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The practice of policy written by Lodowike Lloyd ...
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Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.
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THE PRACTICE OF POLICY Written by Lodowike Lloyd Esquire Qui foueam fodit incidet in eam qui laqueum ponit peribit in illo Eccle. 27. Qui dissipat sepem mordebit eum Coluber Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling in Hosier lane neere Smithfield 1604. ⧠To the most high and mighty Prince James by the grace of God King of England Scotland Fraunce and Ireland c. CRATERVS contending with Ephestion most gracious Prince which of them two loued Alexāder best appealed to the king for iudgement who iudged that Craterus loued the king and Ephestion loued Alexander but both alike loued Alexander the king So the Brytaynes and the English loue your Maiesty in like sort that you can hardly iudge which of them loues you best vnlesse you do as Alexander did to iudge the English as Craterus the Brytaynes as Ephestion but both Brytaines English with equall loue and loyalty loue King lames alike that all hauing the like cause of ioy all should so reioyce to enioy such a Iewell that in one day enriched England Ireland with a king and the whole Empire of Brytayne with a Prince to whome it was reserued and continued from Brutus the first King to your Maiesty the second King not as to a stranger but to a iust a lawfull king of the stocke and linage of Brutus to succeed and sit on Brutus seat 2800. yeeres after Brutus where your Maiesty may better say then Caesar Veni vidi vici for that you haue conquered Time came to your owne kingdomes and may see in your selfe such a succession that neyther the Macedonians who much bragged of their Hercules whose lyne ended in Alexander neyther the Romanes who much gloried of Gens Iulia whose stocke extincted in Nero nor any nation vnder heauen which can boast of their antiquities most can say so much The Scythians with their Acornes in their heads and the Athenians with their Grassehoppers in their haires may wel bragge of their Acornes and Grassehoppers but not of the like Empires for as Anaxagoras sayd to Pericles of the Empire of Greece so Cratippus spake to Pompey of the Romane Empire that periods of times are limited Embrace you therefore most mighty Prince the great blessings of God which so embraced your Maiesty elected you King to gouerne his people and to maintayne his lawes without which neither king nor kingdome can stand for that is the rich Tablet which Moses brought from Mount Sinay to set about Israels neck It is that long ladder which Iacob saw in his dreame at Bethel that reached frō the earth into heauen and it is that bright-shining Starre which guyded the kings from the East vnto Christ at Bethlehem The only Pearle that we should buy and the only Iewel that wee should weare not as gards on our garments or frontiers on our forheads as the Iewes wore Phylacterium but rather printed in our hearts where we ought to giue thanks for our King which for 50. yeeres haue bene without either King or Prince and now wee enioy a King a Queene a Prince and Princes with no lesse blessings by the comming of your Maiesty ouer the riuer Tweede from Scotland to England to incorporate both to the ancient name of great Brytaine then by the comming of Israel from Mesopotamia ouer the riuer Iordan to alter the name of Canaan into Iuda whose posterity as they were wrought on Aarons garment to remember Israel so your princely progeny may bee sure set on the vnseamed coate of Christ to remember the house of Iacob Your Maiesties most bounden and dutyfull seruant Lodowike Lloyd THE PRACTICE OF POLICY THeodoricus King of the Gothes began Theodoricus his letter to the Senators of Rome with a sentence of Plato That Nature might sooner erre then a Prince to frame a Common wealth vnlike to himselfe It is most true Imperium ostendit virum for such as the Magistrates are such are the people such as the Prince is so are his subiects and that was the cause why Cyrus King of Persia was Cyrus so much honoured among the Persians for his wise lawes graue gouernment and great policy in enlarging the Monarchy of Persia in so much that hee that resembled Cyrus if it were in any part of his body or had but a crooked nose like Cyrus hee was so esteemed and made much of in all Persia as hee should haue fauour Leuin li. 1 cap 15. shewed him in any place and in euery company And so hee that had but a long head like Pericles in Pericles Athens his cause should be heard before the Iudges of Areopagites or before any Magistrates in the Court Prytaneon free before other Such was the law and fauour of the people towardes Pericles in Athens and towardes Cyrus in Persia that the Midwiues and Nurses both in Asia and in Greece had in charge giuen them by the parents to do their best indeuor to frame and to mould their young infants like Cyrus in Persia and like Pericles in Athens yet few though the Nurses did their indeuours were found in Athēs like Pericles vnlesse it were with a long head and fewe or none were found in Persia like Cyrus vnlesse it were with a Cyrus Val. max. l. 9. ca. 14. Plin. li. 7. cap. 12. crooked nose This kind of likenesse is found in many So was Artenon like to Antiochus the great and Menagenis a Cooke like to Strabo Pomp. And therefore that noble Roman Pompey being yet but a very young man heating by common report that he much resembled Alexander the great in countenance gestures and outward behauiours but specially likened to Alexander for the growing of his hayres vpwardes vpon his forehead in which some write that Alexander Hector and Pompey much resembled Alex. Hect. and Pomp. Opisthocomae one the other this noble Captaine I say esteemed little to be like Alexander in externall forme and frame of his body but he exercised how he might imitate Alexander to be like to him in qualities and actions of the minde Non ex apparatu sed ex animo reges so that he imitated Alexander in valour and magnanimitie of minde and not in forme of his body By such meanes Pompey became afterward to bee compared and was called Pompey the Great after hee Pompey had subdued Sertorius in Affrica as Alexander the great was called in Persia after he had subdued Darius This was a more laudable imitation in Pompey then in the great men and Captaynes of Macedonia who would wish nothing more then to bee called Opisthocomae for so the Grecians called Alexander for that his haires vpon his forhead grew vpward but good Captaynes must not be like the Macedonian Captaynes following onely Alexander to be called Opisthocomae but like Pompey imitating Alexander in greatnesse and valour of minde There were many Opisthocomae in Macedonia yet not one like Alexander many crooked noses in Persia but not
It had bene better for Alexander to haue Epicharmus sentence euery where in his mouth Memento diffidere then to haue Darius signet vpon his finger in Babylon And it had bin better for Caesar to haue followed Ciceroes counsel before he came to Pharsalia then to weare Pompeyes Ring vpon his finger in Affricke But such is the force of flattery in Courts and Countreyes that the flatterer carries the earth vpon his backe as Atlas as Poets faigne carries the heauens vpon his shoulders The Persiās and the Medes were such flatterers that not only to their kings whom they adore worship as The flattery of the Persians gods but in saluting one another they would bend bow them selues vnto the ground Alexander the great was contented in Macedonia to be the sonne of his father king Philip but in Persia they made him the sonne of Iupiter His father Philip in like sort was in Macedonia but when he came conquered Greece in any great assēbly whē they elected new Magistrates they prayed vnto Iupiter Apollo and Hercules to giue good successe to these Officers and Magistrates the Argiues so flattered Philip that they wrote his name named him next after Hercules to be the fourth in their petition and supplication to their gods The people so flattered Herod a wicked king after he had slaine Iames and imprisoned Peter that at his last Oration which he made to the Iewes the people cried out Vox dei non hominis but Herod presently fel down Acts 12. dead and was eaten with wormes So the false Prophets flattered the king of Israel Achab that he should haue victory ouer the Syriās these flattering prophets so practised with such strāge spirits that Achab was slaine by the Syrians was brought 3. Reg. 22 dead to be buryed in Samatia The Atheniās so flattered Demetrius that his Image was caryed and borne with Iupiter Minerua Mars Demetrius much slattered in Athens in the Banner of Peplon and Demetrius was the fourth but he died in prison The Athenians lodged and entertained strangers to see to heare and to learne some newes any lying flatterer might be welcome to Athens But others loue not to be so flattered as Octauius Augustus and Alexander Seuerus who so hated Flatterers that they had spies abroad to finde them out and if Elattery hated of Augustus any seemed eyther with words or outward behauiour to be like Flatterers they should bee streight banished the Courts of these two Emperours Cassander saluted of all men as a king and so called hee loued not to be flattered nor to vsurpe the name of a king and though he was written vnto by the name of a king yet he refused to be so called Neyther would Porus. Diodor. lib. 17. Porus K. of India after he was conquered by Alexander the great suffer any man to cal him king This seemed to be great modesty to refuse the names of kings being offred thē Yet many Tyrants vsurp the names of kings and many make meanes to become kings Emperours and Princes practising many policyes by trecherie by murther by poysoning and killing many practise meanes to become Officers and Magistrates and yet would not be seene practisers therein Sectio 10. IN Rome such polycies were practised such sutes were made to become eyther The election of Magistrats in Rome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thucid. lib. 3. Consull Pretor Tribune Censor or Aedile that the 35. Tribes were so flattered and followed in Martius field with money with friends and with all meanes possible to become Magistrates and officers within the City of Rome and at that time the Arte of Flattery was there to bee taught and learned There they that were to be elected stood before the Senators and Consuls clothed all in white garments without gownes for that was a garment suspicious and not at any time to be suffred by the law lest they might eary some rewards to corrupt the people vnder them and after they were thus chosen they were accompanyed from Martius field when they had flattered the Alex. lib. 4. cap. 3. people with thankes for their election then they went vnto the Capitoll and from the Capitoll they were brought vnto their houses This kinde of election continued but a short time yet flattery endured longer and was practised at any change of Magistrates or Officers yet Lu. Crassus could not be brought before Q. Scauola to giue thankes vnto the people lest hee should seeme to haue the name of a flatterer Paulus Aemilius when he was chosen Consul to goe with an army into Persia and was for to come vnto Paul Aemilius saying the Capitoll to thank the people according to the Romane custome he refused sayd If they could find a fitter man to go against king Perseus he was wel contēted to yeeld againe his new Consulship vnto the people and to make their election of another he thought it not fit to flatter the people with faire wordes Such was Phocion in Athens hee would make no meanes vnto the people neither would Phocion be present at any time of election of newe Officers or Magistrates he would neyther send nor speake for any Office Phocion in Athens the Athenians vsed so often to corrupt people for Offices and Honors to become Magistrates that Demosthenes cryed out that Populus et pecunia were the Monsters of Athens as Capitolium and Forum were in Rome Such was Aristides a man most iust and most quiet among the Athenians but these were rare men to bee found But Clisophus could halt in Macedonia with king Philip said he had also the Gowt aswel as King Philip. Cleo could better please Alexander with his flattery thē Calisthenes could do with his philosophy That Prince Cleo a great flatterer ought not to be called a Prince where trueth dare not be spoken in whose Court men are often consumed more by flatterers in the time of peace then by the enemies in the warres so Q. Curtius saith Regum opes saepius assentatio quà m hostis euertit There is a people in some parte of Ethiopia called Diodor. li. 4. cap. 1. Cathaei that if their king do halt or be lame in any part of his body his houshold seruants must likewise halt and be lame in the selfesame place where the King is lame Alcamenes was much praised in Athens for that he made the halting Image of Vulcan to stand vpright in such garments that hid the deformity of his halting And yet for all the skill of Alcamenes sayd Cicero Claudum Cic. de diuinat 2. habebant deum the Athenians had but a lame god I feare that many beside the Athenians with Vulcans garments would fayne hide their halting and would seeme to goe vpright though they halt with Vulcan for all Alcamenes skill Pilate had a better garment that hid his faults before Tib. Caesar for being accused that he put an innocent man to