should become no more y e Centre violently contrary to kinde challenge the chiefe and superiority of fire and fire contrary to all reason fall downe and vpholde the water Gate Your reason resoundeth their saying who affirme that no corrupt can suppresse a finer creature Blandy Me thinkes as they iudge howbeit sometimes casually or rather by the sufferance of God the earth and water contayneth an aiery part which notwithstanding in those lower caues and dennes beneath in his kinde striueth most egerly and at length breaketh out to the terror and amasing of men flying as one redéemed out of thrall vp agayne to his wonted place of rest So that euery thing disordered commeth either to ineuitable losse and ruine by the extremitye of riott or by natures good grace gouermēt receaueth againe his accustomed light and beauty Gate You haue to my thincking done well Blandy If what I haue sayd be to any auaileable it shall please me right well to receaue the same as from a cleare and changeable welspring of your owne lipps againe wherefore repeate for the singular loue you beare me briefely what I haue disclosed Gate You haue spoken of the minde and bodye betwixt the beautye deformitye whereof as you haue declared there is no comparison For I hold the calamitie of that minde and bodye incomparable were the outward partes neuer so vnproper the pearcing eye of whose minde sense hath blered whose glistring lookes lust hath obscured the light of whose vnderstanding and memory error springing of earthlynes hath ouerwhelmed with palpable darcknesse Blandy You rehearse nothing els but whereunto I most willingly assent Gate You haue most friendly satisfied the moyetye of my demaunde the other braunche whereof I shall tast some finer fruite I desier with zeale to sée it spread forth Blandy What part and braunch is that Gate You haue spoken of the deformitye of the minde Now it is conuenient you tell vs of a conformed minde or as you please of a minde proportioned that the séemely shape thereof being knowen might enamour vs with the grace and brauery of her beautye Blandy When I consider the wonderfull greatnes and worthynes of the minde garnished with all pretious gemmes of noble vertues I finde no florish of eloquence no lights of learning no trym speaches or Khetoricall wordes sufficient for his description For if the sharpe witts of those who haue professed Eloquence when they would describe the prayses of any humaine vertue were with the waight of the matter sometimes so cloyed that their senses to theyr great shame and rebuke were cleane ouerwhelmed how much more ought I then poore séely and simple man stay stagger fearing foltring dreading to be drowned as in a déepe lake in so ample highe and graue an argument Gate I commend truely herein more your modesty then courage and wisedome For I holde this the property of a well disposed and good natured young man earnestly bent in the studye of most worthye knowledges not to rest contented with thinges of meane account but earnestly prosecute and clime vnto the highest causes and then to bestirre himselfe and labor feruently when he séeth himselfe to be intangled with greatest difficulty Wherefore albeit you are in your owne opinion by reason of any witt and exercise able litle to do séeing that you haue taken in hand so great and difficult a matter I holde your blame in geuing ouer greater then holdenesse in taking it in hand Blandy Your persuasion sith what you haue sayd is true hath wonne me altogether and the rather that the action is right good and honest Wherefore I am addressed as my poore ability will serue to discourse largely of the excellency of the minde and his creation Gate Say on I shall bend and recline my eare diligētly Blandy The most excellent power and maiesty of that heauenly minde which being most high and euerlasting we worthely reuerence and adore as our God as the euerlasting fountayne of life as the maker and creator of all thinges when it did séeme good to his vnspeakeable wisedome to deale bountifully imparting his benefites to many for nothing sheweth so much the goodnesse and vertue of God as his frée beneficence in the beginning he created the inuisible world beautified with holy Aungels who beholding alwayes his incomprehensible light and brightnes doe liue in euerlasting blessednesse Gate Came all those his creatures to the same estate of glory and immortality Blandy In no wise Those onely enioyed that pleasaunt plott of infinite rest who reposed the stay and Castle of their safety the lightnes of their brightnes the cause and end of theyr blessed life in theyr Lord and maker Gate Did any of those holy and heauenly wightes fall from the true honor of theyr creator Blandy Holy scripture learneth vs of an infinite number the chiefe of whom was named Lucifer Gate What was theyr impiety I pray you shew declaring withall theyr punishment Blandy These first fell to y e neglect contempt of God being enamored with the beauty of themselues and maintayning still this rebellious spirit yelded at length to theyr owne natures a kinde of preheminence in glory not vnlike to the very God head Wherefore they were depriued of that passing cleare light whereof they were most vnworthy and throwne downe into the place of perpetuall and euerlasting misery and into the darcke dungeon of that night that shall euer continue So that after God had made the highest heauens and wonderfull worke thereof which no eye hath séene then he framed this world most beautifull and of excéeding fayrenesse garnishing it with all pleasures and commodities In the making whereof he vsed no other engine or deuise

experience moued questions too and fro of no small importaūce All which had relation to pollicye and ciuile gouerment Gate I cannot easely forget the diuersitie of those discourses interlaced with so many pleasaunt and pithye speaches In y e varietye of which inuention a castle by you artificially erected was of as many as heard your discourse extolled to the skyes wherein you as some other Amphion moued remoued drewe withdrewe the eares of your hearers whither the progresse of your vnderstanding deliuered in so deyntye and trym wordes in so decent and comely order in so sugred swéete a tongue bent it selfe Wherefore recount I most hartely pray you the same agayne Blandy I thinke it not best Gate Why so I pray you Blan. Were it not thinke you a poynt in me of great follye rashnesse to committ to the viewe of wise and learned men a repetition of a wearisome tale and fond Imagination especially knowing my selfe to haue receaued the least portion of learning wherewith infinite nūbers of our owne Countrymen and straugers are plentifully indued Agayne what fruite will you reape or who will the more accompt of vs if you and I speake or write of knowledge in a worlde replete and glutted with letters Farther who will now almost looke vpon and regard any inuention except it senteth lyke a flower and in shew and hue be lyke vnto a Lillye Lastly doe not you hazard greatly your credite to ioyne with so poore and simple a man any way as my selfe you being through many daungerous and bitter bruntes in the field approued in Martiall affaires expert for your skill and pollicye reputed Gate Discreete and sober men pardone imperfection where the minde andinclination is good The fruite that I purpose and hope hereby to reape is the weale of my Countrye Which honest and vpright intent thowsand moe writers can no wise preiudice And whereas many fauor pleasures and therefore couet such letters which you haue not vnproperly compared to flowers Lillyes which by nature are good yelding a sweete but yet a shorte sent pleasing rather the sence of some singular persons then profiting the soule of a Commonwealth yet all are not so ledd and minded Wherefore vnto those other these labors shall be dedicated who are of a more highe and lofty spirite your pouertye which you meane and speake of hindreth not but that you may be much more for that inricht in minde Simplicity is the ground and roote of heauēly wisedome In conclusion who could fitt me to addresse and finish this good and honest enterprise so well as he that hath bene my fellow Souldiar in the warres who hath also except I be deceaued greatly more then tasted of the streames and riuers of learning Wherefore be of good courage my powers are prest to vpholde your penne Blādy I am altogether wonne to your good desire building my labors as on a sure vnmoueable rock vpō your déep and tryediudgement Yet so that we both submitt whatsoeuer shall be by vs vttered to the verdite and censure of those who preuayle in witte excell in knowledge and learning The absolute frame and building therefore whereof I in our March discoursed consisted of sixe Romes and Chambers Gate Before you enter further into this discourse shew me I pray you the forme and figure of the frame Blandy It was sphericall or round Gate How were the lodginges deuided Blandy The Roofe and highest couering conteyned thrée especiall Chambers with theyr peculiar offices directly vnderneath were other thrée by squares and spaces distincted And to the end you should holde it to be the onely monument in the worlde beleue me the rarest Mathematitian in Europe vewed first the place and according to the swéete and safe constillation of the starres drew the Platt deliuering to posterity this testimony for his perpetuall honor and memory y t if the partes within did alwayes obserue and aunswere the face of the frame they should feare no force no fury no brauado no bullett no battery Gate The figure of this frame is so absolute the statelinesse so sumptuous the beauty so séemely and excéeding rich that I may deeme it for right good cause the onely paterne and péereles Pallace in y e world what name hath it Blandy This Architecture hight Pollicye Gate For whome was this sumptuous and curious worke wrought who shall possesse a Pallace so péereles Blandy A King A Iusticer A Souldiar A Marchaunt An Artificer A Tiller of the ground Gate Are these the partes you spake of before is this the power that shall possesse and defend with security thys inuincible forte May no one of greater skill and déeper reatch controle this diuision adde vnto or diminish the number Blandy In no wise Gate Why so Blandy The workemanship is so rare the strength wherof standeth on the combination of the partes within contayned Gate What is that of what kinde and excellency is it that hath so fast glued them together and is to the frame so great a stay and firmament Blandy I will shew you To euery parte before rehearsed belonges his proper and peculiar vertue and qualitye To the Prince preheminence to the Iusticer iudgement to the Souldiar puissaunce to the Marchaunt desire to be enriched to the Artificer delight in his occupation to the Tiller of the groūd true obedience That which doth most firmely and strōgly ioyne and knitt these partes together is Proportion which broken and defaced not onely renteth and plucketh in sunder the frame but tottereth withall and tumbleth down the Prince peruerteth iustice poysoneth and plucketh downe the good and vpright minde of the Souldiar robbeth the Marchaunt ransacketh the Artificer spoyleth vtterly the simple and poore laboursome man Gate Is this that you call Proportion a thing of so great perfection Blandy Proportion is of that force and stretcheth forth so largely that no mā without an especiall regard of it can well gouerne himselfe in a Family Citty and commō wealth the power thereof doth more eminently appeare Gate What is Proportion I pray you shew me Blandy Proportion is the iust right and naturall measure of thinges directed to theyr originall and first creatiō So that what soeuer is more or lesse greater or smaller then Arte hath deuised course of kinde kept obserued in all ages limited to the first and successiue shape not onely of men but of all other thinges created is in no wise to be called proportioned Gate Then all thinges haue according to your opinion a right or wrong a iust or vniust proportion Blandy In no wise so For this opinion I defend that all thinges proportioned are straightened and made vpright through knowledge and wisedome all other crooked and mishapen thinges are to be termed Monsters not adding there unto the name of proportion for that they are made ingendred through error and blindenesse Gate If you would in a simile or example more playnely disclose your drifte you should doe me a right acceptable

then his owne will and pleasure Gate To what purpose and for whose vse that most high creator and Lord of all thinges hath made this so beautiful workemanshipp this so excellent forme and shape of heauenly bodies this so large and spacious greatnesse of sea and land For it is not the practise of his infinite wisedome to doe any thing in vayne but for some excellent ende and purpose For whose sake then did he after a most wonderfull order frame that most goodly and séemely substance of thinges dislike in nature and yet agréeing among themselues For his owne sake thinke you because he would haue a trimmer habitation Blandy In no wise For it were not onely a wicked thing but a poynt of extreame madnesse to thinke so of that most blessed minde then the which nothing more perfect and absolute may be imagined the vertue and power whereof is infinite and inscrutable to haue néeded any earthly and bodily tabernacle or that at all times before he wanted somewhat to accomplishing of perfect blessednesse or to the fulnes of his glory or that God coulde be enclosed within any certayne rome or compasse Gate What then were these thinges prouided for the Aungels and Saintes of God Blandy In no wise For they being seuered and frée from all fellowshipp and coniunction of the bodye desire nothing els but to behold their maker neither can they reape any commoditye or conceaue any pleasure of thinges beneath in these lower partes And to thinke this great and wonderfull worke to be made for vnreasonable creatures or for the vse of trées and plantes for fishes byrdes and fowles it were to to absurde God hath not therefore deuised this so goodly and beautifull a frame for himselfe for Aungels for the fruites of the earth for creatures voyde of reason but for man Gate In all this season where was man for whome God had prepared so beautifull so rich so bountifull a kingdome Blandy Man was in the minde vertue and iudgement of God So that when at length the world it selfe was finished he made first a bodye of earth thē he breathed therein a minde finely fashioned according to his owne Image and similitude Syr sée you not manifestly the beginning and creation of the most excellent and noble minde of man Gate I behold it as in a glasse deriued and taken out from no other thing then the spirite of God and being inclosed in the bodye as in a worthy vessell retaineth a deuine forme pure and deuoyd of all filthy corruption Blan. This was I assure you mans first estate this was the first beginning foundation of that excellencye wherevnto man aspired wherein no man can note any thing but that which is right honorable and worthye of high estimation Then the bodye was not infected with any vice whereby reason might be disturbed or the minde obscured with darcknes Man knewe then all sciences vnderstoode the causes of all thinges was sufficiently learned in the rule and discipline of lyfe being instructed by no other teacher thē God himselfe the geuer of all knowledge and wisedome And he did not onely excell all other creatures in the comely shape and feature of his bodye but he was farr beyond them all in the amiable most excellent and deuine forme and figure of the minde For there was in the minde no error no motion in the sence whereby the rule of reason might be disordered whereas reasō it selfe as it were in a perfect and florishing Commonwealth so in a peaceable and quiet estate could very easely restraine all raging affections The minde therefore had no kinde of lett and impediment whereby it might be hindered from dayly contemplation Gate As your speach hath in a manner surprised me with ioy to thinke of our originall to call to memory how gratiously the power of the almighty dealt with vs and to speake the vttermost that we procéeded from the nature and substaunce of God him selfe so I féele out of measure a touch of griefe when I consider that we remaine not in the estate of our former felicitye the choyse so happy the chaunge being so lamentable Wherefore open I pray you the cause of so greuous and great a calamitye Blandy After God had shewed himselfe so liberall boūtifull towardes man he made him president and chiefe ruler of the earth appoynting him a princely place for his habitation The Greekes call it Paradice a Garden flowing with most pleasaunt and siluerlyke springes most delectable and decked with greate store and varietye of sweete senting flowers most fitt to liue in all felicitye and pleasure In this most pleasaunt seate Man was placed that by that place which as some say was high moūted aloft he mought learne not onely lyke a ruler and gouernour wisely to guide the sterne thereof but also thereby be admonished w e discrete gouernement and frée libertye to take vpon him the charge and rule ouer all other liuing creatures He had therefore a princely iurisdiction ouer earth he serued onely the Lord of heauen and being a holy one wholy dedicated to God he was the expounder of his holy will and pleasure and the chiefe Prince and first parent of all mankinde He had a lawe geuen him that he should exercise that frée will in the practise of vertue that at length he might by his owne demerites deserue to be of the number and company of heauenly Saintes And the law was that he should not presume to touch the fruite of a certayne excéeding goodly apple trée which conteyned the knowledge of good and euill Gate Did God geue him this commaundement that he disdayned that man whome he had manifoldly blessed should haue no vnderstanding thereof Blandy In no wise but that by that meanes he would the better foresée and prouide for those thinges which apperteyned to his good estate and preseruation For he knew right well that if man were set at libertye he would straight way worke his owne cōfusion So therefore God did moderate his libertye by ordayning that necessary and expedient lawe Neither did he so much forbid him to eate of that fruite as that he should not slipp into that which by that fruite was meant and signified Gate I could neuer yet heare or haue imagined any other meaning thereof then the letter testifieth Blandy Whether this may be construed of the not eating of the fruite or no I leaue it and stand to the iudgement and correction of other that is that he should not meddle with those causes or search by his owne industrye to attayne the knowledge of those thinges which his capacitye could not reach and comprise Or that he should not in the choyse of good and refusall of the euill vse rather his owne iudgement then the will and pleasure of the Almightye by whose wisedome he should yelde himselfe to be gouerned Or this that he should not incline himselfe to the loue of those good thinges which are mixt and intermedled with a number