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A19072	Politique discourses upon trueth and lying An instruction to princes to keepe their faith and promise: containing the summe of Christian and morall philosophie, and the duetie of a good man in sundrie politique discourses vpon the trueth and lying. First composed by Sir Martyn Cognet ... Newly translated out of French into English, by Sir Edward Hoby, Knight.; Instruction aux princes pour garder la foy promise. English	Coignet, Matthieu, sieur de La Thuillerie, 1514-1586.; Hoby, Edward, Sir, 1560-1617.	1586 (1586)	STC 5486; ESTC S108450	244,085	262

of lawes and contrariwise becommeth very obedient vnto Magistrates giueth it selfe to all kind of vertue if betime it receiue a good impression It were also very requisite to cause lawes to be straightly obserued but in vaine do mē make lawes as Aristotle in his Politicks said if youth be not brought vp in good manners and nourished therein And Plato in the 4. of his commonwealth was of opinion that it had no great neede of lawes by reason of the good discipline in which his citizens had beene nourished as such as without lawes were able to gouerne themselues as they ought And in his Politiques and bookes of lawes he attributeth all the disorder of a countrey or citie to the multitude of lawes and so often change of them and all delightes to lewde bringing vp sheweth that the principal scope of a good establisher or reformer of a commonwealth ought to be in causing youth to be well brought vp instructed to the end it mought be more capable of good discipline it is required that the fathers and mothers should be sober moderate and quietly minded that when children are borne they should sucke their owne mothers breastes to be sure that they should not be nourished in delightes nor idlenesse and in playing might fashion themselues to vertue He would also that whatsoeuer might breed happines were engrauen through good nourture in the maners hearts of men to remayne there all their life as a good impression because that while they are young they haue more neede to be well looked vnto diligently taken heed of then any other kind of beasts And it is more meete that care shalbe taken hereof then of getting or preseruing of wealth or enclosing our parks or gardens with walls or hedges And there is no doubt as S. Ierom and other ancient doctors haue written that the cause which moued the most part of such as heretofore founded Churches Prebends Colleges was chiefly for to bring vp youth in learning to render thē more capable to serue God the cōmonwelth and the better to imprint in thē the feare of God which is the beginning of all wisedome which formeth the mind to the true mould of truth vertue and carieth it far off frō vice foolish fashions lewde cōpanies whence there is always caried away some botch stayne of the infection of their wickednes And by the ordinance of the three estates in all Cathedrall and collegiall Churches of this Realme the reuenew of one prebend is still allotted to a scholemaster For that according vnto the saying of Plato when youth in the beginning hath bin wel taught then is the nauigation voyage of this world happie and all the life after is accompanied with contentment felicitie good hope and such as haue bin well nourished brought vp become for the most part very moderate temperate the old prouerbe auerreth that nourture passeth nature The which Licurgus shewed by the nourishing of 2. dogges the one to the field the other to the kitchin if one sowe good corne in haruest he shall reape the like Themistocles was wont to say that colts fierce beasts became tame through discipline And it is manifest that the Almanes and sundry other nations which were meruelous barbarous as we reade in Caesar and Tacitus became more meeke and industrious by better education And some haue written that at Rome in auncient time it was ordayned that children for the first fault should be tolde of it for the seconde punished for the third hanged and the father banished And Plato was alwayes of opinion that enourmious vices proceeded more from a generous nature corrupted then from vilitie or low estate And the first thing which ought to be beaten into youth is to loue honour to feare God and to obey his will to make no account of the brickle goods of fortune but of the eternall and spirituall and of vertue to set before their eyes the examples and praises of vertuous personages and the blames and miseries of the lewde and wicked to the ende they may become wise by others harmes and detest all vice and euill companie receiuing correction at the handes of euery one without presuminge ought of themselues shunning wantonnesse and delightes neither speaking nor beleeuing too lightly not beeing to obstinate harde stubborne cholericke impatient nor vnconuersable Saint Ierome writing to Nepotian thought that all poore scholers and such as had will to serue the common wealth or the church were to bee nourished with the tenthes Wee see in Daniel the care which was had to the bringing vp of youth And Strabo in his Geographie shewed sundry examples of the Indians and Persians for the eschewing of that vice of ignorance whereof wee haue before entreated as Moyses complained and Iosephus And the ordinance of the Emperours is set downe in the eleuenth of the Code It falleth out oftentimes that the wicked abhorre the remembrance of their fathers and mothers when thorough their damnable libertie wanton pleasures lasciuiousnesse fond collinges and euil examples they haue beene lead awaye whereas contrariwise the well nourished giue thanks vnto them which haue beene the occasion of their so great good And Salomon affirmeth that A wise sonne maketh a glad father but a foolish sonne is a heauinesse vnto his mother The wife Crates was wont to saye that if it were possible for him he would climme vp to the toppe of the citie and crye alowde O men whither doe you carrie your selues thus headlonge that take what care you can to heape vp wealth and yet make small account of those to whome you are to leaue it as caring more for the doublet or showe then the bodie or foote The same Salomon in his prouerbes saieth that wisedome cryeth thoroughout To this purpose the contentes of an Epistle written by Xenophon to Crito seemeth worthie of marking Knowe ye that Socrates hath often told vs that such as leaue great riches to their children without seeing them brought vp well and honestly are like vnto such as giue much prouender vnto young horses but neuer breake them at all for so they waxe fat but vnprofitable The praise of an horse consisteth not in the fashion of his bodie but in his seruice and dexteritie They also are in as great an errour which buy heritages for their children which set little by them because they will esteeme of the wealth but despise them wheras there is a great deale more reason that the gardien should be better liked then the possession He then which maketh his sonne worthie to be had in estimation hath don much for him although he leaue him but litle wealth For it is the vnderstanding which maketh euery thing seeme great or small because that whatsoeuer the wel brought vp possesseth is moderate sufficiēt but vnto the euil nurtured it is verie litle Leaue no more then vnto thy

of loosing all that he should be courteous gratious and graue that he should banish from his court all lewde counsellours such as charge the people with newe inuentions that his life should serue for an vnwritten lawe that he be such towardes his owne subiectes as hee would require of God to bee towardes him that hee manifest not him selfe eyther to sorrowefull or to ioyefull that by no meanes he sell his offyces for he that selleth them maketh sale of his owne subiectes Me thinketh wee ought in no wise to forget the commendation which Xenophon gaue to Kinge Agesilaus comparing him as contrarye to many tyrauntes that he euer measured his expenses with his reuenewe fearing least for the furnishing thereof he should doe ought that were vniust greatly delighting to see his subiectes rich and that they being valiant he commanded ouer valiant people that he esteemed it a greater prayse not to be ouercome with money pleasures and feare then to take by assault most strong cities that he shewed himself much to the people and courteously entreated euery one that had any supplycation or suite to make vnto him and as soone as he was able gaue order for the dispatch of whatsoeuer was proposed vnto him with reason The ordinance of Anthonye the Emperour was holy for his time that no tribute should bee exacted without the consent of the Senate and the people and also that it should not be employed to any vse but by their especiall aucthoritie For there must bee a Geometricall proportion kept betweene the King and the people And when he would wrest all vnto himselfe it is as the Emperours Traian Adrian were wont to say that when the spleene is swolne all the rest of the members waxe dry Among the othes which the Emperours make at their coronation one is that they shall lay no taxe or tribute without the consent of the estates of the Empire The which the kings of Polognia Hungary Inglande and Danemarc doe in like sort Thence proceeded the ordinance made by Philip de Valois and other of our Kinges And if such as are charged by vertue of their offyce to see the buildinges of Churches to be repayred the poore to be well vsed to hinder the excessiue fellings of Tymber to cause the good lawes to be put in execution to hold the Mercurials to controle each one would performe their dutie euery thing would prosper better The lawe which Titus Liuius and Plutarke writeth was practised at Rome were very profitable to be put in vre within the citie of Paris that all fountaynes which were drawne into particuler houses thorough fauour corruption or otherwise might be cleane stopped and placed in publicke places or out of the same houses that particuler persons might not be able to withdrawe the water in abusing the publicke benefite as they doe The saying of King Agis Agasicles and Titus the Emperour is worthy to be well cōsidered that a Prince may easily raigne without any guarde or weapons when he commaundeth ouer his subiectes as a father ouer his children vsinge them withall meekensse sweetenesse and clemencie For if a Prince tende to nought else then to maintayne him selfe and bring his people into slauerie there is no more anye name lefte of citie or people as Saint Augustine sayeth And it is not ynough that a Prince knoweth what establysheth preserueth or destroyeth seignuries if he doe not withholde or reiecte awaye cleane the cause and preuent troubles or if they doe chaunce to happen presently quench them with small dammage It were besides to be desired that they had a care to the mayntenaunce of godlinesse and religion of hospitales and schooles and that they put in execution what Kinge Philip de Valois sayde to the Archbyshoppes Byshoppes and Prelates of his Realme whome he had caused to assemble togeather that if they woulde correcte what were woorthie of amendment hee would alter nothing in the state of the Church but if they differred to doe it he would remedie it in such sorte as God thereby should be better serued the people contented and the nobilitie which so much complained thereof without cause giuen of offence It woulde also breede a verye great benefite if according to the ordinance of Charlemagne Lewys 12. Otho the first of Councels Decrees Cannons and the aduise of sundrie good Popes Diuines and Doctours they would institute into benefices the most learned men and of best life and which mought bee founde more agreeable to Ecclesiasticall functions and to the people not depending of one alone which careth for nought but to put in his coffers the yearely reuenewe which appertayneth according to the Cannons and meaning of such as were founders to other as well as to the poore and by this reformation would iustice be maintayned and a better order established thorough out For if the dewtie of a Magistrate bee to see that the people liue well and vertuously according to Aristotle his opinion in his Politiques religion is one of the greatest vertues As in like sorte Moses Iosua Samuel Dauid Salomon Aza Iosophat Ioab Ezechias Iosias and other greatly trauayled to refine the seruice of God And Saint Ambrose writeth that Theodosius when he dyed had a greater care of the Church then of his sickenesse And Socrates in the Proeme of the fifte booke of the Ecclesiasticall hystorie sheweth the great care that the Emperours euer since they became Christians tooke touching Ecclesiasticall affayres And the Diuines are of opinion that the name of Melchisedech King of Salem sheweth what kinges ought to be to wit kinges of iustice and peace And the worde Abimilech signifieth my father the kinge Sundrye haue likewise wished for the quiet of the commonwealth that Princes woulde ofte set before their eyes the causes by meanes whereof an estate is turned topsie turuie and chaunged according to the rules in the holye scripture and hystories thorough vice hatred which God carryeth to impietie idolatrie vniustice tyrannie sorcerie and whoredome And often times the enuie of such as gouerne their ambition desire of reuenge choler rashnesse obstinacie despite couetousnesse trust in their owne strength accompanied with hautinesse foolishe imitation and curiositie corrupteth their counselles and prouoketh them to stirre vp out of season what they should let lie in quyet And we in our owne time haue seene what troubles haue ensued hereon For which a good Prynce ought to prouide and if hee chaunce to forgette him selfe he ought to bee brought backe agayne thorough the gnawinges and bytinges of the sharpe teeth and smarting prickes of his conscience And hee ought well to weigh the threatninges conteyned and set foorth in the holy scripture and that which Seneca writeth that there is no tempest vpon the sea so soddaine nor waue that followeth one an other sooner then the condition of Princes is variable for that they are subiecte to dreadfull faules and chaunges And

Iuno thorough her riches Mercury thorough his eloquence Venus thorough her nicenes Mars thorough his threats and the rest of the Gods hauing all conspired against Iupiter yet were not able to pull him out of heauen ment thereby that a man of vertue coulde by no meanes be turned a side from iustice It hath ben said of many that they which giue presents to iudges are most notably abused for the contrarye partye giueth likewise maketh the balance equall often time the veluet disgraceth the satyn the horse taketh away the force of the hacney and the chaine of gold couereth the ring And yet by the oth which iudges haue made to God to their king they are debtors of iustice without respect of persons so when they receaue presents they deceiue the pore suters and lie giuing them hope that their giftes shall preuaile with them For this cause Diodorus great estemed a picture which was within a chamber of the Palais of thirtye Iudges which were all without handes and the President loking onely vpon the image of truth which hôg about this neck K. Philip said to his son Alexander that he deceiued himselfe if he loked for fidelitye at their hands whō he had corrupted by mony And we must not maruel if the first day they be receiued in they be periured selling again what they haue bought exercising as it were the art of robbing throgh out the pallace presidial seats K. Agesilaus had once a custome to send a beuse to euery Senator of Lacedemon as soone as he was chosen in signe of his vertue The Ephores which were as ouerseers of euery one condēned him in a fine to the publike vse adding that it was because throgh such fauors he wēt practising gaining to himself alone those which ought to be cōmon to al. For as Hesiodus said iustice is a virgin vndeflowred alwaies lodged with honor reuerēce temperance publike vtility and hating al presents There are certaine old ordinances euen in Bourgundy which forbid al kind of presents to gouernors iudges K. S. Lewis made a most rigorous law which it were well if it were reuiued And in the Alcoran it is forbidden vpon paine of death that iudges receiue no presents And if we receiue what Plutarque teacheth instructing suche as manage the affaires of state that he which enricheth himself by the handling of publike causes and taketh presents is a committer of sacrilege an vnfaithful councelor a periured iudge a magistrate polluted and defiled with all the wickednes which man can commit and that which was saide that he which firste gaue mony to the people taught the true waye to ruine and confusion of a popular estate The sayde Plutarque in the lyfe of Pompe sheweth what mischiefe hath ensued thorough presents It was not without a mistery contained therein that at Thebes the Iudges and councellors were drawne without hands and the President blindfold to giue to wit that iustice ought not to be defiled fauourable nor corrupted thorough presentes And as the eares when they are full of bussing and noyse are not able comprehende what is sayd as Marius excused him selfe that the sounde of trompets made him that he could not heare the lawes So if there be any present which soundeth backe hardlye shall truth and iustice take place but rather fauour and iniustice The lawyers in the treaties de officio praesidis de officio proconsulis legati expresly forbad all gouernours and Iudges to receaue any present And so doth the law Cincia Isaiah complained that the princes were rebellious and companions of theiues euery one loueth giftes and followeth after rewardes and pronounceth a wo to them that spoile for they shall be spoiled In ancient time as sone as it was knowne that a Iudge had taken anye thing all the honor that in his whole life he could gaine was now cleane stained and loste And if it were but knowne in the Cantons of Surich or Berne that one of the councell had taken were it neuer so litle the best bargaine he could make were banishment God in Exodus forbiddeth to take rewarde for the rewarde blindeth the eyes of the wise and peruerteth the wordes of the iust The which also is repeated in 16. of Deutronomy And Samuel rendring an account of his whole life insisted principally in that he neuer receiued bribe to blind his eyes therewith his children were blamed for receiuing and were the cause of the chaunge of the state Iudas went and hong him selfe And Iob sayde that fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes and he whose handes are pure shall increase his strength And S. Ambrose vpon S. Luke sayth that euen as they that are in a traunce can not discerne thinges in such sort as they indeed are but onely the illusions and fansies of their passiōs so the thought of a gredy iudge wraped within the cordes of couetousnes fastened by the bonds of auarice neither seeth or thinketh of any thing but gold siluer and riches and all his study is but how to augment his wealth And Plato in his cōmon wealth calleth them drones which mar the hony and Pikes which deuour the rest of the fish The desire of these bribes proceed from a greedines which repugneth his fill whereas all other yeeld thervnto For it exerciseth the appetite taketh away the pleasure the childrē of such corrupt iudges do often times folow their trace Plato gaue counsel to accustome yong men in their infancy to think that it was not lawfull to haue or weare any gold to be decke their body with to the ende that when they came to the maniging of affayres they should not seeke to enrich them selues nor receaue bribes knowing that the inward gold which is vertue is proper vnto them But now we may say that we are in the golden age where no account is made but of golde and siluer And as one finding fault with the corrupt maners of the Athenians sayde that at Athenes all was honest so may one affirme now that of vice is made vertue Our auncient fathers had great reason to thinke it fit that there shoulde be an exercise to meete with couetousnesse and the greedinesse of hauing and receauinge bribes which was to abstaine from anye lawfull gaine to the ende men mought be accustomed to estrange them selues from all vniustice and vnlawfull taking of monye and from long continuance mought tame and chasten that greedinesse to gayne and get which thorough inough of other habites and actions is nourished and exercised alwayes to bee willinge to gayne impudentlye and seeketh after vniustice hardlye abstaining from autraging of any if any profit may thereby ensewe vnto them ready to take at all handes For as Ecclesiasticus writeth He that contemneth small thinges shall fall by little and little And according to the opinion of Isocrates the couetouse man at all assaies forsweareth