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A51726	The pourtract of the politicke Christian-favourite originally drawn from some of the actions of the Lord Duke of St. Lucar : written to the Catholick Majesty of Philip the Great, and the fourth of that name : a piece worthy to be read by all gentlemen, who desire to know the secrets of state, and mysteries of government / by Marquesse Virgilio Malvezzi ; to this translation is annexed, the chiefe state maxims, political and historical observations, in a brief and sententious way, upon the same story of Count Olivares, Duke of St. Lucar.; Ritratto del privata politico christiano. English	Malvezzi, Virgilio, marchese, 1595-1653.; Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.	1647 (1647)	Wing M360; ESTC R9198	61,007	163

enable my Relation and make the infinite worth of the Duke more famous are not by me recounted in this present worke because that I having written it I call God to witnesse without his consent I reputed it not convenient to publish them to view without authority from him that performed them but it doth me good neverthelesse to believe that he will one day be pleased that some more eminent pen then mine shall divulge them to the world not to defraud him of the glory of being the first to informe Favourites how to serve their Prince and Princes how to governe their people He that shall write as the Duke did will discover a knowledge of the great good inclination in his Master and declare himself to be a faithfull Favourite To with hold Princes from businesse may be a laudable effect but alwaies of a blame-worthy occasion if prudence produce it it is an ill signe for the Prince if sagaeity it it is worse for the Favourite because it alwaies intimates the one wicked the other unable There have been some that have deem'd it an irrevocable maxime for Favourites to estrange Princes from all manner of businesse but it may be that they peradventure have thought it ought to be so because they have found it done so they would have one draught serve to one species in a world wherein nature hath not made any thing originall that is not different to give excellent precepts to one that never was excellent and hath too too much strayed from the right is a sure destroying of him Hee is not at the first capable of more then of an indifferent good he must be first healed and then perfected there is no doubt but that a Favourite who feares not his Prince as he ought doth utterly ruine himself if he suffer his manner of proceeding to be corrected or if he let his Prince come into action The good old man of Chio said that when a Physitian met with a contagious distemper he was not on the sudden to reduce it to what it should be but to what it was at the first because to that then it ought to come Nature which does help to expell a worse distemper then its owne doth resist to bring in a better It might peradventure be credible that that Master would have inferred this who did desire a Tyrant indifferently good not that he should stay there but because he imagined that he could not at the first be reduced to a superlative without his ruine The examples of this most wise Favourite would bee of no use to the vigilant Sound mens food is most dangerous for the sicke Necessity of state importuning Taxes and the Duke knowing how much it grieved the people to see their contributions given away he writ a Discourse to his Majestie wherein he discovered the great errour that Princes ran into that proceeding and that there was not wanting to his Majestie Habits Orders Honours Offices Degrees and Greatnesse to satisfie the merits of the Worthy without either distasting the subject or impoverishing the Exchequer This counsell was the occasion that the King began ro remunerate his deserving subjects or the deservings of his subjects with honours and dignities Riches are not the pay of worth they are the wages of labour he that buyes it vilifies himself he that sells it is vile already The operation of worth produceth its reward for it produceth honours and he that hath it can pretend nothing more then some markes that he hath it Of this condition are Greatnesse Titles Orders Habits and of this nature were the City Crownes the Collars and the Triumphs of the Ancients Such rewards if they grow common give no honours nay rather they loose that they have when they are bestowed on such as have it not There was a time when rewarding did not emptie the Kings Coffers and it was a time fertile in worthy men they were most rewarded who were least rewarded Honour was then a very great price and the price of vertue only But when that which was a price began to be at a price it lost value and made men loose their courages so that honour and worth became both mercenary and men lusted rather after the wealths that bought them then after the qualities that got them The originall of so much errour and confusion was derived from such Princes that were needy and poore and thereupon gave more honour to the wealthy then the worthy but these would not have had need of riches if they had not made them necessary with taking away the reputatiou● of worth The Spartans were a while without gold and the first Romanes if they had it did not adore it States have many times encreased with money but never without valour It may be it did not concerne Kings to keep it in credit such are not the most valarous but the richest they have given reputation to what they alwaies have to assure them of that which sometimes they have not The Prince of Wales went into Spaine to get the Infanta Maria to wife and for some other respects of the Palatine his Brother in law When the Lord Duke stood firme upon this resolution that when the King of England should in his Kingdome grant all that in favour of the Catholike Religion without which there was no probability of a match that then the Catholike Nation should accord to all that that the conveniency of State required nor would he ●ver depart from this Catholike vow although he well enough understood that if the King of England would not consent to this proposition as he did manifestly declare he would not the issue that he insisted upon with a potent King to the enemies of the house of Austria and that he did foresee Warrs which would more load the Favourite then any man else because they take from him the commodity of enjoying the degree that he doth possesse and oppresse him with turmoyles cares and necessities that attend them This Counsell was the counsell of the Duke and the counsell and the Duke are worthy of the highest praise hath no need of my pen I doe here lye downe with all reverence and humility at the feet of Pope Vrban our Lord and as I have been confident to be able securely to goe on in the way of commendations of the Duke enlightned by his great splendour which in many things cannot erre and in those he can he will not So likewise have I been willing to participate the Ray of it to others to strengthen their sight that see and to illuminate them that see not and confound them that will not see Then did his holinesse write a Letter to the Lord Duke the contents whereof translated into Italian sounds as you here may heare To the beloved Sonne and Noble Lord the Earle of OLIVAREZ Vrban the Pope 8. NOBLE Lord and beloved Sonne health and Apostolicall benediction The Common report of the Monarchie of Spaine drives such an applause

to the Counsells of your Nobility that that serves for Authority to your person which is its felicity in as much as fame the messenger of truth conceales not the praises of the Lord Duke Olivarez but by publishing your vertues fills all Europe and comforts the Church of Rome Wee truly who long before this have had notice of your Noblenesse are hardly to expresse with what comfort of heart wee have now heard by our beloved Sonne Father Zachary a Capuchin how much more you esteem a good report then riches believing that an affection for the propagation of the Faith is the fortification of the power of Spaine and the greatest honour of the Catholike King And hee affirmes that the Counsells of your zeale are such that they assure the patronage of Heaven to your family and perpetuall felicity to the Kingdomes of Spaine in as much as it is published that you have given such instructions of Christian piety in the businesse of the mariage with England that forraine Princes may learne from you with what great vertues the Chatholike Religion adornes her sonnes withall in whom the glory of the Name of God hath a greater sway then the encrease of any humane power These praises thus confirm'd by the testimonie of so good a Priest did give so much consolation to the cares of our dignity that We have been pleased to notifie it by our Apostolike Letters Proceed on worthy Lord take such paines that the inseparable Nations of the Spanish Empire may know the publike welfare the Ecclesiastick Iurisdiction and the Authority of the Noblenesse upon which We bestowe Our Apostolicall Benediction From St Peters in Rome under the Seale of the Piscator the 27th of Ap. in the yeare of our Pontificate the first and of the Lord 1624. Iohan. Champele The Prince of Wales being but ill satisfied and returned into England joyn'd himself with other of the Emulours and enemies of the King in the League of Avignion the Articles whereof were that the Hollanders should set upon Brasile that the Army of France with the assistance of the Duke of Savoy should fall upon the State of Genoa and that the King of England should goe with a Fleet for a designe upon Cales that the King of Denmark with Protestant Associats should infest the Empire that the Venetians should furnish the Duke of Savoy with money and the Grizons with money and munition to make an inrode upon the Valteline that a peace should be procured between the Turks and the Persian that the Turke might enter by the way of Hungary and Bethlem Gabor by Transilvania that the Hollanders should send Cannons and Cannoniers to the Moores of Affricke that they might beseige Mamora and Larachy All these stormes were dispers'd first by the breath of God then by the prudence of the Catholike King and by the counsell and providence of the Lord Duke there was a Fleet supplied in Brasile which recovered the Sconce whereof the Hollanders were Masters in the Bay of All Saints two Armies relieved Genoa and the Valteline the one set at large that which was at the last gaspe the other did maintaine in the Valteline the Catholike Religion The Englishmen were expected with so furnished a preparation that after they of Cales had killed some five thousand of them the rest returned home wearie and afflicted The Hollanders did loose Breda The King of Denmarke was beaten in a battle and betook himself to his trenches The Affricans were repulsed from Mamora and Carachy with a great losse After which successes there was a peace made whereby the Church obtain'd great authority the Catholike King great applause and the Lord Duke no small reputation When Leagues thrive Iealousie breakes them when they doe not thrive feare breakes them but they seldome overcome if they doe it not in an instant they have large forces but not long in regard that they are for the most part composed of ordinary powers and Warrs do quickly consume their treasures but it is not so with Monarchs A League is a body of a facile corruption it often resolves into the first matter and that abandoned it remaines but an empty power Many Sciences and Arts have one and the same object but never considered after one and the same manner and howsoever they accord to move toward it yet they agree not in the operation The Tailor goes to the same body that the Philosopher doth but when hee hath cloth'd it he leaves it because it is not ever to be cloath'd The Physitian goes likewise to the same body and when he hath healed it he goes his way because it is not alwaies to be cured The Philosopher alwaies stands fast there because it is alwaies moveable So in Leagues all have power for the object but by a diverse manner some because they receive hurt by it some because they feare it some because they envie it The first being quit from hurt they goe away because it is not alwaies hurtfull the second secured from feare they goe away because it is not alwaies fearefull so that at the last there remaines none but the last which doe alwaies envie it because it is alwaies to be envied The King would have given the Lord Duke a great Donative and would likewise have authoriz'd him to have transported from new Spaine into China a ship laden with marchandize an advantage which would have been of great commodity to him but of an answerable damage to the inhabitants of Spaine The Duke did accept of neither because he would not transgresse his established rule I conceive this so necessary an action and so concerning his reputation that I should not commend it if the ignorance of many that have not so known it did not proclaime it admirable The act is so profitatable that he who is not perswaded to it by prudence is to suffer himself to be brought to it by prevision To accept of what accepted incurres blame and what refused merits glory is a testimony either of basenesse or foolishnesse Worldly men that are not of this Alloy walke to the Temple of glory but the passage is so steep that they have need of a Waggon Some have recourse the Chariot of worth and some to the Cart of riches whereupon it comes to passe that as they are to be borne withall who seek them to make themselves glorious so are they to be reprehended who hunt after them to make themselves be blamed The Lord Duke forbeares not to take the stipends belonging to his Offices which he personally performes not applauding that drynesse of the conceites of those morrall men that blame riches Vertue I speak now of morall vertue doth not consist in being poor but in making ones self poor He doth not adore but despiseth money that spends it he that would not be rich is an un profitable poor man and a cruell fool He that casts riches into the sea is a poor vaine man and an envious fool He that possesseth wealth

enrich but few but they empty the store that must be restored by the impoverishnesse of all The most Christian King of France had besieged Rochell and suspecting that it would have been relieved by the King of England he did by the means of the Marquesse Ramboulle his Ambassadour Extraordinary demand a Navy from Phillip the fourth whereto the Councell of the Duke advising it was consented him and was an Act of great honour by delivering France from so long an oppression with so much commodity to the Catholike Faith It was thought that the Duke erred in reason of state in preferring the service of God to that of the King but he cannot erre in the service of the Catholike King that erres not in the service of God if any impious man hath in his Instructions seperated the reason of State from that of God yet are they so conjoyn'd in the concernings of this King that no distinction of any understanding can disjoyn them God who hath manifested unto us his Election of this Family for the defence of his Religion hath not left a place that it may be taken away by the quicknesse of spirit so that if some Officer of small or no Religion should by chance spring up he could do no hurt but to himself with his wicked intention finding himselfe thrust on by a nimblenesse of spirit to those actions which cloathed with the zeale of God would be laudable parts of prudence but in the examination of reason of State I conclude it to be necessarily that of the Devill when it is seperated from that of the Lord I believe that Lucifer had no intention to raise himself to such a height as to be above God for then he would not have had an intention to dissolve the Vnity but to betterit which he by the naturall gift only of science did know to be impossible He then had a thought to exalt himself by withdrawing himself aside and so going from one to make the number of two upon which afterward as upon a Center he did designe his Circumference diverse from that of God nor could he go from the one but that he must be bad because all that is good is One God drawing a line from his Circumference did to make the number of three create man the Devill likewise thrust out a line from his circumference to make the number of foure and did seduce him God who would not leave man in the hands of the Devill came to redeem him and made the number of five and although he did not take away from him the excitement that seduceth him towards the number of two yet he gave him the grace that reduced him towards the One whereupon man remained free not being able to designe a Circumference upon himselfe because there is no other Circumference to be given then of the One and of the Two nothing els being found but good or evil to determine it Operating well upon the Centre of the one and operating ill upon the Centre of the Two As there are two Circumferences so are there two reasons of State the one of God the other of the Devill that of God is to come neare to God to be great that of the Devill is to go far from God to make himselfe great what discourse then of a religious understanding shall ever deterre us from the spoiling the nest of the Heretiques if we be able to do it He that can do it and doth it not doth sin and doth inlarge as much as in him lies the Circumference of the Devill He that can do it and doth it doth enlarge by what is in his power the circumference of God Have sins power to defend States and merrits power to destroy them Oh King oh Grandee oh Catholique what thing think you can defend your Kingdomes not your treasures not the Armies it is God defends them because you have defended him because you do defend him and that you may defend him Don Emanuell of Merveses Generall of the Fleet of Lisbone wanting sufficient means to maintain him at Court to defend him from some oppositions advertis'd about the discharge of his trust was resolv'd to be gone leave a Deputy which the Duke perceiving by him when he went to get leave of him did not consent that he should depart with dammage to his reputation and yet being unwilling to hinder the course of justice did offer himselfe to his assistance as he did in effect to his purse so did this magnanimous Fauourite reserve the rewards that were bestowed upon him to helpe deserving men upon their occasions It is a more blessed thing to give then to receive and peradventure the reason is because he that hath the commodity of giving is more happy then he that hath the necessity of receiving most happy then is he that gives and not receives He that receives and gives is not the man that gives but he that gave it him such as are inflexible in receiving are so likewise in giving the selfe-same severity that they use against themselves makes them little charitable towards others the Lord Duke was able to have relieved an Officer of so great merit with that which was his of whom he had well deserved but he desired to do it with his own because he was a well deserver of the King A Favourite is to esteem the service done to his Prince as done to him and to repute himselfe obliged to whom the King is if he gives to him that hath served well he merits for those works that he hath not done but rewarded he should prize his goods more then his life more then his understanding more then himselfe that would wast himselfe and not his Estate in the Kings service the part of giving is as hard as part of receiving he that receives every thing is too covetous he that takes nothing is too severe he that gives alwaies is too prodigall and he that never gives is too miserable The Rhetorician that thought it a difficult thing to perswade a Judge to give what was his own and to be no hard matter to winne him to give what was another mans would have been upon a false ground with the Duke Oh the gallant and true magnanimity of a Favourite who helpes by liberality where he cannot by justice and will rather be a looser himselfe that he may winne who is to loose then that justice should lose who is alwaies to overcome the Subjects that have worth in them may contend with certainty of reward when they serve a Monarch whose Favourite is such an one that if he do not intercede to the King for them he gives like a King to them who will believe that a man will not be liberall of another mans purse when he is franke of his own when he is to be so I was about to say when he needs not be so I will say when he cannot be Never was there a Favourite so courteous in Audiences so