Vpon the Frontispice HEE that in words explaines a Frontispice Betrayes the secret trust of his Device Who cannot guesse where Mott's and Emblâ—…mes be The drift may still bee ignorant for me THE ARCADIAN PRINCESSE OR THE TRIVMPH OF IVSTICE Prescribing excellent rules of Physicke for a sicke Iustice. Digested into fowre Bookes And Faithfully rendred to the originall Italian Copy By RI. BRATHVVAIT Esq. Uulnera clausa potius cruciant Greg. LONDON Printed by Th. Harper for Robert Bostocke and are to bee sold at his shop in Pauls Church yard at the signe of the Kings head 1635. 〈◊〉 7. 1634. REcâ—…nsui hanc Versionem Operis Mariani Sileâ—…ii Florentcuâ—… 〈◊〉 The Arcadian Princesse or Physicke for a sicke Iustice c unà cum vita author is annexa quae continet folia 75. aut circa in quibus nihil reperio sanae doctrinâ—… aut bonis â—…oribus contrarium quo 〈◊〉 cum pâ—…blica utilitate imprimatur sub ea tamen conditione ut si non intra annuÌ„ proxime sequenteÌ„ typis mandetur haec liceÌ„tia â—…it omnino irrita 〈◊〉 HAYWOOD TO The excellent Modell of true Nobility the Right Honourable Henry Somerset Earle of Worcester Baron Herbert Lord of Chepstow Ragland and Gower all correspondence to his recollected'st thoughts SIR I Have heere sent you an Italian plant translated to an English platte whose flower will not appeare halfe so delightfull to your Smelling as the fruit will become 〈◊〉 for preserving You shall here meet with an Author walking in an unbeat path One who discurtains the vices of that Time so smoothly though smartly as his continued Allegorie pleads his Apologie A right Italian wit shal your Honor find him quick spritely of eminent race and ranke in his Country And it is my joy to addresse a Worke so richly interveined with straines of wit and iudgement to one whom descent and desert have equally ennobled and who with so cleare and discerning a spirit can iudge of it Now if this new dresse doe not become him all that I can say in mine owne defence is this and no other there is great difference betwixt Taylor and Translator Sure I am that the Loome is the same if not the Lustre the Stuffe the same though not the Colour wherein Hee freely appeales to your Censure who hath profest himselfe Your Honours in duest observance RI. BRATHWAIT TO THE DESERVING READER DEserving Reader every Author as this scribbling age goes may finde a Reader well worthy his Labour but very few Authors publish such Workes as deserve the labour of a discerning Reader Like to some of our PorcupineTheatrall Pantomimes who dare adventure in their spongie Labours begot of a barmie spirit and other noâ—…ious vapours to display a Gentlewoman in her compleatest Nature though they erre egregiously in her favour figure and feature Peruse this and returne me answer if it be not worth thy Labour to bestow an houre or two in the Reading of this Author Forraigne he is and yet familiar choice and dainty his conceits yet allayed with so sweet a temper as they retaine in them the relish of a good nature So free his invention and so cleare from invection as it admits no sinister inverâ—… nor intention Whatsoever hee 〈◊〉 inserts holds apt proportion and connexion with 〈◊〉 Subiect whereoâ—… hee treates So as being not onely a Stranger but so discerning an Author hee can expect no lesse than a Candid censure from so deserving a Reader THE TESTIMONIE OF SABAEUS AMNIANUS touching Mariano Silesio with his judgement of his Worke entituled The Arcadian Princesse or The triumph of Iustice. WHat pregnancy of conceit and gravity of judgement that Learned Florentine Silesio expressed may appeare by those excellent Labours of his wherein hee addressed his Penne to Subjects of divers natures according to those occasionall employments wherein hee stood engaged His youth hee bestowed in Poesy wherein he shewed that vivacity and quicknesse as the Court of Florence resounded with the fame of his â—…imensions In his riper yeares hee became employed in affaires of high consequence being twice elected by the vote and suffrage of the whole State for an Embassador to the Genueses where hee demeaned himselfe in such sort as hee was with no lesse cautious observance admired abroad than with all honour entertained at his returne home But growing old and wearied with the mannagement of publique affayres hee desired to retire and in his retirement to addresse the remainder of his dayes to some profitable workes which might live in his death and to posterity revivè the memory of his life Amongst which hee composed a worke in my iudgement of exquisite wit entituled the Arcadian Princesse wherin hoth language and Invention discovered their Master-piece He dyed An Dom. 1368. And interred with great solemnity in the Latmian arch THE OPâ—…ION OF Corranus Amnensis touching Silesio with his iudgement of his workes and of those his high approvement of that Master-piece entituled The Arcadian Princesse WIth what pregnancy of wit and solidity of judgement the ever-living Silesio whom to silenâ—… were to detract from the fame of Florence was indowed may sufficiently appeaâ—…e by his exqâ—…isite Labours In which Art and Nature so sweetly contendâ—…d as they erected such trophies in hiâ—… lines which exceeded the bounds of Fate or Time to be by oblivion blemished or by neglect seazed Hee was descended of a noble Family which hee renowned by his owne actions by making his own penne the surviving Annall of her memory Hee was twice elected by the generall voyce and vote of the State for Embassador to the Genueâ—…s where he demeaned himselfe with such cautious reservance and judicious prudence as hee became no lesse admired abroad where he stood interessed than honoured at home when he returned But wearied with affaires of State and desiring much retirement he privately withdrew himselfe into the Country where willing to publish some Workes by leaving to the world before he left the world such legacies of his love in his life as might live in his death he composed divâ—…rs Subjects of infinite benefit and approvement to the State Howbeit in his yonger yeares hee stood much affected to Poesy wherein hee so excelled as his Poems were held equall with those enlivened composures of Tasso's His Invention was much employed in his youth which time he bestowed in observance of the Court in Court-Maskes and other Theatrall presentments wherein none ever contended with him who in the end did not ingenuously veile unto him But growing to riper yeares hee retired from these and accommodated his stile to the maturity of his time In which serious studies such accomplishment seconded his retirement as his private recluse could not be free from concourse so highly did such as perused him lovâ—… him as they desired nothing more than to live with him Amongst others of his Labours during his retire hee wrote a Booke entitled the Arcadian Princesse which hee caused to be transcribed and sent to
speedy in applying and happy in performing Wee shall doe well then in resolving to send our Servant Euphorbus for Aesculapius by whose incomparable skill not onely means may be made for their recovery but directions had for preventing their relapse into the like infirmity Haste then with winged speed Eup◅orbus to that prime Artist of Physicke present our Loue unto him the desire we have to see him how much we relye on him the necessity of his repair which shall individually tye us to him Argument Themista descants on the birth and worth of Aesculapius the admirable effects of Physicke with a just and judiciall reproofe of all Empiricks POESY I. BEtwixt such men there is great ods Whose parents are immortall Gods and have their birth above And those who take their birth frō mē Or from low Earth derive their stem as their owne acts approve Great Aesculapius who was bred Of heav'nly not of earthly ◅eed doth his rich gifts impart Nor is hee honoured in scorne By Pagans in a Serpents forme But for his divine art For as the Serpents watchfull care Exc◅eds all other Creatures farre In wit and polic◅e So Aescu◅apius doth exceede All Artists sprung of mortall seed In his dexteritie Thrice sacred Art which d◅st restore To life what was decay'd before And re-infusest breath To breathlesse souls by giving health ' The rich poor mans chiefest wealth ' To stay th' arrest of death But haplesse they who deadly ◅icke Relye upon an Empiricke Whose physick makes them worse For what ◅e doth apply to them Agrees not with the state of men But rather with his h◅rse You then on whom distempers make surprize Be known to such have practise and advice Argument Aesculapius offers his best service to Themista She discovers unto him the cause of her griefe Shee remembers the endeared name of her Parthenius His Poeme the many vertues which did enrich him She intreats Aesculapius his best succour and hee promiseth his best art and assistance unto her PROSE II. NO sooner had Euphorbus delivered his Ladies Message to Aesculapius who was then engaged in sundry Cures of great difficulty by meanes of Priapus and his dissolute followers who had brought a dangerous d◅ease into that Province where he resided then pre◅ently this divine Artist repaired to Themista offering to her his best service which was accepted by her with much thankfull entertainement and affectionate solace And sitting together in a delightfull Arbour without more delay She discovered the cause of her griefe unto him in this manner Renowned Sir to impart unto you the grounds of our griefe in every particular would require an ample volume of Iliads Neither would time suffice nor your numerous imployments admit any such copious relations In one word if miserably-perplexed Hecuba whose fortune in her time had no paralell expressed such discon◅olate effects in the sad ashes of her ruin'd Troy and her slaughterd Children We are sure the sorrowfull Scene of our Tragicke mishaps may deserve some Annals to memotize them lest continuance of time might burie in oblivion the heavy issue of such dolefull occurrents Wee well remember how Polo the tragedian acting the part of Electra upon the Stage and being mournefully to bring in the bones of her brother Orestes in a pot hee brought in the bones of his owne Sonne lately buried that the sight of them might wring forth true tears indeed and by their passionate presentment of them act it more feelingly for obj◅cts of Ocular passion cannot chuse but worke in the actors person The same part may wee be truely said to personate Nor may we possibly so display them to life whom wee a◅e here to present as our afflicted brest conceives so that as Pictures receive their life from shadowes so are you Aesculapius to conceive them shadowed when our tongue cannot reach so high as to have them fully expressed For murdering wounds doe ever lose their tongue Small griefes do speake when greater griefes are dombe But you will say true passion admits no Rhetoricall introductiō 't is true yet fares it with us in this discovery of our fresh-bleeding woes as it doth with such on whom the judgement of death being now pronounced and now come to that fatall place where they are to satisfie the Law and disburden their conscious souls of many secret facts which till then never came to light nor admitted a discovery many trifling delayes will they pretend purposely to protract time and enjoy the sweet society of an expiring life But omitting these wee will now descend to a free delivery of these our captiv'd and restrained griefes in discovery whereof pardon our effeminacy if we drop some teares to ease the surcharged relapse of our afflicted heart Know quoth she thou divine Artist that we were sometimes styled the Soveraignesse of justice and in person intended our care to the execution of it During which time our imparalel'd State flourished Lawes were duely administred good men were rewarded the evill justly punished the State of ◅ustice so equally poized as Saturns age seem'd to be revived Having thus planted our State we held our selves se cure but too much security gives vice opportunity to make her entry for no sooner were wee removed recommending our government to such whose fidelity we held so inviolably firme unto us as nothing could divide them from us then that blessed State where before never corruption raigned no Oily nor Sycophant tongue ever pleaded no malady nor distemper raged became universally diseased Not one sound Member left uninfected Sundry vicious and malignant humours distilled srom the head to the body which so distempered the whole State as nothing could bee more ◅eared than an Epidemicall contagion To give some wofull instances herein that my griefe may appeare reall without dissembling truely passionate without faigning what a number of Conscript-fathers lye now desperately languishing what small hope have we of their recovering Sicke heart sicke they are yet like Children rather would they have their Soares to rankle corrupt and putrifie than have their wounds search'd and so finde remedy One wee had and onely one who was sound at heart whose name and blest be the memoriall of so untainted a name was Parthenius to them onely odious who were vicious by them proscribed who were contagious by all esteemed who were truely vertuous Him they banished in our absence nor since could hee ever be admitted to our presence Whose pregnancy may appeare by that Poeme which his nimble Notarie Ephepomenos in his person ingeniously composed and by a petitionary way in his Exile presented to expresse the wrongs he had ◅uffered and how injuriously the Censure of his proscription had beene pronounced nor shall it a little comfort us to repeate it now in his absence whose memory is so pretious to us who first address'd it Exil'd sterne State what was the cause Corruptiō or neglect of lawes For th' first I may be bold to sweare I had least
the Senators returned the Citizens re-inhabited their relinquished Mansions The like service I did to the flourishing State of Sparta where they erected a Temple to mine honour and retaine to this day the memory of me in a sumptuous Statue which they reared for me Bizantium will acknowledge the like courtesie and so will all States who have at any time beene surprized with any raging malady But this I doe not speake of to set my selfe at Sale or like our Mercenary Mountebanke to erect a Stage for discovery of my Cures and by a Comick Enterlude with a servile Buffoun foole my selfe into popular esteeme or set up in some frequented place a fictitious Catalogue of my incredible Cures Or hang up my Picture to enforce a deeper impression in the taking eye of the vulgar Or with sophisticated oyles delude the sight of a bleere-ey'd Spectator No I doe value more the honour of my Profession than to set it at so low a rate as to begge estimation or by sordid means sâ—…rue my selfe into opinion True worth can never admit of Ostentation It shall be my glory to afford my best art to others necessity wherein their health shall be my highest gaine their recovery my wished goale And to you Madam doe I speake it whoâ—…e vertuous fame â—…hall ever endeere mee to your memory nor was I ever conscious of flattery that my Practise hereupon these your distempered Statists shall manifest to the world that effects give the best approvement to all Professions But delay ministers fuell to a growing disease this Preamble Madam was but to acquaint you with the method of our Profession who must aggravate the difficulty of their Cure to procure them the more credit Whereat Themista smiling replied Renowned Sir Leave that Method to such novice Artists who stand in need of a publique Cryer of their Cures for your selfe we dare avouch that so much are you indebted to fame or shee rather indeered to you that you cannot be more highly possest of opinion than you are That fame of Pergamus your Scholler Galen hath disperst your glory by the excellency of his art That joynt name of Sixe renowned Physitians Hippocrates hath with no lesse repute advanced you That surviving glory of Anazarba Dioscorides whom the familiarity showne him by those princely but unhappy Amorists Marke Antony and Cleopatra so highly raised hath with no lesse art improved your fame The universall opinion which all Nations retaine of you may be probably gathered by those many Temples erected to your Honour and entitled by your owne Name the more to dilate your honour What Statues have beene reared what Shrines erected for you and how severely have punishments beene inflicted on such as have either detractively inveyed against you or sacrilegiously dishonoured you Which might be instanced in the misfortunes of Dionysius who though he made a jeast of Sacriledge and gave easie reines to all prophanenesse yet his exile from the flowry boundiers of his Empire rewarded him for his impious designes towards the Gods amongst which for the dishonour hee did unto you Aesculapius in cutting off your beard and clozing up his Sacriledge with a jeere saying it was unfit for you the Sonne to have a beard and your Father Apollo to have none It is true Lady answered Aesculapius just was the censure inflicted on Dionysius but undeserved was his impiety towards mee for those many favours which his Countrey had received from me Howsoever you shall know Madame that I was never ambitious after fame which for the most part is soonest procured when it is least desired for where vertue is the sole ground of our actions it ever drawes to her some discerning Spectators to crown them with a deserving applause Ever to doe good hath beene mine ayme without affectation for actions done for vaine-glory lose their desert but protraction in Cures gives life to distempers It is more than high time that we now addresse our selfe to our Practise wherein though most of our surreptitious Empiricks gaine them experience by the death of their Patients our Patients so heavens breath on our Endeavours shall suffer no such fatall prejudice by our Experience Nor doe we feare it Aesculapius answered Themista where Theory Practise and Honesty meete together in one Subject the Cure cannot but promise successe proceed then happily to your succeâ—…ding fame and your Patients cheerefull recovery Aesculapius having thus received Themista's charge for the Care and Cure of her Consuls prepares proper receits to be seasonably applyed to every Malady Hee craves Eucrisius assistance whose presence assures him of successe in his Practise And first because first in order and a distemper of infinite danger and therefore requisite to have the expeditest Cure he cals forth Metoxos to whom he gives these directions Metoxos you have a foule body full of vicious and malignant humours my opinion therefore drawne from the seldome erring rule of judgement and practise is this that you first be purged that your body may be better prepared Secondly you must be blooded that all corrupt clotted and congealed blood may bee removed Thirdly you must have a vomit that all crudities which lye rotting about your stomacke may bee exhaled The necessity of which Experiments shall appeare said Aesculapius by the effects which each of these produce 1. For your Siege the Lake Cocitus or Stimphalus were odoriferous Bathes unto it The whole History of Ajax cannot show the like for the luscious't nutriment ever renders the loath somst excrement 2. Secondly for your blood it is so thicke and corrupt as Buls blood is of a pure simple and subtile quality in comparison of it which may appeare by the standing colour or Iewish tincture you have in your face which being laid on with an Aurum technicum cannot blush 3. Thirdly for the Crudities of your Stomacke they are so numerous and those so onerous as they that see your Eiectments will hold them meere deceptions of the Sight for sometimes you shall cast up a whole Oxe equall for proportion to Milo's Bull which stucke so in your throat as you could not speak but brought you by meanes of this Obstruction in great danger of a Squinancy other times a Massie Basen and Eure all partiall-guilt Now an hundred or two of Rixe dollors and in the end when your stomacke is disgorged of these you shall cast up a whole Covy of Partridge Ducke and Mallard Cram'd Capons with much other both wilde fowle and tame all which lay fluttering on your queasie stomacke unconcocted And all this by the sorcery of your Curtezan Analeutheria Having prescribed you these directions and prepared for you a Pectorall of Hearbe of Grace with a Plaister of Liver-wort for I conceive all these distempers to proceed from an ill liver I must advise you to be patient in your Cure which if you doe I make little doubt but to work a rare Cure upon you For this hath beene ever my positive Conclusion in the whole
and extended a curtsie as you have offered us for your knowne Experience hath laid on us so confident an Expectance that nothing lesse than a faire and promising Cure may be expected from one of such exquisite art seconded with such constant care Yet shall not thanks be all we have a minde as ready to requite as to receive So that we vow as we are just for so our title and actions shall ever render us to returne an ample recompence to your successive diligence Arts deserve their rewards for else should their edge be rebaited and their spirits amated who doe professe them Madame answered Aesculapius I am neither so weake in fortunes nor servile in my thoughts nor remisse in my desire of doing good as to make reward my Object for my part I never yet reared a Stage to vaunt my selfe or vent my stuffe Doing good shall bee ever my goale and the health of my Patient my gaine Neither is that fame deservingly purchased which is got by meere Ostentation or desire of popular praise Nor that gaine well grounded nor that art well employed which exposeth it selfe to a price O that we had many Professants of your art and of your minde said Themista to Aesculapius Then should not mercenary Artists so delude the State nor asperse upon the Republike so foule a stain Where Experiments generally take life from the death of their Patients But wee must withdraw our selfe and addresse our discourse to these our distempred Statists whose present infirmity as it requires your helpe so it rests that wee use our exhortation to move them to patience in their Cure with hope of recovery by submitting themselves to your Care Wherewith shee presently caused her sicke-languishing Consuls to be brought forth and being disposed in severall Couches according to their degrees imparted her selfe unto them in this sort Servants and you our sometimes Deputed Assistants in the Execution of Iustice Even of that Justice which is the Summarie absolute beauty of all Cardinall vertues But alas how much have you detracted from the glory of so divine a Soveraigne How farre have you runne astray yea how foulely have you abused our Commission When the wronged Widow with teare swolne eyes cride for reliefe you either slept and could not heare or were Corrupt and would not heare or sensel◅sse of an higher judgment and did not feare what your ◅isguided course had given you just occasion to feare But see the fruits of your labour Observe what you suffer A fearefull distemper for your precipitate Error Now are you falne into the hand of the Physitian by making so cōtinued a league with your transgression But farre be it from us to insult upon distresse or enliven your griefes with fresh repetition of your crimes As we have hitherto intended our best Care for your Cure so it rests that wee exhort you to suffer with patience the hand of so experienc't an Artist that he may the better perfect his Cure The resigned will of a Morigerous Patient makes that Cure easie which to a perverse Patient would become desperate Your Physician whose dispersed fame ha◅h made him admir'd where he was never kno◅ne gives us good hope of your recovery albeit your distempers are of severall quality which implyes that some of your Cures will be more easie others of more difficuly Now as our Exhortation tends to this purpose to move you to patience so our desire shall be that upon your recovery you redeeme your lost time with redoubled diligence For should you become remisse in your Care upon the perfecting of your Cure it had beene much better that you had continued still in your distemper than to recover health to your more dishonour Plutarch reports that Antigonus had in his Armie a valiant Souldier but of a sickly body Antigonus observing his valour and grieving that so stout a resolution should bee seconded by so weake a constitution procured his Physicians to take him in hand and he was healed Now being sound he began to fight in some feare to keepe himselfe a good distance from danger no more venturing into the Vanne or forlorne place of the battell Antigonus noting and wondring at this alteration asked him the cause of this new cowardize Hee answers O Antigonus thou art the cause Before I ventured nothing but a diseased corps and then I choose rather to dye quickly than to live sickly I invited death to doe me a kindnesse Now it is otherwise with mee for I have somewhat to loose Be not you like this recreant Souldier upon recovery of your health improve it to the publique wealth You have lost much time bewaile that losse with numerous teares the most pretious and propitious tribute for misspent houres Feede not on a diseased State neither reare your foundation on others ruines It hath beene the condition of many of your Profession with griefe wee speake it so they fatned themselves they car'd little how leane their starv'd Clients were Which moov'd that Country Boor far more wittily than could bee well expected from one of his breeding to answer one of your ranke yet of far more integrity in this manner It hapned that this Boore driving a Teame of Horses upon the high way was encountred by a pregnant Practitioner in your Profession who observing his foremost Horse fatte and faire and bravely Caparison'd with a garland in his topping the more to beautifie him demanded of this conceited Boore why his fore-horse was so gaily deckt and so fatte and those that came behinde so poore and leane O Sir answered the Boore my fore-horse is a Lawyer these leane jades that follow him his Clients But such difference of feeding brings a flourishing State to ruine Bee it your care to neglect no meanes for recovery of your enfe◅bled health nor to omit no time wherin you may benefit the State by your health Meane time it shall be our resolutiō with our own presence to discharge the place of Iustice till your recovery shall better enable you for that service So every one of you to his Couch we to our Iudiciall Seate where wee must first play Alcides part by purging that Augean Stable of the State Prune the luxurious Vine that it may thrive the better and vendicate Arcadia's late blemished honour THE CONSVLS CHARGE The fourth Booke Argument Harmonius brings tidings to Themista of her Consuls recovery the sundry symptomes and effects of every malady the rare experiments used by Aesculapius in the cure of their infirmity closing with a triumphant Paean in the honour of his memory POESY I. HEalth to Themista solace and content To whom I am by Aesculapius sent In humble manner briefly to relate Her late distemper'd Consuls good estate A timely salve's applied to their wound Their braines recover'd and their senses sound What they admir'd before they now despise In each point grave judicious and wise They solely prize what gaines them just esteeme All else they hold a meere deluding
more honour from you than you from it For as justice is as all other vertues be a meane betwixt two extreames Lenity Severity So we rather incline to his censure who mixeth justicâ—… with favour than his who thundreth nothing but Iudgement Rigoâ—… O how hatefull hath the very name of Cruelty bin in all ages Which howsoever somâ—… Parasites for the Tyrants sake have sometimes applauded they as soon coÌ„demned Antiochus was at one time saluted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a glorious Prince and a furious Tyrant And Plutarch reporteth that when Dionysius the Tyrant asked the Wise men of his Court which Copper was the best Antiphon answered very readily that in his opinion that was the most excellent whereof the Athenians had made the Pictures of the two Tyrants Armodius and Aristogiton implying that their Statues were to bee preferred before their Persons their Buriall before their Government There is nothing that may more highly content us than to see the members of our family affably pleasing seasonably thriving prosperously succeeding mildly reproving Yea know Vpotomos that it is the part of a good man to bee able to say that hee hath rather spared where he might have spilled than to have spilled where he might have spared Especially where good natures are brought on the Stage who are commonly wonne more by clemency than severity by affabilit y and favour than extrâ—…mity and rigour Put on then a more lovely looke â—…uit your selfe with a more lightsome dresse Shew lâ—…sse fire in your eye lesse fury in your heart Estrange your selfe from the company of Eris Inure your memory to the censorious fate of Aeacus so lively chanted by Harmonius Ever now and then refreshing your rectified disposition with those â—…ree and friendly expressions of Elecmon Lastly to you Amerimnos a drowsie name for a watchfull Centinell whose secure sleepe would have ruined the most flourishing State After so long a sleepe you must now prepare your selfe for as long a Watch. Better wâ—…re it never to enjoy life than to make life a continued image of death Now sleepe death are termed two sisters and Night the Mother of them both The Poet called one of the sonnes of sleep 〈◊〉 a terrifier of men What then might you bestiled Amerimnos whose â—…ole felicity was security and in a lasting dreame summed up the dayes of your mortality What was this else but to make a trifle of time and to bestow the precious oylâ—… of your life on the 〈◊〉 delights of Sloth Much better it were not to be than fruitlesly to bee But where the Evening can make no good account of the day Youth must needs runne in great arrerages with Age. Now such an one may more properly be said to have slept a long sleepe than to have led a long life For what should life bee but a continued day-taske Where as eternity depends on a moment so should this moment of time ever addresse it selfe to eternity For know howsoever this temporall Sunne which you here see with your eyes and directs you in your journals and wayes after it hath set may rise againe yet when the Sunne of your life shall once set never looke for a rising of it here againe being once closed it becomes for ever to this life darkned and benighted Time lost cannot then bee redeemed nor the fruitlesse exâ—…nce of your profuser houres regained It is said of Demonax a Philosopher who flourished in the time of Adrian that he naturally eschewed money and solitarinesse which wee never remember but wee wish that Metoxos our first Consul and you Amerimnos the last in order had equally partaked of his nature that as disesteeme of the one might have begotten in him an hate to coveâ—…ousnesse so your dislike of the other might sharpen your desires to a love of businesse But as in him anâ—…â—…he rest so in you Amerimnos bee our wishes crowned for wee see your desires how much they are to employment enflamed and how your lateunactive spirits become now quickned Nor doe wee doubt but that these good reâ—…olves by your constant endeavours will grow so richly improved as wee shall have cause to apply the saying oâ—… that famous Atheâ—…ian to you You had perished had you not perished For as his youth was exposed to all sensuality wantonnesse and libâ—…rtie so hee excelled in the maturitie of his time in policie martiall prowesse and vertue Bee it then your honour â—…o shunne whatsoever may redound to your dishonour Neglect no opportunitie whereby you may any way benefit the state Apply youâ—… selfe to that publike service the discharge whereof may produce in you incomparable solace Make choice onely of such for your acquaintance where you have hope either to better them or to be bettered by them Aâ—…d be not too familiarly versed in the works of Aristomâ—…chus they treat too much of Wine but too little of wit Lastly remember that fearefull distemper of Messala Corvinus with the dishonour of lazie Margites rendred in that dainty Canto of Harmonius which you may discreetly temper with those industri ous dimensions of Epimelâ—…s Now as out of our Princely and affectionate grace we have received you our late distempered but now recovered Consuls into our favour and here given you in CHARGE how you are to demeane your selves in affaires of State with a free declaration of what the State requires at your hands and justified â—…ithall upon all and every such particular defects whereto you were formerly subject so now our exhortation shall bee that you bee cautious of a relapse And to the end you may lesse erre in your affaires ever submit your selves to the discreet advice of Parthâ—…nius whom I have purposely placed over you not onely in matters of doubt and difficulty to resolve you but in all your deportments of State to informe you Experience is a good Mistresse and so anciently and irreproveably hath hee borne 〈◊〉 in businesse of State wherin we have ever employed him till in our absence some Libertines of our time had exiled him to his honour and our improvement as none ever yet knew him were they never such rigid Censors of others actions who could justly tax him eitheâ—… of partiality to friend or pas sion towards his foe Receivâ—… him then for it shall not derogate from your wisdomes to have embraced such a Patriot who makes the publike good his highest object Now whereas wee have here set you as Beacons or Watch-toâ—…ers to foresee danger from a farre and timely â—…o prevent it before it come to our doores you are hence to understand how all mens eyes are on you and how light errours in you are most irregular because exemplar Drops are but small things yet joyned together they will in time rise to a River Graines of Sand are but small bodies yet if much Sand bee heaped together it not onely presseth but oppresseth the under-lyer Yâ—…e say you have a voided