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A51723	Considerations upon the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus by Marques Virgilio Malvezzi, one of the supreme councell of warre, to his Catholick Majestie ; dedicated to the King, his master ; englished by Robert Gentilis, gent.; Considerationi con occasione d'alcuni luoghi delle vite d'Alcibiade et di Coriolano. English	Malvezzi, Virgilio, marchese, 1595-1653.; Gentilis, Robert.	1650 (1650)	Wing M356; ESTC R12183	129,318	301

prepared and presently comes to a tryall finding the other unprovided wavering and doubtfull between credulity and distrust Whereas the other taken upon a sudden unprovided of meanes and wanting time which he cannot take unlesse hee likewise give it the other is often oppressed before hee bee prepared in preparing himselfe or at least ill prepared To take away and banish one onely was not not a right Cure it rather increased the Disease To take away that humour out of the Body which is not offensive and leave that which is offensive is according to understanding Physicians one of the chiefe causes of malignant Feavers If a Subject in a Citie exalt himselfe above the rest what can bee done better then to give him an opposite And what worse than to remove him from him If hee doth not frame himselfe or Nature give him one let Art bring him in one The Ostracisme banishing one onely did let the other loose made him Lord of the Citie and gave him opportunity to become a Tyrant Two great disasters according to Astrology make one good Fortune Physicians doe not take away the Bilis or Choler where they feare the Dropsie nor the Pituita or Flegm● where they feare a Plethora Contraries mingled doe not hurt the Body which they overthrow being divided Whilest Caesar and Pompey both remained in Rome the Common-wealth did not perish The ones going out and the others remaining within ruined it To take away the best was as much as to let the worst loose In this Aristotle himselfe was puzzled hee would not likewise have him to remaine in the Citie where hee cannot place him but as King He sends him into the Woods he compares him to Iove he would not have man worthy to bee his Companion and yet hee makes him a companion of wild beasts Hee was peradventure deceived In describing an excellent man hee seemes to attribute unto him the worst of vices If hee bee ambitious or foolish hee is not excellent if hee bee wise and modest he will shun and refuse not affect the Scepter he will subject himselfe to the Lawes as if he had need of them to Magistrates as inferior to them to obedience as if he were not borne to command It is contradictory to doe ill and be excellent The instance which Aristotle gives of a voyce exceeding the rest in a quire of Musick if he doth not take away discretion from him that hath it the voyce will not take away the harmony from the rest That of one member bigger then another hath nothing to doe with goodnesse but with Monstruosity it is as farre from Excellency in goodnesse as it is neere exceeding badnesse He that gave the humors of the body for an example where if one exceeds the rest though it be a good one yet it diseases the body he mistooke the greatest for the best and tooke the humors for the naturall heat which be it never so great doth not burne nor consume but foment preserve and vivifie He were but a very ignorant Physician that would expell it and so is he a Politician that will banish the best out of a City Some cannot suffer the best nor endure the worst They feare one for their owne sake the oother for the Common-wealth's They envy the former and are ashamed of the latter They seeke after indifferent subjects which may not dishonour the Publicke nor put them in danger and this they cannot attaine unto because nature produces but few such and taking away the best they raise up a worst as out of a mixt if the predomin ant be taken away The Cretans proved it they no sooner had banished the best but they found themselves in the hands of the worst What is the driving of a great man out of the Citie but adding the adherence of strangers to the applause which he hath gained amongst the Citizens Caesar would not give Senators leave to travell long out of Italy when they were once above twenty yeares of age Augustus not out of Rome Tyberius kept them also within the Citie whom he had chosen for Governours of Provinces Politick Writers have blamed the letting of a subject grow great in the Citie more than the banishing of him when he was grown so Aristotle desires a remedy from the Lawes others seek it from Art They keep them idle who haue any signe of great worth they transplant those who have gained great reputation in one place into another If riches gained it him they cause him to spend them if valour in warres they call him home to the Citie if he be reputed of great understanding or rashly valiant they employ the one in affaires which may over-throw him and expose the other to dangers in which he may hazard the losse of himselfe If he attained thereunto by being officious and serviceable they deny him those boones and favours which he asketh And generally upon the least occasion they punish them all most severely But all this hath more outward shew than safety There is neither Law nor Art can hinder the rising off him whom Nature doth even from his birth accompany with such beames of happinesse that either he findes no resistance or forces his way through wheresoever hee meets with it good things prove excellent to him and he can turn bad into good All kind of food serves him for nourishment and each poyson is a remedy to him These kinde of balls the harder they are dashed against the ground they higher the bownd up towards heaven Herod the great by Hireanus his first persecuter of him got the Tetrarchy by the second the Principality by the third he made himselfe Lord of his own native Countrey by the assistance of the Romanes Occasions oftentimes will not permit them to be kept idle If the tumults of Naples had gone forward the Spaniards had determined to send the great Captaine thither again The businesse of Portugal would not suffer the Duke of Alva to be idle though he were in prison And the warres of Germany forced the Militia to be returned in Waldestein's hands Transplanting and changing of place gives way for the gaining of new reputation and doth not diminish the old It had not a vailed Tiberius to have transplanted Germanicus out of the North into the East if his death had not helped him By great expences a man for the most part gains applause want of money doth not endammage a subject that is in credit and few great ones have lost themselves thereby Caesars friends were deceived therein for he then became Lord of the Common-wealth when they thought his debts would have ruined him To call one home from an army to the City is as much as to adde the peoples favour to that of the Souldiours Domitian finding he was not thereby able to deale with Agricola was constrained to make use of poison and Tiberius met with a Subject that would not part from it To put them upon businesses in which they may lose their

of reputation There is a great difference betweene an offence being great at first and its becoming such One findes man cold and free the other heated and engaged neither can hee seem to grow carelesse of it when it is grown up that did not contemne it when it was but small And having already lost the name of prudent by prosecuting of it to that time he wi●l gaine the name of Pusillanimous if hee then gives it over A disease which becomes malignant by degrees is more mortall than that which begun so The Prince which wil not bear with his subjects endangers the changing his name of Prince into Tyrant and he that will not beare with strangers endangers his kingdom to become a private man A prince his own patience is not sufficient for the quiet of his kingdome if his officers also be not endued with it in whom it being equally requisite it is farre more difficult A man may easily suffer in his own interests who is impatient in his Lords For the one he hopes to reap glory and profit through his patience and so beares In the other to gaine it from revenge and so he puts forward Hee that offends the Prince before his Officer offends both the Prince and his Officer whereby obliging him to two patiences hee makes the sufferance almost intollerable These imagine that the zeale of their masters reputation moves them to a resentment and oftentimes it is their own arrogancy wherewith they embroyle Princes obliging them to warres into which they are engaged more by others than their own impatiences and this happens oftenest where the States and Dominions are most remote That remotenesse which is most favourable to the Prince for his suffering is contrary to the Officers One doth not see the injuries the other the Prince When Aristotle blames the Lacedemonians for attributing every thing to the vertue of fortitude said that one vertue was not sufficient and if one alone were to be chosen Fortitude was not it He named not that to which he attributed the chiefe honour if he had named it in mine opinion it had bin patience because virtually it containes all other vertues in it as the seed doth both roote fruit and stemme If morall vertues are ordained to good in as much as they keep within the bounds of reason against the violence of passions and when these doe joyne with any vice patience is the onely guide of them who can deny it to hold the first and supreame place amongst them As the Physician cures the diseases of the body so patience corrects the defects of the soule They both worke by removing the obstacles I confesse more like instrumentall then efficient causes But if the Physician bee said to occasion health though it be not he but nature Patience shall likewise be called the productrix of all vertues So that Coriolanus his impatience for we must call him impatient if we will not attribute the name of base to the Senate put him in danger of his life and though his great vertue reverenced by the People was sufficient to free him from death yet by reason that was feared also it was not able to keepe him from banishment One of the greatest and ordinariest errors that crosses the good direction of Politick affaires is that Princes and common-wealths either know not how or through malignity will not in time make use of that valour which fortune hath abundantly bestowed upon some subject of theirs Dominions are increased by the hand and meanes of a subject which is advantagiously valorous and fortunate Whose valour by bringing to passe the most difficultest enterprises findes no obstacle able to resist it all that he sees he conquers Whose fortune meets with no chance but it proves favourable to him all what he does not see is likewise assisting to him Such a man is now and then borne in an estate of so low a degree and himselfe so poore that without ever doing any thing or at least equall or partly worthy his fortune and valour he dies inglorious but seldome without leaving at least some little modell whereby others may as with prospective glasse see what a Colossus they have neglected to build through want of matter That character which in a great statue attracts even the dimmest eyes to behold it in a little one is not seene many times by the most perspicuous sight Sometimes also this man is borne in some conspicuous place and of such a fortune that at the very first flashing of his actions he makes that beame shines out which lies inclosed in his breast But those which rule Kingdomes or governe Common-wealths though they have good intentions yet looking more upon the age then the fortune of the man advancing him by degrees seldome admit him to great affaires where he might have performed some high and specially services till it is too late and hee growen old after he hath tired his fortune in actions of no moment and his declining age hath made him good for little To linger out fortune of a great subject is a great error yet not worthy of any severe punishment Ignorance herein may be excused Carelessenesse endured but hee that hinders it through envy hatred and malice calls Gods wrath upon him and sometimes sees it visibly come Losing himselfe for want of him whom he hath lost Or to prevent his owne ruine bowing to him whom he hath despised Such a man is happy and by him his dominions if he be borne a Prince Most happy if in such a time as enterprises are already set on foot and he able to follow them Or that obstacles be removed in such sort that they may not oblige him to tire his fortune upon them before he goes about them If Henry the Fourth had found the Kingdome of France entire slourishing peaceable within and at wars abroad as he found it divided destroyed unquiet plunged in civill wars what could he not have done with so much fortune and valour he did much indeed yet did he not a whit increase his dominions He wasted himselfe in gayning his owne and when he begun to cast his mind upon other mens both fortune and time failed him If Gustavus King of Sweed could at the very first have employed all his fortune and power in Germany and had not bin intangled in the Muscoviters Polish wars I know not who could have hindred or crossed him from attaining to his vast and unlimited desires If Alexander had bin to begin the wars of Greece not found them almost finished by his father he had never come to be the Great because he would not have had time to settle so great a Monarchy By this meanes those King domes do much increase which successively meet with many warlike valorous fortunate subjects and by this meanes grew up the Turkish Monarchy Assisting of confederates is a great aide to the gaining of conquests the violence of the enemies fortune broken upon them and tired

unremembred As it were in dispight of fate fantastically besotted with his body though extreamly afflicted and desirous to survive in others memories though with shame And the worst remembrance is more acceptable unto him then none at all Annihilation is an enemy to man not so much in respect of being nothing as of not being what he is VVe shall not peradventure find a subject so unfortunate that would be contented to be changed into another individium no not to exchange his fortune because the changing would be the annihilating of him Yet it seemes harsh that a man should have a recourse to wickednesse to make him remaine in the world to that which is not and to nothing because he would not be so and yet some do it and attaine to it whether it be because some writers willingly set downe any thing that is great or notorious sometimes to raise their stile with the relation sometimes to attract mens attentions with the rumour and with the great motion awake please and raise up the understanding they awake it but violently they raise it but to something which naturally and directly it abhorres they please it but often times corrupt it or whether it proceed from that all men take delight in such kind of relations the most wicked are comforted through the similitude the lesse bad extenuate their badnesse by comparing it the contrariety encreases the good mans merit Great actions though bad do in the matter communicate with good ones and with advantage because they do not find it limited as these last doe and so they deceive and those who think they can give instruction to others by laying them open and blaming them are oftentimes deceived They might doe some good in teaching of morall vertues if vertue as it hath a particular forme to distinguish it from vice had also a particular matter to worke upon Vertues matter is open and manifest vices is for the most part hidden and concealed and he is sometimes deceived in it that operates and he also that almost continually sees the operating One should not peradventure lose his labour in the teaching of morall vertues if there were no meanes to teach their contraries and that one might learne onely by example of imitation and not of shunning and avoyding There being onely one rectitude makes it a secure judge of obliquity It s having latitude makes it a deceitfull judger of rectitude Nature is inclined to evill and evill actions include a certaine acritude in themselves and if they be great and have a prosperous successe cause more to follow then to beware of them and make more emulators then enemies They merit but little of posterity that will relate evill actions causing that to be heard which themselves would unwillingly have seen Many evill things would be thought to have bin impossible to be done did not Historians set them down as done and how much better were it to avoyd falling into them to live deceived then warned Simplicity is a great vertue and ignorance is wisedome True it is that if the knowledge of the will which is done be taken away it makes a man sometimes runne into it but if the manner of doing it be ●●ncealed it alwayes keepes one innocent There are times wherein bookes would bee cancelled and some men who ought not to be mentioned and seeing it is not in our power to forget them let us at least not mention them The ancient Romans did so but to what purpose was it if writers made mention in their Annals even of those men whom the Senate had cancelled out of its bookes undoing that which the Common-Wealth had done by relating that it had done it Is it not to be admired that those seven brave men which affected fame and renoune by erecting wonders in the world could not attaine to it and he that impiously burned but one of them for that purpose did get it in despight of all Greece which then strove with its uttermost might to have him blotted out of all mens memories A pestilent body leaves a contagious corps behind and though men leave being wicked yet they leave not producing of more and a delict when it is done and past serves yet for an example An infected body often communicates its infirmity but never its health though it be never so exquisitely cured I know not whether it be because that nature in providence drives away the evill from it selfe and thriftily reserves that which is good Or by reason that evill proceeds from any cause and that which is good from a sound and entire one onely The perfect mixt will have what is wholsome unwholsomnesse p●oceeds from a corrupt mixt in the first humility bounded by the naturall heat is fixed in the latter it flies unbounded This comes forth with its malignity and being a fumid vapour it takes hold and cleaves too the other retaines what is good and if it doth chance to come forth being a dry exh●lation it doth not fasten nor take hold This which befalls the body is also practised in the mind A good fame and renoune resembles rest the bad and great is like motion one is like a cleare and calme streame which though it be deep glides smoothly in its channell the other like a fierce torrent which swell'd and troubled runs violently precipitous with much noise Cur corrupt nature inclines to evill violently forceth it selfe to any good And seeing rest leaves no such impression as motion a cleere smooth streame drawes not with such violence as a troubled rough one and nature defends it selfe from its contrary and followeth its like we need not wonder if good examples seldome cure but evill ones doe for the most partinfect The renoune which remained of Alcibiades the membrance of his Counrry Parents Nurse Tutors when there was not any memory left to posterity of any of his companions no not so much as of their names causeth Plutarch to esteem him to be a man of eminent vertue Of such men I know not whether it bee because all things which belong to a great one are esteemed great or peradventure infamous the Country Parentage and Tutors are much enquired after and sometimes also what influence of the heavens he was borne under Or because wee should conceive that greatnesse is not attained is not the purchase of man himselfe but the gift of the influences of heaven of the nature of such a temperature of the assistance of Tutors and as accidentall not to bee valued in him As if he did not in himselfe include the seed of greatnesse and that to become conspicuous he must be aided by the nature of the soile the influence of the stars the temperature of his Parents and the education of his Tutors as if he were a plant no way excelling another were it not planted in a better earth nourishing by a more industrious hand and hath a more benigne influence of the heavens Man is prone to deprive himselfe of his

remerity is unlimited The free putting a mans life into that mans hands whom he hath wronged is the greatest satisfaction that can be given 108 Temerity is an act without reason 108 There can be no eminent understanding without some parcell of folly 99 A great understanding causeth constancy a weake one obstinacy 145 He that is best if once he begin to be bad become● the worst 73 It is a great misfortune for a man to have worth and want repute and a far greater to have repute and want wo●th 149 Peauty and eloquence are unprofitable weapons against wrath or fury 117 Youth should grieve at the defects of old age and old men laugh at the ignorance of youth 44 The Table of the chiefe heads discoursed upon in the Life of CORIOLANVS Coriolanus his defects attributed to want of education p 175 Whether education to Learning Sciences be good for all sorts of men p 176 Why the Romans honoured their Citizens for some brave acts with Oaken Crownes 182 All vices ought to be punished and all vertues rewarded 183 Impuni●●e of offences is sometimes a reward p. 183 The vulga●s reward is money a Noble mans honour 185 How rewards came to be altered 186 The same things are not in es●eeme every where 187 Nature desires that most which is most necessary 187 Riches the root of evill 188 Punishments changed by Tyrants 190 In what consists reputation 191 Who are fittest to command 193 Coriolanus rejoyced to have his mother heare of his worthy actions 194 Why anothers joy increases ours 195 Sannieticus King of Egypt 198 Coriolanus de●iring to bee chosen Consul by the people puts off his Senatoriall Robes 201 Why he did so 202 To judge of vertue truely wee must see it naked 204 Coriolanus termed proud and impatient and the cause of it 207 The vertue of choller in man 208 How humors in the body and passions in the mind may produce good effects 210 Wherein consists Patience 211 Women subject to impatience as well as men and the cause thereof 213 Why women being wrathfull are not valiant 214 How the common wealth of Rome might have made good use of Coriolanus his imperfections 216 Some defects are tolerable in young men and some vertues improper for them 218 Patience vertually containes all other vertues 222 A mans talents ought to bee imployed in due time 224 It is an unhappinesse for a man of worth to be born under a Tyrant or in a corrupt common wealth 226 The Ostracisine hindered the increase of the Athenian common wealth 227 The fortune of a Kingdome or common wealth may be transferred to another in the person of one man 228 A mans fortune decayes as his vigor 229 Coriolanus flies to the Volsci and is entertained by them 231 Man will give any thing to attaine his ends 231 Sometimes a man seekes to oppresse him whom he hath raised p. 232. and undoe what he himselfe hath done 234 One contrarie cures another if the contrarie bee not mistaken 235 Compassion and envie are the two ordinarie passions of great ones 236 Of favorites 238 Some desire greatnesse for their owne benefit some for the good of the common wealth 242 From different ends proceeds a different working towards them 243 Some love the person some its vertues 244 Mans life a warfare 248 Fortunes wheele cannot be fired 248 A stranger admitted in another common wealth to high degrees is in great danger 255 Every man hath a desire to his owne countrey 255 No man can hate his owne country though hee hate a prevailing party in it 256 Divers causes may provoke a man to bring in strangers to oppresse his native country 259 A man may rashly doe his countrey such a wrong as he cannot afterwards remedy 265 Coriolanus more fit to be compared with Cato then with Albiciades 268 Envie followes Humane glory 249 It is a great fortune to dye when fortune is at the highest 251 How Sejanus gained Tiberius 240 The Translator to the READER HAving this void Page lef● I thought good to set down therein this briefe explanation of the word Ostracisme which thou shalt finde in severall places of it The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is derived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies shells For the Athenians intended to put it in use the Citizens at the least to the number of six thousand for otherwise it was no lawfull nor full Assembly at a day appointed brought every man a shell whereon was written the name of him whom he would have banished and threw it into a place prepared for that purpose And the Magistrates telling the said shells he whose name was found written upon most of them was proclaimed banished for ten yeares Vale. FINIS Courteous Reader These Bookes following are Printed for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard Various Histories with curious Discourses in Humane Learning c. 1. THe History of the Banished Virgin a Romance translated by I. H. Esq Fol. 2. The History of Polexander Englished by William Brown Gent. Printed for T. W. and are to be sold by Hum. Moseley in Folio 3. Mr James Howells History of Lewis the thirteenth King of France with the life of his Cardinall de Richelieu in Folio 4. Mr Howells Epistolae Hoelianae familiar Letters Domestic and Forren in six Sections Partly Historicall Politicall Philosophicall first Volume with Additions in 8o. 1650. 5. Mr Howells New vollume of Familiar Letters Partly Historicall Politicall Philosophicall the second Volume with many Additions 1650. 6. Mr Howells Third Volume of Additionall Letters of a fresher date never before published in 8o. 1650. 7. Mr Howels Dodona's Grove or the Vocall Forrest in 120. with Additions 1650. 8. Mr Howells Englands Teares for the present Warres in 12o. 1650. 9. Mr Howell Of the Pre-eminence and pedegree of Parliament in 12º 1650. 10. Mr Howells Instruction for Forren Travels in 12o. with divers Additions 1650. 11. Mr. Howels Vote or a Poem Royall presented to His Majesty in 4o. 12. Mr. Howels Angliae Suspiria Lachrimae in 12o. 13. Policy Vnveiled or Maximes of state done into English by the translator of Gusman the Spanish Rogue in 4o. 14. The History of the Inquisition composed by the R. F. Paul Servita the compiler of the History of the Councell of Trent in 4o. 15. Biathanatos a Paradox of Self-Homicide by Dr. Io Donne Deane of St Pauls London in 4o. 16. Marques Virgillio Malvezzi's Romulus and Tarquin Englished by Hen. Earle of Monmouth in 12o. 17. Marques Virgillio Malvezzis David persecuted Englished by Rob. Ashley Gent. in 12o. 18. Marques Virgillio Malvezzi Of the Success and chief events of the Monarchy of Spain in the year 1639. of the Revolt of the Catalonians Englished by Rob. Gentilis 12o. 19. Marques Virgillio Malvezzi's considerations on the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus Englished by Robert Gentilis in 12o. 1650. 20. Gracious Privileges granted by the