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A79588	A discourse touching the Spanish monarchy. Wherein vve have a political glasse, representing each particular country, province, kingdome, and empire of the world, with wayes of government by which they may be kept in obedience. As also, the causes of the rise and fall of each kingdom and empire. VVritten by Tho. Campanella. Newly translated into English, according to the third edition of this book in Latine.; De monarchia Hispanica discursus. English	Campanella, Tommaso, 1568-1639.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.	1653 (1653)	Wing C401; Thomason E722_1; ESTC R207219	193,362	240

while that we do nothing but fa●● together by the Eares one with another But if this cannot be brought about the Persians must then be persuaded to joyn with the Ethiopians Muscovites and Polonians as hath been said before And I do believe also that the Great Turks Bassaes and other of his Subjects would quickly be got to fall off from him if so be they could but be once fully perswaded assured that they should each of them really be made the absolute Lords of what they now possessed All which things ought to have their Accomplishment in the death of this Mahomet III. now Raigning seeing that That Number is Fatal The Great Turks Younger Sons also are to be seazed upon and conveigh'd away least the Eldest Brother should Murder them according to their usual Custome and this the Venetians may do conveniently enough by their Merchants or else the same may be committed to the Christian Slaves that are there to be done by them After that this Empire shall be thus weakned and divided it would be convenient then to send thether some Preachers who should endeavour to convince the Natives of their Error There should care also be taken by all meanes for the bringing of Printing into Turky by meanes whereof that People may be taken off from the exercise of Arms and may apply themselves to Books and by being taken up with Disputations concerning Points of Divinity and Philosophy both of the Peripateticks Stoicks Platonists and Telesians they may be divided amongst themselves and so be the more weakned For those that give themselves to the study of Books onely usually become a Prey to such as apply themselves to the exercise of Armes and the study of the Arts too as we see in the example of Athens which became a Prey to the Lacedemonians both which Nations Philip King of Macedon by the force of his Armes afterwards subdued being first instructed by Epaminondas by what meanes this was to be effectd Cato was wont to say that the Romans would lose their Empire so soon as ever they should begin to apply themselves to the study of the Greek Tongue and Sciences This the Great Turk who is wiser then We are knew very well and therefore preferred rather the exercise of Armes and got him great Guns and Slaves I mean those Jewes that were sent to him by Ferdinand the last King of Arragon for he knew very well what and how great Advantage might be made by S●●●es and that the Children that they should beget were to be brought up in the exercise of Armes and the knowledge of Military Affaires But then on the contrary He would not receive nor accept of those Printing-Presses and Letter for the Printing of the Arabick Tongue that were sent Him by the great Duke of Tuscany because he would not have his Dominions filled with Books because that would much take off the Military Valour of his Subjects and besides because that Mahumetanisme by frequent Disputations about it might easily in a short time have been overthrown It hath also been very prejudicial unto Us that we have had no Law made for the Injoyning of Silence whereby we should have been commanded to conceal some things from others which Law certainly would have been of very good use But now adaies in Germany all things are made Publick and laid open to the whole World and hence it is that we see every one there publisheth in Print a New Bible and that the Empire goes to ruine and that all places are overwhelmed with Luxury and Riot And had not the fear of the King of Spain's Armies kept the Netherlanders in Awe they also would by this time have been as Effeminate and Luxurious as the Germans are And the like would have befallen to the English also So that we might have hopes that unlesse there were a War maintained amongst them to keep them in exercise they would all quickly come to utter ruine after that they should but once come to be Effeminate Heart-lesse and at discord one with another as we have said formerly and that so much the rather because that the Heresie they professe seeing it denyes the Freedom of the Will is repugnant to all Principles of Policy Now all Heresies when they are once gone so far as to Atheisme are reduced again into the way of Truth by some Wise Prophet or other such as were in Italy Thomas Aquinas Dominicus Scotus and others For Heresies also have their Periods as well as States which fall first from being governed by good Kings into the hands of Tyrants from their Tyranny into an Aristocracy from thence into an Oligarchy and so at length to a Democracy and in the end they shift about again and in a Circle as it were return again to their first form either of a Kingdom or a Tyranny CHAP. XXXI Of the Other Hemisphere and of the New World THe Admirable Discovery of the New World which was foreseen by St. Brigitt and expressely foretold by Seneca in his Medea and there lively set forth in its proper Colours and Names according as he had received the same from one of the Sibylls hath been the cause that this Hemisphere of Ours hath been thereby rapt into the greatest Admiration that can be For some of the Ancientest among the Philosophers of which number was Xenophanes were of Opinion that That Other Hemisphere lay all covered over with Water some others as Lactantius and St. Augustine thought that the Earth was not a Perfect Globe about which the Sun was carried in his Diurnal Motion And some others believed among whom was Dante that those Countries were Inhabited and were a certain kind of Earthly Paradise Some there were that doubted hereof amongst whom was Aristotle and again some others of them confidently affirmed that the Earth was an Absolute and Perfect Orbe or Globe and of this number were Plato and Origen And therefore it is but for just cause that all the World admires the Spanish Monarchy as both very Daring and very Powerful seeing that It hath measured and overcome so many Seas and in a short space of time hath put a girdle about the vast Globe of the Whole Earth which neither Carthage nor Tyre were ever heretofore able to do nor yet the wisest of All Men King Solomon whose Fleet making its Voyage as far as Goa only and Taprobane spent alwaies three whole years in the same which yet Our Seamen now adaies perform in three Moneths time So that although the Vast distance of place that there is betwixt the several parts of the Spanish Monarchy seems to render It Weak yet doth their Admirable Skill in Navigation for the shortening of those Distances together with those other Means of Uniting these Parts which the Spaniards daily do make use of or may make use of when they please make the same most Illustrious and more Admirable then some perhaps do imagine However to the end that the King of Spain may not

same Subject already very copiously and also because that the thing is of it self clear enough And therefore I fell upon another Design whereby I might Illustrate the Majesty of the Spanish Empire the conservation whereof is a businesse of much greater difficulty then the Acquisition For Humane Things do as it were Naturally encrease sometimes and sometimes again decrease after the example of the Moon to which they are all subject And therefore it is a most High and weighty undertaking if not such a one as is above the Power of Man to endeavour to Fixe them keep them in one Certain standing Condition that so they fall not from the pitch they had arrived at nor grow worse and fall to decay For in the Acquisition of any thing both Occasion Fortune and also the Enemies Errors and other the like Accidental things do very much assist which are yet all of them placed without a Man But to keep what is got requires both an Excellent Wit and singular Wisedom Valour is of use for the getting but Prudence and that not Ordinary neither for the Keeping what is Gotten For the raysing of Tumults and Sedition the Vilest Persons have power enough but Peace and Quietnesse have need of Art and skill to maintain them The Lacedemonians that they might shew that it was a businesse of greater moment to keep what was Ones Own then to possesse himself of what was another mans appointed punishments for those onely that had lost their shield in fight but not those that had lost their Sword and among the Germans of old it was reputed a most Heynous crime for a man to have left his shield behind him neither was it Lawful for any man in that Scandalous manner to be either present at their Sacrifices or to joyn with them in any of their Meetings The Romans also were wont to call Fabius Maximus the shield of their Commonwealth but Marcus Marcellus The Sword And it is certain enough that they made much more account of Fabius then they did of Marcellus Of this Opinion also was Aristotle who affirmes in his Politicks that the Office and Duty of a Lawgiver doth not so much consist in the constituting and Forming of Cities as in the endeavouring to preserve them when they are formed and to make them stand firm as long as possibly may be Neither need that to trouble us at all that the Propagators of Kingdoms have alwaies been more highly esteemed then the Conservators of the same for the reason of this is because that their Present Acts do more affect and take up the Eyes of men and do make a greater Noyse and shew and are fuller of Ostentation and Novelty which all People so dearly love And this is the reason why most people do more applaud and are delighted to hear of Expeditions and Conquests then they are taken with those other more Peaceful Arts of Preserving what Men had before gotten which Arts notwithstanding by how much the more Tranquillity and Quiet they work withal so much the greater both Judgment and Wit do they argue to be in him whosoever he be that knowes how to make use of them And as Constant Rivers are much more Noble then sudden Torrents that are caused only by the Accidental falling of some Violent Showres of Rain which yet are with more Admiration gazed upon then those more quietly-flowing Rivers Just so is it with the Common People that alwaies have him in greater Admiration and Account that Wins Countries then that preserves them when they are gotten And yet the truth is that it is a much harder Task as Florus hath also observed to preserve and make good a Province then to make one These things are indeed gotten by strength but they are kept by Good Lawes And therefore I shall conclude with that of the Poet Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri It shews as great a Skill To keep as Conquer still And now I conceive I have treated Copiously enough touching the Prudence and Occasion that the King of Spain ought to make use of both in General and Particular notwithstanding that having been detained ten years in misery and being also sick I could not have the opportunity of furnishing my self with such things as this businesse required nor could have the help of any Books for indeed I had not so much as a Bible by me when I wrote this Discourse so that I shall the more easily deserve the Readers Pardon in case that I shall have any where doatingly failed either by setting down some things in such places as were not proper for them or else by writing some things twice I have done what I was able to do though I could not do what I would willingly have done the fuller handling of all which things notwithstanding I shall reserve for some fitter Opportunity In the mean time I desire that Your Lordship would take the pains to peruse this Tumultuary sudden Piece which yet I hope I shall revise again against the next Easter and therein I shall take the more pains and care and shall take away and adde where I shall see cause This Age of ours hath also Its Solons Lycurgusses and Josephs which are sent by God himself but they are kept under and are not admitted to the Presence of Princes And that Common Saying namely that there are no Solons or Aristotles born now adaies is most false For indeed there are such born even in these our daies and such as are better then they too but they lye hid and concealed whiles that Gentiles are had in admiration but Christians are envied But I would have these things committed to Secret Ears for hereafter when they shall have been viewed over again and corrected they will be more esteemed of then the Sibylls Books were by the Roman King It is not in the power of Envy to hinder me from speaking thus much for when those things which I have here delivered shall but come to be examined and made trial of Spain shall know what It hath to do and shall perceive how great my desire is to assist it in what I may Pro captu Lectoris habent sua fata Libelli Books either fail or hit By th' Scale o' th' Readers Wit And thus I shall now take leave of Your Lordship whose Honours and Deserts I desire and earnestly pray that Almighty God would crown with a happy length of years and a full increase FINIS