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A28853	The way to honour in three parts : first part of councils and councellors, second part of the well qualified courtier, third part of martial prowess and learning : illustrated and adorn'd by many famous examples, as well ancient as modern / by B.B.	B. B.	1678 (1678)	Wing B38; ESTC R28323	46,907	120

Princes is not in it self destructive but to those who know not how to use the same Men cannot be cautious enough says Curtius * lib. 4. amidst so many flatteries of Fortune Intolerable ambition and Pride made Hermeas hated treason and perfidiousness was the cause of Alius Sejanus's destruction Neither ought we to admire that in Courtiers when we find that Princes themselves have been brought to ruine on the same occasion Quid memorem eversas urbes Regumque ruinas Inque rogo Craesum Priamumque in littore truncum Cui nec Troja rogus Quid Xerxem majus et ipso Naufragium pelago quid captos agminereges Of ruin'd Kings why should I mention make The fate of Priam Craesus at the stake How Xerxes great from as great Shipwrack fled And Kings in triumph often captive led On the contrary if we behold those who from a low birth have become famous and ponderate their actions we shall find that they have been eminently qualified above others As Agathocles Ptolomy the first Hieron Servius Tullius Silla Vespasian the Emperour Probus Justin Ottoman and many more who although of obscure birth did notwithstanding obtain great Honours and royal Dignities by their vertue and diligence Great Trees which are long in growing says Curtius are extirpated in a short time It 's folly for him who aims at their fruit not to consider their height Beware lest in stiving to get to their top you do not fall with those Branches you catch'd hold of CHAP. I. Of his Education THerefore good Education is most effectual which directs the Councils and Determinations of Men's Lives to the exactest rule of prudence and true vertue by which Natures are corrected and made pliable Nature produceth youth easy to be led either way so that when it finds a Guide it is induc'd to follow either his vitious or vertuous inclinations A good nature conduceth very much but then especially when cultivated by an honest Education He must therefore have a care who has noble and high designs to be instructed in all good Arts and Manners not to accustom himself to delicate but simple food not to idleness but labour not to riot but decent parsimony not to temerity and impudence but modesty and sweetness not to licentiousness but fear and reverence not to pleasures but to the Liberal Sciences I wish says Quintilian that we did not so abuse the nature of our Children that tender education which we call indulgence breaks the nerves of both body and mind We see therefore Plato that most grave teacher of vertue in almost all his Dialogues exhorting Parents to educate their Children aright Though this principle unfoldeth many objects necessary to the forming our present subject Yet since most of them are rather preparatives than pollishments we will here pass by those institutions that are usually proper to the two first Ages infancy and puerility And taking our Courtier in his adolescence propose only in reference to our present subject those distinctions requisite to his employment languages letters and travel But because we have spoken already of all those in the first part we think it superfluous to insist thereon Only let not a Courtier be ignorant of the knowledge of Histories without which a man can hardly obtain the name of a grave and prudent person As an old man is esteemed more prudent than a young man says Quintilian because he has seen what has fallen out through the course of many years so we must confess that he is the most prudent who knows the actions and events not only of his own but of past Ages What is prudence else but the observation of events and of things present and future drawn from what is by-past History is the mirrour of civil life where Hero's Princes and Nobles who are appointed to Govern ought to behold themselves To be short History furnisheth us not only with Examples of civil prudence but also with those of Military Vertue If one would know how to take the occasions of time and place to fight let him read the Lives of * Plutarch Lysander and Xantippus If he would make use of warlike stratagems let him imitate Timotheus Iphicrates and Hannibal If being victorious he would let the Enemy escape lest despair should produce boldness let him read the Example of † Id. Themistocles to Xerxes But if any affirm that such things cannot be learned by reading only let him propose to himself Lucius Lucullus whom Cicero writes at his departure from Rome to have been altogether ignorant of malitary Affairs but partly by enquiry partly by reading he was become so great a Captain when he came into Asia that Mithridates did confess he never knew a greater I only add seeing there are abundance of Historians that we must chuse the best Amongst the Grecians Thucydides Xenophon Polybius Plutarch and Nicetas were famous Amongst the Romans Livy Tacitus Salust Caesar Quintus Curtius and Suetonius Of modern Historians Guicciardine Conestagius Cominus Sleidan and Davila are the best These are so to be read that we may observe not only what was done but upon what occasion what way when and in what state of Affairs CHAP. II. Of his sweetness and integrity of Manners in general FOR brevities sake which hitherto I have greatly affected I will forbear to speak any more of the rest of the exercises of the mind comprehended in Learning or of the exercises of the Body as riding fencing dancing and the like of all which our Courtier should not be ignorant and only insist though succinctly on his sweetness affability and manners which Cicero calls the Ornament of humane life and which procures the deserved love and admiration of all For as the beauty and comeliness of the body attracts the eyes of men so a sweet and courteous nature gains the hearts and affections of every one As harsh wine says Socrates is unpleasant to the taste so are rugged and rustick manners to conversation SECT I. Of his Gate Speech and Habit. It is not sufficient to do says the Historian but it 's also requisite to do with a grace Let not therefore the Gate of a Courtier incline to levity or vanity but let it be grave without affectation And because the speech is the Character of the mind he shall observe a decorum therein of Persons Times and Place that he may speak pertinently and after a different manner to his Prince Equals and Inferiours For this Elegancy in speaking is a sign of the interiour virtue which cannot be perpetual unless it proceed from such an excellent inclination of the Soul Much can be feigned in the Carriage Countenance and Speech which are not in the Soul but it 's impossible that it can be of any long con●●●uance And as to the habit let every thing be avoided that may therein effeminate whoso has too great a care of his Body says a Divine neglects his Soul Let the habit of a Courtier be agreeable

with a decency to the Country and Court wherein he lives handsom and fashionable without affectation which he should change according to the Place Cause Age or Time Subsect 1. Of his Deportment towards his Prince What we have already spoken is of great moment in our Courtier but what shall follow will be of far greater and the more accurately to be observed because we see many erre therein First we shall show how a Courtier ought to carry himself to his Prince then to his Equals therein to shun envy as much as possible may be and lastly with what vertues he should be endued Above all things I admonish our Courtier to be such in effect as he would desire to seem to his Prince and others and let not his Tongue dissent from his Heart He is as great an Enemy to me says Homer as the Gates of Hell who speaks one thing and thinks another No Lye grows old says Euripides And as the love of Men to a painted ●●ore can be of no long continuance for with the first heat the deceit appears and the face thereby becomes more ugly so when dissemblers are suspected which commonly happeneth they incur the hatred of their Prince and others Real pain doth follow false pleasure real disgrace false Honour and real destruction false profit To omit that it is against Christian-piety which consists wholly in the simplicity of the mind Verum hodie laus est non ultima fingere vultum Et simulare probe Nec qui vel fallere nescit Mentirive ferit Sapientis nomen in aula Dissimulation and well-feigned faces Once hateful vices now are no disgraces Who cannot cheat and lye he strives in vain The name of wise in Court e're to obtain Divis 1. Of his Assiduity and Diligence Having laid this Foundation I say that Assiduity and Diligence are necessarily requisite in our Courtier This is chiefly to be regarded by us says Antonius in Cicero there is nothing which it cannot obtain For whatever falls under our charge we accomplish with Care Vigilance and Labour and in a word Diligence in which one Vertue all the rest are contain'd It is good to be admir'd in what we have by Fortune But it 's far better to have obtain'd what is glorious and honourable by our own industry for the former happens to good and bad but the other according to Demosthenes to none but generous and brave spirits We see Courtiers oft-times complain that being very observant of their Prince they are notwithstanding in little favour and how should that be The Answer is easie for when the Sun shines on divers Edifices those seem most illustrious who have the greatest Glass-lights so Princes advance such Courtiers most who by vertue and diligence are the most fit for the administration of Affairs By diligence therefore a Courtier will obtain that his Prince make frequent use of him for such they favour more than others It 's no wonder says Demosthenes that he who refuseth no pains is always present upon every occasion and neglects not the least moment of time to obtain his desires before others All things fall out prosperously says † Cato apud Salustium Salust by watching doing and consulting aright but when you addict your self to laziness and idleness you shall in vain implore the angry Gods We call him a diligent Courtier who seldom removes his thoughts from what is committed to his charge who makes it his only care that his Prince receive no prejudice Both to foresee and to prevent Dangers as soon as they are meant who spares no pains nor dangers but rather remains as upon a perpetual watch who if he be sent to another Prince observes his nature and manners his strength and power his customes and treasure his Confederates and Allies and all his form of Government And so much of the diligence of our Courtier where it 's to be observed that the least affected and most remote from ostentation is the most commendable As Paterculus observes aright in Piso that he did what was to be done without noise As on the contrary officious curiosity renders men hateful To be curious says Cicero is to desire to know what doth not belong unto us which denotes him to be a man of levity or little sincerity Divis 2. Of his Secresie Philiopides did answer King Lysimachus wisely when he asked what he should communicate to him any thing but your secrets says he It is a most dangerous thing to know the secrets of Princes because they are always jealous of such persons says Cassiodorus Therefore our Courtier should not reveal the secrets of his Prince to any but especially such as he is intrusted with The Persians did conceal the secrets of their Kings with admirable sidelity no fear or hope could draw one syllable thereof from them and a man cannot undergo great Affairs to whom it 's a trouble to hold his tongue says Curtius They are ridiculous who out of an ostentative vanity rejoyce to relate what is done every day in the Cabinet-council of their Prince that thereby they may show how much they are in favour with him A certain Athenian did invite the Embassadors of King Philip to his house and some Philosophers amongst whom Zeno was one and when all were merry and argued much upon several Subjects Zeno in the mean while was still silent Which the Embassadours perceiving did ask him what they should relate to their King That you have seen answers Zeno an old man at Athens who knew how to be silent amongst Cups It is praise worthy to speak well but it deserves no less praise to know when to be silent When Aristotle sent Calistines his Scholar and Kinsman to Alexander he did admonish him to speak seldom and prudently to him who had the power of life and death upon his tongue Which advice rejected by Calistines was the cause * Curtius of his destruction In the next place I would advise our Courtier to make as honourable mention of his former Master if he has had any as if he were yet alive and not to complain of him although he thinks it acceptable to his Prince otherwise he shall fall into two inconveniences The one the Prince shall imagine that he may expect the like himself through process of time the other he will think it the Courtiers own fault that he was not in greater favour with his former Master Divis 3. Of his love and affection to his Prince As the rayes cannot be separated from the Sun heat from Fire cold from Ice nor Snow from whiteness so cannot benevolence familiarity society and concord be separated from love Seeing I say nothing doth more gain affection than tokens of love let a Courtier endeavour to the utmost of his power to make his Prince understand that he loves him Love according to the Proverb begets love It were ingratitude indeed not to love and favour those by whom we know we are not a little beloved