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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

greatest kingdomes haue not endured fiue hundred yeares Many haue light short of that full time none or very few haue passed it but haue fallen either at that period or not long before it some hauing perished in whole some onely changed in some forme the gouernment of the Kings of Iuda beginning with Saule the first kingdome continued to the captiuitie of Babylon which was fiue hundred yeres The same space of time was likewise againe marked after the Captiuitie beginning at Esdras and continuing to the Emperor Uespasian which ruinated Ierusalem from the very grounde and then were the Iewes dispersed and scattered from one part of the world to another and since that time their common wealth was neuer perfectly restored notwithstanding the indeuours and extreame paines they imployed therein The Commonwealth of the Athenians from Cecrope to Codrus continued foure hundred fourescore and ten yeares which was then changed to a Democratie The Common wealth of the Lacedaemonians changed about that time vnder the Kings Heraclides till the time of Alexander the Great The Romayne Consuls gouerned fiue hundred yeares from the banishment of the Kings vntill the time of the monarchie of Augustus the same was obserued since Augustus till the fall of Ualentinian the last Emperor of the West and that then the West Empire fayled and that the barbarous Uandales Alaius and others inuaded the countries of Spayne and in the ende all Italie with the citie of Rome The same number of yeares were obserued a little after from the time that Constantine the Great transported the Italian Empire to Constantinople vntill Charlemaine who restored the Empyre of the west hauing chased the Lombards out of Italie Likewise wee may call to minde by histories that many realmes and Common wealthes haue endured not past the halfe period of those fiue hundred or there about as that of the Persians which from Cyrus to the last Darius flourished but in the two hundred and thirtie yeares it was fully ruinated by the force of Alexander the Great On the other side the Monarchie of the Greekes which began with Alexander and afterward successiuely was deriued to diuers kings as of Syria and Aegypt continued two hundred and fiftie yeares which after that time was subuerted by the might of the Romans Furthermore if we would search the Chronicles of France we shall finde the same period after that Syagre last Proconsull and Lieutenant for the Romans in France was deposed till Clowis the first christian king vntill Pepin father of Charlemaine and then after vntil Hugh Capet was numbred 237. yeres Further besides all this we may see in the discourse of histories that the period of seuen hundred yeares brought notable change to states The Common wealth of the Carthaginians then when it was wholly spoyled by Scipio had continued seuen hundred yeares The warre betwixt Caesar and Pompey which is some sort decayed the state of the Romayne Empire happened in the seuen hundred yeares after Romes foundation and at the same time two periods met together the one of fiue hundred from the beginning of the Consuls the other of seuen after the foundation of Rome In like sort about seuen hundred yeares after the destruction of Carthage Totilas the king of the Gothes robbed the citie of Rome carying captiue with him the principall Lordes of the citie which Scipio had long before foretolde when Carthage was besieged So likewise doe we reade that the Moores dealt with Spayne the yeare after Christ seuen hundreth after that were they all chased out by Ferdinand of Arragon grandfather by the mother to Charles the fifth For example of our times we see that it is seuen hundred yeares past that Charles the Great established the westerne Empyre which period considering the change of the times present seemeth to threaten some great ruine although there is nothing so of necessitie but as it pleaseth God to dispose all things for the best Now it is needefull likewise to examine more nearely the Qualitie of the foresaid periods for it is questioned of at this day if there be any such period necessarily certaine and fatall for Empires likewise why some fayle before their prefixed time without expecting their ordinarie fall The Philosophers not knowing how to finde out the reasons because of their incredulitie haue so incombred their true vnderstandings that they haue forged arithmetical aenigmes other imposing to starres and coelestiall causes But for the true vnderstanding of it let vs consider the testimonies and examples of holy Scripture besides the meere coniectures of heathen Philosophie The vniuersall period of Empyres is declared vnto vs by the Prophet Daniel speaking of the seauenty weekes containing about fiue hundred yeares since the restoring of the Temple after the returne from Babylon vntill the time of Christ. But because the period is not generall and perpetuall by reason that we see some Empyres not attaine halfe their period notwithstanding we shall finde by the discourse and testimonie of histories that the period as by a diuine institution is fatall to the most Empyres for their beginnings and endings as may bee apparantly manifest both by the examples alleadged before by many others here and there which may bee alleadged to that purpose The reason of the difference in regarde of time and the diuersitie of change which happeneth in them is likewise grounded vpon the holy scripture of Gods word we haue saide before that GOD giueth the Scepter of realmes as it pleaseth him and taketh them away as his pleasure is Likewise the change of kingdomes happeneth not by chaunce but by diuine prouidence by reason of the causes which goe before the ruines of them by meanes whereof God so disposeth of Realmes and Empyres that whomsoeuer he hath installed for gouernement are by him defended with might and authoritie as the especiall gift of God accompanied with many vertues requisite thereunto namely wisdom happines goodwill iustice clemencie c. all which ioyntly sustaine the pillars of the Empyre for it is written Misericordia veritas custodiunt regem clementia fulcitur thronus eius In such sort that the Common wealths of Kings and Princes defended with this authoritie are for a long time flourishing and in most prosperous estate On the contrarie if the Common wealth be gouerned by wicked kinges vitious or tyrants and that the subiects to the imitation of their Prince are infected with the same faultes and plunged so deepe that they can no way get out then authoritie failes vertues are abandoned and punishment doth ensew hereupon GOD hasteneth his iudgementes which preuent the reuolutions and changes in that they had apparance to continew longer he punisheth sinnes both of the Prince and people ordinarily by the chaunge and ruine of the Common wealth for being not bound to the

am loath to vpbraide your vnthankfulnes by remembring of my fauours Haue you not had and so long may haue vnlesse your selues be iniurious to your selues a Princesse truelie nobled with all vertues a Queene matchles in whome honors vnsteined pure die hath set foorth such liuely colours as enemies must and doe feare friendes ought and should loue whome the age now present must admire and the time following still praising wonder at more courteous then the churle-sauing Abigal more courtly then the friendes-honoring Hester more valiant then prince-killing Iudith who blessing me by her meanes with a plentious peace beautifying her courte with eternall praise hath made both to bee enuies marke in her enemies eye the shadowing Cedar to her distressed friends and the force conquering sworde to her professed foes Here might my muse dare to flie a matchles pitch but that faintinglie I feele my Icarian wings to melt with the heate of so bright a sunne this onelie shall snffice without further repeatings of her worth thereby to make your faulte far greater conceiued with teares accented with sighes and vttered by truethes naked oratresse that what praise euer wisdome gained as al praise is but wisedomes due that same is and shall bee your sacred princesse her inheritance who hath so often contended whether her glorie might mount higher vnto fames tower blowne vp with the vowes of mortall men or her thankes ascend further vnto heauen conueyed by thousand Seraphins Liue theÌ„ though sorrowfull to see mee sad diuine and renowmed Empresse earths glorie religions comfort admired wisdomes inheritrix here perpetuallie to bee praised of men and else where immortallie to be crowned of God himselfe Haue you not had thousands of worthie and braue ladies bewtifying poore me who all seeme vestall-like to haue lighted virginities lampe from the euer-burning taper of chaste Elizas vertues Haue you not had in me things hardlie found else where sage and wise Nestors such whose state guiding wisedomes were able to equalize if it were not your faulte mee a poore Iland to the former monarchies were but those famous and neuer enough commended lawes made by them in their deepe scanning iudgements practised by you then how shuld I iustly pride it in my worth bee valiantly couragious where now I feare haue you not had for the space of these many yeares though but two yet eternallie famoused vniuersities Cambridge and Oxford where Englands youth haue learned such worthie precepts as ill beseemes theÌ„ to requite me with such ingratitude These serue to beautifie in their want my plentie with their wisedom whilest you vngratefull you in your pleÌ„tie seeke through their want to contemne their wisedome here could I iustly complaine for them but that I want teares to expresse my owne sorrowe for I see those who most are bound if benefites receiued might binde to respect them in the iniurious opinion of learned-modest-naked-humilitie wrongfully to depriue them of things necessarie And least they should grow too glorious to obscure theÌ„ too farre to learnings infamie I cease to repeate the smaller fauours matters iustly deseruing a thankfull loyaltie content my selfe with these that for the greatest benefites that euer inhabitants enioyed since Paradices first erection I distressed Iland haue by discord of my owne lamentably indured the greatest wrongs my enemies haue seene into the seed plots of my discord long since and haue found them to threaten my ruine they haue bred dissentions and make me nourish them to my owne destruction they haue strook fire into the tinder of my soft heart and haue made me blow it till I burne to ashes Is it the inequalitie of coÌ„dition that makes this discord Is it the might of some few ouershadowing the meaner that fils you with enuie against mee I cannot liue howsoeuer Plato foolishly dreamed but my harmonie must bee made of diuers sounds my sinewes must bee of sundrie strength and my states full of inequalitie yet for all this the meanest can haue no wrong the greatest shall do no violence I wil liue neuer to permit a tyrannie both equal deare to me whereof neither can suffer danger but I must needes perish for thus to see either my Nobility a thing not yet heard of or my Cleargie a thing too vsuall or my cities a thing too commoÌ„ or my subiects a thing too lamentable fondly to disagree what is it els but to breede within my borders wolues which I banished long since by my Edgars means and to nourish that flame which consumed Greece I meane the enuie between her two eyes Athens and Lacedaemon to the great contentment of their sworne enemie Philip the King of Macedon and shall not your hatred discord and such like tennising your owne infamies to make others smile make me perpetually mourne as solde to sorrowe and the Spanish Philip more ioyfull then the King of Macedon Let vs not stay till we bee vnited by our enemies crueltie as Xerxes ofteÌ„ caused the Greekish vnion Shall they perswade you degenerous mindes to bee perswaded that it is better to suffer tyrannie of a stranger then inequalitie of a friend Deare countrimen and so still to be reputed vntill extreamely you deserue otherwise in a humane bodie doe the hands the feete and the head fall at discorde among themselues Is not a wound sometimes as deadly in the heele for so perished the thrise valiant Achilles as dangerous in the head Are not my parts so vnited amongst themselues that the least iarre is a fault the least discord a fall Were I made so absolute that I could stand haue no parts then might iarres be and I in tune were I not a mother that bred you both then might you dissent and I not fall Suppose some part of my Iland hath bewtie of townes yet other parts haue fertiltie of soile some place hath wise inhabitants yet others are valiant some are plaine full of all pleasure yet others are walled as it were with mountaines and full of all saftie some are shadowed with thicke trees to auoid heat yet others are compassed with siluer streames to beget colde thus all partes of my Iland and the particulars of my state are such that each imparting dignitie all of them make mee partaker of an absolute happines so that whilst vnitie is maintained amongst my people I vniuersallie enioye those benefites which I lacke as looselie being dispersed by cruell discord alas in what Common wealth can equalitie bee founde Thinke you if I were sould to strangers you were free from emulation vnlesse it were by this meanes by being miserable the Philosophers sometimes desired this in their Common wealths but foolish men are ignorant of the trueth not sounding into the depth of eternities wisdome who ordained the inequalitie of things to preserue each other amongst the elements is not the fire tempered with the water in the bodie

periods of time he disanulleth changeth and altereth their estates as it pleaseth him This sheweth Salomon plainly where he sayth Because of Iniustice Kingdomes are translated from one place to another for the sinnes of the land some after others are made Princes and by reason of a wise and vnderstanding man the Empire is more durable Thus wee may see the reason of the contrarietie in respect of the chaunge of the periods aboue mentioned Master Peucer treating the difference of them sayth that three sorts of sins are noted in the holie scripture which principally cause the ruines changes of a common wealth Impietie ruinating the Church Iniustice corrupting the Common wealth and Lecherie destroying the familie with which Pride is intermedled their seueral harmes redound vnto al for this cause Intemperancie Pride mixt is noted by the Poet to bee most speciall for the subuerting of a state Nam caetera regna Luxuries vitijs odijsque superbia vertit Aristotle ascribing the chaunge of Empyres to sinnes comprehendeth them all vnder this one word of inequalitie the difference of the degrees of honor and dignities and that for vertue although not for religion But the causes and occasions going before these chaunges consist in the manners and actions of men which all are not of the same sort but exceeding diuers And therefore the same author addeth and reproueth the former opinioÌ„ that states are troubled by diuers meanes I take it here not a thing impertinent seeing the subiect of our matter to stay a little and examine somewhat the opinion of some authors which are willing to set down rules to iudge of the happenings for the euents and chaunges of Common wealths Amongst others Plato ascribeth not this either to a celestiall influence nor to the motion of starres but to the dissolution of Harmonie This is his opinion but wee finde at this day a great contrarietie amongst the late writers for the true vnderstanding of Plato his mind and chiefly of the word Harmonie Master Iohn Bodin is of that minde that this Harmonie is to bee vnderstood of tunes melodious sounds For the better interpretation whereof and the more to confirme his opinion in the fourth booke of his Politicks he hath made the forme of a TriaÌ„gle with certaine numbers thereupon to grouÌ„d a musicall harmonie and so apply it to Plato his opinion Wherein he is reprehended by Master Augier Ferrier Lord of Castillon who making the distinction of the word Harmonie to put away all equiuocatioÌ„s sayth that the word Harmonie is a generall terme applied to all things well beseeming and to all good proportions to all Common wealths well framed to all families well ordered and generally to euery thing iustly and orderly disposed of perfect measure and of fine accorde So the Phisitians call the best constitutions of bodie The Musitians take the word otherwise and referre it to tunes melodious soundes and so Plato saying that Common wealths come to ruine when the harmonie faileth that is to say when the policie the lawes the order the vnion of the inhabitants is broken vseth the word in the first signification for it is then that a way is open to troubles seditions whatsoeuer And speaking to Master Bodin thinke you sayth he that Plato vnderstood that of tunes melodious sounds which Plato neuer thought of concerning the change of Kingdomes and Common-wealths And giuing another reason against the former interpretation hee saith that all proportion is not song or melodie although otherwise it bee a harmonie for his good structure and equall figure he alleadgeth onely this place for the defence of the true vnderstanding of that which Plato wrote and of the word Harmonie for concerning the maine poynt Bodin himselfe is of that opinion that changing or preseruation of Common wealths no way depends on the Harmonie of soundes But a man ought more to feare it when the citizens begin to stray from the naturall harmonie of good lawes wel ordered and from manners rightly disposed to lawes customes and maners vnlawfull wicked and pernicious although he denyeth not that Harmonie of sounds hath a great force and effect to chaunge a Common wealth for sayth he we haue a memorable exaÌ„ple of the Cynethian Common wealth in Arcadia which hauing forsakeÌ„ the pleasure of Musicke soone after fell to seditions and ciuill warres attributing the effect to Musicke to appease and mollifie a people so barbarous and sauage By meanes whereof he confesseth that this causeth the naturall harmonie of well agreeing lawes which causeth meÌ„ to continue in good and perfect order and thereupon followeth the preseruation of the Common wealth It is verie likely that Musicke hath a great force to appease the minds of men as diuers examples may giue vs witnesse namely of Saul and Pythagoras who as well before as after his sleepe vsed a certaine Musicall and melodious Harmonie And as Censorin speaketh Vt animum sua semper diuinitate imbueret To furnish the minde with the diuinitie of it The same author sayth that Asclepiades the Phisitian vsed ordinarily a musicall harmonie to call furious and phreneticall spirits to their own nature and there upon is it common sayth he Ut legionibus in acie dimicantibus metus mortis classico depellatur in nauis metu vel vt facilius laborem sufferant Ã vectore Symphonia adhibetur Yet notwithstanding he teacheth vs that Musicke at this day hath not the effect to withstand the sedition of our age because she hath lost much of her ancieÌ„t nimblenes by reason whereof Musicke is not esteemed of all equally in generall On the other side we may obserue the opinion of those who would iudge of the chaunge of Kingdomes although they are founded vpon a ground ruinous as those who build vpon the Horoscopies of townes thereby to iudge of Common wealths Imagining that some Planets and fixt Starres are the workers and contriuers of the worldes aduentures of which by reason of their incertitude I will not speake as being a thing meerely ridiculous to referre the acts manners of men cities and particular euents to any such cause Others as curiously obseruing the same matter concerning the state of kingdomes haue not onely noted the yeares but the moneths as Master Iohn Bodin who saith that if we marke the great and notable changes of states and kingdomes we shall finde the most parte to haue been in September in which moneth the lawe of God gaue his beginning to all the world and for better confirming his opinion hee giueth diuerse examples amongst others the great victorie of Augustus against Marc. Anthonie which happened the second day of September being a contention for the greatest Empire that euer was Paulus Aemilius changed the great Empire of Macedoma into many popular estates and sent King Perseus prisoner to Rome obtaining

found farre inferior Now these and benefites farre greater then these are should England be robbed of by Treason depriued of by Sedition and quite spoyled of by Rebellion And therefore in the colde quaking feare of so great an euill when as I think how treason goeth about to supplant my state to sel my honor and make me perish with one wound then doe I iustly wish the teares of King Anchises mourning for the fatall destruction of proude Troye or of M. Marcellus for the citie of Syracusa when hee sawe it burned or of Salust when he sawe Rome ill gouerned or of King Demetrius when hee saw his sonne in lawe slaine in the battaile of Marathone But because mens harts are flintie and not touched with iust sorrowe breeding remorse of my fall let me wish and wishing obtaine the kinde and brinish teares of Queene Rosana for her husband Darius when he was conquered by the great Alexander or of bewtifull Cleopatra weeping without comfort that her best beloued Anthony was conquered by Caesar but if these teares be prophane and not befitting to mourne for the wrong to so vertuous and to so holy an Iland then let me wish the teares of Ieremy for Babylon when it was made captiue or Dauids mourning for his sonne Absolon or olde father Iacobs for his sonne Ioseph this were tragicke matter to write of treason to thinke but of that yet death to thinke which they intended after that day if euer that then day shoulde enioy a sunne being darker then the blackest night as I wish and hope that it neuer shall shall Englands wise and painefull Chroniclers write nothing but warres and bloodie fieldes Poets Lucan-like begin with Bella per emathios plus quam ciuiâ—ia Campos and then those that like the Philosopher Ariminus who wrote of the aboundance of Aegypt haue finelie discoursed of the plentie of this Iland may sit downe and shew a naked bare and fleshles Skeleton to the whole worlde and those that haue boasted as Demophon of the fertiltie of Arabia shall sigh and say that Englishmens teares hath shedde such aboundance of salte in the earths furrowes that the Iland is become barren and they that like Thurilides of the treasures of Tyrus haue tolde the worlde by trauaile of Englands wealth may sit downe and say The rich betrayed are the richest spoyles and those that like Asclepius of the mines of Europe haue written of the welthie bowels of the English earth shall say that then she sendeth forth nothing but smoake desirous to make an eternall night And those that haue written like Dodrillus of the praise of Greece or Leonidas of the triumphs of Thebes or Eumenides of Athens gouernment shall tell posteritie that Treason in one day depriued England of all these But least some should think that then my sorrow should be greater theÌ„ cause why and that the losse were nothing which England should haue by so foule a sinne giue mee leaue but in plaine tearmes to set forth a naked trueth and diuiningly to tell what would bee Englands miserie at that day M. Crassus the renowmed Romane valiant in warre wise at home taking Syllas part against Marius and Iulius Caesar that was then Dictator who being taken prisoner spake a loude I weigh not my harme but the pleasure that Crassus shall haue to heare this newes And amongst other surely this will not bee the least that Spayne should heare but of this harme the Court which is now like the eight Spheare beautified fullie with fixt stars should be nothing but like the ayre full of Meteors sending downe lightning thunder raine haile and such like and then should ancient Cato that in 86. yeares was neuer seene to violate grauitie so much as by a smile who was wise in speech sweete in conuersation in correcting seuere in presents liberal in diet sober in promise certaine and lastly inexorable in iustice leaue the Court at the age of 55. yeares and betake him to a little village neere Pilena where the passinger might write vpon the porch of his poore cabinet O foelix Cato tu solus scis viuere O happie Cato thou onely knowest how to liue then should Lucullus one of the valiantest Captaines that Rome had after the warre against the Parthians seeing the common wealth troubled with the ciuill faction of Sylla and Marius from Rome betake himselfe to Lobo neere Athens then might Dioclesian although a tyrant which is seldome but ambitious after 18. yeares gouernment betake himselfe to spend the rest of his daies in obscure silence whom if the Romanes would recall by ambassage within two yeares after he would rather liue in his poore garden with Pericles his inscription Inueni portum spes fortuna valete nil mihi vobiscum ludite nunc alios the same is ingrauen in the tombe of Franciscus Pullicius And then iustly should Scipio Africanus somtimes so highly honored in Rome which in the 22. yeares tha the made war with Asia Africk and Spayne neuer fought vnluckely who gained Africa sacked Carthage ouercame Numantia and conquered Hannibal yet discontented liued in a poore towne for eleuen yeares without euer entring into Rome or Capua Such should be then the desolate state of this whole Iland and greater calamities should fall vpon vs then a heart not vsed to these possiblie were able to vtter But seeing I haue begun giue mee leaue a little to reason the case further Can they preferre vnknowne before those that are well knowne vniust before those that are most iust strangers before domesticall couetous before soberly moderate wicked before religious deadly enemies before those that are sworne vnto the Common wealth a Spanyard before an Englishman and Thilip before our dread Soueraigne There was neuer nation found so barbarous so cruel so without pitie wherein not so many nay not one was found so cruell to his owne countrie Tully O if he liued now to inuey against those thought Verres the worst man that euer countrie had yet compare him with these and he was meerely honest hee stole but out of Apollos temple secretlie and in the night some fewe religiouslie honoured Images but these I feare to speake it haue intended to take a sacred Prince from a holie land he offered violence to the place where Apollo was borne but these not to the place but to a personage farre more sacred then Apollos was But let not deep scanning wisedome be offended that I compare her to Apollo for whatsoeuer wroÌ„g was offered to that which trueth or ignorance deemed in earth the dearest that is contained in the treasons which haue been intended against our dread Soueraigne who all this while standing like a rocke of pearles in the assured confidence of Englands watchman is not danted to see her enemies to bee so malitious After that Philip of Macedon had conquered the Athenians hauing Philosophers at supper with him he propounded this Question VVhat was the greatest

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