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A58845	The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems written in Spanish by Don Diego Saavedra Faxardo ... ; with a large preface, containing an account of the author, his works, and the usefulness thereof ; done into English from the original, by Sir Ja. Astry.; Idea de un príncipe político-cristiano. English	Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648.; Astry, James, Sir.	1700 (1700)	Wing S211; ESTC R21588	533,202	785

Minister is to be furnished with his Prince's Maxims so also should he be with his Majesty Valour and Magnanimity EMBLEM XXXIV WHoever looks on the Thorns and Prickles of the Rose● Tree will hardly be perswaded a Daughter so beautiful as the Rose could proceed from so deform'd a Mother One had need be indued with a great Measure of Faith to water it and wait till it be cloathed with Verdure and blossom into that wonderful pomp of Flowers of so delicate a Smell Yet by Patience and long Expectation we at length find the labour not lost nor that Care ill imployed which has produced such Beauty and Fragrancy The first Branches of Virtue are harsh and thorny to our depraved Nature but after some time its Flower of all other the most beautiful begins to Bloom Let not the first sight of things discourage a Prince for the outside of very few in Government are pleasant they all seem full of Thorns and Difficulties but Experience has found many easy which appeared much otherwise to Sloth The Prince therefore should not be disheartned for in lightly yielding to them he will be overcome by his own Apprehension rather than any thing real Let him endure with Courage and Hope with Patience and Perseverance still keeping the means in his Hand He that hopes has a good and faithful Companion on his side I mean Time Whence Philip the Second used to say I and Time against any two Precipitation is the effect of Madness and generally the occasion of great Perils Theobald Earl of Champagne put his Succession to the Crown of Navarre very much in Question by not having patience to wait for his Uncle King Sancho's Death but underhand conspiring with the Nobles to possess himself of the Kingdom in his Life-time for this put Sancho upon adopting Iames the First of Arrag●n his Heir Patience obtains many Trophies This was Scipio's Excellency who though he had infinite occasions of Displeasure was yet so patient as never to let ● passionate Word fall from him 1 Vt nullum ferox verbum excideret Tit. liv which thing gave sucess to all his Designs He that suffers with Expectation vanquishes the slights of Fortune and obliges her to take his Part that Confidence among all her Vicissi●●des like Flattery winning upon her Columbus not without great hazard exposes himself to the Ocean 's incertain Waves in quest of new Countries Neither H●rcule's Ne plus ultra at Caspe and Abyla nor the Mountains of Waters that seem to oppose his Enterprize deter him from it he by Sailing tells the Sun's Steps and steals from the Year its Days from the Days their Hours his Needle wants the Pole his Charts the lines his Companions patience all things conspire against him but his Hope and Patience rub through all Difficulties till at length a new World recompences his invincible Constancy Ferendum Sperandum was a saying of Empedocles and afterwards the Emperor Macrinus's Motto whence that of this Emblem is borrowed Some Dangers are more easy to surmount than avoid As Agathocles well knew when being beaten and besieged in Syracuse he did not basely Surrender to the Enemy but leaving a sufficient Body of Men for the Defence of the City marched with the rest of his Army against Carthage and he who could not be victorious in one War by this means obtain'd a double Triumph Rashness frequently overcomes a Danger and despising it often confounds an Enemy When Hannibal saw the Romans after the Battel of Cannae send Succours into Spain he began to fear their Power and Strength No one ought to trust Prosperity too much or despair in Adversity Fortune lies between both as ready to advance as depress Let the Prince therefore keep in the one and the other a Constancy and Strength of Mind prepared to encounter any Accident and not suffer the Threats of the greatest Tempest to disturb him For sometimes the Waves have cast a Man out of one Ship that is to be wreck'd into another that is to be saved A great and generous Soul Heaven it self favours Let not the Prince rashly despair for anothers Dangers or those which Chance brings with it He that observeth the Wind shall not sow and he that regardeth the Clouds shall not reap 2 Eccl. 11. 4. Let him not imagine he obliges any one by his Afflictions Tears are Womanish nor is Fortune appeased with such Sacrifices A great Soul endeavours to give it self Satisfaction or Comfort by some heroick and generous Action Thus Agricola when he heard of his Son's Death took not the Accident as generally Men do ambitiously nor in Tears like Women but by War diverted his Grief 3 Quem casum neque ut plerique fortium virorum ambitiosè neque per lamenta rursus ac terrorem multebrem tuli● in lustu bellum inter remedia erat Tac. in Vit. Agr. To be wholly insensible is either Vain-glory or Excess of Consternation In suing for Offices and Honours the Design of this Emblem is very useful He that can bear and hope knows how to get the better of his Fortune Whereas one that impatient of delay thinks it base to be beholding and submit shall be despised and abandon'd by the whole World To look on it as a point of Honour not to obey any is the way to command none The means are to be measured by the end if in obtaining this there be more Honour got than is lost by them certainly they ought to be used Impatience of Sufferings we take for Generosity of Mind when it is imprudent Haughtiness Honour once attain'd the Tracks made in ascending them presently wear out To endure much in order to Advancement is not base Degeneracy but extraordinary Strength of a Mind elevated and aspiring Some Tempers there are which can't abide to wait that would have all things ended in a Moment desiring now to exceed their Equals by and by their Superiors and in a little while even their own Hopes These hurried by this Violence of Ambition despise the most secure means as slow and choose to employ the shortest though most hazardous But it usually fares with them as with Buildings raised in haste before the Materials have had time to dry and settle which immediately fall down again The Master-piece of Government consists in hoping and enduring in that these are the only means to do things in time without which nothing can possibly come to maturity Trees that at the Springs first warmth bear Flowers soon lose them for not waiting till the Winters cold was quite gone He who would ripen Affairs with the Hand cannot have the Satisfaction of tasting the Fruit of them Impatience is the cause of Miscarriages and Dangers 4 Prov. 14. 17. it creates Peri●s which by being uneasy under and too hasty to escape we augment Therefore for those Evils as well Internal as External which have by our negligence been increas'd in the Commonwealth 't is better to let them

Fame of a Power that stands not upon its own Bottom 3 Nihil rerum mortalium tam instabile ac fluxum quam fama potentiae non suî vi nixae Tac. Annal. l. 13. All those Efforts of several Causes concurring are very brittle in that they hinder each other and are subject not only to various Accidents but to Time also which by degrees brings their Effects to Nothing Many Wars hot and impetuous at the first vanish by Delay 4 Multa bella impetu valida per t●edia moras evanuisse Tac. He who can but a little while bear up against the Forces of Confederate Enemies certainly gets the better of them at last For as they are many they have different Causes different Interests and Designs and if they happen to disagree in any one thing part and leave one another There was never a greater League than that of Cambray against the Republick of Venice yet the Resolution and Prudence of this Valiant Senate soon broke it All things in the World arrive to a certain Period after which they decline again Were that Critical Minute known it would be easie to overcome them 5 Opportunos magnis conatibus transitus rerum Tacit. Hist. l. 1. 'T is for want of this Knowledge which sometimes consists in the least Delay imaginable that we sink under Accidents Our Impatience or Ignorance aggravates them in that often not sensible of their Force we voluntarily submit to them or else perhaps promote them by the violence of those very Means we take to shun them God had undertaken the Grandeur of Cosmo de Medicis and they who strove to put a stop to it by Banishing him from the Republick of Venice were the Instruments of making him Master of it Nicholas Vzanus observ'd with much greater Prudence the Torrent of that Fortune and lest it should encrease by Opposition thought it most advisable as long as he lived to give him no Occasion of Displeasure but with his Death the Consideration of such discreet Counsel fell Nor is it possible for the greater Force of such like Cases to be concealed forasmuch as all things conspire to their Success though they appear at first sight directly contrary to that end And therefore it is then best to Endure what you cannot Mend and quietly to conform to God by whose Appointment all Things come to pass 6 Optimum est pati quod emenda●re non possis Deum quo Authore ●uncta eveniunt sine murmure ●omitari Sen. Ep. The Iron should not obey the Loadstone more readily than we the Divine Pleasure He comes to less Harm who lets himself be carried down by the Stream than he that struggles against it It is a foolish Presumption to think to overthrow the Decrees of the Almighty The Predictions of the Statue with Feet of Clay in Nebuchadnezzar's Dream was never the less certain for his making another of Gold and commanding it to be worshipped 7 Dan. 3. 1. However this Resignation of our Will to the Divine must not be so Brutish as that we should believe all Things were so Ordain'd from Eternity that nothing can be Improv'd by our Diligence and Conduct for this would be the very Weakness of Mind which had given occasion to that Divine Decree We are to Act as if all depended on our Will for God makes use of our Selves to bring us to Happiness or Misery 8 Eccles. 10. 5. We make a part of the Creation and that no small one and though Things were set in order without us yet they were not made without us 'T is true we cannot break that Web of Events wrought on the Loom of Eternity but we might very well concurr to the weaving of it The same that ranged the Causes foresaw their Effects and permitted their Course yet so that it should be still at his Command He has saved from Danger whom he thought fit and left others in it by abandoning them to their liberty If the first was an Effect of his Mercy or our Merit this is of his Justice Our Will involved in the Ruine of Accidents falls with them and as this most Wise Contriver of the Universe is the Supreme and Absolute Arbitrator he might break his Vessels as he pleased and make one to Honour another to Dishonour 9 Rom. 9. 21. In the Eternal Disposal of Empires their Progresses Revolutions or Ruines that Sovereign Governor of the Orbs had always present in his Mind our Valour and Vertue our Negligence Impudence and Tyranny And upon this Prescience it was that he disposed the Eternal Order of Things in conformity to the Motion and Execution of our Choice without the least Violence done to the same For as he lays no Constraint upon our Free Will who discovers its Operations by Reasoning so neither does the Supreme Being who by his Immense Wisdom foresaw them long ago He forced not our Will in the Alterations of Empires but rather altered Empires because our Wills freely and deliberately deviated from Justice The Cruelty exercised by King Peter was the cause of his Brother Henry's succeeding him not on the contrary this the Occasion of that For the Mind has more Power than any Fortune turns its Affairs which way it pleases and is the sole Cause of a Happy or Miserable Life 10 Valentior enim omni fortuna animus est in utramque partem res suas ducit Sen. Epist. 98. To expect Fortune from Chance is Heartlesness to think it prescribed and already determined Desperation At this rate Vertue would be useless and Vice excusable by Compulsion Let your Highness but look upon your Glorious Ancestors who have raised the Greatness of this Monarchy and I am assured you will see it was not Chance that Crowned them but Vertue Courage and Fatigues and that it has been supported by the same Means by their Descendants to whom an equal Glory is due he no less contributing to the Fabrick of his Fortune who maintains it than he that at first raised it 'T is a thing equally difficult to get and easie to lose One Hour's Imprudence ruines what cost many Years to acquire By Labour and Vigilance alone is procured God's Assistance and the Grandeur of Princes is deriv'd from Eternity 11 Non enim votis neque supplici●● muliebribus auxilia Deorum parantur vigilando agendo prosperè omni● cedunt Sallust EMBLEM LXXXIX THE smallest things encrease by Concord by Discord the greatest fall to the ground Those which being divided were weak and impotent when united resist any Force whatever 1 A three-fold cord is not quickly broken What Arm can pull off a Horse's Main when the Hairs are not parted or break a Bundle of Arrows And yet either of these of it self is unable to withstand the least Violence By these Emblems Sertorius and Scilurus the Scythian express'd the Force of Concord which of many distinct Parts makes one united and consequently strong Body