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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03724	The ambassador; Ambassadeur. English	Hotman, Jean, seigneur de Villers-Saint-Paul, 1552-1636.; Shawe, James.	1603 (1603)	STC 13848; ESTC S104251	45,449	156

many times his Maisters messengers to giue attendaunce fifteene or twentie dayes for his pleasure He shall therefore so accommodate himselfe vnto the manners of the country where he is that hee neither force his naturall disposition neither be perceiued to doe it purposedly for the one is ridiculous and the other suspected and odious An other effect of his temperance shal be not to receiue any gifts and presents neither of the Prince to whome hee is sent nor of any of his for any cause whatsoeuer vnlesse at such time as hauing taken his leaue he is ready to take horse and departe The Ambassadour of England sir Amias Pawlet would not receiue the chaine of golde which the king sent vnto him according to the custome vntill he was halfe a league out of Paris Giftes doe oblige and those that receiue them become slaues to those that giue them much more if they take a pension or other benefite in which case there wil be either a staine of auarice or suspition of treason and that is capitall in many places But there is nothing more hurtfull to his reputation then vndiscreete speaking for there are some seene who at the table and at euery word meddle not onely with particular persons but with the Princes also to whom they are sent finde fault with the forme of a popular gouernment laugh openly at the manners of the nation where they are This indiscretion cannot be endured from a priuate man but it is altogether intolerable from the mouth of an Ambassador who in doing therof doeth not any longer remember wherefore he is in that charge since that the principall and most apparant end thereof is to confirme as I haue said and to entertaine the amitie of the Prince or people to whom he is sent and I should neede a resme of paper to reckon vp the inconueniences that haue befalne throgh such indiscretion the danger that those haue incurred which could not commaund their tongues I will onely say with an ancient Writer He that knoweth how to speake well knoweth also when hee must hold his peace Whereas besides the tediousnesse of much speaking the same hindereth him from hearing of others and gathering by that meanes the truth of such matters as hoe ought to know in his charge The Lord Cecill high Treasurer of England had this dexteritie that he left not one at his table whom he did not reason with and heare speake at their turnes And concerning those which speake not the language the same may and ought to be doone by an interpreter who is present for that effect especially in popular Estates where the least will be respected as well as the greatest Neither can I forbeare to speake of those who spare not euen their maister and their owne nation these defaults wherof they discouer by their talke and by the same meanes confirme that opinion which strangers haue thereof Our country is our mother we ought not to reueale the shame thereof and we ought to be as iealous thereof as of our owne honour for it is ill befitting to a seruant to touch the honour of his maister to publish the secrets of his Court to controle his pleasures and blame his actions especially hee must take heede that he speake not in publike what hee iudgeth touching the right of his pretences towards any Estate for either hee must maintaine them to be iust or must altogether hold his peace and discreetly turne his talke to other matter These are Arcana imperij whereof Tacitus speaketh Courage also and resolution are very necessary for him by reason of the hazards intricate affaires oppositions and vexations which are euermore ordinary with those that serue Princes and Commonwealths And euen so the Romanes wel considering the perill which accompanieth Ambassages honoured the memory of those that died in that charge with a statue for which cause an Ambassador of Athens answered so freely King Philip of Macedon who threatned him that he would cause his head to be cut off If thou takest this head from me my Country will giue mee another that shall be immortall Statuam pro capite pro morte immortalitatem Neuerthelesse euery one would not like of such a change and some would rather keepe their owne and if the Ambassadors escaped the danger and had well serued the Commonwealth there were recompenses answerable to the desertes appointed vnto them The English Ambassador Sir Edward Stafford on the day or the next day after the Barricadoes of Paris when a Lorde of the faction of the Duke of Guise that dead is woulde haue him take a pas-port or safe-gard from the said duke made him answer I am vnder the safegard of the law of nations and in the protection of the King to whom you are but subiects and seruantes This proceeded from a generous resolution euen in the furies of a popular commotion when the most mutinous could do all and good men feared all The Lord of Mortfontaine that dead is going Ambassadour into Swisserland about fiue yeeres past and being to passe through the County of Burgundie which at that time was full of Spanish and Italian Souldiers going into Flaunders spake very freely vnto those of the parliament of Dole which would haue put him in feare to the end that hee might not arriue in due time at the assembly of Baden wherein they had some practise against the Kings seruice That he was vnder the assurance of the Law of nations and of the Newtrality and in the protection of the Lords of the Cantons and that they should readily determine to make his passage safe and this furthered him albeit that which he aledged of the Law of nations was very disputable as I told him as soone as wee were out of danger I will speake a worde agayne theereof in his due place Furthermore these are too common and childish precepts to admonish him to be patient and staied if he see any to breake out through impatience as they doe most commonly who thinke they haue right and reason on their sides Especially the Swissers and Germans who are cholerike The sence being distempered choketh reason and choller is an enimy to counsaile breeding hatred and contempt and is ill-befitting to euery man much more to a man that manageth the chiefe affaires of an Estate which many times hee hurteth through his hastinesse coller and impatience The Frenchman who hath his bloud hote and his spirit more stirring hath consequently certaine quicke dispositions which other Nations doe not allow of at least they woulde bee more tolerable in martiall men yea in any other man than in an Ambassador and Counsellor of Estate I wish neuerthelesse that he would moderate his grauitie so as it be not hautie as that of the Spaniards oftentimes is in their speach countenance traine and gate One that hath beene Ambassador in England since in France for the last King of Spaine was wont to say Dios es poderoso en el ciel y

freedome and plainenesse serued him for an excuse but his successor in that charge which was his Nephew would not vse the like he ought therefore to holde his degree and the dignitie of his Maister prouided that it be without contempt of the Prince to whom he is sent and so Monsieur de la Noue speaketh therof in this iudicious obseruations vpon Guicciardine See yet another aduice which is not to be neglected which is that he accept no charge or commission from any other than his Maister An Ambassage and a Comedie are different things A man cannot therein play diuerse partes vnder diuers garments for feare lest it befall him as it did to an Ambassador sent to the Emperor who being requested by a Cardinall to doe in his name faith homage and submission for certaine lands held held of the Emperor was admitted to doe it but not without the mockery of those which had seene him the day before in his dignitie of an Ambassador the which hee destained by this submission doeing wrong to his owne reputation and to the greatnesse of his ma●ster both at once Neyther at his returne from his charge ought he to bring credence or message from him to whom hee had beene sent besides the busines which he went to treate of for that is suspicious and ill befitting if it be not betweene Princes that are neere of blood and very good friendes and for a matter common betweene them and not odious But to returne to the matter of his charge if he haue not lessons giuen him by writing it is no danger to tell him in generall that hee shall do well to learne what is the forme of gouernment of the Countrie wherein hee is the limites greatnesse and largenesse thereof the maners of the people the number of places of strength hauens and vessels the store-houses of munition the forces of warre for sea and land what may be drawne out of the Country without vnfurnishing the frontiers and places of importance the entrances into the Countrie the ordinarie and extraordinarie reuenewe the Treasure and meane in ready mony the alliances offensiue and defensiue with other Princes and Estates neare or far off the traffike commerse plentie and fertilitie thereof and if it be a Prince to know the humour and inclination of him and of those that rule most about him to know the discontentment the people hath of his behauiour the iealousies and practises of the Great-ones the factions and particularities in the estate and whether it be for the state or for religion or for any other occasion his yearely expences both for his house as for his frontiers and garrisons Aboue all let him always haue an eye abroad into the country to discouer if there be any stirring against the seruice of his Maister or against his confederates The which he shall much better learne if hee be dayly attendant at the Court vnlesse at such times as the king withdraweth himselfe for his recreation for in such a case hee should make himselfe to be held suspected and importunate in popular Estates to be alwayes present at their diets meetings and assemblies or to haue some one of his owne company there to the end that there be no euill resolution taken to the preiudice of his master He ought also to visite the princepall Councellors the Secretaries of Estate and amongest others him that Hath the charge of forraine affaires to entertaine them at times with magnificence and affability but yet seldome He shal also visit the Ambassadors of other Princes and Common wealths that are resident in the same Court but yet sparingly that he may not gine them a shadow of himselfe A forraine Ambassador that was of late in our Court saw no man nor suffered himselfe to be seene but once in three moneths And God knoweth if his aduices were slender and barren Cyneas being Ambassador for Pyrrhus vnto the Romans did much better He knew al the Senators and saluted them euery one by his name Which made him the more acceptable and fauoured I haue seene some Ambassadors of Venice to performe this poynt with much dexteritie for the most part they haue no neede but of this instruction for the relations which at their returne they are accustomed to present to the Signeurie maketh those which succeed them to be sufficiently instructed in that which they ought to know in an Estate Yet must our Ambassador in this aswell as in all the other prates of his charge vse great discretion for that all Princes are naturally iealous of the secrecies of their Estates There is an expresse law of Honorius and Theodosius de alieni regni arcanis non scrutandis I remember that the late Monsieur B. who followed Monsieur the late Duke of Aniow into England was there maligned for his vndiscreete curiositie although that otherwise hee was esteemed for his learning Being at dinner with an English Lord he beganne to speake of the succession a matter then amongst them odious and capitall and affirmed that a certaine Princesse was the presumptiue inheritrix thereunto notwithstanding a certaine law which seemed to exclude those that were borne out of the land and yet saide he I know not where this law is for all the diligence which I haue vsed to finde it out It was sodainely replied vnto him by this Lord You shall finde it on the backe side of the Salicque law a indicious and biting rebound which instantly stopt the curiositie of this man which indeede was in all respects out of season for at that time there was a treaty of marriage betweene his Master and the Queene of England Neither doth Plutarch place this discourse of Bodin amongst talke fit for the table And in truth it was taken in ill part that this man had written and published some matter of England vpon report of some particular men without other verification Therefore in searching out these matters he ought to be wonderfully discreete and considerate In France all things are exposed to the curiositie of strangers partly through our naturall libertie in speaking of all things partly by reason of the fashions in the estate and the diuisions in religion which for the space of fortie yeares haue shaken France but principally through the greatnesse and largeness of this Estate wherein it is more difficult to remedy this mischiefe then in alesser Realme or small Commonwealth where it is easier to stoppe priuate mens mouths Amongst the meanes howe to be enformed of the affaires of a Country besides mony which maketh the closest Cabinets of Princes to flie open there is one more open and lesse suspected Which is entertainement at the table which obligeth many people and especially those who to haue a free recourse thereunto or to drawe from the Ambassador some dosen of crownes smell out all the newes and report them vnto him at his table or in priuate True it is that they are not always of a true stample and it be hooueth