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A38818	Gymnasiarchon, or, The schoole of potentates wherein is shewn, the mutability of worldly honour / written in Latine by Acatius Evenkellius ; Englished, with some illustrations and observations, by T. N. ...; Sejanus, seu, De praepotentibus regum ac principum ministris, commonefactio. English	Ennenckel, Georgius Acacius, b. 1573.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3526A; ESTC R39517	168,645	466

command of Antioch in offering up of Sacrifices to the Idols Joseph lib. 1. de bel Jud. Cap. 1 * 83 Templa per Asiam Achaiam Hee defaced the Temples in Asia and Achaia It is a fault for the poore to trespasse upon the rich a greater for the rich to make pillage of the poore but the greatest of all for either of them to invade the Temples and Holy Places the Temples are the places of Gods habitation and to trespasse upon them is to rob God of his honour of this foule offence Iulian the Apostate Dionysius the Tyrant and Nero the blood-sucker have been foule guilty and for it have been branded with infamy to all succeeding ages Of Neros cruelty how he spoyled the Temples both in Asia add Africa how hee set Rome on fire and accused the Christians with the fact how he caused them to be clad in the skins of wilde beasts and to bee torne in pieces with dogs how in the day time he fastned them to crosses and when night came burnt them for lamps to give light how hee made ascents in his garden to behold those bloudy prospects See Tacit. lib. 15. Annal. and Suet. in Nerone * 84. Longinqui ruris secessum orat Hee desired leave to spend his dayes in the Countrey Hippolitus being resolved to weare out his dayes in a single life in the Country it so happened that Phaedra the wife of King Theseus fell in love with him and that shee might divert him from that course prevailed with a Baud thus to assaile him Sence in Hip. cur tu tot viduas miserè teris o teris horas why doe you lye languishing like a woman that lately buried her husband and suffer your golden dayes to passe away without taking any comfort in them consult with nature and shee will tell you quòd laetitia juvenem frons decet tristis senem that mirth is as proper to youth as gravity unto gray haires and that if all Creatures should tread in your steps orbis jacebit squallido turpis fitu vacuum sine piscibus stabit mare alesque coelo deerit there would bee a generall desolation in the world there would bee no birds flying in the Aire no fishes floating in the Sea no sesitive or reasonable Creatures upon the land Omnibus est eadem vitae via non tamen unus Est vitae cunctis exitiique modus there is but one way to come into the World but divers wayes to go out of it and wee dye daily and if this defect bee not supplied there must needs follow a vacuum wherefore rouse up your spirits and shake off this solitary humour and come and revell it with us in the City to whom Hippolitus shaped a sharpe answer dii te fecere mulierem tu te facis cloacam publicam in quam se evacuant impuri cujuscunque generis qui non habent te pro amica sed pro matula follow you your wanton course of life and give me leave I beseech you to follow mine for although the course of life that I lead seem taedious and irksome to you yet certainly non alia est magis libera vitio carens vita there is no life more free and angelicall or commeth more neare to the most innocent and happiest times of our forefathers then the Country life non torta clausas fregerit saxo balista portas non hominum strepitus audit non ille rotarum he never heares the sad alarums of the cannon beating at his gate or the clamorous complaints of the poore at his doores or the wheeles of the Chariots grating on his eare the chirping of the birds are the sounds whereof hee is most sensible which course of life though it seem tedious I say unto you yet I preferre it before the delights of my fathers Court q In hac noverca verificatur etymologia Noverca quasi novus Orcus unde poeta in versu plusquam argenteo Lurida terribiles miscent aconita novercae Ovid. lib. 1. Metam or the love of the Queen my Stepmother Seneca in his declining time used his best Rhetorick to perswade Nero to give him leave to spend the remainder of his dayes in this course of life See an eloquent oration of his in the 15 Book of Tacitus to that purpose wherein hee acknowledgeth the many favours that he had received from Nero and that now being growen in yeares and not able to wield so great a burthen as hee had in charge desires him after the example of Augustus his great Grandfather who licenced Murcus Agrippa and Caius Mecenas in their declining times to retire themselves to give him leave to lead a private life * 85. Ars ministri It is the wisedome of a Servant at no time to oppose his Prince importunately unseasonably without respect of time and place Cum inter omnes est observanda quaedam dexteritas tum praecipuè quandò cum principe agendum est quod si fit comitèr dextrè paulo post plus habent gratiae qui obstitêre quam qui obsecundarunt quod enim cupiditati placet temporarium est at quod recta ratione geritur perpetuò laudatur saith Erasmus As in all our dealings with men of our owne degree there is a certaine kinde of dexterity to bee used so more especially when wee have any thing to do with our Prince which if wee duly observe in the carriage of our selves soberly and discreetly towards him we shall have more thankes of him in the end though we doe sometimes oppose him in his desires then they shall have that doe second him because what pleaseth his phantasie is but temporary and vanisheth but what is grounded upon reason is of continuance and abideth It is reported of Cassandra that shee did ever truly foretell the people of the event of things yet they never gave any credit to any she said The Councels of servants which unseasonably admonish their masters are like unto the counsels of Cassandra whatsoever they say it is not regarded wherefore Aristotle when hee commended Calisthenes his Scholler and Kinsman unto Alexander did advertise him that by all meanes he should have a care of his tongue quia nonnunquam unica vox temerè excidens nonnunquam jocus intempestivus est maximé nocivus because that a word spoken unseasonably or a jest broken is fatall many times that hee should speak unto him but seldome quia difficillimum est simul multa opportuna loqui and when hee did speak unto him it should bee without sharpnesse but Calisthenes forgetting what Aristotle had taught him ●un himselfe upon a rock quod debebat dicebat sed non quomodo debebat hee spoke no more then what was fitting but because hee did not observe a decorum in his speech hee drew the wrath of the King upon him Princes are not to bee reformed like other men by telling them plainly of their errours and imperfections bluntly to direct a Prince what course hee

studied to encrease and advance Peace and Tranquility hee was in his apparell comly in his speech milde and gentle going ever accompanied with one or two of his friends so that hee that had seene Agricola would not have judged him to have beene a man that had affected fame or popularity Againe let not a * 94 Ne ●a●iliarem se nimispraebea● 94 Princes servant make himselfe too familiar with him by abusing his favour and love unto him for this hath undone many a man w●o by reason of their familiarity have forgotten their duties and have carried themselves towards them as if they were equals and companions an Example hereof we have in Vestinus Cosse a Romane that was slaine by Nero. The displeasure that hee first took against him did arise out of his over-bold and malepert behaviour towards him for hee being privy to Nero's imperfections did oftentimes scurrilously put jests upon him which when soever they savour of truth leave a sting behinde them wherefore Nero fearing the fury of his f iend took a suddaine course with him So Dagobert the sonne of Clothar the second King of France whipt Sadragsilius and caused his beard to be shaved having been sometimes his tutor though afterwards preferred to be governour of Aquitane under the King because hee carried himselfe towards him as if hee had been his fellow and companion for amongst many other passages of his sitting once near unto him at a solemn banquet hee was so sawcie as to snatch the cup out of Dagoberts hand and to drink up all the drink as if they had been fellowes and equals wherefore though Clothar at first took it ill from his sonne that hee did deale so with Sadragsilius whom hee had preferred to be governour under him of a Country yet in the end hee forgave him and punisht Sadragsilius for his malepertnes and sawcy carriage of himselfe towards him The people of Arragon being destitute of a King they by the Popes authority sent for one Ranimirus a Bastard-sonne of Sancius out of a Monastery and put the Crowne upon his head who intending Warre against the Moores after the Nobility had fitted him with a horse for that purpose and had put a buckler in his right hand and a spear in his left they reaching unto him the reines of his bridle hee desired them that they would put that into his mouth for that his hands were full already the Barons observing his simplicity in that and other things smiled and derided him whereupon setting aside his former monasticall simplicity sent for eleven of the chiefest of them to Osea and caused their heads to bee cut ●ff telling them of a Spanish proverbe that the Woolfe would not endure jests So that as I have said and produced Philotas for an Example who relying upon the favour of Alexander spoke too freely unto him let him never with offensive words or deeds provoke his Prince let him with all circumspection reflect his thoughts upon himselfe so shall hee never runne into this errour we read that Anna Montemorant was very gracious with the French King Henry the s●cond and admitted to bee his bed-fellow but who can say if the King had lived long that hee would have continued his former favour unto her Againe let him bee carefull that hee doe not as Sejanus and Perennius did and as many doe at this day take * 95 Ne princepem a rebus gerendis avertat 95 upon him to direct the Prince and to divert him from his intended designe but rather to doe what he doth especially in businesses of consequence by the Princes speciall command and authority for by this meanes if the businesse succeed not according to expectation or if hee be questioned for it hee may easily answer it and give satisfaction both to the Prince and People * 96 Cautè omnia agat 96 let him be ever cautelous and wary and think that every place he comes into is beset with traps of Treachery hatred and calumny for him this doth Cicero elegantly prescribe in an Oration which hee hath made in the behalfe of Flaccus wherein hee shews the unhappinesse of such as are powerfull and mighty O the miserable estate saith he of them to whom the governments of Provinces are committed who if they be diligent they be hated if they be negligent reproached if liberall un●ewarded if they speake it is misinterpreted if they heare it is dangerous upon whom all smile when many think full ill being ever exposed to publick and private displeasure at their first comming they are saluted whilst they stay they are observed but when ehey depart they are neglected therefore as much as lies in his power let him take heed of envy the most generall scourge to such as are in high places which as hee may by divers meanes prevent so especially if he lay this foundation of which we have spoken before that all his actions shall tend to the good of his King and Country and not to his own private profit or to satisfie his lusts and affections * 97 Sit modestus humilis 93 whosoever proposeth this end to himselfe will alwayes be of an humble lowly and temperate Spirit and so stop all the passages of envy hatred and calumnies which otherwise would have accesse unto him Againe the higher hee is let him ever the more lowly and reverently esteeme of himselfe and consider that the greatest fortunes have the least freedome and by how much the larger his Commission is by so much his moderation should bee the more in the execution of it let him feare the turning of the wheele for fortune never prefers a man but shee threatneth to bring him down again Whom dawne of day hath seene to sit on high Him in the dust bath seene the evening sky Let none rejoyce too much that good hath got Let none despaire too much that hath it not For Clotho keepes both fortunes in her power And them full often changeth in one houre * 98 Immo●icos honores fugiat 98 Let him never desire to climb too high but avoid those honours which make him equall with his Soveraigne for that high places are subject to thunder and lightning and if Elpenor fall it is fatall unto him when he that is below may fall and rise againe without any detriment this did Macro doe whom we have before remembred and this did Clodius Albinius who when Commodus Caesar for his good service would have conferred upon him the Title of Caesar and have given him a power to grant Pensions and invested him in a Princely robe refused his courtesies saying that Commodus sought to overthrow him And as great honours * 99 Immodicas opes declinet 99 so great Possessions in my opinion are not to bee desired I am not ignorant that in the judgement of many this that I say will seeme to be a paradox because they cōceive the more they enjoy the more fortunate they think

pallium vestis cineritia zona coriacea animum diabolicum under a rude and rustick vale is couched oftentimes a great deale of honesty and under the the vale of simplicity and sanctity a great deale of villany there are divers degrees of hypocrites in the world but amongst them the last that I have mentioned is the chiefest for without doubt there are none so abominable as they whom our Saviour compares to the Scribes and Pharisees crepantes Christum Christum Templum domini that make religion a vale to cover their villany an open enemy is easily avoided but a white Divell Arsenick infused into Nectar and Ambrosia an enemy that fights under the banner of love and familiarity and dissimulation guilded over with sanctity is hardly avoided Pippin used religion as a cloak to effect his designe see Du. Seres in Childer in fine * 62. Nihil tam utile quam brevem esse potestatem There is nothing so requisite as that great offices should not bee of long continuance It hath been a question amongst such as have written of Common-Wealthes whether it be better for the CommonWealthe to have Magistrates perpetuall or changeable and without question it is better both for Prince and People to have them changeable for if they have any command of Provinces and Armyes and are mischeivously disposed they have opportunity to effect their designes having a perpetuity in their places and the very conceit that they may within a short time be private men will deterr them from committing divers exorbitances yet without doubt it is not good for the CommonWealth for the Prince often to change them and that for divers reasons first the Common-Wealth would suffer much prejudice by it haud pareit populo regnum breve for knowing their time to bee but short they would like the evill spirit in the Gospel goe about seeking whom they might devoure and make a prey of every thing and therefore Tiberius being askt quare ministris diutissimè utebatur adeò ut plerique iisdem muneribus consuescerent why hee would suffer his officers to continue their places untill they came to bee old men gave them this answer o Tac. lib 1. Annal. hirudines quae multo sanguine rumpuntur quiescere solent recentium verò morsus sunc acerrimi hee that is once full will like the leech that is glutted fall off of himselfe but if he should often change them they would like new leeches suck out the very marrow of their bones to which purpose the answer of the fox in the Apologue is very pertinent who being taken in a gin and being much annoied by the flies was asked by a goose whether hee should drive them away but the crafty fox answered deh non far par dio for Gods sake let them alone for if you should drive away those others would come in their places that will more annoy me againe the Common-wealth would in a short time bee turned up side downe for that there being as many severall minds in men as there are men in the world innovations would daily be induced for that new Lords would ever be devising of new lawes againe ars imperandi being ars difficillima there must bee time to learne this art which being attained unto then to remove them were to remove a master to induce his scholler againe able men would not bee found to execute those places for when they know that within a short time they shall be removed they will not forgoe the course of life which they are in for an uncertaine preferment againe no sedition which is the principall cause why the Prorogation of Magistracy is cried down is hence occasioned for when deserving men attaine to dignities per gradum no man will repine at them as o Quicquid subitò inclarescit obnoxium est invidiae unde vox odiosa 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apud Graecos apud Romanos novorum hominum Cognomen apud utrosque t●rrae filiorum è Caelo delapsorum they usually doe at such as attain unto them per saltum and for mony only so that where the Writers of Common-Wealthes cry downe Prorogation of Magistracies they doe intend ●o other then such as in the Persian Dominion was the office of Chiliarchus in Naples of the Demarchus among the Turks the President of the Councell whom they called the Visier Bassa in France the Majors of the Kings Palace and among the Romanes the Dictators * 63. Decemviri The Decemviri were ten select men chosen out of the Nobilitie that did govern the Romane state untill such time as the lawes of the twelve Tables which they had gathered out of the ancient Greek Lawes were confirmed amongst them they held their places without limitation of time and during their Government the authority of the Senatours Consuls and Tribunes were in suspence * 64. Dictatores The Dictators among the Romans had rigidam regiam potestatem a royall power in their hands for the time and were never chosen but upon speciall occasion and continued no longer then for the space of six months at which time they were tyed under a great penalty to yeild up their places according to Livy they were set up in the yeare 253. after the building of Rome to the end to suppresse the suddaine insurrections and tumultuous rebellions which were frequent about that time among the common people the Graecians called him that held the office of Dictatorship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi duplicem Consulem or bis Consulem because he had fraenum Reip. the whole power of the Common-wealth in his hand he had power to proclaime peace and warre and in his power were the lives and estates of the Citizens when he went abroad foure and twenty torches and as many axes as ensignes of his power threatning vengeance● to such as should oppose that were carried before him and whatsoever he decreed pro numine habebatur * 65 Ostracismus inventus est Atheniensibus Amongst the Athenians the punishment of Ostracisme The punishment of Ostracisme was a banishment for ten yeares as Aristotle hath it and it was first invented by Chlisthenes as appeares in Sigonius he manner whereof was thus Arist lib. 3. polit c. 9. Sig. lib. 1. Athenien on a certain day every Plebean brought a Shell to the Market place where the Archontes who were the chiefe Officers of the City met them Diod. Sic. lib. 11. Bibleoth and tooke an account first of the number of the persons that brought the shells for if they were not full six thousand there was no sentence given that being done they received the Shells of every one and if the name of any man was found in the greater part of the shels hee was forthwith by the sound of a Trumpet pronounced to bee banisht This punishment Aristides underwent Plu● in Aristid for that there being some difference betweene him and Themistocles Themistocles prevailed with the people for that hee was growne popular by