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A36945	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and the courtier; Traicté de la cour. Part 2. English	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.	1652 (1652)	Wing D2683; ESTC R15739	68,004	176

Covetousness as it appeareth in the example of Zotirus once the favorite of Heliogabalus and also of Turinus who scarce worse then Zotirus yet more unhappy was commanded to be stifled to death with smoke by Alexander the son of Mammea the Executioner crying out Let him perish with smoke who sold smoke He was wont to brag That the Prince was governed by his advices and so by intruding upon the Princes retirements and with impertinent senceless whispers in publique pretending to favor was sought unto by very many and gathered together great riches through the bribes and presents of those to whom all his interest in the Prince could not avail a straw The Arrogance of Plancianus is also worthy of memory which being accompanied with great vanity broke out at last into open perfidy His arrogance was such That he did not stick to contend with Bassianus the Emperors Son who was Author both of his Dignity and Fortune and he was withal so vain that as he passed through the City he would not onely interdict all access unto him but also would not suffer them to behold him his Ushers going before still to cleer the streets of all that they could see Becoming a Traytor at last against his Prince and convicted of his Treason he was Beheaded In France during the time of Philip le Bell Enguerrandus Marigny daring to contest personally with Charls de Valoy what misery he did pull upon himself and his friends may be observed in the French Histories Above all things we must take heed That we give not our selves in Court to sowing of strife between Princes and great men for they becoming friends do for the most part sacrifice such unto their friendship of which though the stories of all Nations are full yet the Bavarian History furnishes us with one example very memorable of Otho Crondoferus who flourishing with Rodulphus the Palatine in singular favor was the Author of great emnities between this Prince and his Mother for a time but the Mother afterwards reconciling her self unto her son Crondoferus had his Eyes and Tongue pull'd out CHAP. 23. How we must not onely take care to preserve the Princes Favor but also that of those in Power about him IT is not enough that the Princes themselves be not averse unto us but we must also keep our selves aright with those that are in favor with them Germanicus at his death gave that advice to Agrippina his Wife of which Tacitus Annal. 2. speaks thus Then turning to his Wife he intreated her by his memory and for their Children sake which were common to them both That she would pull down her stomach and submit her great heart to the rage of Fortune lest returning to the City she should with emulation of her greatness stir up against her persons more powerful then her self Agrippina's neglect of this document ruined her and her children I told you before how much Eumenes his favor was diminished with Alexander after that railing against Hephaestion he carried himself irreverently towards the Prince and discovered his spleen and envy to him that he accused Wherefore when we see any one in the Princes favor we must carefully weigh his Authority and compare it as it were in a ballance against our own that we may know certainly which weighs down the other And in the tryal of this we are not so much to observe outward appearances as the circumstances of inward causes Craterus and Hephaestion for a time did flourish both of them in great and equal favor with Alexander until Alexander himself determined the business in calling one of them The Kings friend and the other Alexanders friend Out of which decision Craterus might have made this judgement That since Princes for the most part are more in love with their own wills then their Authority they also are held more dear unto them who rather adore and worship Alexander that is their Person then their Fortune and Kingly Dignity And though that afterward upon a strife that arose between him and Hephaestion when all the Court was divided into factions Alexander seemed to incline to neither side but chiding them both heavily threatned punishment if ever they should harp upon that string again yet his maner of dealing with them shewed rather his singular Prudence to be imitated by all Princes then his equal affection to them both He apprehended that this discord might produce great tumults and mischief For he knew both Craterus his great interest in the Macedonians and how much Hephaestion was envied for his favor to him Therefore to diminish Hephaestions envy he reprehended him publikely and to avoid giving offence to the Macedonians he reproved Craterus in private Amongst those that in this tryal and examen of the Princes favor between themselves and others were out of negligence and discretion most grosly mistaken Antonius Primus ought to have the first place who daring to contend with Mutianus learnt at last That he had better have contested with Vespasian himself And in this maner you will finde it is a thing witnessed by the examples of all Courts To vindicate more sharply an injury against the Favorites then against the Prince himself Dio tells us the reason of it when he had recounted how the same thing happened to Sejanus thus As those whom vertue and consciousness of their own deserts hath lifted up to dignities do not much stick upon the vain Ceremonies and outward Circumstances of Honor So on the contrary side those who seek to ●limb by Ambition Pride and Vice thereby to hide their unworthiness and meanness do presently take ill and understand as a contempt the least neglect of Ceremony and respect towards them Insomuch that it is harder to preserve the friendship of these men then of the Prince himself for he thinks it a glorious and Princely act to forgive injuries When these lest they should seem to remit that which they cannot revenge even to ostentation do use their borrowed power in persecuting those that have offended them CHAP. 24. Pride even in the meanest persons at Court noted with examples as also Treachery in betraying the Princes secrets NEither truly hath it been destruction to great ones onely to have carried themselves insolently and amiss but also to men of the lower stage John King of Arragon loved Alvarez de Luna so much that he trusted him with all his Affairs and even his Kingly power it self notwithstanding the repining of all his Nobles But when he by reason of his prosperous Fortune fell into that pride and presumption That he caused a Nobleman who in the Kings name admonished him of his duty to be precipitated and murthered he was by the Kings command beheaded It is also an ordinary cause of shipwrack in Court when any one hath rendred either himself or the Prince hateful to the Peers or People For either the Prince is fain of his own accord to cast such a one off to rid himself of envy or

lay the Avarice and Cruelty of the man which was but too notorious before whence the injuries of this Roman growing insufferable the Franconians begin to wish for their King again and at last recal him to his Kingdom Thus this honest Franconian made good use of his flattery and by feeding him in his own vices betrayed his Masters enemies Sejanus who gaped after the Roman Empire see what arts he used After he saw that Tiberius who by his instinct had imprisoned Agrippina and her children grew weary of the City spur'd that inclination on hoping that when the Prince was once retired the Trust and Government of the Empire should be cast upon him as indeed it came to pass so that for a time Tiberius was onely Lord of a little Island and Sejanus Emperor Perrennius also thirsting after the Empire first circumvented and made away all those that stood in his light under pretence of a conspiracy that Lucilla had contrived against Commodus and then intices the Emperor to pleasures whereby he himself might come to the managing of all things and at last attain unto the Empire The same way took Bardas Uncle to Michael Emperor of Constantinople who having taken away Theoctistus his Associate and Tutor to the young Prince contrived also his Mothers banishment perswading Michael to take the Government into his own hands whose yong years incapable of rule he soon diverted to delights and pleasure so as he gave himself wholly to these entertainments and intended nothing e●●e Bardas in the mean time fishes eagerly after the love of the people and to that end converses with good and learned men restored learning in the City and made many good Laws by which means he would doubtless have slept at last into the Imperial Throne if another had not prevented him I do not bring these examples that I may teach how Princes are to be circum●ented but that I would have Princes themselves learn hence what Prudence and Caution is necessary for them to discern and distinguish the Counsels of their Ministers and cheifly that they may beware of those who are apt to sooth them in and applaud their Lusts and Vices and learn to think well of such as will sometimes modestly adventure to express their dislikes of their excesses CHAP. 13. Of the Familiars and Servants of the Prince and the ways to win them HAving considered all things that our Courtiers was to observe in the Prince himself let us come to his Servants who by reason of the Offices they bear are continually about his person and may be useful to those that pretend at Court either by procuring them extraordinary accesses or by making seasonable mention of them or by instructing them of the ways times and occasions of doing their business There are many Princes who being private put on a quite other face then that they bear in publique and who more willingly do trust and disclose their thoughts to such of their Servants as they think faithful to them esteeming the lowness of their condition incapable of treachery or wicked practises Who does not know that Claudius was governed by his Freedmen one of which called Pallas he had so inriched That upon a time complaining of Poverty to some body he was advised to get Pallas adopt him for his Heir By this mans perswasion Claudius married Agrippina after by the help of Narcissus a freedman also he had destroyed Messalina Who can be ignorant that during the continuance of the Eastern Empire the Eunuches many times governed all if that had not been so it had been impossible for Arbetio the cheif Ruler of the Empire to have escaped with life when Verissimus accused him Borilus and Germanus two slaves by the absolute authority they had with Botoniates one of the Emperors made him an enemy to Isacius and Alexius Comnenis Yet let us suppose That the Prince does not impart his Counsels to these men they are more easily pryed into by these then any others For it cannot be that Princes always wear their Masks in private oftentimes the throng and a publike life makes him suppress and hide those affections which when he is at liberty and in private do break out Wherefore I conclude it is very necessary in Courts To think all kinde of men even the meanest useful unto you And we must believe for certain That together with their Authority and Fortune their prudence and discretion will grow up which Arrian demonstrates to Epictetus in Epaphroditus and his two slaves The one of which coming to wait upon the Emperor at his Stool and the other to have the charge of his Shoes Epaphroditus himself who had sold them not long before as unuseful sought now their Favor and praised their Prudence Fortune hath never scarce been so favorable to any one in Court as not to afford him as many enemies as friends neither hath it ever yet cast any man so low there as that he was neither able to hurt nor help another Whence it was that in the time of Tiberius as Tacitus says It was a great honor to be known to Sejanus his Door-keepers It will therefore be a wisemans part by all becoming ways to endear the Servants of the Prince whatever their condition be CHAP. 14. Four kindes of Noble Courtiers how to be handled and made use of how warily we ought to deal with inconstant Princes FRom the Princes Servants we come to the Nobles of the Court which are of sundry kindes There are some illustrious for their birth but destitute of the Princes favor others in favor with the Prince but not laden with honors a third sort that have honors and offices far exceeding their Interest and Favor and lastly Those who flourish both in Favor and great Imployments The friendship of the first of these will perhaps avail our Courtier very little who are nevertheless to be honored and respected according to their quality least though they cannot hurt you themselves by their friends and followers they should do it For in such Trains of defendancies and followers great Families are often very powerful either by reason of old benefits or reverence to their greatness or lastly since Princes mindes are mutable out of respect to the Fortune and Favor these great men may yet chance to come into with this or the succeeding Prince Archelaus King of Cappadocia to his great disadvantage did neglect to Honor and Court Tiberius when he came to Rhodes for Tiberius afterwards meditating revenge but pretending another cause called him to Rome where he perished miserably Which respect nevertheless the Historian says He omitted not out of pride but for that he was warned by some of Augustus his Favorites That whilst Cajus Caesar flourished and was sent into the East the Friendship of Tiberius seemed unsafe We must look therefore upon these great men of Fortune though not able to deserve well of us yet powerful enough to hurt us And though they be unacceptable and