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A38818	Gymnasiarchon, or, The schoole of potentates wherein is shewn, the mutability of worldly honour / written in Latine by Acatius Evenkellius ; Englished, with some illustrations and observations, by T. N. ...; Sejanus, seu, De praepotentibus regum ac principum ministris, commonefactio. English	Ennenckel, Georgius Acacius, b. 1573.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3526A; ESTC R39517	168,645	466

which were exceeding great hee ever laboured to keep the King in Warr that so he might be beholding to him to assist him when occasion offered it selfe for he together with his associats did rather aime at their private good then the good of their Countrey But these and the like devises as they are most ridiculous in themselves so they are to none more pernicious then to the Projectors as is manifested in the History of the Constable before mentioned most exactly written by Philip Commines Nicholas Picunnes Generall of the Army of Philip Duke of Millane after that he had brought the Earle of Francisfort and the Army of his confederates into such a straight that he was assured of the victory he broke forth into such a height of insolency that forgetting himselfe and the charge that was committed unto him he calls to minde how long he had served the Duke in the Warrs and that during all that time he had not gotten so much land in his service as would cover his body when he was dead and therefore he began to expostulate what reward should be given for all his services and because it lay in his powet to deliver into the Dukes hands the whole Conntrey of Lumbardy and all those Enemies that did oppresse him he required of the Duke as a reward for his service the City of Placentia the which unlesse hee would grant hee plainly told him he would return home and leave the field this mans insolency so much offended the Duke that rather then he should have his will he was content to leave an assured victory so suffered himselfe to be carried away with the insolency of this man whom no danger or feare of Enemies could ever move a jot wherefore hee concluded Peace with the Earle and commanded Pricinius with his Army to quit the Country accusing fortune as a step-dame whereas there was no fault in her but in Pricinius insolency Tacitus reports of Lentulus Getulicus being made Generall over the Army of the upper part of Germany and being suspected and accused by reason of the inward familiarity between him and Sejanus was so bold as to send Letters unto Caesar shewing that the familiarity between him and Sejanus was not occasioned of his own head but by the advice of Tiberius and therefore it was nor strange but that he as well as Tiberius might be deceived neither could that be imputed unto him as an errour of wilfulnesse for that he ever carried an honest heart to him and resolved ever so to do though he had been often tempted to quit his allegiance and could endure no more to heare that Sejanus should succeed in the Empire then he could endure to heare of his damnation But in conclusion Tiberius and Getulicus made a League as it were that Tiberius should enjoy his Dominions and Getulicus his Province Tacitus affirmes that the bold menacing Epistles which Getulicus writ unto Tiberius did him no hurt at all for Tiberius wisely considering in what case hee stood how he was growen old and not beloved of his Subjects and that he had not power of himselfe suffered him alone of all Sejanus his adherents to live in peace and enjoy his favour But without doubt this did much trouble Tiberius that was of a cholerick disposition and a high spirit and if hee had lived long he would have called him to an account but hee considered that Getulicus lived farr from him and what hee writ proceeded from the bottome of a good conscience and out of an honest heart There is another thing that doth commonly happen to such as are grown proud with prosperity that the same cruelty which they have without controule executed upon their equals and inferiours in the end they execute upon their Soveraign Experience hereof we have in England in Richard Nevill Earle of Warwick who being highly advanced by the King after that he had compassed the death of the Queenes Father her children and many others that were neare and deare unto the King at last was not afraid to rise in Rebellion against the King wherefore * 54 Ne quempiam suorum nimia potestate afficeret 54 Moecaenas wisely counselled Augustus that he should not suffer any of his Subjects to grow too great least thereby they should grow so powerfull as to dare to attempt any thing against him There are others that carry themselves more moderately and warily that relinquish the service of their Prince that raignes and follow and adore the rising Sunne apply themselves to him that is to succeede in the Empire as Macro did but these kinde of people never continue long in favour for by their behaviour to the former Prince they are deservedly had in suspition by the later and undergoe the punishment in his time which they deserved in his praedecessours peradventure they which saucily upbraid their Prince as Clytus did Alexander with what they have deserved are not so much to be condemned as the former that abandon their service yet it is most distastefull to a Prince to be told of any such thing for that they are more pleased in hearing what rewards they have conferred then in hearing what any man hath deserved The deserts of a Subject are so long acceptable to the Prince as it is in the Princes power when hee will to come out of his debt but when he thinkes he hath deserved so much that hee cannot well requite him then doth hee requite him with perpetuall hatred for this very cause did Adrianus Caesar remove Tatianus and his fellow from their jurisdiction and government to whom he was indebted as much as his Empire came to as Spartianus saith but it was imputed to their popularity and if there were no other cause to make a man hatefull in the eyes of his Prince this alone were sufficient for there is no Prince of so poore a spirit or slender capacity that will indure such malepert fellowes for it is naturally ingrafted into Princes not to suffer an equall or a competitor And there is good cause why such men should be ever had in suspition and be neglected by them for that they are easily corrupted and drawn into Rebellion and it is wonderfull to see how that they who have attained to the greatest favour with their Princes are ever buzzing into their eares that they should not suffer their Subjects to grow too great and how in the mean time they so dote upon them that they doe not perceive that they alone are the men of whom they admonish the Prince to have an eye but in the end the Prince by one meanes or other being made sensible of the burthen hee beareth and being weary of them casts them down and if there were no other motive to induce them therunto the too much liberty those men do assume to themselves of doing what they wil and the fear they stād in by reason of them were sufficient to occasion their removall this was the cause why

Prince and them Such Councellours had Rehoboam King of the Jews who when hls Subjects complained unto him of heavy burthens laid upon them by his Father by the advise of his Councell answered them that his little finger should lie more heavy upon them then all his Fathers body my Father chastned you with whips but I will chasten you with Scorpions such a kinde of fellow was Nicholas Gara a Count Palatine of the Kingdome of Hungarie who being exceeding powerfull with Queene Mary the daughter of Lewis the first gave his Counsell that she should not suffer her Peers to become too powerfull as wee hear'd before but how his Counsell took effect I have before remembred and what befell to the Councellours of Rehoboam every one can tell Sleidan reports that William Poyets the French Kings Chancellour was by the Kings speciall command taken out of his bed and cast into Prison with the generall applause of the people for that during the foure yeares that hee held his office he had offended all sorts of people Such is generally the end of these sort of people for when the Prince is once fully informed of their conditions to satisfie the people they punish them to their ruine and destruction Examples hereof wee have in Cleander Peter Lindais George Peiras and others concerning whom Philip Comines demands this queston and gives this answer who dares saith hee enquire into the actions of these Grandees who dare call them in question who dare bee the Iudge to execute judgement upon them if they offend the answer is the inquisition will bee the lamentation and cries of the people whom they have mercilesly opprest and trampled upon in every kind the teares of the Widowes and Orphans whose Husbands and Fathers they have put to death and generally all they whom they have persecuted either in their Bodies or Estates these will bring in an inquisition against them and deliver them over to receive their doom of him who is the onely true judge that will not peradvanture expect any other evidence but will punish them in this life so much hath Philip Comines * 50 Lex talionis 50 the Law of Talio is justly inflicted upon them It is good justice that they who have despised and contumeliously behaved themselves to wards others should be despised and contumeliously handled by others that they who proudly insulted over others should be reproachfully spoken of by others that they who by rapine and fraud have gotten the Estates of others should suddainly have their Estates by others taken from them that they that shewed no mercy should expect no mercy that they that commanded others to bee dragg'd to execution should bee dragg'd themselves that they that caused others that stood for the Church to be put to death should in the Church bee put to death themselves that they that endeavoured to deprive the Subject of his rights and priviledges should not onely lose the benefit of them but the benefit of the Law of Nations that they that caused others to bee put to death against the Law should before they bee heard or accused be put to death themselves that they which caused the rigour of the Law to be inflicted upon others should have the same measure measured unto them as is reported of * 51 Perillus. 51 Perillus who was the first that felt the punishment of the torment that hee himselfe invented These punishments doe not onely belong unto them that attaine unto their greatnesse by undue meanes but likewise unto them who being deservedly preferred do in the due execution of their places misbehave themselves for * 52 Non sufficet bene coepisse 52 it is not sufficient to begin well but wee must prosecute our good beginnings with sutable proceedings which is a very hard thing for him to do who hath attained to a great fortune for * 53 Fortuna est coena eos efficet caecos quo●om plexa est 53 fortune being blind her selfe makes them blinde likewise for the most part whom shee doteth upon and favoureth for while we are lulled asleep in her lap we grow carelesse and give occasion to such as love us not to circumvent us so as when there is no other cause yet too too great prosperity willl finde in it selfe sufficient cause to bring us to our graves with shame and ignorance Therefore it is no wonder if such as have power to doe what they will standing in feare of none become proud and insolent and have their imperfections made knowne unto the world for being on high they can do nothing but notice is taken of it whereas if they lived in a mean rank their faults would passe unregarded our nature is such there is no good thing in the world but it abuseth but most of all the prosperity and good fortunes wee injoy And why because our wils being prone to all wickednesse our prosperity adds spurs unto it and doth not onely move but continually administer occasion unto us to satisfie our unbridled lusts and affections Such as have attained to the greatest favour with their Princes by reason of their daily familiarity with them have in the end become most odious and contemptible in their height Sejanus Tiberius onely minion for the time for that he stiled himselfe Emperour and Tiberius governour of a poore Island Tiberius hated and detested the servant that hath beene delicately brought up from a Childe will challenge to himselfe the priviledge of a sonne at last saith Solomon For presuming upon the favour of their Princes they make them the subject of laughter neglect their commands vilifie them and mocke them assuming the honour of what is done to themselves attributing nothing to the power of the Prince So Joab slew Absalom the sonne of King David with his owne hand of his owne accord without the Kings approbation And though it was told him when hee was about to doe the deed that it was the Kings will to have his life saved and that he would call him to an account for it yet hee went on grieving the perplext King with most unbeseeming and unmannerly tearms but such things as these Princes forget not but keep them in a Register Tacitus reports how that Pallas through his pride exceeding the bounds of a free man drew hatred upon himselfe and how that Narcissus for that hee slew Messalina the Wife of Claudius without his consent put Claudius into a kinde of a phrensie and made him in passion say that Narcissus durst never attempt those things upon his Wife though she had deserved it unlesse that hee had first despised her Husband Such another was the Earle of St. Paul that was Constable of France of whom I have spoken before who upon all occasions relying on the favour of the Duke of Burgondy and the King of England would rise in rebellion against his Prince and that his power and greatnesse might still continue together with his stipends from the King

Non sufficit benè caepisse It is not sufficient to begin well If hee that plants a vineyard be not as carefull to hedge it in as hee was to plante it he shall receive but little fruit of his labour if he that builds a ship bee not as carefull to furnish it with tacklings as hee was to build it his ship will doe him but little service if he that wins a Castle be not as provident in the keeping of it as hee was in the getting it had been better for him in the beginning to have sate still and done nothing in vaine doe wee plow sowe reap thrash winnowe and bring our corne unto the mill if the mill be out of order and shall spoyle it after so much paines taken finis coronat opus if Nero his last daies had been like to his quinquennium hee had been one of the most renowned Princes of the world if Tiberius had ended his raign as he began hee had excelled Augustus but because they desisted the wayes of vertue their faults were more conspicuous and it had been better for them never to have known them then having known them to abandon them againe so as it is not sufficient to begin well * 53. Fortuna caeca nos efficit caecos Fortune being blinde blindeth them whom shee doteth upon The Heathens of old time deified fortune under which name they comprehended worldly prosperity for a blinde Goddesse that sits at the doore of felicity and keeps out mortals from comming to the tables of the Gods k Improba non novit leges fortunae illa odit plerumque bonos blanditur iniquis that rules upon earth without reason and understanding that makes fooles her favorites and wisemen her vassals that is as variable as the Moon and whom at first shee most affecteth at last she most neglecteth that begets children like herself mad and blinde and brutish lifteth them up to the clouds where shee suffers them for a time to domineere over the inferiour bodyes and afterwards to make her selfe merry throwes them down with a vengeance and sits laughing at them Ridendo fallere novi Sub risus specie deprimo quem que mei * 54. Ne quenquam suorum Mecenas counselled Augustus not to suffer any of his Peeres to grow too great It hath been a custome amongst the Turks as we may read in their generall History in the raign of Amurath the third for the Princes assoone as they have been Crowned to put to death their younger brethren that so the eyes of their Subjects may wholly bee fixt upon them in other Countryes it hath been a custome to oppresse and keep under the Nobility for feare of Rebellion but these bloody and barbarous customes have been used only amongst barbarous men in debellatis regionibus and in Countryes that have been conquered but in every Christian settled Common-wealth the Peers are to the Prince as the stars to the firmament their greatnesse is his glory for the greater they are the greater must hee needs bee that commands them it was the common saying of Ptolomy King of Egypt quod regalius est super divites dominari quam divitem fore when Maximilian the Emperour would at any time set forth the glory and magnificence of the Romane Empire he was used to say that the Emperour of Germany was Rex regum for that hee had a superintendency over such as had power to make lawes raise Souldiers and coyne mony whereas other Princes had not so when a controversy grew between two great Lords upon this occasion quod alter altero potiorem se esse dixisset that the one should say hee was a better man then the other it was thus decided that the one should acknowledge that the other commanded better men then he The wise King saith in multitudine populi consistit dignitas Regis in the multitude of Subjects consisteth the glory of a Prince n Huc valdè pertinet illud Castilionis si Circe aliqua Gallos omnes in feras commutaret nonne Gallorum Regem Principem despicatissimum diceres etiamsi imperium in tot belluas haberet e cont● a si omnia armenta quae in montibus circumvagantur in potentes sapientes transfererntu● nonnè pastores harum belluarum tanquam dominos po●entissimos aestimares it is as true in magnitudine populi in the greatnesse of Subjects consisteth the glory of a Prince every meane cotrager hath pira cerasa Peares and Cherryes in his Orchard but every meane Cottager hath not Palmas Cedros Palme and Cedar trees every meane Gentleman hath his horses and dogs but no● his Pumiliones Leones Tigres his Dwarfs Lyons and Tigers m Animalia rara apud principes olim in pretio fuere Dicitur de Ludovico ii quod valde operosus erat in raris animalibus comparandis e Britannia canes grandi pecunia summa comparabat ex Sicilia mulos a Neapoli spetiosos equos ab Africa genus parvulorum leonum Com. lib. 9. these rarityes are ensignes of greatnesse and provided for Princes an great personages Every petty Prince and meane Lord hath the command of macellarios usurarios ferrarios of Butchers Brookers and Braziers but every meane Lord hath not a command of a loyall gentry and prudent nobility Renegathoes are fit attendants for Turkes and Tyrants but for Christian Princes Potentes Nobiles Ier. 1. Lam. 15. wherefore the Prophet Jeremy doth not complaine in his lamentations that God tooke from him his macellrios vel usurarios sed abstulit magnificos meos de medio mei hee took his nobles from him but yet as it is in the naturall body if the foot shall swell and equalise the head in greatnesse there is a depravation of nature and a deformity in the body so it is in the politique if any one of the Peeres shall so farre out-strip his fellowes in magnificence that the rest must depend upon him here are two Sunnes in the Firmament and this body is out of order wherefore Maecenas wisely councelled Augustus that hee should not suffer any of his Peeres to grow too great what inconveniences have growen by suffering of Peers to grow too great see Com. lib. 3. of the Earle of Warwick lib. 4. Of the Constable of France Iean du Seres Of the Majors of the Kings Palace in Clotaire Clovis 2. Thiarry 2. Childerick 5. and in Pippin and Dion Case of Sejan lib. 57 59. * 55. Galfridus Iustitiarius Angliae Geffry a Iustitiary of England by reason of his allies was more feared then beloved of the King Offences are sometimes taken not given Matthew Paris speaking of this Iustitiary giveth this Encomium of him that he was firmissima regni columna and that after his death the Kingdome was quasi navis sine gubernaculo Mat. Paris in Ioh An. 1213. * 56. Fatum potentiae est quod raro sempiterna It is destinated unto greatnesse not to be of long continuance The world by the