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A67127	Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1672 (1672)	Wing W3650; ESTC R34765	338,317	678

in a private Chamber was strucken therewith into a swoun almost dead to the earth as if he had fallen from some high Steeple such Turrets of hope he had built in his own Fancy Touching the Dukes sudden period how others have represented it unto their Fancies I cannot determine for my part I must confess from my soul that I never recall it to mind without a deep and double astonishment of my discourse and reason First of the very horror and atrocity of the Fact in a Christian Court under so moderate a Government but much more at the impudency of the pretence whereby a desperate discontented Assassinate would after the perpetration have honested a meer private revenge as by precedent circumstances is evident enough with I know not what publick respects and would fain have given it a Parliamentary cover Howsoever thus these two great Peers were dis-robed of their Glory the one by judgement the other by violence which was the small distinction Now after this short contemplation of their diversities for much more might have been spoken but that I was fitter for Rapsody then Commentary I am lastly desirous to take a summary view of their Conformities which I verily believe will be found as many though perchance heeded by few as are extant in any of the ancient Parallel They both slept long in the arms of Fortune They were both of ancient blood and of Forraign extraction They were both of straight and goodly stature and of able and active bodies They were both industrious and assiduous and attentive to their ends They were both early Privy-Councellors and imployed at home in the secretest and weightiest affairs in Court and State They were both likewise Commanders abroad in Chief as well by Sea as by Land both Masters of the Horse at home both chosen Chancellours of the same University namely Cambridge They were both indubitable strong and high-minded men yet of sweet and accostable Nature almost equally delighting in the press and affluence of Dependants and Suiters which are alwayes the Burres and sometimes the Briers of Favourites They were both married to very vertuous Ladies and sole Heirs and left issue of their Sex and both their Wives converted to contrary Religions They were both in themselves rare and excellent examples of Temperance and Sobriety but neither of them of Continency Lastly after they had been both subject as all Greatness and Splendor is to certain obloquies of their actions They both concluded their earthly felicity in unnatural ends and with no great distance of time in the space either of life or favour And so having discharged this poor Exercise of my Pen according to my Knowledge and Reality let us commit those two noble Peers to their Eternal rest with their memorable abilities remaining in few and their compassionate infirmities common to all THE DIFFERENCE AND DISPARITY Between the Estates and Conditions OF GEORGE Duke of BUCKINGHAM AND ROBERT Earl of ESSEX Written by the Earl of Clarendon in his younger dayes THough it shall appear an unseasonable itch of Wit to say ought in this Subject and an unskilful one if invention reach not what is already said with all the swelling Elogies that shall attend all that fall from that Pen yet I shall presume disavowing only the vanities to think that in the severest considerations of their Persons in their Educations in their Insinuations into favour in managing that Favour in their whole Education but that they were both glorious in the eyes of their Princes they were as distant as unfit as impossible for Parallels as any two vertuous and great persons for so they were both we can direct our discourse to Their ingagements incumbrances and disadvantages being so different that it was the just wonder and yet continues of the world that the Earl could everfall his whole fate being in the discretion of his own soul and the Duke who all his life of favour stood the mark shot at by the most petulant and malicious spirits this Climate ever nourished could stand so long He that shall walk in a short survey of both their times actions and dependancies shall find them these Though the first approach of the Earl to Court was under the shadow of the Great Earl of Leicester yet he owned him rather for his invitation thither then his preferment there For no question he found advantage from the stock of his Fathers Reputation the people looking on his quality with reverence for I do not find that any young Nobleman had yet surprized their hopes or drawn their eyes and on his youth with pity for they were nothing satisfied concerning his Fathers death who had been advanced to honourable dangers by the mediation of such as delighted not in his company as it was the mysterious wisdome of those times to poyson with oyl homines per honores ferire And if there were not any such compassion in the Queen yet surely she beheld him as the son of an excellent man that died in her service and had left a precious fame surviving In the Court he stayed not above a year but undertook that journey into the Low Countreys with his Father-in-law and went General of the Horse in a great Army though he was not full nineteen years of age there being then no such Criticismes as interpreted the acceptance or pursuit even of the greatest dignity and command a conspiracy against the State but all men were glad to see him set himself so brave a task by undertaking such an Imployment From this first action he took a Charter of the peoples hearts which was never cancell'd but as if they had looked only on the boldness not the success of his enterprises he was sure to return with triumph though the Voyage miscarried for amongst all his forraign undertakings if they be weighed in the peoples usual Scale the Cost though there was not above one or two prosperous returns and as many that had sad and calamitous issues yet he never suffered the least publick imputation or murmure but was received with that joy as if the Fleet or Army were sent out to bring him home not any spoil or conquest to which he had wholly dedicated his faculties He moved only in his proper Orb out of it he was extra sphaeram activitatis and rather of much business as a man towards whom the Queen had directed some rayes of affection then of much dexterity above other men Surely I by no means imagine him built or furnished for a Courtier For however the Arts and mysteries of a Court are undefinable yet as in the reformation and improvement of all Sciences there are certain principles and maximes unalterable and unquestionable so there is a certain comparity conformity and complacency in the manners and a discreet subtilty in the composition without which as with those principles no man in any Age or Court shall be eminent in the Aulical function Now how ill the Earl was read in this

Heraclitus bewai●…ing and Democritus laughing at the world M●… humbly beseeching the said Lord Archbishop his Grac●… and the Lord Bishop of London of both whose favours have tasted in my life time to intercede with our most gr●… cious Soveraign after my death in the bowels of Jes●… Christ That out of compassionate memory of my lo●… Services wherein I more studied the publick Honou●… then mine own Utility some Order may be taken out 〈◊〉 my Arrears due in the Exchequer for such satisfaction 〈◊〉 my Creditors as those whom I have Ordained Supervis●… of this my last Will and Testament shall present unto th●… Lordships without their farther trouble Hoping lik●… wise in his Majesties most indubitable Goodness that will keep me from all prejudice which I may other●… suffer by any defect of formality in the Demand of my s●… Arrears To for a poor addition to his Cabi●… I leave as Emblems of his attractive Vertues and O●… ging Nobleness my great Loadstone and a piece Amber of both kinds naturally united and only differi●… in degree of Concoction which is thought somewhat ra●… Item A piece of Christal Sexangular as they gr●… all grasping divers several things within it which bought among the Rhaetian Alps in the very place where grew recommending most humbly unto his Lordship 〈◊〉 reputation of my poor Name in the point of my debts 〈◊〉 have done to the forenamed Spiritual Lords and am heartily sorry that I have no better token of my humble thankefulness to his honoured Person It ' I leave to Sir Francis Windebank one of his Majesties principal Secretaries of State whom I found my great friend in ●…oint of Necessity the four Seasons of old Bassano to ●…ang near the Eye in his Parlour being in little form which I bought at Venice where I first entred into his most worthy Acquaintance To the abovenamed Dr. Bargrave Dean of Canterbury I leave all my Italian Books not disposed in this Will I leave to him likewise my Viol de Gamba which hath been twice with me in Italy in which Countrey I first contracted with him an unremovable Affection To my other Supervisor Mr. Nicholas Pey I leave ●…y Chest or Cabinet of Instruments and Engines of all kinds of uses in the lower-box whereof are some sit to be bequeathed to none but so entire an honest man as he is I leave him ●…ikewise forty pound for his pains in te solicitation of my Arrears and am sorry that my ragged Estate can reach no further to one ●…hat hath taken such care for me in ●…he same kind during all my for●…eign Imployments To the Li●…rary at Eaton Colledge I leave all my Manuscripts not ●…efore disposed and to each of the Fellows a plain Ring of Gold enamel'd black all save the verge with this Motto within Amor unit omnia This is my last VVill and Testament save what ●…all be added by a Schedule thereunto annexed Written 〈◊〉 the first of October in the present year of our Redemption 1637. And subscribed by my self with the Testimony of these Witnesses HENRY VVOTTON Nich. Oudert Geo. Lash ANd now because the mind of man is best satisfied by the knowledge of Events I think 〈◊〉 to declare that every one that was named in his VVill did gladly receive their Legacies by which and his most just and passionate desires for the payment of his debts they joyned in assisting the Overseers of his VVill and by their joynt endeavours to the King then whom none was more willing conscionable satisfaction was given for his just debts The next thing wherewith I shall acquaint the Reader is That he went usually once a year i●… not oftner to the beloved Bocton-hall where he would say he found a cure for all cares by the chearfull company which he called the living furniture 〈◊〉 that place and a restoration of his strength by 〈◊〉 Connaturalness of that which he called his genial air He yearly went also to Oxford But the Summer before his death he changed that for a journey to Winchester-Colledge to which School he 〈◊〉 first removed from Bocton And as he return●… from Winchester towards Eaton Colledge said 〈◊〉 a friend his Companion in that Journey H●… usefull was that advice of a Holy Monk who persw●… his friend to perform his Customary devotions in 〈◊〉 constant place because in that place we usually meet with those very thoughts which possessed ●…s a●… our last being there And I find it thus far experimentally true that at my now being in that School and seeing that very place where I sate when I was a Boy occasioned me to remember those very thoughts of my youth which then possessed me sweet thoughts indeed that promised my growing years numerous pleasures without mixtures of cares and those to be enjoyed when time which I therefore thought slow pac'd had changed my youth into manhood But age and experience have taught me that those were but empty hopes For I have alwayes found it true as my Saviour did foretell Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof Nevertheless I saw there a succession of Boyes using the same recreations and questionless possessed with the same thoughts that then possessed me Thus one generation succeeds another both in their lives recreations hopes fears and deaths After his return from Winchester to Eaton vvhich vvas about five Moneths before his death he became much more retir'd and contemplative in vvhich time he vvas often visited by Mr. John Hales learned Mr. John Hales then a Fellow of that Colledge to vvhom upon an occasion he spake to this purpose I have in my passage to my grave met with most of those Joys of which a discoursive soul is capable and being entertain'd with more inferior pleasures then the sons of men are usually made partakers of nevertheless in this voyage I have not alwayes floated on the calm Sea of Content but have often met with cross winds and storms and with many troubles of mind and temptations to evil And yet though I have been and am a man compass'd about with humane frailties Almighty God hath by his grace prevented me from making shipwrack of faith and a good Conscience the thought of which is now the joy of my heart and I most humbly praise him for it And I humbly acknowledge that it was not my self but he that hath kept me to this great age and let him take the glory of his great mercy And my dear Friend I now see that I draw near my harbour of death that harbour that will secure me from all the future storms and waves of this restless world and I praise God I am willing to leave it and expect a better that world vvherein dwelleth Righteousness These and the like expressions vvere then utter'd by him at the beginning of a Feavourish distemper at vvhich time he vvas also troubled vvith an Asthma or short spitting but after less then twenty fits by the help of familiar Physick and a spare

the Dukes Oath which they gently call his Promise The Inquisitors are upon Complaint and not otherwise against the deceased Prince especially in matter of Extortion to enquire of the truth and accordingly to punish his Heirs Which Office doth continue in Authority the term of a year The Correctors at this time presented four new Law 1. That the Brothers and Children of the Prince shall take place in publick Processions after the principal Magistrates namely next to the Censors 2. That immediately after the choice of any new Duke in the next Grand Councel shall be openly rehearsed all former Decrees against Defrauders of the Publick Chests This they call in their Dialect Intaccamento di Casse as unpardonable here as Treason The other two merit no Memory being only about little encrease of Provision for the Dukes Attendants and some Enlargement of time for the Correctors Office which heretofore did determine as soon as the Election began These new Orders thus made and approved by the Grand Councel from whence all Authority floweth they proceeded on Friday morning to the Election About which time were discovered four Competitors Antonio Priuli Gieconimo Giustiniano Augustino Nani and Niccolo-Donato The three first all Procuratori di St. Marco Who are in number Nine in degree the second Personages of the State and commonly the Seminary of their Princes though not of necessity as well appeareth by the fourth Concurrent who was yet no more then a Senator of the Wide Sleeve a Vesture of eminent Gravity and Place in their Councels Of these Priuli and Giustiniano having before been chosen Commissioners in the Business of the Uscocchi were by a new Warning and Penalty in the Senate on Friday before the Prince then languishing commanded to be gone But this did not prejudice their Hopes For I have noted one singular property in the Composition of this State That no mans fortunes without other Demerits are hindred by their Absence Now it shall be fit to set down with what Foundations and with what Oppositions they entred the List. Priuli had passed through all the principal Charges of the State in the Civil way And had lastly in the Military been Generalissimo till sickness sent him home in the Austrian Action His own Family numerous His Alliance strong Himself a man of moderate nature of pleasant and popular Conversation rather free then sowr and reserved of good extemporal judgement and discourse for the satisfying of publick Ministers which is the Dukes proper part Lastly Threescore and ten years old for that must not be forgotten among his helps But he suffered two Objections though both rather within his Fortune then his Nature The one that he was the Father of a Cardinal which might distract his Affection between the State and the Church The other that he was poor and somewhat behind-hand Of which Objection on the other side his Favourers made up part of his merit as having indebted himself in the publick Service Giustiniano was a Gentleman that had likewise passed through the best places at home of excellent Gravity and Judgement and of most unquestionable Integrity not violent not avaricious singularly beloved of the people to whose satisfaction in a time of this nature it was perhaps meet to yield somewhat He was besides one year elder then Priuli but his old age did not help him so much as he was hindred by the Antiquity of his Name For the Princedome having been for the two last Successions in the old Families it was likely the new would now strive to bring it back again among their own Blood Nani had carried himself meritoriously in forraign Imployments particularly against the Pope in the time of the Interdict which held up his Credit among the good Patriots And having been near the Supream Place at the last Election he re-entred now with the more hope Besides being by nature stiff and sensitive his cunning friends did mould that to his advantage the time seeming to need such a man But two wilde rumours did much oppress him The one with the better sort that he had purchased by close gifts certain of the poor Gentlemens Favours The other with the people that he had of late been Author of some hard Decrees his age besides was but 63 years and his complexion duràble Donato sirnamed Testolina for the littleness of his head had been long time conversant in the gravest Consultations was reputed one of the wealthiest Gentlemen of the whole City of good natural capacity and above the rest adorned with Erudition Besides he had the Commendation of fourscore years and of a weak body But it was thought somewhat presumptuous that he should contend with persons of higher Rank whereupon some conceived his end only to gain a friend by his voices and to make himself Procurator in the room of him that should be Prince With these hopes and with these objections they entred the Field after they had laboured their friends one whole Week namely from the Friday night of the Dukes death to the Friday morning following and perhaps a good while before within which time at the place of their Broglio as they term it where the Concurrents sue for voices Nani the youngest of the four was noted by some vacant searching wits to tread softly to walk stoopingly and to raise himself from Benches where he sate with laborious and painful gesture as Arguments of no lasting man Such a counterfeiting thing sometimes is Ambition To come now to the Election The Election of the Duke of Venice is one of the most intricate and curious Forms in the World consisting of ten several precedent Ballotations Whereupon occurreth a pretty Question What need there was of such a deal of solicitude in choosing a Prince of such limited Authority And it is the stranger for having been long in use the ancient Forms being commonly the most simple To which doubt this Answer may serve the turn that it was as the tradition runneth a Monks Invention of the Benedictin Order And in truth the whole mysterious frame therein doth much ●…avour of the Cloyster For first a Boy must be snatched up below and this Child must draw the Balls and not themselves as in all other Elections then is it strangely intermingled half with Chance and half with Choice So as Fortune as well as Judgement or Affection hath her part in it and perhaps the greater One point as now and then happeneth even in the mòst curious webs of this nature seemeth somewhat unequal Namely that the 41 who are the last immediate Electors of the Duke must be all of several Families and of them twenty five at least concur to his Nomination For hereby the old names which are but twenty four cannot make a Duke without help from some one of the new And that is not easily gotten through emulation between them as strong perhaps as any publick respect So as the two last Dukes Memo and Bembo both of the ancient Blood

all my good is but vain hope of gain The day is past and yet I saw no Sun And now I live and now my life is done 2. The Spring is past and yet it hath not sprung The fruit is dead and yet the leaves are green My youth is gone and yet I am but young I saw the vvorld and yet I vvas not seen My thread is cut and yet it is not spun And now I live and now my life is done 3. I sought my death and found it in my womb I look'd for life and saw it was a shade I trod the earth and knew it was my tomb And now I die and now I am but made The glass is full and now my glass is run And now I live and now my life is done 1. RIse oh my Soul with thy desires to Heaven And with Divinest contemplation use Thy time where times eternity is given buse And let vain thoughts no more thy thoughts a●… But down in darkness let them lie So live thy better let thy worse thoughts die 2. And thou my Soul inspir'd with holy flame View and review with most regardful eye That holy Cross whence thy salvation came On which thy Saviour and thy sin did die For in that Sacred object is much pleasure And in that Saviour is my life my treasure 3. To thee O Jesu I direct my eye To thee my hands to thee my humble knees To thee my heart shall offer sacrifice To thee my thoughts who my thoughts only sees To thee my self my self and all I give To thee I die to thee I only live Ignoto Sir Walter Raleigh the Night before his Death EVen such is time that takes on trust Our youth our joyes our all we have And pays us but with age and dust Who in the dark and silent Grave When we have wandred all our ways Shuts up the story of our days But from this earth this grave this dust My God shall raise me up I trust W. R. The World THe World 's a bubble and the life of man less then a span In his conception wretched from the womb so to the tomb Nurst from his cradle and brought up to years with cares and fears Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water or but writes in dust Yet whilst with sorrow here we live opprest what life is best Courts are but only superficial Schools to dandle Fools The rural part is turn'd into a den of savage men And where 's a City from foul vice so free But may be term'd the worst of all the three Domestick cares afflicts the Husbands bed or pains his head Those that live single take it for a curse or do things worse none These would have children those that have them or wish them gone What is it then to have or have no wife But single thraldom or a double strife Our own affections still at home to please is a disease To cross the Seas to any forreign soil peril and toil Wars with their noise affright us when they cease w' are worse in peace What then remains but that we still should cry For being born and being born to die Fra. Lord Bacon De Morte MAns life 's a Tragedy his mothers womb From which he enters is the tyring room This spacious earth the Theater and the Stage That Country which he lives in Passions Rage Folly and Vice are Actors The first cry The Prologue to th' ensuing Tragedy The former act consisteth of dumb shows The second he to more perfection grows I' th third he is a man and doth begin To nurture vice and act the deeds of sin I' th fourth declines i' th fifth diseases clog And trouble him then Death 's his Epilogue Ignoto EPIGRAM IF breath were made for every man to buy The poor man could not live rich would not die John Hoskins to his little Child Benjamin from the Tower SWeet Benjamin since thou art young And hast not yet the use of tongue Make it thy slave while thou art free Imprison it lest it do thee LETTERS TO Sir EDMUND BACON SIR IT is very just since I cannot personally accompany this Gentleman yet that I do it with my Letter wherein if I could transport the Image of mine own mind unto you as lively as we have often represented you unto our selves abroad then I should not think us asunder while you read it But of my longing to see you I am a better feeler then a describer as likewise of my obligations towards you whereof it is not the least that I have been by your mediation and judgement and love furnished with so excellent a Comforter of my absence and so loving and discreet a divider and easer of my Travels after whose separation from me I am ready to say that which I remember the younger Pliny doth utter with much feeling after the loss of his venerable and dearest Friend Cerellius Rufus Vereor saith he ne posthac negligentius vivam But herein my case is bettter then his for I cannot but hope that some good occasion will bring him again nearer me And I must confess unto you I should be glad to see him planted for a while about the King or Prince that so if his own fortune be not mended by the Court yet the Court may be bettered by him in that which it doth more desperately want Now Sir Besides himself there cometh unto you with him an Italian Doctor of Physick by name Gasper●… Despotini a man well practised in his own faculty and very Philosophical and sound in his discourses By birth a Venetian which though it be not Urbs ignobilis as Saint Paul said of his own Mother-City yet is his second birth the more excellent I mean his illumination in Gods saving Truth which was the only cause of his remove and I was glad to be the conductor of him where his conscience may be free though his condition otherwise till he shall be known will be the poorer This Stranger I was desirous to present unto you as my friend in his company whose testimony may more value him then mine own And so committing them both to your love and your self with all that family to Gods blessing hand I rest From my Lodging in Kings-street April 2. 1611. Your poor Friend and Servant H. WOTTON SIR IT is late at night and I am but newly come to the knowledge that my Lord is to send a Messenger unto you to morrow morning yet howsoever I have resolved not to be left out of this dispatch though in truth I had rather be the sootman my self then one of the Writers But here I am tied about mine own business which I have told you like a true Courtier for right Courtiers indeed have no other business but themselves Our Lord Jesus bless you all as you are now together and wheresoever you shall be From Greenwich May 27. 1611. Your Uncle by your own election and your Servant by mine