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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39724	A relation of ten years in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America all by way of letters occasionally written to divers noble personages, from place to place, and continued to this present year / by Richard Fleckno.	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1656 (1656)	Wing F1232; ESTC R24329	76,341	184

Governor o● the Cittadel his Lady the Baron Re●●urt her noble Brother the Blangelvals the M●rquiss of Libourg● with divers others of the Nobility extremely curteous and obliging as most commonly they are all when out of Court and Competency with others amongst these I am daily Conversant there is no Feast nor party without me In all their sports and Exercises I must make one for their Games they teach them me and make me win or if I chance to lose they are as much concern'd as for their own losses and more than I am for mine It were too great a vanity to tell you this if it were not a greater Ingratitude to conceal it and you know Sir I can so little conceal the honour my Frends do me as I publish every wher the honour you do me in being one of them as that I have in being Sir Your c. II. To the Lord from Gant An. 41. With the Character and Epitaph of the Earl of STRAFFORD My Lo●d YOu would not believe me when I told you which way things tended and see what comes of it One of you is brought unto the block already for whom I have made this following Epitaph To see such Heads off on the Scaffold lie Only to keep on th' Head of Majestie What is 't but Admonition to his Peers S●ch Heads once off 't is time to look to theirs As for this following Character because I know my Lord amongst your many other commendable qualities you have this not to Envy others commendations I send it you withall The Character of the Earl of Strafford He was the fullest Man of all the Eminent parts and qualities of a Great Minister of State as England ever bred and both in Cabinet and abroad exprest it as fully too his unhappinesse 't was or rather ours that he liv'd not in happier Times might have rather Admir'd than Envyed those parts of his so as that Epitaph of Adrian the 6th might well be applyed to him Proh dolor quantum refert in que Tempora vel optimi cujusque virtus incidat Many Envyed him because few understood him and 't is almost to be wisht that his Prince had not don 't so well since 't was his overthrow so much more it imports the People than the Prince be Good they being many and he but one He was a Iewel sit for the Crown of any Prince to wear and that his Prince well knew and therefore wore him him there but being matcht and overmatcht too with counterfeit ones they fearing his splendor should dim and offuscat them snacht him thence and cast him into the obscurity of a Prison from whence he might have escap'd had he preferr'd his Life before his Fame but he had higher Thoughts and look't only after Eternitie and the perpetuating his Memory so while 't was irreparable losse unto the Crown 't was his gain to die with the glorious title and high reputation of his Princes Martyr Nor wanted there as great prodigies at his death as ever fore-run any Heroes yet all the Laws of the Land being first subverted the King losing his Authority and Kingdom chang'd into Democra●ie Er ' he could die so as his noble House was more honour'd and illustrated by his fall than ever 't could have been even in his greatest rise And now my Lord comfort your self if you chance to be the next that you shall not want one to make your Epitaph and Cha●acter at least but I rather wish and hope 't may be your Elogium in celebration of your Glorious Actions For if things look towards a Warr as I 'm affraid they do 't will be as well the Glory of your Judgement to chuse the better side as of your Valour to defend it bravely for Valour is either Virtue or Vice as 't is well or ill imployed and 't is hard to determine which is the greater Crime to defend an Ill Cause well or a good one ill You then being of Brutus disposition Quicquid vult valde vult that is vehement in all you undertake I cannot end this Letter with a better Prayer than God blesse a good Cause from having you for Enemy and God blesse you from being Frend unto an Ill which is the prayer of My Lord Your c. III. To Mr. Henry Petre from Gant Anno 42. Of his Resolution ●o leave GANT Noble Sir I Have liv'd to see the day when having lost all 〈◊〉 sinc● I may thank God for having nothin● now nor did I ever know how great a happinesse ' twa● till I saw their unhappines●e w●● are bemir'd and hog●'d in their own L●●● and bound to the●r Countries by the ●ie● of ●●fe and Children For what avails it such to ●●ve their Bodies free abroad whilst their Souls are imprisoned at home or to flie the miseries of the●r Country whilst they have lef● Pledges with Fortune there to be miserabl● still I speak this in regard of many Engli●● here retir'd as they imagine from the Noyse and Tumult in England whil●● their ea● are as much beaten with it here and thei● minds as much sollicited and perplex'd as they were present there They receiving wee●ly Intelligence from their Wives Frends and Servants there This that his house is plundered that that his Tenants refuse to pay their Rent a third that his Estate is sequestred c. when I must make sad faces with them ●or company or they cry out I care not how things go I answer If my care could remedy it I should And for their Losses I protest they touch me as neerly and ●'m as sorry for them as I should be for my own and if that suffice not I am sorry Nature made me not of another Temper and Disposition for their sakes Neither was this any Sto●cal Indolency in me who could suffer nay die for a Friend but yet without trouble and vexation In ●ine I 'm so wearied out with this sad sport as not to be made miserable at second hand I 'm resolv'd to quit this place and retire me to Antwerp or Bruxelles for I 'm indifferent for either you laugh now at my Indifferency but may I die or lose your Frendship which is more if I find it not an Immense happi●esse to say with Bias Omnia mea mecum porto and while others by heaping up wealth on wealth make themselves at last so cumbersom a load of it they cannot stir for it I by reducing all to the narrow compasse of one Portmanteau travel lightly up and down injoying that Liberty Fortune has bestow'd on me and Nature inclines me to wanting nor wishing for nothing more Sir than your Company being as I am Sir Your c. IV. To the Lady Audley from Bruxelles Anno 42. Of his Arival there Madam I Am at last arived at Bruxelles where for some Time I intend to stay having by rowling up and down like a Snow-ball contracted so many Acquaintances as I am now incompast with them