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A38818	Gymnasiarchon, or, The schoole of potentates wherein is shewn, the mutability of worldly honour / written in Latine by Acatius Evenkellius ; Englished, with some illustrations and observations, by T. N. ...; Sejanus, seu, De praepotentibus regum ac principum ministris, commonefactio. English	Ennenckel, Georgius Acacius, b. 1573.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3526A; ESTC R39517	168,645	466

Founder which did not a little move the King but that I impute to the workmen by reason that in a window not much distant the Cardinall to manifest to the World his originall and that whatsoever hee had hee had received by the gracious favour of his Prince (i) Non ignoro quod aliqui sunt qui hoc esse factum in contumeliam suam volunt sicut in Gallia in caenaculo suo insculpsere g●lerum Cardin litum cum p●tibulo supra caused above his Ensign to bee lively pourtraited for his crest Molossum ovinam scapulam arrodendem a Mastive-dog knawing of a shoulder of mutton because that those kinde of dogs are most commonly kept by Butchers erat enim lanii filius and he was not ashamed of it and therein hee shewed not onely a great deale of humility but a great deale of worth and wisedome for it is no dishonour to descend from mean Parentage by reason the greatest Rivers have their beginnings from little Springs and the greatest Families from meane beginnings but if he had set up the Crest of any great Lord or Prince that would have been a dishonour unto him and shewed a great deale of arrogancy in disclaiming his father that begot him Neither did the Cardinals thoughts rest here upon these foundations but hee raised them a great deale higher for if not at the same time that he laid these foundations yet not long after quasi natus ad splendida tecta erigenda hee built those two Princely Palaces of White-Hall and Hampton Court Novam regiam quae nunc a splendore aula candida dicta c. which doe exceed all other the Kings houses the one for entertainment the other for magnificence which indeed did a little exceed the degree of a Priest I might add a Subject for that in all the Histories that I have read I doe not finde any Subject to have done so great things unlesse it were Cosmo de Medicis a Citizen of Florence who built two Churches in the City and a Monastery and three Monasteries in the Country and an Hospitall at Jerusalem for Pilgrims and endowed them all and for himselfe a house in Florence admired for architecture by the best Architects and in the Country not farre remote from the City foure stately Palaces yet lived as a Citizen married his Daughters to Citizens of his owne rank and dyed a Citizen about the yeare of our Lord 1464 without any title of honour but his Posterity was abundantly rewarded for his good workes for the Florentines out of his Family chose their Dukes which doe continue Dukes of Florence and are named afther his name of the house of Medicis but to come to the Cardinall the retinue of this Cardinall fidem superat and for mine owne part I cannot believe the report which is given of it it is repotted quod assiduo famulitii obsequio aderant Comes unus barones novem multo plurimi equites armige●i that an Earle nine Barons and many more Knights and Esquires were Servants in ordinary to him it may be they might daily resort to his Table quasi famulitii as duly as if they had beene his domestique Servants which they might doe without disparagement of themselves for being that he was quicquid esse voluit whatsoever hee would bee and obtained quodcunque voluerit whatsoever hee asked non domi tantûm sed foris for the King himselfe acknowledged se regem Galliae a Wolsaeo regi I could not blame the Nobility to make in unto him both for their owne good and the good of their friends but that they should stoop so low as to become famulitii quotidiani daily waiters upon him whose beginning was so fresh in memory cannot enter into my thoughts This Cardinall that was so great to day in honors in possessions in attendants I cannot say in treasure for that went out as fast as it came in the next day or within few dayes after became so meane ut non modò supellectilem sed etiam pecuniam under aleretur ab amicis sumere necessum habuerit that hee was enforced to be beholding to his friends not onely for Money but also for necessaries which gave occasion to his Enemies thus but without cause to descant upon him Vilia qui quondam miseris alinenta negavit Nunc mendicato pascitur ille cibo It is reported that upon the Message which the King sent unto him by the Dukes of Suffolke and Norfolke to retire to Asher in Surrey being a house belonging to the Bishoprick of Winchester and not farre from Hampton-Court that hee continued there with his Family twenty dayes without either beds sheets table-clothes or dishes to eat his meat which report I doe not believe and if it be true yet I conceive it was his owne desire to have it so for being that hee wanted no kinde of Provision for his Table as is acknowledged by the same reporter hee could not have wanted those necessaries if hee had desired them of his Servants being persons of quili●y and estate and such as did adhere unto him in both fortunes as namely Sir William Gaescoigne his Treasureur Sadler the Clerke of his Kitching as I take it afterwards Sir Ralph Sadler who left a faire estate in Worcestershire and Cromwell his receiver especially of Cromwell of whom the greatest Enemies to the Cardinall gave this testimony quod nemo erat Caerdinalitam infensus quin Cromwelli fidelitatem summis laudibus extolleret quod dominum suum in summa calamitate non deseruit sed totis viribus defendere conatus est that there was no man so much offended with the Cardinall but highly commended Cromwell for his fidelity to his Lord and Master in his greatest extremity in few words all his Servants loved him and adhered to him to the last and not without cause for as hee wa● a good Steward to his Master so hee was a better Master to his Stewards and his followers thinking upon nothing more then how to advance them hee was twice accused of Treason but what that Treason was we shall know apud Graecas Calendas for hee was never attainted or convicted onely he submitted to a praemunire brought against him in Parliament by which his estate was confiscate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he dyed of a Flux in the Abbey of Leicester and was buried Divers are the votes that are given of this Cardinall Polydore condemnes him in every thing but Polydore was a stranger an Italian and had his errours as they that are familiar with him know better then I but Cavendish that was his Gentleman Vsher and wrot his life and knew him better then Polydore in most things speaks in another manner of him and for mine owne part I am of his opinion that sayes si ingenii dotes tam habuisset temperatas quam habuit illustres quantum fortunae habuit gloriae cupiit tantum meruisset if hee had not strained his thoughts unto

from idlenesse the seminary of all wickednesse * 27. Dignitates immoderatè exercuit Hee exercised the dignities which hee purchased with excessive usury It is a principle amongst hucksters and such as have dealings in the World that they that buy deare must sell deare It holds in spirituall preferments hee that emptieth his bags in buying of dignities will fill them againe in selling of Benefices and poling of under Officers it was so in the dayes of Richard the First when William Longshampe Bishop of Ely lived and long before him in the dayes of William Rufus when the munke of Malmsbury exclaimed proh dolor Ecclesiae nummis venduntur aere and it will ever bee so Aristotle seems to uphold the trade Consentaneum est saith hee ut ij qui emunt magistratus quaestui habere assuescant remp cum ●d eos largitionibus ascenderunt it is good reason that hee that buyes authority should make some profit of his authority but let us take heed how wee follow Aristotles consentaneum lest wee partake of the Bishop of Ely his supplicium Of the excessive pride and oppression and of the fall of the Bishop of Ely vid. Mat. Paris Anno 1190. in R. 7. Polid l. 14. * 28 Quidam comes Warwicensis ab Ed. 4 An Earle of Warwick raised to such a heighth of power by King Edw. the 4. This is the great Earle of Warwick that set up and pul'd down Kings Richard Nevill the son of Richard Nevill Lord Chancellour and Earle of Salisbury he was Lord high Chamberlain Constable of Dover Castle Lord Warden of the Cinque●orts and Admirall and indeed had the whole power of the Kingdome in his hands I may well say the whole power for he had not only the command of the Ports and Navy but hee had the command of the hearts of the people insomuch that they that knew him say quocunque ille inclinaret populus aut saltem major pars populi inclinabat which way soever hee went as a torrent hee drew the people along with him and to give him his due fuit verè nobilis quasi prae aliis notabilis nam ab ineunte aetate as Historians report of him non solum veris virtutibus mirabilis sed etiam art● quadam in ostentatione earum virtutum compositus hee was truly noble for from his childhood hee had not only rare and admirable gifts of nature but hee had art and eloquence to expresse them by meanes whereof hee grew gracious in the sight of the people amongst other his vertues he had two most eminent Magnanimity and Liberality which will win the heart of an enemy his Liberality he dayly shewed in his hospitality his Magnanimity and valour as at divers other times so especially at the first battell at St. Albons Anno. 1455. ubi ille primus omnium regios milites praelio lacessit as my Authour saith where hee himselfe made the first assault against the Kings Army and after a doubtfull warlike dispute which continued for the space of three or foure houres prevailed and slew Henry Lord Piercy the second Earle of Northumberland the Lord Clifford and the Duke of Sommerset Edmond Beauford that Duke of Somerset qui tot annos pro patria stren●è pugnasset adversus Francos that adventured himselfe many yeares against the French in the behalfe of his Country miserabile sanè spectaculum quod à suis civibus occideretur as that Authour saith a sad spectacle that he that so often adventured himself for his country should be killed by his country men but in abattell when all parties are in the higth of fury there is no distinction the Earle buried him nobly which was as much honour as hee could doe to one that fought against him the Earle married Anne the Sister and Heire of Henry Duke of Warwick King of the Isle of Wight and the favorite of King Henry the sixt who dyed at Hanly where hee was borne being now the Inheritance of the (g) Sir Iohn Russel of Strencham was Mr. of the Horse to Rich. the Second and many desc●nts before him was there one Tho. Russel of Strencham the Family quarters many Coates but the paternall Coat as I take it is argent a Cheurom between three Crosses Crosses Sables Russels of Strensham I cannot say the most eminent house of that name but this I say that I cannot finde others peradventure may any family of that name more ancient I will not except the most eminent in whose right hee was Earle of Warwick and had a massy estate by her hee had issue two daughters Isabell and Ann whom hee married into the Royall blood Isabell to George Duke of Clarence the brother of King Edward the fourth the eldest sonne of King Henry the sixt who was slaine after the battell at Tewxbury and afterwards to Richard e This honour is aptly compared to Sejanus his horse Tho. of Woodst Duke of Gloucest was strangled at Callis An. 1397. Tho. L. Spencer Earle of Gloucest was beeheaded at Bristoll An. 1400. Humfrey Duke of Gloucest was strangled in the Abby of St Edinbury An. 1446. Richard Duke of Glou. was slaine at Bosw an 1485. Duke of Gloucester who was slaine at Bosworth this man notwithstanding hee had been thus advanced fell off from the King and the cause of his revolt was for that he being sent into France to treat of a marriage for the King the King in the meane while married with the Lady Grey which the Earle taking to heart conceiving it to be a great wrong unto him to bee so deluded confederated with George Duke of Clarence his sonne in law to set King Henry the sixt at liberty being then in the Tower of London but it is conceived that this was but a pretence and that their intention was to settle the Crown upon the Duke for it is not probable or credible that the Duke would ever agree to settle the Crown out of his owne house upon the house of Lancaster and hereupon there was a bloody battell fought at Danes-moore not farr from Banbury and was called Edgcote field where the Kings Army was defeated and not long after the King taken prisoner at Wolney a village neare to Northampton and conveyed to Warwick Castle and from thence to Middlenam Castle in Yorkshire out of which hee escaped gathered new forces and at Stamford in Lincolneshire encountred and overcame the Earle and made him fly for succour into France but not long after the Earle returned and having assistance from the King of France put the King to the worst made him forsake the Kingdom and fly for reliefe to the Duke of Burgondy which Commines imputes to the Kings credulity in relying too much upon the Marquesse Mountacute who when hee had most need of him revolted to his brother but not long after the King returned and upon an Easter day after a bloody fight at Barnet the King prevailed and slew both the brothers the Earle and the Marquesse which

had two speciall favourites M. Agrippa and C. Maecenas Agrippa hee so much honoured that hee advanced him to the highest degree of honour from so meane a place that hee was ashamed to speak of made him twice Consull and p Agrippa first married Marcella but Augustus desirous to doe him all honour procured a divorce and married his daughter Livia to him married his daughter to him and it is said that Augustus never did himselfe more honour then in advancing him for that in all his victories hee ascribed the honour still to Augustus After that hee had overcome Pompey in which victory heee deserved navalem Coronam vexillum caeruleum and whenas Anthony told Augustus that he was of a heavy and sleepy constitution for that before hee could get out of his bed in the morning Agrippa had vanquisht his Enemies Agrippa assumed nothing to himselfe but gave the honour thereof to Augustus by which his sober and temperate carriage hee wonne not onely the heart of Augustus but of the Souldiers and Common people and was accounted the best man of his time * 76. Brutidius Niger artibus honestis copiosus Brutidius well seene in many good Arts. Brutidius Niger was a Rhetorician an Orator and an Historian Senec. lib. 2. Controvers Lips in annotat in lib. 2. Annal. Tac. * 77. Allegat exemplum cujusdam He told him a Story of a certaine man that used all lawfull meanes and could not prevaile Ingens telum necessitas apud Platonem non minus egestas quam opulentia morbus animi appellatur it is often seen that extreames in both fortunes turn topsy turvy the very frame and fabrick of nature that honours and preferments make men swell and occasion pride cruelty and oppression that wants and necessities drive men into desperate courses and occasion mutinies insurrections and rebellions for as the patient that hath no meanes to advise with the Physitian applyes himselfe to the Emperick and the Client that wants a purse to retaine a Councellour or Advocate makes unto the Atturney and Proctor so the poore man that wants ability to make in to the best is of necessity compelled to take up his lodging with the worst who by buzzing into his eares this enchauntment Aude aliquid brevibus giris Iuven. Sat. carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquid probitas laudatur alget If thou desirest to thrive doe what deserves imprisonment for honesty is little esteemed corrupts his manners and in the end makes him become like himselfe for as love neglected turnes into hatred so vertue into vice and villany nam ubi nullus honos virtuti est extrema experiri necessitas cogit Alex. ab Alex. lib. c. 16. Alexander ab Alexandro hath a Story of one that was well versed both in the Greek and Latine tongue and a man beyond exception in his conversation nihil tamen praesidii ad degendum parare potuit yet could not get cloathes for his back or meate for his belly who when hee saw there was no way to preferment by vertuous and honest courses eo vesaniae processit ut obscaenis libero homine indignis artibus vacaret de quibus non licet dicere ita faedae pudenda sunt betook himselfe being in want to so base a course of life that hee was ashamed to speak of it * 78. Plures fraude quam virtute More raise themselves by fraud then by vertue This tenet Machivell Secretary to the Duke of Florence in the second Book of his Commentary upon Livy sets down for a Principle but without doubt it is a Paradox for greatnesse is no greatnesse that is not founded upon goodnesse Horat. Aesops crow is no crow moveat cornicula risum furtivis nudata coloribus and a blazing starr is no starr it appeares and vanisheth like the lightning and the Morning dew Sejanus Cleander Tigellinus and Asiaticus may peradventure for a time be mounted aloft but to what end certainly to none other then malefactors are lifted up at their death ut lapsu graviore ruant that their shame may bee the greater yet this position may in some times carry a shew and shadow of truth it is true that under Tiberius Commodus Nero and Vitellius more were advanced to a shew of greatnesse by vitious courses then by vertuous under Tiberius as Tacitus observes nemo consulatum imp●trare potuit nisi per Sejanum neque p Fuit aulica nubes Excludens reliquos meliùs meritos Vt neque virtutes nec Mars nec musa nec artes a radiis regis quae meruere ferant Sejani benevolentia nisi scelere obtineri potuit no man could attaine to any place of honours and reputation but by Sejanus neither was his favour to bee obtained but by wicked and unjust waies under Commodus no man was raised but by Cleander during all the time that hee was in favour ad arbitrium Cleandri praetores aut retenti aut oc●isi libertini in Senatum electi at his disposall were all honours and preferments Lamp in Commod and in his power were the lives and estates of the Senatours and Governours neither was Cleanders favour to bee obtained but by doing of mischiefe Tac. lib. 2. Annal. under Nero no man was preferred but by Tigellinus during all the time that hee was in favour he by his lewd devises had so scrued himselfe into Neros bosome that hee would do nothing without him under Vitellius unum ad potentiam iter scilicet prodigis epulis Tac. lib. 2. Annal. saginaque satiare inexplebiles Vitelli libidines there was but one way to honour and preferment which was to gluttonise and carouse with him Againe in the time of war more may peradventure raise themselves by fraud then by open and plaine dealing for that which is fraud in time of peace is wisedom in the time of war to circumvent an enemy is no fraud but wisedome quod leonina pellis non potest vulpina potest was the saying of Lysander as Plutarch hath it in Lysander upon whom the Poet thus discanted Vbi vincere apertè Non datur insidias armaque tecta parat Vid. Supplem ad Commin post lib. 6. in principio In time of war ars decipiendi est ars necessariae the Lacedemonians allowed it and Lewis 11th often read that lesson to his Sonne but in times of Peace in setled Governments for a man to raise himselfe by such jugling devises is to be raised to no other end then to fall againe Non habet eventus sordida praeda bonos Nam malè parta malè dilabuntur * 79. Exequere munus tuum diligenter In thy calling goe on cheerefully The Polypragmon is cried downe both by sacred Scripture and all prophane writers generally qua vocatione vocatus in ea ambula saith St. Paul in the first to the Thessal the fourth item sitis quieti agite propria 2. Ecclesiast 22. item quae mandata sunt

obtained can continue long It is a received opinion that they that attain to any command by unjust meanes by the same meanes and the like they support their magnificence for none ever that rose unduely governed well which is well manifested in Sejanus and in some other whom we have before remembred whence it commeth to passe that by how much the longer they have continued in their leud and wicked courses of life adding transgression unto transgression by so much the more they become more hatefull both to God and man and at last undergoe deserved punishment These men never take into their consideration the true end of which I have before spoken that is The glory of God and the good of the Common-wealth but bend their thoughts onely how they may satisfie their pride covetousnesse crueltie and their carnall desires whose condition Seneca hath set forth in his Tragedy entituled Hercules Oetaeus Few hearts love Kings not few their Kingly might The glorious shew of Courtly countenance Bewitcheth many where one sets his delight How next the King he may himselfe advance That through high streets he may as lord of rule With lofty lookes ride mounted on his Mule Another would his greedy hunger stanch With gubs of gold and though hee it possesse Rich Araby serves not to fill his pining paunch And a little after Another fondling fancy thus doth guide To fawn on Kings and still in Court to bide As one disdaining now to be like Will An ingrain'd clown the plow to follow still And though the dying swain daily keep at home A thousand drudges that his land doe till Yet wants his will and wisheth wealth therefore Only to waste on other men the more Another clawes and flattereth still the King That he his neighbour may to ruine bring It is ambition which makes a man a stranger to himself that will not endure a Superiour or an equall that will be Caesar or none that possesseth us with this foolish conceit to think it a disparagement to goe in the common road and to bee an honest man that makes a man thinke himself 〈◊〉 body whilst he sees another greater then hee and so dazeleth our eyes that if another go before us we will not beleeve it but rather that hee stands in our way nay it is an humour that hath this property that wheresoever it hath once taken up her lodging it will never suffer a man to rest untill he hath attained to the end of his desires which he shall never do for as Seneca saith * 44 Non patitur quem quam in mensura acquiescere 44 This is that inconvenience which attends an ambitious humour that it never suffers a man to rest satisfied though he hath attained to the end of his former wishes and desires That makes him beleeve hee can do that which is impossible for him to do because he is powerfull Wherefore these kind of men are aptly compared to such as are sick of the dropsie the more they drink the more they desire as is manifested in Sejanus who being raised out of the dust to the highest degree of honour could not there content himselfe but studied how to make himselfe equall to Caesar nay how to displace him and sit in his Throne If these kinde of men would at any time cast their eyes downwards and behold from whence they came it could not but give them much contentment and cause them to add some bounds to their unsatiable desires but they seldome do so their eyes and thoughts are ever mounted aloft for the minde of man is so unsatiable that it will not be perswaded but that it can doe any thing be it never so difficult or dangerous if so be he had good successe in his former undertakings Wherfore Eteocles in Euripides affirmes that if nature had given to man wings he would have ascended above the heavens for so saith he of himselfe if I had had ability I would have tried the paths of the Sun and have descended into the Center of the Earth that I might have ruled as the Gods doe there We have heard of Alvarus de Luna before he tasted of both fortunes who though he were once brought upon his knees hee ascended on high again and then resolved rather to loose his life then to change his fortune therefore it happened unto him as it doth to certaine little creatures who having once tasted of blood will sooner break their bellies then quench their Thirst Of the fall of Sejanus and such as he was Iuvenal in his 10. Satyre elegantly saith That greatnes makes many a man subject to the stormes of envie and malice casts them downe headlong into perdition causeth their Statues to be demolished bringeth them to untimely deaths to the Gallows and to have their limbs broken upon the wheel Sejanus that not long agoe carried a great port with him and had his head adorned with Bayes and Cammomile within a short time after had his head taken from his shoulders to be made a pitcher to drinke in a bason to wash in and a platter or pan to fry meat in Pride is either the mother or daughter of Ambition and the off-spring of immoderate prosperity with the which Courtiers are infected especially they they that are most eminent in Court and have attained to the greatest honours An example hereof we have in Pallas a freed man of Nero who was used to say That he did never expresse himselfe at home to his servants * 45 Dominutu vel manu servis suis loquebatur 45 but either by nod or hand That hee sometimes made use of his pen but never of his tongue Wee have spoken of the pride of Sejanus already of whom Marc. Terentius a Romane Knight was used to say That hee was accustomed to tell his freed men and door keepers that to nod was a badge of a Magnifico * 46 Fastus hic hodie maximo in usu est 46 This kind of pride is come in fashion in our dayes and is used by men of mean ranke and condition Seneca excellently describeth it saying That it is the property of a superstitious proud man to stand much upon the going into his house he hath an opinion that he doth highly honour thee if hee suffer thee to goe into it before him and it is observable that they which stand so much upon terms of honour in this kinde are of this condition That they will be singular looke big and never salute any man speak walk or eat with any man their pride is to become like the man in Seneca to make the pole Antartick kisse their toe and Cynthia to do homage to their Tayle they talke of Kingdomes and their Fathers possessions which being once attained they forget God and all goodnesse the same Seneca in his Tragedy entituled Hercules Furens saith that God at every turne meets with the proud man Which saying as Philip Commines observes Lewis the eleventh had