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A41737	The heroe of Lorenzo, or, The way to eminencie and perfection a piece of serious Spanish wit / originally in that language written ; and in English by Sir John Skeffington, Kt. and Barronet.; Héroe. English	Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.; Massereene, John Skeffington, Viscount, d. 1695.; Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683.	1652 (1652)	Wing G1471; ESTC R6925	27,935	166

behind it and goes as far before bravery and although all Entregent presuppose freedome yet it add's to perfection If actions have any thing of splendor the obligation is to Entregent for that sets them to the light Without this the best execution is dead and the greatest perfection unpleasing Neither yet retains it somuch of the nature of accident that sometimes it stands not for the principall It serves not only for ornament but for a prop to the most important affaires Wherefore if it be the soul of beauty It is the spirit of prudence If it be the breath of gentilesse it is the life of valor The Entregent gives asmuch Lustre to a Commander in war as his courage and in the person of a King it parallells prudence The freedome of Entregent is of no lesse use in the day of a battell than dextrousness and valor It makes a generall first master of himself and then of all that are under him The brave assurance of that Conqueror of kings that contender in honor with Alcides Don Fernando d'Avalos is never enough magnified let same resound his prayses upon the Theater of Pavy The Entregent discovers animosity asmuch in him that sits on horsback as in him that fits under a cloth of state It add's acuteness to pleading and graces the Orator in his chair Most Heroicall was the disengagement of that French Theseus Henry the fourth who by the golden threed of his Entregent found a way to free himself out of that intricate labyrinth The Entregent hath no lesse influence upon the politick And therefore upon the credit of that spirituall Monark of the world I come to ask this question Whether there be not another world to govern EXCELLENCIE XIV Del natural imperio THis primacy is interested in another quality so subtile and separate from Common apprehensions that it were in some hazard to be flung up for a transcendent if curiosity had not cautioned for it Wee see a certain in-born and naturall souveraignty in some men which seems to spakle in them and upon others by a secret influence a power of domination which wins it self an obedience without help of exterior precepts or any art of persuasion Caesar being taken prisoner at sea by certain pyrates that were Ilanders presently became the master of them He being conquerd commanded and they Conquerors obey'd By ceremonie he was a Captive and in reality of soveraigntie became their Lord One man like him does more execution with one stern look than others with all their industrie Their reasons have an occult vigor which prevailes more by sympathie than by any thing that 's visible The proudest mind submits to their domination without knowing why or how and the freest judgement renders it self without constraint Such persons among men have as great an advantage as Lyons among creatures because they have a share in the princiapll quality which is domination All creatures acknowledge the Lyon by instinct of nature and doe him homage by way of prevention before they have examined his valour So to those Heroes other men give them respect by way of advance without staying to take an inventory of their habilities This is an Excellency deserving a Crown and being match'd with a great understanding and height of courage it can be said to want nothing why it should not form a Primum Mobile in politicks This soveraign quality was in the person of Don Hernand Alvarez Duke d'Alva as in a throne A lord more by privileges of nature than of curtesie He was great born to be greater for in his ordinary discourse He knew not how to disguise a naturall imperiousness It holds great difference from a measur'd and borrow'd gravity from an affected tone of voyce which is a very fift essence of odiousness and though being naturall it might be born with yet it comes very neer to tedious importunity The distruct which it hath of it self rayses contradictions upon every design And if once it come but to lose confidence it falls off to be the skorn of the world It was th' advise of the great Cato and suitable to his severity that a man should not only respect but be in fear of himself He that loses himself to himself His fear gives licence to others and by his own permission he makes himself to be easily abused EXCELLENCIE XV De la sympathia sublime IT is a perfection in one Heros to hold sympaphye with another If a plant sympathize with the sun it grows among others to a Giantlik● height and the flower of it is the Crown of the garden Sympathie is one of those prodigious things which nature hath seald up but th' effects of it are matter of astonishment and subject of admiration It consists in a parentage and kinred of hearts as all Antipathy is in a divorce of wills Some give it the originall from a correspondence of tempers others from a supernall alliance in the stars The first aspires as high as doing of miracles the other produces monstruosities They are but the wonders of sympathie those which common ignorance calls charms and vulgar spirits will have them to be enchantments The most accomplisht perfection suffers scorn from antipathie and the most deformed fowlnes is thought a perfection with sympathie Even betwixt father and son it pretends a jurisdiction and exeqcutes every day something of power trampling upon laws and defeating the privileges of nature and policy The antipathy of a father takes away a kingdome and a sympathie gives one There is nothing which the merits of a sympathie cannot obtain it perswads without eloquence it compasses whatsoever it desires by presenting the symptomes of naturall Harmony An eminent sympathie is the Character it is the starr that inclines to Heroicity although some be of the nature of adamant that maintains antipathy with the diamant and holds sympathie with Iron It is a monstruosity in nature to be in love with dross and to hate things of splendor Lewis the 11th was a Monster among kings He had an antipathie to greatnesse more by nature than art He was so wedded to his own principles that he lost himself in the dreggs of the Category of Policie Active sympathy if it have any thing of sublimity raises the subject but the passive more if it be Heroicall It is more precious than the great stone in the ring of Giges and in power it is stronger than the chains of the Thebane It is easy to have an inclination in observance of great men but it is not so easy to be like them in a Correlation The Heart sighes and speakes alowd many times when it is not answered with an Eccho of correspondency In the School of Love this is the A. B. C. where the first lesson is of sympathy let it then be a dexterity of discretion to know and comprehend perfectly the passive sympathie make use of this naturall Charm and let Art supply the defects of Nature it is an

prodigall of her favours for the most par● shee intends no long continuance Felicity that 's grown old drawes near an end and extreme ill forttune is not far from a reverse The Moor Abul brother and Heir to the King of Granada and taken pri●oner in Salobrenia to ●eguile his miserie us'd sometime to play at Checks a true represen●ation of the game of for●une He was no sooner set down but in comes a Cor 〈…〉 yet to tell him he must prepare himself to die In 〈…〉 xorable death comes alwayes post The Moor de 〈…〉 ir'd him for a respite of 2 houres The Commissary ●hought it too long but yet granted him leave to play but his game He plaid and won both his life and the kingdome for before the game was ended another Post arriv'd with news of the Kings death whereby the Citty of Granada presēted him with their crow● There have been as many that have risen fro● the scaffold to the Crown as have descended fro● the Crown to the scaffo 〈…〉 the good morsells of fo●tune had never so good relish as when they w 〈…〉 season'd with an Agr 〈…〉 dulce of danger Fortune is not unli 〈…〉 pyrates that wait for ve●sels at sea till they 〈◊〉 fraught The counte 〈…〉 plot must be to anticipa 〈…〉 and take some port be times EXCELLENCIE XII Gracia de les gentes The love of the people IT is but a small conquest to gain the ūderstanding if the will be not won and t is a great matter to make a joint conquest of admiration with affection Many maintain their credits by plausible actions but they get not benevolence He must be born under a favorable constellation that obtains so universal a grace but the best part proceeds from our own diligence Others hold a contrary discourse when applause doe's not correspond to an equality of merits That which in one mans nature drawes affection like the adamant another hath it by a conspiracie or secretnes of practice I shall alwayes yeeld the superiority to that facultie that 's artificiall An Eminencie of perfections serves not to get the peoples affection although it be enough Affections are easily gotten where the understanding is suborned because affection follows good opinion The Duke of Guise that was as famous in misfortune as he was rich in the endowments of nature did very happily practise the way of gaining common favour He grew in greatnes by the favour of one King and grew greater by the emulation of an other I mean the third of the French Henries A name fatall to Princes in every Monarchy For in so great a subject the name deciphers Oracles The King one day askt some Lords that were about him what it was that Guise did to make himself so powerfull to bewitch the people An ingenuous Courtier and the chief of those that were present answered him Sir by dealing curtesies with both hands Those whom the influences of his curtesies reach not in a direct line they have it by reflexion and where his power extends not into action there he charms with good words If they invite him to a wedding he fails not to be there If to be a godfather he never refuses If to an enterrment he honors it with his presence He is Human courteous liberall endears all the world to him and speaks il of none In conclusion He is the king in their affections as your Majestie is in effect A happy grace if it had been in relation to his Prince and without which it was of no essence whatsoever the opinion of Bajazet were yet wee find that applause given to the minister cannot but enjealouse the Soveraign And to say truth the Grace of God and of the king and of the people are 3 graces of more beauty than those other 3 that were feigned by antiquity They hold hand in hand and are so streightly enterlaced that if any of them fayl let it be able to shew a good cause The most powerfull Charm to make ones self beloved is to love the vulgar are as violently carried away in their affections as they are furious in their persecutions The first thing that gets their love after a good opinion is curtesie and generousnes by means whereof th' Emperor Titus was called the delight of mankind The favorable word of a superior is as good as an obliging action from an equal and a curtesie from a Prince exceeds a rich present from the hands of a Citizen By forgeting Majestie but a while the Magnanimous Don Annoso lighting from his horse to relieve a country fellow that was in some danger conquer'd the fortified walls of Ga 〈…〉 which the battry of his Guns could not have done in many dayes He made his first entry at their hearts and presently after entred in triumph into their citty Some over-curious Criticks could find nothing so eminent among the merits of the great Captain that Giant of Heroes as the love of the people And I am of the same opinion that in a pluraliof perfections where each deserves a plausible renown this was the happiest There is also the favour of Historians to be had in ambition as much as Immortality because their pennes are the wings of renown They set not out so much the favours of Nature as of the Soul That Phaenix Corvino the glory of Hungarie was us'd to say and practise it much better That the greatness of an Heroe consisted in two things by inuring his hand to Glorious Actions and to the Pen because Characters of Gold bind up Eternity EXCELLENCIE XIII Del Despeio We have no word to express Despeio the French call it Entregent the Chapter gives a definition and I must use the word Entregent THE Entregent is the Soul of every rare quality the life of all perfection the vigour of action the grace of words the charm of well-born spirits sweetly flattering the understanding and sets all expression upon the tenter hooks It is an enhaunsment of excellency It is the beauty of formality Other parts adorn nature but this improves those ador●ing parts insomuch as it is the perfection of perfection by a transcendent beauty and by an universal grace It consists in a certain ayriness in an unspeakable cheerfulness aswell in words as actions and passes even into discourse It receivs the best advantage from nature although it borrow something from observation It was never subject to directions nor to the precept of a superior although it were alwayes govern'd by art when it steales away the fancy 't is call'd an allurement when 't is not easily discern'd 't is call'd an ayriness If it be put on by courage 't is animosity If out of galantry or Gentiless 't is a sweetness of carriage If it be done with facility 't is addresse All these names have been given it out of a desire and difficultie of expressing it They do it wrong that confound it with facility for it leaves that far