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A01043 Apophthegmes new and old. Collected by the Right Honourable, Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. 1625 (1625) STC 1115; ESTC S113684 32,001 310

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Macedon And by her instigation he did many vniust cruell Acts. Wherupon Lysimachus said That it was the first time that euer hee knew a Whore play in a Tragedie 198. The mistocles would say of himselfe That hee was like a Plaine Tree that in Tempests men fled to him and in faire wether men were euer cropping his leanes 199. The mistocles said of Speech That it was like Arras that spred abroad shewes faire Images but contracted is but like packs 200. Brisquet Iester to Francis the first of France did keepe a Kalender of Fooles wherewith he did vse to make the King sport telling him euer the reason why hee put euerie one into his Kalender So when Charles the fifth passed vpon confidence of the noble nature of Francis thorow France for the appeasing of the rebellion of Gaunt Brisquet put him into his Kalender The King asking the cause he sayd Because you hauing suffered at the hands of Charles the greatest bitternesse that euer Prince did from other hee would trust his person into your hands Why Brisquet said the King what wilt thou say if thou seest him passe in as great safetic as if it were thorow the midst of Spaine Saith Brisquet Why then I will put out him and put in you 201. Lewis the cleuenth of France hauing much abated the greatnesse and power of the Peeres Nobilitie and Court of Parliament would say That hee had brought the Crowne out of Ward 202. Sir Fulke Greuill in Parliament when the Lower House in a great Businesse of the Queenes stood much vpon Presidents said vnto them Why should you stand so much vpon Presidents the times hereafter will be good or bad If good Presidents will doe no harme if bad Power will make a way where it findes none 203. When Peace was renewed with the French in England diuerse of the great Counsellours were presented from the French with Iewells The Lo. Henrie Ho ward was omitted Whereupon the King said to him My Lo. How hap's it that you haue not a Iewell as well as the rest My Lo. Henrie answered againe alluding to the Fable in Aesope Non sum Gallus itaque non reperi Gemmam 204. An Oratour of Athens said to Demosthenes The Athenians will kill you if they wax mad Demosthenes replyed And they will kill you if they bee in good sense 205. Alexander sent to Phocyon a great Present of money Phocyon said to the Messenger Why doth the King send to me and to none else The Messenger answered Because hee takes you to be the onely good Man in Athens Phocyon replyed If he thinke so pray let him suffer mee to be good still 206. Cosmus Duke of Florence was wont to say of perfidious Frends That wee reade that we ought to forgiue our Enemies but we doe not reade that wee ought to forgiue our Frends 207. Aeneas Syluius that was Pius Secundus was wont to say That the former Popes did wisely to set the Lawyers on worke to debate whether the Donation of Constantine the Gr●…at to Syluester were good and valid in Law or no The better to skip ouer the matter in fact whether there were any such thing at all or no 208. At a Banquet where those that were called the Seuen Wise Men of Greece were inuited by the Embassadour of a Barbarous King the Embassadour related That there was a Neighbour King mightier then his Master pickt quarrells with him by making impossible demands otherwise threatning warre And now at that present had demanded of him to drinke vp the Sea Whereunto one of the Wise Men said I would haue him vndertake it Why saith the Embassadour how shall he come off Thus saith the Wise Man Let that King first stop the Riuers that runne into the Sea which are no part of the Bargaine and then your Master will performe it 209. At the same Banquet the Embassadour desired the Seuen and some other Wise Men that were at the Banquet to deliuer euerie one of them some Sentence or Parable that hee mought report to his King the wisdome of Grecia Which they did Onely one was silent Which the Embassadour perceiuing sayd to him Sir let it not displease you why doe not you say somewhat that I may report Hee answered Report to your Lo. that there are of the Grecians that can hold their peace 210. One of the Romans said to his Frend What thinke you of such an one as was taken with the manner in adulterie The other answered Marrie I thinke hee was slow at dispatch 211. Lycurgus would say of diuerse of the Heroes of the Heathen That hee wondred that men should mourne vpon their dayes for them as mortall men and yet sacrifice to them as Gods 212. A Papist being opposed by a Protestant that they had no Scripture for Images answered Yes for you reade that the People layd their ficke in the streets that the shadow of St. Peter mought come vpon them And that a shadow was an Image And the obscurest of Images 213. There is an Ecclesiasticall Writer of the Papists to proue Antiquitie of Confessio in the forme that it now is doth note that in very ancient times euen in the Primitiue times amongst other foule slanders spred against the Christians one was That they did adore the Genitories of their Priests Which he saith grew from the posture of the Confessant and the Priest in Confession which is that the Confessant kneeles downe before the Priest fitting in a raised chaire aboue him 214. Epaminondas whe his great Frend and Colleague in warre was Sutour to him to pardon an Offender denied him Afterwards when a Concubine of his made the same sute hee granted it to her Which when Pelopidas seemed to take vnkindely hee sayd Such sutes are to bee granted to whores but not to Personages of worth 215. The Lacedemonians had in custome to speake verie short Which being in Empire they mought doe at pleasure But after their Defeat at Leuctra in an Assembly of the Grecians they made a long Inuectiue against Epa●…ondas who stood vp and said no more but this I am glad we haue taught you to speake long 216. Fabricius in conference with Pyrrhus was tempted to reuolt to him Pyrrhus telling him that hee should bee Partner of his Fortunes and second Person to him But Fabricius answered in a scorne to such a motion Sir that would not bee good for your selfe For if the Epyrotes once know me they will rather desire to bee gouerned by me then by you 217. Fabius Maximus being resolued to draw the warre in length still waited vpon Hannibals progresse to curbe him And for that purpose hee encamped vpon the high Grounds But Terentius his Collegue fought with Hannibal and was in great perill of ouerthrow But then Fabius came downe the high Grounds got the day Whereupon Hannibal sayd That he did euer think that that same Cloud that hanged vpon the Hills would at one time or other giue a Tempest 218. There was