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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14087	Essaies politicke, and morall. By D.T. Gent	D. T. (Daniel Tuvill), d. 1660.	1608 (1608)	STC 24396; ESTC S118789	54,719	268

they may looke into it on euery side those I say that like these men doe all things tanquā spectet aliquis as if they had a Cato in their bosome that did continuallie behold them cannot easily be toucht or tainted vvith the noysome corruption of such dangerous hurtfull flyes nor likewise those that shall but diligentlie obserue the difference betweene a starre and a Meteor a true friende and a false The one is curious and inquisitiue to learne more then he should the other is afraid to know more then he would following therein the exāple of Philippides who when Lysimachus demaunded of him what of so many things that were his hee should communicate vnto him Whatsoeuer it shal please you Sir answered he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so it bee not of your secrets distrusting it should seeme his own imperfection for the concealing them or knowing as it is indeed arduū nimis esse meruisse Principis secretum vbi si quid cognoscitur prodi velab alio formidatur A prying eye a listning eare a prating tongue are all birds of one wing and by reason thereof seldome times found separated one from an other For the better avoyding therefore of such dangerous inconveniences as the commerce and societie of such intemperate persons might happelie bring with it it would not be much amisse secretlie to examine what his carriage hath beene towards others his associates in former times and thereafter as we find it to frame a setled resolution in our selues if faultie absolutelie to avoyde him if otherwise cōfidently to embrace him For to distrust without a cause is verie dangerous I doe but teach another to deceiue by fearing ouermuch my selfe to bee deceiued This was it which did annihilate the practices of peace betweene Charles the fift Francis king of France in the yeere 1528. For hauing in a manner accorded all their differences the question onely was which of them both did best deserue to be trusted Caesar gaue out he might not safely trust him that had once deceiued him wherevnto the Orators of France did wittily reply that the more hee did pretende himselfe to haue been deceiued by the King their maister the more might the King their maister imagine he should be deceiued by him Hence was it that Otho after the ouerthrow of Galba Tacit. histo lib. 1. hauing deliuered Celsus per speciem vinculorum vnder the colour of severer punishment from the furie of his followers non quasi ignosceret not by way of pardon for hee would not seem to taxe him of any crime but least being an enemie metum reconciliationis adhiberet the sincereness of his recōcilement might any way prooue questionable hee rankt him presently amongst his deerest friends made him withall a speciall Cōmander in his afterwars in which hee behav'd himselfe as loyally as euer hee had done in the imployments of his formerly deposed Soueraigne Vpon the good euent of which exāple Lew. 12. did peraduērure ground that memorable answer wherewith he nipt the bloody instigations of those Parasits that after hee was come vnto the crowne by the decease of Charles the eight did animate him to vengeance against Lewis de la Trimouille who during the raign of that aforesaid Prince had in the battaile of Saint Aubin ouerthrowne his Armie taken him It is not fit said hee a King of France should marry the quarrels of a Duke of Orleans If he serued faithfully the king his Maister against me who then was but Duke of Orleans it is not to bee feared but he will do the like for me henceforward who now am king of France But where wee finde a defect of loyaltie in any towards others it is not safe to hazard our selues vpon the hope of their amendment towards vs. vetabo qui Cereris sacrum Vulgarit arcanae sub ijsdem Sit trabibus fragilemque mecum Solvat faselum It is true that many are content to take the benefit and advantage of a treacherous subiect against his Master in cases of hostility but neuer loue to put him in trust with any thing that concernes themselues or if they do it is with more then Juno's iealousie or Argus obseruation Charles the fift during the difference betweene the Imperialls and the French was willing to make what vse hee could of the disloyall seruice of the D. of Bourbon against his Lord Maister Francis the first but howsoeuer he lov'd his actions he neuer lik't his person His infidelitie had purchast him the hatred and dislike of all men for after his arriuall to the Emperours Court Caesar hauing entertained him with all the friendly demonstrations that were possible sent afterwards to desire the house of one of his Nobles for to lodge him in who answered the Messenger with a Castilian courage That hee could not but satisfie his Maiesties demaunde but let him knowe saide hee that Bourbon shall no sooner bee gone out of it but I will burne it as beeing infected with his infamie and thereby made vnfit for men of honour to inhabit in Vertue and Vice are vtter opposites and how-so-euer many seuerall accidents and occasions may bring them to some complementall enterviewe yet is it altogether impossible to establish a true and perfit league of amitie betwixt them There can bee no true fellowship betweene Light and Darknes betweene Christ and Belial Saint Michael and the Serpent Where there is a difference therefore in Religion there is alwaies lightly a discordancie in affection And hence hath risen that deadlie hatred betweene the Pagan and the Christian and among Christians betweene the Catholick the Protestant the Protestant and the Puritan the Puritan and others whilst euery one contends to iustifie the soundnesse sincerenesse of his owne but the Lord of heauen the vnitie of trinitie vnite their harts minds together in the bonds of CHARITIE grant that the Church may not alwaies speake in a confounded Dialect to the distraction of weaker Ignorance who is not able among so many divided cryes to distinguish the voyce of her lawfull Sheepheard The Church of SARDIE giues out that she alone doth liue and that of LAODICEA that she alone doth see that shee alone is clothed whereas the Holy-one of holy ones pronounceth of the one that she is dead and of the other that she is both blind and naked But that I may not seem to gather sweetnesse frō euery flower wandring too far from my propounded course there can be lightly no great affection between those that are of one profession whether it be liberall or mechanicall Figulus figulo saith the Prouerb There can bee nothing but Envie and Emulation betweene those that run at one and the same goale whatsoeuer whither Gaine or Honour be the proclaimed pryze of their contention The one seeketh continually to supplant the other for his owne advantage Hectora Priamidē animosū atque inter Achillē Irafuit capitalis vt vltima diuideret mors Non aliā