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A44367	Centuria epistolarum Anglo-Latinarum ex tritissimis classicis authoribus, viz. Cicerone, Plinio & Textore, selectarum : quibus imitandis ludi-discipuli stylum epistolis familiarem facilius assequantur / a Carolo Hoolo ... = A century of epistles, English and Latine : selected out of the most used school-authors, viz. Tullie, Plinie and Textor ... / by Charles Hool ...	Hoole, Charles, 1610-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing H2667; ESTC R4403	78,362	141

it were the first copie 16. And therefore in every good oration we find a thousand extemporary flourishes in these too which we know were onely set forth as in that against Verres an Artificer Whom You do well to put me in mind They said it was Polycletus 17. It followeth then that that pleading is the most absolute which doth most resemble an Oration if so be it gain a convenient and due time which if it be denyed it is no fault of the Oration but the greatest of the judge 18. Those Laws make for my opinion which allow the longest times and do not perswade them that plead to brevity but to copiousness that is diligence which briefness cannot shew but in very narrow causes 19. I will add what use which is an excellent master hath taught me I have often pleaded I have often been a judge I have often sate in counsell one thing moves one man one another and for the most part small matters draw on the greatest mens judgments are various their wills are various hence it is that they that have heard the same cause together often think another sometimes the same thing but according to their several affections 20. Besides every one favoureth his own invention and holdeth that for most certain which he hath foreseen when it is mentioned by another 21. We must therefore grant to every one something which they may apprehend and which they may own 22. Regulus said once to me when we pleaded together You think all things that belong to a Cause are to be prosecuted but I presently espy the throat and I presse upon it He presseth indeed what he chooseth but he often mistaketh in his choise 23. I made answer That there may hap to be a knee or a leg or an anckle where he thinketh the throat to be 24. But I said I who cannot espy the throat assay all things I try all things in short I remove every stone 25. And as in husbandry I mind and order not onely my vineyards but also my woods and not onely my woods but also my plain grounds and in my plain grounds I do not sow wheat and rye alone but barley beans and other pulse So in pleading I scatter many seeds as it were far and wide that I may gather what do come of them 26. For judges wits are full as dubious uncertain and fallacious as the nature of weather and grounds 27. And I know very well that that excellent orator Pericles was thus commended by the Comick Poet Eupolis 28. And forthwith on his lips did sit Perswasion he alone could fit His words to every hearers mind So as he left a sting behind 29. But neither did that goddesse of speech nor that he cherisheth them befall Pericles himself by a shortnesse or quickn●sse of speech or both these for they differ without an excellent faculty of speaking 30 For to delight to perswade require copiousnesse of speech and time and he onely is able to leave a sting in his hearers minds who doth not prick but fasten it in 31. Adde what another Comoedian saith of the same Pericles He flash'd he thunder'd he confounded Greece 32. For not a curt and short oration but a large stately and lofty one flasheth and in conclusion troubleth and confoundeth all things 33. Yet a mean is best who denyeth it Yet he as well misseth the mean that commeth below a thing as he that goeth above it that speaketh too little as he that speaketh too much 34. And therefore as you often hear that too much and more than needeth so you may this poorly and weakly one is said to have outgone the matter another is said to have fallen short of it they both offend alike the one by his weaknesse the other by his strength which truly though it be not the token of a more pure yet it is the signe of a greater wit 35. Nor indeed when I say this do I like him in Homer that had no measure in his words but him that spake Words even like unto a winter's snow not but that he also pleaseth me exceeding well who uttered Few words but very sweet 36. Yet if I might have my choice I would have that oration which is like a winter's snow that is thick continuall and plentifull at the last divine and heavenly 37. But a short pleading is more taking with many 38. It is so indeed but to idle persons to respect whose niceness and sloth as a judgment is a fondnesse 39. For if you advise with these it is not onely better to plead briefly but not at all 40. This my opinion yet which I shall alter if you dissent but I pray you tell me plainly why you dissent 41. For though I ought to yield to your authority yet I think it better in so weighty a matter to be over-ruled by reason than authority 42. Therefore if I seem not to mistake write so in as short a letter as you will but yet write for you will settle my judgment but if I seem to mistake provide a very large letter 43. I have not hurt you who have enjoyned you to a necessity of a short epistle if you be of my mind of a very long one if you dissent from me Farewell 21. C. Plinius to his friend Paternus c. 1. AS I rely very much upon your judgment so upon that of your eyes not because you are so very wise lest you should be too proud of your self but because you are as wise as I though this be also a great deal 2. But to let jesting go I believe these are handsome servants which are bought me by your counsell it remaineth that they be honest which is a thing to be judged concerning them that are to be sold rather by the ears than the eyes Farewell 22. C. Plinius to his friend Catilius Severus c. 1. I Have tarried now a long time in the city and indeed as one astonished 2. The long and continued sicknesse of Titus Aristo doth much trouble me one whom I both admire and love exceedingly for he is as grave as honest and as learned as any man in the world so that I think not one man but learning it self and all good arts are very much endangered in one man 3. How well skilled is he both in the civil and in the common-law what a deal of histories examples and antiquities doth he understand there is nothing that you desire to learn which he cannot teach He is indeed to me a treasury as oft as I enquire after any thing that is mysterious 4. Besides how much credit there is in his words how much authority what a fine and gracefull lingring What is there which he doth not know out of hand and yet he maketh a stop for the most part and is at a doubt through the diversity of reasons which with a sharp and great judgment he fetcheth discerneth and considereth from their original and first causes 5. Besides

how sparing he is in his diet how moderate in his apparell 6. I use to look upon his very chamber and bed as a kind of picture of antient frugality 7. His gallantnesse of spirit doth set out these things which doth nothing for outward show but all things according to his conscience and looketh for the reward of what is well done not from people's talk but from what is done 8. In short one shall have much ado to compare any one of those that make a shew of Philosophy to this gallant man 9. He doth not follow the schools nor the galleries or please other mens and his own leisure with long disputations but he is in his gown and in his businesse he helpeth many by pleading for them and more by his counsel 10. Yet he will come behind none of those that are the chief in chastity piety justice or fortitude 11. You would wonder if you were by to see with what patience he beareth this very sicknesse how he strugleth with his pain how he abideth thirst how lying still and all covered he passeth over the incredible heat of his ague-fits 12. A while ago he called me and some few with me whom he loveth very well and entreated us that we would ask the physitians concerning the chief point of this sicknesse that if it were past remedy he might die a voluntary death but if it were onely difficult and long he might abide it 13. For he must yield to his wife's entreaty he must yield to his daughter's tears he must yield also to us his friends that he may not forsake our hopes if they be not in vain by a voluntary death 14. I think that to be a very hard matter and worthy especial commendation 15. For to run upon death by a kind of fury and instinct is an ordinary thing with many but to deliberate and consider its causes and to undertake or lay aside a resolution for life or death as reason shall perswade is the property of a gallant spirit 16. And the Physitians indeed do promise us that all will be well it remaineth that God say Amen to what they say and at last deliver me from this thought somnesse which when I am freed from I will go again to my Laurentinum that is to my books and my writing-tables and my leisure to study 17. For now I have either no leisure whilst I sit by him to write or to read any thing or I have no list being so much troubled 18. You now understand what I fear what I wish and likewise what I intend for hereafter 19. Do you in like manner write to me again what you have done what you do and what you mean to do but in a more pleasant manner 20. It will be no small ease to my grief if you complain of nothing Farewell 23. C. Plinius to his friend Pompeius Falco c. 1. YOu ask me whether I think it fitting for you to plead causes for you in your Tribuneship 2. It is very much to the matter what you think the Tribuneship to be an empty shadow and a title without honour or a reverend office and how fitting it is as it should not be controuled by any so neither by it self 3. When I was Tribune my self perhaps I might be mistaken who thought my self to be any thing but as if I had been so I forbare pleading causes First because I thought it an ugly thing for him to whom every body ought to rise up to whom every one ought to give room to stand whilst all other folks sate and for him that might bid every one hold his peace to be commanded silence by an hour-glasse and for him whom it was not lawfull to interrupt as he spake to hear even reproachfull words and if he let them go unrevenged to be taken for a coward if he did revenge them for a proud fellow 4. I considered this trouble also if one by chance had appealed to me either he for whom I was or he against whom I pleaded whether I should help him or sit still and be silent and make my self a private person as if I had forsworn my office 5. Being swayed by these reasons I chose rather to behave my self as a Tribune to every body than a Counsellor to a f●w 6. But hark I will say it again it is very much to the matter what you think the Tribuneship ●o be and what person you will take upon you which is to be so fitted to a wise man as that it be born out to the last 24. C. Plinius to his friend Bebius Hispanus c. 1. TRanquillus my chamber-fellow is desirous to buy a little field which a friend of yours is said to offer to sell 2. I desire you to take order that he may buy it at a reasonable rate for so it will please him to have bought it 3. For a bad purchase is always unpleasing most of all because it seemeth to upbraid the owner with his folly 4. But in this little field there are many things which set my friend Tranquillus on if he like the price its nearnesse to the city the conveniency of the way the smalness of the village the quantity of the ground which may rather invite than busie one 5. Besides to scholars that are addicted to their studies as this man is so much ground is enough in all reason as that they may ease their brain refresh their eyes walk softly about the bounds and use one track and know and count all their little vines and small trees 6. I have told you these things thus particularly th● 〈◊〉 may the better know how much he is like to be beholden to me and I to you if he buy that little farm which is commended for those conveniences at a reasonable rate that it may not give him cause to repent of his bargain Farewell Twenty of John Ravis Textor's Epistles Epist 1. 1. I Had a desire long ago to speak with you and to advise in very few words at the entreaty of your friends which may be for your good 2. I and some of your friends who have always won your favour to them from a child supped at my house yesterday 3. When we talked together of several things as we were at supper there came to us an unlooked-for messenger I know not who he was an intimate friend of yours as he said 4. Your mother presently as parents are inquisitive after their children began to ask in what case her son was how well he had his health and how much he had benefited in his learning 5. He made answer That you were in good liking indeed and that you were willing to be advised by your friends in all things but that you had no mind at all to your book 6. Which when the poor woman heard ah me how she took on 7. My words would have no credit with you if I should lay open to you her complaints of your negligence 8.