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cause_n	bring_v	good_a	tree_n	1,517	5	8.6085	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13394	Rapta Tatio The mirrour of his Maiesties present gouernment, tending to the vnion of his whole iland of Brittonie martiall.	Skinner, John, Sir, fl. 1604, attributed name.; Skene, John, Sir, 1543?-1617, attributed name.; Douglas, N., attributed name.	1604 (1604)	STC 23705; ESTC S118166	26,573	62

him back his gifts againe In others they had good vse as when Fabius Maximus bestowed on Marsus a valiāt souldier no very great gifts to keep in very great spirits The antient boone of Leuidense none begs which was a warme but light yet cōmon garment Many now craue in many places not so much for want of sufficient as because though they know some haue more then inough yet they would bee loath to haue lesse then theyr fellowes striuing as Otacilius did to equall Torquatus of whom it is written that as the ox burst the toade so the one of them would split in emulation of the other vt bos ranam rumperat olim sic puto Torquatus rumpet Otacilium Milesius was wont to say there was no such way to make a man quietly suffer aduersity as the knowledge that his enemy was in worse prosperity and think you that emulatiō in this works not as much as in the other malice For this cause did the brethren of Ioseph sell the son of Iacob vnto the Arabian merchants For the other did Casselius find out that a Pyne tree nut was an apple if it were to be thrown at Vatinius his enimies head Horace bestoweth much description vpon those who wold haue none so great as thēselues and tels the tale of the toade vituli pede pressus who told her dam when she saw her swell to be as great as the calfe Non si te ruperis inquit Par eris But though it were vnfit in kings causes Martials counsell to Flaccus was vnhappy which aduised to keep that to himselfe which hee had purposed amongst others when as the offence of many who should not get was dangerous the bestowing vpon al burdensom Demeruisse duos votum est offendere plures vix tutum Cunctis mittere dona graue Our Soueraigne as his goodnesse is great so his rewards his gifts his aduancements haue not bin smal Tully had not so great cause to brag of his Quaestorship well discharged in Sicily when he came home to Rome as some giue shew of our Soueraigns bounty who passe from one of you to another Howsoeuer it may truly be said it hath rather bin a Royall king then an yeares Magistracy yet performed hath aduanced Tully to salute Roome so glorified from Sicily so enuyed at home Take it not ill then Tully if no body at Roome woulde talke to thee of thy Quaestorship of the news of thy cariage wherin thou thoughtst to haue found all men full And why should not such gifts as they cary be bestowed by him who hauing long staied for power ought now only to affect glory and good will Priùs said Antigonus mihi opus erat potentia nunc verò gloria et beneuolentia What other humane indeauour hath this worthy king more seriously taken in hand then the benifiting of his the countries friends the recōcilemēt agreemēt of the enemies of both whereof the one as they were made vp partely by his loue to his country his desire to honour it to aduāce hir faln nobility to requite such as had deserued best of her to giue many more then theyr own since the country had so gladly giuen him his own partly by those he brought with him who had some of them bin rescuers of his life som extraordinary assistants of his estate others such as he could not but reward here for seruices performed there where memory was the rewarde hee cold properly giue was all in their honors they would willingly take So enimies to kings do oftnest grow either by wāt of what ambition made them desire or for lacke of what expenses had drawn into waste Els some somtimes affect what blind zeal makes them think fit or fals iudgement rather false harts will not let them see pertinent proper But as his Maiesty hath no more then was fit rewarded the first vnlesse they can say to him as the yong man saith in Terence Nescis quid mihi obtigerit you cannot tell Sir what hath lighted vpon me So hath he mercifully spared the other insomuch that he hath neither cōfiscated them as Tiberius the Emperor did the kings of Spaine Sicily Greece ob leue impudensque calumniarū genus for any light or shamefull kind of slander nor fined them as Cassius did Sylla Calphurnius from one of whom he took quinquagies sestertiū frō the other sexagies Himselfe being for any riot he is addicted vnto as free frō wāt either of ought belonging to himself or for his couetousnes frō need of any thing others possesse But either at pe titions of faire Ladies none offenders or for som respects laid before him by his wiser Nobility either else for pure inclinatiō vnto mercy hath benefited Sylla been steward of his estate kept others vp who would haue kept others downe Thanks to so high discerning which found that when Soueraigntie could not represse liberty benefits could more strictly then treason take it prisoner Nor hath hee yet inflicted so much as exile vpon any of them knowing it a banishment that they forsooke his iustice And that he detaineth them is out of his mercy for boulder were they and of better countenāce could they be when each had his discontent then now when they haue proofe in themselues the world sees it apparātly how vnworthily they had placed it Marcellus the Ciuilian wrighting vpon a booke of the Digestes shewes three kindes of banishment either from certaine places or from al places besides certain either else a cōfining to some Iland And though all these be vpon them yet they had nothing of this punishment did not one certaine place restraine them may they be confined to an Ilād if further mercy shall deliuer further occasion shal not imploy them that Iland so prepared the one by their Soueraignes grace the other in his prudēce they are not only like to be inlarged to a country but find their country inlarged to them Touching whome pittie is it they rather were not free for this argument then bound by the other offēce There are of them whose births courages blouds experiences and conditions as they were noble before they lost them so nobly could they haue spoken of this argumēt I hope by this time haue found much cause to bee much forward hereabout Yet is there one of thē wold bring much griefe vnto me though I wish him all good in his weldoing if he or his abettor his Steward or Protector or his faction so many as are of the olde haunce for his cause should be able to preiudice me more for compassion then I could draw safegard to my selfe by refraining euill desart laboring good merit But howsoeuer these some of them much vnhappy before in this estate at this time haue all tryed the Kings Maiesties grace in their seuerall particulars in that notwithstanding they haue beene absent from the true ioyes of their Countrey and from the affaires in hand they may

can not be vnpleasing that Amasis King of Egypt made vti singuli apud praesides prouinciae ostenderent vnde viuerent That is in England on capitall head of many manifolde vices when men may liue by what meanes they can onely answearing vnto publicke accusations whereas how they get what they spende how they spende what they get how they outface meaner Magistracie how they blinde greater in causes of danger how they find many and the Common-wealth few friendes how they shift causes and the Iudge neuer heates of them for these how much God is angrie their courses how easie it is in beginngs to preuent if counsaile of Counsellours finde other thinges more vrgent to their wisedomes I remember what I wish the Common-wealth should haue cause to thanke them for These people will goe as neare Iustice and Lawes and scape them as Domitian could shoote neare through by a Boyes fingers and misse them This reuerend counsell for hauing liued in Coutts may they be more honored then to be reuiled in Woodes So let them know their seruices rewarded in lyuing that dead they be not abused by the lyuing And if they may be amongst vs who would be wise like them let vs not put them from amongst vs who haue more experience and haue had more priuitie then wee Zenophones Colophonius who was called Homeromastixe in lamentation of his pouertie told a King of Cecely that he was scarce able to keepe two Seruantes Yet quoth the King he whom you rayle vpon feedeth 10000. being dead so are worthy men by meane ones defaced so pratchantnesse knowes not it is sawcie so come faultie humours to be vnpunished because not seene and not seene because not regarded In Rome it is written Rutilius and Scaurus had petition for a Consulship and at last Rutilius gaue way to Scaurus Scaurus accused Rutilius of Canuace because in Rutilius his Tables was written A. F. P. R. which Scaurus did interpret as signifying done by the fayth of Publius Rutilius actum fide Publij Rutilij as if Rutilius had corrupted the voyces and Scaurus could not haue been made Consull without Rutilius had renounced vnto him But Rutilius made this interpretation ante factum postea relatum that first it was had afterwards restored as if Scaurus had by his name framed his Office and he had been but the pronouncer of his reputation Caius Caninius a Romaine Knight being on the part of Rufus notwithstanding held that neither interpretation was true vpon those Letters but that they imported Aemilius fecit plectitur Rutilius Aemilius did it and Rutilius suffered for it that was tooke the repulse But I thinke both then for neither are heere now In that time where was the curtesie passed betwixt Largius and Caelius when they two spent the day so in commending one another either for others worth to be elected Dictators that scarce either of them could be appoynted on the second day of their choyce Where was then that humanitie which Pompey shewed who being appoynted vnto Metellus his charge because Metellus was elder and more noble in glorie would not accept his preferment appoynted vnto him vnlesse Metellus would desire his companie in taking share of his care This case had much other pleading when it was and howsoeuer Rutilius was stucke vnto yet Cicero gaue not all to that speaker but in decision of the cause hauing iudicially delyuered turned his countenaunce vpon a worthy man of his fauour concluding directly in the behalfe of Scaurus More did not Tully in any day shew himselfe maister of his eares nor better at any time commaunde his tongue to vtter his iudgement Yet was that tryall onely brought in to take experience of duetie fully necessarie for greater causes soone after to be propounded This onely being like Alcibiades Dogge sent through the Cittie of Athens with his tayle cut off vpon purpose That as it was to try what woonderors were there in that body so this to discerne whether free tongues were walking or not walking in your free Cities But howsoeuer had Angustus his Iudgement been helde as good as Claudius his benefite the decision had found authoritie not the authoritie decision Then might the Souldier haue come to Caesar to aske his rewarde of pleasuring him in a fitter time then after he had lost one of his eyes at Munda But it may be in times foregoing it hath been thought that cleane obseruance was more worth then holy duetie to be honored rather skilfully then deuoutly coli scite quam sancte Yet doubt I that word Cleane had drunke too lately in the Low Countries and signified rather litle in the scite then mannerly in the obseruaunce Or else as it befell Martiall would haue his rule of louing accept Familiaritie but admit no reuerence Tu vis coli Sexte volebam amore Sed si te colo Sexte non amabo If otherwise which I well beleeue and you great Cities may happely heare of that not want of particuler duetie but care of generall good makes refusall of that for the Countries cause wherein a Kinges commaund had otherwise readely preuayled ouer his Subiectes while the euent of the ones desire the others refusall stood vpon vncertaine successes and the fathers care might be thought impartiall touching his owne lawfull Children though issued from diuers venters what Vigil could not scite Virgill what Watchman could not discerne day then in view then to follow his collours with Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro Nor could it be sayd O socij neque enim ignari sumus ante malorum for of the contrarie wee haue had experience lamentable of this which would haue yeelded comfort such hath been our vnhappinesse though the Histories can tell you how sought neuer occasion to any could wee take Better directions then happie directions men can not receaue such as either are affected to be followed for loue by hope or men are wonne to imbrace by reason vpon ground Him examine by his owne remember his life past so blessedly runne through so mischieffously attempted take view of his estate present of our hopes of blessednesse by him and thereby frame coniecture how fortunate his Highnesse may be in these his desires not withstood but submitted to by those who must leese liberties as deare as life thereby And should you not take him Kingly but Philosophically the rule for his condition fittes him as his Scepter for a King becomes him A body strong fortunes ritch the heart stoute and braines learned Milesius thought to be the seate of happinesse Plato he platted fiue kindes of Felicities good Counsell good Health good Fortune good Reputation good and falsely esteemed but neuer before other louers of Wisedome loued them better then Philosophers aboue all Goodes Goodes I might add to make these goodes better as greater for their qualitie maketh not their price more then their quantitie aduaunceth their reputation euen goodes hanging vpon Ropes Of which kinde to leaue the Kinges Maritine riches