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cause_n	good_a	love_n	love_v	4,903	5	6.7044	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41737	The heroe of Lorenzo, or, The way to eminencie and perfection a piece of serious Spanish wit / originally in that language written ; and in English by Sir John Skeffington, Kt. and Barronet.; Héroe. English	Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.; Massereene, John Skeffington, Viscount, d. 1695.; Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1652 (1652)	Wing G1471; ESTC R6925	27,935	166

prodigall of her favours for the most par● shee intends no long continuance Felicity that 's grown old drawes near an end and extreme ill forttune is not far from a reverse The Moor Abul brother and Heir to the King of Granada and taken pri●oner in Salobrenia to ●eguile his miserie us'd sometime to play at Checks a true represen●ation of the game of for●une He was no sooner set down but in comes a Cor 〈…〉 yet to tell him he must prepare himself to die In 〈…〉 xorable death comes alwayes post The Moor de 〈…〉 ir'd him for a respite of 2 houres The Commissary ●hought it too long but yet granted him leave to play but his game He plaid and won both his life and the kingdome for before the game was ended another Post arriv'd with news of the Kings death whereby the Citty of Granada presēted him with their crow● There have been as many that have risen fro● the scaffold to the Crown as have descended fro● the Crown to the scaffo 〈…〉 the good morsells of fo●tune had never so good relish as when they w 〈…〉 season'd with an Agr 〈…〉 dulce of danger Fortune is not unli 〈…〉 pyrates that wait for ve●sels at sea till they 〈◊〉 fraught The counte 〈…〉 plot must be to anticipa 〈…〉 and take some port be times EXCELLENCIE XII Gracia de les gentes The love of the people IT is but a small conquest to gain the ūderstanding if the will be not won and t is a great matter to make a joint conquest of admiration with affection Many maintain their credits by plausible actions but they get not benevolence He must be born under a favorable constellation that obtains so universal a grace but the best part proceeds from our own diligence Others hold a contrary discourse when applause doe's not correspond to an equality of merits That which in one mans nature drawes affection like the adamant another hath it by a conspiracie or secretnes of practice I shall alwayes yeeld the superiority to that facultie that 's artificiall An Eminencie of perfections serves not to get the peoples affection although it be enough Affections are easily gotten where the understanding is suborned because affection follows good opinion The Duke of Guise that was as famous in misfortune as he was rich in the endowments of nature did very happily practise the way of gaining common favour He grew in greatnes by the favour of one King and grew greater by the emulation of an other I mean the third of the French Henries A name fatall to Princes in every Monarchy For in so great a subject the name deciphers Oracles The King one day askt some Lords that were about him what it was that Guise did to make himself so powerfull to bewitch the people An ingenuous Courtier and the chief of those that were present answered him Sir by dealing curtesies with both hands Those whom the influences of his curtesies reach not in a direct line they have it by reflexion and where his power extends not into action there he charms with good words If they invite him to a wedding he fails not to be there If to be a godfather he never refuses If to an enterrment he honors it with his presence He is Human courteous liberall endears all the world to him and speaks il of none In conclusion He is the king in their affections as your Majestie is in effect A happy grace if it had been in relation to his Prince and without which it was of no essence whatsoever the opinion of Bajazet were yet wee find that applause given to the minister cannot but enjealouse the Soveraign And to say truth the Grace of God and of the king and of the people are 3 graces of more beauty than those other 3 that were feigned by antiquity They hold hand in hand and are so streightly enterlaced that if any of them fayl let it be able to shew a good cause The most powerfull Charm to make ones self beloved is to love the vulgar are as violently carried away in their affections as they are furious in their persecutions The first thing that gets their love after a good opinion is curtesie and generousnes by means whereof th' Emperor Titus was called the delight of mankind The favorable word of a superior is as good as an obliging action from an equal and a curtesie from a Prince exceeds a rich present from the hands of a Citizen By forgeting Majestie but a while the Magnanimous Don Annoso lighting from his horse to relieve a country fellow that was in some danger conquer'd the fortified walls of Ga 〈…〉 which the battry of his Guns could not have done in many dayes He made his first entry at their hearts and presently after entred in triumph into their citty Some over-curious Criticks could find nothing so eminent among the merits of the great Captain that Giant of Heroes as the love of the people And I am of the same opinion that in a pluraliof perfections where each deserves a plausible renown this was the happiest There is also the favour of Historians to be had in ambition as much as Immortality because their pennes are the wings of renown They set not out so much the favours of Nature as of the Soul That Phaenix Corvino the glory of Hungarie was us'd to say and practise it much better That the greatness of an Heroe consisted in two things by inuring his hand to Glorious Actions and to the Pen because Characters of Gold bind up Eternity EXCELLENCIE XIII Del Despeio We have no word to express Despeio the French call it Entregent the Chapter gives a definition and I must use the word Entregent THE Entregent is the Soul of every rare quality the life of all perfection the vigour of action the grace of words the charm of well-born spirits sweetly flattering the understanding and sets all expression upon the tenter hooks It is an enhaunsment of excellency It is the beauty of formality Other parts adorn nature but this improves those ador●ing parts insomuch as it is the perfection of perfection by a transcendent beauty and by an universal grace It consists in a certain ayriness in an unspeakable cheerfulness aswell in words as actions and passes even into discourse It receivs the best advantage from nature although it borrow something from observation It was never subject to directions nor to the precept of a superior although it were alwayes govern'd by art when it steales away the fancy 't is call'd an allurement when 't is not easily discern'd 't is call'd an ayriness If it be put on by courage 't is animosity If out of galantry or Gentiless 't is a sweetness of carriage If it be done with facility 't is addresse All these names have been given it out of a desire and difficultie of expressing it They do it wrong that confound it with facility for it leaves that far