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A47277	Politikos megas the grand politician, or, The secret art of state-policy discovered in evident demonstrations of unparalleled prudence, and confirmed with wonderful and successful adventures, stratagems and exploits of wisdom and subtility, both in peace and war, by the most remarkable witts of former ages : being a treatise both useful and necessary for all nobles, states-men, judges, lawyers justices of peace, officers of wars, and all such as now are, or may happen to stand at the helm of publick affairs, whether in kingdom or commonwealth / written originally in Latin by Conradus Reinking, Chancellour ot His Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandenburg, and now done into English by a careful hand.	Reinking, Conradus.; Ker, Patrick, fl. 1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing K342A; ESTC R32439	61,144	171

that they should exact but the half thereof The Kings equity was such that he thought the half of that which seemed moderate to his Princes to be enough yea over and above For he had rather win his People by Clemency and Acts of grace than by a rigid Superiorty to disarm weaken and enslave them Thus a Tyrant who is but the Ape of a King when he intends to demand intollerable Things and suck the very Blood of his Subjects because they should never be in capacity to shake off the yoak of their Slavery first of all imposeth great Burdens to the end he might afterwards seem to remitt and pass off his own Right and Interest and by that means act with the Clemency of a good King You shall obtain what you desire from one by asking not directely and at first dash if it be a hard thing and that your request may be denied but by this course you shall obtain it from one who is altogether averse from your purpose First of all ask very eagerly something that is harder to be obtain'd than what you design'd to ask till at Length you get him to promise that he could rather grant any thing in the World Then ask what you designed and you shall obtain it unless he has a mind to be worse then his promise Thus Scipio when he would translate the War into Africa to the end he might well accoutre his unarmed men gave charge to the Nobles of Sicily to accoutre themselves most gallantly as if they had been to go along with him When they met together the Nobles as earnestly begg'd of him not to go as if they had been unarmed Men. Give then said he your Arms to my Souldiers which they very readily did as Scipio would have had it But if he whom you Petition shall swear he will not grant your Request Then you shall ask the quite Contrary to that which you resolved to Petition for at First Then when he shall turn his Vows and Protestations to the Contrary you shall either obtain what you would have else he shall be forsworn Thus Anaximenes when he had heard that Alexander the Great had sworn to do the quite Contrary to whatsoever he reqested of him obtained Liberty to his Lampsacenians Nicolans Thomae lib. 2. cap. 65. de var Hist First desiring that their City might be plundred then overthrown and then that the Citizens themselves might be kill'd or sold Slaves By which wicked and cunning Counsel the Victorious Alexander was Vanquished so that fearing the swelling Fury and irreconcileable Revenge on both sides and dangerous Consequences of what Anaximenes advised him to he made up the supposed Breach Reconcileing them which was no hard matter to do and protested by an Oath that he would never after do any thing to the Prejudice of the Lampsacenians INTRIGUE VI. How to disarm and weaken an Enemy THE way to disarm and weaken an Enemy but especially to deprive him of his Friends may be contrived several ways whereof this is one First deal very friendly with your Enemy's Friend and in your Enemy's presence and also before those who inform your Enemy and ever now and then with squinting Eyes like those who dread that all Things are not safe gaze upon those timorous Informers as if you and they did on both sides privately communicate these Secrets which you would not have your Enemy to know of so as thereby he may become less cautious for nothing will move an observing Person more than a caution counterfeited with great artifice and cunning Thus Scipio and the other Roman Ambassadours dealt with Hannibal at Antiochus his Court for as often as King Antiochus fortun'd to come suddainly upon them Frontin C. 4. they brought about with their frequent and familiar Discourses with Hannibal what they mainly laboured for viz. that he who formerly was designed to be General of the Army against the Romans might be suspected of Treachery by the King as favouring the Romans The Roman Ambassadours made a Show as if they had come into Asia to treat with Antiochus concerning a Peace whilst the chief intent of their Embassy which they palliated all along was no other then to render Hannibal a suspected Person to Antiochus so that he might not be Trusted with an Army where with totally to over-throw the Romans Secondly you shall render your Enemy's Friend a suspected Person if with Gifts and Presents you send him Letters written with the greatest Friendship imaginable advising him in General Terms to make good his Promise which Letters must be intercepted so as they may come to your Enemy's Hands Thus when Quintus Metellus's Letters written with the greatest Familiarity and Affection to Jugurtha's Friends Frontin C. 8. for betraying the King to Metellus were intercepted King Jugurtha inflicted a grievous punishment on them all but afterwards being by this means deprived both of Friends and good Councel he was himself easily destroyed by the Romans Thirdly The Suspicion will still move and more be encreased if the Writing on the out-side resemble a Hand different from the in-side Thus when the Syracusians endeavoured by the Conduct and Assistance of Dion to disthrone Dionysius who kept the Wives of a great many in Prison in the Castle Potienus 4. and amongst the rest Hyppanio Dion's youngest Son It was granted privately to some Women Dionysius conniving to carry sorrowful Letters to their bemoaning Husbands But when he knew that as suspected Letters they would be read in the publick Council of the Citizens he privately convey'd in to the Number his own Letter the outward Inscription of which did resemble the Hand and bear the Name of Hippanio to his Father Dion But in the in-side Dionysius had written very friendly to Dion as if they had been Confederate to betray the Citizens at an appointed time These with other things being publickly read Dion was looked upon as a perfidious Traitour and Villain by all the Grandees of Syracuse which was Dionysius's only Design and that they might not have so brave a General to work his overthrow Fourthly A Person may be rendered hateful to a People if by an exact Imitation you contrive and counterfeit some pernitious project or evil Work which will be ill taken by all and then publish it in his Name Thus Anaxemenes who could counterfeit Theopompus's Stile published in his Name Lyes Fables and Stories Pausan l. 6. which disgraced and made him so infamous all Greece over that where ever he went he was still in danger of his Life INTRIGUE VII How to dissemble HE that would speak one thing and think another must be cautious that his Voice Countenance and Behaviour agree to the Sense and Humour of his Discourse lest his dissembling be discovered and he betray himself and be suspected For as the Nature of his Discourse changeth so also ought the Voice and Gesture of the Speaker to be altered too as he that speaks merrily ought

him the bag of Money which he gave her to keep and if she would not believe to tell her as Tokens what her Husband had secretly told him His Wife being convinc'd by these Secrets which none knew but her Husband and she sent the Money and so the Roguery was found out And the Emperour did not only make him pay double what he had defrauded Consio of but also took off his Head to save himself from trouble and make him Honest for the future INTRIGUE XV. How to induce One to confess all his Secret Faults IF you would allure one to confess all his Crimes and Secret Faults you must catch him with an inevitable necessity of confessing and you your self must first begin and confess your own Crimes whether true or false no matter for either will serve to shew him Example Thus Nelius the Son of Codrus the last King of the Athenians when beat from his Kingdoms he was by Storms and Tempests at Sea driven to Naxos Aelian Lib. 8. Cap. 5. whence he could not loose till he purged his Army from all profligate Villains and vile Persons as the Sooth-Sayers told him But he not knowing the good from the bad appointed a general Confession and he to allure the rest and induce them to a free and resolute confessing of all their Crimes confessed first a great many Fictitious Villanous Deeds whereof he was not guilty as that he had murdered a Boy forc'd so many Women c. By which Fiction he did induce all his Men to confess their secret Villanies taking Example from their Master's Sins Then leaving all the great and Bloody Sinners in Naxos he sail'd with the lesser to Iönia where they settled and first of all in Miletus Now from those afterwards the other Eleven Cities of Iönia which by that means came to be Athenian Colonies had their rise INTRIGUE XVI How to find out the Secrets of Drunken Men. YOU may know whether the Speeches of a Drunken Man be resolutely spoken or rashly without any resolvedness if you pry into the Constitution Nature and Inclinations of the Drunkard and observe whether he speaks warily or talketh idly whatever falleth in his Head If he speaks warily then he speaks advisedly and in earnest and his Discourse ought to be minded But if his Tongue talk Nonsense and run beyond Rational Conception and speak nothing to purpose his Discourse is rash and only the effect of his Drunkenness and not worth taking notice of Thus Dionysius when Two young Men were brought before him who in their Cups had spoke many Treasonable Words against him Apothegm Fol. 364. as being a Tyrant and an unjust Oppressour he invited them both to Supper and observing one of them to be a natural Drunkard and idle Talker him he dismissed and sent him about his Business as one not worth minding being only made foul mouth'd by Drunkning But the other whom he observed very cautious both in drinking and speaking he put to Death reputing him his Enemy because he spoke deliberately INTRIGUE XVII How to find out the Secrets of Sober Men. YOU may find out the Inclinations and Secrets of a Sober Person by moving his Affections and setting his Mind on edge and by obstinate and reproachful Controversies by which being once moved in Passion and of his own accord he will pass a true Sentence and discover his Inclination Or you may try what is or hath been the Inclination of one when at School whether Sober Patient Wrathful Contentious or given to Lying and Swearing c. INTRIGUE XVIII How One may know what Reputation he is of and what is his Character in the Eyes of others HE that would know his own Character and the Opinion which others have of him must praise or dispraise before ingenious Men another like himself both in Life and Manners or praise or dispraise him who is for the most part given to Qualities quite contrary to his own And by this he may know that they who praise one of his Life and Manners and dispraise one different in Life and Manners do certainly commend and approve of him and that they who dispraise one like him and praise one who is not like him cannot have any good esteem or think well of him Thus Nero sometimes praised Caligula whom he made the pattern of his Life and sometimes greatly discommended him thereby to know what repute he himself had with others Seneca and in whom he should put trust And at last finding what he sought for he put to Death all those who spoke reproachfully of him But in such as spoke to his Commendation he put great Confidence and made them his nearest dearest and most intimate Friends INTRIGUE XIX How one may find out the Judgment of others in a Case that concerns himself YOU shall know another's Judgment of your own Actions or of your Friends or of your Enemies after this manner propose to one an Act of the same Nature with your own without mentioning the Actor and then ask what the Person who hath done such things deserveth whether praise or dispraise reward or punishment Then after you have heard his Sentence shew the Cases to be of one Nature and Likeness and the Author of the one to deserve as much as the other This is the surest way for on what a Man is Ignorant and knoweth of no Relation to he impartially passeth Sentence freely and without fear But in things known love or hatred blindeth the Eye of Reason and oft times turneth the Scales of Justice to a partial Sentence Tho it be just that every Person judge so of themselves and Friends as they judge of others in the same Cases and under the same Circumstances Thus Charles King of France denounc'd War against Robert Duke of Aquitain whom he overthrew the Duke himself dying in the Battle Annot. Gal. which slaughter and overthrow Robert Earl of Vermandy Nephew to the Duke of Aquitain took so ill that he laid Snares and still waited for an opportunity to be revenged on the King of France therefore invited him under pretence of Friendship to Perona to a yearly Feast Whether the King with a few of the French Nobility without any Suspition willingly came But after Dinner Earl Robert was pleased to seize them all and keep them Prisoners in the Castle But after a whiles Imprisonment he took an Oath of the Nobility that they should never rise in Arms or act any thing against him and so dismissed them But still detained the King who after Two Years died in Prison Lewis III. the Son of Charles durst not at first when he came to the Crown bring Robert in Question or reward him for serving his Father so he having so many Favourites Friends and Relations in the Kingdom But having invited a great many of the Princes and Nobility of France to a sumptuous Banquet and with the rest Earl Robert a counterfeit Messenger whilst they were merry made as if

Superiority above the Sphere of an humble Subject and Servant should be sent to some Foreign Country where they cannot have opportunity to prosecute their ambitious Designs He who hath the Applause of an excellent Soldier and is suspected as dangerous in so eminent an Employ should be sent from the Army under some pretence to some other honourable Function at Court but such as is destitute of all opportunity of molesting the State of Affairs or doing his Prince any Diskindness But in one Word Men of unsatisfy'd Minds who are still fishing after greater Preferment should be sent to Foreign Nations about some publick Affair whereby they may gain Honour but become no more powerful to work their private and dangerous Designs of Promotion and Dignity If of necessity great Trust in publick Affairs must be committed to a vitious Person of Quality joyn with him a Sober Loyal and witty Conjunct and his Vices may be restrained and he himself prove a good States-man But the best course that a Prince can take in the Administration of State-Affairs is to make all Places and Offices of Government Temporal and Durante Regis Beneplacito lest by continuing too long in one Office any should begin to repute his Office his Hereditary Right and look upon himself as a petty Prince INTRIGUE XLIV How to Suppress Seditious Soldiers THERE is no better Antidote to prevent the Sedition of mutinous Soldiers or a factious Army than to disperse them to several Places for it was never known that a great Army could lie idle without mischievous Plots Insolencies ond Out-breakings And if an Army be suspected to contrive private Conspiracies and villanous Acts of Mischief not yet Discovered all means must be used to come to the Knowledge thereof And when the Intrigue is found out something must be cast in to stop the current of their Conventions Councils and Contrivances till there be a full Discovery of the whole Matter and things be put in a posture of Defence and Safety to repel the Force of their mischievous Designs Then when this is done a seeming opportunity should be given that they may hasten to accomplish their Projects whilst indeed the opportunity is but a trap all possibility of their performing their wicked Designs being prevented But it is a good way to keep an Army from plotting Mischief to mix together Soldiers of several Nations and different Manners and Languages for hardly can such agree in one Faction or live in concord among themselves much less joyn with one consent in a Body against their Prince or Commanders INTRIGUE XLV How to Suppress Civil Seditions and Vproars A Seditious People may be induced to go to Colonies and Foreign Plantations in expectation of great Estates and Land for nothing Where they can have no opportunity of Plotting and Contriving Mischief and Conspiracies which were occasioned by their Idleness and and want of Employment but be driven to Till the Ground and use their dilligence for a Livelihood 2. If their Insolency be come to an open Out-breaking the interposing of plausible Men who have the Favour of the People and whom they take to be Friends to whom they will lend a patient and attentive Ear is a very effectual Remedy to tame the Fury of a distracted Rabble 3. It is likewise a sure way for a good and wise Man of great Power and Repute to pretend to espouse the Quarrel of the swelling Multitude till the tide of their Madness be over and under colour to become their Captain or Ring-leader thereby to save the Government from Rapine Burning Slaughter c. Who though perhaps he cannot stop the current of their malicious Endeavours yet may he mitigate their Fury till a surer Remedy be taken 4. For Suppressing publick Insolencies a Foreign Force of Soldiers must be used for being Strangers of an unknown Tongue they cannot so easily side with the Seditious as those of their own Nation who may be induced to joyn with their own Countrey-People upon the account of Friendship and Self-interest or at least connive at their Insolencies Outrages and Insurrections as being their Friends and Countrey-men 5. If these Remedies do not effectuate and the Insurrection must be Suppressed by Force of Arms the Magistrates must go and severely punish the Ring-leaders and Promoters of the Insolencies according to the extremity of the Law Yet the Vulgar are still to be excused because indeliberately and by the persuasion of their Superiors they undertook so villanous an Enterprize 6. Seditions and Insurrections raised by the Cruelty and Covetousness of Courtiers and Statesmen may be appeased by giving up to Justice those first Offenders who did set the People on edge 7. Then let the Prince pass an Act of Grace proclaiming his free Pardon of all past Crimes to all such as will come in to their Prince and acknowledge their Error so full that no Court nor Law can lay hold on them by which Clemency all some for fear of Punishment some for Shame and Contempt being destitute of their Leaders and Commanders will come in and make an humble Submission INTRIGUE XLVI How to know whether an Informer speaketh Truth or not WHen the State of Affairs is so dubious and suspected that private subtile Informers must be used thereby to know the secret Designs and Intrigues of plodding and discontented Brains it will be necessary to have several Informers who have no acquaintance one with another and when they all agree in one thing without contradicting one another then it is credible that they speak Truth But if they gainsay and contradict one another there is no credit to be given to what they speak but diligent search must be made by others that without delay the certain Knowledge may be found out INTRIGUE XLVII How one ought to behave himself when he receiveth an Injury from a Person of Quality that is far above him TO serve a Prince is a very hard and bad Employment unless the Servant can so bear with Injuries as if he knew nothing of them For it is a very foolish thing for a Man to let his Passion be seen when there is no way to revenge or right himself Therefore I say there is no other Remedy for Injuries given by great Persons than to behave so as if one had not received them For if once a Person of Quality understand that their private Arts and Pranks are found out and that the Person to whom they owe a Spite knoweth that they hate him they will with open Violence prosecute their Revenge so furiously that they would be ashamed so to do did they not perceive that their private Intentions and Secrets were found out Therefore when either bad Words a Mistake or Fault depriveth one of his Prince's Favour he must conceal his Misfortune that he may not seem guilty And then tho his offended Master tyrannize over him by open Reproofs Checks secret Jeers and Scoffs he ought to overcome his Masters Anger which will in