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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77581	The life of the renowned Sr Philip Sidney. with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all forrain princes: and particularly for suppressing the power of Spain stated by him. His principall actions, counsels, designes, and death. Together with a short account of the maximes and policies used by Queen Elizabeth in her government. Written by Sir Fulke Grevil Knight, Lord Brook, a servant to Queen Elizabeth, and his companion & friend.	Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628.	1651 (1651)	Wing B4899; Thomason E1288_1; ESTC R208970	75,650	263

Princely Shepherd or Shepherdish King which creatures of scorn seldome fail to become fit sacrifices for home-born discontentments or ambitious forrain spirits to undertake and offer up Againe who sees not the chanceable arrivall of Euarchus into Arcadia his unexpected election to the temporary Soveraignty of that State his sitting in a cloudy seat of judgement to give sentence under a mask of Shepherds against his Son Nephew Neeces the immediate successors to that Scepter and all accused and condemned of rape paricide adulteries or treasons by their own Lawes I say who sees not that these dark webs of effeminate Princes be dangerous forerunners of innovation even in a quiet and equally tempered people So that if Sir Philips had not made the integrity of this forrain King an image of more constant pure and higher strain than nature makes those ordinary mouldes wherein she fashioneth earthly Princes even this opportunity and map of desolation prepared for Euarchus wherein he saw all the successors of this Province justly condemned under his own sentence would have raised up specious rights or pretences for new ambition in him and upon the never-failing pillars of occasion amasednes of people and sad offer of glorious novelties have tempted him to establish this Election for a time successively to him and his for ever To be short the like and finer moralities offer themselves throughout that various and dainty work of his for sounder judgements to exercise their Spirits in so that if the infancie of these Ideas determining in the first generation yield the ingenuous Reader such pleasant profitable diversity both of flowers and fruits let him conceive if this excellent Image-maker had liv'd to finish and bring to perfection this extraordinary frame of his own Common-wealth I meane the return of Basilius from his dreames of humor to the honor of his former Estate the marriage of the two sisters with the two excellent Princes their issue the warres stirred up by Amphialus his marriage with Helena their successions together with the incident Magnificences pompes of state providences of councells in treaties of peace or aliance summons of warres and orderly execution of their disorders I say what a large field an active able spirit should have had to walk in let the advised Reader conceive with grief Especially if he please to take knowledge that in all these creatures of his making his intent and scope was to turn the barren Philosphy precepts into pregnant Images of life and in them first on the Monarch's part lively to represent the growth state and declination of Princes change of Government and lawes vicissitudes of sedition faction succession confederacies plantations with all other errors or alterations in publique affaires Then again in the subjects case the state of favor disfavor prosperitie adversity emulation quarrell undertaking retiring hospitality travail and all other moodes of private fortunes or misfortunes ●n which traverses I know his purpose was to limn out such exact pictures of every posture in the minde that any man being forced in the straines of this life to pass through any straights or latitudes of good or ill fortune might as in a glasse see how to set a good countenance upon all the discountenances of adversitie and a stay upon the exorbitant smiling of chance Now as I know this was the first project of these workes rich like his youth in the freedome of affections wit learning stile form and facilitie to please others so must I again as ingenuously confess that when his body declined and his piercing inward powers were lifted up to a purer Horizon he then discovered not onely the imperfection but vanitie of these shadowes how daintily soever limned as seeing that even beauty it self in all earthly complexions was more apt to allure men to evill than to fashion any goodness in them And from this ground in that memorable testament of his he bequeathed no other legacie but the fire to this unpolished Embrio From which fate it is onely reserved untill the world hath purged away all her more gross corruptions Again they that knew him well will truly confess this Arcadia of his to be both in form and matter as much inferior to that unbounded spirit of his as the industry and Images of other mens works are many times raised above the writers capacities and besides acknowledge that howsoever he could not choose but give them many aspersions of spirit and learning from the Father yet that they were scribled rather as pamphlets for entertainment of time and friends than any accompt of himself to the world Because if his purpose had been to leave his memory in books I am confident in the right use of Logick Philosophy History and Poësie nay even in the most ingenuous of Mechanicall Arts he would have shewed such tracts of a searching and judicious spirit as the professors of every faculty would have striven no less for him than the seaven Cities did to have Homer of their Sept. But the truth is his end was not writing even while he wrote nor his knowledge moulded for tables or schooles but both his wit and understanding bent upon his heart to make himself and others not in words or opinion but in life and action good and great In which Architectonical art he was such a Master with so commending and yet equall waies amongst men that whersoever he went he was beloved and obeyed yea into what Action soever he came last at the first he became first at the last the whole managing of the business not by usurpation or violence but as it were by right and acknowledgment falling into his hands as into a naturall Center By which onely commendable monopolie of alluring and improving men how the same drawes all windes after it in fair weather so did the influence of this spirit draw mens affections and undertakings to depend upon him CHAP. II. HEre I am still enforced to bring pregnant evidence from the dead amongst whom I have found far more liberall contribution to the honor of true worth than among those which now live and in the market of selfnesse traffique new interest by the discredit of old friends that ancient wisdome of righting enemies being utterly worn out of date in our modern discipline My first instance must come from that worthy Prince of Orange William of Nassau with whom this young Gentleman having long kept intelligence by word and letters and in affaires of the highest nature that then passed currant upon the stages of England France Germany Italy the low Countries or Spaine it seemes that this young Gentleman had by his mutuall freedome so imprinted the extraordinary merit of his young yeares into the large wisdome and experience of that excellent Ptince as I passing out of Germany into England and having the unexpected honor to finde this Prince in the Town Delph cannot think it unwelcome to describe the clothes of this Prince his posture of body and minde familiarity and