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A51726	The pourtract of the politicke Christian-favourite originally drawn from some of the actions of the Lord Duke of St. Lucar : written to the Catholick Majesty of Philip the Great, and the fourth of that name : a piece worthy to be read by all gentlemen, who desire to know the secrets of state, and mysteries of government / by Marquesse Virgilio Malvezzi ; to this translation is annexed, the chiefe state maxims, political and historical observations, in a brief and sententious way, upon the same story of Count Olivares, Duke of St. Lucar.; Ritratto del privata politico christiano. English	Malvezzi, Virgilio, marchese, 1595-1653.; Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.	1647 (1647)	Wing M360; ESTC R9198	61,007	163

deriv'd from the vertue of magnanimity will not be pai'd with the viciousnesse of flattery I should not much lament to incurre that blemish from such as are his Emulours so I might be quit from it in his conceit For I hold it farre more facile to make the Duke blush then to make them look pale in the relating of his great Acts I will expect more liberty from envie then from modestie because there is more vertue in him then there is defect in others Your Majestie then is humbly intreated to beare with the weaknesse of my writings too unequall for successes I grant it to bee more easie to speake then to doe when that which is spoken is to bee done but it is peradventure easier to doe then to speak when a man is to tell what hath been done The Drammaticke that is represented in Sceanes is more forcible then the Epick that is read in Papers yet is that personated part much inferiour in spirit to that which is seen for if it have a soule yet it hath not that soule Let that comendation neverthelesse bee granted to these writtings which is customarily given by him that loves to the face that is pictured For if penns be not inferiour to pencills and words to collours it will be acceptable to your Majestie to behold expos'd to veiw those Actions drawne howsoever not to the life which your Majestie hath thought worthy of your generous affections I know right well that this Pourtrait should not have been adventured upon but by an Appelles and by an Appelles who drawing from all the favourites of all Kings and great Princes all the beauties that did adorne them being in him united he should present him to the sight of Your Majestie The Lord Iasper Guzman third Earle of Olivarez was the sonne of Henry Guzman who was the Embassadour for his sacred Majestie in Rome and of the Lady Mary Pimentelli a Lady of most worthy vallue If the Imaginative faculty be of force to imprint an impression in tender and plaine conceits and that it hath any part in the representing of shapes to the Formative power what conceit may wee presume it to forme or what shape to represent in that Imagination which approved of no other discourse then of that of the King nor conceited the forming of other conceits then of his service I doe not exclude the service of God because that holy Kings intent unto Gods honour cannot be well serv'd if God be not first serv'd If men would seek when they doe seek for wives to joyne themselves to worth as well as wealth their rich estates would oftentimes be more hereditary as being more secure from mens treachery and lesse submitted to the insultings of fortune which although it sometimes doth hinder the working it takes not from them the being He was not borne in Rome and for twelve yeares space went up and downe with his Father who was surrounded with troublesome negotiations sometimes in Sicely sometimes in Naples in both which Provinces he sate in the throne of Vice-Roy That is not a mans Country where he was borne but that under which hee was borne Man was esteemed by men of old a Tree reversed because as the Country of a Tree is the soyle wherein its roots are placed so the Country of a man is that Heaven to which he is exposed To stay in ones native Country to vindicate himself amongst his owne is to become a true Tree and a reversed man such as these are for the most part are like to those plants which being planted in the fatnesse of a fertile soyle doe grow bulky oftentimes but unfruitfull The Oaks that are set and grow on the barren mountaines brought up among stormes winds tempests they feare not the impetuous furies of the blustering Northerne gusts but if they grow fat in the calmenesse of delightfull plaines and luxuriantly increase they are but feeble and endure no stronger gales then warme refreshing breaths of Zephyrus or else they are made leaflesse or blowne downe He being return'd into Spaine and having journied far in vertues disposed himself to the study of the Lawes not to defend causes by cases of Titus and Sempronius but o● defend States with the prudence of the Lawes Expoundors The Law is a Book of Politicks yet few Lawyers now are Politicians They were that made it but they are not that learne it because they only learne that which is done and not to what end it hath been done Very few of those that know the Lawes understand them Hee that seeks Authority without Reason is reasonlesse To deprive the Law of reason is to take the soule from men and from themselves this comes thus to passe because that which is Politicall is in many become Mechanicall And whereas Law was at first the legitimate Daughter of Judgement it is now made the adopted Daughter of Memory and Legists of Rationalls are become Empericks This man was created Rectour of the Vniversity of Salamanca Hee that could have Lyncaeus his eyes would sometime know with little children in the cradle that the Starrs doe prattle and shew themselves by the matter with the souls if not hindred by it for surely they are not helped then are the nfluences more secure though then they be more impotent and it may be that God would that they have lesse force in that age that is to predominate over their power The influences of the starres are alwaies the same but they seem not so because the men that receive them are not alwaies the same the Actions of the Active search for a good disposition of the patient that their issue may be prosperous That starre which would make Cyrus great because it found him among Children made him King of Children And certainly it was the selfe same starre which afterwards finding him amidst the Armies made him the King of the Persians That Aspect which made the Earle in Salamanca the first Rector of the Vniversity is the selfe same Constellation that finding him in the Court of the greatest Monarch did make him one of the Princes of the Vniverse In this time died the Lord Ierosme his elder Brother so that he who was the second birth was now become the first The first borne because it is given by fortune to be the first The guifts of fortune are oftentimes likewise given them by men This custome peradventure is not in use to reward them but to succour them they that are begotten last doe sometimes become the valiantest the seeing them to be borne more unfortunate is an argument to us of their valour Who knowes whether men either by a motive of the soule or by some other instigation have not known this truth and have repaired thither with presents of gold where the reparations of vertue were wanting It is a greater good fortune to live a while a second and then become a first then to be borne first When riches precede vertue they oftentimes hinder it and when

enable my Relation and make the infinite worth of the Duke more famous are not by me recounted in this present worke because that I having written it I call God to witnesse without his consent I reputed it not convenient to publish them to view without authority from him that performed them but it doth me good neverthelesse to believe that he will one day be pleased that some more eminent pen then mine shall divulge them to the world not to defraud him of the glory of being the first to informe Favourites how to serve their Prince and Princes how to governe their people He that shall write as the Duke did will discover a knowledge of the great good inclination in his Master and declare himself to be a faithfull Favourite To with hold Princes from businesse may be a laudable effect but alwaies of a blame-worthy occasion if prudence produce it it is an ill signe for the Prince if sagaeity it it is worse for the Favourite because it alwaies intimates the one wicked the other unable There have been some that have deem'd it an irrevocable maxime for Favourites to estrange Princes from all manner of businesse but it may be that they peradventure have thought it ought to be so because they have found it done so they would have one draught serve to one species in a world wherein nature hath not made any thing originall that is not different to give excellent precepts to one that never was excellent and hath too too much strayed from the right is a sure destroying of him Hee is not at the first capable of more then of an indifferent good he must be first healed and then perfected there is no doubt but that a Favourite who feares not his Prince as he ought doth utterly ruine himself if he suffer his manner of proceeding to be corrected or if he let his Prince come into action The good old man of Chio said that when a Physitian met with a contagious distemper he was not on the sudden to reduce it to what it should be but to what it was at the first because to that then it ought to come Nature which does help to expell a worse distemper then its owne doth resist to bring in a better It might peradventure be credible that that Master would have inferred this who did desire a Tyrant indifferently good not that he should stay there but because he imagined that he could not at the first be reduced to a superlative without his ruine The examples of this most wise Favourite would bee of no use to the vigilant Sound mens food is most dangerous for the sicke Necessity of state importuning Taxes and the Duke knowing how much it grieved the people to see their contributions given away he writ a Discourse to his Majestie wherein he discovered the great errour that Princes ran into that proceeding and that there was not wanting to his Majestie Habits Orders Honours Offices Degrees and Greatnesse to satisfie the merits of the Worthy without either distasting the subject or impoverishing the Exchequer This counsell was the occasion that the King began ro remunerate his deserving subjects or the deservings of his subjects with honours and dignities Riches are not the pay of worth they are the wages of labour he that buyes it vilifies himself he that sells it is vile already The operation of worth produceth its reward for it produceth honours and he that hath it can pretend nothing more then some markes that he hath it Of this condition are Greatnesse Titles Orders Habits and of this nature were the City Crownes the Collars and the Triumphs of the Ancients Such rewards if they grow common give no honours nay rather they loose that they have when they are bestowed on such as have it not There was a time when rewarding did not emptie the Kings Coffers and it was a time fertile in worthy men they were most rewarded who were least rewarded Honour was then a very great price and the price of vertue only But when that which was a price began to be at a price it lost value and made men loose their courages so that honour and worth became both mercenary and men lusted rather after the wealths that bought them then after the qualities that got them The originall of so much errour and confusion was derived from such Princes that were needy and poore and thereupon gave more honour to the wealthy then the worthy but these would not have had need of riches if they had not made them necessary with taking away the reputatiou● of worth The Spartans were a while without gold and the first Romanes if they had it did not adore it States have many times encreased with money but never without valour It may be it did not concerne Kings to keep it in credit such are not the most valarous but the richest they have given reputation to what they alwaies have to assure them of that which sometimes they have not The Prince of Wales went into Spaine to get the Infanta Maria to wife and for some other respects of the Palatine his Brother in law When the Lord Duke stood firme upon this resolution that when the King of England should in his Kingdome grant all that in favour of the Catholike Religion without which there was no probability of a match that then the Catholike Nation should accord to all that that the conveniency of State required nor would he ●ver depart from this Catholike vow although he well enough understood that if the King of England would not consent to this proposition as he did manifestly declare he would not the issue that he insisted upon with a potent King to the enemies of the house of Austria and that he did foresee Warrs which would more load the Favourite then any man else because they take from him the commodity of enjoying the degree that he doth possesse and oppresse him with turmoyles cares and necessities that attend them This Counsell was the counsell of the Duke and the counsell and the Duke are worthy of the highest praise hath no need of my pen I doe here lye downe with all reverence and humility at the feet of Pope Vrban our Lord and as I have been confident to be able securely to goe on in the way of commendations of the Duke enlightned by his great splendour which in many things cannot erre and in those he can he will not So likewise have I been willing to participate the Ray of it to others to strengthen their sight that see and to illuminate them that see not and confound them that will not see Then did his holinesse write a Letter to the Lord Duke the contents whereof translated into Italian sounds as you here may heare To the beloved Sonne and Noble Lord the Earle of OLIVAREZ Vrban the Pope 8. NOBLE Lord and beloved Sonne health and Apostolicall benediction The Common report of the Monarchie of Spaine drives such an applause

that Ray is not known for his which strikes not in a strait line but reflects The Earle being entred into the service of the Prince did find himself among a world of contraries that did stirre up his Lord against him The life of man is a warfare so that hee which fights not or stands not ready to fight either lives not or lives ill Contraries that surround us if they be not stifled they encrease and they are not stifled if they be not met with in the cradle The heat that is little to maintain it self stands in need of the like to maintaine it but great heate doth increase most when the contrary doth most struggle with it That power of Antiperistasis which is granted to the Elements is not to be denied to men Amongst other disgraces the Prince did one day tell the Earle that he was reputed a greevance and he did humbly beseech him that when he could destroy him he would not doe it in the presence of his enemies Agesilaus being taken by an Embassadour riding upon a stick in the midst of his boyes intreated him not to tell it to any that had no Children left of a tender he should be reputed a weake Father The Earle is mortified by the Prince and intreats him not to tell it to any he doth not love for they would have believed that affectionate patience stupid and that loving soule servile He doth noc labour to know the occasion nor doth he perswade his Master with reason because it is not the braine that loves but the heart his Arguments are affection his affection love nor is the disgust likewise of not being belov'd without the thirst of the lovers If we take pleasure to be beloved when we are most beloved wee take most pleasure nay when we are hated if we love we love most It may be too that the present is not beloved or that at the least there is hope in the future And that not being beloved which makes him hope makes him likewise merit He that loves hath the gaine of love for his end and love for his meanes so that he then that hath loved most deserves most to be beloved When I speake of love I speake of a vertuous not a venereall love But yet to speak truth they are but a little unlike for both of them have their radication in the soule If the lascivious be transmitted into the body it is by accident and like the Sunne which defuseth its light where his Globe is not otherwise violences would pacifie lovers The Earle did know that the words of the Prince were dictated not said and that howso're the voice did fell him the eye did raise him so that hee did not remaine without consolation nor did the Prince leave him without love The Favourites of that time were then aware they had erred they did seek to amend their amisse by endeavouring to bring in the Earle into the service of the King but he would not leave the rising Sunne for the setting It is a great good fortune to find a Prince disingaged to take away a place from one that hath used it with vertue is hard with wisedome is blame worthy and is generally reputed malicious but he that comes into a vacancie doth easily get in No machination could bat●● downe this wall they make the Prince try his patience and he by suffering augments his merits They tempt him with honours and he by refusing justifies his affection Finally when they perceive that they are not able to trample upon the ruines of this great man they endeavour to surmount his heights and to top them they lay hold upon the ladder of his affection but all in vaine for that wall was built too high to serve for a Basis The Earle did remaine in this instability untill there fell a division amongst the Favourites of those times There is a Politician that affirmes that power and concord can hardly be found in the same place and he saies it in a time when he pretends to have found it He did not observe peradventure that such as did appear most powerfull were not so except it were they that were nearest allied and the nearest of bloud of the veines not of the Arteries The self same Author did likewise another time in the processe of his writings light upon two that were equally powerfull and concordant and this did not proceed from the morality of that one because he that could not moderate the base affections of riches it is not to be believed that he could temper the urgent provocations of domination and it was lesse occasioned by the diversity of their professions the one being wholly intent to policy and the other to warre If a Favourite will not exercise Warre in his owne person he may make it be exercised and hath roome enough to divide charges without dividing his owne Favour I beare within reason the being Favourites of a Tyrant for when peradventure he did not love them he did reverence them there can be no discourse that can set downe a secure manner of carrying ones self with such men who although they have doe not use it but to become worse then other men These did feare falling now one and now another trembled that he that stood fast upheld his staggering companion and hardly did the one fall that he drew not the other to the precipice A spotlesse Favourite admits of no companion but he makes him his enemy he that desires one seemes to desire aid against he barbarousnesse of the Prince and seemes to accuse him for a Tyrant It is true that the inability of a man in the mannaging of great undertakings would require company but ambition will not brook● it he hath recourse to the dependencies● Feare indeed admits it because he hath not the grace of the Prince may be releeved in the burdens but not in the dangers Phillip the third went into Portugall and the Prince with him the Earle took this occasion to attend the affaires of his owne family but long he stayed not for he necessarily was to returne to the Court Tyberius did judge it so dangerous an hazard to be farre away from the Prince that hee conceiv'd it well done when hee could not waite upon the body to waite upon the carcasse he would have them bee neer then likewise when the Prince was not But the Earle fear'd no distance of place The love that the Prince bare him was become nature They that say habit is like nature are deceive'd it is not a Coppy it is an Originall it is called another nature not because it is not nature but because it was not it is borne with us if not with us in us The Art that is believ'd to imitate nature doth imitate it and after likewise doth often times produce it and often times surpasse it That love which is in Habits receives no Detriment by a little distance but it rather excites it to operation because that

occasion a contrary motion in as much as we see that man with all other creatures by that power which they have from the first mover doe oftentimes move against the first mover Who hath be●eved that the motion from the West to the East is the proper motion of the Sunne ●nd that therefore Ioshuah spake not pro●enly if I understand but hath spoken im●operly Where the interest of his King is in debate and the right of justice he hath no parents nor he knowes no friends because the King is his cheifest Parent and his greatest friend and therefore although he were able by that way of his power to have succoured Don Pietro of Giron Duke of Ossuna his Kinsman yet did he leave him in the hands of justice where he died in prison And although he could have set at liberty Don Roderigo of Calderon yet he did it not but did only manifest his friendship to his posterity The Prince like the Sunne is the Father of all his subjects if not univocall equivocall if not as a particular man as an universall but he cannot be a Father if his subjects be not sonnes and love him not more then a Father The paternity of a man hath bloud for the foundation the paternity of a Prince love this is to be greatest when it is most necessary and it is most necessary where it constitutes where it followes and doth not alwaies follow Hee that loves not the Prince more then he loves others because he renounceth his sonship he desires that paternity be denyed unto him and that the King of a Father doe become a Lord that he of 〈◊〉 sonne may become a servant He that could constitute a Principality like this wherein the subjects should be more zealous for their Princes good then their owne it would bee needlesse for him to prohibit a proprium Mine and thine which forme the particular destroy the publike if the particular be not turn'd into the publike A wise man knew that necessaty well and therefore in his Common-wealth he took away all kindred of bloud and knowledge of goods hee did not then offend in knowing the errour but in the correcting it he took all the occasions of vertue away putting man into the hands of necessity and whereas he ought to have had recourse for a remedy to establish the civill Lawes he hasted to destroy the naturall and would rather desire a not desiderable then seek for that which he thought impossible In the correcting of great errours there are alwaies as it were great ones committed yea and sometimes greater but they doe not oftentimes seem so because they are believed necessary and sometimes they are not because they are profitable extreame mischeifes call for extreame remedies yet extreames are never good but in comparison of worse He did not place his kindred but such as were worthy in the service of the King nay rather he took away the Lievtenancy of Castile from a good subject who for the names sake of his mariage would have been to him most faithfull and gave it to an excellent man that had no kind of relation to him and one who did undergoe a kinde of reluctation to accept it being unwilling to relinquish that sweetnesse of repose to which he had retired himself It is a thing blame worthy in Princes to suffer worth to be retired for it is a signe that either they doe not know it or that they hate it If they send them not into exile yet there they leave them and to leave them there and to send them thither is all one When cattle come home to their hovells before night it is a signe of a tempest Men doe it not that they may doe ill for vertue is a beame of divinity that doth no ill but because they are deprived of that good that hinders the doing of ill It is not only to be blamed in Princes that they suffer worthy men to bee retired but it is likewise a fault in the men that they are willing to be so Hee that serves not his Prince and knowes how to serve him is worthy of a severer punishment then he that serves him ill not knowing how to serve A negative occasion concurres as well to losse as a positive when it is oblig'd to hinder it nay the obligation hath a power to make the negative become positive Retiring is only granted as a reward to such as have wrought He that retires himself and hath done nothing will have his reward before his merit but he is mightily deceiv'd in as much as this which is reputed a plentifull recompence to men that have done enough is certainly an excessive punishment to such as have been idle The quiet which followes motion is the Rest of the moveable that which preceeds motion is the wearinesse of the mover He that is alwaies in motion is without a body he that is never in motion is without a soule There is a strife in man between the soule and the body the body is of its owne nature immoveable and would not stirre the soule which is the beginning of motion would move the body that it might perswade it to motion it doth promise it felicity it is sometimes perswaded and consents but after that the soule with the body is conducted to whither it is able to be conducted without lighting upon felicity hopelesse now to find it in motion is likewise peradventure perswaded by the body to find it in rest and so deceived suffers it self to bee brought to rest whether it voluntary goes either desperate or undeceived It is a great deceit to believe to be able to be quiet and live it is not true that rest is a reward but it is alwaies a most insupportable paine to him that hath laboured most the world affords not quiet he makes a journey to folly that goes about to seek it and he is come to his journeyes end that believes hee hath found it A man may indeed rest and yet not be at quiet nay for the most part he is most unquiet when he is most at rest The Lord Duke found the service of the King puddled by his servants and not being able to resist what was past he made good orders to provide for what was to come among the which the example of his owne cleare proceeding was not the least which was confest and admir'd by all yea by such as could not abide him Gold doth blunt the edge of the sword and weighs downe the ballance of justice He that sells justice sells his Prince when he can find a Chapman The gold that holds not out at the test was false and did deceive the man that holds not out against gold doth cozen Some Princes have given money enough to their seruants that they should not sell themselves nor sell them but that hunger which is not naturall but sickly admits not of satiety That hunger is not in the man it is in the gold so that who so

to the Counsells of your Nobility that that serves for Authority to your person which is its felicity in as much as fame the messenger of truth conceales not the praises of the Lord Duke Olivarez but by publishing your vertues fills all Europe and comforts the Church of Rome Wee truly who long before this have had notice of your Noblenesse are hardly to expresse with what comfort of heart wee have now heard by our beloved Sonne Father Zachary a Capuchin how much more you esteem a good report then riches believing that an affection for the propagation of the Faith is the fortification of the power of Spaine and the greatest honour of the Catholike King And hee affirmes that the Counsells of your zeale are such that they assure the patronage of Heaven to your family and perpetuall felicity to the Kingdomes of Spaine in as much as it is published that you have given such instructions of Christian piety in the businesse of the mariage with England that forraine Princes may learne from you with what great vertues the Chatholike Religion adornes her sonnes withall in whom the glory of the Name of God hath a greater sway then the encrease of any humane power These praises thus confirm'd by the testimonie of so good a Priest did give so much consolation to the cares of our dignity that We have been pleased to notifie it by our Apostolike Letters Proceed on worthy Lord take such paines that the inseparable Nations of the Spanish Empire may know the publike welfare the Ecclesiastick Iurisdiction and the Authority of the Noblenesse upon which We bestowe Our Apostolicall Benediction From St Peters in Rome under the Seale of the Piscator the 27th of Ap. in the yeare of our Pontificate the first and of the Lord 1624. Iohan. Champele The Prince of Wales being but ill satisfied and returned into England joyn'd himself with other of the Emulours and enemies of the King in the League of Avignion the Articles whereof were that the Hollanders should set upon Brasile that the Army of France with the assistance of the Duke of Savoy should fall upon the State of Genoa and that the King of England should goe with a Fleet for a designe upon Cales that the King of Denmark with Protestant Associats should infest the Empire that the Venetians should furnish the Duke of Savoy with money and the Grizons with money and munition to make an inrode upon the Valteline that a peace should be procured between the Turks and the Persian that the Turke might enter by the way of Hungary and Bethlem Gabor by Transilvania that the Hollanders should send Cannons and Cannoniers to the Moores of Affricke that they might beseige Mamora and Larachy All these stormes were dispers'd first by the breath of God then by the prudence of the Catholike King and by the counsell and providence of the Lord Duke there was a Fleet supplied in Brasile which recovered the Sconce whereof the Hollanders were Masters in the Bay of All Saints two Armies relieved Genoa and the Valteline the one set at large that which was at the last gaspe the other did maintaine in the Valteline the Catholike Religion The Englishmen were expected with so furnished a preparation that after they of Cales had killed some five thousand of them the rest returned home wearie and afflicted The Hollanders did loose Breda The King of Denmarke was beaten in a battle and betook himself to his trenches The Affricans were repulsed from Mamora and Carachy with a great losse After which successes there was a peace made whereby the Church obtain'd great authority the Catholike King great applause and the Lord Duke no small reputation When Leagues thrive Iealousie breakes them when they doe not thrive feare breakes them but they seldome overcome if they doe it not in an instant they have large forces but not long in regard that they are for the most part composed of ordinary powers and Warrs do quickly consume their treasures but it is not so with Monarchs A League is a body of a facile corruption it often resolves into the first matter and that abandoned it remaines but an empty power Many Sciences and Arts have one and the same object but never considered after one and the same manner and howsoever they accord to move toward it yet they agree not in the operation The Tailor goes to the same body that the Philosopher doth but when hee hath cloth'd it he leaves it because it is not ever to be cloath'd The Physitian goes likewise to the same body and when he hath healed it he goes his way because it is not alwaies to be cured The Philosopher alwaies stands fast there because it is alwaies moveable So in Leagues all have power for the object but by a diverse manner some because they receive hurt by it some because they feare it some because they envie it The first being quit from hurt they goe away because it is not alwaies hurtfull the second secured from feare they goe away because it is not alwaies fearefull so that at the last there remaines none but the last which doe alwaies envie it because it is alwaies to be envied The King would have given the Lord Duke a great Donative and would likewise have authoriz'd him to have transported from new Spaine into China a ship laden with marchandize an advantage which would have been of great commodity to him but of an answerable damage to the inhabitants of Spaine The Duke did accept of neither because he would not transgresse his established rule I conceive this so necessary an action and so concerning his reputation that I should not commend it if the ignorance of many that have not so known it did not proclaime it admirable The act is so profitatable that he who is not perswaded to it by prudence is to suffer himself to be brought to it by prevision To accept of what accepted incurres blame and what refused merits glory is a testimony either of basenesse or foolishnesse Worldly men that are not of this Alloy walke to the Temple of glory but the passage is so steep that they have need of a Waggon Some have recourse the Chariot of worth and some to the Cart of riches whereupon it comes to passe that as they are to be borne withall who seek them to make themselves glorious so are they to be reprehended who hunt after them to make themselves be blamed The Lord Duke forbeares not to take the stipends belonging to his Offices which he personally performes not applauding that drynesse of the conceites of those morrall men that blame riches Vertue I speak now of morall vertue doth not consist in being poor but in making ones self poor He doth not adore but despiseth money that spends it he that would not be rich is an un profitable poor man and a cruell fool He that casts riches into the sea is a poor vaine man and an envious fool He that possesseth wealth