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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33864	A collection of select discourses out of the most eminent wits of France and Italy	Sarasin, Jean-François, 1614-1654. Conspiration de Walstein. English.; Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648. Histoire d'Alcidalis et de Zelide. English.; Mascardi, Agostino, 1591-1640. Congiura del conte Gio. Luigi de Fiéschi. English.; Pellisson-Fontanier, Paul, 1624-1693. Discours sur les oeuvres de M. Sarasin. English.	1678 (1678)	Wing C5191; ESTC R13475	160,025	256

of choice Architecture Marble Mangers and Fountains to fall into them I forbear to make any particular remark on them for almost all the German Princes are curious in these If Death had not constrain'd him to leave his Castle of Segan unfinish'd possibly he had surpass'd in that Edifice all those of the Ancient Romans as he equall'd them by inlarging the Town of Gidzin building a Charter-house founding a Colledge of Jesuites and a Church of the Protestants Admirable in this particular that all this was done in those few years that he was Master of his Fortune whereas often the lives of two Kings do not suffice to finish a Palace For his Expence 't was an unheard of profusion A hundred Dishes always serv'd up to his Table and the neatness added much to the good Chear Fifty Halbardeers were the constant guard of his Anti-Chamber Men chosen by their Faces and known by their Actions Without were Centinels and every where Lacquies Twelve men march'd continually about his Palace to hinder Noise which he could not suffer in this delicate even to weakness He entertain'd sixty Pages Sons of the best Houses who learnt their Exercises under famous Masters which he kept on purpose His Liveries were gorgeous and rich He had an infinite number of Gentlemen attending him four of his Chamber inform'd him of those would speak with him and brought them to audience Six Barons and six Knights were always near him to receive his Commands The Steward of his House was a Lord of great Note When he took the field he had for his Baggage and for his Table fifty Wagons drawn with six Horses and fifty drawn with four and six Coaches for Gentlemen of Condition that follow'd his Court. He always carried with him fifty Leer Horse beautiful to wonder and cover'd with the most precious Harness and these led by fifty men each mounted on a Horse of price Such as love frugal and modest Vertue will blame this Pomp whilst such as adore outward Vanity will like it and all will judge it easie for Walstein living more splendidly than Kings to aim at their rank and dignity I have not mention'd the Palace of his Wife the Pensions he gave or the Recompences nor of the vast sums he spent throughout Europe to be inform'd of all I have said enough methinks for my design and for my leasure Besides that things of this nature please in passing but tire us when we dwell upon them Let us then betake our selves to the History After Walstein had given up his Command those who in his stead they opposed to the King of Sweden having little experience in Military Affairs some wanting Courage others Foresight all good Fortune their Party was weakned by several losses The Electors of Saxony and Brandenburgh left it openly joyning with Gustavus and 't was only Tilly that sustain'd for a time the burthen of the War He who possest the Vertues of a good Captain Fortune Prudence Valour Care and what is rare Piety endeavour'd to arrest the Victories of the Enemy and to maintain the Reputation of his own But whether it were that he alone was not sufficient for the conduct of the Emperours Armies and those of the Catholick Princes Leagu'd for the defence of Germany or whether he was destitute of the absolute Authority of Walstein so that not daring to undertake any thing without consulting the Council of Vienna or the Confederates the time to deliberate lost him that of Action or finally whether it were that Fortune which favours things in their growth pleases her self in forsaking them in their maturities he was vanquish'd at Lipsic and the loss of this Battel made the Empire decline towards its ruine More than half Germany was subjected to the Swede the Duke of Saxony seiz'd on Bohemia the Lantgrave of Hess cast himself on the side of the Victor the Elector of Triers sought protection of the French and the danger seem'd so great to the Duke of Bavaria that he stagger'd in his fidelity to the Common Cause and the House of Austria 'T was believed also that the King of Sweden might have ended the War by the Conquest of the Hereditary Provinces if he had turn'd his Force thither after this Battel but truly without reflecting on what might be said to the contrary humane Counsel seems to be subjected to a Superiour cause that excuses its defects and in all actions there is often a fatality that overbears Prudence or blinds it In the mean time Gustavus being busied in the taking in the Mein and Rhein those of Vienna seeing he did not march that way having leisure to dismiss their Fears employ'd themselves with diligence to find ready and apt Remedies for these Evils and after many Consultations the extremity of their Affairs obliged them to have recourse to Walstein who only seem'd capable to re-establish them if he would undertake it They consider'd his Courage augmented by Difficulties far from being terrified by them industrious and passionate to execute what others held impossible his active Vigilance never surpriz'd his Riches proper to facilitate great designs and ready to succour the necessities of the Empire his Credit his Intelligences and the desire the Souldier had to serve under him And as it is the fault of our Nature to hold no mean neither in Prosperity nor in Affliction those to whom his Vertue had been intolerable then when he seem'd useless prais'd in him in this pressing occasion even things vain and fortuitous They believed moreover that he would return to his employment with an extream satisfaction that whatever disgust he had in losing it his Ambition which was the Master of his other Passions would stifle his resentment that this his obstinate cleaving to a Private life had less of truth than ostentation On these and the like Considerations they resolved to shew him some assured hopes of his re-establishment thereby to draw from him some testimony of his desire thereof and thought that by ingaging him to ask that Charge they were willing to give the Obligation would be less and the Conditions easier To this purpose notwithstandig the opposition of the Spaniards who would never consent they dispatch'd Maximilian Walstein Master of the Horse to the King of Hungary having first instructed him in what they thought necessary for besides that he was his Nephew he was one of those he treated with most esteem and confidence He then goes to visit him at Zeman where he remain'd after the loss of Prague and after he had entertain'd him with a general discourse of the Affairs of the Empire that he might be the less able to penetrate the aim of his discourse he dextrously turns his Speech on the Praises that were bestow'd on him in the present occurrence and upon the desire all people had to see him again undertake the defence of the Empire advising him not to reject the occasion but to go forward towards that Fame that attended him Walstein

that Thaeles which you esteem wiser than all his six Companions together finding this Maid accommodating the Hair of Anacharsis whom the Barbarians oppos'd alone to all the Sages of Greece he kiss'd her and pray'd her to dress up the Scythian in such a manner that he might appear handsom to the Company that were to Sup with Periander You see then that Beauty is not a fault in men and that what Faults they have cannot be imputed to Love And are you not of this opinion when in that part of your discourse wherein you imploy our Gallants to debauch and pervert the Consciences of our Ladies you blame them for not being content with a union of hearts and wills whereby you seem to acknowledge as well as I an honest Love which may there be terminable and that those who pass those bounds by Excess corrupt Love and are not corrupted by it 'T is true answer'd M. Menage I did merrily tell you that these Gentlemen would not stop there but I did not say they ought to do so and to examine the matter better if you reduce your honest Love to these Spiritual affections I fear your defence is but ill grounded Not but that I know how Philosophers in all times have boasted of this Union of hearts but I know also what Cicero observes that these People wrote magnificently concerning things which they practis'd no better than the Common people and the conceit of a Greek Poet pleases me well who saith he can no more be perswaded that a Lover does adore without hoping any thing than that a Beggar does importune a Rich man without pretending to draw an Alms from him After all you know how those Stoick Philosophers were laugh'd at in Atheneus who said they had no design but upon the Soul Here you will alledge what Plutarch writes that the love of the Body cannot be call'd Love and that Euripides contends for a Love that only pursues the mind and that in fine an Italian calls the Union of hearts Vltima speme di cortesi amanti But after all we must return to Nature which hath an end more noble and more necessary that is the continuation of the Species and which draws us to it by the charms of Beauty and conclude that in despite of all these refin'd Reasonings that these Spiritual Lovers dwell only in the imagination of those who feign them In this particular says M. Trilport I fall in with the Opinion of M. Menage and for my part I believe that it was the opinion of the Ancients but those who have descanted upon their Love Treatises have a little too much subtiliz'd their thoughts For instance What would you have us judge of the Discourse which Socrates holds in the Banquet of Zenophon but that he approves the Love where the Body hath its part as well as the Mind seeing 't is said that the whole Company were so touch'd with this Discourse that those who were Married hastned home to make much of their Wives and all the Young people swore to Marry forthwith Truly added I seeing one of the Ancients said Beauty was the flower of Vertue I cannot think M. Ch. will be so unjust to forbid honest people loving this Flower on the contrary I assure my self he will judge of Loves as of Orange-trees which are the fairer for bearing Flower and Fruit together and that he will also believe that Love must be so much the more satisfactory by how much the Lady we serve is Fair. I will not meddle with you two replies M. Ch. having enough to do to save a wholsom Proposition from the art and force of M. Menage Besies I am not at such distance from your last opinion And if you mark'd my words I said Love might cofine it self to a Union of hearts not that it ought and in my opinion it may pass further provided it does not lead us into disorder That which further keeps me from blaming your Opinion is that I hold the nature of perfect Love to be such that it grows in the possession of what we love for a generous mind cannot receive new favours without augmenting its Passion Thus when I have granted you that Love tends to enjoyment I must add at the same time that the Good tend to it by good ways of Honour Vertue and fair qualities which render a man lovely and that we endeavour to acquire them when we love after this manner On the contrary those who manage their passion ill and who love without choice imploy evil means whence it happens that their intreagues being ill conceiv'd and ill conducted are not lasting end with Scandal and during their course are travers'd with continual disorders Confess now that in this Chapter you find me less severe than you expected We find you says M. Trilport in this as in all the rest of your Sentiments very reasonable And I adds M. M. am content to agree with you here and in the mean time replies M. Ch. this will not favour your Opinion for though I confess to you that the Body makes up part of the Object which Love propounds to it self this will not say that Love is irregular as you think but on the contrary renders it more accomplish'd and the possession of Beauty is a Cord that binds it more strongly and more sweetly but this is when we use it well and that we choose before we love Let us come now to an apology for the Ladies which you handle after a strange rate You will tell me you mean only the Gossips if so we are agreed for your discourse does not touch me but this Invective was too general and 't is not to be thought that a man who hath attack'd the reputation of Penelope and Lucrece aims only at those who make profession of being fair and lay out for a great many Servants However I am willing to believe that in this you have imitated Euripides who blam'd upon the Theater the Sex he ador'd in private and that you have not spoken ill of them because you believ'd it or because you have been wronged by them and the design of well defending your Paradox hath made you betray your Conscience for I know no man respects or esteems Ladies more than you to say nothing of your Loves in which you pass for the true pastor fido But this Consideration shall not stop me from assaulting your discourse and as you have appear'd to us a great Enemy of Ladies I find my self obliged to defend them from your accusation which I will make appear to you is more ingenious than true In effect 't is easie to sustain their Cause if 't were unjust their Beauty only would suffice to plead it You must remember the Judges of Greece and the Courtizan Phrine this Woman was accus'd Hyperides defended her he was a famous Oratour and one from whom might be expected all the succours of Eloquence but the cause being very foul and the Judges severe

by his Valour to be his Adopted Son and destin'd Successour in his Charge at Sea with the consent of Caesar Thus by reason of the quality of this Excellent person esteem'd by all Princes rich no less in Fame than in Fortune and for the Reverence the Ganoueses bore him as the publick Benefactor his House was frequented not as that of a simple Citizen but as of some great Prince These things thus summarily describ'd were the true causes of Fieschi's Conspiracy With a memorable Example to all Free Cities of the incredible dammage which the Greatness of an eminent Citizen though never so Vertuous and discreet is to the Publick and of that necessity which moved the Athenians to publish their Law of Ostracism Pope Paul the Third and the King of France were they which envy'd Genona's publick and Doria's private happiness because by that Cities being withdrawn from the Service of the French and put under the protection of Caesar sprung up extraordinary obstacles to the Affairs of Millan which the Pope would gladly have seen favourable to the King as well to curb in some measure the power of Caesar now formidable to all as to vindicate himself for the impediment he receiv'd in advancing one of his Family to that Dukedom Nor could they endure that Doria the only Author and promoter hereof should remain in an Honourable repose a Spectatour of others Misfortunes They now expected some Accident which might minister an occasion to their designs But that opportunity which they could not find was put into their hands by Fortune not yet intirely reconcil'd to the Genoueses Gio Luigi de Fieschi a young man of great Spirit and turbulent humour was at this time compassing how he might better his Reputation and Degree He was descended of Noble Parentage rich no less in Adherence and Followers than in Vassals and Estate Not contented for all this with that Honourable condition which descended to him from his Ancestors he suffer'd himself to be hurried by the heats of his Age and by Ambition the ordinary disease of the Nobility to dangerous hopes From a Boy he gave manifest signs of an immature fierceness from which wife men collected that he grew up for the disturbance of his Countreys Peace To these pernicious Incentives of his Nature was added a bad Education the incurable pest of Youth for though his Master Paolo Pansa was both Learn'd and Vertuous those with whom he most freely convers'd were dangerous persons who employ'd their skill by Flatteries to nourish in his mind perverse and novel designs styling them Noble and Generous Nor as 't was said was his Mother wanting to add Fuel to this growing flame For more ambitious than considerate she often wounded the mind of her Son with bitter Reproaches as if he poorly contenting himself with a private Fortune did degenerate from his Ancestours who in their Countrey and out of it were wont to sustain the greatest Dignities And to make all sure he by the Advice of his Friends gave himself to read and study the Life of Nero Catilines Conspiracy and Machiavels Prince From which Books he did suck in priciples of Cruelty Perfidiousness and love of Private Interest above divine or humane Reason So much force hath good or ill to change even the will of the Reader when convey'd by a powerful Pen and apt to perswade Those who watch'd over Advantages to ruine Genoua had penetrated the Qualities of Gio. Luigi and believ'd him a fitting Instrument for their important design They endeavour'd by all ways to put him upon the action setting before him the Profit and Honour of it Amongst others Caesare Fregoso attempted him in the name of the French King whereof Doria had notice but the Advice did not find belief with the Old man who was preoccupied with an affection to Gio. Luigi and with his own opinion founded upon the incertainty of vain Conjectures Nor was the Pope wanting to invite him to it and he being then in the Popes state caused four Gallies to be sold him by the Duke of Piacenza Where likewise Cardinal Triultio Protector of France gave him a Visit and knowing him a man greedy of Fame spake to him after this manner If Fortune were propitious to your Vertue Noble Youth I might be happy to see you in a condition far above that of a private Citizen But seeing through the Iniquity of the Times your rewards do not go equal with your merits take in good part that I pity your condition and joyn with all good men to wish you better Fortune Your Birth and Parts have made your Advancement the subject of all their Vows who desire the Common good and I who by the height of my place have a fair prospect into the Affairs of the World cannot but wish you had a larger Theater open'd for so much Valour You are born in Times so calamitous that in your own City 't is not lawful to aim at Eminency because it being reduc'd to a Civil equality will not endure you other than a meer Citizen Besides that Andrea and Giannettin Doria have under pretence of publick Liberty so firmly rooted their Power that the greatest publick Concord consists in serving their Wills Thus the Genoueses have chastis'd themselves for that blind resolution which withdrew them from the dominion of a Potent Prince by their so tamely subjecting themselves to the tyranny of two private Men. They upheld by Caesar and formidable by a good number of Ships will not suffer a noble and generous Spirit but will look upon the Vertue of an eminent Citizen as dangerous to the growing Fortunes of their Family They will value themselves upon the specious names of Fathers of their Countrey and Restorers of its lost Liberty to oppress the bravest Men under pretence of the Common good So that under their Empire you shall be more sure of Injuries than of Life and if all this hath not hapned hitherto impute it to the unripe Greatness of Doria and the moderation of Andrea who gives check to the rashness of Giannettin He being of a proud and impotent nature when he shall see himself girt about with his own Forces and for the importance of his Charge reverenc'd by all the Nobility what is it which he will not make lawful for his Power Do you think that his thirst of Rule provok'd by his approaching hopes will be extinguish'd by any thing but the Blood of the Innocent Do you believe that content with the Greatness which his over partial Fortune and Folly of the Citizens hath invested him with he will die with the bare name of Giann Doria I for my part cannot think so He is not of that moderation that either he should know how or be willing to stop the course of his extream felicity He expects I imagine the death of Andrea and then by a wicked Invasion staining all his famous Actions done in behalf of his Countrey he will usurp the Command of it But