8.Command. \Ton the Commandements. 8 Optirak. mëbfoniurafeneanti labor, ( faith one.) They aregcodrefre(híngrin our adre,tbe well $ef7owedtrauellesof our y oath .Ycares pane , and flrcngthfailes, germ nothing in youth,nnd haue nothing in age. But O carelcffe heartes of ours, and beadle wil,who can p'erfivade this,or beam it into the heades of young men and maidcs,of feruants, and filch as ate cornming on ? islo,no,we will hop and dau rice, tiple and drinke,ban- ket anti reucll, what counicll fouler is glum vsto the contraric, with that little we haue and fin care awaie. And a little gay apparrel,on the backe,is worth much mo- ney in the chef+. But wife is bec w home other. mens harnies can caste to take hectic. Sitknelfe may come, and curry mailer will not keepe a ficke feruant , s maime may fall to vs, and we then may hcare it , I haue no wages vnleffe you could vvorke manic thinges may happen , and a mans owne is his owne and great is Gods blefhng to faithful labour,as truly his plagues are not .little or late to iditneffe and flouth. Owen; wellfir, thetftncelabourwemuf l andfoltsae, pray yens ie not 'ewer. commend role? cflnjNo indecde,For theApofde in the place I named before,maketh a diflinaion, which I'pray you marke , and faith , Let h:m labour with hie owne handee the thing that is 8ph44. is; good: as if he(hould bane faid, there are labours which are naught,andyetlabours roo.Wherefore it is notenough to make vs guiltleffc of this commaundement to fay, we get that we haue by labor,but it mull be good lsbor(faithPau/)iull labor,& lawful labor. The which diflinEtion ouerthroweth all maintenaunce gotten by maffing,by iugling , by charming , by playing interludes , by {idling and piping vp and dowse the Countrey , by carying about Bears and Apes., by telling of fortunes , and Each like trades , mentioned in the flame ofthis land , touching vagabondes, For though they bee labours , and make them fweate often, Tome ofthem , yet want they warrant in the worde to proucthem good, and lawful' labours. And therefore fubiedt to the penalty of this lawebeforeGod. Quell. And filmy you let mee adde one thing more becaufe you fay all labours mss be lawfulliwhat ifa man in the purfuite ofá pirate, or any enemy tote /de get afpoyle,whether it it lawfùll to retatne it, and concede ir, or it itHealth fo to doe ?The labour it tuft, honefl and lawful+. Anf. Truely I mull ncedes anfwere you ; that albeit the labour in refilling, and repelling any enemie bee commendable and good and therefore' goods fogotten lawfully paffeffed of the Prince , the Lieutenant the Gencrall or chiefc who(oeuer: yet is there no warrant that tacticSouldierfirould be his owne carver and take what Gen I4 he can get.But the cuflome oflaw ofallwell ordered warres is this,or fhould bee,that . what fpoyle foeuer is got, and not given before hand by the Capraine to the foul- diers , ought by them to be brought veto him and by him to be difpofed to euerie rSam. 30. man Geotnettically, that is according to euerie mans feruice and worthineffe, not 1o &e. Arithmetically,rhar is to curry man alike. And if any man of his owne greedineffe alienate tohimfclfeany thing, any otherwife than thus, that is, either with gene- rall gift of the Captaine to take what he can, or a particular gift to take this and thus much, furely thatpohfrllon is not warranted by Gods lawr, hut üghtethvbderthis Commandement. For as for a coons labour, firIT be oweth it both to God,arrdto his countrey, and then bec bath his let pay for u , which bee agreeth to as fufficient, and therfore bee Ihould not ferue his greedy affeElion diforderly. As for the.cale ofpi- ratcs,ifvpon any coal+ they bee taken and imprifoned , furcly it is very barbarous cruelty to lease them vtterlyvncomfortrd, with any portion of that which was taken aboute them , .and with them, cum fo that for foode they flank ere euer their caufe bee hcard.This fpoyle to fpeede our fettles , $t fpiil our Brethren , in this lamentable and vnmercifull manner, what defence foenerit may haue by lawc of man , furcly it fauoreth not of that companion and tender bowels ofpittie, which is required by the lave ofGod. And therefore I include it, where no doubt the day ofludgementwill findcit, cuco within the forbidden brii.inchcs ofthisComm`aun. dement. 13 Quell;
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