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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58430	An essay upon the third Punique War Lib. I and II : to which are added Theodosius's advice to his son and the phenix out of Claudian / by T.R., Esquire.	T. R., Esquire.	1671 (1671)	Wing R81; ESTC R13110	37,502	69

all they do And busie Fame explores and pries into Their most reserv'd Retreats Let Piety Be thy chief Care for though We ' inferiour be In all we do yet Piety alone Can make Us like the gods Jealous of none Nor doubtful be but Constant to thy Friends Not greedy of Reports who e'r attends Such Vanities shall empty Rumors fear And in Himself be wrack'd with anxious Care No Strength of Guards nor Rings of Piles can prove So safe to Thee as will the Peoples Love Which Thou shalt never force Thy Kindness must Create this in them and a Mutual Trust Thou seest the Worlds fair Frame it self entire Preserves by Love The Elements conspire Kindly among themselves His Tract the Sun Still keeps The Sea within its shores doth run and th' Aire by which Earth's compast and upheld Nor presseth on its Burthen nor doth yield Tyrants who Terrors give fear more They still The Famous envy and the Valiant kill Though Swords and Poison guard them no Retreat To them seems safe they tremble while they threat Like a Good Patriot and a Father All Advise not for thy self and what they call The Publick Good prefer before thine own If a Decree thou publish to be known As sacred first observe thine own command The People will submit and ne'r withstand A Law whose Author first Himself obeys A King's Example all his Kingdom sways His Life more than Edicts upon the Minds Of Men prevails and as the Vulgar finds Him change they follow But when this is done Slight none beneath Thee nor desire to run Beyond the Bounds to man prescrib'd for Pride Like a black cloud the brightest parts will hide We give Thee not Sabeans apt to be Enslav'd Nor the Armenian Monarchy Nor the Assyrian once a Womans Throne Thou Romans must command who long alone Have rul'd the Universe who nor the Pride Of Tarquins nor would Caesar's Laws abide Our Annals ancient Crimes record whose stains Eternal are What Age the Monstrous Reigns Of the Caesarean House will not abhor Who knows not Nero's cruel Murthers or (a) Tiberius Caesar retired to Capreae a little Island in Campania where be acted many cruel Murthers and abominable Lusts The horrid Caprean Grotto by an old Incestuous Man possest Thou mayst behold Great Trajan-still Immortal in his Fame Not that with Conquest He from Tigris came And Parthia made our Province Or that He In Triumph for his Dacian Victory Entred the Capitol but that his Mind Was Equal still and to his Countrey kind Such Great Examples my dear Son be sure To follow and when call'd to war inure Thy Troops to labour and for sharpest fights Prepare let not the Ease or warm delights Of Winter Quarters thy unactive Hands Un-nerve but in some wholesome place thy Bands Encamp and with strong Guards thy Line defend Learn when to close thy Ranks when to extend Thy equal Wings and them to close again What Troops are fit for Hills what for the Plain What Valleys apt for Ambush what wayes are Most difficult And if the Foe the war Within their Walls maintain for battery strait Prepare and let thy Rams the massie weight Of stones roll down the arm'd Testudo shake Their Gates the lab'ring youth their passage make Through secret Mines If a long Siege delay Thy hopes let not secure Conceits betray Thy Conquest or believe them close block'd in Many by Careless Mirth have ruin'd bin Straggling they 've perish'd and while Ease they enjoy'd Oft Victory hath guardless Troops destroy'd Let not thy Tents be fill'd with the delight Of Courts nor let arm'd Luxury invite Soft Ministers of Lust still to attend Thy Ensigns nor be careful to defend Thy self from Winds and Rain nor seek to shun With rich Vmbrello's the too furious Sun Eat what thou ready find it thy self apply To constant exercice Be foremost high Steep Mountains to ascend nor think it shame To take an Axe in hand when need shall claim A Wood be fell'd If thou 'rt to pass a Moor Or Lake on Horse-back first the depth explore O'r frozen Rivers let thy Chariot go The foremost first swim over those that flow When hors'd through Troops of Horse charge boldly when A-foot the Foot assist all danger then Will glorious and grateful seem when thou Art present and shalt each brave deed allow But I thy early Inclinations know Be not too hasty thou wilt stronger grow As yet not ten years old thou dost aspire To what ev'n men may dread I see the Fire The Marks of thy great Soul 'T is told by Fame That the brave youth who Porus overcame ' Midst his Companions joys wept when he heard His Father's frequent Victories and fear'd Great Philip's prosp'rous Valour nought would leave To him for future Conquest I perceive Like Motions in thee and may divine A Father may thou wilt hereafter shine As Great as He nor to my Favour owe That Empire which thy Innate Worth may so Deserv'dly claim So when the painted Spring Appears the murm'ring Bees their growing King Who must conduct them to the Fields adore Their Publick Laws for Hony and for store In Combs observe So a young Bull whose Horns Are yet scarce firm the Pasture claims and scorns A Rival in the Heard But war forbear Till riper years and with thy Brother here While I 'm engag'd my place secure you may Teach unsubdu'd Araxis to obey And swift Euphrates Yours all Nile may be With whatsoe'r the Rising Sun doth see But if the Alps we pass and our good Cause Have like success that Warlike France thy Laws May hear and Spain obey thy just Command Thou then shalt come and I into thy Hand Will all my Conquests put Then then may I Secure of Fate pleas'd with my labours die While you both Poles may rule Mean time among The Muses still thy self employ while young And read what thou may'st imitate converse With Greece and Rome's Antiquities discourse The Acts of ancient Captains and apply Thy thoughts to future war on Italy As 't was of old reflect if thou aspire To a forc'd Liberty (b) Brutus the first Consul who expelled the Tarquins and made Rome a Common wealth Brutus admire If Treachery thou hat'st thou will 't approve Of (c) Metius Suffetius by the Command of King Hostilius was fistned to two Chariots and torn in pieces for that when be should have assisted him against his enemies he only looked on resolving to side with the Conqucrour Metius torture If thou do'st not love Too great severity thou wilt detest (d) Tit. Manlius Torquatus who slew his Son for fighting without his Order though he had the Victory and brought the spoils of the Enemy to his Father who crown'd him for his Victory and then beheaded him for his Error Torquatus Act. If a vow'd death seem best (e) The Decii were a Noble Family in Rome three whereof successively vowed Themselves to Death for their Countrey The Decii running