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england_n	earl_n	lord_n	steward_n	5,202	5	11.2943	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79881	Aurea Legenda, or Apothegms, sentences, and sayings of many wise and learned men, useful for all sorts of persons Collected out of many authors by Sa. Clark, sometimes pastor in B.F.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing C4488A; ESTC R223906	51,711	152

a sum of Money should not empty the King's Coffers neither should Riches be the pay of worth which are meerly the Wages of Labour He that gives it embaseth a Man He that takes it vilifies himself Who is so most rewarded is least Secretary Walsingham would say Stay a little and we shall have done the sooner Secretary Cecil would say It shall never be said of me that I will defer till to Morrow what I can do to day Sr. Richard Morison would say Give me this day and take the next your self He that knoweth to speak well knoweth also where he must hold his Peace said the Old Grecian Think an Hour before you speak and a Day before you Promise said one of our English Sages The two main Principles which Guide humane Nature said Judg Dodderidg are Conscience and Law By the former we are obliged in reference to another World by the latter in Relation to this When the Lord Chief Justice Fitz-James came upon the Bench he knew no more than Melchisedech or Levi Father nor Mother neither Friend nor Interest For when a Cousin of his urged for a kindness Come to my House said the Judg and I will deny you nothing Come to the King's Court and I must do you Justice Plato said That a Man's mind is the Chariot Reason the Coach-man Affections the Horses desire of Honour the Whips both exciting to go forward and awing to be exact Honour always keeping up curiously the Honoured Person in an heigth of Action that keeps an even Pace with admiration Evenness and Constancy being the Crown of Vertue The Lord Gray was the first that brought a Coach into England And Henry Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel when he was Steward at King Edward the 6 th's Coronation was the first that rid in a Coach in England William Pawlet Marquess of Winchester was Servant to King Henry the 7 th and for Thirty years together Treasurer to King Henry the 8 th King Edward the 6 th Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Thus he served divers Soveraigns in very mutable Times being as he said of himself no Oak but an Osier He had the rare happiness of setting in his full Splendour having lived ninety seaven years and seen a Hundred and three that descended out of his Body Sr. Henry Sidney's Motto was I will never threaten For to threaten an Enemy is to instruct him A Superiour is to endanger my Person And an Inferiour is to disparage my Conduct The Character of a happy Life HOw happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's Will Whose Armour is his honest thought And simple Truth his utmost skill Whose Passions not his Masters are Whose Soul is still prepar'd for Death Vnty'd unto the World by care Of Publick Fame or private breath Who envies none whom Chance doth raise Nor Vice hath ever understood How deepest Wounds are given by Praise Nor Rules of State but Rules of Good Who hath his Life from Rumours freed Whose Conscience is his strong Retreat Whose State can neither Flatterers feed Nor ruin make Oppressors great Who God doth late and early pray More of his Grace than Gifts to lend And entertains the harmless Day With a Religious Book or Friend This Man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall Lord of himself tho not of Lands And having nothing yet hath all Sr. Henry Wotton It was an excellent Saying of Sr. John Packinton in Queen Elizabeth's days that a sound Faith was the best Divinity A good Conscience the best Law And Temperance the best Physick Upon the fall of the Earl of Somerset DAzled still with heigth of place Whilst our Hopes our Wits beguile No Man marks the narrow space 'Twixt a Prison and a smile Then since Fortunes favours fade You that in her Arms do sleep Learn to swim and not to Wade For the Hearts of Kings are deep But if Greatness be so blind As to trust in Towers of Air Let it be with Goodness lin'd That at least the fall be fair Then tho darkned you shall say When Friends fail and Princes frown Virtue is the roughest way But proves at Night a Bed of Down Sr. Henry Wotton It 's one of Machiavel's rules That they which rise very high should descend timely and quit the Envy lest they lose the Honour of their greatness When Charles the 5 th presented Secretary Eraso to his Son Philip the 2 d. he said He gave him somewhat greater than his Estate and more Royal than his Empire I understand not saith mine Author speaking of James Hay Earl of Carlisle the reason of his Ante-Suppers the manner of which was to have the Table coverd at the first entrance of the Guests with Dishes as high as a tall Man could well reach filled with the choicest and dearest Viands Sea or Land could afford And all this once seen and having feasted the Eyes of the invited was removed and fresh was set on to the same heigth having only this advantage of the others that it was hot At one of these Meals an Attendant did Eat to his single share a whole Pye reckoned to the Earl at Twenty pound being composed of Amber-Greece Magisterial Pearl Musk c. And another went away with Forty pounds of Sweet-meats in his Cloak-bag When the most able Physicians and his own Weakness had passed a Judgment upon this Earl that he could not live many days he did not forbear his Entertainments but made divers brave Cloths as he said to Out-face naked and despicable Death adding withal That Nature wanted Wisdom Power or Love in making Man mortal and subject to Diseases Sr. Thomas Lake was a Man of such dixterity and dispatch that he would indite Write and Discourse at the same time more exactly than most Men could severally perform them for which he was then called the swift-sure Of Sr. Edward Cook it is recorded that he would never be perswaded privately to retract that which he had Publickly adjudged Professing That he was a Judg in a Court not in a Chamber He was wont to say No wise man would do that in Prosperity whereof he should repent in Adversity His Motto was Prudens qui patiens It 's a sure Principle of rising that great Persons esteem better of such as they have done great Courtesies to than those they have received great Civilities from looking upon this as their Disparagement the other as their Glory It 's an excellent Rule that no man should let what is unjustifiable or Dangerous to appear under his Hand thereby to give Envy a steady aim at his Place or Person Nor mingle interests with great Men made desperate by Debts or Court injuries whose falls have been ruinous to their wisest Followers Nor pry any farther into secrecy than rather to secure than shew himself Nor to impart that to a Friend that may impower him to be an Enemy It was the Saying of a great Man among us that a through-paced Papist