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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16657	The English gentleman containing sundry excellent rules or exquisite observations, tending to direction of every gentleman, of selecter ranke and qualitie; how to demeane or accommodate himselfe in the manage of publike or private affaires. By Richard Brathwait Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Vaughan, Robert, engraver.	1630 (1630)	STC 3563; ESTC S104636	349,718	488

alter the state or qualitie of his Disposition whence the sententious Flaccus To passe the Sea some are inclinde To change their aire but not their minde No shouldst thou change aire and soile and all it were not in thy power to change thy selfe yet as soone thy selfe as thy Disposition which ever accompanies and attends thee moving in thee a like or dislike just as shee is affected HAving thus proved that the Disposition is not to be forced wee are now to descend to discourse of the Noblest and most generous Disposition which wee intend to make knowne by certaine infallible markes which seldome erre in their attendance being vowed Servants to such as are vertuously affected The first is Mildnesse the second Munisicence the third Fortitude or Stoutnesse Mildnesse is a qualitie so inherent or more properly individuate to a Gentleman as his affabilitie will expresse him were there no other meanes to know him Hee is so farre from contemning the mea●●● as his Countenance is not so cheerefull as his Heart compassionate though the one be no lesse gracious in promising than the other generous in his performing He poizeth the wrongs of the weakest as if they were his owne and vowes their redresse as his owne He is none of these furly Sirs whose aime is to be capp'd and congied for such Gentilitie tastes too much of the Mushrom You shall never see one new stept into Honour but he expects more observance than an Ancient for though he be but new come from Mint he knowes how to looke bigge and shew a storme in his Brow This Meeknesse admits of Humilitie to keepe her company in whose sweet familiaritie she so much glories as she cannot enioy her selfe without her And in very deed there is no Ornament which may adde more beauty or true lustre to a Gentleman than to be humbly minded being as low in conceit as he is high in place With which vertue like two kinde Turtles in one yoake is Compassion as I noted before linked and coupled which Compassion hath many times appeared in the renowmedst and most glorious Princes When Pompeyes head was offered to Caesar as a most gratefull and acceptable Present it is reported that hee washed the Head with teares of princely compassion and inflicted due punishment vpon his Murderers The like is written of Titus that Love and Darling of Mankinde in his taking and destroying of Ierusalem using these words I take God to witnesse I am not the cause of the destruction of this people but their sinnes mixing his words with teares and tempering his victorious successe with royall moderation The like is related of Marcus Marcellus who having won the most flourishing City of Syracusa stood upon the walls shedding plenty of teares before he shed any bloud And this Compassion attracts ever unto it a kinde of princely Maiestie gaining more love than any other affection For as proud Spirits whose boundlesse ambition k●eps them ever afloat till they sinke downe for altogether use to triumph in others miseries till miserie in the end finde them out so these in a discreet moderation or noble temper will never assume more glory to themselves for any exploit how successively or prosperously soever managed Such is the native Modestie wherewith they are endued as their victories are never so numerous or glorious as to transport them above themselves Which Modestie surely becommeth men of all Degrees but especially men of eminent and noble ranke to the end they may understand and acknowledge in every action that there is a God from whom all things proceed and are derived Now as there is no glory equall to the command or soveraigntie over our owne passions the conquest whereof makes Man an absolute Commander so there is no ornament which conferres more true or native grace to one ennobled by place or birth than to put on the Spirit of Meekenesse being expresly commanded and so highly commended of God as the goodnesse thereof is confirmed by a promise The meeke shall inherit the earth So Humilitie is said to purchase Gods favour for by that one vertue wee become to have a resemblance of him whose glory it was to disesteeme all glory to fashion us like unto himselfe Now how precious may that exquisite Treasure appeare unto us which conferres so much light on us as by it wee are brought to know our selves being strangers as it were and aliens unto our selves till Humilitie tooke off the veile and shewed man his Anatomie So rare was this divine vertue and so few her professors in former time especially amongst such whose titles had advanced them above inferiour ranke as the place which they held made them forget the mould whereof they were made An excellent historicall demonstration wee have hereof as wee receive it from venerable Bede who reports 〈◊〉 thus Aidan a religious Bishop weeping for King Osuinus and demanded by the Kings Chaplaine why he wept I know said he that the King shall not liue long for never before this time have I seene an humble King Which hapned accordingly for he was cruelly murdered by Oswin But thanks to him who became humble for us wee have in these declining dayes among so many proud Symeons many humble Iosephs whose chiefest honour they make it to abase themselves on earth to adde to their complement of glory in heaven so much sleighting the popular applause of men as their only aime is to have a sincere and blamelesse conscience in them to witnesse in that judiciall day for them These have not like those furies of revenge hearts full of wrath but with all meeknesse and long-suffering will rather endure an injurie than inflict too violent revenge though they have readie power to effect or performe it It is reported of Thomas Linacres a learned English-man much commended for his sanctitie of life that when hee heard it read in the fifth Chapter of S. Matthew Diligite inimicos Blesse them that curse you c. he brake forth into these words O amici aut haec vera non sunt aut nos Christiani non 〈◊〉 O my friends either these things are not true or we are no Christians True it is indeed that so strangely are some men affected as they tender revenge equally deare as their owne life their plots are how to circumvent their traines how to surprize their whole consultations how to inflict due revenge where they have alreadie conceived distaste And these are those Bulls of Basan who rome and roare and when the prey falleth they stare on it and teare it with their teeth On these men may that of the Poet be truly verified They feare no Lawes their wrath gives way to might And what they plot they act be 't wrong or right But how farre the Disposition of these men may seeme removed from the meeke and humble affected whose only glory is to redresse wrong and render right judgement unto all