The court and country, or A briefe discourse dialogue-wise set downe betweene a courtier and a country-man contayning the manner and condition of their liues, with many delectable and pithy sayings worthy obseruation. Also, necessary notes for a courtier. VVritten by N.B. Gent.
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- The court and country, or A briefe discourse dialogue-wise set downe betweene a courtier and a country-man contayning the manner and condition of their liues, with many delectable and pithy sayings worthy obseruation. Also, necessary notes for a courtier. VVritten by N.B. Gent.
- Author
- Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?
- Publication
- Printed at London :: By G. Eld for Iohn Wright, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Bible without Newgate,
- 1618.
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- Subject terms
- Courts and courtiers -- Early works to 1800.
- Country life -- England -- Early works to 1800.
- England -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800.
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"The court and country, or A briefe discourse dialogue-wise set downe betweene a courtier and a country-man contayning the manner and condition of their liues, with many delectable and pithy sayings worthy obseruation. Also, necessary notes for a courtier. VVritten by N.B. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68983.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 10, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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To the Worshipfull and worthy
Knight, the fauourer of all good Vertues and Studies, Sir STEPHEN POLL,of Blackmoore in Essex; and to his worthy Lady, Health, Honour,and eternall Happinesse. -
To the READER. - The COVRTIER AND The COVNTRYMAN.
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Necessary Notes for a Courtier
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Quest. What things are chiefely to be re∣quired in a Courtier? -
Q. What are they? -
Q. How are they to be vsed? -
Q. To whom? -
Q. What are the proofes of a good mind? -
Q. What are the tokens of a good body? -
Q. What preserues a good minde in goodnesse? -
Q. And what keeps the body in strength? -
Q. What is the chiefe grace of a Courtier? - Q. What is the Honour of a Courtier?
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Q. What is the wealth of a Courtier? -
Q. What is the charge of a Courtier? -
Q. What is the care of a Courtier? -
Q. What qualities are chiefely required in a Courtier? -
Q. What learning is most fit for a Courtier? -
Q. What are the Ornaments of a Courtier? -
Q. What is a Courtier most to take heed of? -
Q. What is a Courtier chiefely to take note of? -
Q. What things chiefely is a Courtier to be charie of? -
Q. What conuersation is fittest for a Courtier? -
Q. How should a Courtier hope of aduancement? -
Q. What discourses are fittest for a Courtier? -
Q. What friends are fittest for a Courtier? - Q. What seruants are fittest for a Courtier?
- Q. What is the true valour in a Courtier?
- Q. What are the follies in a Courtier?
- Q. What are most dangerous in a Courtier?
- Q. What things are most profitable to a Courtier?
- Q. What should a Courtier chiefely obserue in a King?
- Q. What in a Councellor?
- Q. What in a Lord?
- Q. What in a Lady?
- Q. What in an Officer?
- Q. What time is best spent in a Courtier?
- Q. And what time is worse spent?
- Q. What is commendable in a Courtier?
- Q. What most delighteth a Ladies eye in a Courtier?
- Q. What most contenteth a King in a Courtier?
- Q. What is most troublesome to the minde of a Courtier?
- Q. What are most grieuous to a Courtier?
- Q. What friend shall a Courtier most rely vpon?
- Q. What foes should a Courtier most stand in feare of?
- Q. What things are necessary for a Courtier to haue euer in memory?
- Q. What delights are most fit for a Courtier?
- Q. What is most comely in a Courtier?
- Q. What should be hated of a Courtier?
- Q What speciall seruants of name are most fit for a Courtier?
- Q. What is the hapinesse of a Courtier?
- Q. What is the shame of a Courtier?
- Q. What should a Courtier be alwaies iealous of?
- Q. What is the life of a Courtier?
- Q. What is the same of a Courtier?