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A77581	The life of the renowned Sr Philip Sidney. with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all forrain princes: and particularly for suppressing the power of Spain stated by him. His principall actions, counsels, designes, and death. Together with a short account of the maximes and policies used by Queen Elizabeth in her government. Written by Sir Fulke Grevil Knight, Lord Brook, a servant to Queen Elizabeth, and his companion & friend.	Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628.	1651 (1651)	Wing B4899; Thomason E1288_1; ESTC R208970	75,650	263

performed all his other cōmandments this that concerned Sir Philip thinking to make the fine-spun threads of Friendship more firm between them I acquainted Sir Philip with not as questioning but fully resolved to doe it Unto which he at the first sight opposing discharged my faith impawn'd to the Prince of Orange for the delivery of it as an act only entending his good and so to be perform'd or dispens'd with at his pleasure yet for my satisfaction freely added these words first that the Qu. had the life it self daily attending her and if she either did not or would not value it so highly the commendation of that worthy Prince could be no more at the best than a lively picture of that life and so of far lesse credit and estimation with her His next reason was because Princes love not that forrain Powers should have extraordinary in their Subjects much lesse to be taught by them how they should place their own as arguments either upbraiding ignorance or lack of large rewarding goodness in them This Narration I adventure of to shew the clearness and readiness of this Gentlemans judgement in all degrees and offices of life with this farther testimony of him that after mature deliberation being once resolved he never brought any question of change to afflict himself with or perplex the business but left the success to his will that governs the blinde prosperities and unprosperities of Chance and so works out his own ends by the erring frailties of humane reason and affection Lastly to manifest that these were not complements self-ends or use of each other according to our modern fashion but meer ingenuities of spirit to which the ancient greatness of hearts ever frankly engaged their Fortunes let Actions the lawfully begotten children equall in spirit shape and complexion to their parents be testimonies ever sufficient My second instance comes from the Earle of Leicester his unckle who told me after Sir Philips and not long before his own death that when he undertook the government of the Low Countries he carryed his Nephew over with him as one amongst the rest not only despising his youth for a Counsellor but withall bearing a hand over him as a forward young man Notwithstanding in short time he saw this Sun so risen above his Horizon that both he and all his Stars were glad to fetch light from him And in the end acknowleged that he held up the honor of his casual authority by him whilst he lived found reasō to withdraw himself from that burthen after his death My third record is Sir Francis Walsingham his Father-in-law that wise and active Secretarie This man as the world knows upheld both Religion and State by using a policy wisely mixt with reflexions of either He had influence in all Countries a hand upon all affairs Yet even this man hath often confessed to my self that his Philip did so far over-shoot him in his own Bow as those friends which at first were Sir Philip's for this Secretaries sake within a while became so fully owned and possest by Sir Philip as now he held them at the second hand by his Sonin-laws native courtesie This is that true remission of mind whereof I would gladly have the world take notice from these dead mens ashes to the end that we might once again see that ingenuity amongst men which by liberall bearing witnesse to the merits of others shews they have some true worth of their own and are not meerly lovers of themselves without rivals CHAP. III. TO continue this passage a little further I must lift him above the censure of Subjects and give you an account what respect and honour his worth wanne him amongst the most eminent Monarchs of that time As first with that chief and best of Princes his most excellent Majesty then King of Scotland to whom his service was affectionately devoted and from whom he received many pledges of love and favour In like manner with the late renowned Henry of France then of Navarre who having measured and mastered all the spirits in his own Nation found out this Master-spirit among us and used him like an equall in nature and so fit for friendship with a King Again that gallant Prince Don John de Austria Vice-Roy in the Low Countries for Spain when this Gentleman in his Embassage to the Emperor came to kiss his hand though at the first in his Spanish haughture he gave him access as by descent to a youth of grace as to a stranger and in particular competition as he conceived to an enemy yet after a while that he had taken his just altitude he found himself so stricken with this extraordinary Planet that the beholders wondered to see what ingenuous tribute that brave and high minded Prince paid to his worth giving more honour and respect to this hopefull young Gentleman than to the Embassadors of mighty Priuces But to climb yet a degree higher In what due estimation his extraordinary Worth was even amongst enemies will appear by his death When Mendoza a Secretary of many Treasons against us acknowledged openly That howsoever he was glad King Philip his Master had lost in a private Gentleman a dangerous Enemy to his Estate yet he could not but lament to see Christendome depriv'd of so rare a Light in these cloudy times and bewail poor Widdow England so he term'd her that having been many years in breeding one eminent spirit was in a moment bereaved of him by the hands of a villain Indeed he was a true modell of Worth A man fit for Conquest Plantation Reformation or what Action soever is greatest and hardest amongst men Withall such a lover of Mankind and Goodnesse that whosoever had any reall parts in him found comfort participation and protection to the uttermost of his power like Zephyrus he giving life where he blew The Universities abroad and at home accompted him a generall Mecaenas of Learning Dedicated their Books to him and communicated every Invention or Improvement of Knowledge with him Souldiers honoured him and were so honoured by him as no man thought he marched under the true Banner of Mars that had not obtained Sir Philip Sidney's approbation Men of Affairs in most parts of Christendome entertained correspondency with him But what speak I of these with whom his own waies and ends did concur since to descend his heart and capacity were so large that there was not a cunning Painter a skilfull Engenier an excellent Musician or any other Artificer of extraordinary fame that made not himself known to this famous Spirit and found him his true friend without hire and the common Reude-vous of Worth in his time Now let Princes vouchsafe to consider of what importance it is to the honour of themselves and their Estates to have one man of such eminence not onely as a nourisher of vertue in their Courts or service but besides for a reformed Standard by which even the most humorous persons could not but

he shewed in his youth and first employment when he was sent by the late Queen of famous memory to condole the death of Maximilian and congratulate the succession of Rodolph to the Empire For under the shaddow of this complement between Princes which sorted better with his youth than his spirit Did he not to improve that journey and make it a reall service to the Empire For under the shadow of this complement between Princes which sorted better with his youth than his spirit did he not to improve that journey and make it a real service to his Soveraign procure an Article to be added to his Instructions which gave him scope as he passed to salute such German Princes as were interested in the cause of our Religion or their own native liberty And though to negotiate with that long-breathed Nation proves commonly a work in steel where many stroaks hardly leave any print yet did this Master Genius quickly stir up their cautious and slow judgements to be sensible of the danger which threatned them hourely by this fatall conjunction of Rome's undermining superstitions with the commanding forces of Spain And when he had once awaked that confident Nation to look up he as easily made manifest unto them that neither their inland seat vast multitude confused strength wealth nor hollow-sounding Fame could secure their Dominions from the ambition of this brave aspiring Empire howsoever by the like helps they had formerly bounded the same Roman and Austrian supremacies The reasons he alleged were because the manner of their conjunction was not like the ancient undertakers who made open war by Proclamation but craftily from the infusion of Rome to enter first by invisible traffique of souls filling peoples minds with apparitions of holines specious Rites Saints Miracles institutions of new Orders reformations of old blessings of Catholiques cursings of Heretiques Thunder bolts of Excommunication under the authority of their Mother Church And when by these shadows they had gotten possession of the weak discouraged the strong divided the doubtful and finely lulled inferior powers asleep as the ancient Romans were wont to tame forrain nations with the name Socij then to follow on with the Spanish less spirituall but more forcible Engines viz. practice confederacy faction money treaties leagues of trassique alliance by marriages charge of rebellion war and all other acts of advantagious power Lastly he recalled to their memories how by this brotherhood in evill like Simeon and Levi Rome and Spain had spilt so much bloud as they were justly become the terror of all Governments and could now be withstood or ballanced by no other means than a general league in Religion Constantly and truely affirming that to associate by an uniform bond of conscience for the protection as I said of Religion and Liberty would prove a more solid union and symbolize far better against their Tyrannies than any Factious combination in policy league of state or other traffique of Civill or Martial humors possibly could do To this end did that undertaking spirit lay or at least revive the foundation of a league between us and the German Princes which continues firme to this day The defensive part whereof hath hitherto helped to suport the ruines of our Church abroad and diverted her enemies from the ancient ways of hostility unto their Conclave and modern undermining Arts So that if the offensive part thereof had been as well prosecuted in that true path which this young Genius trod out to us both the passage for other Princes over the Alps would have been by this time more easie than Hanibal's was and besides the first sound of that Drum might happily have reconciled those petty dividing Schismes which reign amongst us not as sprung from any difference of religious Faith but misty Opinion and accordingly moulded first upon the Desks of busie idle Lecturers then blown abroad to our disadvantage by a swarm of Popish Instruments rather Jesuits than Christians and to their ends most dangerously over-spreading the world for want of a confident Moderator This I say was the first prize which did enfranchise this Master Spirit into the mysteries and affairs of State CHAP. V. THe next doubtfull Stage hee had to act upon howsoever it may seem private was grounded upon a publique and specious proposition of marriage between the late famous Queen and the Duke of Aniou With which Current although he saw the great and wise men of the time suddainly carryed down and every one fishing to catch the Queens humor in it yet when he considered the difference of years person education state and religion between them and then called to minde the success of our former alliances with the French he found many reasons to make question whether it would prove Poetical or reall on their part And if reall yet whether the ballance swayed not unequally by adding much to them and little to his Soveraign The Dukes greatness being onely name and possibility and both these either to wither or be maintained at her cost Her state again in hand and though Royally sufficient to satisfie that Queens Princely and moderate desires or expences yet perchance inferior to bear out those mixt designes into which his ambition or necessities might entise or draw her Besides the marriage of K. Philip to Q. Mary her sister was yet so fresh in memory with the many inconveniences of it as by comparing and paralleling these together he found credible instances to conclude neither of these forrain alliances could prove safe for this Kingdom Because in her marriage with Spain though both Princes continuing under the obedience of the Roman Church neither their consciences nor their peoples could suffer any fear of tumult or imputation by change of faith Yet was the winning of St. Quintins with the loss of Calice and the carrying away of our money to forrain ends odious universally the Spanish pride incompatible their advantagious delayes suspicious and their short reign here felt to be a kinde of exhausting tax upon the whole Nation Besides he discerned how this great Monarch countenanced with our Forces by sea and land might and did use this addition of her strength to transform his Low-Countrey Dukedomes fall'n to him by descent into the nature of a soveraign conquest and so by conjoyning their Dominion and Forces by Sea to his large Empires and Armies upon the Mayn would probably enforce all absolute Princes to acknowledg subjection to him before their time And for our Kingdome besides that this King then meant to use it as a forge to fashion all his soveraign designes in had he not except some bely him a fore-running hand in the change of Religion after King Edwards death And had he not even in that change so mastered us in our own Church by his Chaplain and Conclave of Rome that both these carried all their courses byaced to his ends as to an elder brother who had more abundant degrees of wealth and honour to return

make perfect this judgment of his had summ'd up the league offensive and defensive between us and them even then he grew doubtfull lest this advantage would in time leave latitude for envy and competencie to work some kind of rent in our Union But when in the progresse of this prospect he fell into a more particular consideration of their traffique and ours they without any native commodities Art and diligence excepted making themselves Masters of wealth in all Nations We againe by exporting our substantiall riches to import a superfluous masse of trifles to the vaine exhausting of our home-borne staple commodities he certainly concluded that this true Philosophers stone of traffique which not only turned base mettals into gold but made profit by Wars in their owne bosomes would infallibly stir up emulation in such lookers on as were far from striving otherwise to imitate them And out of these or the like grounds hath many times told me that this active people which held themselves constantly to their Religion and Freedome would at length grow from an adjective to a substantive and prosperous subsistence Whereas we on the other side dividing our selves and waving in both should first become jealous then strange to our friends and in the end by reconciliation with our common enemie moderate that zeale wherein excesse only is the meane and so be forced to cast our fortunes into their armes for support who are most interested in our dishonour and ruine These with many other dangers which he provisionally feared howsoever the wisdome of our Government may perchance have put off by prevention yet were more then conjecturall in the aspect of superior inferior forraigne and domestique Princes then raigning But suppose we could not by this Kalender comprehend the change of Aspects and Policies in severall Kingdomes yet we may at least therein discerne both the judgment of this Prometheus concerning our selves and the tender affection he carried to that oppressed Nation Which respect of his they againe so well understood as after his death the States of Zealand became suitors to her Majesty his noble friends that they might have the honour of burying his body at the publique expence of their Government A memorable wisdome of thankfulnesse by well handling the dead to encourage and multiply faith in the living Which request had it been granted the Reader may please to consider what Trophies it is likely they would have erected over him for posterity to admire and what inscriptions would have been devised for eternizing his memory Indeed fitter for a great and brave Nation to enlarge then the capacitie or good will of a private and inferior friend For my own part I confesse in all I have here set downe of his worth and goodnesse I find my self still short of that honour he deserved and I desired to doe him I must therefore content my selfe with this poor demonstration of homage and so proceed to say somewhat of the toyes or Pamphlets which I inscribe to his memory as monuments of true affection between us whereof you see death hath no power CAP. XIV WHen my youth with favour of Court in some moderate proportion to my birth and breeding in the activenesse of that time gave mee opportunity of most businesse then did my yet undiscouraged Genius most affect to finde or make work for it self And out of that freedom having many times offered my fortune to the course of Forraigne employments as the propriest forges to fashion a Subject for the reall services of his Soveraigne I found the returnes of those mis-placed endeavours to prove both a vaine charge to my selfe and an offensive undertaking to that excellent Governesse over all her Subjects duties and affections For instance how mild soever those mixtures of favours and corrections were in that Princely Lady yet to shew that they fell heavy in crossing a young mans ends I will onely choose and alleage foure out of many some with leave some without First when those two mighty Armies of Don Iohns and the Duke Casimires were to meet in the Low Countries my Horses with all other preparations being shipped at Dover with leave under her Bill assigned Even then was I stayed by a Princely Mandate the Messenger Sir Edward Dier Wherein whatsoever I felt yet I appeale to the judicious Reader whether there be any latitude left more then humble obedience in these nice cases between duty and selfenesse in a Soveraignes service After this when Mr Secretary Walsingham was sent Embassador to treate with those two Princes in a businesse so much concerning Christian blood and Christian Empires then did the same irregular motion which seldome rests but steales where it cannot trade perswade me that whosoever would venture to go without leave was sure never to bee stayed Upon which false axiome trusting the rest to chance I went over with Mr Secretary unknown But at my returne was forbidden her presence for many moneths Againe when my Lord of Leicester was sent Generall of Her Majesties Forces into the Low Countries and had given me the command of an hundred Horse then I giving my humors over to good order yet found that neither the earnest intercession of this Grandee second with mine own humble sute and many other Honourable Friends of mine could prevaile against the constant course of this excellent Lady with her Servants So as I was forced to tarry behind and for this importunity of mine to change my course and seem to preferre nothing before my service about her This Princesse of Government as well as Kingdomes made me live in her Court a spectacle of dis-favour too long as I conceived Lastly the universall fame of a battle to bee fought between the prime Forces of Henry the third and the religious of Henry the fourth then King of Navarre lifting me yet once more above this humble earth of duty made me resolve to see the difference between Kings present and absent in their Martiall Expeditions So that without acquainting any creature the Earle of Essex excepted I shipped my selfe over and at my returne was kept from her presence full six moneths and then received after a strange manner For this absolute Prince to sever ill example from grace averrs my going over to bee a secret imployment of Hers and all these other petty exiles a making good of that cloud or figure which she was pleased to cast over my absence Protecting me to the world with the honour of her imployment rather then she would for examples sake be forced either to punish mee farther or too easily forgive a contempt or neglect in a Servant so near about her as she was pleased to conceive it By which many warnings I finding the specious fires of youth to prove far more scorching then glorious called my second thoughts to counsell and in that Map cleerly discerning Action and Honor to fly with more wings then one and that it was sufficient for the plant to grow where his