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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20993	A treatise of the court or Instructions for courtiers Digested into two books. Written in French by the noble, and learned iuris-consull Monsr Denys de Refuges, Councellor of Estate, and many tymes ambassador (in foraigne parts) for ye two last French kings his masters* Done into English by Iohn Reynolds.; Traicté de la cour. English	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Reynolds, John, fl. 1621-1650.	1622 (1622)	STC 7367; ESTC S100002	184,993	492

thereunto solicited many of his Nobles hee at last resolu'd to present himselfe to him naked hauing anointed his body with oyle with a hat or Crowne of Poplar branches on his head his left shoulder couered with a Lyons skinne and in his right hand a great clubbe and in this manner hee went and found Alexander sitting in his throne of Iustice The rarenesse of which spectacle causing all the company to looke on him made Alexander command to haue him brought before him who hearing him although hee neither liked nor approued his proportion yet he neuerthelesse retain'd him for his follower 4 I heere produce not this Example to incite any to the like folly that purposeth to make himselfe knowne in Court but to make yee consider and see that those who are put backe if they are not seconded and assisted by some great man of authoritie and reputation they can hardly breake through this Crowde and Thronge of Courtiers who enuiron the Prince except as I haue formerly said by some extraordinary action or Iest we make both them and our Prince behold vs. CHAP. IV. 1 The second head of this Booke the Courtier must consider the inclination of his Domesticke Officers and Seruants as also other Courtiers 2 What the Inclinations of a Prince are and the reducing thereof either to that which concernes his greatnesse or his pleasures 3 Wherein the greatnesse of a Prince consists 4 Of the vitions Pleasures and inclinations of a Prince 5 Princes willingly loue those who serue them in their Pleasures 6 Examples hereon 7 8 9 10 1 ACourtier therefore as well to make himselfe known as to become agreeable and pleasing hath neede to consider not only the conditions and qualities of the Prince but also those of his most confident Domestickes and Seruants as also of the great Noble men and chiefe Officers and of those who may assist him or which through iealousie feare enuie hatred or their owne or their friends Interest may distast and crosse them In the Prince a Courtier must consider his Inclination the manner of his cariage and behauiour which is commonly most conformable to his humour the which although the greatest part of wise and discreete Princes endeuour to hide and disguise neuerthelesse it is difficult to performe it so cunningly that at sometimes they be not espied because their actions are so obuious and apparant to the World that by the issue and consequence thereof it is easie to iudge whereat they aime and the weight and importance of affaires doth sometimes so presse and crosse them that by the motions of their spirits they must of necessitie discouer their Natures and inclinations and Tiberius the most subtill and close of all the Emperours could neuer play his part so well in concealing and obscuring his intents but that during his raigne almost euery one bewrayed and discouered them 2 The Inclinations of Princes are diuers and almost infinite in this diuersitie as are those of other men but they may be briefly reduced either to their greatnesse or their pleasures 3 Greatnesse consists either in their reputation riches or obedience of their Subiects or in the valour or sidelitie of his warriours according as the Prince bends and enclines more to one side then the other answerable whereunto those who are most fittest to serue him hauing no other parts in them that are supitious or distastfull are alwaies best welcome to him 4 The like it is in his pleasures and vitious inclinations for a Prince that is fearefull and suspitious as was Tiberius will loue a bold Calumniator who feares not the enuie of great men and who is ready to execute his commands and such a one Tacitus depaints Seianus to be 5 In his vices if hee bee subiect to drunkennesse he will draw neere him men of the like humours and qualities as the same Tiberius did Pomponius Flaccus and L●●cius Piso with whom sometimes he remaind drinking two daies and a night together without starting terming them his friends to performe all and at all times and houres and in consideration and recompense whereof hee gaue one of them the Gouernment of Syria and the other the Praefect-ship of Rome 6 The same Emperor likewise preferred a man of a base descent and scarce knowne to many honourable Personages to the Questership because as it is reported hee had done him reason to vse the tearme of this faire art of Drunkennesse of a certaine measure of Wine which held nintie sixe glasses 7 Nero's Impudicitie among others who serued his beastlie pleasures made him choose Tigilinus hee likewise drew neere him C. Petronius to bee Arbitrato of the brauery of his luxury and lust and the Emperours Commodus and Heliogabalus fill'd all the offices and dignities of the Empire with those who were as vitious and deboshd as themselues 8 Mucianus was not so much esteem'd and beloued for his fidelitie and cariage as because he was fit to content the couetousnesse of Uespasian his master 9 The couetousnesse of Isaacius Angelus Emperour of Constantinople after the death of Theodora Castamonita his Vncle made him take into his fauour a young Clarke of his Exchequer who could scarce write because he proferd him part of those bribes and gifts which he drew from those that imployed him 10 The Emperour Comnenus likewise to satisfie his prodigalitic wanting a seuere exactor and subtill inuentor of Taxes and Monopolies made choice as reporteth Nicetas of one Iohn de Putze a rude and cholericke man of a difficult accesse and insupportable in his Actions and such a one as is vsually put in the execution of the like charge and office vnto whom he gaue so great authoritie and conferred so much power as hee enterpris'd and vsurped on the functions of all other Officers yea hee was so impudently bold sins to breake and reuoake the Statutes and Lawes of his Prince and Councell vnder the colour of parsimony and frugalitie cutting off the most necessary charges and expenses as the arming and entertaining of the Gallies being indeed the chiefest strength and force of the Empire CHAP. V. 1 He that will be welcome to a Prince must second and follow his inclinations 2 How to banish an honest mrn from the Court. 3 The proper definition of the Court. 4 Examples on the corruption of the Court. 5 6 7 A Courtier must some times winke to see tie wicked doe what they please 8 It is very difficult for an honest man to liue and maintaine himselfe in Court. 9 An honest man may liue and bee patient in Court for a time 10 How we must vnderstand this 11 How to diuert the Princes euill inclinatons Examples of Seneca and others lereon 12 13 1 BVt wee need no more Ex●mples to establish this Maxim● which is not onely knowne but too much practised by th●se who frequent the Courts of Princes insomuch that whosoeuer will bee welcome to them must conforme himselfe to second their inclinations and passions 2 Here an honest