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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61533	Modern policies taken from Machiavel, Borgia, and other choice authors by an eye-witnesse.	Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1643 (1643)	Wing S557; ESTC R16763	25,285	167

MODERN POLICIES Taken from Machiavel Borgia and other choice Authors by an eye-witnesse Hom. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Salust Fragm. Libidinem dominandi causam belli habent maximam gloriam in maximo imperio putant Plautus in Captivis Nam doli non doli sunt ni si Astu colas Sed malum maximum si id palam pervenit Trinummus Ambitio jam more sancta'st Libera'st a Legibus Petere honorem pro flagitio more sit Mores Leges perduxerunt jam in potestatem suam The fourth Edition LONDON Printed for Tho Dring at the signe of the George in Fleet-street neer Cliffords Inne 1653. To my very good Lord My Lord R. B. E. My Lord I Was never so proud as to think I could write any thing that might abide the test of your judicious eye what I now send appeales to your Candor intreating you to lay aside the person of a Iudge for that of a Friend It is at best but a Pamphlet whether you consider its bulke or worth The result of a few pensive houres spent in recollecting what the memory had registred from publike observance or private reading in a Theme so sadly copious as this is If it be not impertinent to tell you what hinted to this trifle it was this Having had opportunity to looke abroad into the world I tooke some notice of the Contrastos of the Italian Princes I remark'd the Spaniards griping Portugal his grounds for the challenge of that Kingdome his way of managing those grounds I lookt upon his method of propagating Christianity in the West where one saies the Indian is bound to be religious and poore upon pain of death Moreover I observed with what Artifice the Pope moderated in the European quarrels and with what devices he twisted the Gops●ll and the Advantage of the Chaire toge●hir and in all the struglings and disputes that have of late years befalne this corner of the World I found ●hat although the p●letence was fiue and spirituall yet the ultimate end and ●●●●sedpe was gold and greatnesse and secular glory But my Lord to come nearer when I saw Kingdomes tottering one Nation beeding against another yea one piece of a Nation justling the other and split into so many parties and petty enmities and each of these quoting Bible to palliate his mad and exorbitant opinions I sigh'd and it grieved mee to see popular easinesse and well-meaning abus'd by Ambitious self-seeking men for there is a Generation that is born to bee the plague and disquiet and scourge of the Age it lives in that gladly sacrifice the publike peace to private interest and when they see all fired with joy warme their hands at those unhappy flames which themselves kindle tuning their merry Harps when others are weeping over a kingdomes funerall But above all it pierced my heart to see the Clergy in such an high degree accessory to the civill distempers and contentions that have every where shak'd the Foundations of Church and State so that as a Catholike noted there hath been no floud of misery but did spring from or at least was much swel'd by their Holy-water I searched Evangelicall Records and there was nothing but milde and soft Doctrines I inquired into the breathings of the Spirit and they were pacificatory I wondered from what Precedents and Scripture incouragements these men deduc'd their practises and at last was forced to conclude that they were only pretended Chaplaines to the Prince of Peace Those Torches that should have been for saving Light were degenerated into firebrands Those Trumpets that should have sounded retreats to popular furies knew no other musicke but Martiall All-armes I have endeavoured in the sequell to represent to you the Arts of Ambition by giving you the picture of a person over covetous of glory the peice is course but yet like drawne onely in water colours which some of greater Leisure and Abilities may possibly hereafter lay in oyle You know that the desires of man are vast as his thoughts boundless as the Ocean {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A bored tub is not more insatiate T is pity that greatnesse should at any time be out of the Rode of goodnesse and I would sometimes if I durst with Socrates curse him that first separated profitable and honest ● It does to me a little relish of Paradox that where ever I come Machiavell is verbally curs'd and damn'd and yet practically imbraced and asserted for there is no Kingdome but hath a Race of men that are ingenious at the perill of the publike so that as one said of Galba in respect of his crooked body Ingenium Galbae malè habitat so may I say of these in regard of their crooked use That wit could not have chosen a worse mansion then where it is viriated and made a Pander to wickednesse If you aske mee what I mean to trouble the world that is already under such a glut of Books You may easily perceive that I consulted not at all with advantaging my name or wooing publike esteeme by what I now write I knew there was much of naked truth in it and though it might possibly be of some caution to prevent the insinuation of pious frauds and Religious fallacies into my native Country If any plaine-hearted honest man shall cast away an houre in perusing it he may perhaps finde something in it resembling his owne thoughts and not altogether strange to his owne experience It is not the least of our misfortunes that sins and vices are cost times endear'd to us by false Titles and Complements being couzened with a specious name though much incoherent to the thing we ascribe it or el●e omi●●ing the vice which is the maine it intimates onely the ●e●i●e which is the By ● As for example we call an ambitious man {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a person of notable aime and high enterprize whereas in truth signifies an indirect affectour of Grandeur And I finde that by incautelous intertainment of these Phrases our judgments are often brib'd to misapprehensions we seduced to bad actions I have endeavoured in the ensuing discourse to wipe off the paint and fucu● that so things may appeare in their true complex●o● unadulterated with the slights and subtilties of Deluders My Lord That your Lordship may be one of those which the darke Poet calls {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that the youth of your Honours may be renewed to you that your happines may be acquainted with no other season but a spring is the earnest vote Of your bounden SERVANT THe name of Prince which I often use must be understood as convertible with any person or persons whom God hath intrusted with a just supremacy all the dialects of Government being concerned in the Abuse I have made the cheife and most familar to represent the rest I am not ignorant that the Quotations may justly seeme more numerous than method and the Rule