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A28504	I ragguagli di Parnasso, or, Advertisements from Parnassus in two centuries : with the politick touch-stone / written originally in Italian by that famous Roman Trajano Bocalini ; and now put into English by the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Monmouth.; De' ragguagli di Parnaso. English	Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.; Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661.	1656 (1656)	Wing B3380; ESTC R2352	497,035	486

Majestie that the fundamental Principles of all Academies being excellently good and vertuous the Schollers were at first very studious and diligent in their disputations and all other learned exercises but that this so ardent desire of knowledge did with time so cool in them as also those vertuous exercises that whereas at first Academies were frequented by privat men and held in great reputation by Princes in process of time they grew so forsaken and despised as they had often to the great discouragement of Learning been inhibited as proving rather prejudicial than advantagious And that though many remedies had been applyed to this evil yet none of them had procured the desired operation Wherefore the Italian Academies being much devoted to his Majestie were forced to have recourse to him whom they did humbly beseech that he would be pleased to give them some preservative Medicine against so great corruption These Commissioners were very graciously received and listened to by Apollo who recommended the business to the Reformers of Learning To whom when the Commissioners came they found them so imployed in the important business which they are perpetually troubled with di far delle sancie fuse with making much of nothing as that they excused themselves as not being then at leasure to attend that business Wherefore the Commissioners returned again to Apollo who referred them to the Regio Collateral where the Academies demands were often disputed and discust and yesterday they had for their last answer That all those Gentlemen after much debate and proposals were at last resolved that the saying was true that Omnia orta occidunt aucta senes●…unt Wherefore it was impossible to prevent but that a pair of shooes how neat and spruce soever they were at the first should in process of time become torne and ilfavoured That therefore the lovers of Learning should be very diligent in suddenly suppressing whatsoever Academy had swarved too farr from the good Rules of its first Institution and at the same time found new ones to the end that the world little to the credit of the Vertuosi might not be full of unprofitable Academies but might alwaies enjoy the benefit which it receives from good ones The Fifteenth ADVERTISEMENT Anneus Seneca being accused before Apollo of two fowle Vices which were commonly found in all the Sects of Moral Philosophers doth excellently well defend his own Cause and the like of his Associates THe last night to the infinite wonder of all the Vertuosi in Parnassus Anneus Seneca that Prince of Moral Philosophers and one so well beloved by his Majestie was made prisoner various were the discourses which so great a novelty occasioned Some thought that it might be for that his Majestie would have him give a very particular account to the world by what Philosphical precepts he had in so short a time of his serving Nero gotten the worth of seven millions and a half by which so great riches he had cast so fowle a shame upon that poverty and upon that moderation of mind which in his writings he had made so particular profession of A thing so much the more scandalous as by the testimony of many Historians it plainly appeared he had been a frequent cheater of Legacies which he had fowlly extorted from wealthy men Others said that he was imprisoned for the Adultery which some will not stick to say he committed with Agrepina and many were of opinion that it was for having been cause of the Pysonian Conspiracy against Nero wherein it was firmly held that Seneca had not only a hand but that he had so fowlly given himself over to ambition as after so great a fault committed he had suffered himself to be perswaded he might become Emperor Nor were there wanting those who constantly affirmed that Apollo was exceeding angly with this Philosopher for that Nero himself had confest that the wicked Paracide which he had committed was not only done by Sencca's knowledge but by his perswasion not out of any love he bore to his Master but to make him commit so horrid a wickedness that he might ascertain his own so unexhaustable riches which he had accumulated to his own shame and his Masters prejudice But after his examination Seneca found that not only he but all his fellow moral Philosophers were accused for having very much scandalized all men by two fowl vices which they are given unto above above all other men to wit of being revengefull and ingratefull T is said that Seneca acknowledged these accusations to be true but that he nor the rest of moral Philosophers ought not to be blamed for what was laid to their charge since even thereby their goodness did manifestly appear for good men never offend any and consequently since they gave no occasion of being injured it ought not to be held strange if they were more mindfull of injuries received then other men it being common amongst men that they know not how to pardon injuries who best know they never deserved them And that likewise for ingratitude which moral Philosophers were daily seen to use towards their benefactors it was no blockishness in them as was every where affirmed by their illwillers but that therein the candor and great goodness of their souls was clearly discern'd For moral Philosophers being guided in all their actions by their very cautious souls did know by the instinct of Nature that all the good and graces which they in this world did receive from men did proceed from the all-powerful hand of God it was therefore no wonder that they did not own them from men The Sixteenth ADVERTISEMENT Ambassadors are sent from the Colledg of Gardners to Apollo to obtain some Instrument from him whereby they might without any cost or charge cleanse their Gardens of all improfitable hearbs and are laught at by his Majestie AMbassadors from all the Gardners of the world are come to this Court who have acquainted his Majestie that were it either from the bad conditions of their seed the naughtiness of the soyle or from the evil celestial influences so great abundance of weeds grew up in their Gardens as not being any longer able to undergoe the charges they were at in weeding them out and of cleansing their Gardens they should be forced either to give them over or else to inhaunce the price of their Pompions Cabiges and other hearbs unless his Majestie would help them to some Instrument by means whereof they might not be at such excessive charge in keeping their Gardens His Majestie did much wonder at this the Gardners foolish request and being full of indignation answered their Ambassadors that they should tell those that sent them that they should use their accustomed manual Instruments their spades and mathooks for no better could be found nor wished for and cease from demanding such impertinent things The Ambassadors did then couragiously reply that they made this request being moved thereunto by the great benefit which they saw his

punishment precede even the accusation it self And that it hath often-times fallen out that by a hasty punishment he hath prevented the consummation of very foul treasons Which resolution though he must confess it to be very severe yet he knew it was one cause that in his State there were seen no Counts of St. Paul no Princes of Orange no●… Colligni's no Dukes of Guise d'Aumale du Main de Mercurie and other odious monsters of disloyalty as have been seen elsewhere to the shame of those Princes that with halters daggers and axes have not known how to prevent so dangerous offences It being in matters of State a rule as common as 't is certain that that Officer which gives his Prince never so little cause to suspect his fidelity forfeits his life since those Commanders that have in their power the charge of Armies are no less then the Wives of honorable Persons obliged to live with such purity of mind that they must be without not only any fault but any the least suspicion of an unchast desire That for his taking away of his B●…ssa's goods after their deaths he could very truely tell them that the Pensions the Donatives and Wealth wherewith other Princes reward their servants were in comparison of those inexhausted riches which he bestows upon his well-deserving Officers poor pittiful things as the Royal Treasures which Rusten Mehemet Ibrahin and many others left behind them have fully and amply testified And that the greatest fore-cast which a Prince ought to have in rewarding his servants consisted in taking a course that it might never be possible for others to employ those immense riches wherewith he had purchased their infinite fidelity to the detriment of him that had been so liberal That he had learned by the most lamentable disorders which hapned in the States of other Potentates how it was a most pernicious thing for Princes that the extraordinary wealth left by a deserving Officer should pass to his children whether by that vertue by that valour and by that same Loyalty which was in their Father they had first deserved it from the Prince or not And that he confisc●…ted the great Inheritances of his Bassa's not out of avarice as many wrongfully judged but that he might not make those subjects who for being descended from fathers of noted worth put the Prince in certain hope that they would imitate their Progenitors in vertue by the convenience of living idle consequently to grow vicious too and that he kept the gates of his Treasury alwaies open to his Officers heirs th●…t he might restore to them their paternal inheritances doubled whensoever by Loyalty and Valour they should deserve them And that how apt great riches possessed by a vicious man and an ambitious subject were to dist●…rb the peace of any Kingdom how great soever was a thing known to every man by the fresh examples which the world hath seen in France and Flanders While the Ottoman Empire spake these things he observed that the French Monarchy by shaking her head did shew as it seem'd that she by no means approved of these discourses Whereupon something passionately he said Most renowned Queen my custom of seizing upon my Bassa s inheritances makes well for my greatness and the tranquillity of my State and for the friendsh●…p that is betwixt us I could wish that the like were observed in your France For you know well to what use Henry Duke of Guise did put that vast deal of wealth wherewith the liberal King Francis the fi●…st and King Henry his son rewarded the deserts of Duke Francis his father For wo to that Prince who because he knows not how to be severe to others is so cruel to himself as absurdly to breed up Serpents in his bosom You I and all the rest of us that bear rule know that the sweetest honey that men can tast is Soveraignty and there being no man that for never so little of it would not gladly adventure to lose his life Princes ought to be still most vigilant in keeping all the avenues to Government block'd up and by all possible severity to hold every one out of the reach of ambition Nay they ought to order their matters so that every privat m●…n whatsoever may despair of ever being able to tast of so pleasant a liquor And I tell you plainly had your Duke of Guise but offered to think in my State that which with so much scandal he publickly made bold to put in execution in your Kingdom that very first day would I have shew'd him the same play which your Henry the third though urged to it by most of the Italian ●…rinces knew not how to resolve upon till the last day of his insufferable vexarions and just then when the sore of the French commotions was grown to be an incureable Canker For where ambition reigns amongst the Nobles Princes are enforced to shew themselves totally severe keeping the gibbets alwaies ina readiness for punishing of the seditious and rebellious and their Treasury open to reward the peaceable and loyal that Prince being unworthy of command that hath not a genius to make himself obeyed Neither is there any thing more scandalo●…s ●…n a State then that the Prince should live in jealousie of that Officer which ought to live in fear of him But it is proper for you Princes of Europe that making a profession of Learning and of living according to rules of great Policy call me Barbarian and my safe manner of proceeding Tyrannical to suffer your selves by your heroical vertues of clemency and mildness to be brought to the shamefull condition of suffering most unworthy things Impossible it is to say how much the Ottoman Empire did with his discourse offend all the Vertuosi of the sacred College who standing up in very great wrath told him That with Reasons in hand they would make it good to him that all the particulars which he had spoken were most wicked conceits unworthy to be uttered by a person that had a soule and as much to be listened to by men that made profession of honour At which the Ottoman Empire smiling said That in the Politick conceits by which others governed Kingdoms respect was had to the commodiousness of Moral Precepts which by well regulated customs were serviceable to goodness And that yet the tranquillity and peace of States were to be preferred before all other humane interests Then the Censor to cut off so odious a disputation turning to the great Dukedom of Muscovy told him that among the greatnesses of a Prince it was called the second Noblest Prerogative to have command over people that were lovers of Learning and that it was not only little for his credit but a thing for which he incurr'd much reproach that he should so much give his mind to have his Subjects brought up in gross ignorance for he was scoffed at by every one that having banished the Liberal Arts he had given his people