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A01402	The rich cabinet furnished with varietie of excellent discriptions, exquisite charracters, witty discourses, and delightfull histories, deuine and morrall. Together with inuectiues against many abuses of the time: digested alphabetically into common places. Wherevnto is annexed the epitome of good manners, exttracted from Mr. Iohn de la Casa, Arch-bishop of Beneuenta.	T. G., fl. 1616.; Gainsford, Thomas, d. 1624?; Della Casa, Giovanni, 1503-1556. Galateo.	1616 (1616)	STC 11522; ESTC S102804	122,087	364

contrary humors and infested with opposite vices The world was taught three good rules by Chilo to know that it was Gods handy-worke that it was made of nothing and shall be consumed to nothing so man was instructed to know himselfe not to desire much and to keepe himselfe out of debt The World is the toile of the couetous whose wealth is the witch of the wicked while heauen is the hope of the faithfull and grace the ioy of the blessed Thus again in the world we may say that impatience is the sting of nature and presumption the pride of sinne while humility is the grace of reason and patience the blessing of grace The world is a shop of such wares as ●heateth the deluded buyers who count wealth as a iewell pouerty a plague conscience a foole care is a Lord of mis●ule and will the master of the sences The world sheweth vs plainely that beautie is an eye-sore learning a taske valour a heat of blood reason a gift of God Kings Gods on earth a Noble-man a great man a Souldier a stout man a Courtier a fine man a Lawyer a wise man a Merchant a rich man a begger a poore man and an honest man a true man The world cannot continue except times and seasons haue their courses day and night make their changes labour and rest comforts mens bodies meate and sleepe preserue life punishment and reward proceed from true iustice and wisedome and folly make the difference of all estates The world telleth vs that a kingdome bringeth care learning is full of trouble power full of charge youth full of action age full of griefe and content is the onely happinesse The world is a laborinth of wit the consumption of vnderstanding the pilgrimage of patience and the purgatory of reason so that in trufth he is happy that dwelleth in it to Gods glory his owne comfort and the benefit of his neighbour and to conclude the vse is good but the abuse dangerous Woman I long'd for dainties was deceiu'd by lust In one marr'd all men made the world vniust VVOman was the originall of mans destruction for he had not disobeyed God but by the enticement of the woman for the which God told him plainely hee was accursed and subiect to damnation A woman is a stinking rose a pleasing euill the mouse-trap of a mans soule the thiefe of his life a flattering wound a delicate distraction a sweete death and the loue of her hidden fire a pleasing wound a sweete poyson a bitter sweete a delightfull disease a pleasant punishment a flattering death Woman is the strength of will the weakenesse of vnderstanding the exercise of patience the trouble of reason the encrease of number the delight of vanitie the pride of beautie the abuse of loue the breder of iealosie and the deceite of trust and confidency Woman is the wonder of nature for shee maketh two bodies one flesh and two hearts one soule so that the husband and wife truely louing so conspire in all their actions that they haue in a manner but one motion for loue maketh vnion as hate doeth seperation and deuision Woman is a necessary ill a pleasing yoake-fellowe and a strong supportation to weake meanes of house-keeping for as in a teeme except the oxen be ioyntly vnited and draw together the plough or cart cannot orderly goe forward So in house-keeping except man and wife doe louingly agree and ioyntly labour in their seueuerall places to maintaine increase their estates all will quickly be ouerthrowne for a diuision of loue and action makes a dimunition of substance or rather a dissipation Woman againe is a purgatory on earth and with contrary humors quencheth the hoatest loue and breaketh the hardest heart for if she be honest she will be imperious if faire she wil be venerious if foule she is loathsome if a wanton full of fraude or treason if proud costly aboue thy ability if witty impudent to shame thee or make thee weary if sheepish she will neither increase thy commoditie nor gouerne thy family if familiar and affable she will bee foolish and tell all either she hath no good qualitie or such as are quite ouermatched by the contrary Woman that prooueth a good wife commonly continueth a good mother so that the husband hath ioy the children comfort the seruants contentment and all the house establishment Woman must auoide all occasions of bad rumors for it is not enough that shee bee honest but that she bee so reputed and reported because the honour of a man dependeth on his wiues loyaltie and the reproch of children on the report of her dishonestie Woman is the weaker vessell and therefore must man beare with the infirmitie of his wife as she endure the impatience and imperfection of her husband Woman is the author to her husband of much good or ill as she is indued with the grace of God or the malice of the diuell Woman faire and proude and wanting wisdome is a looking-glasse of vanitie and a miror of inconstancy idle fantastick desirous of nouelties disdainfull chargeable a daintie feeder a gadder a talker and euery way irregular Woman is seldome pitied in her teares for they commonly proceede either from anger or deceit anger that she cannot bee reuenged deceite that shee cannot haue her will in wantonnesse and libertie Woman is endued with the same vertues as man for there hath beene as valiant wise godly magnaninous pollitick iudicious great spirited and learned women as men yea our histories are filled with the glorious actions and famous conquests of wo● as well as Emperours or other persons of honour elloquence learning and iudgement A whore I am of shame a scorge of sinne a sincke My lifes-flame quencht it like a snuffe doeth stincke A whore hath many significant names as filth curtisan queane strumpet puncke light-hus-wife concubine leman Ioue mistresse and infinite other fictions according to mens fantasies but all concluding breach of chastity and contempt of loyaltie either to virginitie or mariage A whore once prostituted to lust will hardly bee reclaimed to honesty and there is more hope of a branded thiefe then an impudent whore A whore is like a horse-leach for as it sucketh the blood from corrupted bodies and neuer falles off till it swel with fuln●sse So playes the whore with our substance and best blood in our bodies and neuer leaues a miserable besotted man till she haue fethered her nest and filled her coffers nay till shee hath emptied the bones of marrow and the purse of money A whore is knowne by the boldnesse of her face pride of her eies wantonnes of countenance vnconstancy of her lookes gaudines of cloathes giddines of gate immodesty of her gesture loosenesse of her behauiour licenciousnes of her words leawdeof her actions A whore is of the nature of Astrology an art of all men embraced and practised so a whore is railed and reuiled of euery body for her ●ilthy conditions and yet courted and embraced

ended is birth to eternity and a true faith purchaseth felicitie Death is not to be feared when it deliuers from misery 〈◊〉 be refused when it leads to endlesse fel●●ity Death of a good 〈◊〉 is the mis●ry of a good seruant 〈◊〉 of a good father the ioy and reioycing of a reprobate childe but hee is not worthy to liue that is sick of the father Death both vntimely and shamefull is commonly the end of theeues and lechers For thé one furnisheth the hatefull gallowes and the other is commonly finished by lothsome surgery Death vndesired of age sheweth little feeling of grace as youth doth little signe of good nature or breeding that doth not loue and reuerence his elders and betters Death endeth the sorrowes of the righteous and beginneth the miseries of the wicked Deaths musick is sounded when wee beginne the song with sighs end it vvith sobs and keepe time with teares Death belongeth to him that killeth his enemie but hell to him that killeth himselfe Death is one and the same to all how-euer diuerse Nations differd in their seuerall burialls and sepulchers Death amōgst the Salamines Agarens had an extreame enmity for they were buried with their backs turned one against another so that if in life they were enemies after death they scarce remained friends Death amongst diuerse Nations had as diuerse entertainements For the Hircanes washed their dead friends bodies vvith wine and afterward annointed them with oyle which they kept to eate and drinke The Massagetes drew forth the bloud and did drinke it burying the bodies The Caspians burnt the bodies to ashes which they did afterwards drinke in wine so that the entrailes of the liuing was the sepulcher of the dead The Schithes buried no man without one aliue were ioyned with him which if any friend denied a slaue was bought to maintaine the custome And so in many other Nations according to the seuerall conditions of life they had as many deuises of buriall Yet death is but the priuation of life in all Death of good children woundeth the Parents harts but the life of a wicked wife is the woe and misery of marriage so that in such a case it were better to be honestly dead and worshipfully buried then liue to be continually tormented Death eternall and life abreuiated is the reward of the wicked and damned Death makes an end of all liuing creatures whereas derth destroieth but some kingdomes warres depopulateth but some countries fire cōsumes but some cities Death is so much the more grieuous to the rich by how much they made more account of long life For when a man shall bid his soule to liue at rest what a terror is it to haue it taken from him that night But life is irksome to the miserable because they cannot liue as they should nor die when they would Death of sutes proceeds from denialls and they commonly come by corruption of bribes and delayes are the mi●eries of hope vnkindnes the scourge of loue and combersomnes the breach of friendship Death and murther are wrought by vnskilfull Physitians and ignorant idle or ill-liuing Ministers the one receiues money to kill the body the other benefices to destroy soules either for want of good Sermons or by corrupt examples of their loose and lewd liues Death is often wrought by meere conceit of a faint heart as the fight of a drawn sword is formidable to a coward Death is sweet to a quiet conscience when life is irkesome to a distempred minde Death that is honorable is farre to be preferred before an ignominious life and life that is vntainted cannot but end with a glorious death in both necessity must preuent disquiet and hope of heereafter good extinguisheth the griefe of present bad Death is no way hurtfull in it selfe but the manner and the cause makes it most irkesome and odious Diseases The minde and body subiect are to sin And so to sicknesse but the worst's within DIseases amongst the Greeks were preuented without physick when they did gather sweet herbes in May were let bloud once a yeere did bathe once euery moneth and also did eate but once a day Diseases torment the flesh as sinne woundeth the soule patience applyed to the one and repentance to the other if applyed in time will preuent destruction Diseases vnfelt of the patient are like sinnes vnthought of by the reprobate Diseases at Ephesus were cured vvithout money or other instruction then their own experience and reading for the tables of medicines were hanged in the temple of Diana for euery man to read and such as had iudgement to practice Diseases are a bridle to the flesh and pull down the pride of lust yet sinnes that infect the soule are farre more dangerous Diseases are not easily and lightly cured when the patient is either inordinate or vnrulie the Physitian ignorant or vnfortunate and the medicine ill compounded or vntimely Diseases that continue are grieuous to nature as wants vnsupplied are wofull to reason Diseases are not cured in one body so soone as in another nor are the same medicines to be applyed to all constitutions alike at all times and vpon the same occasions Diseases most times are bred by gluttonie except such as growe from infirmity and when the appetite is choaked the stomack is made sick whereas hunger beeing orderly fed and nature moderatly supplied preuenteth that distemprature which shall tend to sicknes Diseases of cruelty are the gowt collick toothach stone and strangury but of senselesnesse loue and the lethargie Diseases haue had new names with new times and although in truth they haue been one the same yet are men so subiect to varietie that they must still say It is the new disease haue new physick and entertaine new Doctors Diseases are bred by infectious aire as a venomous tongue may procure death Diseases of the minde are bred by opinion which beguiles vs with a false taste of true happinesse for false opinion leads vs into vaine delight which is indeed the superfluitie of desire and enemy of nature Diseases are not cured without medicine nor fooles made wise without instruction which neglected the one may die in his griefe the other run mad in his folly Diseases are most dangerous that are not preuented betimes for if the bodie be corrupt they pull on still diuerse infirmities so that it many times chanceth that when a Physitian hath healed that disease which he was sent for yet the rest remaining bred by the former procure the ruine of the body Diseases and wounds are of one nature both resemble the conditions of sin for if diseases continue long putrifie they cannot be healed without corasiues and sharp burnings no more can a long sinner and corrupted heart come to heauen without true contrition or repentance troublesome afflictions Diseases weaken the body but sin ruines the soule Diseases of the body may be sometimes cured if the causes be apparant but the torment of a guilty

commanded all like an Empresse and so she shewes her imperiousnes Fortune is the fiction of idlenes and fancie of a frothy wit Fortune bringeth high floods to lowe ebs and lowe ebbes to high floods teaching men not to misse their passage but take time while time is and the tide as it falls Fortune is a tearme profanely abused for what the heathen called a deitie as Adrastus built a temple to Nemesis in Rome she was honored as a Goddesse we Christians call Gods prouidence or at least should thinke and belieue so Fortune is inexorable for she will not heare the best prayers nor be mooued with the greatest teares it is not sighes can controle her nor sobs make her flexible and so she shewes her crueltie Fortune flies the encounter of sury for where shee fights the fielde manie mischiefes followe by ineuitable fate and destinie Fortune maketh order out of confusion for as Christopherus Laucius said Fortune is an influence which proceedeth from the reuolution of the heauens and shee as they doe continually turne about for riches beget pride pride impatience impatience reuenge reuenge warre vvar pouerty pouerty humility humility patience patience peace peace riches Fortune is then most execrable and odious when she so carrieth the cause that one is punished for anothers offence Fortunes wheeles mount aloft like raging waters which quickly throw downe slender banks right so shee shewes her suddennesse and violence Fortune laughes to see one fret at her knowing he hurts himselfe and not her like an Adder in her hole who lieth safe when she hath stung thee it is in vaine to charme her or coniure her or curse her when thou canst not reach her nor reuenge thee vpon her Friends A house declining vnderpropt must bee And thou tru friends whē Fortune ruines thee FRiends thinke themselues discharged of their duties if they remedie one another in necessitie comfort them in aduersity Friends are not to be lost for trifles nor should a wise man cause himselfe to be beholding to an enemy for any needful thing Friends once tried are to be made much of and thou must both beare and forbeare where thou expectest a kindnesse Friends that faile breed deepe dislike and there is no such griefe as to be deceiued where we trust Friends vntried or vnknown make men vnwise to build vpon them but he that hath true friends loues them not is vnwise he that betraies them is a villaine Friends that are faithfull are not to be suspected yet a reconciled enemy though he seeme a friend is not to be trusted Friends in their absence are vncomfortable in their wants greeuous in their importunities combersome in their vnmannerlinesse irksome and in their death lamentable Friends are parted by vnkind breaches as kingdoms are diuided by the tumultuous seas but wretched are the occasions that seperate vnited friends Friends that are kinde are sweet companions but a malicious man is a neighbour for the diuell and his damme Friends that haue sound hearts haue sildome frownes but false ioyes breede true griefes Friendship is delicatly expounded amongst the Philosophers for Aristotle beeing asked what he thought of friendship answered that it was one soule in two bodies Friends that are kinde are pleasing companions but if they be constant they bee rich iewels Friends may be trusted when they haue beene tried strangers when they are known dogges when they be muzled women when they be in sight and enemies when they are vnder ground Friends are so priuiledged that sometimes we may labour for their good when we cannot speake for our own As for example there was a law amongst the Romans much vsed and obserued that vpon paine of death none should presume to approch the tent where the Emperour did eate and sleepe which yet in the time of A●relius a certaine Greeke did infringe and so hee was taken and condemned to die but the Emperor vnderstanding the matter by the hurlibu●ly spake with a loud voice If this man did come to sue for any thing for himselfe let him die but if for his friend hee shall liue Friends that are sildome seene and much lesse spoken and conuersant withall are lesse familiar but more sure in that they loue not for rewards but for vertue and goodnesse Friends before they make a perfect combination must obserue these circumstances If our friend be poore we must giue him if he be rich we must serue him if hee be fauoured we must worship him if hee be wilfull we must obey him if he be impatient wee must beare with him if hee be vicious we must dissemble with him and if he be malicious we must beware of him Friends in their wants may be perilous vnto vs in their importunities tedious Friends that are old and acquainted once changed for new make men resemble little children who refuse an old angel for a new counter and cry to goe from their true parents to strange nurses Friends are thus farre vnprofitable that they are the thieues of time and come to seeke vs not to do what we think good but to perswade vs to what they thinke conuenient Friends though they be kinde are sometime troublesome to suffer as enemies are perilous to endure Friends remedy in aduersities comfort in necessities beare with imperfections pardon transgressions endure in troubles Friends canot be rightly so named that affoord their persons for priuate respects and deny their goods vpon plausible pretenses Friends are in some Philosophy denied to be in the plurall number for as long as a man hath but one heart hee can haue but one friend who beeing vnited in loue are as it were one minde and soule in two bodies Friends that are vnkinde are vncomfortable but an vnquiet wife is intollerable Friends come in at all houres yea into all places for sure to whom I haue afforded my hart I will neuer deny him my house Friends are priuiledged aboue kindred for a man may haue many kinsfolks but few friends yea kindred doe daily encrease but a friend once lost is hardly recouered againe and once dead neuer recalled Friends so farre as they impouerish not our estates by lauish expences may command our purses but a great discretion must gouern our passions For hee cannot well be said a friend but an enemy who makes vs lose our time by friuolous or foolish importunities or to vnnecessary or vntimely imployments Gentery Highnesse of blo●d is base vnlesse it bee Made bright by vertue in a high degree GEnerositie is a speciall prerogatiue amongst all people For to be descended of noble parents is commonly a signe of noble conditions and as you see a faire Diamond made more rich by Art and embelishing so is vertue more gracious in a Gentleman then in an Artificer Generositie teacheth her possessors so to recreate themselues that thereof rise none offence neither to themselues by immoderate exercise nor to others by inconuenient abuses Generositie ought to vse none but honest

especially the female will not abuse one another in an vnnaturall or vnseasonable sort Lechery is an inward infection for all other sinnes are without the body but this is an offence against a mans own body Lechery is a filthinesse of such beastly varietie that men may sinne with men women vvith vvomen man may sinne by himselfe by and with his owne wife with beasts in abhominable prostitutions with their own blouds and kinred in incestuous maner with other mens wiues in adulterous copulation with all sorts in filthy licenciousnesse and in all both abuse GOD and confound themselues in body and soule Lechery corrupted the vprightnes of Lot weakened the strength of Sampson befooll'd the wit of Salomon prophan'd the holinesse of Dauid confounded the peace of Israel brought a curse on Baal Peor for seducing the Iewes Lechery weakneth the body shortneth the life corrupts the mind impouerisheth the state infameth the credit dulleth the vnderstanding dampeth the hart and damneth the soule Lechery is so fearefull a temptation that as a Father of the Church writes Paul was stung with the loue of a virgin which followed him in the seruice of Christianitie how then can a man be safe alone with a bad woman but he shall fall into the snare of the diuell And if the choice Apostles haue entred this combat of concup●scence how shall worldly men and obsceane liuers preuaile in the same Lechery after Aristotle and other Phylosophers is the ruine of the body the abridgment of life the corruption of vertue the breach of the law and the effeminating of manhood Lechery named the first whore made the first ●●ckold brybed the first bawde and bred the first bastard Lechery was begot by ease and idlenesse is maintained by pride and wantonnesse decaies by want and weaknesse and dies in shame and filthinesse Lechery is an enemy to virginitie the death of honesty the breach of amity and the nurse of iniquitie Lechery is remedied with fasting and the body tamed with exercise and if a man would be continent hee must auoide the occasions and meanes of the act Lechery is naturally attended with shame and feare for the violentest man in his ragingest heat would be loath to be seene and afraid to be known in such an vnlawfull action Lechery will proue an vnprofitable plea in Gods law for if he could not be excused that said he had maried a wife and therefore could not come hee cannot be excused that is with a whore and therefore wil not come Lechery makes age doat youth mad a seruant a commaunder a free man a slaue a foole ciuill a woman impudent a valiant man temperat a coward valiant a beast fond and a tyger milde Lechery breeds a painfull pleasure a woful repentance a miserable delight and hellish reward Lechery is in plaine tearmes extreame lust vnlawfull loue brutish desires beastlie wantonnesse and the itch or scab of old concupiscence so that when a lasciuious man hath as it were no abilitie to sin yet the polluted hart hath a good will to bee sinning Lechery rauished Dina deceiued Iuda with Tham●r destroyed Gomorrah traduced Ammon murdered Vriah wrought folly in Israel and brought fiery serpents into the host Loue. O● loue alone depends Gods royall law That is when loue of God doth stand in awe LOue breeds awfull subiection and willing obedience without murmuring or questioning Loue is a hidden fire a pleasing wound a sweet poyson a bitter sweet a delightful disease a pleasant punishment a flattering death Loue which is vnhonest ends in a thousand sorrowes and trauailes for many times if the woman doe not dissemble play false ●nd impouersh one yet doe men become wounded watched abhorred flowted defamed and bepilled Loue of Princes glads the heart of the subiects and when the reward of vertue is not delayed then is vertue proud of good gouernment ●oue is the ioy of the heart as faith is the salue of the soule Loue of many like a diuided flame or streame is weakened by diuision but hee that loues not at all is of a strange condition and cold constitution Loue can sometimes yeeld no reason euen in sensible men as hate no measure in an inraged humor Loue maketh a man hansome that peraduenture cannot reach to pride and teacheth him ciuilitie that otherwise vvanteth common humanitie Loue breedeth melancholy and melancholy requires solitarinesse and solitarinesse setteth the thoughts on worke but wisedome preuenteth the mischiefe and maketh exercise a dispeller of wantonnesse Loue is commonly both praised and possessed by constancie but feare doth frustrate all desire and is indeed loues onely enemie Loue is in his glory when it is enamoured on vertue but where beauty bewitcheth reason there is a base and vsually an vnlucky passion Loue hath a language in silence which is rather seene in action then protestation Loue thy wife as thy selfe thy children as of thy selfe thy friend next to thy selfe but GOD aboue thy selfe Loue trusteth our wiues with life our friends with our goods our kinred vvith our liberty the common-wealth with our honour and the Diuines with our soules but God is to be trusted in all ouer all Loue that makes ones head a cushi● for his Mistris feet shewes that hee findes more force in her eyes then in his own● hart Loue with ielousie and a mad man are cosin germanes in vnderstanding for questionlesse loue is a madnes and then had Bedlam need to be a great house for hee that neuer was in that predicament is either blind or babish Loue and the cough and a woman with child can hardly be concealed Loue is happy where eyes speak harts answer and faith is firme Louers that are eager and affectionate are like fighting hennes who in hope of victory thinke they haue spurres on their heeles Loue that is wanton breeds but losse of time and malicious humours bring the soule to destruction Loue not without a cause and leaue not a sure hold for affection may be deceiued and fortune is faithlesse Loue is painted like a Chimera which was a monster according to Fulgentius with three heads the fist a Lion the second a Goat the third a serpent signifying that loue was fierce and proud as a Lion in the beginning libidinous and luxurious like a Goat in the midst and in the end full of poyson like a Serpent Loue of goodnesse begins in the loathing of euill as the declining from good breeds inclination to ill but both good and ill cannot agree in a godly soule Loue hath not her perfect obiects or best conditions if men loue the world which is so full of deceitfull flatteries or their owne humors which draw men into many dangers or themselues more then their neighbours or God not more then themselues Loue relieueth the miserable and sendeth soules to heauen maketh the beautie of the Church to shine and taking the name and effect of charitie is the pathway to saluation Loue is not loue but sorow not mirth

of wisdome for vnlesse a man bee able to make vse of his reading by memory and orderly adapting the obseruations of profitable precepts it is to no purpose to reade the principles of art or ouerlooke the histories of times Remembrance is an instinct of nature euen in beastes for the horsse remembers his rider especially his feeder the dogge his maister the hawke his fawlkner the lion his keeper and the beare his commander Remembrance maketh dumbe creatures reward good turnes as in the story of Andronicus the slaue in Aulus Gellius may appeare for when his maister Dacus had sent him bound to Rome to be cast into the Lions denne it was his fortune to chance into the hands of that Lion whose sore foot he had healed in Affrica which he presently tooke notice of and not onely saued him from the rest but fawned vpon him and relieued him by his obedience to the amazement and pleasure of the people Resolution I compasse great exploits make weaknes strong Outstrip faint hopes thogh time defer me long REsolution is perfected by patience so that valure and time effecteth euen impossibilitie to faint hearts Resolution is fearelesse and in a good cause makes a clean conscience as a strong castle Resolution tendeth to extremities and carieth wilfull men into many dangerous and desperate conclusions when without other reason then that they are resolute to doe so they runne headlong to infinite and vnreuerseable euils Resolution hath likewise a hand in Religion for a man must resolue to denie the world and dispossesse the diuell before he can come to heauen as he which determineth to take possession of a house wherin a stronger man dwelleth must needes forsake his ease and pleasures verter on many dangers and thrust him out either by strength or pollicy before hee get the victorie Resolution must prepare you to your trauaile for if you cannot endure labour want disgrace reuiling discomforts and diuers other inconueniences you were better stay at home then vndertake a iourney into forren countries Resolution made Caius the Philospher when hee was in a study at his going to death answere the tyrant Calligula that he determined to marke whether the soule would haue any knowledge or feeling of his departure from his body Resolution maketh women famous for many memorable actions worthy exploits As in the time of the Emperour Conradus the third Caesar hauing wars in the kingdome of Bauaria amongst other places came to the Citie of Monaco where when hee had lost some principall Captaines in the assault he swore that if he entred the towne he would not leaue a man aliue in it whereupon when it was in a great distresse indeede and not able to hold out some of the Ladies and best sort of women went to the Emperor and falling on their knees at his feete beseeched him so farre to mittigate the heate of his wrath that though he had sworne the death of all the men yet to spare the women and giue them leaue to passe away with life and euery one with that which she did cary orderly away which solemnly granted not one woman issued out of the towne but had either husband brother childe kinseman or friend on her back Whereat the Emperor much amazed cōmended their resoluon and forgate his anger and in great mercy sent them with all the men into the towne againe gaue them all their goods and tooke the Duke not onely to mercy but aduanced him to honour as all the rest vnto fauour Resolution biddeth vs feare no shadowes for their forces are litle nor trust in dreams for they are but illusions Resolution raiseth valour to the first steppe of honour while excuse and feare are the disgrace of a noble nature Resolution made the siedge of Numantia so famous and the destruction so glorious for as the Romans one way were resolued to conquer it and so endured infinit troubles and distresses the Numantines were as absolute in the defence of their honours and so put in practise a most memorable stratagem For when there was no remedy but submission they brought al the substance of their citie into the market place and burnt it to cinders and presently kylled themselues so that when the Romans entred indeede there was neither riches to cary away nor persons to triumph ouer Statesman I languages with forren secrets know And for my countrey doe my paines bestow A Statesman cannot well maintaine the credit of his place except hee haue bin a Trauailer a Linguist a Scholler and iudicious for it is not an outward fame that can carry it away but a substantiall knowledge must leade you vp to preferment A Statesman many times hazardeth the credite of his honesty abroad for hee commonly reuealeth his owne secrets to know other mens and seemeth of any religion to pry into the businesse of a Kingdome A Statesman steps vp a higher degree then a Trauailer for what time this spendeth 〈◊〉 vanitie the other must consume in ob●eruation A Statesman must not onely be secret himselfe but be very cautelous that no man else discouers his secrets for else hee shall onely passe with a superficiall knowledge and neuer attaine vnto true intelligence Statesmen at home haue agents abroad who 〈◊〉 are employed to obserue the businesse of other Kingdomes where●● 〈◊〉 bee 〈◊〉 to vse honesty and 〈◊〉 to certifie nothing but 〈…〉 to doe it with the first wher●●y commonly Embassadours thems●l●es are i●ous of such men because the affairs are certified vnderhand before their letters are read in publicke Statesmen at home must euer remember the common good before their priuate profit wherein these particulars are much in vse the honour of the Prince the glory of the Nation the confederacy of the Princes which may soonest annoy being enemies the affinitie of such as may best loue the countrey if alteration should happen the armies made sure the nobilitie held in fauour the Gentlemen maintained in their priuiledges the commons kept in obedience and the publicke treasury supplied Statesmen must not bee ignorant of ancient lawes and former antiquities least pollicie ouerthrow custome and new cunning supp●ant olde honesty whereby much mur●uring ariseth amongst the people and dangerous grudgings traduce priuate men for their priuate respects Statesmen endeuouring to ouerthrow antient customes must worke it out by pollicy and to set vp new deuices contriue it by cunning for the people will quickely espy a rent in the whole cloth and dare doe more then whisper against the seducers of Princes Statesmen must take heede that Princes doe not fauour corrupt officers for though a Prince be good yet if his fauorites be bad it is as ill as if he were bad himselfe Statesmen must not practise any thing against the principles of religion least it sauor of Atheisme rather then pollicie and so the diuell seeme to bee serued and God dishonoured A Statesman if he be not carefull of his carriage will incurre the imputation of an enformer abroad and