The ideal of a gentleman, or, A mirror for gentlefolks : a portrayal in literature from the earliest times / by A. Smythe-Palmer.

  • Palmer, Abram Smythe.
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[1908]
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Credit: The ideal of a gentleman, or, A mirror for gentlefolks : a portrayal in literature from the earliest times / by A. Smythe-Palmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thus I drawe too the ende of thys Booke, wherein (so well as in me lyeth) I haue wrytten the Institucion of a Gentleman ; declarynge therein how menne dyd at the firste become Gentle, to what thinges they oughte to applye theym seines, howe they should bee profitable in a commune wealth to flee arro- gancye and pride, to embrace humanitie and gentlenes, whyche thynges are here written to the proffyt of yong gentlemen, rather then that I will take in hande to instructe my elders. Thus I conclude : as a man whyche hathe a most perfect good will to proffite ryght Gentlemen, and thereupon tooke thys labour in hande, desirynge them to waye my small science with my great good wil. 15^8, IflStltUClOTl of Cl GcfltldWlClTl, fl.f). The Summe of the Whole Treatise.—That whatsoever thing, word, or action, offends any of the senses, or annoys the stomack, or is apt to imprint on the mind the resemblance of that which is odious and filthy, or that contradicts truth, or common fame and opinion (unless it be upon good ground) IS very carefully to be shunned. Wherefore those things which are impure and foul, and that breed disdain, are not only not to be practised, but the very mention of them is uncomely, and upon that account to be forborn ; for not only the doing or the rememb ring such things, but even the representing of them by any mode or gesture to the imagination of another is wont to be exceeding irksome and unpleasant. 1663, W., The Refin'd Courtier [G. della Casa], p. 9. We have now, according to our proposed Method, surveyed distinctly those several Advantages which Gentlemen enjoy, ^and may surely give the same testimony which Caleb and I.G. 513 L L