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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19864	A briefe discourse of the Spanish state vvith a dialogue annexed intituled Philobasilis.	Daunce, Edward.	1590 (1590)	STC 6291; ESTC S109300	31,421	60

controuersie they kept in their walke the Spanish turne which is that he which goeth at the right hand shall at euery end of the walke turne in the midst the which place the Monarcho was loth to yeald but as they compelled him though they gaue him sometimes that romthe in respect of his supposed Maiestie but I would this were the worst of their ceremonies the same keeping some decorum concerning equalitie As I haue for some proportion betweene the two princes Alexander and Philip compared him who sate vnder the cloth of state of Alexander with the Monarcho so would I for conclusion expresse my conceit in a matter of great apparance and nearer similitude Cesar Borgia the sonne of Roderigo a Spaniard who named himselfe after he came to the Papacie Alexander V I. which some reade Alexander ui to that ende as Sabellicus noteth they hauing the names of those two that were the greatest emperours might make the world tremble before them after he had renounced his fathers bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine of which he was named Cardinal and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of Cesar was created Duke of that place gaue for his poesie Aut Cesar aut nihil which being not fauoured from the heauens had presently the euent the same predicted Philip of Macedonia at a banquet he made the embassadors of Greece the day before he was slaine by Pausanias inioyned one Neoptolemus a tragedian of great name to recite some poeme before composed that might prognosticat the good successe of his iourney against the Persians Neoptolemus supposing he had apt matter to extoll his enterprise and greatnes of the Persian empier which was then like to fall began in this sort For you vvhich rashly hold The giuen course of life And carefully aspire T inuade Olimphus top The champion fieldes and courtes VVhich lift their turrets high The time novv moues regard For lo a vvay not knovven He goeth novv thrid of hope Though long he cuts in tvvo And vtmost day of death Vnbid presents it selfe How this may be applyed to their late enterprise by sea their penons banners stremers and enseignes hauing sundry figures portending a doubtfull euent I leaue to their iudgments who haue seene both them and their successe as also the poesie of Borgia for a neare resemblance of their deuice at S. Domingo to the censure of the great iudge There is no oracle beside the diuine more certaine for signifying our estate or which more bindeth vs to the condition of the thing signified then that which is pronounced either by our selues or our meanes of both which there is no difference Of this are infinit examples besides those before cited which for breuity I omit From these particles I framed this ground that whatsoeuer is doubtfully laid downe being not founded vpon the base of iustice is infirme and of small life In respect whereof I iudge we may lawfully affirme by application from the former examples that the name of the first inhabitāt of Spaine and that countrey fatally signifying confusion and penury the auarice of that people being by meane thereof made insatiable their policie to inlarge their empire cruel their later proceedings resolutions terrible their embleme of a horse alluding to the name of their king and his ambition standing on his hinder legges vpon the globe of the whole earth his former partes aduanced as though he would leape from thence with this written scroll in his mouth Non sufficit orbis proude not contained in order expresseth according to the particular circumstances blason that God hauing restored euery bird her fether hath left for this proud stubburne nation the reward of his wrath and iust effectes of the signification of Spaine and Tubal howsoeuer he hath of late delt with vs for our vnthankfulnes he before powring vpon vs with ful measure so rare blessings as no nation receaued like his peculiar people excepted So that we may iustly bost with Cesar Ante victum hostem esse quam visum A DIALOGVE INTITVLED PHILOBASILIS Philobasilis Philopolis ANatharsis a Scythian desiring to be numbred at Athens amongst the friends of Solon was answered that he was to procure himselfe friendship in his owne country which rule vertue being the lodestone or polestarre of perfect loue we find of no weight for as wines made of good grapes are more holsome being drawne from their lies so those which for a good cause depart their countrey are as men of singular and diuine qualitie to be embraced of all sorts I feare not Theophilus to affirme this much by my experience of Philopolis who hauing bene with the king in that battel where Duke Ioieux was slaine and after minding to returne to his house in Paris scaped from thence with great ieoperdie of himselfe to this citie with whom since that time for his rare parts which draw to him the fauour of all men he being both of counsell and fact I haue bene still conuersant With this our Philopolis I would Theophilus you were acquainted for that I thinke him worthie your friendship and fauour of good men in respect whereof I haue commended to you the speeches of our first conference though not so well pend as spoken by him After therefore he had inquired the forme of our gouernement which in respect of our factions he thought miraculously preserued by God I answered true Philopolis the same is neither casuall or framed by man but ordained of God according to the prediction of Sibylla Phrygia who aboue two thousand yeares past left these verses in letters of gold In fruitfull Ile beyond the Gauls shall rule More chaster one than euer Dian savv The Muses shall depart Parnassus hill To haunt her Court vvhere all the Graces flovv Dame Pallas shall giue place and Iuno blush To see that time in vvhich their vertues dimme By beame of brighter starre than earth did knovv vvhose cheerefull gleames shall glad the exiles vvoe And somewhat after She shall vvith vs adore a virgines sonne And he her sacred head shall crovvne vvith Bayes She shall not bovv O Thetis to thy doome Or yeeld in light to Phoebus cleerest rayes Thrise happie he O Queene that shall behold Thy parts more rare then due to mortall vvight By which notwithstāding your Nation noteth our people ceremoniously giuen to matter of prophesie I collect the iustice of the present policie which receiueth not only strangers being good men but some of our owne people for Citizens who would not if they might be subiects Philopo All Oracles not being diuine are doubtfull but the euent of this hath raised the holy Sibyllae frō death who many wayes foreshewed the deepe mysteries of our religion for which our aduersaries by sleight oppresse vs and our Princes according to the Poet. He terror bred vvith fained crimes hence doubtfull voice He spred in peoples eares and guiltie sought for armes This haue we with teares proued and seene thereof their bloudie Trophaeas