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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28504	I ragguagli di Parnasso, or, Advertisements from Parnassus in two centuries : with the politick touch-stone / written originally in Italian by that famous Roman Trajano Bocalini ; and now put into English by the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Monmouth.; De' ragguagli di Parnaso. English	Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.; Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661.	1656 (1656)	Wing B3380; ESTC R2352	497,035	486

Kingdom was said to be because the King is of a forreign Nation a stranger to the Kingdom and therefore must require some time to sit fast in the saddle and to get his foot into the stirrup of that his new Kingdom The English to add to the weight of their Nation would put the Kingdom of Scotland into the scales when all the Scots Nobility appeared with their swords drawn and boldly said they would never suffer that their Kingdom should be joyned to the Kingdom of England 'T is very certain that the King of England seemed not to be any whit offended with these men who had spoken so boldly in his presence and in the presence of all the Princes of Christendom who were there present But told them in very mild words that this Union of the Scots would be of infinite commodity To which the Scots answered that the sad example of the miseries of Flanders was fresh in memory which when she saw her Counts become Kings of Spain did foolishly believe that she should master the Spaniards but it was not long ere Flanders was sackt by the Spaniards not Spain by the Flemmish And to fill their miseries up to the brim the Emperor Charls the fifth and King Philip his son who were formerly Flemmish being become Spaniards the unfortunate Flemmish for having lost their Prince from being natural subjects began to be accounted strangers and to have their loyalty suspected And therefore Flanders which was the native Countrey of Charls the fifth and Philip the seconds Patrimony in terms of modern Policy was become a conquered State and was therefore begun to be governed by forreiners with such jealousies hard dealings such grievousness of new gabels aids contributions and donatives which ingendered those ill humors and gave that bad satisfaction which was the rise of the civil war that insued which after an unspeakable profusion of Gold an infinite effusion of bloud and an incredible loss of honour to the Flemmish is turned by the Spaniards into a Merchandize That the Scots had learn'd by these deplorable miseries not to suffer their Kings to leave their Countrey and Royal abode of their antient Kingdom and carry it to a greater Kingdom whereunto he was lately called Which should they do the Scots were to expect all the calamities from their cruel enemies the English when Scotland should be united to England and the Scottish Kings were become Englishmen which inferior Nations are forced to suffer by superiors who rule over them That Scotland for misfortune would be like Flanders and the English for their pride cruelty and avarice like the Spaniards Those that were present at this dispute say that the Spaniards told the King of England that those Scots who had spoken with such arrogance in his Majesties presence ought to be punished To whom the King of England answered That the Spaniards should not give that advice to others which had proved so very pernitious to themselves But commanding that they should forbear the business of the scales assured the Scots that ere long he would give them full satisfaction The vast Ottoman Empire was next put into the scales which the last fifteen years arrived at the weight of 32 millions but was found to weigh less then 16 millions now A novelty whereat those Princes were much amazed and particularly the Venetians who could not believe so great an abatement wherefore they desired that it might be again weighed and more exactly And it was found that in the little interim of time betwixt the first and second weighing it weighed less by 822 pounds a thing which made it appear evidently to all men that the Ottoman Empire formerly the terror of the world hasted towards its ruine which all the Princes were very glad to see 'T is true that the wiser sort of men observed that the Spaniards jollity was altered fearing lest the Turks depression might turn to the exaltation of the Venetian Commonwealth The Senators of Poland brought their Kingdom next unto the scales which by reason of the seditious heresies which they have suffered to creep in amongst them by reason of the little authority which their King hath over them and the over-great power which their Paladines have arrogated to themselves did not now weigh full out six millions whereas formerly it weighed above twelve After this the wise Grandees of the Terra ferma and the dreadful Magistracy of the Councel of Ten brought the flourishing State of Venice to the scales miraculous for her greatness and for her situation she proved of good weight for she weighed eight millions which was said to be by reason of the mass of Gold gotten in so long a time of peace into her Treasury by her wise Senators Then the Swissers Grisons and other free people of Germany brought their Republick to the scales which the Princes desired might be weighed severally apart which the Germans were contented with if the poyser were able to do it But when Lorenzo had put the Commonwealth of Basil into the scales he found that the greatest part of the other free States of Germany were so link'd together as it was impossible to separate them one from another Which made sweat appear upon the brows of many ambitious Princes wherefore Lorenzo being necessitated to put them all together into the scales at once was not able to raise up the heavier scale The Duke of Savoy was brought next unto the scales by Knights of the Annuntiation who weighed as much as he had done the last fifteen years But when Lorenzo put into the scales the noble Prerogative which the same Duke Charls Emanuel enjoyes of being stiled Il primo guerriero Italiano it added a million and 420 pounds to his former weight Then with equal pomp and Majesty to that of Kings did the Duke of Lorain appear whose State though it were but small equalled the weight of great Kingdoms which hapned through his good fortune of having his Territories so seated as he can put great difficulties upon the Low countries by impeding the passage of succours which the Spaniards bring from Italy which raised him to such a height of reputation as he sold that his adhearance at the weight of Gold to him that would give most for it in such sort as after having assisted the Spaniards as much as any of the devoutest French Barons of the holy League turning to the French who won the field he faced about so fairly as so great a King as was Harry the fourth of France the great Duke of Tuscany and the Duke of Mantua were glad to have alliance with him And to add to the Spaniards jealousie the very immortal State of Venice did so affectionately take one of those Princes into pay as had not that illustrious Lady vowed perpetual chastity and had not her privy parts been sown upon the very first day of her birth by Venetian Gentlemen who are very jealous of her chastity many men thought she would have married

labours redounds much to our shame since the malady which we ought to cure lies not hidden in the veins but is so manifestly known to all men that it self crys aloud for help And yet by all the reasons I have heard alledged methinks you go about to mend the arm when it is the breast that is fistula'd But Gentlemen since it is Apollo's pleasure that we should do so since our reputation stands upon it and our charity to our so afflicted age requires it at our hands let us I beseech you take from off our faces the mask of respect which hath been hitherto worn by us all and let us speak freely The great disorder hath always reigned amongst men which doth domineer so much at the present and which God grant it may not still reign that whilst powerful men by their detestible vices and by their universal reformation have disordered the world men go about to re-order it by amending the faults of private men But the falshood avarice pride and hypocrisie of private men though I must confess them to be hainous evils are not the vices which have so much depraved this our age for fitting punishments being by the law provided for every fault and foul action mankind is so obedient to the laws and so apprehensive of justice as a few ministers thereof make millions of men tremble and keeps them in and men live in such quiet peace as the rich cannot without much danger to themselves oppress the poor and every one may walk safely both by day and night with gold in their hand not onely in the streets but even in the high-ways but the worlds most dangerous infirmities are then discovered when publique peace is disturbed and of this we must all of us confess that the ambition avarice and diabolical engagement which the swords of some powerful Princes hath usurped over the States of those who are less powerful is the true cause and that which is so great a scandal to the present times T is this Gentlemen which hath filled the world with hatred and suspicion and hath defiled it with so much blood as men who were by God created with humane hearts and civil inclinations are become ravenous wilde beasts tearing one another in pieces with all sort of inhumanity For the ambition of these men hath changed publike peace into most cruel war vertue into vice the charity and love which we ought to bear to our neighbours into such intestine hatred as whereas all Lyons appear Lyons to a Lyon the Scotch man appears unto the English the Italian to the German the French to the Spaniard the German Spaniard French and men of all other Nations to the Italian not to be men not brethren as they are but creatures of another species So as justice being oppressed by the unexplicable ambition of potent men mankind which was born brought up and did live long under the Government of wholesome Laws waxing now cruel to themselves lives with the instinct of beasts ready to oppress the weaker Theft which is the chief of all faults is so persecuted by the Laws as the stealing of an egg is a capital fault and yet powerful men are so blinded with the ambition of reigning as to rob another man perfidiously of his whole state is not thought to be an execrable mischief as indeed it is but an noble occupation and onely fit for Kings and Tacitus the master of Policy that he may win the good will of Princes is not ashamed to say In summa Fortuna id aequius quod vallidus sua retinere privatae domus de Alienis certare Regiam laudem esse li. 15. An. If it be true which is confest to be so by all Politicians that people are the Princes Apes how can those who obey live vertuously quiet when their Commanders do so abound in vice To bereave a powerful Prince of a Kingdom is a weighty business which is not to be done by one man alone To effect so foul an intent observe what the thirst of Dominion can do in an ambitious mind they muster together a multitude of men who that they may not fear the shame of stealing their neighbours goods of murthering men and of firing Cities change the name of base Thief into that of a gallant Souldier and valliant commander and that which aggravates this evil is that even good Princes are forced to run upon the same rocks to defend their own estates from the ravinousness of these Harpyes For these to secure their own Estates to regain what they have lost and to revenge themselves of those that have injured them possess themselves of their states and being allured by gain they betake themselves to the same shameful Trade which they did so much abhor before Which hath caused the art of bereaving other men of their Territories become an highly esteemed science and is the reason why humane wit which was made to admire and contemplate the miracles of heaven and wonders of the earth is wholly turned to invent stratagems to plot treasons and hands which were made to cultevate the earth which feeds us into knowing how to handle Arms that we may kill one another This is that which hath brought our age to its last gasp and the true way to remedy it is for Princes who use such dealings to amend themselves and to be content with their own present Fortunes for certainly it appears very strange to me that there should be any King who cannot satisfie his ambition with the absolute command over twenty millions of men Princes as you all know were ordained by God on earth for the good of mankind I therefore say it will not do well onely to bridle the ambition which Princes have of possessing themselves of other mens estates but I think it necessary that the peculiar engagement which some men pretend their swords have over all estates be cut up by the root and I advise above all things that the greatness of Principalities be limitted it being impossible that too great Kingdoms should be governed with that exact care and justice which is requisite to the peoples good and to which Princes are obliged For there never was a Monarchy excessively over great vvhich vvas not in a short time lost by the carelessness and negligence of those that were the Governors thereof Here Periandro ended whom Solon thus opposed The true cause of the present evils which you with much freedom have been pleased to speak of vvas not omitted by us out of ignorance as you peradventure may believe but out of prudence The disorders spoken of by you that the weak were oppressed by those of greater power began vvhen the World vvas first peopled And you know that the most skilful Physician cannot restore sight to one that was born blind I mention this because it is much the same thing to cure an eye that is infirm as to reform antiquated errors For as the skilful Physician betakes himself the

they at last overcame all hindrances and past over the dangerous passage Apollo then bad Morone turn back and to consider well the dangerous hole which guided by a blind man he had happily escaped which when he had done he run full of amazement and apprehension and threw himself down before his Majesties feet and humbly craving pardon for his having laughed confest that by the guidance of a silly blind man he had prosperously past over that deadly Ford of the fraudulent Marquiss of Piscara wherein himself who was judged to be one of the best guides of all the Italian Princes broke his neck The XIX ADVERTISEMENT Luigi Alemanni having in an Elegant Oration set forth the Praises of the French Nation repented that his action afterward and desired leave of Apollo to make his Recantation but was not permitted so to do LUigi Alemanni a Noble Florentine Poet gave himself to hate the Spanish Nation deadly ever since his Country was overcome by the Forces of the Emperor Charls the fifth an action which would have purchast him much love amongst the Italians had he not obscured this his glory with the common ignorance of many modern Italians of not knowing how to hate the Spaniards without declaring partiality to the French of whom Alemanni grew so inamoured as much to his Majesties admiration he asked leave to make a publick Oration in Praise of them a resolution which did not only redound to his own particular shame but to the shame of all Italy every one being scandalized that so famous a Florentine Poet should extoll the praise of that Nation from whose sole ambition Italy may justly acknowledg all her present slavery to proceed Alemanni made this his Oration and did therein very much exaggerate the glory of the French Nation terming it the overthrow of the famous Roman Liberty only because it gave the Arms of Tyranny into Cesars hands wherewith that ambitious man did afterwards slay the Liberty of his Country He said that the French had in their Wars perpetual victory in Africa Asia and Europe and ruled with infinite glory He stiled the French Monarchy the Triumphant Princess over the whole world her enemies scourge and the only means and instrument of the yet remaining Liberty of Italy He attested for truth That France was the most numerous Nation that was under the Sun he said it was rich fruitful well armed united strong well peopled with such as were most devoted to their King all which he said were things requisite in a Kingdom which will be held to be formidable and lasting This Oration made Alemanni be followed by an infinite number of French so as being made strangely much of by many of the Barons of that Nation he was easily perswaded to go into France where he found that true which his best friends had taught him that if he desired to love the French men he should by all means shun going to France for he had not been twenty daies in the French Court when he was so used by those people and so distasted at them as he was forced to fly from France as full of ill affection to it as he went thither with ravishment insomuch as he presented himself the other day with a much imbittered mind before Apollo and told him that having in that his Oration very falsly exaggerated the praise of the French Nation to the end that truth might prevail he desired leave to make his Recantation for by the unfortunate experience which he had made of the French he had found them to be so indiscreet so furious impertinent and so phantastically humerous and ingratefull beyond all human creatures as that they were no less capital enemies to the Italians though they knew they had many there that sided with them then they were to the English Spaniards Germans Dutch and all other forein Nations To this Apollo readily answered him That he did not only deny him the leave he had asked but straitly charged to repeat the same Oration again in praise of the French and that amongst the other singular vertues of that Warlike Nation he should mention the infinite glory which they had won by appearing to be mortal enemies to all forein Nations Which singular vertue he said the Italians were so far from as they were not ashamed to become the apes of all the most barbarous parts of the world in their discourse aparrel feeding and in all other their actions In so much as if the Jews did rule in any part of the earth it was to be believed that to curry favour with that base generation many of them would not be ashamed to wear yellow hats The XX. ADVERTISEMENT Corbulone having with much honour ended his prefixt time of Government in Pindo a Patent to continue the same Iurisdiction for one year longer is graciously sent him by Apollo which he refuseth to accept of DOmitio Corbulone having happily ended the first year of his Government of Pindo Apollo who was very well satisfied with him sent him his Letters Patents to continue in the same Government the next year though Corbulone knew very well that all the people of his Government did very much desire his continuance in Pindo yet he had importuned Apollo to send one with all speed to succeed him in that place And though he foresaw that Apollo would interpret his refusal sinisterly yet he again desired to be changed and had his request granted Being returned to Parnassus his friends desired to know why he had refused to continue still in that imployment which many other great personages were ambitious of Corbulone answered them That he who would preserve his body in health and keep up his reputation must be so much master of himself as to be able to rise from the Table with an appetite and to quit Governments when people seemed to be best satisfied with him For Officers though they were foolish and untoward were alwaies adored by the people the first six months well enough believed the second six months but that though they were good they were hated the third six months and at the end of two years the people grew sick of those that were best not for any misdemerits of the Governor but through the peoples too great curiosity who as easily grow weary of good things as they do of bad That therefore that Servant or Officer of a Prince deserved to be esteemed wise who havng done some special good service to his Prince could resolve to leave the Court and leave his Master in love with him and not to tarry till that unfortunate time which will at last happen in all Courts of being shamefully driven out of dores either for some small fault which is able to cancel any former merit how great soever or else for that not only privat men but Princes are subject to be glutted with the same conversation still and do daily love new things and take delight in growing worse The XXI ADVERTISEMENT Sebastian