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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

and throw himself freely into great actions for where shee is in love with a man shee gives her self leave to be flatter'd with his confidence Caesar had taken the true pulse of his fortune when he was fain to encourage his faint-hearted waterman in a storm by saying Be not afraid for so thou wrong'st the fortunes of Caesar He found no Anchor so sure as 〈◊〉 nor did he apprehend any contrarietie of winds while he had in poop the sweet gale of the breath of his fortune What danger is it if the Air be troubled while the Heavens are cleer If the Sea roar while the starrs smile Such a boldness in another had been judged rashnes but in Caesar it was a dextrousness that had so truly consider'd the favour of his fortune Others have lost brave oportunities to celebrate themselves by not comprehending their fortune Even as low as the blind gamester there is scarce a man that consults not his fortune before he set up his rest It is a great talent to be fortunate and in the opinion of most the fortunate man must wear the garland Some make more account of an ounce of fortune than of quintalls of valour or a Magazine of wisedome Others of a more Melancholick temper say it is more honorable to be unfortunate and that fortune is th' inheritance of fooles and the reward of those that have no other merit The wise father redeemes the defect of beauty in his daughter with gold and good success for the most part gilds over the deformities of the spirit Galen desir'd that his Physician Vegerius that his Captain and Aristotle that his Monark might be fortunate True it is that valour and fortune the 2 godfathers of every Heroe are also the axletrees of greatnes But he that hath had often experience of fortune for a stepdame let him strick sayl at great employments and not overween of her affection for where shee disaffects generally her Armes are leaden Excuse me for stealing once more a saying from the poet of sentences for I am oblig'd to restore it again by way of counsell Tu nihil invita c. Thou shalt neither say nor do any thing where thou hast fortune in opposition The Benjamin of our felicitie is at this day by the evidence of his splendor that Heroick unconquer'd most ●erene Cardinal Infant of Spain Don Fernando A name that passes for blason the nominal Crown of so many Heroes as have worn it The whole world being in some suspense lookt after his fortunes being assur'd of his courage And that great princess declar'd him for her gaiant upon the first occasion I say upon that occasion which was as immortall for him and his as it was mortall to his enemies the battel of Norlinguen beside other progressions of Stratagemes in France and Flanders and the remainder of his honor from Jerusalem It is a considerable part of the Politicks to be able to discern betwixt fortunate men and such as are unsuccessfull that when they are met together in competition they may be resolv'd whether it be better stand to the shock or yield Solyman shew'd himself a wise man in diverting the felicity of our Catholick Mars the fift of Charleses by using all meanes possible that his valour might be confin'd within his own sphere of Europe He feard that alone more than all the Regiments of the west together Let this be a subject of contemplation for others whom it may concern Charles himself strook sayl in a time when it serv'd his turn not for his reputation for in that he had resign'd his part but for his crown The first Francis of France did not so He was in love with the ignorance of his fortune and desired not to understand that of Caesar his adversary but as a delinquent in prudence he was unfortunate to be taken prisoner Good and ill success adhere alike to those that are of a side let a wise man take heed which side he takes and at this game of triumph or as we call it trump let him so take and discard his cards that he may be sure or win EXCELLENCIE XI Que el Heroe sepa dexarse ganado con la fortuan To give over before he be a loser ALL things that are subject to mutability have aswell an encrease as a declination Others allow them a state like a solstice wherein there is yet no stability It is a business of great forefight to be able to stop the revolution of a restles wheel It is the subtiltie of a cunning gamester to give over while he wins where prosperitie it self is but a game nothing is so certain as ill luck It is better sit down with Honor than attend the Changes of an unconstant fortune which is accustomed to shew two contrary faces in a moment So much as it hath of woman so much it wants of constancy according to an opinion of some choice spirits When the Emperor Charls was in some distress before Metz and ready to make his retraict the Marques of Mariguau told him for his comfort that shee had not only the inconstancy of a woman but the levity of a girl But I say they are not the lightnesses of a woman but the alternative varieties of a just prudence Let a wiseman shew himself in this Let him betake himself to the Sanctuary of an honorable retraict because a fair retraict is as glorious as a gallant combat But there are some that are so hydropsick alwayes burning in a thirst of Honor that they have no power to command themselves if fortune once begin to flatter them in their passions Let that great Charles be a great example of this Perfection that eldest son of fortune and of Heroes This emperor crownd all his actions with a prudent conclusion He triumph'd over the world by his fortune at last he triumph'd over fortune by moderating himself in his ambition which was like the sealing up of all his former prowesses But contrary some have put the best part of their reputation which they had gotten to arbitrement by the unruliness of their desires Great beginnings in felicity have had many times monstrous terminations which if they had made use of this advise in time might have secur'd their Honors A ring thrown into the sea and found in a fishes belly might give Policra●es some assurance that he and his fortune were inseparable Notwithstanding a little while after The Mountain Micale was the tragicall theater of a divorce betwixt him and her Belisario became blind that others might receive sight And the Moon of Spain fell into an Ecclipse that it might give light to many There is no art can teach to take the pulse of fortune aright it beats so uncertain yet nevertheles● some presages of declination serve sometimes for 〈◊〉 diversion from dangers Sudain prosperities and inundatious of successe one upon another have bee● alwayes to be suspected 〈◊〉 because when fortune i● most