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A47277	Politikos megas the grand politician, or, The secret art of state-policy discovered in evident demonstrations of unparalleled prudence, and confirmed with wonderful and successful adventures, stratagems and exploits of wisdom and subtility, both in peace and war, by the most remarkable witts of former ages : being a treatise both useful and necessary for all nobles, states-men, judges, lawyers justices of peace, officers of wars, and all such as now are, or may happen to stand at the helm of publick affairs, whether in kingdom or commonwealth / written originally in Latin by Conradus Reinking, Chancellour ot His Electoral Highness the Duke of Brandenburg, and now done into English by a careful hand.	Reinking, Conradus.; Ker, Patrick, fl. 1691.	1691 (1691)	Wing K342A; ESTC R32439	61,144	171

him the bag of Money which he gave her to keep and if she would not believe to tell her as Tokens what her Husband had secretly told him His Wife being convinc'd by these Secrets which none knew but her Husband and she sent the Money and so the Roguery was found out And the Emperour did not only make him pay double what he had defrauded Consio of but also took off his Head to save himself from trouble and make him Honest for the future INTRIGUE XV. How to induce One to confess all his Secret Faults IF you would allure one to confess all his Crimes and Secret Faults you must catch him with an inevitable necessity of confessing and you your self must first begin and confess your own Crimes whether true or false no matter for either will serve to shew him Example Thus Nelius the Son of Codrus the last King of the Athenians when beat from his Kingdoms he was by Storms and Tempests at Sea driven to Naxos Aelian Lib. 8. Cap. 5. whence he could not loose till he purged his Army from all profligate Villains and vile Persons as the Sooth-Sayers told him But he not knowing the good from the bad appointed a general Confession and he to allure the rest and induce them to a free and resolute confessing of all their Crimes confessed first a great many Fictitious Villanous Deeds whereof he was not guilty as that he had murdered a Boy forc'd so many Women c. By which Fiction he did induce all his Men to confess their secret Villanies taking Example from their Master's Sins Then leaving all the great and Bloody Sinners in Naxos he sail'd with the lesser to Iönia where they settled and first of all in Miletus Now from those afterwards the other Eleven Cities of Iönia which by that means came to be Athenian Colonies had their rise INTRIGUE XVI How to find out the Secrets of Drunken Men. YOU may know whether the Speeches of a Drunken Man be resolutely spoken or rashly without any resolvedness if you pry into the Constitution Nature and Inclinations of the Drunkard and observe whether he speaks warily or talketh idly whatever falleth in his Head If he speaks warily then he speaks advisedly and in earnest and his Discourse ought to be minded But if his Tongue talk Nonsense and run beyond Rational Conception and speak nothing to purpose his Discourse is rash and only the effect of his Drunkenness and not worth taking notice of Thus Dionysius when Two young Men were brought before him who in their Cups had spoke many Treasonable Words against him Apothegm Fol. 364. as being a Tyrant and an unjust Oppressour he invited them both to Supper and observing one of them to be a natural Drunkard and idle Talker him he dismissed and sent him about his Business as one not worth minding being only made foul mouth'd by Drunkning But the other whom he observed very cautious both in drinking and speaking he put to Death reputing him his Enemy because he spoke deliberately INTRIGUE XVII How to find out the Secrets of Sober Men. YOU may find out the Inclinations and Secrets of a Sober Person by moving his Affections and setting his Mind on edge and by obstinate and reproachful Controversies by which being once moved in Passion and of his own accord he will pass a true Sentence and discover his Inclination Or you may try what is or hath been the Inclination of one when at School whether Sober Patient Wrathful Contentious or given to Lying and Swearing c. INTRIGUE XVIII How One may know what Reputation he is of and what is his Character in the Eyes of others HE that would know his own Character and the Opinion which others have of him must praise or dispraise before ingenious Men another like himself both in Life and Manners or praise or dispraise him who is for the most part given to Qualities quite contrary to his own And by this he may know that they who praise one of his Life and Manners and dispraise one different in Life and Manners do certainly commend and approve of him and that they who dispraise one like him and praise one who is not like him cannot have any good esteem or think well of him Thus Nero sometimes praised Caligula whom he made the pattern of his Life and sometimes greatly discommended him thereby to know what repute he himself had with others Seneca and in whom he should put trust And at last finding what he sought for he put to Death all those who spoke reproachfully of him But in such as spoke to his Commendation he put great Confidence and made them his nearest dearest and most intimate Friends INTRIGUE XIX How one may find out the Judgment of others in a Case that concerns himself YOU shall know another's Judgment of your own Actions or of your Friends or of your Enemies after this manner propose to one an Act of the same Nature with your own without mentioning the Actor and then ask what the Person who hath done such things deserveth whether praise or dispraise reward or punishment Then after you have heard his Sentence shew the Cases to be of one Nature and Likeness and the Author of the one to deserve as much as the other This is the surest way for on what a Man is Ignorant and knoweth of no Relation to he impartially passeth Sentence freely and without fear But in things known love or hatred blindeth the Eye of Reason and oft times turneth the Scales of Justice to a partial Sentence Tho it be just that every Person judge so of themselves and Friends as they judge of others in the same Cases and under the same Circumstances Thus Charles King of France denounc'd War against Robert Duke of Aquitain whom he overthrew the Duke himself dying in the Battle Annot. Gal. which slaughter and overthrow Robert Earl of Vermandy Nephew to the Duke of Aquitain took so ill that he laid Snares and still waited for an opportunity to be revenged on the King of France therefore invited him under pretence of Friendship to Perona to a yearly Feast Whether the King with a few of the French Nobility without any Suspition willingly came But after Dinner Earl Robert was pleased to seize them all and keep them Prisoners in the Castle But after a whiles Imprisonment he took an Oath of the Nobility that they should never rise in Arms or act any thing against him and so dismissed them But still detained the King who after Two Years died in Prison Lewis III. the Son of Charles durst not at first when he came to the Crown bring Robert in Question or reward him for serving his Father so he having so many Favourites Friends and Relations in the Kingdom But having invited a great many of the Princes and Nobility of France to a sumptuous Banquet and with the rest Earl Robert a counterfeit Messenger whilst they were merry made as if

be had came from England and delivered several Letter to King Lewis which he gave the Chancellour to Read After the Reading of the Letters he smiled and with a shrill Voice said This Letter makes the common report good viz. That English-Men are no Politicians For my Cousin Writes to me from England That a Vassal there an ill bred Countrey Fellow invited his Lord to Supper and after he had compelled him to stay all Night strangled him in his Bed Then desired to know the Judgment of the Princes and Noblemen there present and what punishment that Rascal deserved earnestly requesting that they might freely pass a true Sentence and speak as really as they thought When with all the rest the Earl of Vermandy said He deserved to be put to Death The King took up the Discourse and said Earl from your own Mouth I condemn you as guilty of a Death-deserving Crime and immediately commanded him to be strangled Thus Earl Robert passed Sentence on himself and received for reward the Parellel-Effect of his own Treachery INTRIGUE XX. How to know whether a suspected Person be Guilty or not YOU shall know if a suspected Person be Guilty or not if a first you accuse him with false and fictitious Crimes then with that which you suspect him guilty of and in the contest in defending and proving from his careless or careful behaviour it may be known whether he be clear or guilty For he sligheth those things whereof he is not guilty and denyeth them after a careless undervaluing manner But of those things whereof he is guilty he striveth to clear himself seriously and with great care For a good Conscience scorneth a false Accusation knowing it 's own Innocence But a true Accusation moves the Passions and Clogs the Conscience with it 's own guilt Hence may be observed that an Accusation is like the objects of our Senses for as a real present Object moveth that Faculty which naturally layeth hold on it and whose proper Object it is As Colour moveth the Sight found the Hearing c. So likewise a real Crime and Accusation moveth the accused to a serious Vindication whilst he is not concerned at a false and fictitious Forgery Moreover sound Sleep a composed Mind and a careless behaviour are great presumptions of Innocence Thus Titus Clodius when he went to Bed in the same Chamber with his two Sons was found next Morning Strangled Whilst no Person Cic. pro Sext. Rosc Amer. et val Max 8 1. that could be suspected could be found His Sons who were of Age declaring that they knew nothing of it nor could Conjecture who had committed the Murder Yet the two young Men were both brought in Question for their Fathers Death The thing being so strange unlikely and incredible that any should enter the Chamber whilst the two Sons were present to disern the least Motion and defend their Father But when it was made known to the Judges that they were found Sleeping in the Chamber with the Doo● open they were acquited and cleared from all Suspicion which was the only ground o● their being brought to Tryal For it was never known that one after he had poluted himself by the Violation of all the Laws of God Men and Nature could presently Sleep and take his quiet Rest INTRIGUE XXI How to know Secrets from Nature and Custome THE Presumption is Great and Rational which is taken from Custom and Nature From Nature Soloman found out the right Mother of a Child when two Harlots strove for it as we may read 2 Kings 3. Joseph lib. 3. Chap. 2. From Custom Galba as Suetonius relates found out who was the right owner of a Horse when in Tryal of Law it could not be decided For the foresaid Galba caused the Horse to be led blind-fold to the Well where he used to drink and then being set at Liberty commanded the Horse to be delivered to him whose Stable he went to INTRIGUE XXII How to prevent and escape hidden Snares IF you be informed that private Mischiefs and secret Snares are laid out for you which openly and by out ward force you cannot repel you must by all means carry your self as if you knew nothing of them for in so doing you will have the better opportunity and may with the greater ease prevent and frustrate them But if your Adversaries suspect or find out an Informér they will hasten their Enterprizes and run all hazards to the utmost Thus Hanno a Carthaginian King had designed at his Daughter's Marriage to poison or kill all the Senate that without Opposition he might reign absolutely Whereof the Senate being privately informed they concealed their Knowledge of so pernitious a Design But before the Marriage came they made a Law prohibiting all sumptuous Feasts and that many should not be invited to a Banquet as if they had only struck at Vice and Riot whilst in the mean time they saved the Commonwealth by their Law INTRIGUE XXIII How to Answer difficult and dubious Questions without Danger HE that would shun dangerous Answers and decline a Necessity of answering a difficult Question which however warily it be answered putteth the Answerer to a loss must be cautious not to answer directly but prove it difficult and slippery by some Parellel whereby you may come off with credit and without loss Thus a certain Jew was asked by the Emperour of the Turks what Religion was best whether that of the Jews the Christians or the Mahumetans The Jew suspecting that he had proposed the Question to ensnare him to speak Treason in condemning the Emperour 's Religion to find an Occasion to forfeit and take away his Estate and on the other part thinking that the Emperour would repute him a dissembling Hypocrite and Sycophant if he should condemn his own Religion answered thus A Man on his Death Bead gave a Ring to his only Son whom he intirely loved on that Condition that his Son would leave it to his Son whom he most loved who should likewise leave it to his Son that for many Generations it might so pass if possible to the end of the World or as long as his Race continued Now it fell out that one of the Line had Three Sons whom he equally loved and the same Three Brothers did mutually love one another without difference Therefore thought that to give the Ring to One was a slighting to the Rest and might prove a means to raise hatred among the Brethren But on second Thoughts gave the Ring to a Gold-Smith to make Two Rings exactly like it so that one might not be known from the other And then on his Death-Bed called for his Sons severally and gave every one of them a Ring as the Hereditary Memorial he had got from his Father which the Father 's dearest Son was to inherit desiring every one to be silent and conceal from his Brothers the receiving of the Ring Every one promised Secrecy and all mutually loved one another