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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19351	Discourses vpon Seneca the tragedian. By Sir William Cornwalleys, Knight	Cornwallis, William, Sir, d. 1631?	1601 (1601)	STC 5774; ESTC S108698	31,522	130

DISCOVRSES vpon Seneca the Tragedian By Sir William Cornwalleys Knight Imprinted at London for Edmund Mattes at the hand and plough in Fleetstreet 1601. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR Iohn Popham Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of England and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell HOnorable Sir since I can truely let me confidently affirme this boldnesse proceedes onely from the sight of your vertues I honour you and reuerence the executions of your place I behold not your fortune but your selfe and since it is so be content to accept these and mee both which offer themselues to you not for any thing they can but willingly would do you seruice From the honourer of your vertues W. Cornwalleys A Table of the Heads a. sheweth the first side of the leafe b. sheweth the other side Oedipus Act. 3. Creon Oedipus insanus A. 1. a. 1. Odia qui nimium timet Regnare nescit Regna custodit metus Agamemnon chorus 1. A. 5. b. 2. O Regnorum magnis fallax fortuna bonis in praecipiti dubioque nimis excelsa locas Hercules furēs Act. 2. Sc. 1. Megera B. 2. a. 3. Prosperum ac foelix scelus virtus vocatur sontibus parēt boni Troas Act. 2. Sc. 2. B. 7. a. 4. Noscere hoc primum decet Quid facere victor debeat victus pati Violenta nemo Imperia continuit diu Moderata durant Hercules furens Actus 2. Sc. 3. Megera C. 6. a. 5. Non est ad astra mollis e terris via Hippoliti Act. 3. chorus D. 8. a. 6. Res humanas ordine null● Fortuna regit spargitque manu Munera caeca peiora fouens Troas Act. 1. Sc. 1. Hecuba E. 5. a. 7. Quicunque regno fidit magna potens Dominatur aula nec leues metuit Deos Animumque rebus credulum laetis dedit Me videat te Troia non vnquam tulit Documenta sors maiora quam fragili loco Starent superbi Octauia Act. 2. Sc. 2. Nero. Sen. F. 8. a. 8. Inertis est nescire quid liceat sibi Troas Act. 3. Vlisses G. 6. a. 9. Magis haec timet quam moeret ingenio est opus Alios parentes alloqui luctu decet Thebais Act. 4. Iocasta H. 1. a. 10. Gladius spes metus Sors caeca versat praemium incertum petit Certum scelus Troas Act. 4. chorus H. 3. b. 11. Ferre quam sortem patiuntur omnes nemo recusat Faults escaped in the transscript of the copie B. Leafe 2. b. 3. this read there B. leafe 8. b. 1. mule reade mute C. leafe 2. a. 19. direction read deiection C. leafe 5. a. 22. angry read anger C. leafe 7. b. 9. proue read promise C. leafe 8. b. 11. wine read vine D. leafe 2. b. 21. 22. his abstinence read her abstinence D. leafe 3. a. 2. hee reade shee E. leafe 2. a. 7. superfluously reade superficially E. leafe 3. b. 8. name reade rome E. leafe 8. a. 9. Pilate read Pilote F. leafe 2. a. 21. his reade this F. leafe 5. b. 11. affection reade infection G. leafe 5. b. 10. and commings in reade to our commings in DISCOVRSES VPon Seneca the Tragedian Odia qui nimium timet Regnare nescit Regna custodit metus THough common Experience doth manifest and naturall reason iustifie that States in an equalitie of degree vpheld by persons knowing no preeminence cannot stand nor promise continuance yet cannot the aspiring constitution of man with patience behold higher erected fortunes how iustly soeuer obtayned so if hee cannot reach them with equalitie hee will with enuie whose effectes would be dangerous did not feare bridle them Then must Soueraigntie nourish feare in subiection for out of subiectes feare groweth Princes safetie But how this awe is to be obtayned restes the Arte for feare hath two additions that make it good or bad from some feare comes hatred from such feare ruine from feare loue from this preseruation soueraigntie with this is Gouernement with the other Tyrannie The power of a Prince breeds feare his actions hatred or loue from his actions then must hee draw his flourishing which illustrates the noblenesse of the minde for the commands ouer fortune whose power stretcheth no further then to lay open vertue meane states beeing therefore miserable because wanting stuffe to shew their workemanship for liberalitie consisting onely in meditation is inuisible Temperance with pouertie hath not much to doe and so of the rest Odia qui nimium timet Regnare nescit There is no affection so vnnaturall to Princes as feare the limits of their proceedings must be bounded by other respects For rightly hath this Authour determined Who feares hatred too much knowes not how to raigne It is impossible for one person to harbour Maiestie and feare for they are opposite differing as much as to command and obay Feare begettes obedience Maiestie doth what hee doth vncompelled for compulsion and inforcement killes authoritie but that hee is vnrestrained by feare giues him not a lawlesse libertie though he wants inforcement hee doth not perswasion which in all noble natures preuailes more then compulsion hee is not vrged by feare but in feares stead hath iustice hath the sight of his owne place hath the knowledge that vpon his shoulders rests the whole body of the foundation which respectes curbe Princes vnrestrayned by feare More particularly to the Tragedians meaning Odia qui nimium timet It belongs to a Prince to shunne the deseruing hate not to feare hatred feare as it is said belongs not to them and if in them bastardizeth their natures and corrupts them The vniust partialitie of some natures abused by selfe loue wil hate the execution of iustice and not vnderstanding the intent of lawes thinke iniuriously of their executors This must not be regarded by Princes nor stop their wel intended courses The satisfaction of his conscience is Metridate expelling the poyson of ill tongues and himselfe finding he hath performed his office with iudgemēt shal be strong inough to resist vulgar thoughts which liue in opinion The hate of these is feeble and howsoeuer common it is to the worst meanings to giue them handsome colours yet cannot these present their griefes to iudiciall men so shadowed as not to bee discerned faulty so cannot the way of trueth beget hate able to doe harme malice and spleene from some particular it may but they are too weak euer to doe hurt But were there perill in the performance of the true office of a Prince yet must it not disswade him for shuns he the execution of his duety for feare of hate he explaneth his regalitie to bee an office vndertaken to please himself not to profit his countrey then which mind there is not any more monsterous and detestable The iudgemēt of al causes the deciding all controuersies the cēsure of all mē the sentēce determining all actions are his in these performances restes the very soule of the state the life of a states flourishing in which shal feare of