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A51781	A short view of the lives of those illustrious princes, Henry Duke of Glovcester, and Mary Princess of Orange deceased, late brother and sister of His Majesty the King of Great Brittain collected by T.M. Esq., to whome the same will serve a rule & pattern.	Manley, Thomas, 1628-1690.	1661 (1661)	Wing M446; ESTC R8035	34,733	124

attend their Captains Bas Hom. contra Irascentes They be like water saith St. Basil that sustaineth oyle about it that it may run more purely and not be infected with earth Bas der Vi●gin● They are also compared to Horses which draw a Coach so the passions draw the soule to the fruition of her vertuous objects and indeed the passions of our minds are not unlike the humours of our bodyes Cicero 4. Tusc whereunto Cicero well compareth them for if blood flegm choller or melancholly exceed the due proportion required to the constitution and health of our bodies presently we fall into some disease so if the passions of the mind be not mod learnedly teaeated according to reason and that temperature that vertue requireth immediately the soul is molested with some malady but if the humours be kept in a due proportion they are the preservation of health hereby may be gathered that passions are not wholly to be extinguished as the Stoickes seem to affirme but rather to be sometimes moved and stirred up for the service of vertue as Plutarch learnedly teacheth This hath many excellent Captaines in former ages whome the desire of glory and repute stirred up to many honourable atcheivements and if many rare wits had not been pressed with the same affections we should neither seen Homers poetry Platoes divinity Aristotles Philosophy Plinys History nor Tullies Eloquence It cannot but be granted that shamefacedness retaineth from many offences fear of punishment keepeth from theft and remorse of conscience calleth many sinners to the grace of God Now it cannot be denyed but that the minds of all men are thus charged with passions and that those passions work divers effects for their discovery according to that of the Poet O quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu And as Pliny also speaketh Plin. l. 11. Frons hominis tristitiae incaritatis clementiae severitatis Index est Q. Curt. l. 2. Alexander the Great as Curtius relates it had experience hereof who after he had wonne the City of Tarson belonging to Darius entring upon a hot Summers day into the River Cidmus and thereby catching so vehement an ague that hindered his journey at present against his Enemies which then began to draw near to him he resolved in himself for avoiding the threatned mischief to take some very strong Medicine that should presently either mend or end him To this purpose Philip an ancient Physitian who had constantly waited on him from his youth was spoken with who promised to prepare him a Potion according to his desire While Philip was making ready the Potion Parmenio a Captain whom Alexander of all other most loved and trusted understanding the King's Determination sent him a Letter advising not to meddle with Philip's potion because he understood he was corrupted by Darius with promise of a thousand Talents and his Sister in Marriage that he should kill him Alexander was much perplexed in his mind at this news while he was debating with himself what to doe his Physitian brought him the Potion when the King saw him he raised himselfe upon his elbow and taking the Letter in the left Hand with his Right tooke the Cup and drank off the Physicke which done he delivered the Letter to Philip to read and looked earnestly into his Face as long as he was reading supposing that if he had been faulty some token would have appeared in his Countenance imagining with himselfe that as the pulse declareth the operations of the heart so the internal cogitations and affections of the mind whether virtuous or vicious no where sooner bewray themselves then through those living windowes wherewith Nature hath compassed the olosets of our fancy when Philip had read the Letter he shewed more tokens of displeasure then fear which together with the protestations of the Physitian of his innocence assured Alexander so of his fidelity he not onely rejected all feare of death but conceived an extraordinary hope of amendment as indeed not long after it proved If it be so then that the face may be called mentis speculum the minds looking-glasse which discovereth the heart to be the seat of our passions then hence may be deduced a most certain Conclusion that according to the disposition of the heart humors and body divers sorts of persons be subject to divers sorts of passions and the same passion affecteth divers sorts of persons in divers manners for as we see fire applyed to dry Wood or Iron or Flax or Gun-powder worketh divers wayes for in wood it kindleth with some difficulty and with some difficulties is quenched but in flax is soon kindled and quenched in iron very hardly but in Gun-powder in a moment and can never be quenched till the powder be Consumed so some men you shall see soon angry and soon pleased others hardly offended and with as great difficulty reconciled others are all fire and in a moment with every trifle will be inflamed and till their hearts be consumed almost with Choller will never cease until they be revenged which confirmes that old saying to be true Animi mores corporis temperatum sequuntur As then in Maladies of the body every man feeleth best his own griefe even so in diseases of the soule every man knoweth best his own inclination Neverthelesse as Physitians commonly affirm there be certain General causes which incline our bodyes to several infirmities so there are likewise that move our soules to sundry passions for it cannot be denyed or doubted but that there are some affections in the highest and chiefest part of the soul for to God the Scriptures ascribe Love Hatred Anger c. although he cannot be subject to any sensitive operation But to return the young Duke by a deep judgement having wisely foreseen this did for the better ordering of himself make use of that Golden Rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Believe all this and next these habits gain From wrath and sleep and food and lust refrain And looking at Religion as the chief point of true Nobility according to that in another place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be thou assured their Off-spring is divine To whom things holy through clear nature shine It might truly be said of him which was spoken by Solomon in another cafe Pro. 31.25 that his lips dropped Wisdome when they opened and what Job spoke of himselfe may be truly attributed to him The young men saw him and hid themselves the Aged rose and stood up the Princes refrained talking and laid their Hands on their Mouths the Nobles held their peace when the Ear heard him then it blessed him and when the Eye saw him it gave witnesse to him Job 30.8 9 10 11. To be short his wisdome was great in that he was able to advise and greater in that he was willing to be advised never so wedded to his own resolves but

for whom there was a stately and Prince-like preparation made for their entertainment which the whole States taking notice of their stomachs also came down and by their meanes the City of Amsterdam invited the Princesse of Orange to a magnificent feast in remembrance of the great services performed by the house of Orange for them The Dukes in this interim were retired into Flanders to their forces in the Spanish army wherein the Duke of York still continued an eminent actor but the Duke of Gloucester having as he supposed seen sufficient of the warres and hoping that God at length would restore his brother the King he intended to apply himself to such a form of life as that he might by his Counsell be able to help him knowing that most great men Tacit. Annal plura Consilio quam ●vi perfecerent have ever done as much by Counsell as by force 1 Com. C●vill Bel● This made Caesar say Non minus est Imperatoris consilio superare quam gladio A Princes conquests are gained as much by Councell as by the sword We may justly say that this young Duke did truly prove such a one as Basilius the Emperour recommended to his son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Use such Counsellers who have counselled well in their own affaires and managed the same well not such whose imprudence hath made all things go to confusion for they who through too much carelesnesse neglect themselves and their own businesse will never be a good help or adviser to another this I say was so in him for never was any man more atrent to what he undertook nor more carefull either in his own or the affaires of others by which meanes he hoped to shut out all foreiners from counsell lest they should attract envy to his Prince because Consilia externa sunt semper infausta That maxime in him was truly verified Miseria Prudentiae bowa Mater for certainly his afflictions did infinitely refine him He might say with David It is good for me that I have been afflicted ●sal 119. for thereby I have learned not only they Law but have gained an insight into worldly Wisdome nor are Councellors onely bettered by troubles but even Princes themselves are made excellent whom a various fortune hath sometimes exercised Charles the fifth of France was endued with an admirable Wisdome and gained the sirname of Wise but few men were ever so variously tossed up and down even from his very childhood his Father King Iohn being lead away Prisoner and the Kingdome harrassed over by another Nation So Lewis the eleventh a wise Prince yet for divers years driven both from his Father Friends and Countrey and forced to live as an exile with Philip Duke of Burgundy many others we might joyn in the same rank but what need we go from home since we have among us the most religiously wise King in the World whose tryals have exceeded all before going Most true therefore is that saying of the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a quibus laesus ab jis doctus In this condition we will leave him at his serious studies to see how the Princess of Orange his Sister speeds with her pleased friends of Holland the Sta●es having upon their second and better thoughts reconciled themselves to the Prince his Mother as a testimony thereof gave them a magnificent entertainment being welcomed by the chief of the Town accompanied with many horses richly accoutred and many Coaches the Burgomasters at their reception giging high thanks to the Princess fo● dignifying them with her presence As a recreation after the Feast wa● presented in various shews the memorable Acts of the five last Princes of Orange the Emperour Adolp● of Nassaw and others of that family in the shew was placed a representation of the present young Princ● in the Arms of Religion nothin● was wanting that might grace s● solemne an accasion but onely the Prince of Orange himself the People longing with an unsatisfied expectation to see his person for now as he grew up apace so he began to draw the eyes and observation of most men in those parts towards him as the person ordained to reduce things to the antient lustre as they were wont to be in the dayes of the Princes of Orange his predecessours Which others of a more factious and wicked nature murmured at rather desiring that he might be layd aside This made his Mother to looke about her and with care to keep correspondencies especially with those Provinces that refused a confaederacy with the English like a good Prince minding Patriae beneficium the advantage of the Country more then her own private ends and that the world might take notice thereof she bore her Son company to Leyden when he went thither to be instructed in the Languages and Sciences and were by the Magistraces of that City honourably received The Princess Royal being returned to the Hague and intending to go thence to Bredah her Son the Prince came thither for a few dayes from Leyden to take his leave of her and as soon as she was gon he returned back again to his studyes The Duke of Glocester all this while remained private only sometimes visiting in publick his Illustrious brothers being grown famous by his retirement and his Councils looked on as Oracles his knowledge being weighed not by the length of his life but the observations he made upon all occurrents proving thereby that he that liveth long and seeth much but observeth nothing shall never prove any wise man There was not any the meanest action whereof he took not notice weighing the coherence of causes effects counsels and successes with the proportion and likewise between nature and nature fortune and fortune action and action state and state time past and time present thereby being able to render an account both of the manners and customes both of the places and people wherein he had resided The Princess of Orange was now at Bredah where she was carressed and courted by many forraign Princes and States onely the King of France by what or whose instigation is not certainly known began to play foul for while the old Princess Dowager of Orange and she were with some heat contesting about the Guardianship of the Principality of Orange the French King surprises the same takes into his own possession the Ammunition and Arms with all other strengths thereof and gives out that he will keep them all for the young Princes use during his minority and as a faithful Steward deliver them all up again when he comes to full age A fair pretence but much to be feared that it will with great difficulty be performed it being too generally found true that Great men many times do wrong because they have a power in their hands and so long as that power lasts they will and do maintain the same by doing greater But although the Princess and all her friends did much both doubt and fear such