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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56890	Fortune in her wits, or, The hour of all men written in Spanish by the most ingenious Don Francisco de Quivedo Villegas ... ; translated into English by Capt. John Stevens.; Fortuna con seso. English	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.; Stevens, John, d. 1726.	1697 (1697)	Wing Q188; ESTC R5377	77,088	150

had not Among the rest were two condemned to be Hanged the next day One of these having compounded with his Adversary was kept as a Prisoner at large The other they designed to Hang for Robbing after having been three years a Prisoner during which time they had devoured all he stole and all he his Father and Wife by whom he had two Children were worth Thus far had this Prince proceeded when the Hour commenced and he turning pale with anger said This Man you disigned to discharge because he has compounded with his Adversary shall be hanged to morrow for the contrary would be exposing of Lives to Sale and the Price of buying off an Appeal would prove the purchase of a Husband's Blood from the Wife of the Father 's from a Son and of a Son 's from the Father so that Pardons for Murder being to be bought a Rate would be set upon every Man's Life and thus all Examples of Justice would cease it being an easie matter to perswade the Appellant that a Thousand or Five hundred Crowns will do him more good than the Hanging of his Enemy There are two Parties concerned in all publick Offences viz. Justice and the Person Offended and it is no less necessary that the former should punish than that the latter should forgive This Thief whom after three years imprisonment you intended to Hang shall be sent to the Galleys for as it had been justice to Hang him three years ago so now it would be a Barbarous Wrong because in him you would hang his Father Wife and Children who are innocent and whose Substance by these delays you have devoured I remember a Story of a Man who enraged that the Mice gnawed his Papers Crusts of Bread Parings of Cheese and old Shooes took in Cats to destroy the Mice but perceiving the Cats not only eat the Mice but stole his Meat out of the Pot and tore it off the Spit that one day they spoiled a Fowl and another a whole Joint of Meat he kill'd the Cats and said The Mice for my Money Do you apply she Moral to this Fable since you like Devouring Cats instead of cleansing the State from Vermin do catch and eat the Thieves who are little Mice that Pick a Pocket Cut a Purse Snatch a Hat or Steal a Cloak and at the same time you waste the Country consume Estates and destroy whole Families Infamous Wretches I will rather endure Mice than maintain Cats This said he ordered all the Prisoners to be discharged and the Officers to be apprehended There was a wonderful Noise and Confusion those lamented who before were inexorable and the Prisoners loaded those with Fetters and Chains who before had Fetter'd them Old Women hiding their Age. Several Women appeared in a Street some of them a-foot and tho many were well stricken in years they tript it along like young Girls proud of their little Feet and white Petticoats Others were pack'd up in a Coach dissembling their Age with their Coy Looks and playing with their white Hands Others Dress'd like Bartholomew Babies and afraid the Air should discompose them were set up in Glass Cupboards or Sedans carried by greasy Fellows the farthest prospect of the Lady's Eyes being the neighbouring Haunches of the foremost and the next Perfume to their Noses proceeding from his sweaty Feet which being free from the encumbrance of Socks sent it up the fresher All of them were as gay as young Girls striving to be taken for such concealing their Age as they would their Shame and Ogleing with those Eyes that were ready to sink into their Heads Upon the very entrance of the Hour they were met by Maximus Origanus Argolius and a pack of other ancient Astrologers with their Ephemerides in their Hands who presently attack'd them to fix upon every one the date of her Life to the very year day hour minute and second of their Nativity These Conjurers set up a Cry Own your Age ye Wretches since it is your Doom you are Forty two years old 2 months days 2 hours 9 minutes and 20 seconds says one of the Astrologers to one of the Ladies Good God! who can express the terrible Shreiks she rais'd all that could be understood was you Lye it is false I am not Fifteen Lord what a Rogue this is to say such a thing Another cryed I am not Eighteen a Third I am but Thirteen I am a mere Child an Infant crys another Origanus was writing her Age upon the Back of one as if it had been a Bill upon a Door and it was to this effect This Woman was deliver'd into the World in the Year 1629. She perceiving by this means it would appear she was 67 Years of Age all in a rage cryed out Thou Old doating Emblem of Death I am but just come into the World my Teeth are not all cut Thou decayed piece of Antiquity replied Origanus Teeth will never spring under old Stumps look upon your Date I 'll own no Date quoth she and thus falling together by the Ears the controversie ended in a wonderful confusion After a sumptuous Dinner a mighty Potentate sate sate lulling his Pride with the false Flatteries that fell from the mouths of his Servants Sycophants A grumbling noise resounded from his cram'd gutts which could not agree in the Cooks-shop of his Belly with the strange medly of varieties he had devoured He foam'd at the Mouth the Wine boiling over and his whole Face was inflamed and bloated with the exhalation of his Stomach At each word he uttered tho' never so stupid the standers by like Men in a Frenzie poured out Superlative Encomiums An admirable sentence crys one nothing could be exprest finer says another most incomparable words says a Third and lastly a Parasite who laboured to out-flatter all the rest straining a lye to the utmost pitch exclaimes Learning it self stands amazed to hear you and even admiration is out-done The great Man strutting and fetching up two or three Gulps the fore-runners of a Vomit drivelled out these words I am much concerned for the loss of my two Ships Immediately the Parasites renewed their Flatteries and Romancing without measure one of them replyed That that loss redounded to his Honour that it fell out as could have been wished and nothing could have happened more opportunely since it administred an opportunity of falling out with his Neighbours from whom he might take Two Hundred in lieu of these two which might easily be compassed To prove this the false Flatterer produced many examples Another said That loss was the greatest testimony of his Grandeur for only he was a great Prince who had much to lose that losing was a better demonstration of Power than gaining and acquiring which were the Practice of Pyrates and Robbers That damage sustained he added would be the enriching of him and then began to fill his Ears with sentences out of Tacitus Salust Polibius Thucidides and other Authors represencing the vast

Merchandize and in Commonwealths Companions not Slaves Limbs not Lumber Bodies and not Shadows That the Rich Man hinder not the Poor from growing Rich nor the Poor grow Rich by plundering the Wealthy That the Nobleman despise not the Commoner nor the Commoner hate the Nobleman And that the whole Care of the Government be employed in encouraging the Poor to grow Rich and Honouring the Vertuous and in preventing the contrary Care must be taken that no one Man become greater and more powerful than all the rest for he who excels all others destroys equality and they that suffer him to exceed encourage him to conspire Equality is the Harmony in which consists the Musick of the Commonwealths Peace for when disturbed by any Excess it becomes Discord and that before was Consort becomes Noise Commonwealths are to be so united with Kings as the Earth which represents the former is with the Sea representing the latter These always embrace one another yet so as the Earth always defends it self against the encroachment of the Sea by its Banks the Sea always threatens the Earth wears and endeavours to overflow and swallow it up and the Earth ever fixed and unmoved opposes the perpetual motion and inconstancy of the Sea The Sea swells with every Wind every Blast makes the Earth fruitful The Sea grows rich with what the Earth commits to it and the Earth with Hooks and Nets drains and depopulates the Sea Even as all the Security and Shelter against the Sea is in the Land which furnishes Harbours so Commonwealths are a Refuge against the Revolutions and Storms of Kingdoms Commonwealths ought always to make War with their Heads seldom with their Hands they must have Armies and Fleets ready in the greatness of their Stock which is the Celerity that lays hold of all Opportunities They are to make War upon Kings by setting them one against another for Monarchs tho they be Fathers Sons Brothers and Relations are like Steel and the File which tho not only near Allied but the same Substance and Mettal yet the File always cuts and wears away the Iron Commonwealths are to assist rash Princes so far as may serve to overthrow them and the more cautious far enough to make them rash It is their best Policy to Honour Trade because it enriches and carries Men throughout the World gaining them Practical Experience by which they discover the Ports Customs Government Strength and Designs of their Neighbours The Study of Politick and Mathematicks ought to be encouraged as advantageous to the Publick and nothing ought to be so much contemned as Idleness tho under never so specious a Title or Riches devoted to Luxury All Publick Sports shall consist of the Exercise of Fire-armes and handling of other Weapons as is used in Battle that they may be at once Useful and Diverting at the same time Sports and Exercises and then will it be decent to frequent the Theaters when they are Academies All Formality of Garb is to be absolutely condemned and all the distinction betwixt the Rich Man and the Poor must be that the former extend Relief and the latter receive it and Virtue and Valour shall make the difference betwixt the Nobleman and Commoner for those Virtues were the foundation of all ancient Nobility I will here drop a few words out of Plato let him that has need of them gather them up for I don't know to what purpose I bring them but some body or other perhaps may know to what purpose he spoke them in the 3d Dialogue De repub vel de Justo They are these Igitur rempublicam administrantibus praecipue si quibus aliis mentiri licet vel hostium vel civium causa in communem civitatis utilitatem reliquis autem a mendacio abstinendum est If it be lawful to any to Lye it is chiefly allowable to them who govern the Commonwealth either on account of the Enemies or Citizens for the common advantage of the City all others are to abstain from Lying I cannot but reflect that whereas the Catholick Church condemns this Doctrine of Plato's Commonwealth yet there are many that value themselves upon being his Commonwealth Let us now come to what is proposed by the Subjects of Kings These complain that they are all become Elective because those who are and continue Hereditary elect Favourites who become Kings by their Election This is that enrages them because the French tell us that Princes who for the better government of their Kingdoms wholly give themselves up to their Favourites are like Galley Slaves who travel by force turning their Backs to the Port they go to and that the Favourites are like Juglers who the more they deceive the more they ent●rtain and the better they conceal their slight from the Eyes and baffle the Senses and Understanding the more they are valued and praised by him that pays for their Tricks to divert himself Their chief Art consists in making him believe that is full which is empty that there is something where there is nothing that those are Wounds in others which are but Bruises in his Armour and that they throw away what they hide with their Hand They say they give him Money and when he looks upon it he finds Dirt or Rubbish These Companions are vile but these Men make use of them for want of better and so they affirm those Kings are equally to blame who will not be what the great God made them and those who would be what he made them not They presume to say that an absolute Favourite brings upon Kings the same that Death does upon Man i. e. Novam formam cadaveris A new Form of a Carcass to which follows Worms and Corruption according to the Opinion of Aristotle in his Prince Fit resolutio usque ad materiam primam that is there remains nothing of what was but the bare resemblance So much for this Point Next let us go upon the Complaints against Tyrants and the reason there is for them For my own part I know not who I speak of or who I speak not of whoever understands me may explain me Aristole says He is a Tyrant who has more regard to his private Interest than to the Publick Whosoever can tell Tale or Tidings of any who are not comprehended under this definition may give an account of them and they shall be well rewarded They complain more grievously against Tyrants who receive benefits of them than they that are opprest by them for the Benefits of Tyrants make Men Criminals and Accomplices and their Severity proves them Virtuous and Deserving They are of such a Nature that Innocence in their Dominions must he miserable that it may be happy A Tyrant in respect of his Covetousness and Avarice is a Wild Beast in respect of his Pride a Devil and in respect of his Riotousness and Luxury all manner of Wild Beasts and Devils No body conspires against a Tyrant sooner than himself whence it follows 't