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A02336	The garden of pleasure contayninge most pleasante tales, worthy deeds and witty sayings of noble princes [et] learned philosophers, moralized. No lesse delectable, than profitable. Done out of Italian into English, by Iames Sanforde, Gent. Wherein are also set forth diuers verses and sentences in Italian, with the Englishe to the same, for the benefit of students in both tongs.; Hore di ricreatione. English	Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521-1589.; Sandford, James.	1573 (1573)	STC 12464; ESTC S105885	85,567	234

vnnoblenesse That Princes of great vvorthinesse be suche as freely confesse the vertue of their enimie PYrrhus did twise valiantly ouercome the Romanes in open battell but with so great a losse and slaughter of his men that he himselfe crying out sayd Oh if once more we ouercome the Romans we shal lose the fielde The Oracle of Scipio Nasica touching the Romane state MAruellous is the iudgemente and foresight of wise men some sayde the Romane Empire is nowe in safetie sithe that Carthage is destroyed and the Gréekes brought in subiection To whom the wise Scipio Nasica in maner of an Oracle answered Nay rather we are now in great perill séeing that we haue no more aduersaries or ennimies to feare or dreade The which foresight howe diuine it was the pride the corruption the discorde and finally the ruine of that inuinciple people did soone declare it That vvise men ought not to giue themselues to seruice or administration CHrysippus béeing asked for what cause he gaue not himselfe to the administration of the weale publike he answered bicause if I should do yll I should displease God and if I should do wel I should displease menne But Sidonius hys scholer wittyly wrested this sentence and sayde Nay rather you ought with all endeuour to giue your selfe to suche seruice bicause if you shoulde do well you should please please God if you shoulde do yll you should please men That vve ought muche more to looke to the ending than to the beginning of great and perillous enterprises WHen king Francis the first of that name was determined to go into Italy with a huge armie to recouer the dukedome of Milan which was after that he was taken prisoner at Pauia he consulted which way be might enter into that countrey or prouince So afterwarde when his maiestie with hys counsellours were resolued Amaril his foole at his comming from the counsell met him and sayde Sir these your wise men séeme to me fooles Why sayde the king Bicause they sayde Amaril haue taken long aduisement which way you might beste enter into Jtaly but they haue not yet spoken one word which way you might best come out wherfore beware sir that you abide not there That religious and vvise Princes doe choose rather to dye than to liue vnmete to gouerne THe young Augustus Emperoure of the East béeing a hunting and discouering a harte shot a poysoned arrowe to him but in the leusing of his arrowe he hurte by misfortune one of his hands in suche sorte that the poyson working the Phisitions saide that to saue his life it was néedfulll to cut off foorthwith that hande before the venime were spreade abroade throughout the body Then Augustus sighing sayd I had rather dye than do this bicause Cesar can not with one hand alone rule the worlde vprightly and so miserably he dyed The great efficacie and vertue of pouertie DIogenes was wont to say that pouertie is the ayde of Philosophie bycause that which Philosophie goeth about to persuade with wordes pouertie compelleth wyth déedes And Ariosto sayde that pouertie is a candle that discloseth mannes miseries although it discouer also his worthinesse and vertue séeing that after Aristotle in aduersitie chiefly vertue sheweth hir operation That Pallas and Bacchus agree not vvell togither to vvit that vertue can not dvvell vvith drunkennesse VErtue is transformed into diuers shapes Sometimes she is transformed into an olyue trée that was founde out by Pallas the vine whiche was the inuention of Bacchus began to fasten and twine about him wherfore the Olyue tree vsed to him these words saying Why to me dost thou vvanton vine offence Of Pallas I the tree am termde get hence With thy thicke boughes that holde me fast about Elsevvhere nevv props to stay thy selfe seeke out For Bacchus doth vvith deadly hate pursue A virgine yong that is of vertues crue Hovve much silence is allovved hovve profitable and sure it is SImonides the Philosopher béeing blamed on a time bycause he naturally spake so little he sayd I speake so litle bycause I haue many times repented me when I had spokē too muche but I neuer repented me when I had too long held my peace Apollonius sayde that babbling is full of errour and silence is safe and voyd of care And Seneca in lyke maner sayeth that there is nothing that maketh one better in quiet than fewe words and many thoughts Bycause saith he the pleasantnesse of spéeche is so swéete a meate and so alluring that she by little and little enticeth a man no otherwyse than wine and loue doth to discouer secretes and afterward to sow occasions to sinne Wherevpon it is read that Anacarsis the philosopher wrote on his paynted image this sentence Abstaine from the tongue from the throate and from Venerie That it is of no lesse vertue to knovve hovve to keepe silence than to learne hovv to speake A Certain yong man ful of words sought to speak with Isocrates the orator to the end to be his scholer But Isocrates required double wages He being asked for what cause he answered For that I had néede to teache thée two artes the first is to kéepe silence and the seconde to speake That vve ought vtterly to forget our enimies PLato sayde that not only a man ought not to speake of his enimies but also put them out of remembraunce as nature dothe who putteth away hir contrarie That Sophistrie and boasting hath no place among vvise and lerned men A Certaine sophister desirous to set foorthe to Diogenes the sharpnesse of his wit met him on a day and sayd Diogenes that which I am thou art not whiche the Philosopher graunting he added héereto I am a man Ergo thou art no man No no sayd Diogenes begin with me and thou shalt argue wel To an other that for ostentations sake spake vaynely many thyngs of heauen hée sayde Howe long is it agone since thou camest from thence That the substaunce and vaynglorie of this vvorld is in the ende both sleepe and vvinde A Couetous man falling gréeuously sicke drew néere afterward to deaths dore and knowing in the ende that he had nothing to carie with him into an other worlde turned him lastly to his kinsfolke frends that were about him and sayd Take now example by me my déere companions to the ende that in heaping vp of riches you trouble not your selues more than honestie requireth bicause I that haue spent all my lyfe tyme in scrapyng goodes and tresure together must now leaue this life besides whiche I haue enioyed nothing of so much land and precious apparel that I haue I shal possesse nothing else but fyue foot of grounde and an olde shéete The great Saladine forsomuche as he hath bene a noble prince I compare him not herewith the couetous man but set him in thys place as an example of the vayneglory of this world appoynted at his death that this Epitaph should be putte vppon his tombe Saladine king and owner

and worthie that vneth a man dareth to loke hir ful in the face That mans ambition cannot abyde any fellovve in rule WHen Alexander the great hadde ouercome Darius in two greate battayles Darius knowing the valiantnesse of his enimie offered him halfe his kingdome and one of his Daughters in mariage with infinite treasure if he woulde make peace with him Whiche offer Parmeno the chiefest man about him vnderstanding sayde If I were Alexander I would do it And I would doe it aunswered Alexander if I were Parmeno So refusing the offer he quickely conquered the countrie and obteyned the whole victory That the presence and svveete speache of the Prince is very profitable in daungerous and troublous times WHen the Emperoure Charles the fifte in the yere of our Lorde a thousand fine hundred and foure was entred into Fraunce through Campania with a huge armie he marched onward apace So lastely hauing taken Soisson he thought good to go toward the royal Cittie of Paris Wherfore the Parisians notwithstanding that they knewe that their King was with no lesse armie at hande did not onelye murmur and repine but the people also made many signes of mutinie and rebellion Wherfore king Frauncis wente forthwith in his owne person to Paris where setting al things in very good order for the suretie and safegard of the people and seeing them for all thus in great feare vsed to them among other these notable words saying I cannot keepe you men of Paris from feare but I will surely kéepe you from hurte assuring you that I had rather to dye valiantly than to liue vilely in forsaking you That it belongeth to euery man but especially to Princes to keepe faith and promise THe same king Fraunces was wont sometimes to say that when faith should fayle in all other mē yet it should remayne amōg Princes bycause their power is such as they cannot be cōstrayned neyther by iudgemēts nor by lawes And the wise king Alphonsus of Aragon sayd that the word of a Prince ought to be so much worth as the oth of priuate men Ariosto meaning no lesse of priuate men than of Princes wrote wisely and generally vpon the kéeping of faith and promise after this sorte Faith vndefiled thou oughtest aie to haue To one alone as to a thousand giuen So in a wood and in a secrete caue Far of from citties tounes and mens fight hidden As at the barre before the iudges g●●ue In courte of record and witnesses written Without oth or other signe more expresse That once is inough which thou didste promesis That vvise men liue in suche vvise that they feare not forged crimes WHen it was told Plato that some spake amisse of him he aunswered I passe not for my liuing is suche that they shall not be beléeued And Aristotle sayde of one that had spoken amisse of him I giue him leaue to correcte me euen in my absence And of late yeares the Emperoure Charles the fifte token it was reported vnto him that some did backbite him said let them talke for mē will accoumpte them fooles That vvomen do rather obey sense than reason WHen the Emperoure Sigismunde was dead a curiouse kinsman of his exhor●ed his wife to remayne a widdowe and followe the turtle shewing hir at large howe that birde when hir make is dead liueth chast euer after But the woman smyling aunswered him Sith that you counsell me to followe an vnreasonable birde why doe not you rather sette before me the doue or the sparrowe which haue a more pleasaunte nature for women That men ought to do good euen to the dead SYmonides the Philosopher sayde that men ought to do good euē to the dead recompting that he going a iorney found a dead man layd out to be deuoured of wilde beasts and birds wherfore taking pittie caused him forthwith to be buried And when he was minded the nexte day to take shipping there appeared to him béeing a sléepe in the night the soule of that dead man whiche warned hym that he shoulde not enter into that appointed shippe saying that the same should perrishe without doubte Wherfore he tolde in the morning this dreame to his fellowes willing them in no wise to enter that shippe and to stay for an other passage but they laughing him to scorne lefte him and embarked themselues in hir So it fell out that not long after suche a greate tempest rose that the shippe was drowned and his companions fainting dyd all perishe That the life of priuate men is more pleasaunt and quiet than that of Princes THe Emperoure Maximiane and Diocletiane béeing wearie of rule the one and the other willingly resigned their Empire this man to Nicomedia and that man to Milanu● notwithstāding Maximiane afterward repenting himselfe and hauing intelligence that Maxentius his sonne was chosen Emperoure came to Rome with desire and hope which at the end was vaine to take eftsoons rule in hand and to this effecte he procured and lay instantly vpon Diocietiane But Diocletiane aunswered him thus oh brother if you sawe the faire coleworts and goodly onions that I haue planted and sowen with my owne hande certes you woulde neuer thinke more vppon rule VVith vvhat gentlenesse and mildnesse valiaunt Princes auoide the misreports of their subiects against them WHen King Antigonus hadde broughte his armie to winter in barraine and deserte places hys souldiers wanted many things necessarie wherfore some presumpteous fellowes not knowing that he was thereby blamed him and spake very ill of him But he hearing them lyke a mylde and gentle prince as he was came out of his tēt sayde Oh if you will speake amisse of the king go further off for if you felt the payne I doo you could not abide it That the remembrance of our short life doth muche abate mans loftinesse of mynde XErxes king of Persia gooing a warfar● agaynst the Gréekes and séeing all Hellesponte full of his shippes and men of warre cryed with a loude voyce I am a happy man A little whyle after chaunging his countenaunce he beganne to wéepe wherefore his vncle Artabanus séeing so great a chaunge asked him the cause To whom Xerxes altogither grieued pitifully answered in this maner I doo lament bicause I call to mynde the great miserie and shortnesse of mans life considering that in lesse than a hundreth yeres wée shall without doubte all bée dead and rotten He that knovveth much speaketh little DEmosthenes séeing in a company a prating fellowe sayd vnto him if thou were wise inough thou wouldest speake lesse and adding moreouer this sentence he that is wise doth little speake and thinketh much That syncere friendship is knovvne in aduersitie VAlerius Maximus sayth that the sincere fayth of a friende is knowne in aduersitie in the whiche all that gentlenesse and curtesye whiche is shewed to a man procéedeth of founde and constant good will The friendlye déedes that are shewed in prosperitie saith he may procede of flatterie at the least they are suspected to

long youth It helpeth he addeth hereto sometime to vse bathes other while cold water to day to annoint himself to morrowe not passe vppon himselfe and finally to refuse no meate nor drinke which the common people doth vse That it is follye to looke for more of things then nature doth affourde them A Shepharde which had a flocke of shepe séeing that the wolfe did daily take and consume them assembled together vppon a daye the whole flocke and with a trim and long oration he put them in comfort not to feare the wolues for so muche as they were many in number and for the most parte had hornes which the wolues haue not wherefore he wold haue them to be of good courage and with one assent valiauntly to giue ayde one to another and that he would not sayle them at anye time The shéepe taking good hart at these worde ioyned with such effectuall reasons promised and sware that they woulde no more flie from the wolfe Notwithstanding a while after when the rumour was raised to the wolfe to the wolfe those poore beastes were surprised with so great feare that the words and the reasons of the shepherd were not able to holde them from flying awaye Whereuppon he afterward sorrowing with them one of the wisest francklye spake Whilest to make white the blacke thou dost assay Thou sekest that dark night shuld become cleare day That the fruite and safetie of mony consisteth in occuping and not in keping A Couetous man hauyng solde all that hée had and tourned it into ready money buried it in a place where he went daily to see it in suche wise that a man of the countrey watching what he did went thether in the night and digged it out and caryed it away And when the miser another daye came againe to sée his treasure he not finding it was minded desperately to gyue himselfe to the Deuill But a fréend of his being at hand and vnderstanding the cause said vnto him quiet thy self my felow for thou diddest not occupy this monie at all so that thou maiste put stones in place thereof and perswade with thy self that it is golde for these stones will stande thée in as good stéede as monie and added hereto these verses of Petrarcha Oh mente vaga al fin sempre digiuna A che tante pensieris vn'hora sgombra Quel ch' en molti anni a pena si ragana that is Oh gre●dy mind still hungry to the ende Wherto are so great cares one houre doth spoyle That which long time hath hardly won with toyle That the counsayles of youth are rashe and vnaduised and of age considered and perfecte WHEN Paulus Emilius was generall Captaine in Greece for the Romans against king Perseus he had with him Scipio being a very yong man but famous for hys great beginnings of vertue The which Scipio when vpon some occasion he thought the time conuenient to giue battaile to the enimie said Dost thou not sée Emilius to whom the old expert captaine perceiuing some damage that mighte arise thereby whych the vnskillfull yong man knewe not of sayde Nasica when I was of thy yeares I was so minded as thou arte nowe and when thou shalte come to my yeares thou shalte be of that mind which I am now of That the state of vvorldly things is very full of chaunge and therefore that it is meete for vs to prepare to endure both fortunes THE same Emilius when hée had ouercome and taken prisoner the foresaide Perseus and sawe him fall prostrate to hys féete wéeping and ouer cowardlye yelding himself saide vnto him alasse for me stande vp for thou shamest my victorye I thought that I had ouercome some greate king but now I finde that I haue subdued a cowardly woman doutlesse thou arte worthy of greater misfortune And turning to his men of warre he said to them beholde there an example moste notable of worldly things to you yong men chiefly I speake to the ende that you may lerne not to puffe your selues ouer much with pride in prosperitie neither to truste happie fortune to much forasmuch as he is dead in the morning which is borne in the euening And he is a man in déede that in prosperitie is not proude and in aduersitie is not vnpacient A Philosophicall opinion touching the iudging of friendes causes BIas the Philosopher saith that he was neuer willyng to be iudge betwéene hys friendes but betwene his enemies Bycause euen as saith he it is to be feared that one of thy friends shall become thine enemye so is it to be hoped that one of thyne enemies shal be made thy friende That none can liue in this vvorlde vvithoute trouble SOcrates beyng asked of a friende of hys how mannes life maye be passed wythout trouble answered by no meanes for it is not possible said he to dwell in Cities castles and houses without trouble That loue entreth the bodye by the eyes and ouercommeth both Gods and men ARaspa beyng warned of Cirus that he shuld not bée conuersaunte wyth women saying that through his eyes loue by litle wold enter into him answered that if he dyd alwayes take héede of him he should neuer be ouercome But when he was not long after fallen into the flames of loue and for feare and shame durst not come in the presence of his Lord Cirus sent for him as for one whō he loued and smiling saide Araspa I knowe that thou arte greatly afeard of me peraduēture more ashamed but be of good chéere for I maruaile not at thy errour knowing well that euen Gods themselues haue byn deceyued manye times and ouercome by loue That vvomen sometymes doe vvorthy deedes IN the warre betwéene the Emperoure Curradus the third surnamed Ghibellinus Guelfus Duke of Berne of whom in tyme paste the partes taking of the Ghibellines and the Guelfins toke name there chāunced a déede of women as Paulus Emilius the Historigrapher witnesseth no lesse worthy than pleasaunt And this it was that when the Emperoure had ouercome by force Monake the heade Citie of Berne and appointed for muche hatred conceyued all the men to be cut in péeces notwithstanding he fauorablie graunted the women that they should departe safe with all that they coulde carrie vppon their backes Wherevppon those valiaunte women furthered wyth excéeding great loue and true affection toke counsaile and strength to carrye with them the men for their burden With whych worthy acte the Emperoure not onely accompted hymselfe deluded but it pleased him so muche that throughe their loue he receyued afterwarde the Duke his aduersarye into fauour also That valiaunte and vertuous men vvill not be corrupted PHocion of Athens a verye good Citizen when Alexander the great had sent him a great summe of money to win him vnto him asked the messanger what he brought hym and for what cause Alexander had sent money rather to hym than to other citizens Because he thinketh you aunswered he honester and better than