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A18844	An epistle or letter of exhortation vvritten in Latyne by Marcus Tullius Cicero, to his brother Quintus the proconsull or deputy of Asia, wherin the office of a magistrate is connyngly and wisely described. Translated into englyshe by G.G. Set furth and authorised according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions; Correspondence. English. Selections	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Gilby, Goddred.; Cicero, Quintus Tullius.	1561 (1561)	STC 5306; ESTC S107979	16,428	48

see that thy dominion and authoritie had ben prolonged to thee whilest y u wast occupyed by some great and dangerous warre my heart woulde quake to consider that the power of Fortune at the same tyme also shoulde be prolonged agaynste vs. But nowe synce y t parte of the common wealth is committed to thy charge in the which Fortune either hath small oir els no parte of rule at all euen that which semeth vnto me wholly to consist in thy vertue moderatiō of minde I thyncke we nede not feare any priuy traynes of enemyes any open war any rebelliō and falling away of our felowes and confederates any lacke of wages or prouision for corne nor finally any sedicion of the army which haue often chaunced to moste wise men that as shypmasters be thei neuer so connyng can not resist the force of y e tempest so they cold not withstand the violence of fortune But to thee is geuen the greatest peace and tranquillitie taht can be so that it is of force inough to ouerwhelme a shypmaister that slepeth but a wakyng gouernour woulde be delited therewith For first the prouince doeth consist of such cōfederates as are of al kind of men most gentle and secōdly of such kind of citezins as either because thei are publicans ar ioined vnto vs by very great frendshyp or els because thei ocupy marchandise are very riche and iudge that by the means of our consulshippe their riches are in safetie But it may be said that euen amongest this kind of men there are greate controuersies many wronges are done and waighty contentious a rise As though I shoulde thinke that thou haddest nothing to do Yes I know that there is greate matters to do and suche as neede greate aduisement But remember that I do attribute som thing more in this busies to aduisemēt then to fortune for what bysynes shal it be to bridle them which are vnder thy gouernaunce if thou cābridle thy selfe But let that be a greate hard matter vnto others as it is very hard yet to thee both it hath bene allwaies very easye yea in dede oght to haue bene so seing y t thy nature is such as seme y t it wold haue ben moderat w tout learning but now suche learning is ioined with the good nature as were able to bring into order and beautify the worst dispositiō that euer man had Thou truely thy self shalt withstand the greedy desire of mony of pleasure and of all other things as in dede thou dost then shalt thou haue any greate to feare lest thou be not able to represse a wicked marchant or a couetous publicane As for the Grecians when they sethee so they wil haue the in such admiration as they are wonte to haue som noble man mencioned in their chronicles or els thy wil thinke that thou so diuine a man art come downe from heauen into the prouince Whyche thynges I wryte not as thoughe I exhorted thee to doe them but that thou shoulde reioise that thou doest and hast doone them allready For it is an honorable thynge to haue hadde greate power in Asia for the space of thre yeares and so to haue behaued thy self that no olde monument no painted table no precious vessell no riche apparell no notable bondman no beautie of any person and finally no bargē of mony of which thīgs there is greate store in thys prouince could euer bring thee from the pathe of exacte integritie and continence And surely what can be more notable or more to be desyred then that thys vertue thys temperaunce and moderation of mind shuld not be hid in the dark but be set forth in the broad lyght of Asia nad in the eies of a moste noble prouince and in the eares of al people nations in so much as they are not made affraide by they iourneys they men art not burdened with charges nor troubled with receiuing thee but rather where so euer thou comest there is incomparable ioye bothe publikly and priuatly for so much as y e citie wher thou entrest dothe seme to haue receiued a defender and not a tyrant the house were thou lodgest a gest and not a robber But as for these motters vse it self hath taught that it is not in ough that thou thy selfe shoulde haue these vertues but that thou ought to loke about diligently y t in y e preseruation of this prouince not onely thou but also all the ministers of thy dominion shulde be haue them selues after the same sort both towards our fellowes citizens and also to all the cōmon welth Howbeit thou hast such embasadours as will haue regard of their own worship of whom Tubero is the chiefe both in honour dignitie age who I think chifely because he wryteth an history maye chuse many men out of hys owne chronicles which bothe he will and also may follow But halenius is our owne bothe in heart and good will and also in following our kind of lif And what nede I speake of Gratidius Whom I know of a suerty so to care for his owne estimacion that for the brotherly loue towards vs he careth also for ours Thou haste also a questor which was not chosen by thine owne iudgement but such a one as was giuen by lot Whō it behoueth both of his owne accord to be moderate also to obey to thy wyll and commaundement Of whome yf paraduenture any were some what couetous thou shuld beare so long wyth hym vntill he of his owne head did violat those lawes to the whych he is bounde not permitting y t he shuld abuse to lucre and gayn y t power which thou haddest committed to him for honour for surely it pleaseth me not chiefly seing that the maners of this time are so muche declined vnto so great lightnes ambition that thou shouldest searche out all filthines and examin euery one to the vttermost but to commit so muche to euery one of them as he may be trusted wythal And amongst those whom the commonwelth it self hath appointed to be as fellowes and helpers with thee thou shalt be aboue thē only in those poīts which I haue heretofore prescribed As for thē whom thou hast wyth thee either of thy householde or of the necessary messengers whom men vse to call as it wer of the pretors band both the deds and also the words of these men must be performed by vs. But thou haste those men with thee whome thou shalt haue occasion to loue doyng wel or els yf they haue not respecte to thy honour thou maist easely correct Of whome because thou wast vnexpart it semed that thy good nature might easely haue bene deceiued for the better a man is the lesse he suspecteth another to be euil But now this third yere hath as much integritie as the two former yes by experience is made more ware and diligent Let thyne eares be suche as may be taught

AN Epistle or letter of EXHORTATION VVRITten in Latyne by Marcus Tullius Cicero to his brother Quintus the Proconsull or Deputy of Asia wherin the office of a Magistrate is connyngly and wisely described Translated into englyshe by G. G. ¶ Set furth and authorised according to the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions PRYNTED AT LONDON BY Rouland Hall dwelling in Golding lane at the sygne of the three arrowes 1561. GODDRED GYLBY TO THE READER WHERE AS MEN are now a days here in England glutted as it wer with gods worde therfore almost ready to vomit vp again y e which thei haue receyued lothing y e sermōs despising the preachers some turning to curious arts som cōtemning al artes sciences som Epicures som Atheistes few or none do standforth as fathers to vs yonglings to byd vs folow their fotesteppes in vertues and godlines We the youth of this realme are drawen into diuers and sundrye doubtfull wayes aud wandering bypathes and many of vs by pouerty and other calamities are oppressed at our first breathing either know not which way to directe our studies or els want helpe to go forwarde and are cut of in the fyrste herbe accordyng to the Prouerbe This is one thyng also that greueth vs we see them that are wise and learned altogether contemned and despised and thei often times are compelled to go and seke to the riche and noble mens houses but the riche wyl not come to their houses nor greatly delyte in their companies And thogh thys be some cause that Aristippus answered to Dionisius why the learned doe haunte the houses of the rich and the wise many times go seke to the wealthy and not they to the contrary for that the wise doe knowe what the riche do want and the welthy worldlings can not se their want as he saith Yet in these our tymes we maye find other matters that cōpelleth thē to seke to such as be in power autoritie For iniquitie doth abounde in these latter dayes and the pore ar oppressed by the mighty And as I doe here mine elders talke The lawes are good to right the wronges but lawyars do not their duties Iustice is good but the Iustyces care not for poore mens causes Officers are enowe and wel prouided for in all places but these officers vnderstand not their office and duty or yf they do vnderstand it they will not do it which is the worste of all when thei do it not thei may not be told of it especially by a man that is learned in gods worde For what cā he skyl of ciuil offices say these politike officers Thus is the rule of all equitie openly contemned Therefore not seyng wherevnto in this my youth I could direct my studies yet neither wheri I cold be better occupied both for mine own learning and for the instructiō of such politike men as wil vochsafe to read heathen writters though they regard not the scriptures I haue trāslated as I could into our natiue language the notable epistle of that famous wise and politike man M. Tullius Cicero vnto his brother Quintus wherein iustice and the right vse of an office is so wel and politikely described that the politike heades may learne therby to put good things in practise nede nether to be ashamed of the authour who was a man of singuler wisedom great experience nor of the matter which is an instruction of the Magistrate meete for all ages yf God grant me any abilitie to expresse it Take these first fruits of mine infācie in good part so you shal encourage me to farther trauails My father cōmādeth me to folow labour and to suffer others to seke for honours Fare you wel in the Lorde At London the vii of Iuly the yere of our Lord. 1561. The exhortacion OF MARCVS TVLLIVS Cicero vnto hys brother Quintus ALTHOVGH I DID not dout but that both many messengers and also fame it self should by her swyftnes preuente my letters and that thou shuldest sooner here tell of others that the thyrde yere was added to our desier to thy labour yet I thought it necessary that I shuld also send thee a message of this trauayle For as for the former letters not in one but in many when as now other men had despered of y t matter yet I did put thee in hope that y u should shortly depart not onely that I myghte comforte thee as longe as it myght be with a pleasant opinion and persuasion but also because I did not mistrust but that the matter might be brought to passe for so muche as bothe I my self and also the pretors were so earnest in the cause But now because it is so come to passe that neyther the Pretors wyth theyr riches nor we wyth our diligence can doe any good it is a very hard matter not to be grieued therewith but yet it is not meete that our courage whych is exercised in doing and suffering great things shoulde be broken or cast downe with sorrowe And because men oght to be most sorowful for those thynges which are come by theyr own faut ther is good cause why it shuld more grieue me then the for it came to passe by my faute otherwise then y u thoght both whē thou tokest thy iourney and afterwarde where by letters thou diddest go about y t a succsessor shoulde not be deteined to thee the firste yere The which matter whiles I loke to y e sauegard of our cōfederates whiles I resist y t impudency of certen merchāts whiles I desire y t our glory shuld be augmēted by thy vertue I wrought nothing wisely specially seing y e I haue committed this faute that the second yeare shuld also brīg y e third Tyhe which thing because I confesse it to haue ben my faut it belongeth to thy wisdom humanitie to prouide to bring to passe that this which was vnwisely done of me shuld by thy diligēce be corrected Now if thou do rase vp thy selfe more earnestli and diligētly of all sides to get a good name so that y u do not now striue w e others but w e thi self and if thou do stirre vp thy whole mind care thought desire of glorye which ouercometh all thīgs sureli this one yere whiche is added to thy trauell shall bothe brīg vs y e ioy of many yeres also make our posterity glorious wher fore first I desire this of the y t y u be not dyscoraged nor discomforted and that thou suffer not thy selfe to be ouer whelmed w t ouer great businesse as it were wyth a floode but contrariwise that thou rayse vp thy selfe and resiste it and also that thou wyllyngly set thy shulders agaynst the weyght of thine affayres For thou doest not rule that parte of the common wealth wherein fortune hath muche power but y t part whych may be gouerned chiefelye by reason and diligence And yf I dyd