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A67127	Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1672 (1672)	Wing W3650; ESTC R34765	338,317	678

themselves because the nature of the mind being ever in motion must either do or suffer I take pleasure speaking to a Philosopher to reduce as near as I can the irregularities of Court ●…o constant principles Novv to return to the matter The King hath granted the Physician but denied the Servant by vvhich you may guess at the issue for vvhen graces are managed so narrowly by a King otherwise of so gracious nature it doth in my opinion very clearly demonstrate the asperity of the offence Sir Gervis Elvis before one of the Pensioners is now sworn Lieute●…nt of the Tower by the mediation of the House of Suffolk notwithstanding that my Lord of Ro●…ster vvas the commender of Sir Iohn Keys to that charge vvhich the said Keys had for a good while and this maketh the case the more strange always supplied even by Patent in the absence of Sir William Wade Upon vvhich circumstances though they seem to bend another vvay the Logicians of the Court do make this conclusion That His Ma●…sty satisfying the Suffolcians vvith petty things ●…tendeth to repair the Viscount Rochester in the ●…ain and gross And therefore all men contem●…ite Sir Henry Nevil for the future Secretary ●…me saying that it is but deferred till the return of the Queen that she may be allowed a hand in 〈◊〉 Introduction Which likewise will quiet the voices on the other side though surely that point be little necessary For yet did I never in the Country and much less in the Court see any thing done of this kind that was not afterwards approved by those that had most opposed it such vicissitudes there are here below as well as of the rest even of judgement and affection I vvould say more but I am suddenly surprized by the Secretary of the Savoy Embassador vvho I think vvill depart about the end of the Whitson holy-days for vvhich I languish With his businesses I can acquaint you nothing till the next vveek by reason of this surprizal And besides it hath disturbed my Muses so I must remain still in debt to my sweet Niece for that Poetical Postscript that dropped out of her Pen. I do weekly receive your Letters which in truth are more comfort then I could hope to purchase by mine so as vvhereas before I had determined to continue this my troubling of you but till I should see you next I have now made a resolution to plant a Staple and vvhensoever vve shall be separated to venture my vvhole poor stock in traffique vvith you finding the return so gainful unto me And so committing you to Gods dearest blessings I ever rest May 14. 1613. Your faithfullest poor Friend and Servant H. WOTTON SIR I Have not yet presented to my Lord that Box vvhich came vvith your Letter of this vveek for he removed on Wednesday vvith the King and Houshold to Greenwich And I still remain here to shevv you that the Court doth like a Loadstone dravv only those that are intra orbem virtutis suae I mean vvithin the compass and circle of profit The Savoy Ambassador seemeth in his second Audience to have discharged all his Commission or otherwise he vvanteth authority to proceed further then to a general overture till the arrival of the Cavalier Battista Gabaleoni vvho is hourly expected and is here to remain as Resident for the said Duke With him likewise come certain other Gentlemen of Title vvho should from the beginning have dignified the Ambassadors Train but the cause of this stragling vvas a sudden attempt vvhich the Duke immediately after the Ambassadors departure vvho appointed those Gentlemen to follovv him made upon the Marquisat of Monferato vvhere he surprized three Towns vvith the Petarde the first time as one writeth from Venice that ever that pestilent invention had been put in practice beyond the Alps. The cause of this attempt vvas for that the Cardinal Gonzaga novv Duke●… of Mantua had yielded to send home the Dowager Infanta to the Duke of Savoy her Father but vvould retain her only Child a Daughter of two years in whose right the said Duke of Savoy pretendeth colourably enough to the foresaid vvhole Marquisat and clearly to all the moveables left by the late Duke of Mantua her Father vvho died intestat Into vvhich point of Law there entered besides some jealousie of State being unfit for respects that vvould have fallen easily into the apprehension of duller Princes than the Italian to leave a Child out of the custody of her Mother in his that was to gain by the death of it Yet am I of opinion vvho have a little contemplated the Duke of Savoy's complexion that nothing moved him more in this business then the threatnings of the French Queen vvho had before commanded Didiguires to fall into the said Dukes estates by vvay of diversion if he should meddle vvith the least Village in the Monserrato vvhich feminine menacement did no doubt incite him to do it out of the impatience of scorn And vvithal he built silently upon a ground vvhich could not vvell fail him That the King of Spain vvould never suffer the French Souldiers to taste any more of the Grapes and Melons of Lombardy because L'apetit vient en mangeant vvhich the issue of the businesses hath proved true for the Governor of Milan having raised a tumultuary Army of Horse and Foot did vvith it only keep things in stay from farther progres on both sides till the agreement vvas made between the Duke of Mantua himself in Person and the Prince of Piedmont vvithin the Town of Milan The accord is advertised the King from Venice and Paris The conditions vvill be better known at the arrival of Gabaleoni and then likewise vve shall see the bottom of this errand vvhich hath been hitherto nothing but a general proposition of a match between the same Lady that vvas formerly offered and our Prince novv living vvhich the Ambassador hath touched so tenderly as if he vvent to manage his Masters credit Upon the vvhole matter I cannot conceive though he seemeth to let fall some phrases of haste that he vvill be gone yet this fortnight or three vveeks till vvhen I languish And so let me end all my Letters ever resting May 21. 1613. Your faithfullest poor Friend and Servant H. WOTTON May the 27. SIR J do as unwillingly put my Pen to tell you as I am sure you will be to hear vvhat hath befallen my Nephew Albertus this week He was going on Friday last towards evening in a Coach alone whose driver alighting I know not upon what occasion hard by Charing-Cross the Horses being young took some affrightment and running away so furiously that one of them tore all his belly open upon the corner of a Beer Cart my Nephew who in this mean while adventured to leap out seemeth to have hung on one of the pins of the Boot from whence strugling to get loose he brake the waste-band of his Hose behind and so fell with the greater

Seneca and exemplified by Angelus Politianus none of the meanest Criticks who writing the life of Pietro de Medici concludeth That he was likely to prove a Wise man because he was a froward Boy Truly I have been many times tempted to wonder notwithstanding the value of these Authors How so disordinate a Passion seated in the Heart and boyling in the Bloud could betoken 〈◊〉 good constitution of the Brain which above any other is or should be the coldest part But because all sudden motions must necessarily imply 〈◊〉 quick apprehension of the first stirring cause and that the dullest of other creatures are the latest offended I am content for the present to yield i●… some credit We have another somewhat of the same mould from Quintilian whom I have ever thought since any use of my poor judgement both the elegantest and soundest of all the Roman Pens That a Child will have Tantum ingenii quantum memoriae This I must confess will bear a stronger Consequence of Hope for Memory is not only considerable as it is in it self a good Retention but likewise as it is an infallible Argument of good Attention a point of no small value in that Age which a fair Orange or a red Apple will divert There is yet another in the same Writer and in the same place where he handleth this very Theam How to descry Capacities That Parents should mark whether their Children be naturally apt to imitate wherewith certainly all fine fancies are caught and some little less then ravished And we have a Tradition of Quintilian himself that when he saw any well-expressed Image of grief either in Picture or Sculpture he would usually weep For being a Teacher of Oratory in School he was perhaps affected with a passionate Piece of Art as with a kind of mute Eloquence True it is indeed which a great Master hath long before taught us That Man is of all Creatures the most Mimical as a kind of near adjunct to Reason Arguing necessarily in those that can do it well vvhether it be in Gestures in Styles in Speech in Fashion in Accents or hovvsoever no shallovv Impression of Similitudes and Differences about vvhich in effect is conversant the vvhole Wisdom of the World Besides these I vvould vvish Parents to mark heedfully the vvitty Excuses of their Children especially at Suddains and Surprizals but rather to mark then pamper them for that vvere othervvise to cherish untruth vvhereof I shall speak more in the Final Section Again are to be observed not only his ovvn crafty and pertinent Evasions but likevvise with what kind of Jests or pleasant Accidents he is most taken in others vvhich vvill discover the very degree of his apprehension and even reach as far as to the censuring of the vvhole Nations vvhether they be flat and dull or of quick capacity For surely vve have argument enough at this day to conclude the Ancient Grecians an Ingenious People of vvhom the Vulgar sort such as vvere haunters of Theaters took pleasure in the Conceits of Aristophanes reserving my judgement to other place upon the filthy Obscenities of that and other Authors vvell arguing among Christians vvhen all is said that the Devil is one of the vvittiest Again it shall be sit to note hovv prettily the Child himself doth manage his pretty pastimes This may vvell become an ordinary Parent to vvhich so great an Emperor as Augustus descended in the highest of his State and gravest of his Age vvho collected as Suetonius tells us out of all the knovvn World especially from the Syrians and Moors where by the way we may note who were then reputed the sharpest Nations little Boys of the rarest Festivity to play before him at their ordinary Sports And indeed there is much to be noted worthy of a sadder judgement in the Wiliness of that Age. Again I would have noted in Children not only their Articulate Answers but likewise certain smiles and frowns upon incident Occasions which though they be dumb and light passions will discover much of that inward power which moveth them especially when withal they lighten or cloud the whole face in a moment Lastly let not his very Dreams be neglected for without question there is a great Analogy between those Apprehensions which he hath taken by day into his Fancy and his nocturnal Impressions particularly in that Age which is not yet troubled with the fumes and cares of the World so as the Soul hath a freer and more defecated Operation And this is enough for the disclosing of a good Capacity in the popular way which I have followed because the Subject is general Now for the second Part of this Chapter touching Inclinations for after we know how far a Child is capable the next will be to know unto what course he is naturally most inclined There must go before a main research whether the Child that I am to manage be of a good nature or no as the same term is vulgarly taken for an ingenious and tractable disposition which being a fundamental Point and the first root of all virtuous Actions and though round about in every Mothers mouth yet a thing which will need very nice and narrow Observation I have spent some diligence in collecting certain private Notes which may direct this Inquiry First therefore when I mark in Children much solitude and silence I like it not nor any thing born before his time as this must needs be in that sociable and exposed Age as they are for the most part When either alone or in company they sit still without doing of any thing I like it worse for surely all dispositions to Idleness or Vacancy even before they grow habits are dangerous and there is commonly but a little distance in time between doing of nothing and doing of ill THE APHORISMS OF EDUCATION Time is the plainest Legend and every day a leaf is turned IF we look abroad we shall see many proceed yearly out of the Schools of Experience whereas few in comparison are commended unto Degrees by us indeed the multitude of those Schools infinitely exceeding our numbers but especially because the means which they follow are far more obvious and easie Libraries and Lectures profiting none but such as bring some measure of understanding with them but the Occurrents of the World being easily entertained by the weakest capacities assisted only with common sense neither therefore is this Legend of time to be contemned by those whose Wits are more pregnant or Studies furnished with greatest choice The Students of Common Law manifest the benefit arising from the use thereof who as by reading their Year Books they recover the Experience by former Ages so by dayly repair to the Courts of Justice they suffer nothing of the present to pass unobserved And I note That whereas forreign Universities in conferring Degrees regard meerly the performance of some solemn exercise ours further require a certain expence of time supposing as I conceive that howsoever

Saltzburg as is voiced but even to the Capital of Rome and all others vvith him that adore the purple Beast Here vve live in dayly sed hoc lentum est let me say in hourly quin illud frigidum nay in continual remembrance of our Royal Mistress the very Triumph of Virtue I have at the present vvritten to her Majesty as I shall do often being novv in the proper place of her addresses and 〈◊〉 such opportunity to express our zeals as hath-less a lazy Pen no imaginable excuse hereafter Through your hand I novv send her my late Panegyrick vvhich I blush to tell you hovv vvell it takes here vvith some indulgent and mercifull Readers The interpretation to her Majesty of as much therein as concerneth her self I can commit to no spirit more sweetly then to yours vvho are so conversant vvith her vertues With us here Things stand as you left them Most indubitably an infinite affection in the King towards so precious an only Sister But I know not vvell how our Times vvill sort vvith your Propositions Yet I hope vvell as Abraham did vvhen he vvanted a Sacrifice Deus providebit And so for this time in confused hast I rest From you know where Dec. 10. 1633. Your ever vowed poor Friend HENRY WOTTON I have vvritten to the Queen touching Iames Vary vvho commits himself to your affectionate memory And vve languish for a return from you I pray remember my humble service to his Majesties most vvorthy Resident vvith you to vvhom and to my Noble Secretary I vvill vvrite by the next occasion SIR I Am glad of this opportunity to acquaint you before your going vvith the cause vvhy Mr. Avery's Son did fail at our late Election When the Boy came before us being asked the ordinary Questions Quod est tibi Nomen Quot Annos natus ●…s Quo Anni tempore Quo Comitatu Quo Oppido Quave Villa To all which his Answers must remain upon Record in our Indentures of that year if he be chosen he stopped a little at the two last and then as if he had meant to suffer like a Martyr for the Truth he told us flatly That he was born in the Low-Countreys at Delft This retrenched all farther Examination of him for thereby he was ineligible our Statutes only admitting the English Shires with exclusion not only of Ireland and Scotland but even of Wal●…s and much more of any forraign Province Hereupon we called in his Father who handsomely skirmished in his behalf That Children born of English Parents in the Staples of Merchants abroad were by an Act of Edw. the third habilited to all purposes at home as well as the inward Natives And thereupon he went and took Counsel o●… Mr. Newbury Steward of Windsor and no obscure Lawyer who did set down his Judgement in writing clearly for him That all Local Statutes are void which are either against the Common Law or against a general precedent Statute as he said this was Now although we could have been glad all to be left as free as your Arminians leave our Will yet considering that our Local Statutes were long after the foresaid Act of Habilities and that how invalid soever they may appear to some other man yet that they bind us at least in Conscience especially after so long Custome These points I say considered the last good will we could express towards the Father was to offer him as I did to propound the Case to my Lord of Canterbury our Visitor Paramount and now in Ordinary the B. of Lincoln being in an unvisitable case himself that so his Grace might relieve him withhis Interpretation wherein I got the Provost of Kings to concur with me and so I drew a Letter with all possible advantage on his side inclosing therein the favourablest Branch of our Statutes This Letter Mr. Avery carried to Croydon with paternal Affection and Hast and brought us back an Answer to this substance That though his Grace should be heartily willing in respect of the Fathers relation to her Majesty of Bohemia as I had represented him to do any thing for the Child yet being a binding Precedent against Custome he could not suddenly determine the Point being at that time without Civil Lawyers by whose advice his Court was guided And therefore if we would defer our Election till Michaelmas he would then orderly decide it But we being by other Statutes bound not to prolong our Election an hour after such a time as was already near spent and to tell you in Sinu being loth to leave our selves so long upon Interpretation we gave it over I understand since a circumstance that must needs trouble Mr. Avery more then the Business it self That it failed by his fault and not the Boyes For after our Usher the Childs Tutor had instructed him That by no means he should confess his forraign Birth his Father whom the Boy had not acquainted with his Tutors Instruction not knowing our Statutes bade his Son answer when he should be asked the last Question That he was born in Comitatu Hollandiae and so the Child trusting his Father more then his Tutor fell through the Basket With this Story I have entertained you at large because besides my zeal towards any thing that our Royal Mistress can wish to be done I was engaged in a promise to your self vvhom I vvill follow vvith Letters to her Majesty by the conveyance of Sir Abra. Williams and vvith a little Nuptial Present to your self vvhich you had had vvith you if a Friend of mine vvho should have made it ready had not been skared from London And yet to shew you my poverty it is only a pair of Sheets vvhich I mean to send vvith this Mark at the corners PRO DINLEIANIS In the mean vvhile God hold you and your Love in his Love vvherein after the uncertain Traverses of Courts below dwelleth all Abundance and Infallibility above By your ev●r the same affectionate poor Friend HENRY WOTTON Dictated from my Bed August 18. To Mr. John Dinely at Westminster SIR I Understand by your last kind lines that you vvere to be at Court as to morrow so as I hope by our next Foot-Post to hear the Crisis of that day and am sorry to hear in the mean time that your dreams vvere impropitious We had here taken a voice and strong belief coming from a Recusant vvho know many things and quickly that the Infanta Queen of France vvas brought to bed of a Dolphin and not of a Distaff But your Letter saying nothing either of the one or of the other I have suspended my faith London is the Ocean of Novelties Here vve speak of nothing but a certain new Aguish disease vvhich invadeth many Families but vvith little mortality The Plague at Dover is by Gods blessing ceased and their Tents taken down At Boughton the Small Pox fallen first upon a Chaplain and after upon one of the fair Faces but a Deering vvill keep me I

be at Mr. Alkinds House in the Strand or otherwise peradventure vvith your Friend in Lombard-street vvhereof you shall have notice in time I am yours every where H. WOTTON From the Colledge April 21. 1639. SIR I should be sorry for your departure towards our Royal Mistress before some short meeting at least between us for I have much discourse to unlade in your honest brest and I can tell you vve had need lay up discourse safely vvhich I hope you vvill take for some excuse of my seldome vvriting unto you for I suspect a certain natural fr●…edom in mine own Pen. In the Scottish Affairs it is one mystery that we know not what to believe Only this we can say That there is nothing to be praised in it on their part and I could wish there were as little to be feared on ours Deus operatur omnia suaviter And to his Power and Mercy vve must leave our selves Your ever faithful poor Friend H. WOTTON From the Colledge April 17. 1639. Sir My Coach-man is yet crasie from a late great sickness but if it please you to specifie the time of your conveniency my Geldin shall vvait upon you at Branford A poinct nommé SIR I long novv to hear of nothing more then a little Deynleiolus and if it prove of another Gender in Grammer then let Philosophy comfort you that says It is Natures method to begin ab Imperfectiori But by my contemplation of your own and your Wives complexion and of her late sickn●…ss I should imagine that Fortior pars trahet sexum We are sorry to hear that the Scottish Gentlemen vvho have been lately sent to that King found as they say but a brusk vvelcome vvhich makes all fear that there may be a rebullition in that business We have a nevv strange voice flying here that the Prince Palatine is towards a Marriage I apprehend much the event of your new Ambassage from the States being carried by a man who hath had his vvhole fortune out of France but the vvisdom of the Instrument may mollifie all I should be glad to knovv vvhether his Son-in-law Constantinus Hugeinus be in his company Lastly I should be glad to hear that you are un tantino promoved in your own ends for vvhen the first vvay is plained all will go smoothly Let us howsoever love one another and God love us both Your poor Friend H. WOTTON A TABLE OF THE Several Tracts contained in this Book 1. THe Elements of Architecture 2. A Survey of Education 3. Aphorisms of Education 4. Characters of some Kings of England 5. Vita Henrici Sexti 6. Ad Regem è Scotia reducem H. W. Plausus Vota 7. A Panegyrick to King Charles 8. The Parallel 9. The Disparity 10. The Life of the Duke of Buckingham 11. The Great Action between Pompey and Caesar. 12. A Character of Ferdinand Grand Duke of Tuscany 13. The Election of the New Duke of Venice with other Papers concerning that State 14. A Meditation on Gen. 22. 15. A Meditation on Christmass day 16. Letters to several Persons 17. Poems 18. Letters to Sir Edmund Bacon 19. Additional Letters to several Persons Never before Printed FINIS * In his Chronicle * Cambden in his Britannia * Hollinshed * Sir Edward Bish Clarentieux King of Arms M. Charls Cotton and Mr. Nick Oudert sometime Sir Hen. Wotton's Servant * St. Austin's Confession * Watson in his Quodlibets * Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge * August 1627. * Sept. 3. 1629. * 1 Tim. 3. 7. * * Juven * * In it were Italian locks picklocks screws to force open doors and many things of worth and rarity that he had gathered in his forreign Travel * Lege vulgata de vita parentibus Scioppii p. 127. * Ibidem p. 132. * Ecclesiasticus Scioppii p. 371. * 8. April Sess. 4. * See what is published of the Life and Parents of Scioppius pag. 127. * April 8. Ses. 4. Memorandum That this Recantation was to my knowledg never Printed at Rome or elsewhere through more haste belike to his death or otherwise upon further consideration that things extorted with fear carry no credit even by the Praetors Edict Quod metus causa Tacit. lib. 1. Annal. * Aristot. 2. l. Polit c. 6. * Ioannes Heurnius Instit. Medicin lib. 7. cap. 2. Opidum quidem aedificatum eleganter sed imprudenter positum Under-digging or Hollowing of the Earth Our Artizans call them Teeth and Cartouzes * By the first Theor. * Which is the sole Prerogative of perpendicular Lines and right Angles Lumen est diffusivum sui alieni * A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Epig. The Italians call it una stanza dannata as when a Buttery is cast under a Stair-case or the like * Arist. lib. 1. cap. 5. de part Anim. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De nugis Curial c. * Cap●… Aristotle in Rhetoricis * Averhoes * La Promissi●…ne Ducal●… Mar. 6. 1635. JAME'S 27. Styl nov a 1. The Style of the Emperours Chancery when he treateth with Kings is not Majestas which he reserveth for himself but either Serenitas or Regia Dignitas This made him angry when he heard that the French Ambassadours styled Bethlem Gabor Serenissimum who on the other side gave them leave to entitle him how they would adding this Reason That they were not Ambassadours which could make or unmake Kings b 2. Of these words he taketh advantage which were in your Majesties Credentiall Letter delivered by me c 3. I wonder he should touch this point wherein I had cleared both the Arch-duke Leopoldus and the Emperour himself namely that the first subsidiary Troops sent towards the Palatinate were-meerly Voluntaries without Your Majesties Contribution and defensively intended before any noise of the Invasion d 4. In declaring Your Majesties Will and determination from the beginning touching the Palatinates if they should be assailed I told the Emperour that though in the single Business of Bohemia You had suspended Your judgement till more liquid proofs yet You found Your Self tyed both by Nature and Reason not to suffer the Patrimonial Inheritance of Your Own Descendents in the hands of an Alien Usurper e 5. At this Audience I told the Emperour that Your Majesty would hardly be perswaded without his own affirmation that Spinola had invaded the Palatinate by his express Order And much less believe that he would lend any approbation thereunto ex post facto by way of Ban or otherwise Which action of Spinola the Emperour doth here assume But whether such was his meaning from the beginning or that his success in Bohemia hath bred this resolution may be somewhat questionable Alwayes sure it is that he affirmed unto the French Ambassadors long since that the Marquess Spinola was to come into Bohemia f 6. Of this term of 40 dayes and the following restriction not to treat touching any Province that in the mean time shall be reduced to his obedience I have written the true cause in my Letter to Your Majesty g 7. In Letters from M. Secretary Naunton of the 23. of Sept. which came so late unto my hands that the Emperors Ban was already formally touched and ready to be put to the Print h 8. This I think was added out of meer conjecture For wee have heard nothing of the Electors Actions since his retiring into Silesia i 9. So as upon my Intercession the Emperor hath granted some suspence of the Banne Which I required for two principal Reasons 1 Because the King my Masters moderation in the Bohemian Business not Cause Who was so much interessed in the Persons did justly merit from the Emperor an exchange of temperate proceeding 2. Because such an Imperial Proscription would but more and more inflame the minds of all Princes interessed by reason of Bloud or State in the subsistence of the Palatine and would be the cause of a perpetual War in the bowels of the Empire contrary to the Christian endeavours and wishes of Your Majesty Whose good intentions were now so manifested to the World by sundry Ambassages that You were satisfied in Your Own Conscience and justified before God and man whatsoever should ensue I told him besides that I thought Your Majesty would take it kindly if at Your request this Proscription were forborn When I had first enquired out her Lodging Authoris Incerti