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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47277	Politikos megas the grand politician, or, The secret art of state-policy discovered in evident demonstrations of unparalleled prudence, and confirmed with wonderful and successful adventures, stratagems and exploits of wisdom and subtility, both in peace and war, by the most remarkable witts of former ages : being a treatise both useful and necessary for all nobles, states-men, judges, lawyers justices of peace, officers of wars, and all such as now are, or may happen to stand at the helm of publick affairs, whether in kingdom or commonwealth / written originally in Latin by Conradus Reinking, Chancellour ot His Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandenburg, and now done into English by a careful hand.	Reinking, Conradus.; Ker, Patrick, fl. 1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing K342A; ESTC R32439	61,144	171

time wear out by his dilligence and constant Obedience INTRIGUE XLVIII How to shun the Envy of Courtiers Nothing hasteneth the overthrow of one ready to fall whether by his own or anothers Errour than Envy or Emulation the constant Concomitants of Vertue and good Enduments and the Tormenters and Murderers of Greatness and Promotion To which commonly are joyned the Complaints and Murmurings of the People which spiteful Men use as Witnesses and Evidences to work their Revenge and prosecute their pernicious Designs against those whom they have set up as the marks of their Fury and undeserved Malice which altogeth●● 〈…〉 the Resolution and stir u● the Mind of a Prince tho' otherways n●●er so effable and indulgent no otherways than the stormy Wind tosseth the foaming Billows of the raging Sea Neither is there any way to escape this Evil but by Innocence and Modesty I say Innocence that he may do his Masters Business carefully and with great honesty to his Masters best advantage I say Modesty for as Envy is kindled by Pride and Arrogance so by a gentle Behaviour Effability and keeping a House neither too Prodigal nor any waies Base and Miserable it is lessened and at last quite extinguished Therefore let every Courtier and States-Man quietly and carefully look after his Business without a great Retinue Yea if he be Wise let him not in any waies be subject to those vain Glories which do not deminish but augment the Envy of Ambitious Spirits whose chief Eye-sore is anothers Greatness INTRIGUE XLIX How One ought to behave himself with offended Princes and Peers IT is an excellent way to deal with offended Princes not to provoke them by a slighting and froward Indifferency and unseasonable Contradictions but to strive by an humble Submission to pacifie their violent Wrath thereby to obtain a patient Hearing Neither must this be done at first dash but at a convenient time and opportunity For when an absolute Power overswayeth a weak and inferiour Person 's Justice and Right an obstinate Resistance marreth but mendeth not the Matter And when the Person in whose Hand the Power lyeth is pacified and pardoneth him who was misrepresented an Offender he can easily afterwards be brought to a right Understanding and be convinced of his former Mistake and have greater Respect for him who did humbly submit himself to his Clemency though falsly accused Thus a certain sober and wise Person of Quality being falsly accused by som envious Courtiers finding them resolute at any rate to confirm their false Accusations notwithstanding of his Innocence when his incensed Prince inquired What d● you deserve for so Villanous an Enterprize Answered Death humbly submitting himself to his Prince's Mercy by which sober Answer he obtained both his Prince's Pardon and in a while greater Favour when the Intrigue of the matter was found out to the perpetual shame and contempt of his Accusers Though otherways had he stood obstinate in his own Defence he might have undergone the greatest severity of the Law INTRIGUE L. How to Suppress the Vices and wrong Sentences of Partial Judges FIrst of all great Care must be taken that Courts and Judicatories be not prostitute to a filthy Crew of perverted Judges who pass Sentence partially for Reward or at the request of some great Person or for the Favour they bear to any Party but that all such Places be freely conferred on such as are knowing well-deserving good and honest Men. For whatever a Man buyeth he looketh upon as hi● Money whereof he is free to make his best And thus a Magistrate who hath bought his Place with freedom taketh a Bribe which is the Original out-most Extent and non ultra of all Filthiness and Knavery Hence arise Murders Slaughters Robberies contempt of the Laws c. Every one confiding that all Crimes howsoever heinous can be bought off for Money Therefore it is needful that all Judges have their Sallaries appointed them from the publick and that they themselves be bound under a severe penalty to take no Money directly or indirectly upon the Account of their Offices Moreover none ought to be appointed a Judge in his own Native Country neither will a wise Man desire it For whether he be an Honest Man or a Knave it will still be presumed that he will pass many partial Sentences upon the Account of his Friends Kindred and Relations INTRIGUE LI. How to suppress Luxury THough the violence of inveterate Luxury be such that it cannot be restrain'd by moderate Measures yet the good Example of a sober Prince may avail more than the fear of punishment appointed by Law And it is a good Remedy against this Evil to impose not only great penalties on the Offenders but also Custom and Taxes on those Commodities which promote the Vice far greater than on Corn and other such Commodities which no Person can live without Thus some will not buy their mad Frolicks at so dear a rate and though others still continue in their Luxury yet will it turn to the publick good the King reaping the profit of their prodigality INTRIGUE LII How to render populous Cities unfit for Seditions and Insurrections without loss or detriment WHereas Merchandizing maketh gain the only Object of its Labour it turneth Men to be of mean Spirits and absolutely averse from the expence of War and any thing of Trouble and begetteth a natural and dull Inclination to Peace Whence Cities become plenty in Handicrafts and Men in the exercise of Trading can be easily kept in good Order without insolencies and out-breakings And for the encouragement of such a well-settled Peace is very expedient by which the People's love and respect and their own unity and profit are more gained and preserved than by all the charming Allurements and fair Speeches that either Prince or Magistrate can invent For there is nothing that gaineth more ground on the Peoples Affection than a peaceable Government and giving them means and occasion of gathering Wealth And thus People being busied about their Lawful Employments they never mind the Revolutions of State-Affairs so that they be not deprived of the sweetness of their Gain which they reap by their Trading and Merchandizing INTRIGUE LIII How to appease an incensed People TUmults and Seditions raised by the Insolencies and Miscarriages of States-Men and perverted Magistrates can be composed no better way than by giving up those who were the first Offenders and the Original Cause of those Insurrections to Justice as a Sacrifice to suffer for the peace of the publick and pacifie by their Death those whom they had abused and provoked in their Life and by setting up others in their stead who are well qualified of a good Repute and Estimation among the People But seldom or never is the Prince blamed for any Errour in Government but his Counsellors and Ministers of State and provoked Subjects especially Citizens like the Dog who biteth the Stone not minding the Hand from whence it came never consider