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A33174	Cicero's prince the reasons and counsels for settlement and good government of a kingdom, collected out of Cicero's works / by T. R., esq.; Selections. English	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Bellenden, William, d. 1633?; Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.	1668 (1668)	Wing C4320; ESTC R18500	30,642	98

Cicero's Prince THE REASONS AND COUNSELS For Settlement and Good Government OF A KINGDOM Collected out of CICERO'S Works By T. R. Esq LONDON Printed for S. Mearne Bookbinder to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and are to be sold at his house in Little-Britain 1668. To His Grace the DUKE of MONMOUTH AND BACCLEUGH c. THis Piece was once a Jewel wrapt up in Latine in the Cabinet of the Renowned Prince Henry and composed by an excellent Artist out of the rich Mines of that famous Statesman and Orator M. Tullius Cicero It hath in it Maximes which void of all stains and Flaws of Machiavillian Interest are raised only upon principles of Honor and Vertue which best become a Prince In the discourse they are directed to a Soveraign but may be of no less use to any great person whose Birth or Quality may render him capable of Derivative Authority in the management of affairs of State and what is Honorable and becoming a Prince must needs be so in his Ministers who should be his Imitators Your Graces qualifications and Years may reasonably expect ere long to be called to imployment in which your care and good conduct of your self may satisfie the expectation of the world and divert the censures of a malicious Age which your Grace prevents by considering your station and that though your years are but few yet Great Men as they are planted near the Prince ought to be like Trees on rich ground sooner ripe for affairs then other of meaner condition which cannot be without an early application of themselves to some serious thoughts of business either in the practice and observation of present transactions or by reading what hath been done in the world before them but of this your Grace is already sensible so that I have selected this for its Brevity only to lye by you as a Memorial to prompt you to put these Maximes in time into such practice as may gain you that Honor and esteem in the World to which with a Laudable Ambition you ought to aspire and render your self serviceable to your King and Country which is in this the sole design and most earnest desire of Your Graces in all duties of a faithful and humble servant T. R. Index of Chapters CHAP. 1. OF the excellency of Government in general of the Cause and Original of Civil Life Laws Republick Civil Societies and Cities Chap. 2. Of the Excellency of Kingly Government the Cause and Original of Kings Chap. 3. Of the Difficulties of Ruling the foundations and Arts thereof Chap. 4. Of the Princes Office in general what he ought to know do and consider Chap. 5. Of Prudence in Debates Counsels and Actions Chap. 6● Of Prudence in preventing Mischiefs destroying their beginnings means and remains Chap. 7. Cautions against the several Causes of Commotions and Seditions Chap. 8. Of the prudent Deportment of the Prince and the Helps to render him and his Government happy and glorious Chap. 9. Of Moderation in Government and use of Reason in Princes neglected by barbarous Princes Chap. 10. Of Princes Manners how they do good or harm by example Chap. 11. The preparation of necessaries Lenity and Continence preserve Neglect Cruelty and Avarice destroy government Chap. 12. Of Liberality convenient for a Prince Chap. 13. Of Reward and Punishment Chap. 14. Of the Princes Prudence in consideration of Times Things and Per●ons with several Rules and Cautions concerning them Chap. 15. Of the Princes Seal Senate Senators and Counsel Chap. 16. Of avoiding Flatterers Chap. 17. Of preserving Authority and shunning Vice by which it is diminished Chap. 18. What a Prince ought to do and have in readiness for defence of himself and his Government Chap. 19. Of exciting the slothful to industry and Labor that they may be useful to himself and the State c. Chap. 20. Of the Virtues which invite the people to love the Prince and the Vices which alienate their affections Chap. 21. Of the care studie and offices of the Prince and in what they consist Chap. 22. Seven things whence the destruction or safty of a Prince and Government proceeds and whereon it depends Chap. 23. Four Guards by which the Prince may secure himself and his power Chap. 24. Of prudence in foreign affairs and several cautions concerning Forrainers Cicero's Prince CHAP. 1. The Excellency of Government and Power the Cause and Original of Civil Life Laws Commonwealths Society and Cities EVery Nature which is not Solitary and Simple but connexed and joyned with some other must of necessity have something within in it self that Governs as in Man the Understanding in Beasts something like it whence their Appetites arise on a Republick Magistracy which orders and prescribes what is Just Profitable and suitable to the Laws Nothing therefore is more agreeable to the Equitable condition of Nature then Government without which no Family no Society of Men no Nation not even Mankinde nor the world it self can subsist For the Universe obeyeth God and to his Dictates and Commands the Seas Earth and the Being of Mankind is subject as to their Supreme Law-giver To these when we apply and add Good Affections they produce that Foundation of stability which we desire in Government For Virtue is not Rude Cruel or Proud but assisting to the Defence of all Men best consults for their safety ordained by Nature as the surest Guard of Kingly Power and Humane Society to reconcile and unite them Time was when Men like Beasts lived in open Fields sustaining life with wilde Food not acting so much by the Reason of the Soul as strength of the Body having then no knowledge of Divine Religion or Humane Offices No man reflected on lawful Marriage or reguarded the Legitimacy of his Children altogether ignorant of that benefit which arising from the Laws of Equity so that through Error and Ignorance Blind and Rash Desire predominant in the Minde abused the strength of the Body to satisfie it self by pernicious Force Some therefore who first excelled in Virtue and Wisdom collected the dispersed into one place and out of that Barbarity brought them to Justice and Humanity And then those things which were of Publike Utility termed by us common Conventions of men after called Civil Societies with the Invention of Divine and Humane Laws in Houses built together denominated Cities and encompassed them with walls CHAP. 2 The Excellency of Regal Power the Cause and Origen of Kings and Laws BUt that I may come to things nearer and more known to us All Nations anciently were Govern'd by Kings which kind of Government was at first conferred on Persons most Just and this in our Republick while subject to Regal Power was most highly valued and derived to Posterity still remaining in those who now Reign with Purple the Scepter and other Ensigns of Royal Authority But the well moderated Monarchy to Me seems not only to have been of old constituted among the Medes according to Herodotus but even

an instrument to fall down and not to ascend so in the distresses of the Commonwealth if you desert her when disjoynted nor shew your self Active to confirm your peoples safty and resolve to remove the danger you will be so far from recovering what is lost as you accelerate a total ruine Be careful in all things that may be foreseen by Counsel and when there is an error of Judgment amend it by your diligence I saw Pompey on the 14 of the Calends of Febr. full of fear on that day I foresaw his ruine after that he never pleased me but perpetually committed errors he neither had Courage nor Counsel Forces nor Conduct Not to mention that base Flight from the Citie timorous Orations to the people ignorance not only of his Adversaries but of his own Forces to be short he had nothing good left to him but the Cause which was that only wanting on Caesars side who excelled in all other things as vigilancy expedition diligence of which had our General made use we had recovered the Commonwealth As if placed in this degree of Honor I would not be of a low dejected spirit in adversity so neither would I want the common sense of Nature For this hardness of the minde is like that of the Body which when burn'd grows insensible rather stupidity then courage or Magnanimity A Prince must flie that error of throwing and offering himself to danger without cause then which nothing is more foolish he should endeavor to acquire glory in his death and not leave behinde him the blame of a fault and the dishonor of folly Very commendable was the prudence of * See the 6 Chapter Plancus who would not fall by such rashness for when the two Armies were joined to hazard most faithful Legions against them our best Auxiliaries the Princes of Gallia the whole Province he concluded was highest madness and temerity and that if by his overthrow he should destroy the Commonwealth he should not only deprive himself of all honor when dead but of all compassion Good men lamented the death of * Trebonius commanded the Army in Asia and Dolobella in Syria by whom Trebonious under pretence of friendship was treacherously slain in Smyrna Trebonius yet were there some severe indeed they were that said he was the less to be pittied for that he did not secure himself against a wicked and vitious man CHAP. 18. What things a Prince ought always to have in readiness to defend both himself and his Authority IT is the opinion of wise men That whosoever undertakes the protection of many ought first to provide for his own safty which by my advice King Ariobarzanes observed For when by the Authority of the Senate I was enjoyned to have a care of the safty and preservation of that * King of Cappadocia whose father was murthered by his subjects King with this added that his welfare was of great concern to the people and Senate which was never before decreed by our order concerning a King I carried the Senates Decree to him and discovering the conspiracies which I understood to be on foot against his life and Authority I advised him to use all diligence to preserve himself and withall encouraged those who where tryed friends to his Father whose sad mis-fortune was a Document to them to defend him with all their strength and care and I gave him this Rule that he should begin to govern by securing his own life and power such as he found engaged in designs against him on them to exercise the Authority of a King to punish some when he saw a necessity and to free the rest from the fear of it that he should make use of the Force of my Army rather to terrifie then contend with the guilty and by these means I freed him from those conspiracies and so not only rendred him safe but provided that he should reign with Authority The safty of the Prince is the peoples safty and commonly on his single life depends the preservation of All. Nothing therefore is more necessary then to have good stores of Armes by which you may secure your self defie the insolent and be revenged when provoked as likewise to have ships in your harbors to secure your Coasts in the Provinces These Naval preparations by the advice of Themistocles were never to be omitted for who is Master of the Sea is ever thought to be the greatest Prince And in my opinion in Islands and Provinces lying on the Sea where good Harbors are there ought to be a particular care of Navigation not only for the common safty but the honor of the Kingdom This was Reason and greatness of minde in our Ancestors who content with little in their domestick affairs and expences living very frugally converted all to the glory splendor and dignity of the Empire for in private affairs frugalitie in publick magnificence is to be preferred and commended CHAP. 19. Idleness to be suppressed that all may be useful to the Publick none to be Turbulent IF in any place your Country be uninhabited and incultivate make there your plantations that the Sinks of your Provinces and Cities may be emptied and the Desarts frequented but without injury to the ancient Proprietors that you may not seem to have removed the one or dispossessed the other but to have constituted both Consider all things that may invite mens minds from idleness to honest and profitable Arts study and industry which may be several waies effected especially as if at publick Game you propose a Prize to those who excel For whatsoever is rare and excellent seems to men pleasant and desirable for its reward Discipline hath great influence on the p●ople the Laws of Crete and those of Lycurgus educated their youth in labors as in Hunting Running c. to indure Hunger Thirst Cold and Heat For those who gave the Rules of publick affairs in Greece would have the Bodies of the Youth strengthned by labor which the Spartans imposed even on their Women who in other Cities in a most soft manner lay idle within the shaddow of their Walls but nothing like this was permitted to the Lacedemonian Virgins who were rather pleased with wrestling swimming heats dust labor and war then a Barbarous and unprofitable fertility This Nation while Lycurgus his Laws were in force were a valiant people One of whom when Perses their enemy boastingly told them that they should not see the Sun for the multitude of his Arrows replyed We shall then fight in the shade In this I only mention their men but what was that woman who informed that her Son was slain in battle replyed I therefore brought him forth that he might not fear to die for his Country Such so valiant and hardy were the Spartans and such once the Romans * Exercitus from their exercise of constant Discipline and labor our Armies taking their Name from their harbor when every man would carry half a months