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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30612	Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac's masterpiece being a discourse concerning the court : with an exact table of the principall matter / Englished by R.W.; Aristippe. English	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; R. W.	1659 (1659)	Wing B612; ESTC R7761	82,994	192

called to the Government in such troublesome times ought to uphold himself on these principles he ought to pass from the Philosophy of words to that of actions an unforeseen accident will never overthrow his Rules nor his Maxims because there can be no accident which he foresees not and smels not a far off He will neither apprehend the danger of his person nor the ruine of his fortune he will apprehend nothing but blame and an ill reputation And although Prudence be a Vertue principally employed for the preservation of him who possesseth it yet neither will Prudence hinder him from prizing several other goods more then his own life But when things grow better and times become less evil he for that will not sleep out a calm nor unbend himself from his former vigor Our wiseman will go before all disorders not onely with quick and penetrating eyes but also with a firm and an undaunted heart If he sees some signe of change appear and the least presage of a civil War he will endeavor to stiffle the Monster before its birth It would be vain to represent unto him those inconveniencies which threaten him in particular if he will oppose himself to a springing faction he will pass by all those considerations which stop the greatest part of our other wisemen and he will onely mind the performance of his duty without caring for the greatness of the danger he is engaged in Were there a Son or the Brother of a King who were perswaded to embr●il themselves he would never sharpen that Son or that Brother far less would he flatter them He will give counsel to the Father and the elder Brother which should neither be timerous nor cruel And if any man seek to estrange from him the affection of these young Princes he will rather serve them without their good will then please them by disserving them He will not so much respect what they would then seem to will as what hereafter they would indeed nor so much the interest of others wherein others engage them as he will their true and natural interests which can never be separate from those of the King and Crown After this manner he will undertake the publick Cause with a couragious Pro●i●y and will not make the least appearance 〈…〉 indiscreet zeal appear his force will be without rudeness or sharpness his fidelity to his Master without hatred to his Masters Brother or Son he will manifest a respectful bol●ness and full of modesty in those occasion wherein others would ruine all by violence or negligence Howsoever as it was said at first he must be resolved come what will to the worst can happen to save the State he must be prodigal of himself he is the Kings own man He must not onely engage himself in a dangerous action the event whereof is doubtful but devote himself to an assured death if his Masters service exact it from him It 's this quality which is so necessary for a Minister To love the Princes person as much as the State the one and the other passion ought equally to possess his Soul one without the other being deficient we went yet further and after having answered what was alledged in de Aubignys History concerning the Dukes of Joyeuse and Espernon I thus return to our subject IT hath been formerly spoken of two Macedonians That the one loved Alexander and that the other loved the King it 's not well done to part what ought to remain entire why should we separate the King from Alexander and divide that poor Prince in pieces it were a violent division and a violence even to Nature it 's to cut one body into two the Kings interests are inseparably united with those of the State and I must confess that I cannot approve the meaness of Cardinal Birage who usually said I am not Chancelor of France I am the Kings Chancelor he might as well ●ave added And the Queen his Mother whose Creature he was not to take things at worse methinks he is not to be commended for so ill an expression Good Princes themselves protest They belong to others and owe themselves and all to the Commonwealth Magistrates and other Officers with far more reason ow themselves unto it They will never therefore at the same time give and take away the same thing their souls are too noble to be capable of so base an avarice will they repent themselves of their liberality will they secretly take back a present which they solemnly made before all the world for so I call the administration of Justice of good Judges and of good Laws Unless than Melanois reckoned France as nothing he could no way better then thereby have made it appear that he was a stranger to it and that to him it was altogether indifferent But let it not be displeasing to the Cardinal of Birague the Minister ought to love the King and State both at once together And if besides that he love some other thing his second affections must always ranck themselves under the subjection and orders of the first If he marry he ought not to contract himself with any who is suspected by the State or gives any cause of jealousie to his Prince but for this its too too much he ought to renounce his own Country he ought to break all the bonds of Nature he ought to sacrifice all for the good of the State if the good of the State require it He ought to make it appear that in a Monarchy there may be a young Brutus who prefers his duty before his Children and can even lose them when its necessary ●or the Kings service He shall witness himself another Marquis of Pisani who one day said of his only Daugher of she who since and to this day is the wonder of her Age If I knew that after my death she should be the wife of a man who were not the Kings Servant I would strangle her now persently with mine own hands But if the Minister be unmarried and if he keeps himself chaste it will be so much the greater advantage to his Masters affairs and they will be less subject to inconveniencies it wil be no smal matter That to him who ought perpetually to labor either with courage or with his mind defended pleasures are unknown which have turned so many wise men into beasts and led so many Victors in triumph but the ground of it indeed were that even he would be without legitimate passions which at least amuse and divert if they do not debauch and corrupt Domestick cares which usurp so much time from business will not rob an hour from such a Minister he will never think of the establishment of his Family he will not have one thought but for the Eternity of the State his affection which would have been divided betwixt his Wise his Sons and Sons in Law which would have run into other successions and other dependancies of Mariage so that the

to keep with his Passions But having once possest themselves of his Mind they seise on all the avenues and leave not so much as an enterance for his Confessor How weak and tender soever his inclinations may be to ill they water it and dress it with so much care that presently there springs up a great tree from a little seed and a violent and opinionated habit from a light disposition These are the Petroniusses and the Tigillio's about Nero these are the Advocates of Voluptuousness who plead its cause against Vertue and often succeed better then Pleasure it self when she presented herself to young Hercules and made him an Oration at the foot of the two ways It 's incredible to think how many charms they use without employing those 〈◊〉 Magick of which the people forbear not to accuse them Good God how ingenious are they to invent new pleusures to a sated and disgusted Soul with what pungent sharpnesses do they awaken the sleeping lusts which languish and can no more For this purpose rather then want extravagant appetites stranger objects and unknown meats they will seek them at the ends of the world even beyond the bounds of nature even in the licentiousness of fables To their sence the Sibarites were but gros●ly voluptuous for matter of delights Naples and Capua the corrupters of Hannibal understood nothing at all Nor do they at the first blow become Masters Vertue and they for a time disp●teto gain favor in the Court of a Prince of eighteen years Sometimes she gets the better and sometimes she yields it them They with her share the Affections the Mind and the Time Burrhus is hearkened unto but they hinder him from being believed They are like Seneca's ballance but at last they carry away all with them The Epicure destroys as much in three days as the Stoick builds in five years at least a man may say that having taken the place they by piece-meals undo the whole frame they assault their Masters good parts the one after another From Venial sins wherein they find this young soul resuming the battel and being upon his defence they lead him from step to step to Tyranny and Sacriledge At first they content themselves to breath in his ears That it is not necessary for a Prince to be so much an honest man That its sufficient if he is not wicked that he would put himself to too much trouble to make himself beloved that he ought onely to hinder himself from being hated That solid and perpetual Probity is too heavy and too difficult But that its image which changeth not hath the same splendor as the original and produceth the same effect That from time to time a vertuous action which is no great matter of cost being fitly performed may serve to entertain his reputation Thence they go farther and leave him not in so fair a way after having made him esteem Good as an indifferent thing● they make him approve Ill reasonable they afford Vice the colour of Vertue If he have a mind to dispatch himself of one of his Parents against the express defences of the Religion of the State which for bids us To shed the blood of the Empire they counsel him to cause them to be strangled with a Bow-string that one drop of it may not be spilt and that Religion may be satisfied If there be an Incest in his thoughts and that this Incest is combated with some remorse they presently come to the relief of his disturbed spirit They ease his pains by a wonderful subtilty representing to him ●hat there is indeed no law which permits a Brother to lie with his Sister but there is a fundamental Law of Monarchy and Mistris of all the Laws which permits a Prince to do what he will To authorize these great escapes great examples are not wanting They tell him it is not in Turky and amongst Barbarians that he is to look for examples Gods own People the holy Nation will furnish you with more then enough That King who built the Temple was also the founder of a Seraglio and we at this day see at Constantinople but a copy of what was formerly to be seen at Jerusalem You content your self with one woman onely and he that was wise above others the wise Solomon had six hundred which the holy Scripture calls legitimate without reckoning those which are otherwise But you have heard speak of the last will of his Father David and of those gallant things which he commanded by his Testament I shall not exaggerate these things consider only by how many deaths he counselled his Son to secure his own In the Law of Grace you cannot find more sweetness you stagger you apprehend at the driving away of a Brother the committing of a Cousen German to prison The Great ●onstantine that most holy most Religious and most Divine Emperor as he hath been called by the mouth of Councils hath done more without deliberation Do you not know that he caused his own Son to die upon the first suspition which he had of him It 's true he regretted his death and acknowledged his innocency But this acknowledgement came too late and his regret lasted but Four and twenty hours he thought himself quit by causing a Statue to be erected to the deceased with this Inscription TO MY SON CRISPUS WHOM I CAUSED TO DIE UNJUSTLY After this do you make a difficulty to discharge your self of a burthen which incommodates you to take out of your way a man who disturbs you in the world and who treads upon your heels a Cosin in the third or fourth degree who hath a design to leap over all these degrees that he may put himself in your place Have you any consideration for the character and for the person of Church-men who refuse to render you a blind obedience Charlemayn who is one of the Saints of the Church and a Predecessor to the Kings of France had not such a respect as you have He killed with his own hands an Abbot in his Vesture at the Altar ready to say Mass for having denied him I know not what Do you reserve your absolute Authority dare you not use force when the good of your affairs requires it The example of the same Charlemaine will take from you all the scruples your conscience can make although they tell you of his capitular degrees he knew neither a better nor greater right then that of Arms the pommel of his sword served him for his Seal and Signet Do not think that I would make you believe this this is History and is to be taken according to the letter To this day there are still Priviledges found granted and donation of Lands made by the good and orthodox Emperor Rowland and Oliver being present sealed with the pommel and which he promised to warrant with the edge of the same sword There have been Favourites I do not tell you where but there have been Favourites who have