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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68396	The practice of policy written by Lodowike Lloyd ...	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 16627; ESTC S1335	51,274	90

THE PRACTICE OF POLICY Written by Lodowike Lloyd Esquire Qui foueam fodit incidet in eam qui laqueum ponit peribit in illo Eccle. 27. Qui dissipat sepem mordebit eum Coluber Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling in Hosier lane neere Smithfield 1604. ❧ To the most high and mighty Prince James by the grace of God King of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland c. CRATERVS contending with Ephestion most gracious Prince which of them two loued Alexāder best appealed to the king for iudgement who iudged that Craterus loued the king and Ephestion loued Alexander but both alike loued Alexander the king So the Brytaynes and the English loue your Maiesty in like sort that you can hardly iudge which of them loues you best vnlesse you do as Alexander did to iudge the English as Craterus the Brytaynes as Ephestion but both Brytaines English with equall loue and loyalty loue King lames alike that all hauing the like cause of ioy all should so reioyce to enioy such a Iewell that in one day enriched England Ireland with a king and the whole Empire of Brytayne with a Prince to whome it was reserued and continued from Brutus the first King to your Maiesty the second King not as to a stranger but to a iust a lawfull king of the stocke and linage of Brutus to succeed and sit on Brutus seat 2800. yeeres after Brutus where your Maiesty may better say then Caesar Veni vidi vici for that you haue conquered Time came to your owne kingdomes and may see in your selfe such a succession that neyther the Macedonians who much bragged of their Hercules whose lyne ended in Alexander neyther the Romanes who much gloried of Gens Iulia whose stocke extincted in Nero nor any nation vnder heauen which can boast of their antiquities most can say so much The Scythians with their Acornes in their heads and the Athenians with their Grassehoppers in their haires may wel bragge of their Acornes and Grassehoppers but not of the like Empires for as Anaxagoras sayd to Pericles of the Empire of Greece so Cratippus spake to Pompey of the Romane Empire that periods of times are limited Embrace you therefore most mighty Prince the great blessings of God which so embraced your Maiesty elected you King to gouerne his people and to maintayne his lawes without which neither king nor kingdome can stand for that is the rich Tablet which Moses brought from Mount Sinay to set about Israels neck It is that long ladder which Iacob saw in his dreame at Bethel that reached frō the earth into heauen and it is that bright-shining Starre which guyded the kings from the East vnto Christ at Bethlehem The only Pearle that we should buy and the only Iewel that wee should weare not as gards on our garments or frontiers on our forheads as the Iewes wore Phylacterium but rather printed in our hearts where we ought to giue thanks for our King which for 50. yeeres haue bene without either King or Prince and now wee enioy a King a Queene a Prince and Princes with no lesse blessings by the comming of your Maiesty ouer the riuer Tweede from Scotland to England to incorporate both to the ancient name of great Brytaine then by the comming of Israel from Mesopotamia ouer the riuer Iordan to alter the name of Canaan into Iuda whose posterity as they were wrought on Aarons garment to remember Israel so your princely progeny may bee sure set on the vnseamed coate of Christ to remember the house of Iacob Your Maiesties most bounden and dutyfull seruant Lodowike Lloyd THE PRACTICE OF POLICY THeodoricus King of the Gothes began Theodoricus his letter to the Senators of Rome with a sentence of Plato That Nature might sooner erre then a Prince to frame a Common wealth vnlike to himselfe It is most true Imperium ostendit virum for such as the Magistrates are such are the people such as the Prince is so are his subiects and that was the cause why Cyrus King of Persia was Cyrus so much honoured among the Persians for his wise lawes graue gouernment and great policy in enlarging the Monarchy of Persia in so much that hee that resembled Cyrus if it were in any part of his body or had but a crooked nose like Cyrus hee was so esteemed and made much of in all Persia as hee should haue fauour Leuin li. 1 cap 15. shewed him in any place and in euery company And so hee that had but a long head like Pericles in Pericles Athens his cause should be heard before the Iudges of Areopagites or before any Magistrates in the Court Prytaneon free before other Such was the law and fauour of the people towardes Pericles in Athens and towardes Cyrus in Persia that the Midwiues and Nurses both in Asia and in Greece had in charge giuen them by the parents to do their best indeuor to frame and to mould their young infants like Cyrus in Persia and like Pericles in Athens yet few though the Nurses did their indeuours were found in Athēs like Pericles vnlesse it were with a long head and fewe or none were found in Persia like Cyrus vnlesse it were with a Cyrus Val. max. l. 9. ca. 14. Plin. li. 7. cap. 12. crooked nose This kind of likenesse is found in many So was Artenon like to Antiochus the great and Menagenis a Cooke like to Strabo Pomp. And therefore that noble Roman Pompey being yet but a very young man heating by common report that he much resembled Alexander the great in countenance gestures and outward behauiours but specially likened to Alexander for the growing of his hayres vpwardes vpon his forehead in which some write that Alexander Hector and Pompey much resembled Alex. Hect. and Pomp. Opisthocomae one the other this noble Captaine I say esteemed little to be like Alexander in externall forme and frame of his body but he exercised how he might imitate Alexander to be like to him in qualities and actions of the minde Non ex apparatu sed ex animo reges so that he imitated Alexander in valour and magnanimitie of minde and not in forme of his body By such meanes Pompey became afterward to bee compared and was called Pompey the Great after hee Pompey had subdued Sertorius in Affrica as Alexander the great was called in Persia after he had subdued Darius This was a more laudable imitation in Pompey then in the great men and Captaynes of Macedonia who would wish nothing more then to bee called Opisthocomae for so the Grecians called Alexander for that his haires vpon his forhead grew vpward but good Captaynes must not be like the Macedonian Captaynes following onely Alexander to be called Opisthocomae but like Pompey imitating Alexander in greatnesse and valour of minde There were many Opisthocomae in Macedonia yet not one like Alexander many crooked noses in Persia but not