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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56890	Fortune in her wits, or, The hour of all men written in Spanish by the most ingenious Don Francisco de Quivedo Villegas ... ; translated into English by Capt. John Stevens.; Fortuna con seso. English	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.; Stevens, John, d. 1726.	1697 (1697)	Wing Q188; ESTC R5377	77,088	150

a Tyrannical Right over us declaring he would make Slaves of our Children and take away our Estates to give to his Servants and he aggravated this punishment saying he would not take him from us tho we should beg it of him He said to Samuel that it was him they despised not the Prophet or his Sons To fulfil his Curse that Saul continues among us at all times in all Places and under several Names Since then he oppresses us with infamous and miserable Thraldom in all Kingdoms and Commonwealths and God permits every King should be a Saul to us who left God for Saul Our Nation remained Criminal in the sight of all Men all cast it from themselves all retain and all are ashamed of retaining it We reside not in any place but whether we came expelled from another We rest no where but where they are desirous to cast us out and all dread we should be drove upon them We cannot but own there is no congruity between our Words and our Actions and that our Mouth and our Heart never were united in adoring the same God our Mouth always called upon the God of Heaven our Heart ever gave Idolatrous Adoration to God and Usury Being under the conduct of Moses when he went up to the Mount for the Law we made it appear that the Religion of our Souls was Gold and any Creature framed thereof There we adored our own Jewels in the Calf and our Avarice took for its Deity the resemblance of the sucking Cattle We admit not of God in any other Metal and in this we receive any Insect for a God He well understood the Disease that caused our insatiable Thirst who made us drink up our Idol reduced to Powder A mighty Vengeance followed this Crime yet tho it slew many thousands it was a warning to few for whereas God afterwards did for us all that we could ask still he did nothing but what we grew weary of He stretched out the Clouds like a Canopy to cover us in the Desert from the scorching heat of the day He strengthned with the fiery Pillar the weak light of the Moon and Stars that they assisted with its glittering motion might overcome the darkness of the night and represent the Sun in its absence He commanded the Wind to shower down our Harvest and disposed the Regions of the Air into wonderful Barns powring thence our Sustenance ready dressed in the Manna with all the seasoning every Pallat could desire He caused the Quails descending like Rain to become Game and Nets for our Entertainment He dissolved the immovable Rocks into running Streams and caused Springs to gush from the Stones to recreate our Thirst He dried up the bottom of the Sea into an easie Road for our Feet and raised the Waters perpendicular heaping up their smoothness into Liquid Walls detaining in a secure Structure the Waves and Billows which became a streight way for our Forefathers and a Sepulchre to Pharaoh and his Army His Word raised a Vermin and listed Frogs Flies and Locusts in his Army for our service There is nothing so weak whereof God doth not make up invincible Hosts against Tyrants With such small Souldiers he vanquished the formidable Enemies Squadrons glittering in their Steel Armour vain-glorious in the bearings of their Shields and flourishing in the Feathers of their Crests These wonderful Mercies which our King and Prophet David celebrated in the 105th Psalm which begins Horula Adonai were requited by our Obstinacy and Ingr●titude with a loathing and dislike of our Food and with Oblivion of the Way opened through the Waves of the Sea Many times God chastises with what he gives and rewards with what he refuses Such Forefathers are a scandalous Genealogy of our Perversness We are generally looked upon as obstinate in endless hopes whereas in reality we are the most desperate People in Nature We are the Ne plus ultra of Incredulity and hopes nor is any thing to be hoped of us Because Moses stayed a little on the Mount we despaired of him and asked a God of Aaron The reason why it is said we are obstinate in everlasting hope is because we have so many Ages expected the Messiah but neither did we receive him in Christ nor do we expect him in any other The cause of our saying always that he is to come is not that we desire him or believe it but by these delays to disguise our being the Fool that begins the 13th Psalm saying in his Heart There is no God The same says he who denies him that came and waits for him that is not to come This is the Language of our Heart and rightly considered it is the Quare of the 2d Psalm Fremuerunt gentes populi meditati sunt inania adversus dominum adversus Christum ejus So that we say we always hope to conceal our always despairing Of the Law of Moses we retain only the Name giving it to the Exceptions the Talmudists have forged to belye the Scripture disguize the Prophecies invalidate the Precepts and dispose Consciences to Worldly ends instructing our Atheistical Inclinations with Seditious Politicks for the conveniency of a Civil Life and adopting us of Sons of Israel Sons of Mammon When we had a Law we kept it not Now we keep it it is no Law farther than in the very sound of the three Letters It was necessary to declare what we were to excuse what we are and to promote what we aim to be advancing our selves upon the wild Extravagancies which like a Frenzy possess all the Earth for now not only the Hereticks rise in Arms against their Enemies the Catholicks but the Catholicks themselves in hostile manner invade one another The Protestants of Germany for many years past have strugled for a H●retick Emperor and in this they are favoured by the most Christian King who acts as if he were not so and connives at Calvin and Luther The Catholick King opposes them all to keep in the House of Austria the Supream Dignity of the Roman Eagles The Hollanders encouraged by being successful Traitors aspire to raise their Treason into a Monarchy and of Rebellious Subjects to the King of Spain dare presume to become his Competitors They wrested from him what he bad in them and they proceed rob him of what is so far from them as Brazil and India designing to extend their Conquests over his Crown We have been no small Instruments in promoting these Usurpations by means of the Sham Christians whom under disguise of the Portuguese Language we have applied to undermine him upon pretence of being his Subjects All or most of the Princes of Italy have harboured the French in their Dominions pretending they read the Popes inclinations in his Looks and interpreting his silent Toleration for a positive Command Ex motu proprio The King of France has practised an unbeard or Stratagem against the Monarch of Spain The Duke of Orleans and Queen Mother

a Turbant the Christian for a Hat the Moore for a Cap and you for a Veil We admit not of the Name of a Kingdom Commonwealth or any other but only that of Monopanti We yield all Titles to Kings and Commonwealths we take from them the power abstracted from the Vanity of those noisy Words We lay our Design that they may be Lords over the World and we over them To attain so glorious an end we have not found any to 〈◊〉 with in Confederacy on equal Terms like you who are at present the sharpers of Europe you only want our quality to compleat the subverting of all which we offer you entire by way of Contagion or Infection to be transmitted by means of an infernal device found out against Christians by us here present which is that as Treacle is prepared with the sharp poison of the Viper because it is the moisture that goes the quickest and most directly to the Heart for which reason being compounded with many Simples of Efficacious Virtue it conveys them to the Heart to defend it against Poison which is the design of the Medicine so we have invented a counter-Treacle to convey Poisons to the Heart by falling upon the Vertues and good works that go to it and to carry to the Soul the Vices Abominations and Errors which on these Vehicles will slip into it If you resolve upon this Alliance we will give you the Receipt with the weight and number of Ingredients and furnish Apothecaries well versed in the composition in the contriving whereof Danipe Alkemiastos and I have taken great pains and our labour is nothing inferior to the Trochisks of the Viper Be ruled by our Pragas for you need not cease to be Jews and at the same time will learn to be Monopanti At the very uttering of these words the Hour had its effect and Rabbi Maimon one of those that came from the Synagogue of Venice rising up and putting aside with his hand a Fathom and a half of Snout that he might come the closer to the Ear of Rabbi Saadias whispered these words Rabbi I smell a Rat in that word be govern'd we must keep a sharp Eye upon these Fellows for to me they look like famely Pharaos and subtile encroachers Saadias replied Now at length I am convinced they are the very Manna of instruction for they tast as every one would have them The best way is to say little and give them a bait in the Trap as to Republican Mice Christotheus seeing the numbling Dialogue said to Philargiros and Danipe I smoke the Jealousie of the wicked Jews Let every Man of the Monopanti give himself a lick of the Golden Calf and they will all fall upon their Knees They all run upon Snares and Contrivances against one another and Rabbi Saadias to amuse the Monopanti said We look upon you as discoverers of the Land of promise and the true basis of our designs that we may be united in a mischievous body it will be requisite we consult the methods and conclude and sign Articles at our next meeting which we appoint three days hence Pacasmazo covering his Snake Skin with Doves Feathers said The time was sufficient and the resolution discreet but that it was requisite exact secrecy should be observed Then taking out a Book bound in Sheeps skin with the Wooll on which was curiously interwoven and wrought with Gold Thread he gave it to Saadias saying This Jewel we give you as a Pledge He took it and asked Whose works are these Pacasmazo answered The works of our words The Author is Nicolas Matchiavel who composed the thorough Base to our Trebel The Jews attentively looking upon them and particularly observing the binding in Sheeps skin Rabbi Asapha who was Deputy for Oran said This is some of the Wooll the Spaniards tell us in their Proverb which says they that go to fetch it are fleeced before they return Thus they parted both parties contriving to meet again like the Steel and Flint for to batter bruize and beat one another to pieces till they struck fire against all the World for founding the new Sect of Monetism changing the name of Atheists into that of Moneymongers or Monetists The general Assembly of all Nations for redress of grievances The Subjects of Princes Common-wealths Kings and Emperors assembled together at Liege a Neuter Country to consult about their Affairs redress their Grievances vent their Spleen and breath out their thoughts before stifled under the fear of Sovereign Power There were people of all Nations Conditions and Qualities The number was so great it looked more like an Army than an Assembly for which reason they made choice of the open Fields to meet in On the one hand it was surprising to behold the wonderful variety of Garbs and Countenances on the other the Ears were Confounded and Attention it self deceived by the strange diversity of Languages The voices seemed to rend the Air and resounded in the same manner as when in the heat of harvest time the Fields ring with the indefatigable noise of Grashoppers The most piercing cry was that raised by the Women tearing their Throats with Actions altogether distracted All was full of tumultuous Madness and raging Discord The Republicans would be govern'd by Princes and the Subjects of Princes were for erecting themselves into Common-wealths This controversie set a Noble Savoyard and a Commoner of Genoua together by the Eares The Savoyard complained That his Duke was the perpetual motion and consumed his Subjects with continual Wars to hear up his Dominions which are ever ready to sink betwixt France and Spain That his safety consisted in embroiling the two Kings at the Expence of his Subjects to the end that they two being employed against one another neither of them might swallow him since both those Princes alternatively first one and then the other Conquer and Defend him all which the Subjects pay for being never allowed any respite to breath When France attacks Spain supports him and when Spain invades France defends him and whereas neither protects him for his sake but to obstruct the others enlarging his Dominion by that accession and becoming a nearer and more formidable Neighbour the Defence is often as fatal if not more to the Subjects than the Invasion The Duke retains a secret ambition to be thought the Founder of the Liberty of Itatly bearing before him the better to draw to his party the See of Rome The History of Amadee surnamed the Pacifick because some Persons impiously Malicious have suspected he designs to reduce the Pope to his bare stock of Pardons in indulgences The Duke is Disceased of the Distemper of King of Cyprus is perplexed with the remembrance of having been Lord of Geneva and grows sick with the desire of being Supream among the Italian Princes All these motives are spurs to his Ambition which rather stands in need of a Curb and for these Reasons I come to propose that Savoy and

resolved at once in several places to encroach upon the East and West They go to our Fleets for Gold and Silver as our Fleets go for it to the Indies They look upon it as the cheaper and shorter way to take it from those that bring it than from the Earth that produces it The negligence of an Admiral or the favour of a Storm furnish them with Plate at an easier rate than the Mines could do In these Undertakings they have been forwarded fauoured and assisted by all the Princes of Europe who behold the Grandeur of the Spanish Monarchy with envious Eyes Encouraged by these powerful Supports they have established a Trade in India settled Commerce in Japan and still persisting after many Disappointments have at length possest themselves of the best part of Brazil * This was writ before the conclusion of the Peace betwixt Spain and Holland when the Dutch stood possessed of a great part of Brazil and invaded the Portuguese Conquests in India where they have not only the power of Government but the Profit of the Sugar and Tobacco which enriches them and beggars us In this place which is the in-let to the East and West-Indies they reside like Cormorants ready to swallow Ships and whole Fleets alarming Peru and Potosi for that it appears by Geography that they may gradually without wetting their Feet steal to those Mountains if weary of the Sea they should think much to creep along the Coast down to Rio de la Plata and Buenos Ayres and to secure to themselves the Streights of Magellan That World Devouring Assembly sate consulting over a Terrestial Globe and Sea Chart with a pair of Compasses leaping over Climes and Countreys and making choice of Provinces that were none of their own and among them the Pensioner with a Pair of Scissers in his Hand ready to cut out the World according to his fancy In this posture they were when the Hour began and a decrepid Old Fellow snatching the Scissers out of his Hand said Gluttons who are greedy of Provinces always dye for want of Digestion no Surfeit so dangerous as that of Dominion The Romans from a narrow spot of Ground too little to Sow half a Bushel of Corn swallowed up all their Neighbours and extending their Avarice brought the whole World under the Yoke of their first Plough and it being certain that whosoever pours himself out wastes as much as he extends so they no sooner had much to lose but they began to lose much for Ambition gathers more than Force can preserve Whilst they were poor they conquered the rich who making them rich and being left poor took to themselves the Customs inherent to Poverty infesting them with those of Riches and Luxury and by that means destroyed them revenging themselves on them with the very Riches they gave them The Assyrians Greeks and Romans are so many Skeletons to instruct us it is fitter for us to take warning by than to imitate those ruined Monarchies The more we raise our small Weight and the nearer we bring it in the * The Stilyard which weighs great or small things by putting forward or drawing back the weight upon the Beam Roman Ballance of Power to the great Mass we would outweigh the less we shall appear but the more we draw it back the better our small Portion will turn the vast weight that stands against it and if we draw back to the last Notch one Pound of ours will poise a thousand of theirs Traiano Bocalini hinted at this Secret in the Weight of his Politick Touchstone and it is verified in the Monarchy of Spain from which we aim to draw away Weight which added to ours will diminish it by the addition Of Subjects to become a Free State was prodigious to keep our selves so is a Work that requires all our application France and England which assisted us to cut off from Spain that part of its Dominion which was formidable to them will not for the same reason permit us to swell to that greatness they may have cause to fear us The Ax which joins to it self all it cuts off from the Tree will not be esteemed a useful Instrument but rather an Encumbrance They will bear with us as long as they think we stand in need of them but if once they imagine they can have occasion for us they will meditate our Ruine and Destruction He who sees a Beggar on whom he has bestowed Alms grown rich either asks him to refund or lend We can gain nothing but what the Princes who look on will covet for themselves As they despise the Neighbour that is upon the losing so they fear him that is upon the getting hand We by dispersing act for the King of Spain against our selves for should be to divide and weaken us wilfully lose the Countreys we take from him it were in him a Stratagem and no Loss and he will never be so able to take what we have as when he has suffered us to take what he has so far from him and us Brazil rather sucks and unpeoples Holland than strengthens it It is enough for Thieves not to restore what they have stolen without continuing their Thefts for ever which sooner prefers them to the Gallows than to the Throne The Pensioner snatching back the Scizars in a Pet said Tho Rome lost it self yet Venice holds out and was at first but a Town-stealer as we are The Gallows you speak of is oftner the Lot of the Unfortunate than of Robbers and all the World over the great Thief hangs the little one He that Picks a Pocket is ever a Thief he that stole Provinces and Kingdoms was always a King the Right of Monarchs is in the longest Sword It is natural for one to be engendred out of the Corruption of another he that is Corrupted is the Cause of him that is Engendred A Carcass complains not of the Worms that eat it because it breeds them Let every Man look to himself that he does not putrifie otherwise he will be Father to his own Worms All things consume but the small sooner than the greater When it shall come to pass that they fear who pitied us we will pity them we feared which is a good exchange If we can let us be what they are who were what we are All the hints you have given are good let not the Kings of France and England hear of them but do you put us in mind hereafter for that is an Obstacle in the beginning which proves good Advice when well advanced The Duke of Tuscany his Favourite's Advice The Great Duke of Tuscany who by adding five Letters which compose the Word Great to his Title has gained the ill will of all other Princes was private in his Closet with a Servant whom he intrusted with his greatest Secrets They discoursed of the Beauty of his Cities the greatness of his Territories the Trade of Leghorne and the Victories obtained by