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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

vnkindnes in my last age for vnlesse I haue euer doted a thing easie in so great a loue France my sister for I will begin with her cannot so much brag of Paris Oreleance Lyons Rhemes or the proudest of al her children as I may iustly of you three Germanie hath painefull Basill and pleasant populous Franckefort where Ceres Bacchus the Naiades Dryades do march together yet these too meane to compare with you I passe by Italies of-spring who of long time hath caried her selfe with excessiue pride Ritch Venice with her 400. bridges great Millayn proude Genua fertill Bomonia auncient Rauema noblie honorable Naples once Parthinope holy Rome and faire Florence Thus they were tearmed long since but now vnequall to compare with you Salernitana sometimes could giue counsell when she shewed her care and skil to my deare Henry but now obscurelie shee lieth desolate you may passe these farre without presumption compare with Toledo Spaynes Nauell with Uienna fearefull to the Turkes you are talkt of euery where and falselie Rome goeth aboute to intice your children offering them kingdomes to forsake you daughters spare not take what I haue and bestowe vpon them let them not whilst I liue forsake you for want of liuing my wealth and possessions that I haue are intended chiefelie to your good and howsoeuer either the base cormorant or the poore citie-vsurer or the wanton spend-thrift take themselues to haue more interest in my substance then you haue yet they vsurpe vpon my kindenes and make mee beleeue that the two staies of my age you my children for peace and my souldiers for warre haue both enough I haue made lawes to augment your reuenewes by your rent corne I prouided lately for my souldiers whē they were in want credit mee children my care is of you onely for vnlesse you direct them their plentie is dangerous to breed rebellion their force is doubtfull to make them disobedient their honor likely to grow tyrannous and what soeuer they inioy without you to bee dangerous to the Common wealth Let your children daughters content thēselues leaue to repine at baser fortunes let them be perswaded of this that Fame shall be their seruant Honour shall bee their subiect Glory shal be their crown Eternitie their inheritance then indeard wit decking admired daughters write and let the worlde know that heauens harmonie is no musicke in respect of your sweete and well arte tuned strings that Italian Ariosto did but shadowe the meanest part of thy muse that Tassos Godfrey is not worthie to make compare with your truelie eternizing Elizas stile let France-admired Bellaw and courtlike amarous Rousard confesse that there be of your children that in these latter times haue farre surpassed them Let diuine Bartasse eternally praise worthie for his weeks worke say the best thinges were made first Let other countries sweet Cambridge enuie yet admire my Virgil thy petrarch diuine Spenser And vnlesse I erre a thing easie in such simplicitie deluded by dearlie beloued Delia and fortunatelie fortunate Cleopatra Oxford thou maist extoll thy courte-deare-verse happie Daniell whose sweete refined muse in contracted shape were sufficient amongst men to gaine pardon of the sinne to Rosemond pittie to distressed Cleopatra and euerliuing praise to her louing Delia. Register your childrens petegree in Fames forehead so may you fill volumes with Chausers praise with Lydgate the Scottish Knight and such like whose vnrefined tongues farre shorte of the excellencie of this age wrote simplie and purelie as the times weare And when base and iniurious trades the sworne enemies to Learnings eternitie a thing vsuall shall haue deuoured them either with the fretting cancker worme of mouldie time with Arabian spicerie with english honnie with outlandish butter matters of imployment for the aged dayes of our late authors yet that then such if you thinke them worthie in despite of base Grosers whome I charge vpon paine of learnings curse not to handle a leafe of mine may liue by your meanes canonized in learning catalogue I am loath to bee too long in my aduisements to you wise daughters and therefore heere I period them wishing you if neede bee to make mine apologie not that I fainte to maintaine the least parte of my credit against any male-contented selfe-conceited vnregarded malicious subiect but that Europe in this age delited onelie with thinges personall shall not bring mee vpon the theater in matter of such designements to stand against my owne inhabitants to the fauourable courtesie of their wise Censors Daughters followe their counsell and honour such as I haue for wisedome loued for yeares and authoritie appointed to rule ouer you let not your younger children despise their aged brethren loue them as becommeth mothers and I will send for them in conuenient time as their grandmother to gouerne my common wealth And because shee shall not thinke I neglect her reade what I haue written to mine inhabitants in her behalfe iudge how I stand affectionate God graunt you may all followe my aduise so shall I finde you trustie and you me to be moste louing then shall the world feare mee for such worthie children and enuie you for so kinde a mother But heere children I must ende with you and speake to the rest of my wise inhabitants ENGLAND TO AL HER INHABITANTS IF the sad iust complaint of a mournfull vniustlie wronged mother would giue my teares but truce so long till my tongue had told my tale then could I easily perswade my selfe that a matter so full rathe should gaine pitie and that these often stopped periods should gaine credite But seeing faults done by such as had no reason to wish me euil my grief increased by those who might iustlie haue been my comfort giue me leaue to leaue those who vnkindly forsooke me and exhort thē whom aboad tearmes English men nature children and dutie subiects And herein first foreseeing the euils to come I will renew the speech of the Romane Orator in the like case begū in the person of Africanus This age hauing receiued into her hande the Common-wealth resembling a table of most curious and exact workmanship yet obscured as it were and darkened with old age doth so blame her selfe that anie shal go about to renew her colours that she hath not so much as care to preserue her rude darke dimmed and obscured shadowes for what is left now of the ancient Romane manners which happely sometime sustained the Common wealth Where is now that worthie and ancient honor due to the learned Student and couragious Souldier These are so long since worne out of vse as Rome that sometimes florished seemes now to want the verie remembrance of them It is needfull therefore that I should awake the eternally famosed personages of olde who liued once honourable to their countrie but now lye dead and their vertues buried with them because few