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A04136	A perfite looking glasse for all estates most excellently and eloquently set forth by the famous and learned oratour Isocrates, as contained in three orations of morall instructions, written by the authour himselfe at the first in the Greeke tongue, of late yeeres translated into Lataine by that learned clearke Hieronimus Wolfius. And nowe Englished to the behalfe of the reader, with sundrie examples and pithy sentences both of princes and philosophers gathered and collected out of diuers writers, coted in the margent approbating the authors intent, no lesse delectable then profitable.; To Demonicus. English	Isocrates.; Isocrates. To Nicocles. English. aut; Isocrates. Nicocles. English. aut	1580 (1580)	STC 14275; ESTC S107436	124,103	118

small somme towardes her dowrie in that he vnderstoode her as before be trothed to an other wherevpon being afterwarde asked why he did not take her because said he I am an Emperour to whome it belongeth to surpasse his people in the integritie of life Antigonus the third as soone as he had beheld a certaine Virgine in the Temple of Diana at Ephesus and did feele himselfe moued with the delight of her bewtie he presently departed the Citie least he should haue bike compelled to haue committed a thing so vnlaw full A Harlot saith Diogines is a cuppe of sweete wine mixed with deadlye poison whose tast though it be sweete and pleasaunt yet in the ende it bringeth destruction A straunger demaunded of one Gerada a man of Sparta what punishment adulterers had in his Countrey seeing Licurgus had made no law for the same no sayde Gerada it needed not for there is no adulterer in Sparta neyther is it possible that there should be any among them that doe so greatly detest excesse wealth sumptuous fare laciuious wantonnesse and fond foolishe pride and in steede of them are content to liue modestly and soberly yeelding dutifull obedience to their Magistrates and obeying the lawes not for feare but for the zeale they haue to vertue herselfe The counsayle of Aristotle was that we should beholde pleasure as she went away and not as she did come towardes vs for though she looke vppon vs with a smyling and pleasaunt countenaunce yet hath she alwayes hanging at her backe care sorrowe and lamentable repentaunce Alexander did not onely shew himselfe a continent and chast liuer but also reproued the same very seuerely in others as appeared in the sharpe rebuke he gaue vnto Cassander for kissing of Pitho being but the Concubine of Euius When as a yong man had said vnto Monedemas that he thought it a great happinesse if a man might obtaine all that he desyred nay saide the Philosopher it were more happier if we could not attaine any of those thinges which are vnhonest and vndecent to be desyred or sought for Hauing spoken of the Continency which ought to be in men I cannot let passe those worthy dames with infinite others whose faithfulnesse and integritie of life hath bene most rare or at least in these dayes is a thing moste straunge Zenobia Queene of Palmerie neuer desyred the company of her husbande but onely for procreation sake Sophronia a Lady of Rome when as she should be compelled to bethe Emperours Decius Concubine killed her selfe with her husbandes sworde rather then so to be defyled and to the shame of those which being neuer so olde hauing once bene maried are so fleshly bent that they are neuer well till they be maried againe The worthye Lady Rodogune the Daughter of King Darius shall not be omitted who killed her Nurse because she went about to perswade her to marry again yea though she were yong and bewtifull Iugurtha being the Bastard of Manastabalus killed the sonnes of Mitipsa his vncle and Atreus and Thiestes the sonnes of Pelops borne of Hippodamia murthered their brother Chrisippus borne by Danayida because he was his fathers darling such is the force of Ambition that manye haue neither spared father mother brother nor sister to obtain the sole principallity and giuen as they shall see their Princes to be affectioned and bent also it becommeth kinges and gouernours as farre to excell and to surpasse their subiectes in good liuing as they doe exceede them in honour and renowne and truely there is nothing more vnseeming then to constraine others to liue soberly and honestlye and yet they themselues to haue no care howe fondly and licentiously they spend their time Moreouer I see that it is as an vsuall thing vnto most men to be able to brydle and to restraine their foolish desires and fond imaginations when soeuer they are moued with any perturbation or motion of minde in any other thing but those raging fittes and burning flames of fleshly desire neither the strongest nor wisest haue euer byn able as yet to exstinguishe or quench if so be that they were once fastened and kindled within them ye though they suffered them to take neuer so little holde wherefore I desired yea haue laboured and that with great care not onely to excell the basest and meanest in those trifles so easily to bee done of euery one but also to shewe my selfe a Conquerer and victorer euen in that wherein the greatest and renownedst Peeres of the world haue both fainted and failed And nowe to giue my iudgement of those men which marrying and vowing themselues to an honest and ioyfull societie of life at length forgetting all their former promises and abiding by nothing care not howe or in what sort they offend those chaste matrons with whom they are coupled so that their beastly appetite may bee satisfied when as they them selues can not abide to be contraried or displeased not in the least thing truely I must of necessitie sharpely reprooue their folly as mē most lewdly bent supposing also those men as worthie of rebuke which faithfully obseruing and fulfilling their promises in all other couenauntes contractes according to equitie and iustice are yet found so dissolute as carelessely to breake and violate the vowes which they haue made to their wyues the which truely in my opinion ought aboue all other thinges firmely and strictly to haue byn obserued in that they are worthier and of greater importaunce then all other promises are whatsoeuer they bee but if the ende hereof were thorowly considered if they would call to minde the great and sundrie discommodities which they procure to themselues the wonderfull dissention and discorde which they breede and cause within their owne pallaces the horrible feares and continuall daungers they wilfully bring themselues into then would they soone be reuoked and reduced from this their errour and it is the duetie of a Prince to bee a procurer of vnitie and peace not onely in his townes and Cities but also and that especially to see loue and amitie fostered within his owne Courtes and within the gates where he himself remaineth for these are the originals and groundes both of Temperancie and iustice whiche can not be maintained where ryotous liuers and amorous wantons doe inhabite but to returne to my selfe and to vse a fewe wordes as touching the issue of my bodie as concerning my children which the Celestiall gods haue lent me and whom I hope I shall leaue behinde mee to the better preseruation of your Citie and to the greater comforte of you all I let you to vnderstande that I haue not herein followed the licentious order of other Princes whose vse hath byn to haue some by meane and base women others by noble and renowned Ladies some also as bastardes others as true and lawfully begotten of their owne bodyes through which their euill behauiour great discentions ciuill broyles and bloudie warres haue happened amongest their subiectes after their deathes

where as diuers and sundry examples might be alleaged Antistenes for confirmation of that which hath bene spoken The best instruction that the Father canne giue vnto the sonne is the well ordring of his owne lyfe for the childe thinketh it as lawfull for him to doe that which hee shall know his Father to haue done before him leauing them all as not necessarye in a matter so plaine I will onely referre thee to the consideration of that moste perfite course which thy owne father here liuing obserued which will bee both a notable and a sufficient proofe in my behalfe as touching this thing This my deare friende Hipponicus thy Father in such sort ordered and framed his life that he neuer semed in any respect either a contemner of vertue or louer of slouthfulnesse but continually applying his body to trauaile and paine lodged in his brest a most willing and ready minde alway prest to vndertake any kinde of daunger for the profiting of his countrey or furtheraunce of his friendes in nothing more waying or esteeming this worldly mucke then that it might serue for his necessary vses (6) We must liue to day as if we shoulde dy to morow hauing continually such care ouer his Family as though he shoulde haue liued euer and yet so vsing eche thing as if he should die to morrow only content with his owne and not delighting in offering iniury to any or being as one greedilye coueting that which was an others Neyther did he leade this kind of life after a base and obscure order but it was done with great honour and that with the praise and commendations of all men (7) Tully affyrmeth true friendship to surpasse Consanguinitye in that a man may bee a kinsman 〈◊〉 not a friend for he was a man both bountifull liberall to all his well willers more esteeming a faithfull friend then a flattering kinsman adiudging that the confirmation and ground of true friendship did rather consist in the disposition of nature then in ought law ordayned and constituted by mans reason and that the lykelihoode and agreeablenesse of condicions were of more force therein then any bond of consanguinity or kinred (8) The grounde of true friendeship is good will born for vertues sake and not for hope of gain or in respecte of our owne necessity Tully alleaging also good will as the principall cause thereof and not the respect of necessitye or the hope of gaine Truely time would fayle me if I should perticulerly prosecute the rest of his worthinesse wherefore leauing this to a fitter place I haue here breefelye showne vnto thee a superficiall protracture of thy Fathers singuler disposition and nature the which it becommeth thee to haue alwayes before thy eyes as the marke whereby thou maist be directed accounting his Godly conuersation as a Law making continuall wondering at his vertues and indeuouring as much as in thee lieth to counteruaile the same We oughte studiously to labour to counteruayle the worthinesse of our auncestours 9 For whereas the Painter through Art learned by dayly practise obtayneth that skill most liuely to shadow and deliniate the perfectst shape of the bewtifulst creature with what infamie then are those children to be noted with which hauing nature her selfe as a special furtherer of the same and so louing a scholemayster euen their owne Fathers refuse to adde that little laboure and care to frame themselues to followe their steppes liuely to present the worthinesse of theire vertues as children being worthy of such parents (1) Note the great negligence and folly of youth But such is the folly of our time that wee doe not onely leaue this vndone but also worke rather the contrary euery day through our lewde doinges and licensious liuing (2) This was the destructi of Commodus as also Alexander the great through flattering of such forgetting himself was sone brought to his end stayning and infaming the honour gotten by our Auncestoures searing our selues with the hote yron of perpetuall ignomie to the great discreadite and shame of all our kindered giuing rather credite to the flattering tales of Sicophants and Ruffins then to the sage and graue aduise of our owne naturall parentes in so much that if wee applye our shapes with theirs wee shall finde so monsterous and so straunge a proportion with such great difference that we may rightlyer be accounted Bastardes then the legitimate sonnes of anye such men (3) Isocrates hauing vsed these former wordes as the preface or introduction vnto the matter which he were about now commeth vnto that which at the first hee had purposed Now therefore to the eschewing of al these euils and to show thy selfe as worthy of such a Father perswade thy selfe that it is as needefull for thee to bee as well furnished and to haue as great a care in the vndertaking of this enterprise as hath the worthiest champion when he entereth the Liste against all his aduersaries And seing it were verye harde that any one should go about a thing so waighty except he were before hand well and thorowly instructed with diuers and sondrye good preceptes appertaining therevnto I will therefore breefely indeuour to describe vnto thee how thou shalte best proceede herein both to the obtaining of vertue as also to the winning of eternall praise and honour to thee and to thy postery for euer (4) The bodye saith Cicero waxeth weary through continual labour and trauayle but the mind the more it is occupied the fresher and ●●di●t it is For as the body by daylye and continuall excercises is hardned to the abyding and sustayning of any kinde of labour and trauaile so surely is the minde of man to be practised and induced by good and godly Discipline that thereby it may be made willing apt to be obedient to the rule of reason immitating the good and auoyding the euill First therefore aboue all thinges remember duly and reuerently worship and honour the (5) Honour God aboue all thinges Gods immortall not only in offering vp sacrifices vnto them for their vnspeakeable benefites dayly bestowed vpon thee but also in the obseruing and fulfilling of all such vowes iustlye and truely which at any time thou shalte protest and sweare to fulfill (6) Thy duty towards god is to loue and to worship him and to offer vp the sacrifise of thankesgiuing for his benefits receaued thy duty toward man is iustly and truely to perfourme thy promise both wordes and deedes agreeing in one for the former whiche are thy Sacrifices and thankesgiuings shall cause them the more aboundauntly to increase thy wealth and to further thy intents The other I meane the obseruation of thy promises will be a manifest proofe vnto all men of thy integritye of life and honest conuersation (7) Pericles that worthy Athenian would neuer vse any spech vnto the people or consult of anye thing appertayning to the commoditie of his countrey before he

was their honour not his except he did show himselfe to inherite the same by equallitie of vertue rather then by Testament Phillip of Madon vnderstanding that his sonne Alexander seemed to be greued in that his father had so many sonnes by diuers women doubting to whome the kingdome should be giuen said vnto him seing thou hast so many copartners which may by right of birth chalenge my seat as well as thy selfe indeuor therfore that by excelling them thou maist by thy own worthinesse rather deserue the same then to haue it come vnto thee by inheritaunce When as there were certaine that went about to perswade Friderticus the Emperour of Rome that he should priuily cause to be murthered Ladislaus the king of Hungari and Bohemia remaining then a childe in his custodie signifiing the great wealth and kingdome whiche might be gained by his death the Emperours aunswere was I perceiue that you had rather haue me rich then iust but know ye that I esteeme iustice and an honest fame more then I doe the great wealth or largest kingdome Theodorus the yonger being asked why he did not put to death those whiche had iniured him nay said he I had rather if I could make them aliue which are dead alreadie signifiing that it became a Prince rather to forgiue then to reuenge as did Agesilaus who preferred to honour and in all causes most earnestly defended and maintained his aduersaries making them his friendes through his iust dealings rather then by crueltie to seeke to be reuenged Epaminundas being greatlye iniured by his citizens would neuer reuenge any one thing for said he it is a great offence to beare anger towards ones Countrey for where enuy is there Iustice sleepeth Agasicles being asked how one might rule his people in moste safetye aunswered if thou vse them as a Father doth his Children geuing them cause for thy vertues to reuerence thee rather then to feare thee for thy crueltye I had rather sayd Antonius Pius to saue a Citizen then to kill a thousand enimies signifiing that quietnesse is to bee preferred before the greatest commodity to be gotten by warre Probus the Emperour did so painefully labour to conclude peace with all Princes that he doubted not to say I hope ere it be long we shall accounte Souldyers as men not necessary O happy world if Christen Princes would so agree among themselues that in respect of their owne causes they could say the same and so adioyne themselues with one consent against that deadly enemy of the church of christ the Turke and his adherentes Agesilaus being asked which of these two Vertues Iustice or Fortitude were worthiest answered that Fortitude was nothing auaileable except iustice were adioyned thou shalt sooner finde them taunting and reuiling one another then friendly agereing to laye their heades together for the welfare of their people but the Princely Monarchies without respecte of time hauing no lette nor staye to the contrarie are busyed both day and night omitting no occasion giuen vnto them but speedily dispatching eche thing in due season Furthermore those yeerely gouernours enuying the prosperous successe of their fellowes being either companions with them in their office or else as hauing been their predicessors in the same charge before will doe their indeuours as much as they may to cause them to bee seduced by others whereby they may bee founde faultie in their dealings to the intent that they themselues might gaine the more credite and commendations for that which they shall doe whereas they which enioy this principalitie for terme of their liues without checke or controll haue alwayes one desire one heart one and the selfe same good will vnto their subiectes at all times and in all causes accounting the whole Common weale as their owne inheritance ordering the same with no lesse care then they would doe their owne housholde or familie seeking also for the better directing therefore to adioyne vnto them the wisest and learnedst among their people alwayes carefully choosing and electing them to be as executours of their will and commaundementes whom they shall finde most meetest and skilfullest in such thinges as are at any time to be vndertaken And as kinges and Princes most esteeme and regard those whom they knowe and vnderstand to be valiaunt and mighty men at armes able to defend their Realmes in al daungers and troubles So the other supposing the charge which they haue in hande as appertaining vnto them but for a time make most accoūt and place about them as their chiefest counsellers them whom they knowe to bee the wisest and subtlest Marchantes being able as occasion serueth either to flatter or to deale roughly and stoutly with their people ruling then best when they make most for their aduauntage Finally this studious indeuour and fatherly affection of him to whom alone belongeth the soueraintie doth not onely appeare in the well gouerning of his domesticall common affaires in time of peace but also in ech thing which shall be requisite and necessarie in time of warres behauing himselfe in all causes more circumspect and carefull then those yearelinges either haue done or can doe Whether it be as touching the knowledge of the placing of the battell the guiding and leading forth of one armie the incouraging and imbolding of his souldiers or else as appertaining to the politike directing and conducting of his men whether it be openly into the fielde or priuily to woorke his enimies ouerthrowe not sparing to prouoke the slouthfull to make others the readier and forwarder through his liberalitie and bountifulnesse vsed towardes them as also winning the good will of all men in shewing himself a companion in their labours a copartner in their aduentures a King and Captaine and yet in courtesie and lowlinesse a familiar friend and fellowe neither is this so easily to be prooued by wordes as it is confirmed and manifested by the proofes and testimonies of sundry Common weales for as we all knowe the Persian estate hath growne vnto this mightinesse and hugenesse which it now possesseth not by the helpe and counsell of a rude multitude or by those yeerely Magistrates but onely by the vigilent care and diligent indeuours of their Kinges and Princes In like sort also haue wee seen the wealth power of Dionisius the tyraunt to haue byn increased who by his painefull labour and trauell saued his countrey from spoyle making Sicilia whom at his comming he founde besieged and in thraldome the famous and renowned Citie of all Greece The Carthagians and Lacedemonians whose gouernments are accounted amongst all the Gretians as the singulerst the perfectest though they were ruled at home in time of peace by the authoritie of diuers yet in warre they alwayes obeyed the rule and commaundement of one man alone I could also shew you that the Athenians who most of all detested this Monarchall authoritie when they sent diuers Emperours into the fieldes they had continually the worst but when they constituted