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death_n	edward_n	king_n	richard_n	4,511	5	9.3432	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68283	Foure bookes of offices enabling privat persons for the speciall seruice of all good princes and policies. Made and deuised by Barnabe Barnes.	Barnes, Barnabe, 1569?-1609.	1606 (1606)	STC 1468; ESTC S106957	238,357	234

Heluius Pertinax haue voluntarily renounced and resigned vp their estates according to that saying of Cicero Multi sunt fueruut qui tranquilitatem expetentes a negotijs publicis se remouerunt in hijs nobilissimi Philosophi principes hominesque seueri Many great Philosophers princes and graue persons are and haue bene which in their loue of tranquilitie resigned all their publike reputations and offices But to proceed in my discourse certaine it is as I said that men naturally be so much the more ambitious or ready to take hold of that poyson how much the more they be fortunate onely malicious flatterers such as haue put vpon their hearts that vicious habite of speaking and soothing men vp in all things plausible vnto them ytching their eares with painted hopes kindling discontentment in them against other great persons fellow counsellors neere their soueraigne hatch ambition in the hands and hearts of them which haue alwayes bene busied in mightie matters ministring some salt cause of vnsatiable heat and thirst of reuenge against their peeres vpon some vnperfect grounds plotted and leuelled by their turbulent and malicious heads and hearts And this out of their spightfull humours tending intirely to the alteration ruine and spoyle of their countrimen is set abroach as in a late counsellour and peere of this land too plainely was seene which occasioned his ouerthrow Credulitie before touched is a meane to moue these perturbations which neuer can happen to that counsellor whose actions and consultations are honorably directed in the true feare of God and of his prince who will not permit any trust of such matters where the vulgar beareth standard vpon whose force and faith relying diuers princes and potentates haue mainely miscaried with losse of their states and liues and some also by pertaking with them in their vnperfect quarrels which leaning vpon their succours aimed at such dignities as neither were preordained nor fit for them for they be variable giddie headed sedicious full of discord couetous of innovation and enemies to peace and tranquilitie And therefore that most learned and noble poet Scalliger addeth his suffrage to this opinion very fitly in these words Qui pendet ab errore opinione vulgi Pendet magis at que arbore qui pendet ab alta He which dependeth vpon the error and opinion of the vulgar holdeth more nicely then he which doth hang ready to fall from the highest branch of a tall tree Most of which being enraged with a lust of Innouation would willingly strangle themselues in the throat of the Commonwealth though they partake with traitors and highly fauour the treason yet if they finde it once displayed and boulted out for their hearts are prone to tumult then will they presently curse him that marshalled them in their treasons shewing themselues most forward in apprehension and punishing of him and of his follwers And if their Arch-captaine in that commotion or sedition be taken or if his practises be frustrated it hath beene alwayes noted that they then begin most vehemently to commend him which is was his greatest aduersarie whom doubtlesly they would had fortune otherwise turned haue miserably massacred and slaughtred declaring like apparant Camelions which turne colour with euery die great gladnesse in their feasts and bonefyers as if they were deliuered from that seruitude which like faint-hearted hypocrites and time seruitors they first desired hunted for The like example was seen amongst those rabble of the Romanes which did partake with Catyline so long as his treasons tooke good head but when he grew weake and remediles then Mutatamente Catylinae consilia execrari Ciceronem ad caelum tollere ceperunt The case being altered they with execrations condemne the counsell of Catyline extolling Cicero to the heauens It is therefore found great weakenesse in wise men to trust vnto the rude ignorant and vndisciplined multitude and he which is instructed in morall Phylosophy will neuer put affiance in them vnlesse it be where their Captaine is the best man in field and where they must either fight like men or die like dogs without resistance For by Phylosophy men are taught as I said before to know themselues and how to measure and master their owne force Example of this is recorded of the Gracchi of Spurius Melius For though it be as was before said commendable and necessarie for vertuous counsellors to regard and make sute for dignities and preferments at their princes hands whose faithfulnesse diligence and generall good desert worthily may require the same so doth it without all doubt import the contrary when they by wicked means would aspire to soueraigntie which happeneth commonly through neglect of Gods worship and contempt of their liege soueraigne none of which as it is generally found in all writers of Hystories or Chronicles haue long enioyed that which by such impious and vniust meanes hath been catched and most of them perished in the beginnings and executions which with some examples I thinke it a thing not impertinent to confirme Agathocles the Sycilian sonne to a Potter through his malicious quicknesse subtilties attained by fauour of the Syracusians first to bee made their Pretor and after through helpe of his friend Amilchar Generall of an armie which then serued in Sycill with whom he conspired hunting ambitiously for the soueraigne power of that State at a signall giuen diuers armed persons sodainly rushing out in a chamber where the principals vnder the pretext of serious consultation were assembled slaughtered the Citizens and Senators wherby he became prince of that State After that precedent Olyuerotto di Fermo by treacherous murther of his Vncle Giouanni Fogliani and of the Fermanes became prince of Fermo who by the Commande of Caesar Borgia then Generall of his father Pope Alexander the sixt his forces by traine vnder the like trust of consultation with Orsino Baglioni Prince of Perugia others was imprisoned and strangled Lodovik Sforza Duke of Milane by vsurpation hauing impoisoned his Nephew Giouanni Galliacio did aspire to that principallitie which some did suppose was a great cause of the ruyne and seruitude of ●…alie with infinite other calamities which as Francis Guicciardine writeth happened vpon it in Christendome whose whole race was extinct not long after I will not omit that which is yet f●…sh late Chronicles and hath been many times represented vnto the vulgar vpon our English Theaters of Richard Plantaginet third sonne to Richard Duke of 〈◊〉 who being eldest brother next su●…iuing to King Edward the fourth 〈◊〉 hee had ●…naturally made away his elder brother George Duke of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he thought a grieuous eye sore betwixt him and the marke 〈◊〉 which he leuelled did vpon death of the King his brother take vpon him protection of 〈◊〉 Realme vnder his two Nephewes left in his brotherly 〈◊〉 both which he caused at once to be smothered together within 〈◊〉 his Maiesties Tower at London which ominous bad lodging in 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