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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05074	The politicke and militarie discourses of the Lord de La Nouue VVhereunto are adioyned certaine obseruations of the same author, of things happened during the three late ciuill warres of France. With a true declaration of manie particulars touching the same. All faithfully translated out of the French by E.A.; Discours politiques et militaires du Seigneur de la Noue. English	La Noue, François de, 1531-1591.; Aggas, Edward.	1588 (1588)	STC 15215; ESTC S108246	422,367	468

stately cheare for the space of some eight daies must remaine halfe a yeere pinched with al kinde of penury As for the cōmoditie that the others reape by the presence and frequentation of that whereof of I speake it is likewise to bee considered For to begin with his famelie there is no doubt but according to the prouerbe Such maister such man if he be endued with many vertues he shareth them with his especially with his wife and children describing in his priuate famelie the forme of a well ordered Commonwelth His subiects likewise what comfort doe they also conceiue in comming to trye his a●●abili●ie and good will Entring farther into the course of his life what an example is he to make them the better Finally such a mans neighbours and kindred may among their greatest commodities note this that they may be ordinarily conuersant with him and so to taste of sundrie goodly fruites of learning and amitie Who so list farther to learne the commendations of the countrie life let him reade those bookes that are purposely written thereof For my parte it is enough that I haue in a word touched it by the way as well not to bring out of liking those that vse it well as also to shew to others that disdaine it that it is not destitute of vertue honestie and solace Now let vs see whether it deminisheth prowesse as some doe suppose For my parte I thinke not in any in whom the loue of vertue is not quite extinct For in whatsoeuer place they bee they still thinke it conuenient for a Gentleman to beare a mans stomacke On the other side the exercise of the Horse the running at the Ring hunting and the haquebut are portraitures and instrumēts of warre which waken the courages and maintaine them in force But communication with our like doth also greatly helpe thereto because the speeches both of the one and other doe tend only to contemne towardlike demeanours and to exalt the valiant so as hereof wee make a counterpoize against that delicacie which by little and little is engendred in those persons whose liues are free from daunger I knowe well enough that the Nobilitie that houldeth residence a great parte of the yeere in frontier Garrisons is through continuall exercise in warlike discourses more stirred vp to the loue of prowesse then that that kéepe home But all cannot be there maintained neither doe those that are depriued of that exercise considering the reputation of the rest but make inwardly some small prouision of that which is the cause of obtaining the same Moreouer it followeth not that because they are not so skilfull in militarie profession as others y t they are therefore voyde of courage For he that hath good seede in him with a little custome maketh it well to fructifie How many braue Capteynes haue in our fathers daies bene seene neuer to stirre from home after the warres were once ended And yet when occasion serued that they must to it againe they were nothing inferiour to any of the rest Thus much must I needes say that like as martiall exercise maketh not all that practise it valiant no more doth dwelling at home so daunt the courages of those that vse it but that they can alwaies be well enough disposed to doe their parts when honor commaundeth As for the rest who euen burye themselues by perpetuall kéeping home in their owne houses to the ende onely to stoope to effeminate pleasures and sloth either els to haue the better opportunitie to practise violence or couetousnesse I will say no more but only wish that among the Nobilitie there were Censors established as in the Romaine Commonwelth that through publique shame their faultes whether secrete or open might be corrected For it is a shame for the goodly title of Nobilitie to be made a cloake to vnworthie actions Now were it not amisse to examine whether the felicitie of those that goe vp downe to seeke it thus euery where and who weene to haue more then others be so great as they say for But I will not stay therevpon to the ende to discourse vpon the third false opinion Many there are that reproue it others also that put it in practise either thinking it not to want a good foundation or els because that by the vse thereof they reape profite and preferment But how soeuer they list to take it they are not to be excused For our opinions must agree with that that is iust and our commodities bee purchased without iniustice which euen those ought to knowe that make accompt to excéede the common people in dignitie and wisedome to the ende they by their example may conforme themselues to fulfill whatsoeuer the duetie of all And as it is an easie matter from liberalitie which teacheth vs the maner to giue in place and season conuenient to fall into prodigalitie which sheweth how to doe the contrary so without diligent heede from true obedience we slide into false which in counterexchaunge of a matter due maketh vs to doe that that is not due This question haue sundrie learned personages at large treated vpon of whose iudgements wee ought not to bee ignorant to the ende alwaies in our selues to bee resolued of a matter of so great waight I will therefore following their steppes speake only two or three words according to my capacitie especially vsing the instructions taken out of Gods worde The same teacheth vs that God hath set vp the mightie that haue dominion ouer the nations to rule and gouerne them in pietie and iustice whom likewise he commaundeth vs to haue in singuler honor and to obey whervpon S. Paule saith Let euery soule be subiect to the superiour powers for there is no power but of God and the powers that are are the ordinance of God This only place might suffice to enstruct as well the one as the other in their dueties For herein are the superiours warned to remember the sacred dignitie wherewith they are adorned that they neither abuse nor prophane it by crueltie couetousnesse or voluptuous lust Likewise the inferiours to bowe their neckes vnder those authorities as vnder the yoke of God not only in patience but in ioye also For as S. Paule in the same chapter sayth They that resist the powers doe resist the ordinance of GOD. Whereto he afterward addeth That the Prince beareth the sword for the benefite of his subiects whether for their defence or correction Which reason ought to make vs thinke obedience sweete because in yeelding the same wee both please God and reape profite If Princes would well consider the goodly titles and large prerogatiues that God giueth them they would amende and their commaundements should be more iust For by the mouth of his Prophet Dauid he saith I haue sayd ye are Gods and children to the most highest herein signifying that as in them shineth the image of Iesus Christ whose Empyre is both in heauen and earth so ought they