Chap. 5. accordingto Se M A T r i is vv. them that are able, for we may not ftretch beyond our ftaple, and in Saftienf fo fpoíl all.) We readof a Bishopof Lineeln, that never thought Concilio anno he had that thing, that he didnot give. And of one Bifhopof s4bau.æ dux s Rome ( though that's a rare thing ) that was fo liberali to the uxorarar, du poor, that when he was asked by certain Embaffadours, whether duos hatenrfi. he had any hunting-dogs toPhew them, he anfwered, Yes. And tiot adpontift. bringing them to a great fort of poor people, whom he daily rele- carom prayhi- tpr F!c : :cacr, ved at his table, Tisefe are the doss (I faith he) t'herewit 3 I bunt Fli furr caner after heaven. Bill-lop Hooper allo, had his board of beggers. goat ato quai- Twice I was ( faith 11. Fox) in -his house in Worces`ler : where dte,gurbut etwi' in his common -hall, I taw a table spread with good floreof meat, ro me c eteftem and b:fet full of beggers and poor folk. And this was his daily gloria-n vena- cuftom. And when they were ferved andcatechifed, then hehim- turum. lam verb lone teli fate down codinner, and not before. Qeen P 4nne Bstllin atirèr. Pauperi- carried ever about her acertain little parie, out of which the was bvefua da:¡ra. wont daily to fcatter tome alms to the needy thinking no day ri.,nec munera well fpent, wherein feine man had not fared the better by tome curet curia benefit at her hands. The Savoy, Bride. wets, and another Ho- papalr, ?nod fpitall, founded by King Edward the fixt, upon a Sermon of ,,,°,fcHlcc,a- B. Ridleys, doe (peak and tea ifie both h s tender heart, and his ero, i nítare te- bountifullhand. BonfiniterrelatethofStephen King ofHungary gcndoferciPi. ( and the fame thing is reported of Ofivald King of England) that ntas modo,&c. his right-hand rotted not for a long time after he was dead. And tf andMon, well it might be fo faith he that hand should bekept tea8 `fby ( See his lift 6y from corruption, thatnever fuffered any to beg, to hunger, to. Sir i Hcye . lie in captivity, or anyother misery. But thefè, alas, are theTaft p' 7o. and worft daies, wherein love is waxen cold : Mens hearts are Aterito-manus frozen, and their hands wither'd up. A great deal of mouth- exáert euérde u mercy there is, as in Slaws his time, Goe thy waies and be fed, bu J,quánemi- clothed, warmed : but with what? with a metre of words, a eemmendicare, fate of words, a fireof'words : there are good cheap : but a little e;urine, (9, in handfull were better then a great many Inch mouth-lids. We caPtrvitafe,aut may now a daies wait for fome good Samaritan to come and jacere,perpe.p. prove himfelf a neighbour : And after all complain, There is no e¡i. mercy in the land. Mercifull men are taken away, the liberali Hof.c.i. man faileth from among the children of men. Elias lacketh his Ea- 7.1. hofteile of Sareptrt , and Slifka the Shunamite. Paul cannot Pfai,ta.a. finde the Purpurifle, nor Peter the Currier. edfbraham we have not, and 3.6wefinde not. CaptainCornelius is a black-fwan it this generation, that. gave tohim that asked, and from him that 17
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