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A33174	Cicero's prince the reasons and counsels for settlement and good government of a kingdom, collected out of Cicero's works / by T. R., esq.; Selections. English	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Bellenden, William, d. 1633?; Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.	1668 (1668)	Wing C4320; ESTC R18500	30,642	98

Cicero's Prince THE REASONS AND COUNSELS For Settlement and Good Government OF A KINGDOM Collected out of CICERO'S Works By T. R. Esq LONDON Printed for S. Mearne Bookbinder to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and are to be sold at his house in Little-Britain 1668. To His Grace the DUKE of MONMOUTH AND BACCLEUGH c. THis Piece was once a Jewel wrapt up in Latine in the Cabinet of the Renowned Prince Henry and composed by an excellent Artist out of the rich Mines of that famous Statesman and Orator M. Tullius Cicero It hath in it Maximes which void of all stains and Flaws of Machiavillian Interest are raised only upon principles of Honor and Vertue which best become a Prince In the discourse they are directed to a Soveraign but may be of no less use to any great person whose Birth or Quality may render him capable of Derivative Authority in the management of affairs of State and what is Honorable and becoming a Prince must needs be so in his Ministers who should be his Imitators Your Graces qualifications and Years may reasonably expect ere long to be called to imployment in which your care and good conduct of your self may satisfie the expectation of the world and divert the censures of a malicious Age which your Grace prevents by considering your station and that though your years are but few yet Great Men as they are planted near the Prince ought to be like Trees on rich ground sooner ripe for affairs then other of meaner condition which cannot be without an early application of themselves to some serious thoughts of business either in the practice and observation of present transactions or by reading what hath been done in the world before them but of this your Grace is already sensible so that I have selected this for its Brevity only to lye by you as a Memorial to prompt you to put these Maximes in time into such practice as may gain you that Honor and esteem in the World to which with a Laudable Ambition you ought to aspire and render your self serviceable to your King and Country which is in this the sole design and most earnest desire of Your Graces in all duties of a faithful and humble servant T. R. Index of Chapters CHAP. 1. OF the excellency of Government in general of the Cause and Original of Civil Life Laws Republick Civil Societies and Cities Chap. 2. Of the Excellency of Kingly Government the Cause and Original of Kings Chap. 3. Of the Difficulties of Ruling the foundations and Arts thereof Chap. 4. Of the Princes Office in general what he ought to know do and consider Chap. 5. Of Prudence in Debates Counsels and Actions Chap. 6● Of Prudence in preventing Mischiefs destroying their beginnings means and remains Chap. 7. Cautions against the several Causes of Commotions and Seditions Chap. 8. Of the prudent Deportment of the Prince and the Helps to render him and his Government happy and glorious Chap. 9. Of Moderation in Government and use of Reason in Princes neglected by barbarous Princes Chap. 10. Of Princes Manners how they do good or harm by example Chap. 11. The preparation of necessaries Lenity and Continence preserve Neglect Cruelty and Avarice destroy government Chap. 12. Of Liberality convenient for a Prince Chap. 13. Of Reward and Punishment Chap. 14. Of the Princes Prudence in consideration of Times Things and Per●ons with several Rules and Cautions concerning them Chap. 15. Of the Princes Seal Senate Senators and Counsel Chap. 16. Of avoiding Flatterers Chap. 17. Of preserving Authority and shunning Vice by which it is diminished Chap. 18. What a Prince ought to do and have in readiness for defence of himself and his Government Chap. 19. Of exciting the slothful to industry and Labor that they may be useful to himself and the State c. Chap. 20. Of the Virtues which invite the people to love the Prince and the Vices which alienate their affections Chap. 21. Of the care studie and offices of the Prince and in what they consist Chap. 22. Seven things whence the destruction or safty of a Prince and Government proceeds and whereon it depends Chap. 23. Four Guards by which the Prince may secure himself and his power Chap. 24. Of prudence in foreign affairs and several cautions concerning Forrainers Cicero's Prince CHAP. 1. The Excellency of Government and Power the Cause and Original of Civil Life Laws Commonwealths Society and Cities EVery Nature which is not Solitary and Simple but connexed and joyned with some other must of necessity have something within in it self that Governs as in Man the Understanding in Beasts something like it whence their Appetites arise on a Republick Magistracy which orders and prescribes what is Just Profitable and suitable to the Laws Nothing therefore is more agreeable to the Equitable condition of Nature then Government without which no Family no Society of Men no Nation not even Mankinde nor the world it self can subsist For the Universe obeyeth God and to his Dictates and Commands the Seas Earth and the Being of Mankind is subject as to their Supreme Law-giver To these when we apply and add Good Affections they produce that Foundation of stability which we desire in Government For Virtue is not Rude Cruel or Proud but assisting to the Defence of all Men best consults for their safety ordained by Nature as the surest Guard of Kingly Power and Humane Society to reconcile and unite them Time was when Men like Beasts lived in open Fields sustaining life with wilde Food not acting so much by the Reason of the Soul as strength of the Body having then no knowledge of Divine Religion or Humane Offices No man reflected on lawful Marriage or reguarded the Legitimacy of his Children altogether ignorant of that benefit which arising from the Laws of Equity so that through Error and Ignorance Blind and Rash Desire predominant in the Minde abused the strength of the Body to satisfie it self by pernicious Force Some therefore who first excelled in Virtue and Wisdom collected the dispersed into one place and out of that Barbarity brought them to Justice and Humanity And then those things which were of Publike Utility termed by us common Conventions of men after called Civil Societies with the Invention of Divine and Humane Laws in Houses built together denominated Cities and encompassed them with walls CHAP. 2 The Excellency of Regal Power the Cause and Origen of Kings and Laws BUt that I may come to things nearer and more known to us All Nations anciently were Govern'd by Kings which kind of Government was at first conferred on Persons most Just and this in our Republick while subject to Regal Power was most highly valued and derived to Posterity still remaining in those who now Reign with Purple the Scepter and other Ensigns of Royal Authority But the well moderated Monarchy to Me seems not only to have been of old constituted among the Medes according to Herodotus but even