towards his advancement and imployment: for though audacitie prevaile often upon others weakenesse, yet it is more secure from disgrace to bee over-modest and considerate, then overbold and presumptuous; nor will preferment unduely attained bee valued and respected by mindes truely worthy and noble. There are amongst us a barbarous kind of gallants who conceive it great bravery to looke big and contemptuously, especially upon strangers, towards whom in truth a formalitie and curtesie of fashion is most requisite; and many women are not free from taxe, who commonly have neither freedome nor civilitie in store but for their servants; they thinke to endeare and set themselves off by such carriage, though often voyd of other worth; wee become accessary to their rudenesse by terming it rather pride than rusticitie, which it truely is: they are proud to be thought proud, but should be taught better manners by a just and outdoing scorne and censure; we nourish it in them by sinking under it, and blame what wee breed, as wee doe children whom we first teach to be liquorish by giving them what they otherwise had not affected. It is also no small fault in great ones not to be courteous to their inferiours, or not to countenance worth in place of their advantage; they expose themselves often rather to suffer (a presumptuous obtruding) familiaritie then fairely to invite it, whereby they open the doore to sawcy boldnesse, and shut it upon the better and more modest dispositions. Though it bee true that there is nothing whereon worthily to fix our affections in this world, nor valuable to the fleeting and uncertaine life of man, yet hee will above all earthly things esteeme of true honour and goodnesse, as of that which will make him the most respected by the wisest and best of men, most advantagious to perpetuate unto him a faire and happy reputation (which the most worthy and magnanimous spirits have ever laboured for) and most acceptable to God who cannot be pleased in any thing incompatible and unlike to himselfe. If therefore hee either value to bee well regarded by vertuous men, to leave a good reputation and name to descend upon his posteritie, to bee secure from the ruines, scornes, and punishments that evill men daily undergoe, or to bee well accepted with God, whereby to provide to himselfe a welbeing as well after as in this present life, let him labour for the true understanding of vertue, as the onely rich habit of a faire soule; the knowledge whereof cannot faile to render him like unto it selfe: nor is it any thing but a wilfull and stupid blindnesse to the discerning thereof, that causeth the defect and contempt of it in those many weake and uncultivated spirits that these and all times produce." J. H. The Original & sprynge of all sectes & orders by whome, wha or were they beganne. Translated out of hye Dutch in Englysh. [In an architectural compartment, having for date on the sill] 1537. 12mo. 68 leaves. An address" to the reader," commences at the back of the title, after that "the contentes of thys treatyse. I. lxxxiiii orders, sectes or religio's vnder the Byshop of Rome. 2. xiiii faythes and sectes of Chiste dom only, besyde all other. 3. xvi sectes and supersticio's of the Jewes or Hebrues." The volume concludes with The fayth of the Indians, euen as one Mathew the embassadoure of Presteria's dyd vtter it before Emanuel kynge of Portingale Anno. M. D. Xiii. 1 Fyrst do they beleue with vs the trinite of persons and one God. 2 And ye same maruaylously to haue created heauen, earth, and all that is conteyned in both of nothynge. 3 That Iesus Christe, the anoynted kyng the saueoure and the Messias, so oft promysed by the prophetes, the very sonne of the true God, was borne of Mary the virgine both before and after the byrth in Bethleem the cytie of Dauid. 4 And that the same beynge iudged of Pilate the wycked debite or lewtenaunt of the Romanes in Jewry, dyed at Jerusalem for our synnes, and was buryed. 5 And continently to haue gone downe to hell, whose gates he brake: and on ye. thyrde daye he rose agayne alyue, wyth great victory of hys enemyes and death: and finally to haue ascended vp to heauen by a wonderfull ascension, from whence he came. 6 They beleue also an vniuersall and immortall resurreccio of the bodyes, after thys mortall lyfe. 7 They beleue also in the same fayth, that Christ shall iudge both the good and euell, & that euery man shall receaue rewarde accordynge to hys dedes done in thys lyfe. 8 Atter thys judgmet shall the godly haue euerlastynge ioye, but the wycked euerlastynge payne. 9 They (as we) kepe the X commaundementes. 10 They graunte VII deadly synnes also. 11 They haue all the bokes of scrypture as we. x 2 12. They 12 They haue the iiii gospels also. 13 And of Paules Epistles do they want none. 14 They approue all ye artikles of y crede. 15 They prefer the pater noster before all other prayers. 16 They make much also of ye Aue Mary. 17 Theyr children do they baptyse wyth holy water on the vii daye, and also circumcise them after Moses law after ye costume and vse of longe tyme. 18 On twolftyde also doth all the people yearly professe opely theyr fayth with great ioye, and so are they baptysed agayne. 19 They saye masse also nerehande after our vse, & that, nother for lucre or auautage. 20 The sacramente of altare do they esteme the chefe and principall, confessynge syncerely there to be the body and bloude of Christ, and comunicate vnder both kyndes. 21 They confesse the holy oyle & anoyntyng to be sacra metes. 22 As soone as they haue synned, do they to shreue themselues to a prest. 23 The penaunce do they diligently fulfyl. 24 Fastynge do they accomplysh wythout eatynge of flesh or fysh. 25 Lent do they begynne on Septuagesima. 26 The Sondaye and other holy dayes institute of theyr byshops, do they kepe reuerently. 27 They haue the remembraunce of Christes passion on the last weke of Lent, as we. 28 Palmeso daye do they vse with vs also, and Candelmasse. 29 Procession goynge do they vse also. 30 They kepe Alhalowtyde and alsoule daye also. 31 Ashwednysdaye accordeth with vs both in ceremonyes and tyme. 32 They haue also monasteryes, not only of men, but also of women, lyuynge in great abstinence. 33 Whereof some cloysters haue vii or viii C. or a M. per sons. 34 One byll is there, wheron dwell xii M. religious persons whiche may in no wyse begge, but laboure for theyr lyuynges: neuer the lesse yf ony almesse be geue them, that maye they take wel ynough, so that it be not craued. 35 They haue preachers to teach Christes fayth, and that of the best learned amo ge the prestes & religious. 36 There are many hospitals for the poore only to be lodged and tended. 37 The churches are a centuary for mysdoers, but so, that he that is manslayer be so slenderly fed that at the laste he must dye of hungre. 38 Theyr dead do they bury wyth no lesse ceremonyes than, & also in churches. 39 Holy men and of heauenly conuersacio do they canonizat, after they haue searched theyr lyfe diligently. 40 Men mary but one wy fe at once, and that at the church dore. 41 And after olde costumes & lawes they mary none wythin the vii degre, nother may theyr Patriarke dispense here wyth. 42 They haue images of all sayntes in theyr churches. 43 Holy water do they kepe, and thynke y it chaseth away wycked spretes. 44 They have many churches, belles and holy vestimentes for spirituall seruices. 45 They kepe mydsomer moost solemly. 46 They begynne the yeare at Septe bre. 47 They knowe ther is an head byshop of Rome, but the cause that they obey hym not, is the great distaunce from hym. 48 Saynte Bartholomew the Apostle taught them fyrst the fayth and gospell. 49 Theyr prestes are maryed, but after the wyues deceasse they mary not agayne, neuerthelesse theyr patriarke lyueth chaste. Thys dyd y aforesayde Mathew confessé in the prese ce of the nobles & clargy of Portyngale. ¶ Here endeth the treatyse of all sectes, orders and religions both of Christendom and the Jewts. Translated out of hye Dutch in Euglyshe. ¶ Printed in Southwarke by me James Nicolson for Ihon Gough. Cum Priuilegio." Parnassi Puerperium: or some Well-wishes to Ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most select, in Sir Tho. More. To which is annext a Century of Heroick Epigrams, Sixty whereof concern the Twelve Casars; and the Forty remaining, several deserving persons. X 3 By By the Author of that celebrated Elegie upon Cleeveland: Tho. Pecke of the Inner Temple, Gent.* Ista tamen mala sunt. Quasi nos manifesta negemus: Hæc mala sunt: sed tu, non mcliora facis. Mart. 1. 2. Ep. 8. My stock of wit is small; let them who flout Printed at London by J. Cottrel, for Tho. Bassett in " "To the Ingenious Readers," the author has a plain address, wherein he observes, although no part of poetry but is at my command, I have made choice of Epigrams, as the very nerves of this exquisite art. For if a poem be good, it consists of nothing else but various epigramis, cemented by a dexterous sagacity. And not onely verse, but prose, is dull, and languishing, unlesse the sparkling genius of the epigrammatist, be artificially interwoven. That plaudit the world were pleased to vouchsafe my elegie, upon the unparalleld poet Mr. Cleeveland, forbids me to complain of that carping humour, notoriously predominant in English men in relation to any authors of their own countrey. The candid acceptance granted me then, I have no reason to suspect now, from ingenious and deserving persons of all sort. And as for a generation of Sciolists, that make it their recreation to slight others, either natural, or acquired endowments; I crave at their hands, to give the world as ample a testimony of their abilities, as I have done of mine. And then if they think my Epigrams routed, I shall desire them to trie their valour upon my satyrs. T. P." Some Latin verses, subscribed, Hæc in amicitia Tessaram profudit P. Piscator,"+ precede three book of Owen's Epigrams A new title for "Libellus de Spectaculis, or an account of the most memorable monuments of the Romane Glory;" wherein Martial is "periphrastically translated into English verse" Another title to "certain select Epigrams, translated out of the * There is a very rare portrait of the author, mentioned by Granger. An eminent collector, I am told, was above seven years before he could obtain it. + Payne Fisher. works |