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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11493	The quintesence of wit being a corrant comfort of conceites, maximies, and poleticke deuises, selected and gathered together by Francisco Sansouino. VVherin is set foorth sundrye excellent and wise sentences, worthie to be regarded and followed. Translated out of the Italian tung, and put into English for the benefit of all those that please to read and vnderstand the works and worth of a worthy writer.; Propositioni overo considerationi in materia di cose di stato. Book 1. English.	Hitchcock, Robert, Captain.; Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586.	1590 (1590)	STC 21744; ESTC S121812	137,938	218

change his thoughtes for all that foreseeing the selfesame finall end euer remaines firme And in this case it is necessary we imitate the good gouernour of a Ship who ordering and setting the sayles after one sort to bring him to a determined place when afterwards the time dooth change and contrary windes arise he also dooth change his firste order hauing alwaies for finall ende the good and the benefite of the Ship THat rule which is giuen to remaine neuter to the intent to weaken other and to strengthen our selues for the most parte dooth not fall out to be true for that the victorie of one of the parties doth draw with her so much reputation so many partakers and such a train of fauourers that alwaies the ouercommer shewes himselfe to be strong and gallant whereby he maye rather iniurye his companion then that he should be afraide of other mens threatnings IT is euer good to ioyne knit our selues with those that haue the heauens benigne and fauorable vnto them for that therby a man doth alwaies perticipate of y e qualitie of his companion whither soeuer it be good or euill FOr that humain affairs are almost all subiect to chance and haue no assured stay in them a wise man ought to cleaue to that which carries most apparent likelyhood and therin to take order with all due meanes for that for the most part it will fall out to be well and shal be besides accounted prudent and if it should haue an vnlucky end yet in such a case it would appeare to wise men that fortune had greater power therin then prudence GOod Souldiers haue néede of a good Generall Captaine who may be their guide in all things of whose actions dooth depend for the most parte the exaltation and ruine of an Armie therefore the Gréeke Prouerb did say That an armie of Hartes that hath a Lyon to their Captaine is more terrible then an armie of Lyons which is guided with a Hart. But it is requisite that in an Armye there be both good souldiers and a good Captain generall to the intent y t like may not be spoken therof that Caesar spake who going against Pompei saide he went against a Captaine without Souldiers and afterwardes going against Afranius in Spaine saide that he went against an Armie without Captaines MOney without doubt is the nourishment of an army the which giues measure to euery thing and is conuerted into euery thing therfore that wise auntient man saide the Captaines the souldiers their armes and weapons the instruements and engines of warre the artillerie and excluding money were like vnto a bodye which had a head armes neck brest legges feet but no belly for euen as the bellie giues nourishment to all the bodye so mony dooth giue substance to an Armye And that King of Sparta did call it the sinewes of warre for euen as the Sinewes giues mouing to the bodye so monye giues life to an Armie TO doubt of the fauour and good grace of our Lord and Prince although a man haue not faulted against him is a thing common to manye neither is it necessarye that that feare which is had of our Lord maister should be attributed to basenes of minde neither much lesse to the lightnes of nature for that the diuersitie and crueltie of our desire caused through the diuersitie of accidentes whilste our woorkes and actions dooth manifest a certaine courage and constancie ought either to be reputed for the signe of a bolde and constant person IN my opinion he hath no great reason to lament himself that at any time hath béene contented to make himself equall to others referring himselfe to chaunce The which for no other respect hath béene induced and brought into a Commonwealth but only to take away all sortes of concurrences inequalities and to content equally euery one MEn doo very rarely complaine of themselues but very often of others and for the most parte doo willingly rage against Chance Forsomuch as since euery day there doo succéed newe and strange chaunces and not vnderstanding the occasion neither the meanes by which they are wrought Sodainlie we giue the praise or the blame vnto Fortune THe Affaires of men being in reuolution motion and not béeing able to stand firm stedfast it is conuenient that they arise vp and discend downe And to name things that reason dooth not induce vs necessitie dooth induce vs In such sorte that hauing ordered and fashioned a Commonwealth apt to maintaine it selfe without enlarging of it and that if we were constrained by necessitie to enlarge it It would come to passe that we should remooue our foundacions and make the Common wealth sooner to ruinate So on the other side if the heauens were so beneficiall vnto vs that our state should haue no néede to make warres It would ensue that idlenes would either woorke deuision amongst vs or make vs effinate The which two thinges together or either of them by her selfe would be an occasion of our ruine Therfore since we cannot as I beléeue ballance these thinges neither precisely kéepe the middle path it is necessary that in the directing of a Commonwealth we should think vpon the most honorable partie and order it in such sorte that when through necessitie we should be brought to enlarge it we may be able to kéep that which we haue gotten THe offence and damage of a priuate person againste a priuate person dooth engender feare feare séekes for defence defence dooth procure partakers And immediatly parties and factions arise vp in a Citie or state and such partakings doth ruinate the same WHen it appéeres or is perceiued that forrayne forces be called in by parte of those men that liue in one selfe Citie or state It may be thought that it springeth of the naughtie orders therin vsed for that there is no orders that can without extraordinary meanes extinguish those malignant humours that arise in any person Therfore we ought to prouide by the way of accusation but as accusations be profitable to a Commonwealth so detractions are damageable DEtractions or calumnies haue no néed of testimonies or any other perticuler circumstances to prooue them In such sorte that euery one may be detracted of any but not accused Forsomuch as accusations haue need of proofes and of circumstances that may showe the trueth of the accusation WEe ought to obserue this generall rule that neuer or very seldome it dooth chaunce That any Common weale or Kingdome is at the first well instituted or at all beeing made newe and reformed out of the olde constituted Lawes if it be not set in due rule and order by one alone Therfore it is necessary that one alone may be the man that may set downe the manner and of whose minde may depend what institution or ordinance soeuer For a prudent commaunder of a Common weale which caries a minde to benefit not himselfe but the comminaltie ought to endeuour himselfe to sw●ie alone the whole