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A13401	The second booke of the Garden of wysedome wherin are conteyned wytty, pleasaunt, and nette sayenges of renowmed personages collected by Rycharde Tauerner anno. M.D.XXXIX. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.; Garden of wysdom. Book 2	Taverner, Richard, 1505?-1575.; Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. Apophthegmata.	1542 (1542)	STC 23713; ESTC S111350	25,134	97

wolde take exemple of hys Maiestye to purchase vnto them thys renowne Plotinus PLotinus a philosopher was desyred by a certaine paynter named Amelius y t he wolde suffre hym to porture draw out the forme pycture of his body The philosopher wold in no wyse suffre hym sayenge Is it not ynough for men to carye aboute wyth them these ymages pointynge to theyr bodyes but they muste also leaue behynde them to theyr ofsprynge and posteritie the ymages of theyr ymages to be loked and gased vpon Thys panym philosopher iuged with Pithagoras that mans bodye is but a sheathe or case as it were of the mynde whych after a maner it expresseth and resembleth and that he seeth y e least part of man whych seeth and marketh nothynge els but the bodye Assuredlye though pyctures as wel of the lyuynge as of the deade do offentymes sturre and moue the dulle mynde of man yet it can not be denyed but that pyctures or ymages of the bodye wythout recordes and monumeÌ„tes of the mynd to put men in remembraunce of the noble vertues of suche as be represented by y e ymages be much more hurtfull then profytable Images of sayn tes be lay meÌ„s bokes I grauÌ„t so that laye men be taught and instructed what great fayth in Christe what exemple of good lyuyng what patience what bearing of Christes crosse they had that be resembled by those ymages whyle they were conuersaunts here in earth Â¶ Cyrus the elder CYrus kynge of Persia was wont to say y t no man ought to take vpoÌ„ him to rule other onles he were better theÌ„ those whom he toke vpon hym to gouerne Meanynge that thys is the principall offyce and function of a prince to forse for others and to counsell for the publyke profytes and coÌ„modities but thys can not be done oneles he surmount excell the rest of men in wyse dome in vigilauncie in honestye holy nes of mynde in godlynes Now it is not the byrth of man that bryngeth thys to passe but ryght institution good letters experience of thynges When y e Persians bycause theyr countrie was hylly and rough coueted to chaunge it wyth a champyon more gentle soyle theyr kyng wold not suffre them sayeng that euen as graftes sedes be so be the maners of men chauÌ„ged accordyng to the nature of the couÌ„trey Meanyng hereby that he wolde haue hard men paynfull and suche as shulde be gyuen to laboure For a delicate and fyrtyle region gendreth delicate and slouthfull persones Cyrus absteyned hys eyes froÌ„ beholdinge of the fayre ladye Panthea And when Araspus sayd vnto hym that the woman was of an excellente bewtye and worthy for the eye syght of a prince the kinge auÌ„swered Euen for thys selfe cause O Araspus we ought the rather to abstayne from lokynge vpon her For yf now I obeyeng thy counsayle shulde resorte vnto her whyle I am as yet at leyser perchauÌ„ce she mought so persuade me y t I shulde repare ofteÌ„ vnto her yea eueÌ„ when I shulde haue no leyser and so be fayne to sytte styll by her syde my seriouse busynes and affayres neglected Featly he shyfted awaye the argumente that semed lasciuiouslye to entise a kyng or ruler to loue a bewtyfull woman from louyng suche Let Chrystiane magistrates and rulers take here an holsom document and lesson of a pamym prynce sensualitie set a part ernestly to remembre theyr functioÌ„ and offyce wherunto they be called of god almyghty vnto whoÌ„ for the same they shall rendre iust accomptes be they now neuer so hault and careles Â¶ Artoxerxes ARtoxerxes Kynge of Persia surnamed the mindful when a certayne pore maÌ„ presented hym wyth a verye greate apple he receyued it excedynge thankfully and sayde Nowe in faythe this felowe semeth to me to be such a person that yf a man wolde commytte a citye to hys kepynge he coulde make it of a lytle a greate one At an other tyme a certayne other vplandyshe man perceyuing that diuerse men brought diuerse presentes vnto the kyng hauynge none other thyng to present hym wyth he toke out of y e next ryuer bothe his handes full of water with a cherefull countenaunce offered it vnto the Kynge The kyng herwith being delyted coÌ„maunded a potte of gold to be gyuen hym rewarded hym furthermore with a greate summe of money Let other nacions wonder at this Artoxerxes English men which haue kyng Henry theygt to theyr Soueraigne Lord thynke thys but a tryfle to his incomparable humanitie When Adides Japson had rayled all at large very despitefully vpon the kyng wyth vnfyttyng and opprobriouse wordes y e king thus farforth reuenged hym he pronounced by the Capitayne of his garde that it was lefull for Japson to speake vpon the kyng what he wolde but agayne it was lefull for the kyng vpon Japson bothe to speake and to do what he wolde Truely we are very straytly charged by gods coÌ„maundemeÌ„t in no wise to rayle nor gest vpoÌ„ our rulers forasmoch as they represent vnto vs the parson euen of god him self Yea he adourneth them wyth the honora ble title of hys own name callyng the Goddes WheÌ„ Artoxerxes beyng on a tyme put to flyghte all hys prouision of vittayles taken awey was fayne to eate drye fygges barley breade O Lord ê™ he froÌ„ howe great pleasure haue I hytherto been kepte backe Here y e kyng proued it true that Socrates the wytty Philosopher was wont to saye Optimum condimentum fames that is to saye hungre is the best sawce Assuredly nothyng better sauoureth meates drynkes than hungre and thrust besyde that it is bothe moste holsom to the bodye and most profitable to the sowle For surfette and dronkenes not onlye cast the bodye in to sundry maladyes and sickenesses but also do distempere the mynd make man no man but worse then a brute beast and that is worst of all bryng gods most terrible curse and displeasure vpon hym The same Artoxerxes beyng on a tyme very sore pressed wyth thurst in maner lost for lacke of drynke Peribarzenes his chamberlayne sekyng about for drynk and not fynding any other brought at last froÌ„ a shepeherd a greasye botel of water not all of the clearest Thys water when the kyng had dronke quyte and cleane vp beynge asked whether that drynke lyked hym well he called God to wytnesse y t he neuer drancke wyne more pleasaunt then was thys water nor neuer water were it neuer so pure more swete then thys semed And afterwarde the kynge espyenge the sheparde in hys courte whiche hadde gyuen hym this water made hym of a pore sheparde a ryche gentylman Suche a thynge it is to gyue a benefyte in tyme. Â¶ Orontes ORontes sonne in lawe to kynge Artaxerxes wheÌ„ the kyng was greuously displeased angry agaiÌ„st him he was not only vtterly reiected thrust out of y e court but also condeÌ„ned Which excedyng vnkyndnes dyd not a lytle vexe hym At laste consyderynge the mutabilitie

is no doubt but that kynge Cambyses was at the begynnynge in his youth brought vp in moost honest maners And albeit this droÌ„karde was not ignorauÌ„t of the feate of shotyng yet in the meane season he could not vse the ryght couÌ„saylles of reason but lacked those vertues whych be wonte to allure men vnto gentle sobriete to the studye of honest renowne Such maner exemples must be propowned vnto yonge men whych for y e most part be geueÌ„ to the foule vice of dronkeÌ„nes for what ende folowed of these maners a lytell herafter shalbe dedared He murdered also hys owne brother smerdis whoÌ„ he priuely caused to be put to deth lest he might at any tyme be king Furthermore he toke to wife hys owne suster germayne wheras nature abhorreth from such kynde of copulation Nowe it befell so that when kynge Cambyses sat at a feast wyth hys syster the quene for theyr sporte and pleasure he set a yonge lyon and a very eger dogge togither by the eares so wheÌ„ the lyon in strength and fyercenes had preuayled an other dogge no les fyerce brastyng his bandes wherwyth he was bouÌ„d dyd helpe the dogge hys brother vaynquyshed the lyon The kinge was excedyngly delyted with thys syght for the faythfulnes of y e dogges betwene themselues But by the same facte the quene beynge moued began very largelye to wepe and poure oute teares and to water her tender chekes The kynge toke this her wepynge very heuely and demaunded of her the cause of her sorowe she aunswered in this wyse Certes my dere husbande and brother euen so great a feythfulnes might haue chaunced vnto vs of our brother as we se here betwene these two dogges that be of all one lytter The kyng greuously taking this aunswere coÌ„mauÌ„ded she shuld forthwith be taken out of hys syght and put to deathe But such maners coulde not long haue successe For God speaketh in the scripture Blowdy men and wylye shall not fynyshe halfe theyr dayes vpon the erthe Wherfore not long after wyth a greuouse vengeaunce God plaged him For as he was comming out of Egypte in to Persia when he shulde mownt on horsbacke his swerd felle out of the skaberd and sore wounded hym in suche wyse that he dyed of it This exeÌ„ple testifyeth that god woll not longe suffre tyrantes to reygne For not loÌ„ge after y e deathe of Cyrus aboue y e space of one yere lyued Cambyses neither lefte he any heyre of his kyngdome Â¶ Of Darius kynge of the Persians After the death of Cambyses the chief lordes assembled togither and began to consulte whome they might beste make theyr hed kynge Seuen were appointed to deliberat vpon thys moste weyghtye matter Fyrst stode vp Otanes couÌ„sayled that no mo kynges shulde be chosen but that by leage and sure coÌ„federacie made betwene them all the lordes myght rule alyke so shuld libertie be maynteyned and kept one euery syde and euery maÌ„ at fredom For before it was wel proued by examples that where one man is Lorde of so many and so great thynges he maye easyly be to proude and hawtye and sone growe out of kynde and degendre vnto tyrannye euen as nowe of late it was seen of Cambyses After hym stode vp Megabysus whyche disalowynge thys counsayle of Otanes affyrmed that suche lybertie was moche more hurtfull and pestiferous to the comon weale then tyrannye shuld be For noble men and cities yf they lacke a lorde and hedde they can not but abuse thys libertye vnto priuate offection and lust But to thentent no suche thynge shulde ensue his counsayle and aduise was not to chose some one Kynge but to appointe certayne noble men wyth whom mighte alwayes remayne the tytle prerogatyue and ryght of the Imperiall power The sentences of these bothe the thyrd lord named Darius disalowed couÌ„sayled to chouse one kynge For albeit in thys kynde of gouernaunce lyke as in al other humane thynges many and greate incoÌ„modities maye chaunce yet no rule no gouernaunce is so stable so sure as is a monarchie that is to saye where one ruleth in whose handes is put the charge of the hole kyngdom Uerily albeit these thre counsayles be all bothe honeste and good yet yf they be compared togyther sure it is that nothynge can be founde eyther fayrer or more profytable then the gouernaunce of one person called a Monarchie for as moche as it moste resembleth the diuine and heuenly kyngdome of God Furthermore it can not be that concorde can longe be kepte amonges free prynces cities or there where to the administration of a moste ample and myghty empyre be a sorte of lordes chosen in lieu of one Kynge and that bycause of the diuersitie of moste graue and wyghtye affayres which euer amonge in so large a dominion shulde chaunce vpon whych y e princes shulde not euer agree within them selfes Besydes all thys there shulde not want also amonges these selfe princes an inordinat studie and desyre of dignitie dominion aboue the reste ouer whom some one wold labour to haue power as ouer hys subiectes or iferiours And these were in effecte the causes whyche Darius brought forthe for the proue of hys purpose vnto whych the other foure prynces subscribed and so at laste it was determyned after the olde vsage to chouse a kynge But least any dissentioÌ„ might aryse betwen y e seueÌ„ princes they thought it best to committe the lotte of the election vnto God It was a greed vpon that vpon a mornynge very erly the prynces on horsbacke shulde mete togyther at a certaine place that he whose horse first neyghed shuld be forthwith proclaymed king The princes retourned euery one to hys home Darius shewed the counsayle and determination of the princes vnto the Stuard of hys howse who forthwith toke the mater vpon hym to brynge hys lordes purpose to good passe Wherfore the euenynge before the daye appoynted he bryngeth hys lordes horse and a mare vnto the place appoynted and there commytted the horse and mare togyther to thentent that the nexte mornynge the place knoweÌ„ the horse myghte for desyre of the mare which then shulde be absent neyghe accordynge to hys propertie The mornynge ensuynge accordyng to thappoyntmeÌ„t at the howre prescribed y t sayd princes do marche forward on horsbacke vnto the sayd place They were not soner there but loo forthwith Darius horse begynneth to neyghe and that they shulde not doubt but it was the diuine prouidence of God to haue Darius to theyr kynge incontinent in an open and clere wether without any maner tempest it both lyghtened and thondered whyle the horse neyghed By and by the other princes leapynge of from theyr horses exhibited vnto Darius kyngly honours and saluted hym kynge Thus by thys accasyon was Darius auaunced to the kyngdome and empyre of the Perssans whyche he afterwarde wyth hyghe prayse administred Kyng Darius was wont in prayse of hym selfe to saye that by warres aduersities he was made

the wyser and more prudent Certeynlye though this be comoÌ„ly true for experieÌ„ce is mother of prudence yet suche prudence wysedom cost the comon weale moch Warres for defence of y e couÌ„trey be necessary moch to be preferred afore cowardly peax quiete And agayne I graunte suche troubles and stormes do engendre wysdome and experience of thynges But doubtles out of the case of necessitie farre better it were and also moche more godly to fetche wisedom out of wyse mens bookes then to gather wretched prudence wyth experimentes and suche hasardes as putte the hole countrey in daunger The same Darius wheÌ„ he had imposed layd a tribute vpoÌ„ his subiectes he sent sodeynly for hys collectours and asked them whether the trybute whyche he had assesed semed to greuouse and ouerchargeable to the commons When they aunswered that it semed meane and indyfferent he coÌ„maunded they shulde demaunde but the half of y t which was assessed The prudent kyng in dede intended at the begynning to haue had nomore But yf he shuld haue taxed theÌ„ forthwyth at nomore he perceyued they shulde not haue bene so wel wylling to haue payde it as they were now when he assesed them at the double and after released them of the one halfe When thys kynge had cut a very great pome granate one asked hym of what thynge he wolde wyshe to haue so greate a noÌ„bre as there were graynes or kernels he aunswered of zopyres Thys zopyre was the sonne of Megabyses which was one of the sayd seuen princes a very good man a ryght trusty and assured frend to kyng Darius Signifyeng by thys that to a kyng nothynge ought to be dearer nor more preciouse theÌ„ good faithful frendes This zopire dyd cut of hys owne nose eares so not be yng aknowen whom he was fledde away like a fugitiue person vnto the BabiloniaÌ„s which at y t time were at mortal warre w t kyng Darius faynynge that he was most cruelly hand led of Darius The BabiloniaÌ„s beleuyng hym beyng persuaded by his colorable wordes that hys tale was true espyeng him a very wyse hardye maÌ„ made him one of theyr chiefe captaynes He sekyng his occasion delyuered vp y e hole cytie of BabyloÌ„ vnto Darius After which feate Darius was accustomed ofteÌ„times to say y t he had rather haue one zopyre hole souÌ„de theÌ„ to coÌ„quere an huÌ„dred Babylones Babylon at that tyme was a cytie moste floryshyng flowynge full of all richesse yet preferred he one frende afore an hundred Babylones Â¶ Of quene Semiramis SEmiramis quene of y e CariaÌ„s which is cronicled to haue buylded Babylon caused to be wrytten vpoÌ„ her toÌ„be this saynge What kynge so euer shall haue nede of money let hym open my graue take so moche as he woll desyre Darius after he had wonne the citie gyuynge credite to the tytle wyth moch ado at last remouyug awaye y e great stone wherwyth the graue was couered money he fouÌ„de none at all but on the other syde of y e stone he founde thys inscripciou Onles thou haddest bene an euell man wyth money vnsatisfyable thou woldest neuer haue moued the graues of the deade Â¶ Of kynge Xerxes BEtwene Xerxes y e soÌ„ne of Darius and Arimenes hys elder brother but borne afore Darius was chosen kynge was great stryfe who shulde be kyng So wheÌ„ Xerxes had knowlege that hys brother was coÌ„mynge from the countrey of the Bactrians he sente vnto hym ryche presentes and to them that bare them he gaue in coÌ„maundement that they shuld say in hys name thus vnto hys brother Wyth these rewardes thy brother Xerxes at this time honoreth the but yf he may be onesproclaimed kyng thou shalt be w t hym y e chyfest of all other Arimenes assuaged with thys excedyng humanite left hys coÌ„tention his brother beyng now pro claimed kyng forthwith he saluted honored hym as kyng and moreouer dyd sette the crowne vpon hys hedde Agayne Xerxes y e kynge for hys part gaue hym the nexte place vnto hym Ye shal rede a lyke thynge of Jacob Esau in the boke of Genesis Thys kynge beynge sore agreued w t the BabiloniaÌ„s bycause they traytorously shronke froÌ„ him renouÌ„ced hym for theyr lord after he ones had brought them vnder agayne forbad them to beare any more weapeÌ„s and further coÌ„maunded they shulde synge at the lute shalmes kepe harlottes haunt tauernes alehouses and vse wyde longe garmentes to thintent that beynge molifyed made effeminate wyth pleasures they moughte nomore studye to fal awaye froÌ„ theyr lord By this prudeÌ„t facte of a panim hethen prince we be taughte what is the successe of delicate and voluptuouse lyuynge When he sawe al Hellesponte full of shyppes and all the see coostes and playnes of Abydon fylled wyth men he boasted hymselfe to be blessed and fortunate y t he had so greate power at hys commaundemente and anone he wepte a good pace Artabamus y e kynges vncle woÌ„deryng at so sodayn chaunge asked the cause Then xerxes the kynge thus answereth Oh vncle a right depe thought entreth my mynde how short maÌ„s lyfe is syth of so passynge greate a multitude of men that I nowe see w tin an hundred yeares not one shalbe lefte a lyue Undoubtedly yf maÌ„ wold thus consydre y e shortnes of hys tyme and in what state God hath set hym here in earth he wolde not runne so headlonge to all kyndes of myschyefes Thys Xerxes what tyme he purposed to gyue battell to Grece called to gether all the prynces of Asya thus said vnto them Lest I moughâ— seme to enterpryse this thinge of my owne priuate counsayle I haue gathered you together but I woll ye remeÌ„ber that ye muste obeye me rather then counsayle me Thys oratioÌ„ of Xerxes is not here recounted to thintente it shuld be folowed For without doubt it is tyrannicall and that two maner wayes fyrste bycause he abused the assemblie of hys lordes for a coloure to cast a myste before mens eyes makyng them beleue that al he dyd was done by thaduyse and counsayl of his lordes second that he wolde venture vpon a matter so daungerouse to the hole people beynge inforced rather of hys owne sensual lust then induced by sage and wyse counsayle When thys kinge was vexed and almost put to the worse but of iii. huÌ„â—â— Lacedemonians where as he hymselfe had wyth hym a very great multytuue of souldiours He coÌ„fessed himself deceyued in thys that he toke with hym many meÌ„ but fewe souldiours He perceiued wel that it forceth not so much howe many there be as howe well assayed pyked and tryed men there be When the espyes of the Grekes were taken in hys hoste he wolde do theÌ„ no maner harme at al but moreouer bad them marke and viewe diligeÌ„tly hys hole armye whych thyng when they had done he licenced them to departe wythout hurte of any persone An example of a synguler

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