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A06341	The prouerbes of the noble and woorthy souldier Sir Iames Lopez de Mendoza Marques of Santillana with the paraphrase of D. Peter Diaz of Toledo: wherin is contained whatsoeuer is necessarie to the leading of an honest and vertuous life. Translated out of Spanishe by Barnabe Googe.; Proverbios. English	Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.; Pedro, de Toledo, Bishop of Málaga, d. 1499.	1579 (1579)	STC 16809; ESTC S108829	87,267	250

THE Prouerbes of the noble and woorthy souldier Sir Iames Lopez de Mendoza Marques of Santillana with the Paraphrase of D. Peter Diaz of Toledo Wherin is contained whatsoeuer is necessarie to the leading of an honest and vertuous life Translated out of Spanishe by Barnabe Googe ¶ Imprinted at London by Richarde Watkins 1579. To the right honourable Sir William Cecill of the most honourable order of the Garter Knight Baron of Burghley maister of her Maiesties wardes and liuereis and Lord high Treasurer of England WHen I had right honourable and my especial good lord thorowly perused and cōsidered these Prouerbs or rather Aphorismes of the marques of Santilliana I thought it not amis to bestow some trauaile in turning them into English albeit I found them in some places so darkly written and so corrupted by the Printer as I could sundrie times hardly attain to the authors meaning The gentlemā if but in respect of his estate and calling deserueth of all men to be welthought of But considering the matter wherof he entreateth which is chiefly to traine his readers to honestie and vertuous life he meriteth at the handes of euerie good man with double honour to be receiued and welcomed For there is nothing assuredly more acceptable to God nor that in deede better beseemeth man then an vpright and honest conuersation And although the chiefe intent of his writing was for the institution and behauiour of a Prince yet are his rules and instructions so generall as they may verie well serue for guides in good demeanour to euerie man of what degree soeuer he be My simple translation for the Authour himself needeth no defender I most humbly commend to the protection of your Lordship as to him that is perfectly able to iudge whether I haue truly and faythfully followed my paterne or no. As for such faults as haue passed as well in the title as in the notes being as they were committed in my absence without my knowlege I trust your lordship wil discharge me of the blame God sende your Lordship with long and happie life to attaine to the end of your good and honourable desires Your Lordships faythfull seruaunt Barnabe Googe The life of Sir Iames Lopez de Mendoza Marques of Santilliana SIr Iames Lopes de Mendoza Marques of Santilliana Earle of the Realme of Mancanares Lorde of Vega sonne of the Admirall Don Diego de Hurtado and nephewe to Peter Goncales de Mendoza Lord of Alua was a man of a meane stature verie well limmed and proporcioned and of a gracious countenance discended of great parentage a Castilian and verie ancient He was a man of a quicke iudgement and discrete and of so great a minde that neither could the weightiest matters that were dismay him nor the dealing in matters of smal moment any whit delight him In the staiednesse of his person and the grauitie of his speach he shewed him selfe to be a Gentleman and of a noble mind He was a man as they vse to say verie well spoken so as hee was seldome heard to speake any thing that was not woorth the noting whether it were in matters of learning or of disport He was courteous and of great interteinment to all such as came vnto him specially learned men After the decease of the Admirall his father and the Ladie Eleanor of Vega his mother being left verie yong and within age he was disseised of the Asturies of Santilliana and a greate peece of his liuing beside But comming to riper yeares perceiuing himself to be greatly abused verie want and necessitie which many times awaketh a good wit his great mind that could not abide to be consined made him to vse such diligence as partly by lawe partly by swoorde hee did shortly recouer his owne Hee was both in his meate and his drinke verie temperate hauing herein a singular and speciall grace Touching his inclination he gaue himselfe in his life time vnto two notable exercises the one the feates of armes the other studie and learning neither did his warlike exercises anie whit hinder his studie nor his studie was anie impediment to the conference which he had with the Souldiours and Gentlemen of his house about the trampe fashion of their armour Instrumentes of defence howe to offend the enimie how to order his battails how to encampe how to assault and how to defend fortresses and other like actions belonging to martiall affaires wherin hee tooke a great deale the more pleasure because he had therwith been brought vp from his youth And to the ende that such as serued vnder him might haue experience of such things as they had hearde him speake off hee had alwayes in his house Tilt Turney and Barriers with sundry other exercises belonging to the fielde to the ende that his people being alwayes accustomed to such martiall exercises might better away with the paines of a souldier whē they came to it Hee was a gentleman of great nobility and valour beeing in his determinations very wise and temperate and in his execution speedy and resolute so as there could neither be founde any rashnesse in his courage or any iot of cowardise in his deuises He had been Generall in many fought Battailes betwixt the Christians and the Sarazens wherein he both wan and lost But the greatest and of most account was a battaile that was fought with the Aragoneses and one other at the riuer of Torotto And these two Battailes were indeed every hot and blooddy For fighting without any retire on either side there were slaine an infinite number on both sides at which seruices because this worthy gētleman happened to be present though hee sawe his owne forces all to weake and very vnmeete to match with the enimie yet because the enemie was in sight he thought it a greater shame and reproche to turne his backe without Battaile then to loose his life or the fielde in fighting Wherevpon he determined to try the battaile wherein hee fought with such egernesse and courage that although he was his selfe sore hurt and all his company defeated yet for his own person he gained the name and reputation of a worthy valiant Captaine The sufficiencie of this noble gentleman beeing thorowly knowen to King Iohn he was sent Lieutenāt general against the Sarazens which charge he toke vpō him with a verye glad and willing minde continuing a long time vpon the frontiers During which season he fought diuers battailes and had many sharpe encounters both with the king of Granada others of his captaines wherin he had alwayes the better He made many roades into the Country where he wan by fine force the towne of Huelma draue the Moores to such a streigt that hee he woulde haue wonne a number of townes more haue done diuerse worthie exploites had not the king being by matters of more importance at home enforced commaunded him to make an ende of the warres and to conclude a peece