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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	authority_n	spiritual_a	temporal_a	1,458	5	8.0972	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01365	A very briefe and profitable treatise declaring hovve many counsells, and vvhat maner of counselers a prince that will gouerne well ought to haue The book speaketh. ...; Consejo i consejeros del principe. English. Abridgments	Furio Ceriol, Fadrique, d. 1592.; Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.	1570 (1570)	STC 11488; ESTC S105670	28,475	130

cōceyueth such an opinion of them as they vvill not beleeue that they erre vvhen they erre in deede for vvise men sildome erre VVherefore sith so many euils doe rise of the euil choise and so many good things of the good choyse the Prince therefore in mine opinion can not be to choyse in his choyse and so let this suffice for the first aduertisement Secondly the Prince to the intent he may haue a plentyfull choyse of men meete to serue his turne had neede not onely to consider of suche as keepe in his Court and be nigh about him but also to seeke to be informed of so manye as hee can besides giuing charge and commission to his Lieutenants and chiefe officers abroade in euery Sheere to learne by diligent inquirie vvhich men in their lymittes be knovvne to be most sufficient to such purpose and to sende vp Kalenders of their names vnto the Prince to the intent that hee maye sende for such as hee shall thinke good pretending onlye to knovve them to be acquainted vvith them himselfe appointing some reasonable allovvance to beare their charges in iorneying to fro By this meanes the Prince shall haue choyse of many amongst vvhom it is more likely to finde out some one excellent man than amongst a fevv And besides that he shal vvinne great loue and fame of his people and encourage all estates to endeuour themselues to get vvisdome and knovvledge and to folovve such vertuous exercises as they may deserue therby to be named and numbred amongst those that are thought meete for such purpose And by this meanes also the Prince shall knovve vvhat able men he hath vvithin his realme of vvhat skill they be and vvherin they are most meete to serue hym at any time that he shall haue neede to employe them And though hee shall sildome haue neede to chose aboue one or tvvo to serue him as counselers yet he must shevv himselfe courteous tovvards all the rest praise their vvell doing exhorting them to contynue still therein and therevvith put them in good hope of preferment in tyme to come revvarding some vvith offices some vvith fees and some vvith money and some he maye retaine in his Court and discharge the reast vsing himselfe in such sort tovvardes them all as they all may haue cause to bee satisfied and contented Thirdly if the Prince bee a Lorde of dyuers countries and nations I vvoulde not vvishe him to bee altogyther vvedded vnto his ovvne natiue countrimen but rather to choose some of euery one of those countries to be of his counsell For the Prince is a publique person and therefore ought to be vvithout priuate affection and respect or partialitie yea he ought to bee a naturall father to all his true subiectes of vvhat countrie soeuer they be and stepfather to none to vvhose counsell if any of the subiects be vvronged or grieued they haue onely to repaire for redresse But if none of their ovvne countriemen be of the counsell hovv or vvhen I pray you shall they bee harde for vvho knovveth their customes their humors desires commodities discommodities gaynes and losses so vvell as they or vvho vvill be so ready to heare their causes sutes and complaints as their ovvne coūtrymen vvhich are forced by lavve of nature to loue them and to tender them Besides this if the Prince shoulde haue no counselers but of hys ovvne countrymen all the other coūtries vvould thinke that eyther hee did not esteeme them or counted them as slaues or at the least did not truste them VVherof the first vvould breed hatred in them tovvardes the Prince and the counsell the seconde vvoulde cause them to seeke libertie and to make conspiracies and rebellions and the thirde vvoulde make them to become vnfaythfull disobedient and obstinate subiectes VVherefore these things being vvell vvayed and considered I beleeue the Prince shall finde it muche better to choose hys counselers out of all such domynions as are subiect vnto him then out of one or tvvo onely Fourrhly the Prince maye not be to hastie but take good deliberation in making hys choyse of suche men as are named vnto him resoluing vpon none of them all vntill he hath thorovvly tryed them as vvell by report of the counttye from vvhence they come as also by his ovvne examination And first as touching the report of the countrie it shall be necessarie for the Prince as vvell to auoyde the fauourable as slaunderous tales that maye be tolde hym to giue euerye man leaue to accuse the persons vvhome he mindes to make his counselers subpenatalionis that is to say that the accuser shall suffer the payne or penaltie of the cryme vvherof he accuseth the partie if hee can not duely prooue it And the Prince on the other side must take such order as the defendant may not hinder or stop by his authoritye povver or friendship anye accusation that may be made against him And sith all men are subiect to affects the blinders of all truth I vvoulde vvishe the Prince in these causes before due try all had to giue no credit to the report of anye man be he noble or vnnoble spiritual or temporall By this meanes the Prince shall be sure to haue none but good men to bee of his counsell for the cuill vvill not bee ouer hastie in seeking aduancement by suche kinde of try all Truely the Romaines in olde tyme did verie straightly execute this kinde of discypline in choosing theyr Magistrates vvhereby as theyr common vvealth greatly then florished so aftervvarde for lack thereof it quickly decayed and came to naught Novve as touching the Princes examination to bee made by hymselfe I saye by himselfe and not by his Deputie he hath to examine vvhat sufficientcie is in the person to be elected by considering and measuring euery part of hym both soule body To vvhich ende mine Author hath made and discribed vnto him heretofore tvvo apt measures to measure vvithall the one of fiftene partes the other of fiue that of fiftene partes serueth to measure the soule and the other of fiue parts to measure the body To vvhich measures thoughe very fevve are to he found that are aunsvverable in euery condition yet let those that are more aunsvverable be alvvayes chosen before those that be lesse aunsvverable and let those that haue more giftes of the minde and lesse of the body be preferred before those that haue more of the bodye and lesse of the minde And if anye tvvo that stande to be elected be equall in both giftes and yet be not of like birth povver and authoritie or if the Prince perhaps fauoreth the one more then the other vpon some affection or for some seruice done then it is good reason that suche person bee chosen before the other VVherfore sith such things are to be considered vvhen comparison is made mee thinkes mine author should haue done very orderly to haue added also vnto his tvvo measures before