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A42291	Spanish letters: historical, satyrical, and moral; of the famous Don Antonio de Guevara Bishop of Mondonedo, chief minister of state, and historiographer royal to the Emperor Charles V. Written by way of essay on different subjects, and every where intermixt with both raillerie and gallantry. Recommended by Sir Roger L'Estrange, and made English from the best original by Mr. Savage.	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; Savage, John, 1673-1747.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1697 (1697)	Wing G2182A; ESTC R216443	91,517	200

a whole Country Old Men at your years must not only give good Example but also good Advice for as it is the Nature of Youth to wander it ought to be the Property of Age to walk uprightly and councel others to do the like Old Men at your years must be meek modest and peaceable for if once they occasion'd Disturbances and Broils they are now by all means to promote Unity Old Men at your years are to instruct the Ignorant and support the Weak and where they cannot Relieve they ought at least to Comfort for many times an Afflicted Heart receives greater Consolation from Words well spoken than whatever can possibly be given Old Men at your years must busie themselves in setling Affairs at home and bewailing their Sins abroad for he may very well be assur'd of his Salvation who in his Life-time does what he ought and at his Death the best he can Old Men at your years should be very sparing of Words and brief in Relations neither must they be addicted to tell Romances or repeat Drolls for if young People on this acc●unt are term'd Wild and Lewd Old assuredly will be esteem'd Mad-Men and Buffoons Old Men at your years should avoid all manner of Litigiousness and if possible buy off Law-Suits at any rate thereby to save themselves much trouble for Young People only endure such Fatigues whilst Old cannot help fretting incessantly at the least Disappointment Old Men at your years must converse with People of good Inclinations and no ill Conditions in whom they may safely Repose and with whom they may securely Discourse nothing in this World being so great ease to the Heart of Man as pleasing Conversation Old Men at your years must seek out and choose Virtuous Persons for Friends and be very careful such as they pitch upon and converse with be neither over-given to talk nor importunate in asking Friendship and Importunity being for the most part incompatible Old Men at your years ought not to entertain any other vain or Worldly thoughts than those of Managing their Estates and looking after their Families for he that does not mind his Estate will certainly starve and who neglects his Family will as surely never want Misfortunes Old Men at your years are oblig'd only to be clean and decently Dress'd for where gayety is commendable in Youth in Age it is greatly to be despis'd Old Men at your years must very cautiously avoid quarrelling with Enemies or wrangling with Neighbours bec●use where they happen to have abusive Language given 'em the mischief is they may have Sense enough to resent but have not strength sufficient to revenge Old Men at your years must be very Charitable and Compassionate for as raw young Fellows being infatuated with the Affairs of the World think it enough they are call'd Christians Old Men who have had more Experience and are undeceiv'd may assure themselves God will never have Mercy where they want Charity Old Men at your years ought to have Pious Books to improve their time and History to divert them for since Age will neither permit travel nor labour they must otherwise of necessity be all day idle and thoughtful therefore 't were much better they should employ their time in reading than tiring themselves out with reflecting on times past Old Men at your years are to avoid sitting in Councel or medling with Government because the Business there is for the most part manag'd by turbulent Youths and byass'd Persons Men of Sense being seldom or never believ'd and ancient People as rarely regarded Old Men at your years when either advis'd with must not be rash loud nor positive because Youth is only permitted to be Headstrong where Age is always to be govern'd by Reason Old Men at your Age must be sober peaceable and chaste and rather value themselves on their Virtues than Years for in these and all other times Men have been still more Respected for good Lives than living long Old Men at your years after taking necessary care of their Souls must next have regard to their Bodies for as Galen says Old Age is of that wonderful Nature it is neither an absolute Disease nor perfect Health Old Men at your years must endeavour to have a House airy and open to the Sun that it may be both wholesome and pleasant for I am of Opinion no Money is better laid out than what an ancient Person parts with that way Old Men at your years must not only be sure to live in a good House but also to lie on a good Bed and take care as the one be made soft the other be kept warm for an ancient Man being always tender and sickly takes more harm by a little Air at a Cranny than he did when young in a Frosty Night Old Men at your years must beware they have but few Dishes on their Table as also that the Meat be tender and well season'd for otherwise if they eat much and love variety they will always be sickly and seldom be at rest for tho they may have Money wherewithall to buy they rarely have Stomachs sufficient to digest Old Men at your years must have a warm Bed a Room well hung a soft Fire and Chimney that does not smoak for the Life of Old People depends chiefly on being cleanly keeping themselves warm and living easie Old Men at your years must be cautious of living over Water standing on moist Ground and sleeping in windy Places because being tender as Children and naturally infirm the Air penetrates their Pores and Dampness soon seizes their Spirits Old Men at your years upon pain of Death must be moderate at Dinner and abstinent at Supper because their Stomachs being weak and cold cannot digest two Meals a day when that greedy old Person who presumes to do the contrary will both belch much and sleep little Old Men at your years to prevent Sicknesses and growing fat and unweildy must lighten themselves sometimes with Exercise otherwise perhaps they may once happen to be seised by an Astma which will so choak 'em up they shall rather seem to blow than breath Old Men at your years should be very cautious of giving ill Language to Servants and must bear sometimes with Failings and besides pay 'em duly their Wages and this that they may live easie and not dissatisfied for otherwise they will be negligent in performing their Duty and very often subject to Steal Old Men at your y●ars must make it their chief business to go to Church but if any one thinks much of this Injunction I require it no oftner of him than he went to see his Mistress when young To conclude Old Men at your years must endeavour to wear their Cloaths neat Linnen clean keep their Houses decent and Beds sweet for he who is Ancient and would be esteem'd Wise if he desires to be healthy and live contented must keep his Body free from Lice and Mind from Disgusts At the end of your

SPANISH LETTERS Historical Satyrical and Moral Of the FAMOUS Don Antonio de Guevara BISHOP of Mondonedo Chief Minister of State and Historiographer Royal to the Emperor Charles V. Written by way of Essay on different Subjects and every where intermixt with both Raillerie and Gallantry Recommended by Sir Roger L'Estrange and made English from the best Original by Mr. Savage Menos fuera LONDON Printed for A. Roper at the Black-Boy over-against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet and F. Saunders in the New-Exchange in the Stra●d TO The Right Honourable ARNOLD Earl of Albemarle Viscount Bury Baron of Ashford in England and Baron Keppel in Holland Master of His Majesty's Robes c. My LORD PRoductions of the Brain like the Noble Fruit of the Vine have always had the Fortune to be Coveted and Desir'd Yet how Rich and Generous soever the Crop the Stock it Sprang from could never have arriv'd at sufficient Strength to sustain its own Weight and Erect it self had not Art found out Means to supply its Wants of Nature by reclining it on and propping it up with Trunks of abler Plants So likewise the Generosity of the Great in all Ages has afforded comfortable Support to the Humble Self-dejected Writer without which he must have continued a poor Groveling Reptile expos'd to the Insults and Tramplings of Ignorance and Barbarity My LORD 'T is the Sense of this Necessity has so often given Persons of highest Rank and Merit the Trouble of this Nature and whi●h I must needs own has wholly directed me in this Address Your Lordship could not reasonably expect to lie hid after having been so Publickly and Honourably Pointed out and Distinguish'd even by the Wisest as well as Bravest Prince that ever fill'd our Throne Nor that the Muses should any longer forbear giving publick Testimony of their Satisfaction in the Advancement of Virtue and Merit Permit me therefore My Lord to Congratulate both you and the Nation in the Happy Choice of our most Auspicious Sovereign who has singled you out for a Title which receives as much Lustre from your Person as your Lordship derives from it The World may Envy but can never Blame me for this early Endeavour to Plant my self in so Rich a Soil as your Lordship's Favour where I may enjoy the Warmth of the Reflected Beam's of that Sun whose happy Influence not only ours but even the greater Part of the European World Rejoyce and Flourish under It was the Happiness of our Learned Author whose Version is humbly offered to your Lordship to be Favourite and Chief Minister to the greatest Heroe as well as Prince of his Time and in that Right My Lord he seems very naturally to have a Claim to your Lordship's Protection in whose Power it is to Introduce him to a Greater Heroe than any that Age could boast of A Prince whose happy Influence makes Virtue spring so fast at home and whose Prudence takes care to transplant Merit so from abroad that like the most curious Plants both Honour and Illustrate our Island Among these your Lordship must needs be acknowledged the First and Most Deserving even by those who envy your Fortune whilst the Impartial of which I am proud to profess my self one with Ioy Applaud and wish a long Continuance of it I am My LORD Your Lordship 's most Humbly Obedient And Faithfully Devoted Servant IOHN SAVAGE CORRIGENDA IN the greatest part of the Impression Page 1. Messeur for Messer p. 13. l. 22. Reber for Remember p. 14. near the bottom Antarxerxes for Artaxerxes p. 47. l. ult alwasy for always p. 131. l. 30. of left out p. 139. l. 15. consulted left out c. which the Intelligent Reader may easily reconcile there being 't is hop'd but few remaining Spanish Letters LETTER I. To Messer Perepollastre an Italian the Author's Friend in which he proves how ridiculous a thing it is for a Man to be Powder'd and Perfum'd Suspicious SIR but my very good Friend IN the time of Quintus Fabius then Master of the Knights Two Noble Romans fought upon a set Challenge and the one having cut off the others Arm the Conqueror thus spoke to the Vanquish'd Unsay what you have hitherto Pretended and Retract what you have impos'd upon me or my cruel Sword shall silence your Unlucky Tongue To which the Wounded Person immediately Replied You speak rather like my Mortal Enemy than a Roman Knight since you think I have not a greater Regard to my Honour than my Life for tho my Arm fail me to fight yet my Heart still encourages me to die in Vindication of a good Name I have brought this ancient Example Sir as a Paralel to put you in mind of what I am almost asham'd to Express That you Swore and Forswore your self about a Perfum'd Wash-ball which you thought you had left in my Chamber and which you would needs have me either to have stolen or to have conceal'd or protected the Thief And here you did not content your self with telling me the same thing over and over but were also pleas'd to write me a Scandalous Letter endicted I suppose by your Judgment as it was sign'd by your own Hand The Contents whereof were as full of unjust Reproaches as they were void of Breeding and good Manners Several Friends of yours as also Neighbours of mine have frequently inform'd me you went Murmuring and Complaining to every Body about the Black Wash-ball affirming that in my Chamber you left it and in my Trust you lost it so that by your Letter you Challenge me and by your Tongue Reproach me But with the aforesaid Roman I must tell you you neither speak like a Friend nor treat me like a Christian since you have a greater regard to a trifling Wash-ball than my Honour Sir upon this Occasion I have neither determin'd to take notice of your Reproaches nor to Answer your Letter with Heat for I value my self much more upon the Habit I wear than the Unspotted Race from whence I descend because I am well assur'd at the general day of Account it will not be so much Enquir'd into whether I behav'd my self like a Gentleman as if I liv'd like a Christian. The Arms that I do or would always fight with are these viz. The Headpiece of Patience Shield of Hope Sword of Abstinence Gauntlets of Charity and Breastplate of Humility with which I dare die and without which I will never live But still providing in this Case I am unwilling to revenge the Affront offer'd me yet it is not just you exclude me from giving my Opinion of it which I intend to do here with all the Candour imaginable and the least or no Reflection Whatever Men do rashly or unadvisedly in this Bad World proceeds from small Prudence and a superfluous Hope for Passionate People ought rather to encline to what Reason persuades than what Anger advises Seneca in his first Book De Ira says that 't is almost needless to give Councel

to grow great The one to share what you have with the Poor and your Friends the other always to lay up for Old Age The on● to be very Circumspect in talking the other to value your self much upon your Tongue The one to believe only in Christ the other to make it your business only to get Money If upon these Twelve Conditions My Lord you are willing to be a Roman much good may it do you but no doubt at the day of Judgment you will rather wish you had been a Plowman in Spain than Ambassador to the Holy See I will say no more but pray God to keep you and give both you and me an happy end Granada Iuly 20. 1525. LETTER XVIII To Doctor Micer Sumier Regent of Naples in Answer to several Moral Questions Magnificent SIR but Importunate Friend NEither is it Untrue nor am I Sorry for Saying and Affirming that as I make it my Business to Serve you you do nothing but Study to Plague me which is demonstrable in that you now send me a-new Questions never thought on nor I believe ever so much as heard of before Nevertheless I am of Opinion you do not so much Ask out of a desire to have 'em Answer'd as to try my Ability and therefore must tell you that on one hand your Letter caus'd me a great deal of Mirth and on the other no less Disquiet you being in some places extreamly Pleasant when in others extravagantly Curious I would not have you Proud because I say you are Curious since you do not fail to shew at the same time you have little else to do As it must be allow'd you are Prudent in most you say so it will as easily be granted you are over-capricious in what is said to you for should I take the same liberty as you have done no doubt you wôuld soon conclude I had either too much leisure or too little Judgment Nevertheless where you seem'd to Write but in Jest I am resolv'd to Answer you in good Earnest imitating herein the ancient Orators who were always wont to exert their Eloquence most where they found the least Occasion You first Ask me Sir How one Man shall do to know another so that he may either safely receive or carefully avoid him I Answer 4 ways By his Undertakings Productions Words and Companions For the Man that by Nature is Proud in Business Negligent in Words a Lyar and who keeps bad Company I am sure is neither fit to be Trusted nor proper to be Believ'd You Ask me How many things in this Life can have no Equal I Answer Four which are our Liberty Learning Health and Good Works For Liberty lightens the Heart Learning enriches the Mind Health preserves the Body and Virtue saves the Soul You Ask me What are those things that most easily deceive a Man and soonest ruin him I Answer Four Desire of having much Inclination to know much Over-experience of the World and too great Presumption of ones Abilities For too much Knowledge ends in Madness too great Wealth creates Pride Living long makes Men Negligent and Self-conceit renders 'em Unmindful of their Frailties You Ask me Sir What is to be requir'd in a good Judge I Answer Four Qualities That he hear with Patience Answer with Prudence Condemn with Justice and Execute with Mercy For he that is impatient in Hearing Foolish in Answering Partial in Sentencing and Cruel in Executing I am sure is rather fit to stand at the Bar to be Tried than sit on the Bench to Determine You Ask me What makes a Man Discreet in his Behaviour and Wise in his Words I Answer Four things Reading many Books Travelling many Kingdoms Suffering many Hardship and Managing great Affairs For to raise a Man to the true Estimation of Wisdom he must have seen the World been conversant in Books Undergone Troubles and Exercis'd no Ordinary Employments You Ask me What are those things a Man thinks himself frequently possess'd of and yet generally wants ' em I Answer they are Four Many Friends Much Knowledge Great Wisdom and Extraordinary Power For there is none so Great but may be Vanquish'd so Wise that do not sometimes Err so Knowing but are often Ignorant nor so Happy but have many Enemies Therefore we may well be said to have fewer Friends than we imagine To know less than we Fancy and in fine to have both our Power and even our Wisdom but very imperfect You Ask me Sir What frequently ruines a Man and from which he rarely recovers I Answer To Neglect his Business Forsake the Councel of a Faithful Friend To meddle with what he has nothing to do and lastly To spend more than his Income For he that is Negligent in what he Undertakes Rejects the Advice of his Wise Friend Concerns himself in anothers Affairs and Spends more than he has shall soon have a downfal and find no body to raise him You ask me what are those things a a Man would rather die than suffer I Answer in my Opinion they are Four Poverty in old Age Sickness in Prison Infamy after Honour and Banishment from his own Country For to be Poor when old Sick in Prison Infamous when Honour'd and Banish'd without hopes of return A Brave Man would sooner accept a Virtuous Death than such a Miferable Life You ask me Sir Who are those that both God Abhors and Man Abominates I Answer a Proud Beggar a Rich Miser an Old Leacher and Young Rakeshame For where Youth loses its Modesty Age its Chastity Riches its Charity and Poverty its Humility there can be no Virtue Cherish'd much less Practis'd You ask me Sir Who are those that may properly be said to have true Friends I Answer Four sorts of Men which are the Eloquent Liberal Powerful and good Natur'd For they who speak with a Grace give with a free Heart are wise in their Commands and Courteous in their Conversation shall live in every Bodies esteem and never want Friends You ask me What are the greatest troubles of this Life I Answer the Death of ones Children Loss of ones Estate Prosperity of ones Enemies and weakness of ones Friends For it must needs be a grear Torment to Bury a Child one has bred lose an Estate one has got be subject to an Enemy or have a Fool to ones Friend You ask me Sir What are those tryals wherein a Man commonly loses his Patience I Answer to Serve and not Please to Ask and not Receive to Give without Thanks and Hope without Success For a Mans endeavours to be ill Rewarded his Petitions Rejected his Debts with-held and Hopes Frustrated he may indeed Suffer but nevertheless can never prevail with his Tongue to conceal ' em You ask me Sir What are those things that sooner cease to be than care to be satisfied I Answer Four the Ears with Hearing Hands with Hoarding Tongue with Talking and Heart with Coveting For be a Man never so Old and Diseas'd his Ears are