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A38818	Gymnasiarchon, or, The schoole of potentates wherein is shewn, the mutability of worldly honour / written in Latine by Acatius Evenkellius ; Englished, with some illustrations and observations, by T. N. ...; Sejanus, seu, De praepotentibus regum ac principum ministris, commonefactio. English	Ennenckel, Georgius Acacius, b. 1573.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3526A; ESTC R39517	168,645	466

Prince and them Such Councellours had Rehoboam King of the Jews who when hls Subjects complained unto him of heavy burthens laid upon them by his Father by the advise of his Councell answered them that his little finger should lie more heavy upon them then all his Fathers body my Father chastned you with whips but I will chasten you with Scorpions such a kinde of fellow was Nicholas Gara a Count Palatine of the Kingdome of Hungarie who being exceeding powerfull with Queene Mary the daughter of Lewis the first gave his Counsell that she should not suffer her Peers to become too powerfull as wee hear'd before but how his Counsell took effect I have before remembred and what befell to the Councellours of Rehoboam every one can tell Sleidan reports that William Poyets the French Kings Chancellour was by the Kings speciall command taken out of his bed and cast into Prison with the generall applause of the people for that during the foure yeares that hee held his office he had offended all sorts of people Such is generally the end of these sort of people for when the Prince is once fully informed of their conditions to satisfie the people they punish them to their ruine and destruction Examples hereof wee have in Cleander Peter Lindais George Peiras and others concerning whom Philip Comines demands this queston and gives this answer who dares saith hee enquire into the actions of these Grandees who dare call them in question who dare bee the Iudge to execute judgement upon them if they offend the answer is the inquisition will bee the lamentation and cries of the people whom they have mercilesly opprest and trampled upon in every kind the teares of the Widowes and Orphans whose Husbands and Fathers they have put to death and generally all they whom they have persecuted either in their Bodies or Estates these will bring in an inquisition against them and deliver them over to receive their doom of him who is the onely true judge that will not peradvanture expect any other evidence but will punish them in this life so much hath Philip Comines * 50 Lex talionis 50 the Law of Talio is justly inflicted upon them It is good justice that they who have despised and contumeliously behaved themselves to wards others should be despised and contumeliously handled by others that they who proudly insulted over others should be reproachfully spoken of by others that they who by rapine and fraud have gotten the Estates of others should suddainly have their Estates by others taken from them that they that shewed no mercy should expect no mercy that they that commanded others to bee dragg'd to execution should bee dragg'd themselves that they that caused others that stood for the Church to be put to death should in the Church bee put to death themselves that they that endeavoured to deprive the Subject of his rights and priviledges should not onely lose the benefit of them but the benefit of the Law of Nations that they that caused others to bee put to death against the Law should before they bee heard or accused be put to death themselves that they which caused the rigour of the Law to be inflicted upon others should have the same measure measured unto them as is reported of * 51 Perillus. 51 Perillus who was the first that felt the punishment of the torment that hee himselfe invented These punishments doe not onely belong unto them that attaine unto their greatnesse by undue meanes but likewise unto them who being deservedly preferred do in the due execution of their places misbehave themselves for * 52 Non sufficet bene coepisse 52 it is not sufficient to begin well but wee must prosecute our good beginnings with sutable proceedings which is a very hard thing for him to do who hath attained to a great fortune for * 53 Fortuna est coena eos efficet caecos quoâ—om plexa est 53 fortune being blind her selfe makes them blinde likewise for the most part whom shee doteth upon and favoureth for while we are lulled asleep in her lap we grow carelesse and give occasion to such as love us not to circumvent us so as when there is no other cause yet too too great prosperity willl finde in it selfe sufficient cause to bring us to our graves with shame and ignorance Therefore it is no wonder if such as have power to doe what they will standing in feare of none become proud and insolent and have their imperfections made knowne unto the world for being on high they can do nothing but notice is taken of it whereas if they lived in a mean rank their faults would passe unregarded our nature is such there is no good thing in the world but it abuseth but most of all the prosperity and good fortunes wee injoy And why because our wils being prone to all wickednesse our prosperity adds spurs unto it and doth not onely move but continually administer occasion unto us to satisfie our unbridled lusts and affections Such as have attained to the greatest favour with their Princes by reason of their daily familiarity with them have in the end become most odious and contemptible in their height Sejanus Tiberius onely minion for the time for that he stiled himselfe Emperour and Tiberius governour of a poore Island Tiberius hated and detested the servant that hath beene delicately brought up from a Childe will challenge to himselfe the priviledge of a sonne at last saith Solomon For presuming upon the favour of their Princes they make them the subject of laughter neglect their commands vilifie them and mocke them assuming the honour of what is done to themselves attributing nothing to the power of the Prince So Joab slew Absalom the sonne of King David with his owne hand of his owne accord without the Kings approbation And though it was told him when hee was about to doe the deed that it was the Kings will to have his life saved and that he would call him to an account for it yet hee went on grieving the perplext King with most unbeseeming and unmannerly tearms but such things as these Princes forget not but keep them in a Register Tacitus reports how that Pallas through his pride exceeding the bounds of a free man drew hatred upon himselfe and how that Narcissus for that hee slew Messalina the Wife of Claudius without his consent put Claudius into a kinde of a phrensie and made him in passion say that Narcissus durst never attempt those things upon his Wife though she had deserved it unlesse that hee had first despised her Husband Such another was the Earle of St. Paul that was Constable of France of whom I have spoken before who upon all occasions relying on the favour of the Duke of Burgondy and the King of England would rise in rebellion against his Prince and that his power and greatnesse might still continue together with his stipends from the King

performe and left his Office of Legate Ã latere which he executed a yeare and a halfe to the great prejudice of the Church of England and the sea of Rome at last he put off his accustomed habit and in a womans apparell hee determined to crosse the Seas but at Dover his dalliance with a wench being discovered by a Marriner he was hill at beaten and afterwards drag'd through the streets to prison from whence as soon as he was fully delivered he most ignominiously and basely stole into Normandy his end was the more miserable by how much his fortunes were the greater Afterwards there * 28 Fuit quidam Comes Warwicensis qui Ã Rege E. 4. â—summam potestatem erectus oral 28 was an Earle of Warwick in the same Kingdome that was raised to such a height both of power and Estate by King Edward the fourth that he was not afraid to lay violent hands upon the Queenes Father and with many of his children and nearest friends to put him to death he placed such Officers about the King as he thought would do him best service and in the end took him Prisoner But not longe after the King escaping into Burgondy being assisted by Charles the then Duke he returned home overcame the Earle and made him fly for succour into France the Earle thence returning being assisted with divers Attendants put the King to the worst and made him fly into Holland for succour A second time the King returning being assisted by the aforesaid Duke set upon him overcame him and slew him with his Brother and many others In the Raign of King Henrâ— the eighth there was one named * 29 Tho. Wolsâ—us sub H. 8. 29 Thomas Wolsey that was very great with the King a man meanly descended but so proud and haughty that he became an eyesore not only to the Peeres and Nobility but even the King himselfe By the Kings speciall grace and favour he was promoted to the highest dignities to be Arch-Bishoh of York Bishop of Winchester to be a Cardinall to be sent Ambassadour and indeed next to the King to beare the greatest sway in the Kingdom but amongst other acts of his this was not the least that brought him in disgrace when King Henry began to distast Queene Catherine and to dote upon Anne of Boloyne this man undertook to procure a dispensation from the Pope which taking not so well as the King and he thought it would have done by degrees he fell out of the Kings favour and being apprehended by Thomas Duke of Norfolk was banished the Court and confined to his Bishoprick of Winchester which hee taking to heart with very griefe dyed The Kingdome of France will afford us many Examples in this kinde and amongst those it is reported of the Earle of S. Paul that having been advanced by Lewis the eleventh to bee Constable of France and to many other honours and preferments out of which he raised a very great revenue that in the end he somuch forgate himselfe that he studyed how to make the King stand in awe of him and for that purpose * 30 Mediocriter se gessit inter tres principes 30 he ever carried himselfe indifferently between the King his Master the King of England and the Duke of Burgondy one while standing for the one another while for the other ever desiring to keepe them at variance that so the one or the other might still stand in need of him And so it happened that the King his Master desiring to speak with him hee would not come unto him but with a power able to withstand him if occasion were offered he met him upon a Bridg where he talked with him as sawsily as if he had been his equall and familiar supposing that to be the way to preserve and increase the power he had obtained but he was deceived for all men seeing his malepertnesse and insolency were offended at him and studyed how to pull him down And it so happened that coming to the Duke of Burgondy upon safe conduct the Duke apprehended him and sent him to the King his Master with all such Letters as he had formerly written to him against the King Vpon which being araigned as also upon such Letters as he had written unto the King of England was thereupon condemned his estate confiscated and he put to death In the same Kingdome under Philip the faire one Taggerrandus Marrianus attained to so much power that nothing was done in the Kingdome without his approbation * 31 Peculatus accusatus suspendio affectus est 31 yet this man for robbing the Kings Treasures was accused condemned and hang'd * 32 Petrus Landaicus apud ducem Britaniae potens 32 Peter Landais likewise with the Duke of Brittaine attained to the like favour yet by the violence of the multitude he was taken from the Duke and judicially condemned and hanged as Paulus Aemilius in his History of France relates the story To passe over into Spaine in the Kingdom of Castile there was * 33 Alvarus de LunÃ¢ 33 Alvarus de Luna borne in Arragon of a Noble house but a Bastard borne out of Wedlocke that grew to such a heighth of power with King John that no man in the Kingdome was so powerfull as he he tooke armes against John King of Navarre and used all meanes to oppresse Henry Knight of the order of Saint James but it so fell out that the Queen opposing him by the assistance of the second King of Navarre and Henry Knight of the order they surprized the King and compelled Alvarus to live upon his owne possessions and happy had hee beene if hee could have so contented himselfe but hee that once tasted of the sweetnesse of Soveraignty can hardly finde contentment in a private life hee begins then a second time to bethink himselfe how hee might attaine to his former height from which hee was throwne downe hee sets the King at liberty installs him in the Kingdome sits at the sterne keeps under his Enemies and incenses the King against them but this prosperity continued not and brought him to an untimely death for when as by the Kings speciall Commandement one of the Nobility delivered a message unto him which was not pleasing he caused the Messenger to be throwne out of the window for the which the King did afterwards ever more hate him then he did formerly love him for caused him to be apprehended and being judicially condemned to be put to death Vnto the former I will adde the Example of a Germane out of the seventh book of the Annals of Aventinus With Rudolfe Palsgrave of Rheyne and Duke of Bavaria there was Ortho Crondorser in the greatest grace and favour he came of meane Parentage and comming to Court by his double diligence in readily observing and gravely executing whatsoever was committed to his charge within a very short time became very gracious in the eyes of the Prince by

too high a pitch but had confined himselfe within a meane if one man might have deserved so mâ—ch as he had hee might have deserved it for that I cannot finde that ever hee reflected his thoughts upon himselfe to rayse any house of his name but ever sent forth his Treasure in handfulls that came in in spoonesulls and what he had the King knew the Kingdome knew because he exposed it daily to view hee that diligently reades this story will find that the King from the beginning used the Cardinall but as a sponge vid. Godw. de Epis Angl. G. Cavend in vita Wolsaei Polyd. lib. 27. m. H. S. Thu. lib. 1. * 30 Inter tres Principes Hee carried himselfe indifferently between the King his Master the King of England and the Duke of Burgondy Never did the Kingdome of France produce a more turbulent spirit then this Constable hee was the only Incendiary between the King his Master the King of England and the Duke of Burgondy and his ambition ever was rather to bee feared then loved for which hee grew a Odimus accipitrem qui semper vivit in armis contemptible and his death often threatned before it happened Commines writing of the tumultuous broyles that hapned between these Princes shews that there were two principall motives that occasioned the Constable and the Duke of Guyen to kindle the fire one was their own safety for they did conceive if there were a peace concluded that either the one or the other would fall fowle upon them the other was to compell the Duke of Burgondy by a War if they could not otherwise prevaile to marry his daughter being his daughter and heire to the Duke of Guyen and these designes were manifested to the Duke of Burgondy upon the delivering up of St. Quintins and Amiens to the King for the Duke beeng much troubled for the losse of these townes in a friendly manner writ unto the Constable not to presse a Warr being that there was no defiance offered unto whom the Constable perceiving that hee stood in feare of him which was the thing hee aymed at returned a peremptory answer to this effect that there was but one way for him to help himselfe which was to bestow his daughter upon the Duke of Guyen which if hee would doe not onely the said Duke but divers other Lords would declare themselves for him against the King and hee would redeliver St. Quintins and Amiens unto him and assist him with all his power otherwise hee would pursue the War which answere the Duke having received resolved to undergoe any misery rather then to have his daughter taken from him in that way and thereupon forthwith acquainted the King with those and the like letters which he had sent to the King of England who immediately revived the agreement made at Bonvines concerning the death of the Constable Of the letters which the Constable sent to the Duke of Burgondy and the King of England see Commines lib. 4. c. how the agreement at Bonvines was afterwards ratified and hee delivered by the Duke of Burgondy comming to him upon safe conduct see Commin lib. 4. See more of the Constable in the generall History of France in Lewis the 11. * 31. Peculasus accusatus suspendio affectus Enguerrande for robbing the Kings Treasure was accused and hanged Enguerrande was Earle of Longuevill and Superintendent of the Treasure under Philip the fourth called the fair and did him good service but Charles the Kings brother conceiving inplacable hatred against him in the beginning of the raign of Lewis Hutin accused him for robbing the Kings Treasure and gave this in evidence against him rerum vires nervusque pecunia est te interrogo Enguerranâ— cujusnam pecunia arcaque recondita clausaque cupiditati tuae fuerit non interrogo quam amplum patrimonium relictam tibi a Parentibus fuit tu te creasti tu te genuisti ingredere fiscum Regis inopiam invenies ingredere aedes istius gurgitis gazam Persicam invenies an virtute parta quae virtus in tali monstro potest esse and upon this evidence prevailed to have him hanged upon a gallowes set up at Mountfalcon See Paul Aemil. lib. 8. * 32. Petrus Laudoicus apud ducem Britaniae Peter Landais was in the like favour with the Duke of Britaine Peter Landais was the sonne of a very meane man of Vitry in Britanny and came to the Court very poore whom the Duke at the first imployed to carry his amorous Letters to his Ladies after made him the Master of his Wardresse then his Treasurer and in the end his power was so great that he did in a manner what he would hee was the man that caused the Duke to suffer Chauvin his Chancellour to dye miserably in prison of hunger and cold which so incensed the Nobility that they resolved to ease the Duke of him whereupon John of Chalon Prince of Orange and son to one of the Dukes Sisters and John of Rieux Marshall of Britanny and one of the greatest men in Court together with the Nobility resolved to surprise him in the Castle of Naâ—â—s or wheresoever they could finde him though in the Dukes presence which they performed And so Peter was arraigned condemned and hanged priusquam causam sciret dux as Paulus Aemilius hath it Vid Paul Aemil. l. 10. c. 8. supplem ad lib. 6. Com. Observations There is no man so vile and contemptible in the world but is good to some body this Peter that was thus hanged did one of the greatest curtesies to King Hen. the 7th that ever was done to him When King Edw. the Fourth sent unto Francis Duke of Brittany Doctor Stillington with others-laden with Gold to request him to deliver unto them the Earle of Richmond being his Prisoner upon pretence to unite the two houses by an alliance the Duke conceiving that hee intended to marry Elizabeth his Eldest Daughter unto him without any scruple took their Gold and delivered him but being informed afterwards by Peter his favourite that it was but a pretence and that hee meant to cut off his head sent him post after them who finding them at Saint Mallo staying for a winde took a course to have the Earle conveyed into the Sanctuary there yet possessed the Doctor and his fellowes that hee had no hand in it but that hee escaped of himselfe and when they prest to have him redelivered hee told them it could not be without his Masters consent and that they should very speedily know his minde therein So Peter sent to the Duke and the Duke sent a peremptory answer that hee had once delivered him and being that through their negligence they had suffred him to take Sanctuary hee would not take him out but would keep him there or in his own Palace for them so Peter cosened them of their mony and adventure as he had cosened his Master all his life time and sent them home without either

cogita sanctÃ¨ item Spartam nactus hanc orna * 80. Cogitet multa sibi non licere It is not lawfull for him to do many things Omnia non pariter rerum sunt omnibus apta saith the Poet Prop. lib. 3. Non omnia omnibus decora as saith the Orator As there are severall Estates and degrees in the world so there are severall and particular actions incident to each degree and those things which may be done by men of one degree with praise and commendation cannot bee done by men of another degree without disparagement When the Duke of Orleans Lewis the 12. came to bee King of France Amiâ—at lib. 5 polit disseâ—t certain ill-disposed Courtiers told him that now hee had opportunity to revenge the many wrongs which were done unto him when hee was Duke of Orleans to whom hee most Princely answered non decet Galloâ—um Regem injurias ducis Aureliensum vinâ—icare that it was not fit for the King of France to revenge the wrongs done to the Duke of Orleans When as Aristides sate as judge between two Plut. in Aristides one of the parties to incense him against his adversary told him that hee had not only wronged him but Aristides also to whom Aristides like himselfe answered that hee came not thither to revenge any wrong done to himselfe but to do him right When Parmenio would have had Alexander to have done something which was more fit for a private man to do then a Prince he gave him this answer ego id agerem si essem Parmenio I would do it if I were Parmenio but being that I am Alexander it stands not with my honour to doe it Plut. in praecept polit Themistocles after that he had obtained a famous victory against his enemies walking up and down amongst the dead corps espied a chaine of gold about one of their necks and wished him that was not Themistocles to take it of Polybius being in a dump Seneca to rouse up his spirits set upon him thus remember your selfe I pray you doe not shew your selfe so indiscreete as to hurt your selfe to no purpose quid tam humile aut tam muliebre quam dolore consumere Senec. ad Polib it is sufficient that you loved your friend whilst hee lived and performed all friendly offices for him and exprest as much at his death the World hath a great opinion of you for you worth and valour and exspects that you should shew your selfe more manly a common Souldier may quit the field having receiv'd but a scar and no notice taken of him but for you to shew your self so pusillanimous for so light a wound will be a great dishonor to you nam multa tibi non licent quae hominibus in angulo jacentibus licent * 81. Non ob propriam virtutem Thou shouldst never think that thou art raised for any worth of thine When the Painter saw a Phantastick admiring his owne Picture and preferring the workmanship thereof before the workmanship of all his other pictures told him that hee did much wonder that it being so excellent a piece did not sell better that Alexanders picture did usually bring him so much mony Hectors so much Ajax so much but as for his no man would give any thing for it there is nothiâ—g so prejudiciall to the servants of Princes as an over weaning opinion of their own worth nam quantum sibi ipsissimi videntur tantum a Rege vilissimi tenentur for the more highly they doe esteeme of themselves the more vilely do they appeare in their Princes eyes for that they generally as Commines hath it do more affect them on whom they have conferred honours without any desert then they who having deserved well think them bound to reward them Lewis the eleventh took great delight to make himselfe merry with these kinde of men who having at one time received a great Summe of mony was pleased to the end to stirre them up to ask what hee should doe with all that mony and where are now all my servants and followers to whom I owe any thing it were good for them to come whilst I have it in my Treasury of which his words the alarum being given the Courtiers came in as the hawk to the lure every one hoping to get something and when the King beheld one above the rest max mÃ¨ hiautem quasi oculis pecuniam devorantem looking upon his mony as if he would have devoured it with his eyes askt him what hast thou to say Sir an 't please you quoth he I have been your Falchoner so long and the hawks that have been commended to my charge have been as good as any Prince in Christendome ever had but they cost me a great deale of mony and a great deale of paines another shewed what service hee had done and a third what hee had done extolling themselves to the highest the King having heard them all his Chancellour standing by him askt him what saist thou my Chancellour truly Sir quoth hee plÃ¹s recepi quam promeruerim nec ulla de re magis sollicitus sum quam ut regiae tuae munificentiae responderem I have received more of your highnesse then I have deserved neither doth any thing in the World more trouble me then that I cannot tell how to deserve so much as I have received well quoth the King do thou take the mony as for these fellowes erit alia exspectanda occasio they shall stay untill another time Here wee finde that verified in the fable of Narcissus who admiring his owne shadow pined away wherefore Amiratus most religiously admonisheth them upon whom the Prince hath cast a more gracious aspect then upon their fellowes never to ascribe any thing to themselves or their owne merit but to the providence of God who hath been pleased to encline the affections of the Prince more towards them then towards other men * 82. Tametsi Burrhus Though Burrhus had promised yet hee did not performe Melius est vota stultae promissionis non implere quam crimen admittere though Nero had commanded and Burrhus had promised to kill Agrippina yet hee did not performe Castilio puts the case whether a servant bee bound to obey his Master in all his commands and the answer is negative cum jubet ea quae in prima tabula vetat deus aut vetat ea quaejubet deus non est observandus if he commands those things which by the law of God are prohibited or prohibite those things which by the law of God are commanded hee is not to bee obeyed so did the Mid wives refuse to kill the Children of the Hebrews according to the command of King Pharaoh Exod. the 1. so did the three children refuse to worship the golden Image which Nebuchadnezar had set up so did Obadiah refuse to obey the Command of Jezabell in killing of the Prophets 1 Kings 18. and so did Mathias refuse to obey the

the losse of two and twenty peeces of his great Artillery Guicciard lib. 1â— as Guicciardine hath it It had beene a great deale more honour unto him to have said and written lesse and to have done more Laus in proprio ore sordescit Qui sese laudat laudis se munere fraudat ideo non inutile consilium Non sua laudabit studia aut aliena reprendet Hor. Castil lib 1. the praises which are an honour to a man when they proceed out of the mouthes of strangers are a dishonour when they proceed out of a mans owne mouth The people pittied the Souldier when they beheld the many wounds which he had received in the field but when they heard him foolishly babling that those many wounds seemed to him but as so many flea-bitings then they laughed at him The Ladies likewise thought it an honour to their Festivals Castil ib. to have them honoured with the presence of him that had beene a Generall in the Field but when as being requested to dance with them he began to talke of his Armes and how many men he had killed then they wisht that he might be hang'd up in his Armes untill there were use of him and were afraid that he would have killed them In the account of Philotheos Gnatho and Thraso a Rodomantado and a Philauto are numbred amongst the most vile and contemptible sort of men When Philotheos and Philocompos that had beene bred together in their minority accidentally met having not seen each other for the space of many yeares before they both stood amazed each viewing and beholding the other Philocompos wondred that Philotheos being old should seem to be so young and Philotheos on the other side wondred that Philocompos being young should seeme to be so old and desired each other to give an account what course of life they had pursued Philotheos began shewing that after he had left the Grammar Schoole he betooke himselfe to the University where after that he had spent some few yeares hee returned home and married a wife ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ like to himselfe in every degree equall in parentage equall in portion and not differing in condition that he had spent a great part of his time in the study of the seven Liberall Sciences In the morning searching into the deepest mysteries Horis matutinis homo tetus est homo dum omnia mentis organasunt tranquilla post prandium vix semi homines sumus cum animus cibis â—onustus gravatur in the afternoone into matters of lesse difficulty that hee ever associated such as were of approved integrity especially Philagatho and abandoned the company of Gnatho and Thraso and their Associates as carefully as Vlysses did the charmes of the Syrenes and in this course of life had spent his time Philocompos then began and shewed how he had followed another course of life how as soon as he had left the Grammar Schoole he betook himselfe wholly to his delights that hee ever hated the name of a wife because hee could never endure to be confined to one woman that he had studied 27. Arts but the Art wherein he took most delight was the Art of Whoring and to satisfie his desires he had crost the Seas and had spent many yeares in France and Italy where he ever spent the morning in his bed studying what Mistris hee should visit in the afternoone that he visited none so often of the feminine Sexe as Dalila Flora Lais Lamy Archenasse and Aspatia and of the Masculine as Gnatho and Thraso the Policleti and Patrobii and their Associates and in this course had hee spent his time Philotheos having heard him made no wonder then to see him so decrepit and so poore in fortune but wondred to see him alive and repented that hee had taken notice of him fearing that in future times hee would he a burthen to him and so tooke his leave of him with a desire never to see him againe in this account wee see in what account with wise men a Philauto and Selfprayser is * 91. Ne praemiorum petitione sit gravis Let not a servant be ever craving and begging Castilio gives this advertisement to such as are attendants on the Courts of Princes Lib. 2. ut rarissime a principe mendicarent and if they doe at any time move him in the behalfe of any man to be sure that his cause bee honest to the end that if his request be denied it may be no disparagement to him if granted the Prince may have no cause to repent himselfe It is reported of Lewis the Eleventh and Maximilian the Emperour that they did usually sport themselves with the hungry Courtier Of Lewis it is said that during the time that hee made his abode in the Duke of Burgundies Court after his hunting hee did usually retire himselfe to the house of Conon who did for the most part entertaine him with a dish of Raspes that afterwards when hee came to bee setled in his Kingdome this Conon by the sollicitation of his friends brought him a present of the same fruit but being pinched with hunger upon the way hee did eate them all except one of an extraordinary bignesse which hee presented to the King with great alacrity and the King received it with greater and commanded that it should be deposited inter ea que habebat Charissima and that hee should have for a reward a thousand Crowns the fame whereof being spread abroad and comming to the understanding of a greedy Courtier hee forthwith presents the King with a faire Gelding thinking with himselfe si sic pensavit rapam donatam Ã rustico quantÃ² munificentius pensaturus est equum donatum ab aulico if the King so liberally rewarded a Countryman that presented him with a Raspe how much more munificently will hee reward a Courtier that presents him with a horse the King perceiving how hee went a fishing with a silver hooke casts about how to reward him and at last bethinking himselfe of the Raspe which Conon had given him caused it to bee brought unto him and with his owne hands delivered it to the Courtier telling him withall quod beue pensatus est equus Cimelio quod sibi constitisset mille coronatis that hee was sufficiently recompensed for that the jewell which hee gave him stood him in a thousand Crownes and so the fisher was taken in his own net and became the subject of laughter The like is reported of Maximilian the Emperour who having a desire to advance a youg Gentleman sent to the Citizens of a certaine City to borrow of them a summe of mony intending it or the greatest part of it to the Gentleman who prevailing in his suite knowing the Emperours minde returned part to the Emperour and retained part to himselfe whereof the Emperours Officers being given to understand forthwith acquainted the Emperour plus aceeptum fuisse quam exhibitum that hee had received a great deale

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