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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60010	Cæsarion, or, Historical, political, and moral discourses in four days entertainment between two gentlemen, very pleasant and useful for all orders of men whatsoever / English'd by Jos. Walker.; Cesarion ou Entretiens divers. English	Saint-Réal, M. l'abbé de (César Vichard), 1639-1692.; Walker, Joseph.	1685 (1685)	Wing S351; ESTC R41078	62,745	185

if private persons Non vides ipsum illum Aristotelis discipulum tanto ingenio tanta modestia postquam Rex appellatus sit crudelem superbum immoderatum fuisse Cic. ad Att. l. 13. ep 2.8 whose whole life is nothing but a continual passage from one subjection to another or that at least spend the greatest part of it with persons that have no need to flatter us find it so difficult to rule our passions and self-love how should a great Prince whose state is a kind of continual intoxication become reasonable without it be by a special grace of God or by an extraordinary gift of wisdom Do you not see cry'd the greatest Wit in Rome speaking familiarly to his best friend of what might be expected of Caesar who then appear'd very moderate if once he became peaceable and absolute Master of the Commonwealth Do you not see saith he unto him how the Disciple of Aristotle so wise so modest became passionate cruel and proud as soon as he was mounted the Throne As able as he thought himself this great Judge was however deceiv'd in his opinion the Roman he prophesi'd so ill of made as great a progress in virtue even to his death as the Greek to whom he resembles him had done in vice But Caesar had been 50 years a private person and besides we do not every day find a Caesar Not that I will say but that our age has produc'd great Spirits that do move in high Spheres Nature is as liberal and vigorous as heretofore not to instance in those whose reputation equals their merit such as the invincible Monarch of France envy'd by the whole World I was told some years past of a great Prince who at 13 years of age being prais'd by his Courtiers for some Action that he was not over well satisfi'd withal himself he answer'd in reproving them of their flattery I Prencipi fanno sempre tutto bene But once again such Answers are not heard every day and for my part very far from wondring or thinking strange that persons of this degree should not have the Merit which is duo unto them I rather think it strange that they do not reason as Caligula did and that our blind submission to their unreasonable desires should raise their Presumption unto the highest extravagance Seeing those that conduct droves of Cattle said the fool are not beasts like themselves Philo. in his Ambass but are of a more excellent nature is it not just that those which command so absolutely over men and whom all others obey should be more than men like those over whom they command This is the effect our flattery do's naturally produce in the Spirit of Princes and it is what frequently hapn'd for the most part in the times of Papanism But if our holy Religion do's not allow of these Apotheoses yet it do's so well establish the absolute Authority of Princes that it is much easier for them to offend in this regard than it was heretofore to those deifi'd Kings and Emperors Although Caesarion had done speaking I was so concern'd at what he said that I fancy'd I still heard him his discourse seem'd so strange to me and withal so apparent that I knew not what judgement to make of it On one hand I had much difficulty to disuse my self from admiring the condition of Princes whom I always heard call'd Gods upon earth on the other hand I could not deny the weakness's which he demonstrated they were inclin'd to But at length truth carrying a kind of Majesty with it which no prejudice is able to resist I could not avoid being of his judgement and in this manner with as great pleasure as good fortune I divested my self of the strong opinion I suck'd in in my youth At this rate reply'd I at length having paus'd a while the condition of Kings is a deplorable state to judge rightly of it there 's no state more miserable said Caesarion and which deserves more pity and it is whereof we ought to be well perswaded when we go to Court On the contrary answer'd I methinks this perswasion seems to discourage us from ingaging at all at Court you are much mistaken said he A Courtier that looks upon greatness with such an eye not as a sovereign Good but as a Good whose consequences are commonly attended with error and ignorance will not be so easily agitated with those disorderly and furious desires of attaining them which trouble the mind in the same degree as it excites it which makes a man take ill measures and inspires him with rashness and folly Ambition thrusts him forwards barefac'd it do's not transport him beyond himself with joy nor grief at the appearance of frowns or smiles it do's not make him through greediness or impatience guilty of any false step which may without necessity oblige him to discover his designs and which may render him ridiculous if he should not succeed in them There appears nothing but what is decent equal and moderate in all his dealings If he do's not arrive at some great fortune by these meanes yet at least he exposes not himself much and 't is no disgrace not to obtain what he do's not very eagerly pursue Indeed a man of this temper may be a Courtier all days of his life he considers it as a School where he must go to receive his Masters directions and not as an employment If he seeks his Princes favour it is that he might be serviceable to him either to make Religion flourish amongst his Subjects or to defend them from their Enemies or to see that they have Justice done them But not to do any thing all his life but gaze at a man and to seek all occasions to shew himself he would not think all the Riches and Honour in the World worth he getting by such an idle dissembling sort of life Not but that he likes Riches and approves of Honour and Glory and will spare no just means to attain them it is because he thinks not that true Glory which is attain'd by these ways It may be offer'd to him at a rate that he thinks unreasonable he knows what to lay out before he cheapens it he will give for it no more than 't is worth and if it be ovevalu'd he will not disparage it but thinks he should be counted a fool to buy it at too dear a rate And do not think that 't is out of any disrespect or aversion for Princes that he is of this opinion or because he thinks them to be unfortunate and corrupt The faults which would deserve his hatred in private persons only excite his pity towards Princes and as it is the most active of all the Passions in a generous soul it inclines him naturally to assist them and not to shun and abandon them to the mercy of Cheats and Flatterers he satisfies himself in using all honest ways and means to procure their favour and good liking that they may see the need of having such as him near them If they were duely inform'd they would spare no cost of employing such in their service for he excuseth in them a thousand things which those that envy them do condemn He saith that it would not be only unjust but also inhumane to reproach them with defects which are almost inseparable from their quality very far from that dark black and malitious spight mix'd with indignation and envy where with most of them that approach their persons be infected he bears to them the pity and tenderness that a Father doth to his Child before it attains the age of discretion And the care of a tender Physitian to his sick Patient whose soul sympathises with the sickness of his Patients body He has always this great truth in his mind that he should perhaps be more frail than they were he rais'd to the same Eminency By this noble consideration he bears from them what he would not from any else he persists in serving them when all others forsake them he prays for them when all the World doth curse them and without trouble renders them the Religious respect which all Laws give unto them he bears always in mind the the saying of the antient Poet Senec. Epig. 41. de Exilio suo Res est Sacra Miser It was Sun set when Caesarion had ended this Discourse I cannot describe the impressions it made on my mind and I did not perfectly understand it but by the use I since made of it I only remember that going afterwards to walk in a Garden that fronted his House to take the fresh air I was so concern'd that I could not speak a word all that Evening nor do any thing but look at him as if I had never seen him before Any body besides him would have perceiv'd it with pleasure and would have let me gone on in my folly but he laugh'd at me as soon as ever he perceiv'd it Whether it was by nature or by much study he was wholly insensible of the pleasure that self-love usually affords He confess'd to me afterwards in our familiar meetings and discourses that this indifferency proceeded from the continual experience he had of his own defects and the impossibility he found to prevent them that they were odious to him and no less present in his thoughts than his good Qualities although perhaps less discern'd by the World that it may be every man might say so much of himself would they make a diligent scrutiny but most did not trouble themselves in examining their thoughts as strictly as he did wherein he knew not if he deserv'd be envy'd or to be pity'd If it were not to be happy to be in this temper of mind it was at least to be prudent and discreet and you have as great cause to lament surviving so rare a friend as I have of retaining in my mind a tender and religious Remembrance of his admirable great Learning and Wisdom The End of the Fourth Day