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A00505 A discouery of the great subtiltie and wonderful wisedome of the Italians whereby they beare sway ouer the most part of Christendome, and cunninglie behaue themselues to fetch the quintescence out of the peoples purses: discoursing at large the meanes, howe they prosecute and continue the same: and last of all, conuenient remedies to preuent all their pollicies herein.; Traité de la grande prudence et subtilité des Italiens. English G. B. A. F. 1591 (1591) STC 10638; ESTC S101803 74,257 108

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accesse or entrance into our Countrey by the reasons and experience of things already past which shall more amply be dilated in this d●scourse prepared for a generall remedy for vs all whether we be Catholiques or Protestants to recouer full deliuerance and health of these maladies which so long time haue oppressed and troubled vs hoping by the grace and bles●ing of the most highest it shall worke some great effects in those who shall vse these preparatiues which are first of all presented vnto them before the taking of more strong medicines and harder phisicke Now for that the gouernour of the whole world seemeth to haue turned his fauourable countenance towardes vs hauing giuen the royall Scepter into your Maiesties hands being extracted out of a more Meridionall quarter then your predecessours were and also in giuing vs who are neighbours of the great Ocean-sea a wiser and more ingenious King then those before time haue bene to the end that we being lightned by so bright and glorious a starre the quicke and subtill Italians may no more abuse vs so that we shall no more bee exposed to the lamentable miseries into the which they were woont to bring vs headlong as men altogether blind andegrosse-headded at their owne lust and pleasure And this is the cause why I haue presumed to dedicate this discourse vnto your M. hoping that it shal be rather liked and approoued of you then of others who being more Septentrionals haue their spirites more dull and nothing so quicke and pliable assuring also my selfe that if it please you to receiue it with a fauorable countenance that onely shall giue it a far more free passage to all those who are your most affectionate seruants Now I will pray the soueraigne Lord and God to inuirone your M. with his speciall protection in the middest of all the perils and daungers wherewith you are besieged establishing your throwne in all iustice and godlines according to his most holie will and pleasure A discription of Italie and the causes of the subtilitie of that Nation Cap. 1. THe Italians inhabite the right arme of the continent of Europe which hath Spaine in place of the head France for the stomacke for the belly Germany and Denmarke for the left arme From that part of Italie which extendeth more to the Southward and from the other bounding North with his two armes which are parts of the maine entring further into the Sea then the rest of the bodie haue from all times the other principall partes of Christendome sustained great ruines cruelties losse of goods and other oppressions of the first because it goeth farre beyond all Nations bordering Northward in inuention craft and worldly pollicie witnesse Aristotle Strabo Caesar Plinie other approoued Authors of the second in respect of their surpassing streight and corporall puissance by reason of the colde situation of the place That which produceth such effects in Italie is the moderate temperature of the clymate situate in a subtill ayre néere vnto the sea euery where without any excesse heate or cold and beside another cause is the trading and great dealing that the Italians haue with the people of Asia of Affrica and Europa as also with the Ilanders or a great part of them with whome they haunt and liue By reason whereof besides that they are of themselues verie wittie subtill headed all cunning slightes craftie conueyances and deceitfull cosinages are so proper and common to them whereby they can fetch vnder other people and are so cunning to finger from them their money and can moreouer so closely couer their actiōs that of a thousand hardly one could euer come within them to perceiue their iugling For as any deceit or cosinage finely handled is not perceiued but of those which know it and looke verie néere vnto it deceiuing those which haue their eye but on the naturall and externall shew so there are none but those which curiously séeke out the beginning the progresse and aduancements of the Romane and Italian gouernment and the meanes whereby they haue drawne money from other nations of the earth since the time of Romulus to this present day who can finde out their fetches and shifts or discouer the maskes wherewith they are disguised to aduance and enrich themselues by the ouerthrow and pillage of others Albeit it is not inough when we haue gone so farre if besides we throw not away the mufflers which depriue vs of sounde and true iudgement in things of this world as are custome hate loue obstinacie and enuy which are euen so many plagues corruptions ouerthrowing quite the iudgement and cleare vnderstanding of man in all things for if custome carry vs away the Italian may preuaile not only of an hundred but of more then a thousand fiue hundred yéeres which was the verie time that Iulius Caesar an Italian pillaged and ruined not only France but also all other parts of Europe Therefore we should deserue to be commanded and gnawen to the bare bone for euer hereafter as wel as in time past that could looke to these matters no sooner The cause of all haue béen but our blinde affections which peruert vs in true iudgement the which now we must néedes cut off to haue only reason for our guide which is the true essentiall difference that separateth man from other Animals maketh him iudge truly of all things otherwise wee robbe our selues of the most excellent and precious iewell we haue to become as bestiall as the bruit beastes From hence springeth then also the cause of so great diuersitie of opinions in our Continent the principall and chiefest part of the world for that some suffer themselues to be gouerned by the cléere light of reason vnderstanding and other some let themselues be caried away headlong with their owne affections and customes and this is the cause why the inhabitants of the Orientall Asia vnder the dominion of the great Cham of Tartarie whose Empire is two thousande leagues in longitude do hold him for the sonne of God in earth and why those which liue vnder the great Turke belieue Mahomet to be a greater prophet then Iesus Christ and why the Iewes scattered in great multitudes follow the customes of their fathers reiecting the true Messias to looke for another and why Christendome is so troubled by reason of the Romish constitutions which some beléeue to be holie and necessarie to saluation and others altogither contemne being none other meane of reconciliation amongst vs but to cast away these blinde mufflers of customes hatred and consideration of losse or gaine to suffer our selues to be directed by the cleare light of the heauenly word by the vnsearchable workes of God and by liuely reason clarified with authenticall histories of time Putting but this in practise once wee shall soone discouer and cléerely sée with our eyes the wonderfull déepe subtilities of Italians and hereafter beware how we be ouerrought by their pollicies Cap. 2.