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A11619	A table-booke for princes Containing short remembrances for the gouernment of themselues and their empire. Wherein also respectiuely the seuerall members of state, and all sorts of subiects, may finde matter worthy their obseruation. By Patricke Scot, Esquire.	Scot, Patrick.	1621 (1621)	STC 21860; ESTC S116871	57,840	236

his ensuing sorrow life is blinde doubtfull and full of troubles honors swelleth it sorrow extenuates it heate exsicates it surfets oppresse it sadnesse consumes it solitude imprisons it security duls it yong age exalts it youth profuseth it old age makes it feeble and death ruines it what a foolish frailty is it then to feare death when in each or most of these calamities of life we wish death should cease vpon vs. Wherefore seeing the body of man is but the ruinous cottage wherein the soule of man is imprisoned and dayly assaulted with neuer ceasing enemies the best way to auoyd a more glorious sure dwelling place for so heauenly a guest is timely to teach the soule to despise the body that she hath no interest in it is a stranger a pilgrime and a wearied guest trauelling towards her long wished home and vnwillingly detained within the dungeon of corrupt flesh that because death is the way wherby she must arriue at her long wished heauen shee must willingly acquaint her selfe with death to discouer the dangerous ambuscadoes and ensnaring traps that are hidden vnder the ouershadowing groues of greatnesse and prosperitie This serious meditation of death the familiar conuersing with death and timely disiunction of the soule from the body is the right preparation to dye and when death comes boldly with a kingly courage triumphantly demand him in the face Death where is thy sting Maximilian the Emperour caused his tombe fiue yeares before his death be carried whersoeuer hee did goe Ex orat funeb Sueu that by the remēbrance of death he might dislodge ambitious foolish deceitfull wordly affections and be ready with old Swan-singing Simeon to receiue his safe conduct Luc. 2.25.26.27.28.29.30 and say Now Lord lettest thou thy seruant depart im peace for mine eyes haue seene my saluation Secondly death is carefully to be premeditated because the forgetfulnesse of death increaseth the horror and augments the feare of vnexspected death Aug. de mort Omnia repentina grauiora sunt sed premeditatio futurorum malorum lenit eorum aduentum This consideration of the vncertainety and vnexspected comming of death and carefull prouision for his cōming is able to withstand the furious assaults of fearefull rebellious flesh Petrar dial 28. ambition and down throwing pride of the most powerfull Princes Luc. 21.29 Thess 1.5 Reuel 3.3 is a carefull seruant for the comming of the master a neuer sleeping watch attending the theefe a prouident Oeconomus for laying vp of true store Remember O king sayde Agapetus to Iustinian that death feares not the spenldor of honour or greatnesse Eccl. 12.7 but impartially d●uoures Kings and Beggers therefore before his comming lay vp prouision in heauen where no corruption shall haue entry but shall returne to dust ashes from whence it did come Iob. 1.21.7.5 and man borne naked shall goe hence naked death shall finde him as life leaues him and iudgement shall finde him as death leaues him A●g de doct thist Lact. lib. 3. ● 19. Non potest male mori qui bene vixit plerunque mala mors est quam mala vita praecessit nam sicut vita ipsa bonum est cum virtute viuitur malum si cum scelere Ita mors ex praeteritis vitae actibus ponderanda est SECTIO XXV Of mourning for the dead and of Christian and Princely burials LEt such Critickes who condemne mourning sermons Christianorum iustorū defunctorū corpora quibus tāquam organis ad bona opera vsus est spiritus sanctus officiosa pietate curanda exequtae caelebrand ae● sunt Aug. in Pat. and funeral honours to the praise of the faithfull departed consider that ignorance or singularity is the mother of their errour and as it is true that Christians translated from this life Non sunt omissi sed praemissi so is it as true fidelibus defunctis debito honore ac funebri oratione parentare nulla vnquam pietas aut religio vetuit The redoubled groanes of our Sauiour at the death of Lazarus demonstrate that mourning for the dead is a true signe of the pietie of the liuing Iohn 11.33 38. Stephani Martyrium maximis Christianorum planctibus gemitibus fuit coronatum Act. 8.2 Ieremias did bewayle the death of king Ics●●s in the assembly of the people Abraham his wife Sarah Gen. 23.2 the whole house of Israel did mourne for Moses and Aaron thirty dayes Deut. 29.8 King Dauid did lament for the death of Absolon his sonne Sam. 2.19.18 and for the death of Saul his enemy The holy fathers did bemone the death of their Princes and others their friends Ambrose did most richly garnish the hearse of Theodosius with a learned Sermon and eloquent oration Gregorius Nazianzenus mortuum fratrē Caesariū laudauit eiusque memoriam posteris funebri oratione commendauit Greg. de Sepul Hier. in pan Ierome Damascen and all the ancient pillars of the Church did honourably regard the funerall and last honors done to the Christians deceased I cease to speake of honors done to Princes after their death by the Phylosophers and ancient heathen it is dolefully registred that at the tragicall funerals of Achilles Patroclus killed by the Troians Homer Illi Lachrimis non solum arma lugentium rigarentur sed arenae quoque madescerent Old Solon did delight to bee beloued in his life time that at his death the sorrowfull complaints of his friends might accompany him to his graue Ex dic Phil ● ● Iulius Caesar questor Iuliam Amitam vx remque Corneliam pro rostris laudauit All lawes doe warrant such offices as are done at the funerals of such as haue beene profitable to the commonwealth wherein they did liue to be iusta iure acta Iust and the least defacing of sepulchers of the dead or touch of reproach hath beene holden an offence of higher quality then the ruinating of the houses of the liuing or spoken against their persons in their life time In iuris prudentia quotiescunque leges viuentium pugnant cum legibus po-sthumilijs semper preualent posthumiae omniaque iuris priuilegia fulta fauore publico cedunt vincuntur ab vna sola actione funeraria The ancient Christians did accompt it the extremity of persecution that they were compelled sine supremo honore canticorum himnorum to burie their dead in silence Dion apud Stob. I should exceede the limited breuity that I haue enioyned to my selfe if I should recount the various and superstitious funerall rites obserued amongst the heathen or the sumptuous and vnprofitable charges bestowed amongst some Christians Egyptij condiebant Persae cera circum linitos condebant mortuos eosque domi seruabant vt quam maxime permanerent diuturna corpora Magorū mos erat non humare corpora nisi a feris antea fuissētlaniata Messagetae cognatos propinquos mortuos deuorant ducentes honestius ac rectius a se quam a vermibus commedantur I leaue the funerall fiers wherein anciently Sepulturae Pompa magis est Solarium vinoquam mortuorum praesidium Aug. de cura promort and yet the bodies of the dead haue beene and are consumed to ashes neither will I speake of the precious iewells rich clothes gold siluer seruants horse other conceited fooleries Ioan Boem de morib omn. gen wherewith in diuers Nations Princes are interred I doe onely allow of such honourable buriall of Princes as is obserued amongst Christians which is rather accompanied and condoled with the presence and teares of al good subiects sermons funerall orations and charitable almes thereby in citing the succeeding posterity to imitate the vertues of the deceased prince thē defaced by superstitious rites or prodigall profusion of superfluous and vnprofitable charge Ecclesia fulgeat in parietibus sed ne egeat in pauperibus lapides auro induantur non vt Ecclesiae filij nudi deserantur FINIS Faults escaped in the Printing Page 2. marge capitum persuasum p. 11. line 16. r. l. 20. r. their p. 21. l. 15. r. sapiunt p. 23. l. 7. r. atergo p. 25. l. 14. r. establisheth 26. l. 17. r. melancholius p. 37. l. 20. 21. semper it p. 45. l. 8. r. Alcinoique p. 49. l. 6. r. prosunditas l. 5. altitudo p. 55. l. 13. r. contrahes p. 62. l. 3. r. pictori p. 63. l. 9. r. preesse p. 92. l. 6. r. ad p. 98. l. 2. put out and. p. 100. l. 7. r. leges p 183. l. 19. r. Marcellus p. 148. l. 10. superstitious p. 152. r. zelus p. 172. l 4 r. Aenas and Turnus 214. l. 1. r. condiebant in marge r. viuorum

doe attend warre That they truly inform themselues of the causes which moue them of their abilitie to vphold so sumptuous a charge they are seriously to meditate with themselues and debate with their Councell vpon the irrecouerable losses the chaos of confusion the multitude of miseries the inhumane cruelties the shipwracke of conscience the spoyles rapes tyrannies murthers cares dangers losses cryes of fatherlesse and widdowes and vpon the Ocean of euils that do accompany al-deuouring warre they are wisely to consider the endlesse charges that vpholds it the encrease and multiplying of it the easie beginning the difficult and vncertayne issue of bloody warre and that they must not seeke to obtayn that with blood and shame Quam calamitosa res scelerata bellū hinc malorum omnium quasi mare quoddam exundat semelque cuncta quamcunque peruaserit calamitatum fluctibus operit bellum Erasm inpaneg ad phil which they can neither get nor keepe without sin These and the like euils are able to check the inordinate desires of ambitious enlarging of dominions of vayn glory or tyrannous reuenge Princes are to call to mind that innocent blood is botled in heauens treasure that there is a strict account for the least drop of humane blood spent in their default To this they may add the fraylty of the life of man the millions of diseases hourely accidents and fatal blowes that dayly besides war assaults the ruinous Cottage wherein the life of man is enclosed Secondly let them descend to the true causes of warre from which are to bee excluded the ambition of Alexander the confidence in the number of Xerxes Bella suscipienda vt iniquitatis causa tollatur propter pacis necessitatem Aug. contra Faust the couetousnes of Cr●sus and priuate ends of Caesar Gods glory the defence of kingdomes from forrayne iniury and enioying of peace are the true causes that ought to sound the trumpet in Sion and vnsheath the regall sword Ex Plut. these moued Dauid to put his hand to the sling Iudas Machabeus boldly goe against Gods enemies many braue Princes to contemne death in his face for the honour of their supreame King and safety of their Countreys Augustus Caesar did say that warre ought to bee commanded by the Gods iustified by Phylosophers maintayned by Princes and executed by wise Captaynes and couragious Souldiers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 2. fol. 55. Princes then for the aboue named causes after they haue lawfully denounced warre in publicke and honourable forme may lawfully take armes wherein they must bee religious prouident iudicious iust politike vigilant skilfull strict obseruers of discipline and mercifull So long as Moses lifted vp his hands so long had the people victory Prouident Scipio did scorne to say non putarem I did not thinke it should fall out thus Iudicious Alexander made rather choyce of few skillfull In alijs rebus si quid erratum est potest post modum corrigi prae●orum delicta emendationem non re 〈◊〉 Veget. lib. ● then of confused multitudes Iust Seleucus did rather share in one Eye with his sonne then to bee taynted with iniustice Politicke Sertorius was more confident in counsel then strength Pescennius did watch when his souldiers did sleepe Skillfull Hannibal did range his battels to disaduantage his enemies Val. Max. Alexander Seuerus did so strictly obserue Military discipline that he did punish the least contempt thereof Mercifull Mithridates did not insultingly triumph ouer his vanquished enemies Next in the hazards of war Princes are to be neither carelessely nor timerously suspitious of the euent which may sinisterly succeed Optimus locus inbello est medius quia fortes tenent locum medium inter timidos audaces Arist polit but iealous head-full in dangers stretching and tentering their wit vpon the racke of inuention till their setled and steele-armed resolutions may boldly aduenture the chance of Dice attempt their fortune The Emperour Lucullus vsed to say se malle vnum militem suume manibus hostiū eripere quam vniuersas hostiū copias sibi vendicare Hannibal to this same purpose sayth Se magis cunctantem acquiescentem Fabium quam pugnantem Marcellum formidare It hath euer beene the wisedome of greatest Captains rather by pollicies stratagems Ael Spart and wisedome to ouerthrow the enemy then by hazards vncertain battle Eutrop. lib. 3. Caes de bell Isoc ad Nicocl Reg. and rather by councell then by force Lacones si quando stratagemmate hoc est Callido consilio hostem superassent Marti bouem immolabant sin aperto praelio gallum hoc pacto consue facientes belli duces vt non solum fortes essent ad praelium verum vt callidis potius consilijs aduersus hostem instructi victoriam incruentam consequerentur In warre also magnanimity and courage in most eminent dangers is requisit because the quality of warre is such that the fearefulnes of one discourageth others Wherefore base feare the badge and terror of peasants doth not beseeme cōmanding Princes Plut. in Pol. for certainly where feare is there can bee small hope of victorie Iudas Machabeus enuironed by the multitude of enemies was aduised to turne backe 1. Mac. c. 9. ●0 God forbid sayd he that we should do this thing to fly from them if our time become let vs dye manfully for our brethren and let vs not stain our honor Alexandrias captaine of the Spartans being demaunded why his people did make choyce Suet. lib. 5. rather of death then to yeeld to the enemy because sayd he it is a law obserued amongst them rather to offer theyr bodies to death then to captiuitie Bias hauing warre with Iphicrates King of the Athenians being surprized by an vnexspected ambush Val. Max and seeing his people abandon him did thus encourage or rather checke their cowardise Trog Pom. tell you said he to the liuing that I your Captaine do die fighting and I shall tell to the dead that you did leaue me like cowards The strength of the Assirians was in the courage of their commander Belus of the Persians in Cirus of the Thebans in Hercules of the Hebrewes in Iudas Macchabeus of the Grecians in Alcibiades of the Troians in Hector of the Egyptians in Ogiges of the Epirotes in Pirrhus of the Romans in Scipio of the Carthaginians in Hannibal By these the like it is cleere that moe famous victories more prosperous successe hath happened by the wisedome dexterity and courage of Princes and Commanders then by the strength of souldiers arms Lastly because warre as all humane actions must haue an end the seuerall issues of warre present a three-fold consideration First if Princes attaine to the most fortunate succes that can bee wished they are modestly to curbe their immoderate ioyes insulting pride and inhumane cruelty remembring Ezechiels wheeles counterfeited by the Poets in rota fortun●e whereby is denoted the volubility of worldly