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cause_n	authority_n	law_n	power_n	2,481	5	4.8394	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18844	An epistle or letter of exhortation vvritten in Latyne by Marcus Tullius Cicero, to his brother Quintus the proconsull or deputy of Asia, wherin the office of a magistrate is connyngly and wisely described. Translated into englyshe by G.G. Set furth and authorised according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions; Correspondence. English. Selections	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Gilby, Goddred.; Cicero, Quintus Tullius.	1561 (1561)	STC 5306; ESTC S107979	16,428	48

AN Epistle or letter of EXHORTATION VVRITten in Latyne by Marcus Tullius Cicero to his brother Quintus the Proconsull or Deputy of Asia wherin the office of a Magistrate is connyngly and wisely described Translated into englyshe by G. G. ¶ Set furth and authorised according to the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions PRYNTED AT LONDON BY Rouland Hall dwelling in Golding lane at the sygne of the three arrowes 1561. GODDRED GYLBY TO THE READER WHERE AS MEN are now a days here in England glutted as it wer with gods worde therfore almost ready to vomit vp again y e which thei haue receyued lothing y e sermōs despising the preachers some turning to curious arts som cōtemning al artes sciences som Epicures som Atheistes few or none do standforth as fathers to vs yonglings to byd vs folow their fotesteppes in vertues and godlines We the youth of this realme are drawen into diuers and sundrye doubtfull wayes aud wandering bypathes and many of vs by pouerty and other calamities are oppressed at our first breathing either know not which way to directe our studies or els want helpe to go forwarde and are cut of in the fyrste herbe accordyng to the Prouerbe This is one thyng also that greueth vs we see them that are wise and learned altogether contemned and despised and thei often times are compelled to go and seke to the riche and noble mens houses but the riche wyl not come to their houses nor greatly delyte in their companies And thogh thys be some cause that Aristippus answered to Dionisius why the learned doe haunte the houses of the rich and the wise many times go seke to the wealthy and not they to the contrary for that the wise doe knowe what the riche do want and the welthy worldlings can not se their want as he saith Yet in these our tymes we maye find other matters that cōpelleth thē to seke to such as be in power autoritie For iniquitie doth abounde in these latter dayes and the pore ar oppressed by the mighty And as I doe here mine elders talke The lawes are good to right the wronges but lawyars do not their duties Iustice is good but the Iustyces care not for poore mens causes Officers are enowe and wel prouided for in all places but these officers vnderstand not their office and duty or yf they do vnderstand it they will not do it which is the worste of all when thei do it not thei may not be told of it especially by a man that is learned in gods worde For what cā he skyl of ciuil offices say these politike officers Thus is the rule of all equitie openly contemned Therefore not seyng wherevnto in this my youth I could direct my studies yet neither wheri I cold be better occupied both for mine own learning and for the instructiō of such politike men as wil vochsafe to read heathen writters though they regard not the scriptures I haue trāslated as I could into our natiue language the notable epistle of that famous wise and politike man M. Tullius Cicero vnto his brother Quintus wherein iustice and the right vse of an office is so wel and politikely described that the politike heades may learne therby to put good things in practise nede nether to be ashamed of the authour who was a man of singuler wisedom great experience nor of the matter which is an instruction of the Magistrate meete for all ages yf God grant me any abilitie to expresse it Take these first fruits of mine infācie in good part so you shal encourage me to farther trauails My father cōmādeth me to folow labour and to suffer others to seke for honours Fare you wel in the Lorde At London the vii of Iuly the yere of our Lord. 1561. The exhortacion OF MARCVS TVLLIVS Cicero vnto hys brother Quintus ALTHOVGH I DID not dout but that both many messengers and also fame it self should by her swyftnes preuente my letters and that thou shuldest sooner here tell of others that the thyrde yere was added to our desier to thy labour yet I thought it necessary that I shuld also send thee a message of this trauayle For as for the former letters not in one but in many when as now other men had despered of y t matter yet I did put thee in hope that y u should shortly depart not onely that I myghte comforte thee as longe as it myght be with a pleasant opinion and persuasion but also because I did not mistrust but that the matter might be brought to passe for so muche as bothe I my self and also the pretors were so earnest in the cause But now because it is so come to passe that neyther the Pretors wyth theyr riches nor we wyth our diligence can doe any good it is a very hard matter not to be grieued therewith but yet it is not meete that our courage whych is exercised in doing and suffering great things shoulde be broken or cast downe with sorrowe And because men oght to be most sorowful for those thynges which are come by theyr own faut ther is good cause why it shuld more grieue me then the for it came to passe by my faute otherwise then y u thoght both whē thou tokest thy iourney and afterwarde where by letters thou diddest go about y t a succsessor shoulde not be deteined to thee the firste yere The which matter whiles I loke to y e sauegard of our cōfederates whiles I resist y t impudency of certen merchāts whiles I desire y t our glory shuld be augmēted by thy vertue I wrought nothing wisely specially seing y e I haue committed this faute that the second yeare shuld also brīg y e third Tyhe which thing because I confesse it to haue ben my faut it belongeth to thy wisdom humanitie to prouide to bring to passe that this which was vnwisely done of me shuld by thy diligēce be corrected Now if thou do rase vp thy selfe more earnestli and diligētly of all sides to get a good name so that y u do not now striue w e others but w e thi self and if thou do stirre vp thy whole mind care thought desire of glorye which ouercometh all thīgs sureli this one yere whiche is added to thy trauell shall bothe brīg vs y e ioy of many yeres also make our posterity glorious wher fore first I desire this of the y t y u be not dyscoraged nor discomforted and that thou suffer not thy selfe to be ouer whelmed w t ouer great businesse as it were wyth a floode but contrariwise that thou rayse vp thy selfe and resiste it and also that thou wyllyngly set thy shulders agaynst the weyght of thine affayres For thou doest not rule that parte of the common wealth wherein fortune hath muche power but y t part whych may be gouerned chiefelye by reason and diligence And yf I dyd