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A07373	The golden meane Lately written, as occasion serued, to a great lord. Discoursing the noblenesse of perfect virtue in extreames.	Ford, John, 1586-ca. 1640, attributed author. aut; Stafford, Anthony, attributed author. aut	1613 (1613)	STC 17757; ESTC S102688	22,283	138

extremities that doe many times assault the temper of a Noble vertue it shall not much differ from the purpose and present to point at With men of Honour and Nobilitie the chiefe misfortunes that can or doe vsually happen are either Disfauour Neglect forfeite of Estate Banishment Imprisonment or Death The remedies against all which shall easily in perticular bee subserted Disfauour often times comes either through Priuie malice selfe-vnworthynesse Enuie or sometimes through the variablenesse of an vnguided Prince inclination To each 〈◊〉 those a wise man may and a good man will soone apply a medicine and in tha●… a recouery To deser●… the grace of a Prince is an●… honorable happines yo●… is not the losse of it being once deserued a misery especially to wise men since vvise men may bee made subiect but neuer subiects to misery calamity may exercise but not ouersway their vertues misfortune may bee an vsurping tyrant to paine them but neuer a receiued soueraigne to command them If the Prince his gracious fauour be lost through the priuie malice of some who fill the eares of Maiestie with the dis●…ord of slander and vntruth grounded vpon the sandy foundation of vncertaine discontent or dishonourable reuenge then hath a wise Noble man out of those very wrongs strong arguments to perswad his reason that there is much reason why hee should be perswaded to moderation for being innocent of any voluntary action or intent that might make his faith questionable or his serui●… dangerous or his merit 〈◊〉 lesse value then a voy●… of generall commenda●… hath formerly 〈◊〉 his owne cleerenes●… may euer rest vpon the vnmoued pillars of his own●… Noble integritie Where a man in grace with his Soueraigne falls from it by a selfe-vnworthynesse it is far otherwise vndoubtedly whosoeuer is so impoisoned with the diseases of his minde or the infirmity of his body hath great principal causes to moue him to seeke for remedy against the dispertion of the one the asper●…ion of the latter To this ●…elfe-unworthynes either in ●…inde or body may be re●…erred Ambition the Mo●…her of disloial plots practises Discontent the Nurse 〈◊〉 conspiracies Couetous●…es that kindling fires with the fuell of Monopolies is inforced to quench them with the teares of disgrace and that which soone followes thereon Contempt ●…aine-glory or Pride which whiles with Pompeys minde it cannot brooke the title of a superiour is with Pompeys fortunes cast down beneath the pittie of their equals Faction vvhich like foolish flye in the cand●… labours her owne dea●… with other diseases 〈◊〉 many to be tediously rected or to this self 〈◊〉 through the infi●…mitie of the body which more especially consists in action may bee referred Ryot in all men a madnes in Noble men a blemish and to good Princes most displeasant or Quarrelling which euer brings danger with too late repentance or Wantonnesse the ouerthrow of many goodly kindreds and familyes or Scurrilitie with other such like Since when mention was made of the unworthi●…esse of body it is not any defect in Nature or naturall proportion but in manners outwardly acted For many times it is commonly seene that where Nature hath fail'd in some parts of the outward man shee hath oftentimes supplyed those wants with a pregnancy of minde A president whereof is not to borrow of auncient Histories euen in the CHRONICLES of our present memories in the person of ROBERT the late Earle of SALISBVRY a man whose vneuenes 〈◊〉 shape was perfected with the perfect furniture of 〈◊〉 reaching and industrio●… wit So was the crookedness of Aesape made straight in the sweetnes 〈◊〉 his inuention And Scorates that odde man of Athens is said to haue said of himselfe that education Art in him had changed the course of Natures vnfurnished workmanship Of these and such imperfections of body 〈◊〉 is not heere intended but of such as by their owne selfe-vnworthines in body in minde often in both doe loose the intrest their Blood Birth and Noblenesse being noble indeed by those both hath in their Princes opinion A remedy against self-unworthinesse must be found out in a selfe-reformation which being sincerely performed the follyes of the past times belong not to the reformed If one should call such a one as hath bin knowne for a notorious robber Theefe being certainely sorrowfull penitent and accomptable for all his errours in that kinde doubtlesse it were much indiscretion in the Agent to speake so to him more in the Patient to esteeme it as spoken of him since wise and good men as they do not repute those things theirs which they haue not done so must they neither acknowledge for theirs which they now presently doe not Non vocamus ●…nostra quae non ipsi fecimus at quae non ipsi facimus as the right sence of the olde Verse contayneth So then Hath a great PEERE loft his Princes fauour because he deserued to loose it let not this deiect or caft him downe in mind since as by a change from good to worser hee forewent his Princes loue or rather his Princes louehim So yet by a change from bad to better he still is worthy of a repossession of that loue though hee repossesse it not And what worth cannot be seen by the publique little eye of the great world by reason of his being clouded from the Sunne of his life and glory his Prince let it bee so much the more seene by the priuate great eye of his own little world euen himselfe and his owne comforts and teach him to know the difference betweene a great and a good man the one preferring vertue onely for greatnesse the other preferring greatnesse for the greatnes of vertue onely Another cause which not seldome procureth disfauour from the Prince is that old enimie to desert Enuy who is so auncient a Courtier and so tryed in the passages of all ages that such a man as is in fauour with his Soueraigne deseruing so to be and imagining himselfe to bee without the compasse of Enuy is too securely in that security too simply armed against his owne ruine Heere now is a broad path leading or more truely teaching the ready course to the excellent meane of Temperance and Moderation Euery man ought to reioyce and solace himselfe in his owne perfections for it is as beast-like not to know his proper value at all as it is diuellish to know it too much Humble-Pride is a proud humilitie and such as exercise it with innocence rather then curiositie doe but shew the difference betweene a nobly and generous and a basely fantasticall Nature Whereby then should a man be perswaded that he is an imbracer of vertue more then in that hee is prosecuted by the restlesse venome of the enuious Hath this secret mischiefe displaced any desertfull fauorite of the benefite of the fauour royall assuredly hee hath little cause to distaste it any thing or to be moued from the

of folly is a worke of more praise then the working of folly is a cause of disgrace What misery can it then be to be eased of that care which onely brings care in the possession Of all mischiefes the greatest mischiefe is to be a rich man with a rich mans minde There is no more reason why a meerely couetous man should loue Gold but for that it is yellow or faire Pastures because they are greene and so hath the enuious much more reason to Co●…uer abundance of wealth because other men should want it A couetous miser is rightly a malicious consumer for in heaping for himselfe he consumes the maintenance of the needy yet it is to be noted that plenty is not alwayes to be dispraised if the hauing of it doe no●… procure a scarcitie But what losse is so great in a worldly estate considering how weake it is more then in opinion which a wise man should not beare with moderation It is a misery to want but a greater misery to haue too much but for a good man to hugge the loue of abundance that he should imagine the losse of it should make him miserable I must conclude this point that he hath neither goodnes nor resolution if goodnesse his content should be his best estate if resolution his want cannot be esteemed the worst pouertie since extremity is a singular teacher to learne vs that we are men and that there is both a diuine power and a prouidence aboue vs the one consisting in being a God the other in hauing a God-head The difference between a wise man reformed by counsell and instruction and an ignorant man informed in will and folly is that the wife will make good vse of all aduersity when the ignorant thinks all aduersitie intollerable This is proued in the greatnes of a Noble courage when it is enforced to forsake either vpon publike disgrace or some priuate causes the comforts of his friends and Countrie which men of low hearts doe account a misery of mischiefes and reckon that banishment is a bad kinde of torture It may not be denied but that such may be the vnworthinesse of the action for which a man is banished that his owne conscience will in all places be a tormentor to his memory and then the wound which he beares with him can neuer by change of place or time be wholy cured Such a one another of this latter times well compared to the wounded Doe in Virgill who as the Poet sayes fled ouer Hils and Mountaines to escape death but all in vaine for still in her sides the Bow-mans killing Arrowe sticks So those men who haue the arrow of some mischieuous art piercing their afflicted hearts although they be banished from the place where they haue committed villanie yet they doe but goe from it they cannot forget it They flie the detraction of their sin but cannot shunne it or if they could shun the deed as they cannot what can that auaile when the doer is the man himselfe In good men who through diuers misfortunes are sequestred from their natiue Countries vpon wrongfull or sleight occasions it is nothing so for to them if they rightly as beeing good they will instruct themselues in the first rules of wisedome all Countreyes are a home A noble and free resolution is a stranger no where in which respect men perfectly wise are said to be perfectly valiant since as true wisedome is perfect vallour so is true vallour perfect moderation Many men haue abandoned their Countries made themselues voluntary exiles vpon a desire and greedy hope of gaine or better prosperitie such haue beene the Romans Romulus and Aeneas of the Patauynes Antenor of the Britaine 's if the history bee of credite euen our owne Brute yet truely the end of those men was no●… vvay glorious for they may more rightly be called fugitiues and 〈◊〉 then exiles or trauailers He deserued well of the Common-vvealth of Athens who hauing instituted excellent lawes for th●… state publique tooke Oat●… of the Magistrates tha●… his lawes should be day●… and duely practised 〈◊〉 his returne from a iourne●… vvhich hee vvas to vndertake the oath being receiued the good man freely liued banished from his Country neuer returning that for the safety of his Country his lawes might ●…ee kept inuiolable Yet ●…as this wise man so farre in this banishment from reproofe that his action and memory in his action will neuer be forgotten Of all accidents that can happen to a prepared minde this of banishment hath little cause to trouble the quiet calme of a steady resolution It is often seene that sundry persons for rarities sake for morall instruction in complement or in behauiour willingly some times trauaile into forraine lands and there spend their time for three sixe tenne yeeres or more with great delight taking pleasure and content in so growing old Euen so 〈◊〉 like manner let a good man resolue him selfe tha●… this hard word of banishment is but a iourney of pleasure into some outlanding country not proposing or limitting to the minde a time of comming backe but alwayes minding some fit imployment why hee should goe as if ●…ee were but Ambassador from his owne to some vnknowne Prince and with what dishonor can an Ambassadour be blemished who in the seruice of his Soueraigne leaues his life as a pledge of his dutie It may be in the bondes of Nature some man will esteeme it an heauy misfortune to forsake or as in the vvorst sence they terme it to be thrust from the fruition of the comfort of his Friends Children Allyes and Kinsfolkes such a thought can no more moue the temper of a resolued minde the●… it should doe if hee were to leaue the world since in dying and in being banished heere is the difference that the one necessitie is commanded by an vnchangeable decree from Heauen the other by a seuere imposition of man both being a seueration of old friends What a madnesse were it in any to repute death being thereto naturally called a misery Euen so let him thinke of banishment and withall compare the great fortunes that some haue attained vnto in that estate of 〈◊〉 with the possibilitie of his owne THOMAS MOV●…RAY Duke of Norffolke in the Reigne of RICHARD the second being by the said King by reason of the Kings youth and indiscretion and in regard of some other differences between Mowbray and other Princes of the bloud vpon an appeale of Treason banished was so far from being heerewith deiected that adding practise to the noblenesse of his courage hee vndertooke a glorious warre in the land of Palestine against the common enemie of God and Truth the Turke and willingly made his bloud a sacrifice to the redemption of his Fame Happy man that sought out death with victorie before that death could make him vnhappy by finding him out with ouerthrow Happy banishment which hath beene the meanes of such a memory and happy cause of