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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67125	A parallel betweene Robert late Earle of Essex, and George late Duke of Buckingham written by Sir Henry Wotton.	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1641 (1641)	Wing W3647; ESTC R23450	12,618	16

A Parallell betweene Robert late Earle of Essex and George late Duke of Buckingham Written by Sir Henry Wotton Knight c. Printed at London 1641. O●●●●bert Devereux Earle of Essex AND G 〈…〉 illiers Duke of Buckingham Some Observations by way of Parallell in the time of their Estates of favour AMongst those Historicall Imployments whereunto I have devoted my later yeares for I read that old men live more by memorie than by hope we thoght it would be a little time not ill spent to confer the Fortunes and the natures of these two great personages of so late knowledge wherein I intend to doe them right with the truth thereof and my selfe with the freedome The beginning of the Earle of Essex I must attribute wholly or in great part to my Lord of Leicester but yet as an Introducer or Supporter not as a teacher for as I goe along it will easily appeare that he neither lived nor dyed by his Discipline Alwaies certaine it is that he drew him first into the fatall Circle from a kinde of resolved privatenes at his house at Lampsie in South-Wales where after the Academicall life hee had taken such a taste of the Rurall as I have heard him say and not upon any flashes or fumes of Melancholy or traverses of discontent but in a serene and quiet Mood that he could well have bent his mind to a retyred course About which time the said Earl of Leicester bewrayed a meaning to plant him in the Queens favour which was diversly interpreted by such as thought that great Artizan of Court to doe nothing by chance nor much by affection Some therefore were of opinion that feeling more and more in himselfe the weight of time and being almost tyred if there be a satietie in power with that assiduous attendance and intensive circumspection which a long indulgent fortune did require he was grown not unwilling for his owne ease to bestow handsomely upon another some part of the pains and perhaps of the envy Others conceived rather that having before for the same ends brought in or let in Sr. Walter Rawleigh and having found him such an apprentize as knew well enough how to set up for himselfe he now meant to allie him with this young Earle who had yet taken no strong impressions so though the said Sir Walter Rauleigh was a little before this whereof I now speake by occasion much fallen from his former splendor in Court Yet he still continued in some lustre of a favoured man like billowes that sinke by degrees even when the winde is downe that first stirred them Thus runnes the discourse of that time at pleasure yet I am not ignorant that there was some good while a verie stiffe aversation in my Lord of Essex from applying himselfe to the Earle of Leicester for what secret conceite I know not but howsoever that honour was mollified by time and by his mother and to the Court hee came under his Lord The Duke of Buckingham had another kinde of Germination and surely had he beene a plant he would have beene reckoned amonst the Sponte Nascentes for hee sprung without any help by a kind of congeniall composure as wee may terme it to the likenesse of our late Soveraigne and Master of ever blessed memorie who taking him into his regard taught him more and more to please himselfe and moulded him as it were Platonically to his owne Idea delighting first in the choyse of the Materialls because he found him susceptible of good forme and afterwards by degrees as great Architects use to doe in the workmanship of his Regall hand nor staying here after hee had hardned and polished him about ten yeares in the Schoole of observance for so a Court is and in the furnace of tryall about himselfe for he was a King could peruse men as well as bookes he made him the associate of his heire apparant together with the now Lord Cottington as an adjunct of singular experience and trust in forraine travailes and in a busin●sse of love and of no equall hazzard if the tendernesse of our zeale did not then deceive us enough the world must confesse to kindle affection even betwixt the distantest conditions so as by the various and inward conversation abroad besides that before and after at home with the most constant and best natured Prince Bona si sua Norint as ever England enjoyed This Duke becomes now secondly seized of favour as it were by discent though the condition of that estate be no more than a Tenancie at will or at most for the life of the first Lord and rarely transmitted which I have briefely set downe without looking beyond the vaile of the Temple I meane into the secret of high inclinations since even Satyricall Poets who are otherwise of so licentious fancie are in this poynt modest enough to confesse their ignorance Nescio quid certe est quod me tibi temperet Astrum And these were both their springings and Imprimings as I may call them In the profluence or proceedings of their fortunes I observe likewise not onely much difference between them but in the Earle not a little from himself First all his hopes of advancement had like to bee strangled almost in the very Cradle by throwing himselfe into the Portugal Voyage without the Queenes consent or so much as her knowledge wherby he left his friends and dependants neere sixe moneths in desperate suspense what would become of him And to speake truth not without good reason For first they might well consider That he was himselfe not well plumed in favour for such a flight Besides that now he wanted a Lord of Leicester at home for hee was dead the year before to smooth his absence and to quench the practises at court But above all it lay open to every mans Discourse that though the bare offence to his Soveraigne and Mistris was too great adventure yet much more when shee might as in this case have fairely discharged her displeasure upon her Lawes Notwithstanding a noble report comming home before him At his returne all was cleere and this excursion was esteemed but a Sally of youth Nay he grew every day more and more in her Gracious conceit whether such intermissions as these do sometimes foment affection or that having committed a fault he became the more obsequious and plyant to redeeme it Or that shee had not received into her Royall brest any shadows of his popularity There was another time long after when Sir Fulke Grevill late Lord Brooke a man in appearance intrinsecal with him or at the least admitted to his Melancholly houres eyther belike espying some wearinesse in the Queene or perhaps with little change of the word though more in the dangersome markes towards him and working upon the present matter as she was dexterous and close had almost superinduced into favour the Earle of Southampton which yet being timely discovered my Lord of Essex chose to evaporate his thoughts in