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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21002	A buckler against adversitie, or, A treatise of constancie written in French by the Right Honourable the Lord Du Vair ... ; and now done into English by Andreuu Court.; De la constance et consolation és calamites publiques. English. 1622	Du Vair, Guillaume, 1556-1621.; Court, Andrew.	1622 (1622)	STC 7373; ESTC S786	88,690	171

first occasion of amazement Would to God at least but I dare not hope for it they would doe with vs as the Ape did with the child and set vs in the same place againe where they tooke vs first vp I thinke certainely good men may very well be excused if seeing such deere gages in their hands and the downe right pitch where they had carried them they looked vpon them a while and said nothing The first fault was committed by such as suffered them to seize and take hold on the State The second which is imputed to vs was but the necessary consequence of the other as much to be excused as the first is to be blamed Not that I would thereby defend those which in the strength of the euill euen through ouer-much feare did euer leane on that side where they saw Force and Violence preuaile for they are partly cause that our Euils are growne incurable and may with good reason be compared to reeling Burthens in a Shippe which rowling still on that side the Shippe leaneth to when a Storme comes cause her to bee ouer-turned There is a meane betweene too much and too little there is difference betweene bending and breaking As you may doe amisse through obstinacie and troublesome seueritie so you may dangerously offend by ouer-much slacknesse and conniuence and by a kinde of fetching a Wind-lesse about whereby you forsake altogether Iustice vnder colour of following Prudence And to speake freely to you I haue seene very many that cast themselues away out of that Window and going about still found themselues in the end as farre from the dutie of a good Citizen as those that ranne all at once into the mischiefe and are fallen as low steppe by steppe as the others that leaped with a full carriere into confusion It is very dangerous for them which haue not the strength and skill to stay themselues when they list to venture downe a steepe Hill it is needfull that those which forsake the High-way betaking themselues to by-Lanes should know the Countrey well otherwise they may be bewildered very easily Neuerthelesse because this Prudence that yeeldeth gently vnto that which shee cannot ouercome may serue in many such chances as those that are befallen vs when shee is vsed with iudgement and moderation I will tell you what bounds I would set her First neuer to dissemble in the beginning of Commotions nor consent to any thing vniust or against the Lawes how little soeuer it might be Contrariwise I would withstand euen by maine force as long as it were possible as long as the chance is common and that there is hope and likelyhood that by venturing Reason may haue the vpper hand It is a great errour wherewith many men are besotted to thinke that one must venture nothing in a State Often for not hazarding while wee are strong wee are brought to that push wee must hazard when wee are weake and make that afterwards very doubtfull which was but a little hazardous in the beginning Fortune if wee may speake so will not haue vs thinke wee can settle all things by Prudence there are many things where shee will haue a share and haue the thankes of the issue to be due vnto her But the chiefest thing is to haue the right on your side Which being done with all the considerations and aduantages that may be taken put it to a tryall and commit all vnto the Soueraigne Power of God which giues such issue to affaires as hee pleaseth If things are so farre gone and stand vpon so bad termes that Violence ouerthroweth the Lawes and Force carryeth it away from Iustice I would neuer for all that consent to an vniust thing except it were to auoid a farre worse and more vniust that should otherwise happen thereby Now the Rule that I would wish to bee kept in this case is That in this comparison of Euills and feare of worse wee should neuer reckon our owne particular interest to compare it with the publike For hee which for feare of the priuate Euill wherewith hee is threatned makes himselfe Author or Instrument of the publike calamitie hath nothing that can excuse him But wee must examine with care and prudence whether this greater Euill wee feare should befall the publike cannot be auoyded otherwise If it cannot in that case wee must compound with Violence that is doe the same which they doe at Sea in a storme cast away part of the Wares to saue the rest It is very seldome that those which gouerne disturbed States are troubled to chuse of two goods the best but often to picke out of two Euils the least Good is not iudged to be so but in comparison of the worse Therefore an extreme seueritie were not fit for such occasions and would rather kindle then smother the furie of vnruly people Wee may then perhaps imitate the Sunne which indeed goes alwaies from East to West but winding about sometimes towards the North sometimes towards the South lest if he kept still vnder the same line he should drie vp and burne what he must but comfort and gently warme The good subiect ought indeed to haue for his end the publike welfare and the Iustice whereon it depends but when the ordinary way cannot bring them to it hee must betake himselfe to the easiest and most commodious Hee should vndertake the conseruation of his countrey in vaine if he were to cast it away by the remedies wherewith he meaneth to saue it for affaires and counsels are measured specially by the end There is in my opinion as much as a good subiect may doe in publike In priuate the season affoordeth him many faire occasions of doing well He must first comfort his kinnsfolkes his friends his neighbours and thereafter as the degrees of affection binde him most to euery one assist and incourage them aduise them in their businesse keepe them from being wronged by other men succour them in their necessities accorto his meanes Let him rise early and goe to bed as late as he will the day will neuer be long enough to fulfill all the offices vnto the which other mens miserie shall call him Let him lay his hand in any place where he pleaseth hee shall finde a wound to dresse this pittifull and miserable time leaueth nothing whole and sound It is his sisters widdowshood will call him one way his brothers losse of children another the robbery done to his friend shall put him on this side the imprisonment of his kinsman or the danger of his neighbour on the other he shall sooner finde a place voyde of aire here then of calamitie But he shall haue employment enough for his Vertue within his owne house wherein he may performe the dutie of a good Cittizen For who is he so happy that hath not beene touched during this time with a thousand sorts of afflictions who hath not felt the venomous teeth of detraction or whom haue not the squinting eyes of enuy