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A07680	Principles for yong princes Collected out of sundry authors, by George More, Esquire.	More, George, Esquire.; More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632, attributed name.	1629 (1629)	STC 18069; ESTC S113368	43,524	88

them to pray to their God for his and the Armies deliuery out of that danger Which they presently did and incontinent a great thunder fell amongst the enemies and abundance of water vpon the Romans wherby their thirst was quenched and the enemy ouerthrowne without any fight But prayer will not auaile euery Christian vnlesse he walke vprightly for God wil not heare the prayers of those that lye and wallow in sinue as appeareth Joh. 9. And Dauid saith Psal 65. Jf J finde iniquity in my heart the Lord will not heare me And God saith when you shall extend and lift vp your hands I will turne mine eyes from you and when you shall multiply your prayers I will not heare you for your hands are full of bloud I saias chap. 1. Therefore if a man be in wicked or bloudy sinne his prayer is in vaine CHAP. 11. A Prince not to shed innocent blood IT behoueth therefore a Prince to be vertuous and to haue speciall care that he put not his hand in innocent blood neither by tyranny malice ambition pollicy or vpon false reports and informations For to be a Tyrant is odious to God and man and to bring himselfe to an euill end As the Emperour Nero who after he had put to death his mother Agrippina his wife Octauia his brother Brittannicus and his Master Seneca Besides many others being proclaimed an enemy to the Common-wealth could get no body to kill him but was glad to kill himselfe saying Turpiter vixi turpius morior The Emperour Caius Caligula amongst other his tyrannies caused at his dinner and supper ordinarily one to cut off before him the heads of poore prisoners wherein he tooke great pleasure in the end he himselfe was killed by his men who conspired against him Nabis the Tyrant who vsurped the gouernment of the Lacedaemonians sent for eighty of their yong Princes and without any cause put them all to death And shortly after Alexamenes vnder pretence to serue him with some company suddenly strucke him off from his horse and killed him And as these tyrants had their iust rewards so all others had the like measure And for their wicked instruments the people oftentimes did Iustice vpon them For Plutarch writeth that the wicked Counsellors and Instruments of Apollodus of Phalaris Dionysius Nero and other tyrants were cruelly tormented to death by the people and iustly saith he because they who corrupt or seduce a Prince deserue as much to be abhorred of euery one as those who should poyson a publicke Spring or Fountaine whereof all the people doe drinke But sometimes those Princes that doe vse instruments for their murthers will not auow their Commission but doe themselues many times put them to death whom they imployed therein sometimes secretly sometimes publikely either to rid themselues of the suspition and infamy thereof or for feare of discouery As Alexander Magnus at his fathers Funerals commanded publike Iustice to be done vpon those who himselfe had secretly imployed to kill him The Emperour Tiberius did not onely dissauow his Commission giuen to a Souldier to kill Agrippa but put to death Seianus his speciall fauourite and instrument of his mischiefe Caesar Borgia did the like by a fauourite of his And let no Prince thinke that he can so contriue his matters but in the end truth will be discouered and knowne to the world and through ambition many haue shewed themselues very barbarous and bloudy as Tullia daughter to Seruius seeing her selfe married to Aruus a man of milde disposition and her sister of a gentle spirit married to Lucius Tarquinius who was ambitious and she not enduring to be thus matched killed her husband Aruus and her sister and then married Tarquinius whom she perswaded to kill her father Seruius to haue the Kingdome and she being in the streets when he was killed went with her Coach very inhumanely ouer his body that his bloud besprinkled her cloathes Soliman King of the Turks when he heard the great noyse and shout of ioy his Army made for the returne of his sonne Sultan Mustapha out of Persia caused him presently to be strangled in his outward Chamber and his dead body to be cast out before the whole Army and one to cry with a loud voyce that there was but one God and one Sultan vpon the earth He put to death also Sultan Soba because he wept for his brother and Sultan Mahomet his third sonne because he fled for feare leauing one onely aliue to auoyde the inconuenience of many Lords The Emperour Seuerus hauing vanquished Albinus and Niger his Competitor in the Empire embrued with blood put a great number to death and told his sonne Geta that he would not leaue him an enemy Geta asked him if those he put to death had neither parents friends nor kinsfolke yes said the Emperour a great number Then said Geta you will leaue vs many moe enemies then you take from vs. His sonne Bassianus hauing murthered his brother Geta to haue the Empire alone and doubting that the Senate would greatly mislike thereof made a shew that he was sorry for his brothers death and that he did it by the perswasion of Letus his fauourite whom therefore he put to death and all those that did assist him in that action likewise all those that were friends to Geta lest they should attempt any thing against him yet in the end he was killed Alphonsus King of Naples hauing vniustly murthered twenty foure of his Barons could neuer sleepe quietly for representation of their shapes which alwayes vexed him in his dreames And in the end hee fell into that feare of the French as leauing his Kingdome to his sonne he fled into Spaine to liue a in a Monastery making such haste as he would take nothing with him And his men perswading him to stay two or three dayes to make his prouision no no said hee let vs be gone doe you not heare how all the world cryes France France Hee knew himselfe to be so hated King Iohn of England murthered his nephew and in the end was murthered himselfe Richard likewise Duke of Glocester murthered his two nephews sonnes to Edward the fourth to make himselfe King and after was slaine in battell by Henry the seuenth for blood requires blood and let a bloody Prince neuer looke for better end CHAP. 12. A Prince to be circumspect in giuing credit to reports BVt many Princes haue been mightily abused by false reports and wrong informations yea sometimes by the nearest and dearest vnto them and those that should be most faithfull Dauid therefore prayed God to deliuer him from wicked lips and a lying tongue Psal 119. And in Eccle. 31. we are warned to take heed of our children and of our houshold seruants And in the sixt chapter it is said Seperate thy selfe from thine enemies and beware euen of thy friends for where a man doth trust the most there he may soonest be deceiued As was the Emperour Glaudius a

choller would be appeased Virginius being chosen Generall of the Roman Hoste refused it fearing to exceed in choller against Appius Claudius his enemy Crotis King of Thracia hauing a present brought vnto him of many faire vessels of glasse most curiously wrought after he had well recompenced the gift did breake them all himselfe of purpose fearing lest through choller to which he was subiect he should too seuerely punish any of his sernants if they by chance should breake any of them But the Emperour Valentinian was so ouercharged with choller that he fell into such a rage against certaine Ambassadours as he lost his voyce and speech and so was carried to his bed and let ten blood but bled not choller hauing burned and dryed vp the veines and so dyed Patience therefore is a happy vertue by which a man may preserue his body and possesse his soule saith Christ Luke 21. In your patience you shall possesse your soules And to attaine to this vertue Diogenes asked almes of the Images in Athens to make him take deniall patiently Aristotle being told that one railed on him was not moued but said whe I am absent let him beate me also And Socrates being abused spurned and kicked by an insolent fellow and seeing his friends offended therewith said How now my Masters if an Asse had kicked and giuen mee a rap on the shinnes would you haue me to yerke out and to kicke him againe Antigonus hearing his Souldiers reuile him behind his pauillion said to them you knaues could you not goe a little further off when you meant to raile vpon me One Nicanor rayled vpon Philip King of Macedonia for which his Counsell wold haue had him seuerely punished but the King very patiently answered first let vs see whether the fault be in him or in vs. And vnderstanding that Nicanor had deserued well and that he had neuer giuen him any thing sent him a rich gift After which Niconor spoke very much good of the King Whereupon the King said to his Counsell I see well that I am a better Physitian for backebiting then you are and that it is in my power to cause either good or cuill to be spoken of me CHAP. 17. A Prince to be moderate in his dyet NAture is content with a little therefore if a man doe either eate or drinke more then sufficeth nature it is superfluous and ingendreth euill humours corrupteth the body and weakneth the spirits and vnderstanding for Diogenes saith that the wit is made dul with grosse and immoderate dealing And Plato affirmeth that those who vse to eat much although they haue a good wit yet cannot be wise The reason is saith Plutarch because the body being ful of meat corrupteth the iudgement in such sort as maketh a man neither fit to giue counsell nor to gouerne in a Common-wealth nor to doe any good worke The Emperour Octauius Caesar had therefore ordinarily at supper but three dishes of meat and when he fared best he had but sixe And the Egyptians in their feasts and banquets had a dead body dryed brought in amongst them that the sight thereof might containe them in modesty and make them temperate in their feeding Ada Queene of Caria sent Alexander Magnus certaine skilfull Cooks whom he refused and sent her word that he had better then they were namely for his dinner early rising and walking a good while before day and for his supper a little dinner for in those dayes they did commonly eate but one meale a day as appeareth by Plato who being demaunded if he had seene any new or strange thing in Cicily said that he had found there a Monster of nature which did eate twice a day meaning Diogenes the Tyrant Agesilaus King of the Lacedaemonians passing his Army through the Countrey of Thracia they presented with meale fowle baked meates and all other sorts of delicate meates and conserues The meale hee was willing to take but not the rest yet through great intreaty he accepted of all and gaue all and gaue all sauing the meale to his slaues and being asked why he did so he said It is not conuenient for men who make profession of manhood and prowesse to eate such delicates for by pleasure delicate meats and drinkes the courage of man is abated Therefore Xerxes after hee had taken the great City of Babylon would not put the people to death but to be reuenged of them commanded them not to exercise any Armes but to vse and giue themselues to all pleasure feasting and drinking So that by this meanes they grew to be most vile and base people whereas before they were most valiant And by the great feasting and drunkennesse in Siracuse in Cicily the Romans tooke the towne and spoyled it The Emperour Vitellius was very riotous in his diet insomuch as at one supper he had 2000 seuerall kinde of fishes and 7000 dishes of foule but what followed Soone after hee was openly put to death by Vespasian Caligula likewise in riotous banquets in making sweet bathes and in other vaine and friuolous expences spent in one yeare 67 millions of crownes and in the end was killed Nero also was prodigal in the like charges and banquets sumpuous attire neuer wearing one garment twice And Sabina his wife had daily the milke of 500 Asses to bathe her in but their ends were pittifull The Emperour Adrianus was riotous in his youth and thereby diseased in his age which forced him to vse many Phisitians and medicines but could not be cured Therefore good order and temperate dyet prolongeth the life and preferueth wisedome Early rising also saith Plato and much watching are profitable to keepe a man in health and to augment his wisedome It doth withall increase deuotion for then a man shall find himselfe most apt to serue God CHAP. 18. A Prince to be continent of life BVt if he serue his belly with immoderate and too great delicates and pamper his flesh too much it will besides dulling of the wit make the flesh rebell against the spirit and fall to incontinency a vice wherof a Prince ought to haue a speciall care that he giue not himselfe to the lust of the flesh for it is a deuouring fire till all be consumed and rooting vp the seed of good workes saith Iob 31. And Luxuria eneruat vires effeminat artus It will make him weake and effeminate and destroyeth both body and soule losing thereby also sometimes both life and kingdome for by adultery Roderico last King of the Gothes in Spaine committed with the wife of Iulian Earle of Cewta when hee was Ambassadour in Africke he for reuenge brought the Moores into Spaine who therupon subdued the Countrey Osibright King of Northumberland rauished the wife of one Barne who to be reuenged brought in the Danes slew Osibright and made great spoyle in the land The Emperour Claudius married his brothers daughter and shee her selfe poysoned him Siphax King of Numidia transported with the loue of Sophonisba

falsified his faith lost his Kingdome and life in prison Locrine King of Great Britaine put Guendoline his wife away and married Estreld daughter to King Humber but Guendoline killed her husband in battell and drowned Estreld and her daughter in Seuerne The Emperour Commodas kept three hundred Courtizans and in the end by one of them and one of his Parasites was strangled Childericke the third King of France for his libidonous life which made him carelesse in gouerning the Common-wealth was deposed And Lewis the sixt King of France for his adultery was poysoned by Blanche his wife Heliogabalus for his libidonous and vitious life thought hee might make an euill end and therefore if in case hee should be pressed by his enemies he had poyson ready kept in precious stones he had also halters of silke to hang himselfe and sharpe kniues of precious mettall to kill himselfe and he built a high Tower richly gilded to breake his necke vpon if he listed yet all these deuises failed him for he was strangled by his Souldiers and trailed vp and downe Rome This is the end a libidonous Prince may looke for But wise and vertuous Princes will auoyd that vice As did Ioseph who hauing the wife of Putiphar in his power would not touch her No more would Abimelech faire Sara Nor Dauid the Ebritian Sunamite Nor Scipio the Lady who was Hostage in Carthage Nor Dionysius the wife to Phocius Nor Alexander the daughter of King Darius Nor Augustus Cleopatra And as it is hurtfull for a Prince to be allured by a woman to folly so it is not good for him to be led by the counsell of a woman For Aristotle saith that part of a womans vnderstanding in which consisteth counsell is imperfect Therefore neither the Romans nor the Lacedaemonians did euer admit a woman into Councell Yet Theodora after the death of her husband the Emperour of Constanstinople was chosen Empresse and had the onely gouernment of the Empire Which without the helpe of any she gouerned in great peace and prosperity two yeares and then dyed to the great griefe of all her subiects who repented them not to be gouerned by a woman The Empresse likewise Zenobia in Asia was a most singular rare woman For Obdinato her husband chosen in Asia for their Emperour and after killed by his kinsman she tooke vpon her the gouernment and gouerned very well She was constant in her enterprises faithfull of her word liberall in her gift iust in giuing sentence seuere in punishment discreet in her speech graue in her determination and secret in that she did She loued not to ride in a Litter but on horsebacke she was of stature tall slender bodyed her eyes great her forehead large her face somewhat pale her mouth little and her teeth small After she was conceiued with child shee would not company with her husband saying that a woman ought not to marry for pleasure but onely for procreation She did eate but once a day and that at night she drunke no wine but water compounded more costly then wine when she went to Campe or to battell or to skirmish she was armed and euer when there was any seruice she would be amongst them In the end the Emperour Aurelianus besieged her tooke her prisoner and carried her in his triumph to Rome yet pardoned her for her vertue and valour and gaue her certaine possessions to liue vpon She liued ten yeares after as greatly honoured and beloued as Lucretia of all the Roman Ladies But this is as the Spaniard saith Vna golondrina que non haze verano One Swallow which maketh no Summer Yet I could not but set downe here her perfection she being such a mirrour for all Ladyes CHAP. 19. A Prince to beware of Parasites BVt there is another creature about a Prince more dangerous then a woman and that is a flatterer who neuer sings other song then placebo soothing a Prince in whatsoeuer Apelles drew the picture of a King which he sent to Ptolomeus set in a chaire of Estate with great hands great eares and besides him Ignorance Suspition a Tale-teller and Flattery these will labour to be about a Prince therefore a Prince must labour to auoyd them For an enuious and backebiting Tale-teller and a Flatterer are two most dangerous beasts for Diogenes saith that of wilde beasts a backbiter biteth the sorest and of tame beasts a flatterer And Hermes the Philosopher saith that as a Camelion can change himselfe into all colours sauing white so hath a Parasite all points sauing honesty for he windeth himselfe into fauour by any meanes especially of pleasure procuring any kind of mirth and delight and by humouring the party For Alexander Magnus and Alphonsus King of Arragon hauing each of them somewhat a wry necke the one by nature the other by custome the flatterers and Courtiers held their neckes on the one side And like as wormes breed most of all and soonest in firme tender and sweet wood euen so for the most part the generous and gentle natures and those mindes that are more ingenuous honest amiable and milde then others are readiest to receiue and nourish the flatterer that hangeth vpon him And Plato saith that he who loueth himselfe and hath a good conceit of himselfe can be content to admit another to flatter him But when a Parasite seeth nothing to be gotten then he is gone being like to lice For as these vermine neuer haunt the dead but doe leaue an● forsake the corpes so soone as the bloud is extinct and depriued of vitall spirit so a man shall neuer see flatterers approach to those that are in decay whose state is cracked and credite lost But where there is power and authority and glory in the world thither they flocke and there they grow and shew themselues most malicious sometimes by speaking euill of others For Medeus the chiefe Captaine of the flatterers about Alexander Magnus teached his Schollers to cast out slanders boldly to bite others for said he though the soare may heale vp yet the skarre will remaine and be euer seene By these skarres of false imputations Alexander being corroded and eaten put to death Calisthenes Parmenion and Philocas his true and faithfull friends The Emperour Commodus after the death of his father was led by Parasites and vpon their false reports put to death most of those that were graue Counsellors to his father and also many of the Senators and committed the gouernment of all his affaires to Perennis and himselfe followed his pleasure which brought him to the end you heard before The Emperour Dioclesian basely borne in Sclauonia was in his youth very ambitious and desirous of honour and from a poore Souldier came to be Emperour and then made the people honour him as a god and to kisse his foot whereon he did weare guilt shooes set with pearle and precious stones after the manner of the Persian Kings But seeing in the end himselfe wonderfully abused by