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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51726	The pourtract of the politicke Christian-favourite originally drawn from some of the actions of the Lord Duke of St. Lucar : written to the Catholick Majesty of Philip the Great, and the fourth of that name : a piece worthy to be read by all gentlemen, who desire to know the secrets of state, and mysteries of government / by Marquesse Virgilio Malvezzi ; to this translation is annexed, the chiefe state maxims, political and historical observations, in a brief and sententious way, upon the same story of Count Olivares, Duke of St. Lucar.; Ritratto del privata politico christiano. English	Malvezzi, Virgilio, marchese, 1595-1653.; Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.	1647 (1647)	Wing M360; ESTC R9198	61,007	163

finish it if I doe not desire to out-live him who is worthie to outlive time and to hold out with all eternitie the All that I write is not the All that the Duke hath done nor all that hee will doe but it is onelie a little that I came to heare of of the infinite of that which hee hath performed it shall be sufficient for mee that if my hand may not have a quil of Mercuries vving that so I might flie this loftie pitch that it may have but one of his fingers to point out all the way and who can tell whether this my booke but onelie vvith the lifting up of the hand may not beat time to a consort of sweet singing Swans vvhich flie in a more noble aire amidst his fortunate Skie but let the heavens forbid it should beat time unto the harsh and importunate discords of such vvho baselie trouble the Christall streames of Wisedome and veritie State Maximes and Politicall ohservations on the actions of Count Olivares ANgels are the figures of God Favourites are the figures of Angels The glory of things past is like the King of Bees without a sting and the vanity thereof The relation of things past is like the painting of a picture and some oddes there is in relating things past and present Historians subject to divers censures What is represented to the eye is more forcible then what is read in papers In marriages worth is to be as well regarded as wealth A mans Country is not where but under which he is borne Man is a tree inversed whose hold is in Heaven not in the ground Trees bred on stormie hills prove stronger then those which are planted in fruitfull warme vallies The Law-givers were Polititians the Law politicall but now professors of the Law are become Empericks and the Law it selfe made mechanicall The Stars have alwaies the same influence but they seeme not still to be the same Cyrus was first a King of boyes then of men Why the first borne have the greatest fortunes and the younger the greatest vertues Riches preceding vertue hinder it but if they follow they helpe it To be alwaies amongst bookes is to die amongst the living and live amongst the dead Nothing of old honourable but valour Glory consists both in knowing and in doing When study is not delightsome it is a passion not a labour They that will serve Princes must spend their youth first in their studies before they become Courtiers Man a moveable world when hee goeth not forward he returnes back and can no more stand still then running water which if stopped will rather ascend against its nature then stand still The aspects of the firmament are not without some opposition nor the greatest fortunes without some molestation To be made governours of remote places is an honourable and ordinary exile of unfortunate worthy men Distance thawes the actions of remote governours that they seldome arrive to the Princes eares except by the Favourites meanes The Suns splendor is so great that the thickest Clouds cannot totally intercept it such are the beames of worth which cannot be hid A little heat is soone extinguished by cold but a great heat increaseth by antiperistasis or opposition so it is with eminent worth Agesilaus would not have his riding upon a stick amongst his boyes be told to them who were not parents least they should thinke him too fonde a father neither will Favourites have their love to the Prince known to their enemies for feare of misconstruction Lovers doe not onely love when they are beloveed but also when they are hated which love is in the heart not in the head Love is radicated in the soule but diffused into the body as the Sunnes light is extended where his Globe is not He that cannot moderate the base affections of riches cannot temper the urgent provocation of domination A spotlesse Favourite admits of no companion but he makes him his enemy for though in ability in managing great affaires require it yet ambition will not brooke it A Favourite that desires a companion seemes to accuse the Prince of tyranny as requiring helpe against his barbarousnesse If Tiberius cannot wait upon the Princes body hee will wait upon his carcasse Habit is not like nature but is another nature not a copie but the originall The habit which is necessarily produced by actions doth not necessarily produce actions Love which is in habit by a little disturbance receives no detriment A rest in Musick if short its delightfull if long it dislikes so long expectation wearies the desire and weakens love The long absence of a Favourite from his Prince may retaine the reputation of profitable but looseth the opinion of necessary He that would have it believed that nothing can be done without him must not give time that it may bee done It is wisedome sometimes to make shew of refusing the favour presented Discourse requires setled spirits but love unsettles and troubles them Agrippina● wise act in calling home Seneca from exile It s ill when for the mans sake vertues are banished but worse when for his vertues sake the man is exiled The people punish worth when they feare it a popular Government then feares but a tyrannicall hates it and an Aristocracie both envies hates and feares it Favourites cannot be tyrants over others if they be not first so over their Princes The differences that are betweene a great Counseller and a great Favourite The favour of Princes comes partly ●y destinie of our birth partly by our ●wne prudence When a Favourite doth every thing ●nd nothing done without him hatred ●s begot When the inferiour heavens do not move with the first mover they move by it The primum mobile may cause contrary motions in the inferiour orbes as well as the soules of man and of other creatures in their bodies A true Favourite in the interest of the King and in right of justice knowes no friends and hath no parents The Prince like the Sun is the equivocall and universall father of his subjects A man hath blood for the foundation of his paternity a Prince hath love He that loves not the Prince more then others makes himselfe no sonne but a servant and the Prince no father but a Lord In correcting of errours many times errours are committed either because they are believed as necessary or because profitable When Princes suffer men of worth to live retiredly it s a signe that either they know not or else hate their worth He that will not serve his Prince and yet knowes how to serve is more faulty then he that serves him ill not knowing how to serve Retiring is the reward of such as have wrought he that retires and hath done nothing will have his reward before his merit Retiring is a recompence to them that have done enough but a punishment to the idle A man may rest and yet not be at quiet yet for the most part he is most unquiet