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A12245	The Arcadian princesse; or, The triumph of iustice prescribing excellent rules of physicke, for a sicke iustice. Digested into fowre bookes, and faithfully rendered to the originall Italian copy, by Ri. Brathvvait Esq.	Silesio, Mariano.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 22553; ESTC S117416	99,235	550

my inflammation ceased my corrupt Liver restored while one day in a private Arbour where I usually reposed after my time of recovery I might behold a curious Tablet purposely devised by Aesculapius especiall direction as I afterwards perceived Wherein was engraven Tarquinius Superbus to his full body in his posture walking and with a little rod lopping the tops of Poppies while on the other side of this Tablet stood Atlas supporting the world but under his burden at the first seemingly fainting and afterwards utterly failing and falling Having seriously fixed mine eye on these Statues I begun to reflect upon my selfe and to examine mine owne thoughts whether there were not something that might have proper relation to my selfe in the delineature of those features And thus I privately conversed with mine owne affections Say Vperephanos is there nothing here presented to thine eye which thou maist not u●…efully convey to thine heart Is not this very Tablet a mirrour of thy late distempered humour Canst thou eye this Tablet and not discerne thy selfe in it Or observe this Embleme and peruse it without a blush seeing it displayes thine own shame Canst thou eye these mounting Poppies whose height surpasse others how soone they are pruned and can thy boundlesse ambi●…ion or selfe-admiring hold it selfe secured By these Poppies were shadowed eminent Peeres whose rising height was Tarquins eternall hate so as their height was the sole occasion of their sinister fate Inferiours were secure while these ●…uffered exempt from danger while these perished Had their heads never mounted above others they had been as safe from perill as others Apply this Embleme to thy selfe for Narcissus never had a fuller view of his owne beauty in the Fount by which hee perished than thou hast here of thine owne deformity by which thou maist bee truly cautioned For say Vperephanos who ever mounted higher in selfe-conceit Who more selfe-admiring or others lesse esteeming yet in this thou fell short of their goodnesse and happinesse whom thou observest in this Embleme shadowed For the●…e Pe●…res whom Tarquin gave direction to his Sextus in so covert and darke a manner to cut off were not onely great but good Their glory was their Countreyes honour which they ever laboured to advance by their owne danger Their desires had a more glorious Object than popular praise so as with a sweet though a sad Evening they closed their dayes Whereas they delight was not to be really good nor improve the State but to bee great though it were to the ruine and subversion of the State O the misery of an hot and high spirit Where our owne aimes are meerly titular affecting nothing more than to bee popular Reflect then unhappy Vperephanos upon thine owne disposition and in this Embleme eye the discovery of thine owne person Desire rather to bee ranked amongst those low Tamrisks than rising Poplars But if this Embl●…me or historicall allusion can worke no deepe impression on thee observe that por●…raiture of Atlas and then see if thy life bee not personated in that Fable Atlas is heere shrinking under his burden and to whom may this allude more properly than thy selfe For how long miserably-deluded soule hast thou supposed out of thine arrogant and selfe-admiring conceit that the whole Fabricke of this Vniverse solely leaned on thy shoulders and that it could not subsist without thy supportance Resolve then into teares Pride not thy selfe in thy distemper seeing fooles and mad-men laugh at thine humour Be so farre now from preferring thy selfe before ot●…rs that thou esteeme thy selfe the worst of all others Blush at thy former folly and those friends which thou hast lost by pride regaine by humility Strengthen thy intentions with divine resolves that nothing may worke more on thy minde than redeeming of time which by how much more precious by so much more carefully employed In a word seeme not to be good unlesse thou beest that which thou ●…eemest for semblance of goodnesse howsoever it deceive the eye of the beholder it ever asper seth most blemish on the owner when Policy hat●… lost her vizard hypocrisie her colour Thus Madam to my selfe I discoursed and thus eve●… since have I resolved Nor is it my desire that your Grace should only rely on my relation or give such easie credit to my pretended conversion as to receive no other approvement for I shall no lesse humbly than f●…eely appeale to Tapeinos his judgement whom I religiously vow onely to admit into my company to deliver his opinion touching my recovery Argument Tapeinos proves how happy it is to be humbled that they may more sensibly feele the maladies to which they are affected None more unhappy than hee who never felt adversity The way to weale is ingeniously to acknowledge our owne want Cedars will never remember that they were once Shrubbes Promotion declares what men bee and humility informes them what they should bee Hee concludes Vperephanos happy by his fall being thereby made apt to supply wherein before hee did most faile Hee admires his temper and commends him to Themista's service as one deserving honour POESY IV. HOw happy is his fate Who humbled becomes wise Contented with his state He seeks no more to rise His fall hath made him feele Those maladies hee had And sensibly to ●…eale Those humours which were bad Else would they ne're correct Those humours they affect More haplesse none 〈◊〉 he Who Swims in worldly blisse And holds adversity Estrang'd from him and his The way to weale is then In plenty and in scant By curbing Selfe-esteeme T' acknowledge our owne want But Cedars brooke the worst To heare thei'r Shrubs at first Promotion is the glasse Declares what mortals bee But how they hence should p●…sse Informes humility Then rightly may I call Uperephanos State More happy by his fall Than he appear'd of late Made apter to reforme What others held in s●…rne It rests then I admire His temper and commend His service to your Quir●… That 's stiled Vertues friend And take this of my Word His m●…re deserving parts Will such content afford They 'l winne the knowing'st hearts And thinke him worthy too Of th' Honour you bestow Argument Themista commands Meilixos to bee brought forth into the Presence-Chamber where hee relates the manner of his Cure Hee repents him of his time so remissely lost and resolves to regaine what his Security had lost by neglect Hee appeales to Iscuros to deliver his opinion to his Soveraignesse touching his Cure and intends to redeeme his many mispent houres with a redoubled Care PROSE IV. PERPLEXED and 'twixt hope and feare devided stood all this time Themistâ as one ●…earefull whether these so pleasing Objects were not meere Phantasies and deceptions of sight but no one of all these inforced in her so impressive a motive of wonder and amazement as the strangely altered and me●…amorphos'd Condition of Vperephanos the more she●… observed him the lesse shee beleeved what shee saw in him for shee

vulgar are fixt upon me The whole Counsell-Chamber relyes on me The publique State hath recommended the helme of her government unto mee If I faile she fals her grandeure lyes on my shoulder in the wounding of whose honour I suffer equally Goe to quoth Aesculapius you know not what you suffer you are madded with an over-weening opinion of your owne wisedome Assure your selfe the State stands in no such neede of you should you perish she would flourish Shee hath other shoulders to support her other Lights to direct her than your addle braine Goe to Sir would you have your selfe displayde in your owne native colour I must doe it and roundly too or I shall never bring you to a discovery of your selfe I will tell you then what I feare though you feele no such occasion of feare in your selfe I finde as well by your Cra●…is as Chri●…is with the graduall courses of your Paroxysmes Symptomes and other concurring distempers that you have beene bit by a ma●… dogge so as you must 1. eate a piece of his Liver which must bee stuffed with the leaves of the low shrub Tapeinotes You are like wise for certaine dayes together to be 2. tyed Chinne-deepe in Lazarello's poole where you are to bee kept to a low dyet Neither can I finde any meanes better to cure your distemper than to 3. remain there till all those Bedlam fooles laugh you out of your humour Howsoever you must bee patient or your griefe will grow more violent as it fell out with Pytheas whose heavy fate I leave to you Harmonius to descant on in your wonted manner Argument Harmonius chants out the misfortune of the Athenian Pytheas who became so selfe-conceited as hee was wont to lay his Eare to Cranies in wals and portells to heare himselfe applauded to weane him from this humour hee was oft advised but being deafe to counsell and growing as in yeeres so ever higher blowne with the bladder of arrogancy hee declined at last to a Frensie POESY III. HOw blinde is he who labours to be knowne To all mens imperfections but his owne How can he have an Eare to any cause That is engag't to popular applause This Pytheas found who grew in time so strong Through selfe-conceit in Eloquence of tongue As he suppos'd each place that he came in There was no other talke but praising him To wals and portels would he lay his eare Through creeks cranies too that he might hear His much desir'd applause which having done And heard his praise he held his prize halfe-won Many disswad't him from this madding course But all in vaine his humour still grew worse Deafe was his Eare to counsell all his art Was to gaine praise no matter for desert Ripe were his yeares and mellow yet age-grown With arrogancy was he bladder-blowne So as when neither reason could perswade Nor he by wholesome counsell would be swaide But so admir'd his selfe-conceited worth As he had beene some Deity on Earth He as I 've heard some of his Nation tell Into a fearefull frensy after fell Whence I conclude 't is better farre to want Wit and to know 't than to be arrogant Argument Aesculapius prescribes Meilixos cordiall and comfortable things to restore Nature so much decay'd in him Hee gives him assured hope of his recovery for that he findes him of so tractable a nature so pliable a quality Hee wils him to keepe home till hee be perfectly restored to his health And that those Epilepticke passions to which he is subiect might endanger him by comming abroad or walking neare any steepe place as it fell out with Melotes which Story hee commends to Harmonius PROSE IV. MAdam said Ae●…culapius turning himself to Themista this was a mad piece to make a Consul of but there was never any good wit without some egregious folly They that would suffer themselves to be troubled at the sight of every mad Statist would have some thing to thinke on Wise men can never bee discovered but by others folly Venus never shewed more beauty than when Nais sate by her and shew'd her deformity All this is true answered Themista but nothing troubles us so much as to see one whose judgement should have ministred advice to others so bleered and blemished in his own Surely had you knowne this Vperephanos when wee first knew him you would have admir'd him for pregnancy of wit solidity of judgement and generality of worth Nothing was spoke by him but infinitely became him ripe hee was of conceit and rich in fancy And it was that said Aesculapius and nothing but that as I said before which brought him to this dangerous Frensy I must tell you Madame for mine ancient experience hath found it true That person had need of a composed spirit and to have a constant and staid wit who preserves it untainted when hee is hugged in the Court honoured by the State and humoured with applause The axiome is it is rare to bee great and good but no lesse authentique is this rare it is to bee popular and wise Many have beene thought fit to governe before they came to governe wise they were in mannaging constant in pursuing and prosperous in atchieving but all this while they were private men The Bowl●… chang'd her Byas when it came to runne on more steepe grounds Promotion is the Touchstone which tryes every mans metall These pregnant-piercing wits have commonly dangerous diving conceits which become subject to crackes or flawes if they be either by competition opposed or by arrogancy and applause too much tickled I could instance you many eminent Personages here in Arcady who became subject to this distemper though during their time of privacy most sober The wise Ithacus had the hearbe Moli in store for an antidote against such Sirenes But let this nothing amate you Madame wee have so dispos'd of him as we hope to leave him in far better temper than wee found him He had no sooner spoken this then Meilixos was presented to him whom hee received with an affable entertaine and drawing neare him and gently stroaking his temples with his hand Take heart of grace to you quoth hee to Meilixos my life for yours there is no such violence of distemper but I shall quickly allay the decreasing heate of this humour I could wish that my Patient whom I had last in hand were in no greater danger Looke up man bee not dejected within few dayes I doubt not but to set you on your feete Milde and moderate hath beene your humour and I shall fit you with Receits of like nature Alas good man how hee trembles before ever ought be applyed unto him These be Symptomes of a weake and pusillanimous spirit I am verily perswaded one might work strange conclusions on such a subject So easily were he to be deluded if any one would bestow so much time as to practise upon his weakenesse Such strong impressions may conceit worke upon a feeble Subject It is

Vpon the Frontispice HEE that in words explaines a Frontispice Betrayes the secret trust of his Device Who cannot guesse where Mott's and Embl●…mes be The drift may still bee ignorant for me THE ARCADIAN PRINCESSE OR THE TRIVMPH OF IVSTICE Prescribing excellent rules of Physicke for a sicke Iustice. Digested into fowre Bookes And Faithfully rendred to the originall Italian Copy By RI. BRATHVVAIT Esq. Uulnera clausa potius cruciant Greg. LONDON Printed by Th. Harper for Robert Bostocke and are to bee sold at his shop in Pauls Church yard at the signe of the Kings head 1635. 〈◊〉 7. 1634. REc●…nsui hanc Versionem Operis Mariani Sile●…ii Florentcu●… 〈◊〉 The Arcadian Princesse or Physicke for a sicke Iustice c unà cum vita author is annexa quae continet folia 75. aut circa in quibus nihil reperio sanae doctrin●… aut bonis ●…oribus contrarium quo 〈◊〉 cum p●…blica utilitate imprimatur sub ea tamen conditione ut si non intra annū proxime sequentē typis mandetur haec licētia ●…it omnino irrita 〈◊〉 HAYWOOD TO The excellent Modell of true Nobility the Right Honourable Henry Somerset Earle of Worcester Baron Herbert Lord of Chepstow Ragland and Gower all correspondence to his recollected'st thoughts SIR I Have heere sent you an Italian plant translated to an English platte whose flower will not appeare halfe so delightfull to your Smelling as the fruit will become 〈◊〉 for preserving You shall here meet with an Author walking in an unbeat path One who discurtains the vices of that Time so smoothly though smartly as his continued Allegorie pleads his Apologie A right Italian wit shal your Honor find him quick spritely of eminent race and ranke in his Country And it is my joy to addresse a Worke so richly interveined with straines of wit and iudgement to one whom descent and desert have equally ennobled and who with so cleare and discerning a spirit can iudge of it Now if this new dresse doe not become him all that I can say in mine owne defence is this and no other there is great difference betwixt Taylor and Translator Sure I am that the Loome is the same if not the Lustre the Stuffe the same though not the Colour wherein Hee freely appeales to your Censure who hath profest himselfe Your Honours in duest observance RI. BRATHWAIT TO THE DESERVING READER DEserving Reader every Author as this scribbling age goes may finde a Reader well worthy his Labour but very few Authors publish such Workes as deserve the labour of a discerning Reader Like to some of our PorcupineTheatrall Pantomimes who dare adventure in their spongie Labours begot of a barmie spirit and other no●…ious vapours to display a Gentlewoman in her compleatest Nature though they erre egregiously in her favour figure and feature Peruse this and returne me answer if it be not worth thy Labour to bestow an houre or two in the Reading of this Author Forraigne he is and yet familiar choice and dainty his conceits yet allayed with so sweet a temper as they retaine in them the relish of a good nature So free his invention and so cleare from invection as it admits no sinister inver●… nor intention Whatsoever hee 〈◊〉 inserts holds apt proportion and connexion with 〈◊〉 Subiect whereo●… hee treates So as being not onely a Stranger but so discerning an Author hee can expect no lesse than a Candid censure from so deserving a Reader THE TESTIMONIE OF SABAEUS AMNIANUS touching Mariano Silesio with his judgement of his Worke entituled The Arcadian Princesse or The triumph of Iustice. WHat pregnancy of conceit and gravity of judgement that Learned Florentine Silesio expressed may appeare by those excellent Labours of his wherein hee addressed his Penne to Subjects of divers natures according to those occasionall employments wherein hee stood engaged His youth hee bestowed in Poesy wherein he shewed that vivacity and quicknesse as the Court of Florence resounded with the fame of his ●…imensions In his riper yeares hee became employed in affaires of high consequence being twice elected by the vote and suffrage of the whole State for an Embassador to the Genueses where hee demeaned himselfe in such sort as hee was with no lesse cautious observance admired abroad than with all honour entertained at his returne home But growing old and wearied with the mannagement of publique affayres hee desired to retire and in his retirement to addresse the remainder of his dayes to some profitable workes which might live in his death and to posterity revivè the memory of his life Amongst which hee composed a worke in my iudgement of exquisite wit entituled the Arcadian Princesse wherin hoth language and Invention discovered their Master-piece He dyed An Dom. 1368. And interred with great solemnity in the Latmian arch THE OP●…ION OF Corranus Amnensis touching Silesio with his iudgement of his workes and of those his high approvement of that Master-piece entituled The Arcadian Princesse WIth what pregnancy of wit and solidity of judgement the ever-living Silesio whom to silen●… were to detract from the fame of Florence was indowed may sufficiently appea●…e by his exq●…isite Labours In which Art and Nature so sweetly contend●…d as they erected such trophies in hi●… lines which exceeded the bounds of Fate or Time to be by oblivion blemished or by neglect seazed Hee was descended of a noble Family which hee renowned by his owne actions by making his own penne the surviving Annall of her memory Hee was twice elected by the generall voyce and vote of the State for Embassador to the Genue●…s where he demeaned himselfe with such cautious reservance and judicious prudence as hee became no lesse admired abroad where he stood interessed than honoured at home when he returned But wearied with affaires of State and desiring much retirement he privately withdrew himselfe into the Country where willing to publish some Workes by leaving to the world before he left the world such legacies of his love in his life as might live in his death he composed div●…rs Subjects of infinite benefit and approvement to the State Howbeit in his yonger yeares hee stood much affected to Poesy wherein hee so excelled as his Poems were held equall with those enlivened composures of Tasso's His Invention was much employed in his youth which time he bestowed in observance of the Court in Court-Maskes and other Theatrall presentments wherein none ever contended with him who in the end did not ingenuously veile unto him But growing to riper yeares hee retired from these and accommodated his stile to the maturity of his time In which serious studies such accomplishment seconded his retirement as his private recluse could not be free from concourse so highly did such as perused him lov●… him as they desired nothing more than to live with him Amongst others of his Labours during his retire hee wrote a Booke entitled the Arcadian Princesse which hee caused to be transcribed and sent to