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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85345	Instructions for young gentlemen: or, The instructions of Cardinal Sermonetto to his cousin Petro Caetano, at his first going into Flanders to the Duke of Parma, to serve Philip King of Spain.	Gaetani, Enrico, Cardinal, 1550-1599.	1650 (1650)	Wing G104A; ESTC R177464	13,246	131

that the fault and default is in him With such like Persons and euery body else though it be your open enemy keepe good intelligence alwayes when there is any matter in hand touching the seruice of the King or of the Prince and for the seruice of his Maiesty or of his Excellencie lay downe all priuate passion or rancour and in case such a Person either for want of knowledge or of power or for any other cause what soeuer should runne into danger to commit some error to the preiudice of the King or the Prince your Lordship may not suffer the error to be committed by any meanes although your Aduersarie thereby might fall into the displeasure of his M tie or of his Excellency but lend your hand vnto it although it were a common danger Dissimulation is necessary for euery man specially in Armes and in Courts yet is not euery Dissimulation good and honourable but that onely which tendeth to a good and honest end and which with the obseruations of due circumstances denieth not the truth nor goeth against that which is right Such kind of Dissimulation is a part and kind of prudence and consisteth for the most part in silence or holding your peace and that for these causes following Videlicet not to publish that which another man hath committed to our trust not to bring any thing to light vpon knowledg whereof some scandall may ensue not to discouer any designment which being discouered should not attaine to his purpose not to let others see that wee know the defects of other men or any euill deeds of others For men of euill imperfections guilty of any defaults when they are knowne to be such Persons doe commonly hate them that knowe them to be so Not to make knowne that we know the thoughts of other men or the hard conceipts which other men haue against vs or against such as wee loue or the good affection which other men beare towards those which are our enimies Not to giue any notice that wee know an offence committed against vs or that wee doe make so great accompt of it nor to put our selues in any necessity danger or destruction by contending to answere when neither the matter nor the Person nor the Place nor the time doth require it Lastly not to bring any hurt or shame vpon our selues or others but to the benefit and honour of our selues and others In all these causes to dissemble with silence is thought to be good and is not reproueable And although it seemeth to be a very hard matter to deale thus with our friends in not telling them such things as being told them would doe them pleasure and seruice yet in the cases presupposed reason would that the greater respect should not be neglected and so we doe our selues the more wrong But sometimes it falleth out that wee must also dissemble with speech and that falleth out when wee are driven of necessity to answer And if a man demande of vs whether a matter be so or not so and what is purposed or conceiued It is not fit to dissemble with silence but we must dissemble with answere and this dissimulatiō requireth more Art For in such cases speech cannot be avoided and we are commonly as desirous to keepe our selues from danger in telling a lie as from danger in telling a truth Some there are that in such a case doe vse to dissemble by cutting of their speech and leaping into another matter but this doth not alwayes sort to good effect or at least will not serue the turne Others there are which answer they cannot tell and this is a fault because they denie the truth and say that which is not And therefore the answer must be like to the retreat which is both without flying and also without fighting goods and persons saved In making answer three things are wont tobe obserued first not to deny the truth secondly not to tell that which wee should not thirdly not to leaue the mind of him that maketh the demande in the same termes wherein we found him And the answer is so much the more commendable if it be restrained within these limits Although sometimes it is also lawfull to note the demander for his impertinent demands which may be done either covertly or openly according to the degrees of the persons and the qualities of the circumstances There is a dissimulation likewise permitted by exterior shews and by deeds and that is when for the reasons and ends aforesaid we abstaine from shewing either gladnesse or sorrow or hope or feare or any other affection that is in vs and also from making men to thinke that we doe see those things which we doe see perceiue those things which we doe perceiue and finally that wee doe know deale in and desire that which indeed we doe know deale in and desire And be it knowne vnto your Lordship that in the whole life of man and all his actions and businesse dissimulation is no lesse profitable then Counter-poysons and true preseruatiues are in Phisicke for euen as things doe preserue and keep vs from poyson and many other euills so doth dissimulation saue vs from many deceipts and errors and from infinite other hurtfull things You must know also that dissimulation being not well vsed doth discouer your selfe bringeth forth an effect quite cōtrary to your meaning and the present businesse And therefore your Lordship must take heed that when you keep silence with your tongue you doe not speake by the motions of your countenance nor by other gestures of your body Secondly that when you dissemble by speaking you doe not discouer your selfe by such meanes touching the matter you should leaue in doubt And lastly that if you dissemble by action or outward appearance you doe it covertly and with great warinesse and that you doe not runne into any extremity But for as much as in matters which we handle Fortune hath a great stroke and in warre especially hath her principall dominion your Lordship must watch opportunity which indeed is the matter and conveniency of your actions maketh those things possible which before could not be brought to passe those things easie which before were hard and those things safe which before were dangerous and thosethings good and profitable which before were hurtfull naught And therefore keepe these things in your mind alwaies that you entertaine occasion and opportunity and waite for them and not prevent them And doe not as others doe who being impatient in their desires doe snatch before their time and being desirous to prevent opportunity doe venture their evill fortune and overthrow them selues And in case opportunity not offering it selfe your Lordship be disposed to seeke it then you must seeke it wisely and with good meanes because such opportunities as are forced and as it were begged are for the most part neither happie nor commodious But if opportunity be offered your Lordship must take knowledge of it And because it is a hard matter to know it for that it is a hard thinge which is not seene and hath no shape when it doth come it is comprehended by your mind if you marke all accidents and be attentiue to the end And for as much as all occasions that are offered are not alwaies to purpose your Lordship must vse great iudgment which will measure and compare things together and will discerne and determine vpon the conueniency there of vse all your iudgment herein and take hold of oportunity be alwaies ready to take hold of it For fortune commeth and goeth according to the motions of time and that offer which is made now if it be not accepted of vs a little while after it will proue nothing In the execution of any thing your Lordship must be both considerate and also hardie for he that feareth performeth lesse and he that vseth no consideration performeth more then is conuenient which is the originall of all danger In execution two things among others are especially reproued one is to execute vnperfectly by not bringing your action to end and then you shall not with profit finish the oportunity you tooke hold of The other is that oftentimes an occasion well taken and well executed engendereth another occasion which is better And he that either knoweth not this second or hath no iudgment of it or taketh no hold of it defraudeth the publike interest of a good seruice and himselfe of great glory The last and chiefest Aduertisement which I haue to giue your Lordship is this That when you shall come to any townes or countries either of friends or enemies where Armes and violence shall haue supreme authority for the reuerence of God take care that your people abstaine from Churches and Monasteries that they haue great respect to Ecclesiasticall Persons and that they lay no hands vpon sacred things In all wars it must needs be a great fault not to doe so much more in this wherein the cause of religion is handled and the Iustice of the Catholique King And this to doe beseemeth you farre more then any other because you are a subject of the Holy Church and of an house that hath many Cardinalls and Prelates and because you haue not only deserved well of the See Apostolique but also you haue receiued and acknowledged many benefits and honours for the same The Lord God blesse you and grant vnto you so much of his grace as you shall feare and honour him and shew it in your Actions Amen ERRATA Page 15. line 7. in the warre read in that warre p. 22. l. 9. avoyded r. anoyed p. 49. l. 5. keepe meane r. keepe a meane p. 66. l. 12. breed a great r. breed great p. 80. l. 5. Pope his fellowes r. Pope his followers p. 93. l. 1. although r. as though p. 97. l. 11. destruction r. distraction