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A33253	Gesta Grayorum, or, The history of the high and mighty prince, Henry Prince of Purpoole ... who reigned and died, A.D. 1594 : together with a masque, as it was presented (by His Highness's command) for the entertainment of Q. Elizabeth, who, with the nobels of both courts, was present thereat.	Canning, William, fl. 1686-1690.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Davison, Francis, 1575?-1619?; Gray's Inn.	1688 (1688)	Wing C444; ESTC R5680	47,507	73

other Point of exercising in every part of your State something new derived from your self it will acquaint your Excellency with an humor of Innovation and Alteration which will make your Reign very turbulent and unsetled and many times your Change will be for worse as in the Example last touched of Constantine who by his new Translation of his Estate ruinated the Roman Empire As for Profit there appeareth a direct contrariety betwixt that and all the three Courses for nothing causeth such dissipation of Treasure as Wars Curiosities and Buildings and for all this to be recompensed in a supposed Honour a Matter apt to be much extolled in Words but not greatly to be praised in Conceit I do think it a Losers Bargain Besides that many politick Princes have received as much Commendation for their wise and well ordered Government as others have done for their Conquests and glorious Affections And more worthy because the Praise of Wisdom and Iudgment is less communicated with Fortune Therefore Excellent Prince be not transported with Shews follow the Order of Nature first to make the most of that y●u possess before you seek to purchase more To put the Case by a private Man for I cannot speak high if a man were born to an hundred Pounds by the Year and one shew him how with Charge to purchase an hundred Pounds more and another should shew him how without Charge to raise that hundred Pounds unto five hundred Pounds I should think the latter Advice should be followed The Proverb is a Countrey-Proverb but significative Milk the Cow that standeth still why follow you her that flieth away Do not think Excellent Prince that all the Conquests you are to make be foreign you are to conquer here at home the overgrowing of your Grandees in Factions and too great Liberties of your People the great Reverence and Formalities given to your Laws and Customs in derogation of your absolute Prerogatives these and such like be Conquests of State though not of War. You want a Joseph that should by Advice make you the only Proprietor of all the Lands and Wealth of your Subjects The Means how to strain up your Sovereignty and how to accumulate Treasure and Revenue they are the Secrets of your State I will not enter into them at this place I wish your Excellency as ready to them as I know the means ready to perform them The Fifth Councellor advising him Vertue and a Gracious Government Most Excellent Prince I Have heard sundry Plats and Propositions offered unto you severally One to make you a great Prince another to make you a strong Prince and another to make you a memorable Prince and a fourth to make you an absolute Prince but I hear of no mention to make you a good and a vertuous Prince which surely my Lords have le●t out in discretion as to arise o● your own motion and choice and so I should have thought had they not handled their own Propositions so artificially and perswadingly as doth assure me their Speech was not formal But most Worthy Prince Fame is too light and Pro●it and Surety are too low and Power is either such as you have or ought not so to seek to have it is the meriting of your Subjects the making of Golden Times the becoming of a Natural Parent to your State These are the only and worthy Ends of your Grace's vertuous Reign My Lords have taught you to refer all things to your self your Greatness Memory and Advantage but whereunto shall your self be referred If you will be heavenly you must have Influence will you be as a standing Pool that spendeth and choaketh his Spring within its self and hath no Streams nor Current to bless and make fruitful whole Tracts of Countreys wher●●y it reneweth Wherefore first of all m●st Ver●uous Prince assure your s●lf of an inward Peace that the Storms without do not d●●turb any of your Repair●rs of State within therein use and pra●tise all honourable Divers●ons that done visit all the parts of your S●ate and let the Balm d●st●l every where from your Sovereign Hands to the medicining of any part that complaineth beginning with your Seat of State take order that the Fault of your Greatne●s do not reb●und upon your s●lf have care that your Intelligence which is the Light of your State do not go out or burn dim or obscu●e advan●e Men of Vertue and not of Mercenary Minds repress all Factio● be it either malign or violent Then look into the State of your Laws and Justice of your Land purge out multiplicity of Laws clear the incertainty of them repeal those that are snaring and prize the execution of those that are wholesom and necessary define the Jurisdiction of your Courts reprize all Suits and Vexations all causless Delays and fraudulent Shifts and Devices and reform all such Abuses of Right and Justice assist the Ministers thereof punish severely all Extortions and Exactions of Officers all Corruptions in Trials and Sentences of Judgment Yet when you have done all this think not that the Bridle and Spur will make the Horse to go alone without Time and Custom Trust not to your Laws for correcting the Times but give all strength to good Education see to the Government of your Universities and all Seminaries of Youth and of the private Order of Families maintaining due Obedience of Children towards their Parents and Reverence of the younger sort towards the ancient Then when you have confirmed the Noble and Vital Parts of your Realm of State proceed to take care of the Blood and Flesh and good Habit of the Body Remedy all decays of Population make provision for the Poor remove all stops in Traffick and all Cancers and Causes of Consumption in Trades and Mysteries redress all But whither do I run exceeding the Bounds of that perhaps I am now demanded But pardon me most Excellent Prince for as if I should commend unto your Excellency the Beauty of some excell●nt Lady I could not so well express it with Relation as if I shewed you her Picture so I esteem the best way to commend a vertuous Government to describe and make appear what it is but my Pencil perhaps disgrac●th it Therefore I leav● it to your Excellency to take the Picture out of your wise Observation and then to double it and express it in your Government The Sixth Councellor perswading Pass-times and Sports WHen I heard Most Excellent Prince the three first of my Lords so careful to continue your Fame and Memory methought it was as if a Man should come to some young Prince as your self is and immediately after his Coronation be in hand with him to make himself a sumptuous and stately Tomb. And to speak out of my Soul I muse how any of your Servants can once endure to think of you as of a Prince past And for my other Lords who would engage you so deeply in Matters of State the one perswading you to a