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A16264	The new-found politicke Disclosing the secret natures and dispositions as well of priuate persons as of statesmen and courtiers; wherein the gouernments, greatnesse, and power of the most notable kingdomes and common-wealths of the world are discouered and censured. Together with many excellent caueats and rules fit to be obserued by those princes and states of Christendome, both Protestants and papists, which haue reason to distrust the designes of the King of Spaine, as by the speech of the Duke of Hernia, vttered in the counsell of Spaine, and hereto annexed, may appeare. Written in Italian by Traiano Boccalini ... And now translated into English for the benefit of this kingdome.; De' ragguagli di Parnaso. English	Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.; Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626. Newes from Pernassus.; Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613. Pietra del paragone politico.	1626 (1626)	STC 3185; ESTC S106274	157,616	256

and malicious detractions lest he should sinke and be swallowed vp hee was forced to fling all his goods and merchandize ouer-board And the miserable wretch had already lost the maine mast of his hopes and his merits had a great leake and drew in abundance of water of desperation when loe his vessell rushed and split against the marble rock of the ingratitude of a most vnthankfull Prince Then followed a most strange thing which was that after so disastrous an encounter the vessell of that Courtiers seruice being split wrackt and sunke the storme of Court-persecutions ceased the Sea of the Princes indignation was calmed and the rocke which had caused that miserable wracke was conuerted into a most safe hauen the Courtiers vessell but ere-while ouerwhelmed of it selfe start vp out of the waues more faire more strong and in better plight than euer it had beene before And the merchandize of his merits of it selfe was laded againe which not long after he vttered and vented at a very deare rate trucking and changing the same for great dignities eminent titles and rich reuenues This accident seemed very strange vnto the Lords Pilots and vnto all the Congregation nor could they sufficiently wonder how it could be possible that in the land-nauigation the most vnhappie wrackes of some might serue as great felicities to others Now the Congregation continuing in trying of new experiments enioyned a sly-witty Courtier to hoise and display the sailes of his talent towards a wind that blew from South and happily sailing and keeping towards the North after many dayes sayling the Pilot-courtier desirous to see where he was he with his Astrolabe measured the altitude of the Pole of his merit and to his great wonderment found that hauing continually kept the prow of his faithfull seruice towards the North of his Princes interresse hee had made his voyage Southward Of so strange a disorder the Courtier at first accused himselfe that as hee should haue done he had not steered the helme of his faithfull minde towards the North of his Princes good seruice But when both with his sailing-card and with his ship-guide compasse in his hand he assured himselfe that he had euermore guided the ship of his actions in an euen and honest line he plainly perceiued that the errour or mistaking of his vnluckie voyage proceeded so because the North of his Princes affection had suffered it selfe to to be turned towards the South by certain wicked and maleuolent whisperers which he hath alwaies about him Then Vespucci Gama and other Pilots besought the Lords of the Congregation to giue ouer the businesse as a desperate cure and said that nothing yeelded the nauigation by sea more sure or safe than the immutabilitie of the North-starre And that by the last most vnfortunate experience it hauing euidently appeared that the mindes of Princes which are the infallible North-starre of land-nauigation suffering themselues so often and so easily to be turned remoued and circumgired by lewd and wicked people of the Court to aduenture to saile the tempestuous Ocean of the Courts was a resolution not fitting wise men but desperate persons In this interim the Lords of the Congregation might see a most elegant spruce Courtier who for the space of more than threescore yeares had so happily sailed both in the Court of Rome and in others that he had not only surmounted outragious storms of ruthlesse blasts and boistrous winds of persecutions but had euen shiuered and broken the very same huge rocks on which he had split wrackt his vessel but that afterwards when with a most pleasant gale and prosperous wind on the height of his felicitie he pursued his course onely for that he vnfortunately hit vpon a rush of an impertinencie of a base Catch-pole he was vtterly cast away An accident which caused such distraction in the Congregation that the Lords ioyntly resolued to haue but one triall more made and then be quiet by a Courtier that was readie to set saile and him they commanded to hoise and spread all his sailes But so it happened that whilest he held on his course in a coast deemed of all men most safe and dangerlesse his ship vnheedily or by chance hit vpon a rocke and was wholly split and wrackt which the Lords of the Congregation seeing they all bitterly bewailed the ignorance and vnheedinesse of the Courtier for so much as hee could not auoid that rocke But he made manifest demonstration to them all that it was not marked in the sailing-card Whereupon all the Pilots casting their eyes vpon great Ptolomey as if they silently accused him of ignorance hauing omitted that rocke which so well deserued to be marked in his Card and had been the cause of so disastrous a mischiefe But Ptolomey hauing first well viewed the place and considered the countrey thereabout did euidently demonstrate vnto the Lords that no man liuing had euer before that time seene any shelfe or rocke in that place and therefore he had not marked it in his Card but that it suddenly grew and started vp in the very instant that the vpfortunate Courtier hit and ranne vpon it Now the Lords of the Congregation perceiuing that in the nauigation by land huge rockes did euery hand-while spring vp and grow in a moment euen in the middest of fields and other places supposed most safe to be nauigated in the darkest night they concluded their businesse to bee desperate and their attempt impossible And therefore dismissing the Congregation they straitly commanded that in the perillous Land-nauigation no man should dare to goe a iourney except at high noone and withall euery man should carry a great Lanterne of wisdome with a burning Taper therein in the prow of his proceeding morning and euening with his bare knees on the ground and hands heaued vp to heauen humbly beseeching the Maiesty of the euerliuing God to send them good successe since that for one to bring the Ship of his hopes into a Court as into a safe heauen doth rather depend from the immediate aide and assistance of God than from any humane wisdome whatsoeuer The Lord Iohn de la Casa hauing presented his quaint Galateo or booke of Manners vnto Apollo meeteth with great difficulties in diuers Nations about their promises to obserue the same Rag. 28. 1 Part. THE Right Reuerend Lord Iohn de la Casa who as wee wrote vnto you by our last was with great solemnity admitted into Parnassus where after he had visited these illustrious Poets and complemented with all the learned Princes of this Court hee presented his right quaint and profitable Booke of Galateo vnto Apollo which his Maiestie did so highly commend that immediately he strictly commanded it should inuiolably be obserued by all Nations And at the same instant enioyned the said Lord to compose a Galatea since it was manifestly knowne that the Ladies of these moderne times haue as much need to be corrected in their euill and depraued manners as men

not forget he bound them to practise themselues therein one houre at least euery day Although it seemed strange to the Learned how it could be possible that out of a most vile Game deuised by the off-scum raskals of men there might be drawne any profitable document for honest men yet notwithstanding they all knowing that his Maiestie neuer commanded any thing which did not afterward redound to their good and to a speciall purpose they obeyed so willingly that this Schoole was in as great request and frequented no lesse than an Vniuersitie But when the Learned had discouered the Magisteriall secrets the hidden mysteries and admirable cunning tricks of this triumphant Game of Trumps they extolled Apolloes profound iudgment to the eighth Heauen all of them with one voice celebrating and magnifying it in all places that it was not Philosophie Poetry nor yet the Mathematicks nor Astrologie nor any other famous knowledge but it was the most rare Game of Trumps which taught men chiefly great men and Courtiers that secret of most import how euery seuerall Trumpe tooke vp and got as aprey euen the goodliest of all the Cards CHAP. 14. It being noted that Petus Thraseas in the Company of his sonne in law Eluidius Priscus did vse commonly to frequent the house of the Lady Victoria Colonna he is grieuously rebuked by Apollo IT was obserued by those vertuous Censers whose office and delight consisted in looking to other mens deeds that Petus Thraseas in the company of Eluidius Priscus his sonne in Law extraordinarily haunted the house of the Lady Victoria Colonna and also of other learned Dames of this Court. And though the said Thraseas were reputed for a man of singular good parts that one would hardly suspect any obscene or lewd action in so great a Senatour his vsuall and daily visites together with his continuall abodes in these Ladies houses occasioned so great a scandall yea among the vertuous themselues that the smell thereof ascended euen to his Maiesties nostrels who to extinguish the flames of these slanderous murmures about two dayes since sent for Thraseas and expresly commanded him to reueale what businesse he had in resorting so often to these Ladies houses Thraseas answered that he frequented them onely to exercise charity among these Ladies by reading euery day vnto them a Chapter of Boetius his booke of the Consolation of Philosophy Vpon this answer Apollo was so grieuously mooued against Thraseas that in great anger he said If with your talent and zealous office by giuing office by giuing comfort consolations to the afflicted you hope to merit grace at Gods hand and to obtaine good will among men goe your wayes to comfort those poore wretches who die of meere necessitie and pure want in the Hospitalls or those vnfortunate people who are condemned to the gallowes or Spanish gallies But to sit all day long closely among Ladies as Sardanapalus vsed to doe thinking to make men beleeue that you exercise Spirituall doings they are such hypocrisies as will moue the veriest idiot to laugh at you and will make them to burst with rage that know how these which goe often to the mill become whited with meale And a man of your wisdome ought to vnderstand that at such time as a woman conceiues of two infants which we call Twinnes if both be male they are enclosed within one membrane the which likewise comes to passe if both bee female But if it happens that one bee male and the other female most prouident nature preserues the female in a perticular membrane seuered from the male Seeing that Nature thought good not to thrust a little brother and a little sister of that tender age to dwell together in one place she teacheth all men and especially men of your fashion to liue more warily and securely and in these doings O Thraseas whosoeuer trusteth his owne power I hold him to be more rash than wise And for that these disorders in regard of our reputation and yours had need to be corrected I doe straitly command you that from henceforth you leaue off such dangerous practises The world is not so sottishly simple as you more simply conceiue it but that they doe well vnderstand how the visites which men of your qualitie vse vnto Ladies doe begin to smell after the second time and specially in their noses that know how faire and beautifull things seeme pleasing to all men and that the prouocation of the flesh is a naturall vice in all men the which they cannot cure and keepe backe with a more excellent remedy than to stand a farre off from such faire and goodly obiects There 's no safer way to defend a man from error than to shunne the occasions And all your Philosophy cannot produce such proofes as will make any man of iudgement beleeue that a dainty bit of flesh doth not agree with euery mans mouth that is made of flesh Lastly I must put you in minde that a man of your credit and condition who makes profession aboue all things not to defile the white robe of your Reputation with the sports of lasciuious oile ought not at all to busie himselfe about lampes it being not onely great folly but most insolent rashnesse worthy of the whip and strapado to think he can make gun-powder in a forge where a smith workes nailes and afterwards to perswade men that he might goe to the field without danger CHAP. 15. A learned Gentleman of Rome begs a remedie of Apollo to make him to forget certaine grieuous wrongs which he had receiued in the Court of a great Prince for which cause his Maiestie causeth him to drinke a cup-full of the water of Lethe but with vnfortunate successe A Learned Gentleman of Rome which some few dayes since arriued at Parnassus was yesterday admitted to his Maiesties Royall Audience vnto whom he shewed that for many iniuries which hee had receiued of diuers ill willers of his in the Court of a certaine Prince where the Lawyers persecuted him and made him pay aboue three score seuerall fees by their cunning trickes of Law he hath sithence liued very much troubled in minde and so much the more for that he could not worke his reuenge vpon them without incurring farre greater troubles then his Enemies had plunged him in And on the other side he found that he was not endowed with that generous resolution of forgetting and forgiuing them For which cause and now to be freed from this hellish torment wherein he perpetually liued he repaired to his Maiestie whom most humbly he intreated to bestow vpon him some present remedie to heale his mind which was galled with the passions of hatred and reuenge Apollo did much pitie this Gentlemans case and commanded that one should giue him a large cup-full of the water of Lethe prepared in such manner that it might cause him to forget odious things and not to take away the remembrance of benefits receiued The Gentleman with great greedinesse drunke

THE New-found Politicke DISCLOSING THE SECRET NATVRES and dispositions as well of priuate persons as of Statesmen and Courtiers wherein the Gouernments Greatnesse and Power of the most notable Kingdomes and Common-wealths of the world are discouered and censured Together with Many excellent Caueats and Rules fit to be obserued by those Princes and States of Christendome both Protestants and Papists which haue reason to distrust the designes of the King of Spaine as by the Speech of the Duke of Hernia vttered in the Counsell of SPAINE and hereto annexed may appeare Written in Italian By Traiano Boccalini Gentleman of Rome and priuiledged by sundry Princes of Italy and also out of Italy by the most Christian King And now translated into English for the benefit of this Kingdome LONDON ¶ Printed for Francis Williams neere the Royall Exchange 1626. TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Maiestie Dread Soueraigne THe kinde welcome which these Raggualioes of Boccalini lately found among the French and in other Princes Courts who suspect the incroaching power of the House of Austria hath moued me to collect and consecrate them in English weeds vnto your Maiestie The First was translated by M. Florio sometime Seruant to your Royall Mother of blessed memory The Second by one vnto whom the common-wealth cannot as yet be beholding for his name And the Third part by me although farre inferiour vnto either of them for any knowledge which I dare arrogate to my selfe in the Italian Tongue hauing discontinued the vse thereof since my returne out of Italie being aboue 24. yeeres past vntill this present time Yet neuerthelesse when I had fully perused the noueltie of the Authors straine the pleasant conceits of the worke enterlaced with some matters of consequence which might serue for caueats and annotations to such as stand interessed in State-affaires I was encouraged to renew that which I had so long neglected and by compiling some of the choisest Obseruations to present them to your iudicious view And because my chiefest cares for many yeeres haue beene fixt vpon that most hopefull Plantation in the Iland commonly called The New-found Land I entituled this Worke The New-found Politicke as well in regard of my affection deuoted to that place as for the newnesse of the stile and matter wherein the Author poetically discouers some Mysteries of Policie which may rowze vp the Spirits of the State of Venice and other Neighbouring Prouinces to watch with Argus Eyes lest the deceitfull shew of Indian Gold a fitter bait for Turks and Moores might produce any sudden Innouation preiudiciall to the libertie of Christendome which ought to flourish in mutuall loue and charitie and not to liue in continuall iealousies to be surprized by any Prince that acknowledgeth Christ for their vniuersall Head The King is wise as is the Angell of God and conceiues more than it becomes a man of my ranke to insinuate to so high a Maiestie concerning the Affaires of long-handed Princes whom Experience and not the admonition of a contemplatiue Scholar hath taught to remember that Verse of the Poet Tunc tua res agitur paries cùm proximus ardet When the next wall vnto your house doth burne Looke to your selfe betimes next is your turne The King of Kings long preserue your Maiestie in all Earthly happinesse to his glory our comfort and the defence of the true Christian Faith So praieth from the bottome of his heart Your Maiesties most humble Subiect WILLIAM VAVGHAN The Contents of the first Part. Chap. 1. THE Company or Corporation of Polititians sets vp a Ware-house or publike Shop in Parnassus in which are to be sold diuers kinds of wares vsefull for the Vertuous life of the Learned Chap. 2. The most soueraigne vertue Fidelitie being secretly fled from Parnassus Apollo hauing discouered where she had hidden herselfe dispatcheth the two most excellent Muses Melpomene and Thalia to perswade her to returne Chap. 3. Apollo perceiuing the great disorders that the flight of the sacred vertue Fidelitie bred in all Mankind by the mediation of the Soueraigne Muses and of the sublime Heroike Vertues obtaineth her returne into Parnassus Chap. 4. Iustus Lipsius to make amends for the fault he had committed in accusing of Tacitus doth so passionately obserue him that before Apollo he is charged to idolatrize him whereupon after a faigned and but verball punishment he is in the end by his Maiestie not onely absolued but highly commended and admired Chap. 5. The chiefest learned men of Parnassus are sutors vnto Apollo to inioyne Tacitus to recompile those books of his Annales and Histories which are lost Chap. 6. Cornelius Tacitus for some complaints vrged against him by diuers great Princes by reason of certaine politicall spectacles which he hath deuised most preiudiciall vnto their gouernment hauing beene imprisoned is by Apollo set at liberty Chap. 7. The Duke of Laconia for hauing aduanced a most faithfull Secretary of his to the highest dignities of his estate is accused before Apollo to idolatrize and dote vpon a Mignon but he doth most egregiously defend himselfe Chap. 8. Apollo bewailing the wofull wracks which in the Courts of great Princes his vertuous followers suffer and fall into for to assure their Nauigation commandeth some of the chiefest learned men in his Dominion to endeuour to frame a Sailing-Card to saile safely by land Chap. 9. The Lord Iohn de la Casa hauing presented his quaint Galateo or booke of Manners vnto Apollo meeteth with great difficulties in diuers Nations about their promises to obserue the same Chap. 10. Apollo hauing highly commended the Statute made by the most mighty Kings of Spaine that no Aduocates Lawyers or Proctors shall passe into the Indies the Doctors of the Law finding themselues aggrieued complaine vnto his Maiestie Chap. 11. An Apothecarie at the very instant that he is taken prisoner by Sargeants without being examined at all is forthwith condemned and sent to the Gallies Chap. 12. The vertuous people of Apolloes State hauing consigned vnto his Maiesties Generall Treasurer the accustomed Donatiue of a thousand conceits according to their custome they beg a boone or grace at his hands Chap. 13. By letters intercepted and taken from a Currier dispatched by some Princes to the Lake of Averno the common people come to know that the rancors and hatreds now raigning among diuers Nations are occasioned and stirred vp by the artifices of their Princes Chap. 14. Antonio Perez of Aragon hauing presented the Booke of his Relations vnto Apollo his Maiestie doth not onely refuse to accept it but commandeth the same to bee presently burnt Chap. 15. The Monarchy of Spaine is much aggrieued that her falshoods and treacheries are discouered Chap. 16. The Spanish Monarchie arriueth in Parnassus Shee intreateth Apollo to be cured of a Cauterie Shee is dismissed by the politicke Physitians Chap. 17. The Spanish Monarchy goeth to the Oracle of Delphos to know whether she shall euer obtaine the Monarchy of the world she hath a crosse

a soft spirit knowes best to accommdate his passions to stand as still as a Signe at a Tauerne because the world which requires good gouerment turnes quickly seditious and imbroyled with the phantasticall Chymeraes of certaine hotspurres which in all their affaires by seeking to become ouerwise in their owne conceit they doe in stead of quenching and appeasing troubles and combustions kindle them the more by vnseasonable remedies Intempestiuis remediis delicta accendunt Fifteene daies since by a most rigorous Triall which was made for so great a businesse not the ignorant as many thought but those capricious Proiectours were excluded whose pates being full of or others and new inuentions are enemies to those ancient customes and ingenuous orders whereto people haue beene enured as another nature yet these subtle heads would better them with moderne and new lawes T is true they greatly laboured to finde out pliable subiects of a milde and flexible disposition which knew to apply their owne nature to another bodies nature conformable as wiues ought to be to their husbands Nor did they admit at any hand an Officer which had not studied for the space of foure years continually that most important point of Philosophy to liue as not to liue The very Basis and ground-worke whereon the quietnesse of people securely consisted and the safety also of that good gouernment which might be hoped at the hands of an honest wise Gouernour in whom they did not so much regard his insight and knowledge in the Lawes and Statutes as that he should be well seene in that prudent mystery in that mild manner of proceeding and in that dexterity of vnderstanding as is not as yet found registred in Bookes A consideration so necessary that some great Lawyers which haue had the charge of Prouinces lighted vpon most simple successe as that lanthorne of the Lawes Bartolus can beare testimony who was forced to leape out of a window at the Palace of Todi for all his rare iudgement and skill in the Lawes because he would not be taken and torne in pieces by some that could no longer brooke the impertinent curiosities of one that was so wise of his tongue and so imprudent in his braine Likewise this is certaine that they reiected euen with the bastinado those great Beasts which with open ostentation to Peacocke-wise vsed to looke big with austere terrible countena●●ce taking delight to threaten his Maiesties Subiects made by the Creatour of the same mould as themselues more like tyrants than ciuill Iudges which many of them counterfeit for some other sinister respect and aboue all things they had a care to exclude those tyrannicall Butchers who Busyris like being bent to shed humane blood would make men beleeue that they went about to set the crooked World right againe with Pillories with Gibbets or at least with stupendious ●ines and mulcts worse than a Thunder-bolt such as were neuer imposed in more ancient times Aboue measure they loued those Iudges which tooke more care to hinder misdemeanours than to punish them and which neuer subscribe to the sentence of Death the Greeke letter Θ without the Inke of Teares The next day after all the Presidents and Iudges appeared before Apollo who caused Salust Crispus chiefe Notary of the Collaterals to minister the oath vnto them which was That they should faithfully leaue the world as they found it and not alter any of the ancient Priuiledges After the Oath thus ministred the said Salust tooke aside the Gouernour of Libethrum a Fauorite of his and gaue him these admonitions First to begin his Gouernment with a kinde of carelesnesse and to continue it with diligence by degrees entring in as a Lambe and playing the Lyon towards the end but alwaies generously inclined remembring that Principle of Cornelius Tacitus Acribus initiis incurioso fi●e Secondly that in all causes betweene the Common people he should doe most exact Iustice without exception of persons but in suits arising among the Nobler sort hee should mingle with the rigour of Iustice the dexterity of a wary iudgement remembring alwayes that the accusations of great persons were so odious to Princes that they laid vpon Officers Gownes an aspersion like the tainting spots of corrupted Oile which could neuer bee washt away with the purest sope of innocence Therefore among those great spirited men a Iudge had need with the sword of Iustice to imploy like a wise Fencer the target of a nimble wit and a cautelous care that neither of the one side nor of the other he be exclaimed vpon for any distasteful order For Princes hauing cause to vse their helpe for counsell force or purses they desire to hold them well satisfied And therefore in controuersies falling out among them a Iudge had need to learne some easie way to draw out rotten teeth and with the hand of dexterity to fill vp the place with the finest Cotten wooll Thirdly a Iudge must enforce himselfe to know all things but not to execute al which he knowes Omnia scire non omnia exequi For to attempt needlesse and brabling matters were to goe about to set straight the leg of a Dog or to lose his braine in the Alchymie of Fooles And in this corrupt Age it is good counsel for an Officer to tolerate in people some stale disorder then with any ill satisfaction to the generalitie to torment himselfe to seeke to bring in that which he cannot execute without commotions and heart-burnings Fourthly that with other Iudges and officers subiect to the same Prince he should not contend nor contest for matter of preheminence or right nor looke to be his owne Caruer or to right himselfe in his Court by vsing any strict course with inferiour officers for matters of prerogatiue of Courts but either to acquaint the Prince himselfe or to winke at the affront if another Court seemes to iustifie the subiect or els to take in hand the weapons of a gowned man the pen. But if the Iudges authoritie stretch to the Confines of another Prince hee must not seeke differences nor auoid them But if they proceed from Souldiers or Pyrats he must defend his Borders and Iurisdiction with Armes Yet so that towards all princes subiects in league and amitie with his Prince he behaue himselfe as temperately regardfull as zealously affected to his owne Princes honour Fiftly that in some occasions he preferre the publicke peace of his gouernment before that strictnesse of Iustice which is mentioned in Bookes Sixtly that for any impertinent thing which hee sees or heares which be not extraordinarily altered in mind or countenance and that if he cannot doe this yet that he refraine himselfe from speaking of it and in any case to beware that he deliberate not nor study for reuenge or reformation in heat or anger but in cold blood after a long times delay Seuenthly that in supreme and waighty matters hee take heed of making any shew of vndaunted of a fiery and resolued mind

the Pretour PVblius Terentius liued in a little house but very well furnished in the Comicall quarter with no more meni all seruants about him then Bacchis his maid Davus his ancient attendant And although Bacchis in the floure of her age being then a very beautifull creature had bin graced with her Masters bed yet now being aged she continued in his house without scandall and very modestly disposed not ministring the least cause of murmuring or dislike to any of the neighbourhood But it happened about tenne dayes since that Iason the great Lawyer being Pretour of Vrbine to get him some repute in his new Office directed a Proces vnder a penaltie to Terence commanding him in his Maiesties name all excuses laid aside immediately to put Bacchis out of his house vnlesse he would incurre the danger of a Concubine-keeper But Terence did not onely disobey the contents of the Mandate but other Writs of Iasons court Whereupon the Pretour forbare to send any more warrants of orders and injunctions and yesterday without any more adoe caused Terence to be apprehended and imprisoned but with so great displeasure to Apollo that in an extraordinary great chafe he publikely exclaimed that by his officers yea and that in Parnassus men more malicious then ignorant that wicked abuse of being quick-sighted in apparance and shew but blind in matters of substance was lately introduced and practised to the dishonour of his Court. Then commanding Terence to be discharged out of prison he caused Iason himselfe for all his famous Bookes of the Law to be there shut vp in his stead and also to his greater affliction appointed Philip Decius his Aduersary to be Pretour in his roome Whereupon yesterday the Rod and the Standard being the Pretorian E●signes were deliuered to Decius who going to Apoll●es presence his Maiestie spake these words vnto him By the correction inflicted on Iason learne to know that Reuerend Iudges which in the administration of Iustice doe more attend the true and reall seruice of God than by formall trickes and gibes to play vpon their Inferiours they ought first to hunt out of his owne house malice and bribery and then to chase out of other mens houses young harlots as Thai● before hee proceeded to expell an aged Bacchis CHAP. 6. Domitius Corbulo for certaine words spoken by him during the time of his gouernment which sauoured of Tyranny is called in question by the Criminall Magistrates but in the end to his greater glory dismissed BEcause the Citie of Pirrhus and all that most populou● Territory by the mildnesse and ouer much lenity of certaine Gouernours became more insolent then in former times and full of Malefactours and perillous Factions which disturbed the peace of the vertuous Apolloes Maiestie to bridle with some exemplary punishment the licentiousnesse of his seditious subiects about two moneths past sent into that gouernment the rigorous Domitius Corbulo who in few dayes did so demeane himselfe that from a seditious State he reduced the same to a peaceable course of liuing Within a while after it chāced that Corbulo discoursing with some of his familiar friends enquired of them what conceit they had of him they freely answered him that the rigor and seuerity which he had lately vsed against many of the seditious had terrified the whole Citie and Countrey that all did hate him At which answer Corbulo reioyced beyond measure and told them againe There 's no matter Oderint dum metuant let them hate so they stand in feare of me The which words were afterwards carried by some pick-thanks to Apollo who taking in ill part the accusation referred the same to his Court of criminall causes And because by an ancient Decree published by his Maiestie it was knowne and declared that whatsoeuer Prince legitimate naturall and hereditary presumed to vtter such arrogant and rash words he should incurre this penalty to be reputed a Tyrant and if any Officer should let slip though vnawares and by chance any such dangerous words out of his mouth he should be capitally punished Corbulo was summoned to appeare vpon this Information before the Iudges who according came the next day to answere with all humility where the case was throughly canuased and while all men expected to heare some rigorous order to be taken with Corbulo by extraordinary fauour the cause was remoued by a Certiorari before Apollo himselfe where to all mens admiration he was pronounced cleare and guiltlesse and remaunded backe into his gouernment with far greater authority and grace then before The sentence contained that in a Prince which had the Honey of Grace in his power those words were shamefull and expresly Tyrannicall most honourable in that Officers mouth which had nothing in his hands but the odious sting of Iustice that Prince being miraculous indeed which causeth himselfe to be beloued and reuerenced of his people and that Officer most sufficient which hath the Genius and nature to make himselfe to be feared and obeyed CHAP. 7. By the promotion of Diogenes the Cynick vnto a higher place the honourable chaire of the Tranquillitie of a priuate life being vacant Apollo preferres the famous Philosopher Crates to that charge who refuseth it DIogenes the Cynicke who for so many yeares with much fruit to the vniuersall good and his owne infinit glory in particular had vndergone the charge of commending in the Chaire of the publike Schooles Pouerty Solitarinesse and that contented quietnesse of mind by whose perswasion Attalus himselfe the King of Treasure became of that admirable resolution to put away his riches the easier to embrace the austere Sect of the Stoikes which is much edified now in Parnassus about two moneths past he was promoted for his singular great merits to a more sublime Dignitie euen to be the Archcriticke of the sacred Muses Whereby the noble Cynicall place left vacant his Maiestie bestowed it on the famous Crates who yesterday morning went to Apollo and contrary to all mens expectation refused to accept of this renowned Charge freely affirming that by the aduancement of Diogenes to that late transcendent Dignity the Chaire of pouerty and contentment of mind being now become vilified and much hindred his heart would not giue him to exercise that Office with that candour feruencie and ingenuous simplicity of mind as the affaires of that place required because the very first day when he should settle himself to his milde Lectures peaceable Meditatiōs of necessity he could not but be swoln with some ambition and be possessed with the like ardent desire glorious hope to be enstalled in the same or such another Dignitie as his Predecessor had obtained who had cashired cast out of his hart though extraordinarily composed that honest simplicity which makes wise men to reason and like a calme wind to breath with their harmlesse thoughts and not with the tongue which oftentimes trips and deliuers like a clattering clapper more noises and gall then honeyed admonitions To this