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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58845	The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems written in Spanish by Don Diego Saavedra Faxardo ... ; with a large preface, containing an account of the author, his works, and the usefulness thereof ; done into English from the original, by Sir Ja. Astry.; Idea de un príncipe político-cristiano. English	Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648.; Astry, James, Sir.	1700 (1700)	Wing S211; ESTC R21588	533,202	785

resid● tibus quid●m tepor eorum fidem retardaverat Hilar. cap. 7. Sup. Matth so that they could not cure a posses● person 6 And I brought him to thy Disciples and they could not cu● him Matth. 17. 15. Great Spirits do not flourish nor Blossom unless they are water'd by the Dew of Favour That Prince therefore who shall sow Honours shall reap able Statesmen But he ought to sow them in Season and to have them always ready upon all Occasions for then they are rarely t● be found In this Princes are usually careless while they li●● in Peace and Quiet thinking they shall never have need o● them Nor should a Prince honour and prefer only his Nobility and Ministers but also all others of his Subjects whose Actions shall be meritorious As King Alphonso prudently advises in his Laws where he says that a Prince ought to honour Vertue wheresoever he finds it though it be in the very meanest of his Subjects A Prince ought to be very cautious in the Distribution of Honours considering the time and weighing the Qualifications of the persons that they may be exactly adapted to their Merit For that distinguishes Dignities as the intrinsick worth of a Diamond makes it more valuable if Honours were all equal they would be less valued 't is a kind of Tyranny not to reward Desert and nothing more incenses the People than it a whole Government is disordered by the unequal Distribution of Preferments Rewards above Desert are a Scandal to the receiver and an Affront to those who deserve better One is gratified many offended To gratifie all alike is ●o reward none Vertue thrives not by equality nor will Valour ever attempt any considerable Action without the hopes of some particular Reward A Statue erected for one affects many with a glorious Desire of obtaining the same Honour In a word Honour suited to a persons Merit is a Spur to him an Encouragement to others and a means to preserve Obedience in the people But though nothing more firmly settles or more gloriously adorns a Prince's Throne than Distribution of Honours yet ought he diligently to take Care not to Grant away those which are proper to his own Dignity and distinguish him from others For they are not like Flames which passing to another Subject still remains entire in its own but all such which he shall confer on others will no more shine in him so that Majesty will be obscur'd nor will any make their Applications to him but to them to whom he has granted such Honours Tiberius would not permit even his Mother Livia to receive those particular Honours which the Senate design'd because he thought 't would diminish his Authority 7 Caeterum anxius invidia mulieb●e fastigium in diminutionem sui ●ccipiens ne lictorem qui●●em ei decern● 〈◊〉 Tac. 1. ann Even Ceremonies which were introduced either by Chance or Flattery and are now peculiar to the Prince he ought not to make common to others For though they are vain and empty they mark out the Borders of Majesty to Respect and Veneration Tiberius was disgusted that the same publick Prayers were made for Nero and Drusus which were made for him tho' they were his Sons and Successours in the Empire 8 Tum verò aequari adolescentes senectae suae uis hoentèr indoluit Tac. 4. ann the Honour of Princes vanishes when made common by promiscuous Flattery 9 Vanescit Augusti honor si promis● noribus vulg●tur Tac. 4. ann sometimes though as when Ministers do personate the Prince in his absence the same Honours and Ceremonies are to be paid them as are due to the Prince if present as we fee in Vice-Roys and Courts of Supream Authority which like Stars shine in the Suns absence but not in his Presence for then those marks of Honour are paid to the Royal Dignity represented in the Ministers who are as it were the Pictures of Majesty and the reflection of Supream Authority EMBLEM LIX NATURE the provident Disposer of all things has divided Countries from one another and hedg'd 'em in sometimes with Mountains like ●ast Walls sometimes entrenched 'em about with deep Rivers and sometimes with the Ocean it self that she ●ight put a stop to the Designs of humane Ambition for ●he same Reason she has constituted different Climates Na●ures Languages and Customs that in this great Diversity of Nations each might live amicably and in Unity among themselves not easily giving way to the Power and Tyran●y of Invaders Yet are not all these bars and fences of Nature able to check this insatiable Desire of Rule for Ambition is so great and so deeply rooted in Man's heart ●hat it thinks the five Zones too narrow for it Alexander ●hey say wept that he had no more Worlds to Conquer All the Blessings of Life nay Life it self for all our natural Inclinations to preserve it are all slighted for a moments Reign Humaya going to invade the Kingdom o● Cordova some of his Friends di●swaded him from it urging the danger of the Attempt Call me King to day say● he and to morrow kill me there is no Passion in Ma● more blind and dangerous than this This has cost many their Lives as well as Estates which they would have there by enlarged A certain Prince of Tartary usually drank ou● of a Cup on which was engraven the Head of a Prince o● Muscovy who in invading his Kingdom lost his own wit● his Life about the edge of which was this Inscription This Prince by coveting mine lost his own Almost the same thing befell King Sancho who woul● have rob'd his Brothers of the Kingdoms which their Father King Ferdinand had divided between ' em Ambitio● is in danger when it but puts its Arm out of its Territories like the Snail which runs a Risque whenever it peeps out o● its shell 1 Test●dinem ubi collecta in suum tegmen est tutam ad omnes 〈◊〉 esse ubi exerit partes aliquas quodcunque nudavit obnoxium at que i● mum habere Cic And though Tyridates said That 't is for private Men to maintain their own but for Kings to invad● others 2 Et sua retinere privatae domus alienis ce●●● Regiam laudem esse Tac. 15. ann yet this is only then when reason and pruden●● advise it and when Power has no other Tribunal than that o● Arms for whoever unjustly robs another of his Kingdom gives others opportunity and right to do the same to him first let a Prince consider the Danger of his own before 〈◊〉 thinks of invading another's Kingdom 3 Suam quisque fortunam in 〈◊〉 ●●lio habeat cum de ●lieno deliberat Curtius for which Re●son the Emperour Rodolphus I. us'd to say 'T was bett●● to govern well than to enlarge a Kingdom if King ●phonso the Wise had took this Advice he had never pursu● his Pretentions to the Empire to the so evident peril his own Kingdom