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A02299	Archontorologion, or The diall of princes containing the golden and famous booke of Marcus Aurelius, sometime Emperour of Rome. Declaring what excellcncy [sic] consisteth in a prince that is a good Christian: and what euils attend on him that is a cruell tirant. Written by the Reuerend Father in God, Don Antonio of Gueuara, Lord Bishop of Guadix; preacher and chronicler to the late mighty Emperour Charles the fift. First translated out of French by Thomas North, sonne to Sir Edward North, Lord North of Kirthling: and lately reperused, and corrected from many grosse imperfections. With addition of a fourth booke, stiled by the name of The fauoured courtier.; Relox de príncipes. English	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545? Aviso de privados. English.	1619 (1619)	STC 12430; ESTC S120712	985,362	801

giue any words to any that shall offend him For the officers of Princes can by no other meanes so well assure their offices and authority they haue as by doing good continually to some and to suffer others no way making any countenance of displeasure for the iniuries done them by others And if it happen as many times i doth that a follower and hanger on of the Court hauing spent all that he hath and driuen now to seeke a new banke chaunce to speake dishonest words and frame great quarrels against the Kings Officers In this case the Courtier and wise Officer should neuer answer him with anger and displeasure and much lesse speake vnto him in choller For a man of honour and respect will be more grieued with a dishonest word that is spokē against him then hee will bee for the deniall of that he asketh Those that are beloued and beliked of Princes aboue all other things ought to bee very patient courteous and gentle in all things For all that the followers of the Court and suiters cannot obtaine in the Court let them not lay the fault to the Prince that denyed it them but onely to the fauoured of the Prince and those about him for that they neuer moued it to the Kings Maiestie nor once thought of the matter as the poore Suters supposed they had The paines and troubles of Court are infinite and insupportable For how quyet soeuer the Courtyer bee they will trouble and molest him if hee be pacient they will be impacient and in stormes saying That such a man spake yll of him and seekes continually to defame him Which things wee will the Courtyer heare with patience and dissemble with wisdome For the wise Courtyer should not bee angrie for the yll wordes they speake of him but onely for the vile and wicked actes they doe vnto him Let not the Courtyer and Fauourite of the Prince be deceiued in thinking that doing for this man and for that man in shewing them fauour that for all that hee can binde or stay their tongues that they speak not ill of him and their hearts that they hate them not extreamly For the Enemie receyueth not so much pleasure of that the Courtyer giueth him as hee doeth griefe and displeasure for that that is behinde yet in the Courtyers hands to giue him Now in the pallaces of Princes it is a naturall thing for eache man to desire to aspire and to creepe into the Princes fauour to bee able to doe much and to bee more worth then others and to commaund also And as there are manie that desire it so are they very few in number that by their vertues and demerits come to obtaine that high fauour It is a thing most sure and vndoubted that one alone enioying his Princes grace and fauour shall be hated in manner of the most part of the people The more they are Rich Noble and of great power that are beloued and accepted of Princes so much the more ought they to bee circumspect and to liue in feare and doubt of such disgraces and misfortunes that may happen to them sith all euery mans eye is vppon them and that they are the more enuyed for that they can do much and desire also to take from them that authoritie and credite they haue and to spoyle them of such treasures as they possesse or haue gotten by the Princes fauour And in this case the Fauourite of the Courte must not truste in the pleasures hee hath done them neyther in the fauor he hath shewed thē much lesse the fayned friendships they seeme to beare him and that hee thinks he hath gotten of them neither must he trust too much his Friends Neighbors and Kinsfolkes no nor his owne Brethren But let him bee assured that all those that are not in the like ranke of Fauour and estimation that hee is be hee of what degree or parentage hee will be yea and as neere a kinne as may bee they will all bee in that his very mortall foes Authority to commaund being the chiefe and highest point of honor and whereto euery man seekes to aspire and which was cause that Pompey became the deadly enemy of Iulius Caesar his father in Law Absolon of Dauid his naturall father Romulus of his brother Remus Alexander of Darius who shewed himselfe before a father in loue in bringing on him vp and Marke Anthony of Augustus Caesar his great friend So that I say it may well bee saide that after disdain and cankered ire haue once possest the delicate brest of man onely concerning honour and commaundement that it is neuer thenceforth recured of that infested sore neyther by gifts promises and much lesse by prayers and requests It is true the accepted of the prince may well bee free from all thyrste and hunger colde and heate warres plague and pouertie and from all other calamityes and troubles of this our wretched life but hee shall neuer be free from detractions of venomous and wicked tongues and from spightfull and enuious persons For no lesse is Enuie ioyned to fauour then is thyrst to a burning ague In this case it is impossible but that the Courtyer should receyue manie times displeasure and disgraces in the Court but not to giue eare to these detracters and ill-speakers of men To remedy these things the Courtyer must needes seeme to let them know by his lookes and aunswers that hee is more offended with them that come and tell him these lewde tales then with those that in deed did truely report them of him This counsell would I giue the courtyer that what ill so euer hee heareth spoken of him I would wish him not seeme to know it and much lesse to be angrie withall nor once giue a distastfull word to the reporters thereof For his choller ouer-paste the euill words hee hath spoken to them in his anger may turne him to more displeasure then he hath done him hurt that caused him speake these words And therefore surely to bridle the Tongue is rather a diuine then a humane vertue and chiefly in that instant when the heart is maistered and subdued with Chollericke passions For afterwards it happeneth many times that being quiet againe in our mindes we are sorry for that wee haue spoken in our anger yea against them that haue angred vs. If the Courtyer should weigh euery worde that is spoken against him and esteeme euery thing that is done to him he should purchase himselfe a continuall and sorrowfull life yea and out of measure a troublesome and vnpleasant sith Princes courts are euer full of Serpents-tongues and venomous harts and that it lyeth not in mans power to let that the hearts of men hate vs not and that their tongues speake not ill of vs. I would aduise the Courtyer to take all the ill that is spoken of him in sporte and mirth and not in anger Seneca sayde and that wisely spoken that there is no greater reuenge

wee shall not know the manner of their beauty and that which seemed to be perpetuall in short space we see it end and lose the renowme in such sort that there is neuer memory of them hereafter Let vs all leaue the ancient buildings come to the buildings now a dayes and none shall see that there is no man that maketh a house bee it neuer so strong nor faire but liuing a little while he shall see the beautie thereof decay For there are a great number of ancient men which haue seene both the tops of famous and strong buildings made and the foundation and ground thereof decayed And that this is true it appeareth manifestly for that if the toppe decay or the wals fall or else if the timber bee weake or the ioynts open or the windowes waxe rotten or the gates doe breake the buildings forthwith decay What shall we say of goodly halls galleries well appointed the which within short space by coles or candles of children or by torches of pages or smoke of chimneys by cobwebs of spiders become as drie and foule as before they were fresh and faire Then if that bee true which I haue sayd of these things I would now gladly know what hope man can haue of the countenance of his beautie since wee see the like destruction of corporall beauty as of stones wood bricke and clay O vnprofitable Princes O children too foolish hardy do you not remember that all your health is subiect to sicknes as in the pain of the stomack in the heate of the liuer the inflammation of the feete in the distemperance of humors in the motions of the aire in the coniunctions of the Moon in the Eclipse of the Sunne I say doe you not know that you are subiect to the tedious Summer and vntollerable Winter Of a truth I cannot tell how you can be among so many imperfections and corruptions so full of vaine glory by your beauty seeing knowing that a litle feuer doth not onely deface and man the beauty but also maketh and coloureth the face all yealow bee it neuer so well fauoured I haue maruelled at one thing that is to say that all men are desirous to haue al things about their body clean their gownes brushed their coates neate their table handsome and the bed fine and onely they suffer their soules to be foule spotted and filthy I durst say and in the faith of a Christian affirme that it is a great lacke of wisedome and a superfluity of folly for a man to his haue house clean to suffer his soule to be corrupted I wold know what preheminence they haue which are fair aboue others to whom nature hath denyed beautie Peraduenture the beautifull man hath two soules and the deformed creature but one peraduenture the most fairest are the most healthfull and the most deformed are the most sickliest peraduènture the most fairest are the wisest and the most deformed the most innocent peraduenture the fairest are most stout and the deformed most cowards peraduenture the faire are most fortunate and the foole most vnluckiest peraduenture the faire only are accepted from vice and the foule depriued from vertue peraduenture those which are faire of right haue perpetuall life and those which are foule are bound to replenish the graue I say no certainely Then if this be true why doe the great mocke the little the faire the foule the right the crooked and the white the blacke since they know that the vaine glory which they haue and their beauty also shall haue an end to day or tomorrow A man that is faire and well proportioned is therefore nothing the more vertuous and he that is deformed and euil shapen is nothing therfore the more vicious so that vertue dependeth not at all of the shape of body neither yet vice proceedeth of the deformity of the face For dayly wee see the deformity of the body to be beautified with the vertues of the minde and the vertues of the minde to be defaced with the vice of the body in his works For truely he that in the vsage of his life hath any botch or imperfection is worse then he that hath foure botches in the shoulders Also I say that though a man be great yet it is not true that therefore he is strong so that it is not a generall rule that the big body hath alwayes a valiāt couragious heart nor the man which is of little person should be of a vile and false heart For we see by experience the greatest men the most cowards and the least of personage the most stout and hardy of heart The holy Scipture speaketh of king Dauid that he was red in his countenance and not big of body but of a meane stature yet notwithstanding as he and the mighty Giant Goliah were in campe Dauid killed Goliah with a sling and with his owne sword cut of his head We ought not maruaile that a litle sheapheard should slay so valiant and mighty a Giant For ofttimes of a litle spark cōmeth a great light cōtrariwise by a great torcha man can searcely see to do any thing This king Dauid did more that hee being little of body and tender of yeares killed the Lyons and recoured the lambes out of the wolues throtes besides this in one day in a battle with his owne hands he slue to the number of 800. men Though wee cannot finde the like in our time we may wel imagine that of the 800. which he slew there were at least 300. of them as noble of linage as he as rich in goods as faire in countenance as high of stature but none of these had so much force and courage since he escaped aliue and they remained in the field dead Though Iulius Caesar was big enough of body yet notwithstanding he was euill proportioned For he had his head all bald his nose very sharpe one hand more shorter then the other And albeit he was yong he had his face riuelled his colour somewhat yellow and aboue all he went somewhat crooked and his girdle was half vndone For men of good wits do not imploy themselues to the setting out of their bodies Iulius Caesar was so vnhandsome in his body that after the battle of Pharsalique a neighbour of Rome said vnto the great Orator Tullius Tell me Tullius why hast thou followd the partialities of Pompeius since thou art so wise knowest thou not that Iulius Caesar ought to be Lord Monarch of al the world Tullius answered I tell thee true my friend that I seeing Iulius Caesar in his youth so euill and vnseemely girded iudged neuer to haue seene that that is seene of him and did neuer greatly regard him But the old Sylla knew him better For he seeing Iulius Caesar so vncomly and so slouenly apparrelled in his youth oftentimes saide vnto the Senate beware of this yong man so euill marked For if you do not watch well his proceeding

may neuer enioy because they are neuer credited nor beleeued in their wordes What fame credite honour reputation or good can hee haue out of whose mouth there cōmeth nothing but lyes A lyer deserueth credite of no man neyther that any man should deale with him in any thing much lesse to commit any matter of trust into his hands no nor loue him nor accept of him but rather as a detractor and defamer of mens good name wee should banish him our company Hanibal that was the mighty Prince of the Carthagenians so valiant in warlike prowesse so hardy to follow it and therewithall so fortunate to ouercome his enemies was yet notwithstanding blamed of Titus Liuius and reputed for a malignant periured person For hee neuer gaue that hee promised to his friends neyther euer kept any couenant or agreement made with his enemies Such was not Gneus Pompeius sonne to Pompey the great with whom Octauian and Marke Antony both his mortall enemies beeing at supper with him on the sea Menodorus the Captaine of his Armie sent him word if it were his pleasure he would so liuely haue hoist vp the sayles of the ship that he would soone haue perished them or sunked the shippe they were in To which message Pompey gaue this answer Thou shalt tell Menodorus my Captaine that if I were Menodorus as hee is that neuer knew what truth meant I would haue followed his aduise and haue done that hee sendeth to mee for but if hee were Pompeius as I am which keeps my word and promises with all men such a thought and treason would neuer haue occupied his head Wordes sure worthy of so noble a Prince sonne of so great and worthy a Father Herodotus writeth also that when the Egyptians would make any new amitie betwixt themselues or bee in league and confederate themselues with straungers they vsed to binde their thombs harde to the thombes of those with whome they would ioyne in friendship and then with an instrument pricked euery one of theyr thumbes that the bloud spurted out which they sucked the one the other with their tongue inferring thereby that they would rather sheadde their whole bloud then in one iote to falsifie and breake that friendship promised betweene them Is it not a goodly thing to heare him that sweareth by the Masse of mine honesty so God ketch mee by my good sooth by cocke and pye and other like nice oathes only vnder simplicitie thereof to make you belieue a lye he will tell you which in deed we should least then belieue when hee is most ruffe in his oathes For it is most certaine the more a lyer enforceth his words with aboundance of Oathes the lesse is hee to be belieued For that is a plaine demonstration that it is a prepensed Lye he would make vs belieue for a truth It is a sport to see a true man and a Lyer in Argument together for the true man enforceth his words none otherwise but thus Truely friend it is euen thus as I tell thee thou mayest if thou wilt belieue mee And the other to defend and maintaine his Lye will inuocate for witnes all the diuells of Hell c. So that for defence of the Trueth it sufficeth to stand fast on his feete but for the defence of a Lye hee must runne throgh the whole world If I were a King or prince to throw the beloued out of fauour to put my men out of seruice to depriue men of their office dignitie or to disgrade a knight of his order of knight-hood or to giue no more faith nor credit to one then an other I would desire no better occasion or testimonie then once to take him with a Lye And I would think it lesse ill that the fathers should rather pardon a great faulte in their childrē that friend in his friend and the maister in his seruant then to beare with him in one lye For by Time the wings of sin is cut But to Lye is of such a condition the elder a man waxeth the more force and power it hath of him It is not ynough for a man to be free of this vice but hee must also flye and sequester himselfe from the fellowship of those which are possessed with that fowle and inueterate Error For it is commonly seene when a man would bring out a sudden Lye to giue it the more credit he will auouch his friend for a witnes saying hee knoweth it and was present with me Now those that heare this famous Lye and know the very truth in deede of the matter as it was condemneth his friend he auoucheth although he be innocent of the matter for that he is brought in for testimony as they doe this notorious and shamelesse Lyer I should lye also for companie if I should denie to tell you that being in the Court vpon a time in a good presence a friende of mine stucke not to forge a Lye amongst others and said that hee had sayled in a ship made all of the canes of Synamon and he auouched mee for a witnes affirming that I was likewise with him in his companie in the ship and I to saue his honour hee being my very friend being ashamed he should incurre the name of a Lyer was compelled seriously to confirme his tale with him whereof I repented mee afterwardes with all my heart For thereby I was in secret noted of the hearers to be as great a lyer as hee Also another time when I went to preach at the Court being diseased of the gout I walked vp and down with a staffe of reede to stay me withall the selfe-same person I told you of before tolde amongst the Prelates that were in the Chapell where I preached that hee had giuen mee a Reede or caue to walke withall that from one knob to another it wold hold three great pots of wine Loe now by my example you may gather what shame and deshonestie an honest vertuous man sustaineth to bee a friend and companion of one so shamelesse and horrible a Lyer For to bee plaine I was brought to this passe by meanes of this friend of mine that I could not tell what I should doe but when I heard him beginne to speake to flye from him and leaue him because I would not be reputed of like reputation with him how beit in the end I was forced to vse this policie that what hee had openly auouched me a witnesse in secretly again I would excuse my selfe and denie it But now returning to our matter againe I say That these Courtiers Familiars of Princes ought to exile and banish from them this abominable crime of lying For if a mean gentleman or simple Plebeyan happen sometimes to tell one thing for another It is but taken of the Hearers straight for a simple lye But being spoken by one of the fauoured of the Court or other Gentleman of reputation it is thought a kinde of treason For like as betwixt God and

were of immortall memorie of letters I will not deny that in the common wealth of Rome there hath not beene nourished and taught many women of great science but that the difference of the one and the other was that the Grecian women were learned in Philosophy and the Romane women in Rethoricke and Poetrie And hereof came that in Athens they esteemed to know how to teach well and in Rome they vaunted how to speake well Euphronius in the third booke of the Romane gestes sayeth that in the third yeare of the Consulship of Lelius Sylla by chance a Greeke Ambassador and an Ambassadour of Rome were at wordes in the Senate of the Rhodians the Greeke Ambassadour sayd to the Romane Ambassador It is true that amongst you other Romanes you are aduenturous in armes but for all that you are vnable in sciences For truely the women of Greece know more in letters then the men of Rome in weapons As soone as the Senate of Rome vnderstoode those words immediatly hereupon grew the cruell wars betweene Rome and Carthage about the possession of Sicill And no man ought hereat to maruell for in the end we see more wars arise by iniurious words then for to recouer the good that is lost The Romanes and the Grecians therefore being ready the one to defie the other the Rhodians came in the middest and kept them from such debate and in the end appointed them in this sort That is to say that as this iniurie should by weapons haue been determined they ordayned that by the disputations of women it should bee argued And truely the Romanes were counselled well for it was greater shame to the Greekes to bee ouercome with the tongues of women then with the swords of men The cause thereof was such that by appointment assembled at Rhodes ten Roman women and ten Greeke women All women very well learned the which in their chairs read certain lessons euery one after other and afterwardes the one disputed against the other of sundry and diuers matters And finally there was betweene them great difference for the Greeks spake very high things not so profound but with an excellent stile We ought not to maruell that such giftes were in those women for wee dayly see it by experience that profound science and high eloquence seldome meeteth in one personage The Greekes were very well pleased to heare the Romane women and the Romaines remained astonied to heare the Greekes And vpon this occasion the Rhodians iudged in this sort that euery one of them should be crowned with a crowne of Lawrel as vanquishers And they iudged that in graue sentences the Grecians had the best and in eloquent speech the Romanes had the victory As the aboue named Euphronius sayeth the disputations beeing ended the Romane women returned to Rome the Greeke women to Greece where they were receiued with such triumph and glory as if they had won a battel The Senate of the Rhodians for the memory of those women in the place of the disputations caused to bee set vp 20. pillers in euery one of the which were the names of the women Which was so sumptuous a building that in Rhodes there were none like to it saue only the Collyseo Those pillers stood vntill the time of Heliogabalus the Emperour who was so euill that he inuented new vices and destroied the ancient memories The writers which write in that time declare yet another thing wherin the women of Greece were differēt from the women of Rome That is to say that the Greeke women were foūd more fairer then the Romane women but the Romanes had a better grace more rich in apparel then the Greeks They sayd also that the Greekes were more hardy and stout then the Romanes but the Romanes were more honest pleasant and gracious then the Greekes And if this be true I do counsell Princesses and great Ladies that they haue no more enuy at the honesty of the Matrones of Rome then at the boldnes of the Ladies of Gretia For women were not born to slay men in the warre but to spin sowe and liue well like good housewiues in the house CHAP. XXVIII That women may bee no lesse wise then men and though they bee not it is not through default of nature but for want of good bringing vp CEasing to speake in generally it is but reason wee speake particularly and that wee reduce to memory some ancient histories of wise and discreete women as well Greekes as Romans for that these Ladies seeing what others were in times past may know what their duty is at this present In mine opinion the duty that the men of this present haue to follow the courage that the Ancients had in fighting the selfe same desire ought women of this present to haue to follow the ancient women in deuout liuing for there is no good thing in the world at this present day but the like hath been seene of our ancients heretofore When any sudden new and vnaccustomed thing doth happen men that neuer saw the like vse to say that there was neuer the like in the world yet indeed they say not true for though the thing bee vnto them new it is through their ignorance and simplenesse which neither haue read it by themselues nor heard it of others or this excellency hath the man that is learned that for what soeuer hee heareth or sayth hee is nothing abashed at Since women now a dayes are so ignorant that scarcely any of them can reade well hee that shall reade this will maruell why I doe perswade them to learne but the truth known what the Ancients were and what they did know from this time forward I beleeue they would greatlie reproue the women of this present for the time which the ancient women spent in vertues and studies These of this present consume in pleasures and vices Bocchas in the prayse of Women sayth that Lucius Sylla was a great companion of Marius the Consull in the time of the warre of Iugurtha and was no lesse a friend of Caius Caesar in the time of the first ciuill warres My penne needeth not to be occupied to write any thing of the life of Sylla For all the Historiographers doe not onely reproue the cruelties which he vsed to his enemies but also condemne him for the little faith he obserued his friends This Consull Sylla had three daughters the one of them was named Lelia Sabina the which of all the sisters was least fayre but amongst all the Romanes shee was the most sagest for shee read openly in Rome in a chayre both Greeke and Latine After the warres of Mithridates Lucius Sylla came to Rome where he beheaded three thousand Romanes which came to salute him although before by his word he had assured them all And in deed and also iustly Lucius Sylla had been vtterly vndone for his fact if his daughter had not made to the Senate a wise Oration for

princes ought carefully to beware For if in such case one man alone should be found which would commende his liberality there are ten thousand which would condemne his couetousnes It happeneth ofte times to princes and great Lordes that indeede they are free to recompence but in giuing they are very vnfortunate And the cause is that they giue it not to vertuous persons and wel conditioned but to those which are vnthankefull and doe not acknowledge the benefite receyued So that in giuing to some they they haue not made them their friēds and in not giuing vnto others they haue made them their Enemyes It sufficeth not vnto Princes and great Lordes to haue a great desire to giue but to know when how or where and to whom they ought to giue For if they bee accused otherwise to heape vp treasures they ought also to be condemned for that they doe giue When a man hath lost all that he hath in play in Whores in Banquets and other semblable vices It is but reason they bee ashamed but when they haue spent it like noble stout and liberall men they ought not to bee discontented for the wise man ought to take no displeasure for that he loseth but for that hee euill spendeth and hee ought to take no pleasure for that hee giueth but for that he giueth not well Dion the Grecian in the life of the Emperour Seuerus sayth That one day in the Feast of the God Ianus when hee had giuen diuers rewardes and sundry gifts as well to his owne seruants as to str●ngers and that he was greatly commended of all the Romanes he sayde vnto them Doe you thinke now Romans that I am very glad for the gifts rewards and recompences which I haue bestowed and freely giuen and that I am very glorious for the prayses you haue giuen mee by the God Mars I sweare vnto you and let the God Ianus bee so mercifull vnto vs all this yeare that the pleasure I haue is not so great for that I haue giuen as the griefe is for that I haue no more to giue CHAP. XXIX The Author followeth his intention and perswadeth Gentlemen and those that professe Armes not to abase themselues for gaines sake to take vpon them any vile function or office PLutarch in his Apothegmes sayeth that King Ptolomeus the first was a Prince of so good a nature and so gentle in conuersation that oft times he went to supper to the houses of his familiar friendes and many nights he remayned there to sleepe And truely in this case hee shewed himselfe to be welbeloued of his For speaking according to the truth a Prince on whose life dependeth the whole state of the Commōwealth ought to credite few at the Table and also fewer in the bed Another thing this Ptolomeus did which was when he inuited his friendes to dinner or supper or other strangers of some he desired to borrow stools of others napkins and of others cups and so of other things for hee was a prodigall Prince For all that his seruants in the morning had bought before the night following he gaue it away One day all the Nobles of his Realme of Egypt assembled together and desired him very earnestly that hee would bee more moderate in giuing for they sayd through his prodigality the whole Realme was empouerished The king answered You others of Egypt are maruellously deceiued that the poore and needy prince is troubled In this I dare say vnto you that the poore and needie Prince ought to thinke himselfe happie For good Princes ought more to seeke to enrich others then to heape vp Treasures for themselues Oh happie is the Common-wealth which deserueth to haue such a prince and happy is that tongue which could pronounce such a sentence Certainly this Prince to all princes gaue good example and counsell That is to say that for them it was more honor and also more profite to make others rich then to be rich themselues For if they haue much they shal want no crauers and if they haue little they shall neuer want seruants to serue them Suetonius Tranquillus in the booke of Caesars sayth that Titus the Emperour one night after supper from the bottome of his heart fetched a heauie sighe and hee being demaunded of those which were at his table why hee sighed so sore hee aunswered Wee haue lost at this day my Friendes By the which wordes the Emperour meant that he counted not that day amongst those of his life wherin he had giuen no reward nor gift Truly this Noble Prince was both valiaunt and mightie since hee sighed and had displeasure not for that which in many dayes hee had giuen but because that one day he had failed to giue any thing Pelopa of Thebes was a man in his time very valiaunt and also Rich and sith hee was fortunate in getting and liberall in spending one asked him why hee was so prodigall to giue he aunswered If to thee it seemeth that I giue much to mee it seemeth yet I should giue more sithens the goods ought to serue me and not I to honor them Therefore I will that they call mee the spender of the goods and not the stewardes of the house Plutarche in his Apothegmes saith that K. Darius flouting at K. Alexander for beeing poore sent to know where his Treasures were for such great Armyes To whom Alexander the great aunswered Tell King Darius that hee keepeth in his coffers his treasours of mettall and that I haue no other Treasours then the hearts of my Friendes And further tell him that one man alone can robbe all his treasors but he and all the world can not take my Treasures from mee which are my Friendes I durst say affirming that Alexander saide That hee cannot bee called poore which is rich of Friends For we say by experience Alexander with his Friendes tooke king Darius treasures from him and king Darius with all his treasures was not puissant enough to take Alexanders friendes from him Those which of theyr naturall inclination are shamefast and in estate Noble they ought aboue all things to flye the slaunder of couetousnes For without doubt greater is that honour which is lost then the goods that are gotten If Princes and great Lordes of their owne naturall inclination be liberall let them followe their nature but if perchaunce of their own nature they are enclyned to couetousnes let them enforce their will And if they will not doe it I tell them which are present that a day shall come when they shall repent For it is a generall rule that the disordinate couetousnes doe raise against themselues all venemous tongues Thinke that when you watch to take mens goods that others watch in like manner to take your honor I doe not thinke that your life can be sure For there is no law that doeth ordaine nor pacience that can suffer to see my neighbour liue in quiet by the sweat of my browes

but thy good report and courteous acceptance hereof Which doing thou shalt make me double bound to thee First to be thankefull for thy good will Secondly to bee considerate how hereafter I take vpon mee so great a charge Thirdly thou shalt encourage mee to encrease my talent Fourthly and lastly most freely to bestow the encrease thereof on thee and for the benefite of my Country and Common-wealth whereunto duety bindeth mee Obseruing the sage and prudent saying of the renowmed Oratour and famour Cicero with which I end and there to leaue thee Non nobis solum natisumus ortusque nostri partem patria vendicat partem parentes partem amici In defence and preseruation whereof good Reader wee ought not alone to imploy our whole wits and able sences but necessity enforcing vs to sacrifice our selues also for benefite thereof Thine that accepteth me T. N. THE PROLOGVE OF THIS PRESENT WORKE SHEWeth what one true friend ought to doe for an other Addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Fraunces Cenos great Commaunder of LYON THe famous Philosopher Plato besought of all his Disciples to tell them why he iournyed so oft frō Athens to Scicile being the way hee trauelled indeed very long and the sea he passed very dangerous answered them thus The cause that moues mee to goe from Athens to Scicile is onely to see Phocion a man iust in all that he doth and wise in all that hee speaketh and because he is my very friend and enemy of Denys I go also willingly to him to ayde him in that I may and to counsell him in all that I know and tolde them further I let you vnderstand my Disciples that a good Philosopher to visite and helpe his friend and to accompany with a good man should thinke the iourney short and no whit painefull though he should sulke the whole seas and pace the compasse of the earth Appolonius Thianeus departed from Rome went through all Asia sailed ouer the great floud Nile endured the bitter colde of Mount Caucasus suffered the parching heate of the mountaines Riphei passed the land of Nassagera entred into the great India and this long pilgrimage tooke hee vpon him in no other respect but to see Hyarcus the Philosopher his great old friend Agesilaus also among the Greekes accounted a worthy Captaine vnderstanding that the King Hicarius had another Captaine his very friende Captiue leauing all his owne affayres apart trauelling through diuers Countries went to the place whete hee was and arriued there presented himselfe vnto the King and sayde thus vnto him I humbly beseech thee O puissant King that thou vouchsafe to pardon Minotus my sole and onely friend and thy subiect now for what thou shalt doe to him make thy account thou hast done it to me For in deed thou canst neuer alone punish his body but thou shalt therewith also crucifie my heart King Herod after Augustus had ouercome Marke Antonie came to Rome and laying his Crowne at the Emperiall foote with stout courage spake these words vnto him Know thou mighty Augustus if thou knowest it not that if Marke Antony had beleeued mee and not his accursed loue Cleopatra thou shouldest then haue proued how bitter an enemy I would haue beene to thee and hee haue found how true a friend I was and yet am to him But hee as a man rather giuen ouer to the rule of a womans will then guided by reasons skill tooke of me but money onely and of Cleopatra coonsell And proceeding further sayde Loe here my kingdome my person and royal crowne layde at thy princely feet all which I freely offer to thee to dispose of at thy will and pleasure pleasing thee so to accept it but yet with this condition Inuict Augustus that thou commaund mee not to heare nor speake ill of Marke Antony my Lord and friend yea although he were now dead For know thou sacred Prince that true friendes neyther for death ought to bee had in obliuion nor for absence to be forsaken Iulius Caesar last Dictator and first Emperour of Rome did so entirely loue Cornelins Fabatus the Consull that trauelling together through the Alpes of France and beeing benighted farre from any towne or harbor saue that only of a hollow caue which happily they lighted on And Cornelius the Consull euen then not well at ease Iulius Caesar left him the whole caue to the end he might bee more at rest and he himselfe lay abroad in the cold and snow By these godly examples we haue recited and by diuers others wee could recite may bee considered what faithfull friendshippe ought to be betwixt true and perfect friendes into how many dangers one friend ought to put himselfe for another for it is not enough that one friend be sory for the troubles of another but hee is bound if neede were to goe and dye ioyfully with him He onely deseruedly may bee counted a true friend that vnasked and before hee bee called goeth with his goods and person to helpe and relieue his friend But in this our yron age alas there is no such kinde of amity as that wee haue spoken of More then this that there is no friend will part with any thing of his to releeue his friend much lesse that taketh care to fauour him in his troubles but if there be any such that will helpe his friend it is euen then when time serueth rather to pitty and lament him then to ayde or succour him It is a thing worth the knowledge that to make a true and perpetuall friendshippe we may not offer to many persons but according to Seneca his saying who saith My friend Lucillus I counsell thee that thou be a true friend to one alone and enemy to none for numbers of friends brings great incumbrance which seemeth somewhat to diminish friendship For who that considereth the liberty of the heart it is vnpossible that one should frame and agree with the conditions of many much lesse that many should content them with the desires and affections of one Tully and Salust were two famous Orators amongst the Romanes and great enemies betweene themselues and during this emulation betweene them Tully had purchased all the Senators friendshippe and Salust onely had no other friend in all Rome but Marke Antony alone And so these two great Orators beeing one day at words together Tully in great anger sayde to Salust What force or power art thou of or what euill canst thou doe or attempte against mee sith thou knowest that in all Rome thou hast but one onely friend Marke Antony and I no enemie but one and that is he To whom Salust answered Thou gloriest O Tully that thou hast no moe but one onely enemy and afterwards iests at mee that I haue no more Friends but onely me but I hope in the immortall Gods that this onely Enemie thou hast shall bee able enough vtterly to vndoe thee and this my sole Friend that I haue shall bee