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A16264	The new-found politicke Disclosing the secret natures and dispositions as well of priuate persons as of statesmen and courtiers; wherein the gouernments, greatnesse, and power of the most notable kingdomes and common-wealths of the world are discouered and censured. Together with many excellent caueats and rules fit to be obserued by those princes and states of Christendome, both Protestants and papists, which haue reason to distrust the designes of the King of Spaine, as by the speech of the Duke of Hernia, vttered in the counsell of Spaine, and hereto annexed, may appeare. Written in Italian by Traiano Boccalini ... And now translated into English for the benefit of this kingdome.; De' ragguagli di Parnaso. English	Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.; Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626. Newes from Pernassus.; Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613. Pietra del paragone politico.	1626 (1626)	STC 3185; ESTC S106274	157,616	256

meeting at this time To what purpose then for the rooting out of Vias should we open a window in mans heart as Thales would fain● perswade his Imperiall Maiestie Wherefore should we vndertake that most painefull charge and taske for the diuiding of the vast wide world into equall parts as Solon proposed The opinions of Chilon for banishing of Gold and Siluer out of the world of Pittacus to enforce men to walke the beaten way of Merit and Vertue of Bias to limit men their habitations and to forbid Nauigation the miracle of this world what are all these but Sophisticall Dreames and Chymerizing Ideas of shallow imaginatiue Schollers no way participating of the practicke reall way to extreminate those moderne corruptions which are crept into the world we must not treat of impossibilities but fall to mat●ers actually in earnest and to be put in execution not how things ought to be done but how substantially to reforme the world according as now we find it most strangely deformed and this we must performe warily secretly and without long arguing pro and con or criticall animaduersions the cause of new tumults In briefe then I say that all the reformation of this present Age consisteth in these few words To reward the good and to punish the wicked Here Cleobulus rested against whom Thales thus violently opposed shewing vnto all men how dangerous a thing it is albeit for the Truths sake to offend those persons who liue in the repute of Freedome and Prudence which made this sage Philosopher breake forth into these speeches Both these Reuerend Lords and my selfe most wise Cleobulus seeing that you had derided and despised our Opinion as Sophisticall and Chymerizing expected some rare proiect to proceed from your prudent braine or that you had brought from the Indies some new and miraculous Bezoar for the sodaine cure of the present enormities when you sleighted our cares and propounded a Receit more I will not say difficult but indeed impossible which might pose go beyond euen the most curious Princes of secrets Caius Plin. Albertus Magnus There is not any of vs here my Cleobulus but knows that the reformatiō of the world depēds vpō rewarding the good and punishing the wicked Therefore let me demand of you I pray who be those good men and those wicked And then I will returne you this resolution that that man liueth not which can discerne and distinguish Truth from Hypocrisie Doe you not perceiue that counterfeit Art and dissimulation are in these times growne to that height of perfection that a great number of Spirits are so artificially and cunningly wicked which seeme to wise men to be currantly good And that those good men which liue sincerely ingenuously simply as innocent as Doues without the least painting or dawbing of Hypocrisie are reputed scandalous and of a libertine loose behauiour All men naturally loue the good and hate the euill Yea and most Princes themselues doe so as well by naturall instinct as in respect of Interest of State And when Hypocrites or slie crafty knaues are exalted to promotion and the good are vilipended and neglected that comes to passe not by the Election of Princes but through the deceit and fraudulent tricks of others Onely true bounty and ingenuous Candour are knowne to God and by him rewarded By him Vices are discouered punished for he alone entreth into the depth and profundity of the heart Yea and my selfe too with opening the window in mans breast had pierced into the bottome of mens thoughts had not the enemy of this honest proiect and profitable field wherein I had sowne this memorable Graine cast in before me his Seed of Tares Incredible satisfaction did these words of Thales produce to the Congregation who casting their eyes vpon Periander he as if he had been bidden to shew his reason thus began The diuersitie of Opinions which hitherto I haue heard of you most prudent Philosophers confirme mee in my ancient Opinion tht many a man doth die because Physitians haue not apprehended the certainty of their Patients disease For which errours of theirs they are to be excused because men may easily be deceiued in these things to the knowledge of which they walke onely with the feet of aime and coniecture But for vs who are thought by his Maiesty to be the curers of the world to be ignorant in the cure of this diseased world it is the mor● shame by how much the disease increaseth Yet as farre as I see hitherto by reason of the varieties of the medicines wee goe about to heale the arme in stead of the breast that is corrupted The truth is that Disorders haue euer raigned among men But now adaies by reason of the Worlds decrepit age which cause men to abound with Auarice Ambition and Pride the true occasions of Hatred These being occasioned by some mighty Potentates which intrude vpon their Neighbours states haue bred in continuance of time iealousies warres and as it were an hereditary heart-burning of one Nation against the other The medicine therefore is that Princes repent them and content themselues with a moderate fortune leauing their neighbours at rest and not vnder some imaginarie pretences challenge a Catholicke Supremacie ouer their brethren Here Periander ended his discourse whom Solon thus opposed The true causes of the present euills O Periander were not omitted by vs of ignorance as you perhaps suppose but of a wary circumspection The world from the beginning hath bin corrupted and still continues Yet it is a point of Prudence to winke at some disorders rather than with danger to seeke to remoue them All men liuing haue some faults And many dishonourable acts which Princes perpetrate we must not meddle with lest we aggrauate and make them incurable whom Time may correct Therefore let a wise man either speake charitably of their spots or hold his peace For we shall finde worke enough to reforme the hatred of the common sort by whom they proceed wee must not scan but referre the prime workers of their disorders to the King of Kings who sometimes hardens Pharaohs for their owne ruine or Nebuchadnezzars for scourges to punish his rebellious seruants With these words applauded of the Congregation Solon made end of his speech After whom Cato began in this manner Exceeding well haue yee parlied O graue and famous Grecians in shewing the meanes to supplant and suppresse Hatred and other humane vices But as I conceiue they are those which languish of an incurable Ptisick which spit vp their lungs and do cast off their haire In men there is no helpe therefore the best aduice which I can giue is to desire a finall consummation of the world and for vs to ioyne in prayer to the Diuine Maiestie to open the Cataracts and windowes of Heauen to drowne the whole Earth againe yet with prouiso to preserue in new Arks all those male children which haue not past twelue yeares of age and that of all

foundation which vpholdeth all this worlds machine should faile caused presently certaine Edicts to be proclaimed wherein both to the ignorant and to all others incapable of the most noble prerogatiue to liue with honourable fame and good report in the memory of men he freely granted a hundred yeares of immortalitie to be deliuered him so soone as he should finde out where that famous vertue had hidden herselfe And to assure the payment promised the Royall Exchequer-Chamber deliuered bills of exchange and letters of assignation signed by Homer by Virgil by Liuie and by most wealthy Tacitus all of them principall and most eminent Merchants in the Factorie of Paruassus amongst those vertuous men who with their praise-worthy studies wholly apply themselues to the right noble and honest traffique to e●ernize others names in the memorie of all Nations The greatnesse of the promised reward inuited diuers to goe seeke her out And after much pursuit and exact diligence the Royall Maiestie Fidelitie was found in a stable lying among the Hounds and Spaniels belonging to the famous hunter Acteon and of most louely Adonis Apollo being in all possible haste aduertised of so strange a noueltie did immediatly send thither the two Soueraigne Muses Melpomene and Thalia to the end that remouing so excellent a Virtue from so vile and loathsome a place they should reconduct her to her wonted habitation But all endeuours proued vaine for that glorious Princesse bitterly bewailing her disastrous condition cried out Oh you Sacred Di●ties relate vnto my Soueraigne good Lord Apollo from me that my eternall and most capitall enemy Fraud hath at last obtained a compleat victorie touching the controuersie that shee hath euer had with me And how that infamous Interesse who in these dismall daies tyrannizeth ouer the minds of all the best Nations hath rigorously banished me from out the hearts of men which in former times were wholly mine Let his Maiestie likewise vnderstand that the whole Vniuerse is so deeply plunged in the filthy mud of all abominable and brutish pollutions that the constant Fidelitie honourably and faithfully to serue her Lord or Prince euen to the effusion of the last drop of her heart-bloud and to the emmission of the last gasps of life which erst was so admired and ambitiously sought after is now adaies reputed no better than a foolish and hare-brain'd obstinacie And tell him moreouer that if a man so he may accommodate and fit himselfe to all times to all places and to all persons haue a fraudulent heart full-fraught with perfidious trechery and readily disposed to exercise whatsoeuer execrable Infidelity or damnable periurie the same is now adaies commended and extolled to be wisdome sagacitie and warinesse of an all comprehending and reaching wit And tell him that I a poore abiect creature glutted and euen tyred to see so filthie and opprobrious things am inforced to imbrace the resolution as you see to liue among these dogs in whom I now finde that true Fidelitie which with so much toylesome carke I haue euer laboured and wearied my selfe to insert and plant in the perfidious and interessed heart●● of all men Apollo perceiuing the great disorders that the flight of the sacred vertue Fidelitie bred in all Mankind by the mediation of the Soueraigne Muses and of the sublime Heroike Vertues obtaineth her returne into Parnassus Rag. 30. 1 Part. NO tongue can fully expresse what anxietie and anguish Apollo fell into by the secret and sudden departure which as by our former Letters hath already beene signified the excellent vertue Fidelitie some weeks since made from this state of Parnassus For his Maiestie could not possibly be at peace or take any rest to see the world depriued of so noble a Princesse And his afflictions were daily increased by the foule disorders which continually were heard to multiply in all Principalities betweene the common people and thrice-sacred Amicitia the only exquisite delight of Mankind who seeing her selfe forsaken by that pre●ious vertue Fidelitie and fearing to receiue some notable affront by Fraud absolutely denide to inhabit any longer in the hearts of men who freed from the oath of Fidelitie or Allegeance which indissolubly they owe vnto their Princes and likewise loose from the bond of that sincere loue with which they are fast tied vnto their priuate friends became so fell in perfidiousnesse so brutish in seditions as making euery most detestable wickednesse to seeme lawfull they with treacherie chased vnspotted Faithfulnesse from all humane societie and with foule seditions sacred Peace defiling the whole world with bloud and filled the same with most villanous Larcenies and with all manner of perfidious and execrable confusion Besides the iust grieuances and complaints of Princes did continually molest Apollo's minde which Princes did openly protest that by the damnable infidelitie of their subiects they were inforced to abandon the gouernance of Mankind whereupon Apollo to finde out some conuenient remedie against so notorious a mischiefe thought it expedient to intimate the high Court of Parlament of all the generall Estates against the twentieth of the last moneth vnto which hee summoned the Poet-princes and the Deputies of all vertuous Nations All which being in great diligence appeared on the prefixed day there were discouered in many people great hatreds against their Princes all which protested openly that not by the vice of Infidelitie but vrged and euen compelled by desperation they had for euer banished from out their hearts that Fidelitie which as most hurtfull and preiudiciall to them they were resolutely determined neuer to acknowledge and re-admit forsomuch as shee was most foulely abused by many Princes And whereas in former times the Fidelitie of Subiects hauing euer serued as an instrument to induce Princes to counterchange the awe and seruice of their people with gentle and courteous vsages they now clearely perceiued that the vertue of a base and prostrate obedience was reputed but the basenesse of an abiect minde and the merit of a voluntarie and vntainted faithfulnesse a necessitie to serue by reason of which manner of proceeding publike mischiefes and disorders were vncontroledly gone so farre that many people had beene compelled to vndertake the resolution which the world now saw onely to the end that humorous and capricious Princes should come to the perfect knowledge that the authoritie to sway and command may easily be lost when the outrages ingratitudes and misusages daily vsed towards subiects hauing surmounted all humane patience brought all nations naturally inclined to dutifull obedience euen vnto desperation and neuer any more to liue in subiection of Masters with an obstinate resolution rather to wrach on a free gouernment than to be continually contemned abused flaied hurried and molested vnder Principalities Although the rage and disdaine of Princes towards their subiects were great and the distaste of the people greater the soueraigne Muses neuerthelesse with the assistance of the thrice-excellent heroick Vertues who effectually laboured to bring a businesse of so

might with great facility suppresse and bring vnder With wondrous reposednesse of minde and gentle words Reputation answered those vertuous men her louing friends who so comforted her that shee exceedingly valued and loued the ready good will which she perceiued in them all but she could neither commend nor follow the counsell they gaue her And that they should call to minde that the whole of the power of her authoritie and greatnesse being founded not on the forces of strong-armed Armies nor on the strength and securitie of inexpugnable cittadels but on the bare opinion of men a thing most inconstant and variable So as it behoued her in this her aduersitie to proceed with great caution and admirable dexteritie And that betweene her and Force there was a monstrous great disparitie for if Force were once vanquished shee might easily recouer her selfe and with greater impetuofitie attempt a second battell so much the more dangerous for her for to her ordinarie power shee might ioyne the violence of Disdaine and the shame of her first ouerthrow But if it should happen that at the first shock shee did not quell her enemy either with the maiestie of her presence or with the authoritie of her looke so that as an Elephant which being once fallen to the gound can neuer rise againe she might destroy her shee should wholly be depriued of that greatnesse and awfull respect which the publike veneration of the common people bred in her Considerations so much the more necessarie in her as she had experienced that nothing is more perillous for her than by force of Armes to seeke to maintaine that auctoritie great and that reputation on foot which shee seeth to bee founded but on the bare opinion of the vulgar popular And that shee hoped to prouide for the indemnitie of her authoritie with her wonted remedies and would with her accustomed weapons buckle with Force not doubting but to conquer her She said moreouer that Force did now vse those extraordinarie termes of insolencie towards her not because her power was any whit increased but by reason of some disorders of hers shee perceiued the ancient decorum her wonted maiestie and the peoples veneration towards her to be greatly diminished Reputation hauing vttered these kinde words went away and shortly after retired her selfe into her lodging whence for diuers moneths space shee was neuer seene to come abroad but with great seueritie gaue her selfe to reforme and correct her selfe for euer banishing all self-respects and priuate interesses to which because shee had yeelded ouermuch and too openly abandoned her selfe shee euidently perceiued her honour and credit to be much impaired And then with the beesom of a rigid reformation in her selfe she wholly imployd her time in cleansing her house and ●●milie from all manner of filthinesse pollution and basenesse from which she also chased and expelled griping Auarice daring Ambition and all other priuate dishonest vnlawfull or scandalous passions This Princesse hauing thus reformed her priuate disorders being one morning to be present at some solemne and publike Act she extraordinarily embellished and adorned her selfe all ouer with honestie of minde with vprightnesse of spirit with singlenesse of heart with vngrudging liberalitie and with all her other most esteemed vertues And hauing put on the rich robe of righteousnesse and affectionate loue towards all well-deseruing creatures and of publike charitie she came forth with so awfull a maiestie and comely a grauitie where shee was expected by all the other most excellent Vertues in whom shee stirred vp so great respect and regardfull veneration that euen the Lady Force her selfe so great was the deuotion that possessed her minde was seene to tremble and stand amazed and in that occasion not only with her accustomed reuerence to grant her her due precedence on the right hand but with a kinde of seruile submission to beg as a singular fauour at her hands the prerogatiue in that solemnitie to carry vp her traine The Prouince of Focides by her Ambassadors complaineth vnto Apollo that his Maiesties officers doe not permit her to enioy her priuiledges whose request is not only reiected but they haue a most sharp and vnpleasant answer Rag. 1. 2 Part. THe most populous Prouince of Focides which some yeares since rebelled from the Ignorant and voluntarily did subiect it selfe vnto Apollo's Dominion of whom she obtained so ample priuiledges and large immunities as it might truly be said that the Focenses liued in a kinde of free libertie hath now sent her Ambassadors to this Court to complaine against his Maiesties officers that they will not permit them to enioy those priuiledges which by his sacred Maiestie were granted them And therefore doe instantly require him to command the due obseruation of them This businesse which somewhat distasted Apollo was by him referred vnto his Royall Councell of State from whom the Ambassadors two daies since had for a finall answer that the Lords of the Councell did greatly wonder and rested much scandalized that the people of Focides seemed to be so ignorant of the affaires of the world as they knew not that Priuiledges Liberties Franchises Exemptions and Immunities granted vnto people newly conquered were like vnto those cherries that were giuen to children when they cryde and puled to make them hold their peace but were afterwards taken from them when they lay still and quiet To whom the chiefe of the Ambassadors stoutly replied that if in Parnassus they vsed so fouly to abuse sillie well-meaning people Focides would ere long fall to whining againe to the end it might be stilled with cherries of new priuiledges To this companion Francis Guicciardin Lord President of the Royall Counsell suddenly answered that if the F●censes did well consider the present state wherein they were they should finde that with the Cittadels which in times of peace they had suffered to be built vpon their necks they were reduced vnto such termes of bondage and thraldome as if they fell to whining againe they might very well without any danger or preiudice vnto Apollo's state be stilled and made to hold their peace with smarting lashes and bloudy stripes Socrates hauing this morning beene found dead in his bed Apollo vseth all possible diligence to discouer the true occasion of his sudden death Rag. 32. 2 Part. THis present morning great Socrates who yesternight went to bed in perfect good health hath beene found starke dead in his bed and forsomuch as his corps was all swolne and puft vp most men doe vehemently suspect that there hath beene some machination of poyson practised vpon him And the Peripateticks cruell enemies to the Socratike Sect haue beene much questioned and blamed for it And so much the more because it is well knowne to all men that the most detestable armes of poysoning are very familiar vnto Aristotle Prince of that great Sect. All Socrates his houshold hath this morning beene imprisoned from whom no other light or confession can be wrested but that some

two reasons to be slighted as well in knowing him to be dangerously suspected as also in that he is driuen to stand Armed and on his guard which cannot but consume him in a short time Nor doth their opinion any whit moue me which say that he shall not want succours out of France and out of those parts of Italy which are interessed for their preseruation because the French which should aide him are deriued from a Gouernment whereof the Head is a Woman diuided in Religion full of emulation and of sundry disagreements among themselues where it is no hard matter still to nourish and increase their doubts with their dissentions and diuersified resolutions so that the effects of them will fall out to be of small securitie vaine or long and vncertaine And the dessignes of the Italians enuironed with our bordering States are become weakned and worne out by the sodaine death of the French King in whom they had grounded their hopes so that now being afraid of our nighbouring Forces and by the rising Fortunes of your Maiestie they wil not presume openly to descend into this warre but rather by obseruing other mens proceedings and vainely trusting to the benefit of the time they will stand idle as mournfull spectators of the tempest which beates on their Neighbours fields vnto whom it shall be in your Maiesties power to giue them that ●orme and Law whatsoeuer your Benignity shall please to impose and hereafter shall be aduised according to the times Neither let your Maiestie faile to entertaine them with sundry cautions and artificiall promises and with protestations to affirme vnto them that what you take away from their Father you will restore it to the Sonne granting that to your Bloud which now you haue denyed to the Father for his ill deserts With these hopefull promises let the Prince Philebert be fed and extraordinarily made much off In the meane time then let the prouisions for the warre be speedily hastened on assembling souldiers out of the State of Milan which are not enfeebled as some I know not whether they doe it of zeale or interest doe expresse to minister an occasion to the enemy of insulting We haue men for number and valour sufficient for a greater enterprize then this among these good store of old Souldiers exercised in the Warres of the Low-Countries nor are there wanting Captaines of estimation and experience And if your Treasure seemes somewhat scanted you haue a way to find out so much money as you please by departing with diuers Merchandises and by feeding your Creditors with the particulars of the Fleets at their returne from the Indies and also by other extraordinary meanes And seeing that your Maiestie hath no warres at this present in any other parts the ordinary Reuenues of your Kingdomes are enough to supply the charge of this warre Besides the seat of the warre will fall out to be in a great part of the Enemies owne Territories which will euery day produce more fortunate conditions Onely let your Maiestie resolue and determine to passe as Caesar did the Rubicon and then all things will succeed easie plaine and the fruits of the victory will alwayes ouercome the lightnesse of beliefe Occasions are rare and you had need to meet with them For whosoeuer thinkes you may aspire to the Empire of Italy without vnsh●●thing your sword or a●iding the hazard shewes that he hath had but small doings in the world God and Fortune doe fauour the Aduenturous the vigilant and valiant and despiseth the fearefull the sleepy and the pusillanimous Shall we for friuolous suspicions of remote dangers contemne liuely and assured hopes I doe then conclude Most inuincible King that vnlesse we may haue some Forts impawned into our hands without the which the State of Milan will still remaine in the same perill we ought not in any wise to embrace that other Treaty which is offered by the Popes Nuntio nor to stay so long vntill the new King of France bee growne to his riper yeares lest hee be then incited and prouoked by this Duke who is full of vast and irregular conceits to passe the mountaines to your dammage but now whilest he is a Pupill it is necessary to preuent the inconuenience and to transferre the Warre into the Enemies Land I beseech your Maiestie to consider with what good opportunity the way is made open for you to the Monarchy of Italy and to the greater part of Europe as God hath lately fauoured you In what manner hath hee dissipated and confounded our Enemies Counsels by the sodaine death of Henry the fourth That Kingdome is now without a Head Italy disunited and weake Germany all tottered and diuided The Turke is beaten backe and intangled in the Warres of the Levant so that none is able to withstand your designes The Iniury is apparant which prickes you to a iust reuenge and frees you from any blot of too much desire of Rule Your Age which is now at the flowre is pried into and expected that it walke with some trauell through the way of Glory with the which your Greatnesse shall no lesse bee conioyned then the Aduancement of Religion together with the safety of all Christendome By which proceedings we shall see that verified of your Maiestie which many Learned men with no ambiguous obseruations of the Celestiall Influences and of the worlds passages haue oftentimes affirmed to haue beene ordayned in Heauen that this most Noble Prouince hauing beene oppressed for so many Ages vnder the hard bondage of Strangers ought at last in the Reuolution of so many yeares to stand aboue all and to extend their Empire to the vttermost Confines of the Earth and to remaine nothing inferiour to that of the Persians of the Macedonians or Romanes FINIS