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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06425	The beginning, continuance, and decay of estates vvherein are handled many notable questions concerning the establishment of empires and monarchies. Written in French by R. de Lusing, L. of Alymes: and translated into English by I.F.; De la naissance, durée et cheute des estats. English	Lucinge, René de, sieur des Alymes, 1553-ca. 1615.; Finet, John, Sir, 1571-1641.	1606 (1606)	STC 16897; ESTC S107708	113,193	176

ordinary discourses of your Highnesse table are no other but sundry questions which it pleaseth your Highnesse vsually to propound to all those noble spirits that attend you but aboue all when any one awaketh matter cōcerning either Estate affaires or the atchieuement of deedes of armes then is the time your Highnesse lendeth an attentiue eare to such as discourse thereof and to all mens admiration resolueth the most difficult points of the matter in handling wherein you discouer a iudgment so far beyonde the vulgar and surpassing your age as we cannot but confesse that the propositions you make are so many proofes and resolutions which you deliuer and please to draw from out the capacity of your seruants Which considering often with my selfe I finde forthwith allaied in me the heat of the intention I had to dedicate this my booke to your Highnesse but at the same instant finding represented before mine eies the excellency of your iudgment together with your noble and gentle disposition which knoweth how to accommodate your greatnesse to the honest designes of your subiects such especially as reuerence you like me feare immediatly vanisheth and my desire gathereth strength with assurance that you wil be so gratious as though I be the least of your seruants you will not spare to entertaine and honour this my little labour with your iudgment practising vpon me what the Sunne common father of generation doth on the earth bestowing his beames indifferently as well vpon the low plants as high trees It may please your highnesse then to vouchsafe to receiue this treatise with the like coūtenance as you would ought else especially labored in imitation of the diuine Maiesty only Idea of all perfection which as well excepteth the offering of the poore widow as the presents of great Princes Againe it may please your highnes not to thinke amisse so farforth to protect the whole discourse that it may supported by your authority passe with that credit as I wish among men and remaine free from the many censures of such as take no other delight then in reprehending other mens inuentions This assurance will make me lift my head higher then otherwise I would for two causes The one for the honour and particular contentment I shall receiue hauing performed ought pleasing to your Highnesse the other for the testimony I shall heereby haue of the participation of your fauour beyond my merit and expectation for which I offer vp my selfe not to die vngratefull as Your Highnesse most humble Subiect and vassall R. de LVSING To the Reader THe world had neuer more Bookes Bookes neuer lesse woorthy matter learned vnlearned all will be writing and of these the most affecting the glorious names of Authors become the authors of their inglorious names Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli The Readers skill Makes Bookes thriue well or ill But the true life of a worke and sound discretion of the writer appeere not more in the well handling then wise choice of a subiect I know diuers courses may meete with one end as many waies leade to one citie so may one theame entertaine a world of inuentions but of these like the same meate serued in in seuerall fashions some few onely shall carry the true pleasing relish and temper the rest as knots in names stand rather for ornaments or flourishing differences then matters regardable or of consequence well may the will or appetite for a time transport vs but reason as soueraigne must in the end controle and checke vs. In the compasse of my obseruations I haue seene discourses and stiles otherwise hollow and vnsound sway euen the best iudgements not alone to allowance but imitation Whether this were the infection of ignorance that seasing the most might spread to the best or the tyrannie of fashion which must howsoeuer monstrous if our selues will not seeme monstrous be followed I know not one thing I am sure of time hath discouered their weaknesse and trueth his concealed daughter is come to light when such light owles liue or to say better die confined to perpetuall obscuritie This worke seemes to haue passed the pikes of such dangers it hath for a sufficient time vndergone the view and censure of the best discerning nations of Europe it hath beene taught to speake both their and the old Roman language if England should not now affoord it kind entertainment I should thinke it in an error not to say of iudgement of custom as being not yet cleere of the imputation it carries of harshnesse towards euen woorthy strangers but since I finde as doe themselues that suffer that this discourteous fault is laid vpon the common sort and the contrary extolled in the gentrie persons of more eminent quality Vilia miretur vulgus We will appeale from their ignorance to the more generous and better bredde vnderstandings And to awake these let me tell them they shall finde it a discourse not faint or languishing but such as like a wel breathed runner gathers more strength towards the end of the race then was bewraied in the beginning Now to others which shal perhaps obiect that the scope hereof lying out of our distance asketh as small heede as it smally concerneth vs I answere that then the gout or gangrene is not to be regarded because the great toe onely hath it Time and sinne may one day which God turne from vs make vs more sensible and this subiects debating more necessary such as it now is or may prooue Reader I heere expose it to thy view and censure I know some acquainted with me and my courses will expect rather matter of mine owne then others inuention They haue reason in this howsoeuer I haue abilitie but I cannot yet forget an honest learned Physician I once obserued who it seemes to spare others so spent his owne spirits in the personall practise of his medicinall conclusions as his bodie yet suffers the iniuries of such selfe-offered violence I am not so charitable neither hold I him the vnwisest that out of others triall frameth his owne confirming It is time that begets iudgement and assurance And to this purpose I will close with a saying of that euer most reuerenced Master of moralitie Seneca Non ignoro etiam quae in speciem laborant dignitatem dico eloquentiae famam quicquid ad alienum suffragium venit mora conualescere I. F. The Table of the Chapters of the first Booke THe Turke hath applied his thoughts wholly to the warres Chap. 1. He hath alwaie● sought to make offensiue war Chap. 2. He hath made no account of fortresses Chap. 3. He hath trained vp his souldiours to valour and hardinesse Chap. 4. He hath maintained his souldiours in military discipline Chap. 5. He hath made no reckning of other forces then his owne Chap. 6. He hath to power ioyned cunning and deceit Chap. 7. He hath beene alwaies serued in his warre by good and valiant Captaines Chap. 8. He hath made