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A16264	The new-found politicke Disclosing the secret natures and dispositions as well of priuate persons as of statesmen and courtiers; wherein the gouernments, greatnesse, and power of the most notable kingdomes and common-wealths of the world are discouered and censured. Together with many excellent caueats and rules fit to be obserued by those princes and states of Christendome, both Protestants and papists, which haue reason to distrust the designes of the King of Spaine, as by the speech of the Duke of Hernia, vttered in the counsell of Spaine, and hereto annexed, may appeare. Written in Italian by Traiano Boccalini ... And now translated into English for the benefit of this kingdome.; De' ragguagli di Parnaso. English	Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.; Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626. Newes from Pernassus.; Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613. Pietra del paragone politico.	1626 (1626)	STC 3185; ESTC S106274	157,616	256

but rather that he content himselfe to hunt Waspes and Hornets out of their holes with the hand of the Prince armed with the gauntlet of a higher authority for although an Officer findes that he hath ability and power enough to execute a greater enterprise yet for feare of emulation in Court or some casuall blocke in his way which the wisest man could not foresee oftentimes it is not expedient to put in execution all that which his authority might warrant him Eightly that he deale in all ordinary matters concerning ordinary men entring into strict friendship with no man residing within the precincts of his command but to beware of that wresting and wiredrawing occasions which might reach vnto the hatred and hindrance of another and to auoid domesticall familiaritie which causeth contempt Onely let him vse that decent grauity which may procure respect and an awfull loue But in any case that he shunne the conuersation of base and riotous persons and that he keepe company for the most with men of his owne ranke yet so that he make not any man so endeared and so bosome a friend vnto him who might afterwards by prying into his dealings and diuing into his secrets turne to be his capitall enemy For sometimes contemptible persons not suspected for craft may in the twinkling of an eye of low and earth creeping mushromes become tall Cedars at least in their owne ouerwe●ning conceit Ninthly that he force his noble nature to endure the stinking pride of Lawyers although most odious to God and all good men and to beare with their impertinent discourses and wrangling bawling who take vpon them to become Lambes at home and Lyons abroad onely to maintaine the glory and reputation of the Bench but commonly it is to fill their owne purses with the ruines and spoyles of honester men than themselues Wherein I wish him to remember that golden saying of Tacitus that it is a most profitable as also most pithy in the choise and free will of Good and Euill things to consider what thou thy selfe wouldest or wouldest not endure vnder another Gouernour or Iudges power Vtilissimus idem ac●●r●uissimus bonarum malarumque rerum delectus cogitare quid volueris sub alio Principe aut nolueris Tenth that he take heed with great circumspection he fall not into the other extremity in seeking to auoid the defect of his predecessor as a certaine Prince very heedlesly did who perceiuing that wise men fou●d fault with the late Prince for too much lenity turned an odious Tyrant The golden Meane is euer best Eleuenth that with extraordinary seuerity he take more care to bridle the disorders of his own house then the seditions of the common people for the immodest and vnciuill carriage of a Magistrates domesticke gentlemen whom some call Countrey-Courtiers is a farre greater blemish and scandall to their Master then the brutish insolence of rude Clownes and ill-bred Swaines Twelth that he hate as the horrour of Hell all kind of fore-stalling and engrossing of commodities and that he account as the Capitall enemy of his reputation such detestable gaines But specially that diuelish gaine which is in these dayes much practised and one of the chiefe causes of our Creators anger towards many States by the sale of Offices A most perillous Charybdis a rocke so dangerous in the Sea of worldly businesse that Iustice being fled backe into Heauen these petty Chapmen who neuer dreame of another world but this earthly one turne all things topsie turuy to make themselues sauers for their dear-bought places Whereas a noble spirit should firmely beleeue that the Merchandise of a Christian is ingenuous simplicity and plain dealing and being honestly called to beare office in his countrey then his richest lucre worthy of an honourable Officer is to ingulfe himselfe in the Trade of honour and vprightnesse of Iustice which being by the trumpet of Fame blowne into his Princes eares in a short time God inspiring the heart of the Prince he shall be preferred from Office to Office vntill hee arriue to a contented fortune correspondent to his Heroycall worth and magnanimous minde Thirteenth that perpetually he haue his eyes fix● on his vnder-Iudges hands and that he looke as narrowly to them as if he held a biting serpent in his owne hand that iniustice being a very dangerous member which hazards his credit by the Diuels temptations to blurre his masters honour by playing the base Mechanicke in the sacred seat of Iustice. And because no Iudge receiues bribes but sinisterly by his wise seruant or without witnesse sauing the party himselfe his supreme Iudge or Prince ought to proclaime rewards to the discouerers and vpon the least euidence to remoue such theeues of the Deity seeing that Iustice is one of the prime Diuine Attributes Fourteenth that he accommodate his Genius Nature to the nature of his prouincials shewing himselfe mild to the peaceable and seuere to the seditious And to take speciall care to weed out idle persons if they refuse conuenient labor which he ought to see them put vnto and if any Drones be found with honey to examine them from whose hiue they stole the same Fifteenth that to the end his Prince may conceiue well of his worth he acquaint not his highnesse with slight occurrences nor trifling matters which fall out in his gouernment Nor yet must he refraine to certifie vnto him all the most important affaires chiefly all proiects tending to his honour or profit Sixteenth that he beleeue how the penalties and punishments in the power of a wary Iudge consists more in threats then in inflicting of them that he neuer forget this lesson How Officers gouerne men full of a thousand imperfections subiect to infinite errours how they are not Angells of Heauen which cannot sinne and therefore in his gouernment hee affects more the report of a sweet natured Iudge like his Creatour who bearing with our trespasses Si quoties peecant homines toties sua fulmina mittat and not the repute of a tyrannizing Minister Seuenteenth that he frequent not Reuels Dances or any publike Feasts mournfull spectacles and tragicall in the end to wise Officers as instruments which vilifie his fame and bring his personall presence into contempt among the vulgar and might bring his grauitie into question among his equals Eighteenth that he know how the shamefull acts of the Nobles and principall Gentlemen doe waxe more cruell against them which debase themseues to commit them without touching or blemishing the generall reputes of their honourable families Ninteenth that he held it for a thing certaine that it is better to dissemble and winke at some common infirmities and frailties then to shew himselfe earnest to punish them it not being the resolution of a wary man to enter into that naughty passage out of the which he otherwise knowes that the horse cannot draw forth his feet Twentieth that he vary not in opinion with his equals in office or vnder Officers but

daies before Socrates was seene and obserued to be much anguished grieued and perplexed still seeming to feele some griefe of minde for he was diuers times heard lamentably to exclaime Oh corrupted world Oh depraued age Oh most-most vnhappy mankinde Apollo who hath felt an extraordinary sorrow for the losse of so great a Philosopher hath strictly commanded the body to be opened to see whether his bowels and entrailes yeelded any signe or likelyhood of poyson which being done all his interiors were open whereby it was euidently percei●ed that Socrates by reason of the infinite filthy things enormous abuses and scandalous obiects which he was compelled daily to view and behold in this depraued and corrupted Age and for hauing taken a great windinesse of scandals hee was forced to burst Most rich and sumptuous haue the funerals beene that were celebrated for so great a man And Marcus Tullius Cicero a most affectionate fauourer of the Socratike Sect with an excellent and elaborated Oration hauing highly extolled the veritie of the doctrine with flouds of teares bewailed the calamitie and miserable condition of these present daies in which with rigorous seueritie all men are strictly forbidden to satyrize And honest Gentlemen beholding continually things most worthy to be published by sound of horne and trumpet are inforced to see to hold their peace and to burst Natalis Comes the Historian for hauing spoke some thing in a publike congresse of learned men that grieuously offended Apollo is by his Maiestie seuerely punished Rag. 49. 2 Part. VVHilest some few daies since Natalis Comes a Latine Historian together with diuers other learned men of this Court vnder Melpomenes Porch as the custome of Historians is discoursed of the glory of those great Princes that haue left any eternall memorie of their honourable actions in the world termed by the name of a glorious conquest the vsurpation of a kingdome made by a mightie Prince without any iustice right or lawfull pretence Which speech being presently reported vnto Apollo by one of those wicked and make-bate spirits whereof the Ai●e and the Earth is euer full His Maiestie fell into so passionate a rage against Natalis as at that very instant he caused him to be put in prison and at once vsed the rigor straitly to forbid him for the space of three whole yeares the ingresse into any Libraries And howbeit Apollo haue most importunately beene sollicited by most of the chiefe Historians of this State to proceed with some milder terme of mercy towards so vertuous a follower of his he neuerthelesse hath and doth still refuse to doe it And saith besides that there is no greater wickednesse in the world than the impious and trecherous licence which diuers Princes haue vsurped vnto themselues to rob and steale whole States and Kingdoms one from another An action that hath filled the world with those lamentable mischiefs and deplorable confusions and disorders that so much afflict mankinde And he thinks it an iniquitie extremely outragious that in his vertuous Dominion there should be found any one learned man so perfidious as durst dare to stile those trecherous thefts and vnlawfull robberies which are committed with a million of aggrauating and impious circumstances by the title of glorious conquests THE NEW-FOVND POLITCKE THE SECOND PART CHAP. 1. Maximilian the Emperour is aduertised of the trouble begun among his Sonnes THere came three Posts very lately vnto the Maiestie of the Emperour Maximilian the second and presently it was knowne how they brought him aduertisement that the Arch-duke Matthias had taken Armes against the Emperour Rodolphus his brother seditiously requiring the Kingdomes of Hungary and Bohemia and the absolute Dominion of Austria and other Prouinces These ill newes infinitely troubled the minde of the Emperour for he well knew that the discord risen vp among his Sonnes would giue the enemies of the house of Austria that content which they so much desired Whereupon yesterday morning very early that Prince presented himselfe before Apollo and with many teares demaunded of him when the euils of the House of Austria so long before commenced through the cruell combination of all Germany against it should haue an end and for what demerit such fearefull scourges were sent vnto his house Vnto this demaund Apollo answered in this sort All the troubles and persecutions of your Family great Emperour shall cease when it shall wholly abandon those ambitious thoughts of desiring to command ouer Hungary and Transiluania which hath giuen vnto Germany such iealousies that to secure her ancient liberty from the power of your house she bendeth all her study to nothing more then to the depression of it for the Germans searing greater prejudice from your acquests then from the victories of the Turkes are fully resolued rather to lose Vienna then recouer Buda And then also shall all Germany vnfainedly loue your Archdukes when deposing their present ambition they shall make it appeare that they desire to be equall and not superiour to other Princes of Germany CHAP. 2. Most of the Princes Common-weales and States of Europe are weighed in a payre of Scales by Lorenzo Medici SEeing it is apparent that the Roman Common-weale after the acquisition it had made of the Empire of all Italy could in a short time arriue to that Vniuersall Monarchy which is yet so famous to the world and whereunto many ambitious Princes haue since in vaine aspired it hath beene a generall receiued opinion That that Potentate who in State and Forces is suffered to grow vnto such greatnesse that he findeth no other Prince able to counterpoyze him no more then the Roman Commonweale did after it became Commander ouer Italy cannot possibly bee impeached from obtayning the Vniuersall Monarchy Whereupon those Empires and Kingdomes which were afterwards framed out of the pieces of the Roman Monarchy to auoyd those calamities and dissolutions which fell vpon such Potentates as were oppressed by the Roman Forces out of most wholesome and almost diuine counsell agreed together that euery fifteenth yeare all the Princes of Europe should assemble into one place where each ones Forces should be seuerally weighed and thereupon fit counterpoyze and due mortification be giuen vnto him that was found to be growen to any greatnesse which might be odious and dangerous to his Competitor Many great Wits were from time to time preferred to that honourable charge of gouerning the Scales but for an hundreth yeres past or thereabout they were managed by the Illustrious House of Medici and in particular by Lorenzo the Great Which prerogatiue although to many it seemed preiudiciall vnto the Maiestie of the Popes and prudence of the Venetian Senate who haue alwaies watched if not more at least-wise equally with Lorenzo and the Florentine Common-weale to maintaine both in Italy and abroad the Forces of the Potentates of Europe euen ballanced yet with a maruellous consent of all the Historians the gouernment of the Scales was giuen into the hands of Signior Lorenzo The

Treasure of Saint Marke nor at the Arcenall nor at the Grand Canal with the proud Palaces of the Cornaria the Grimani the Foscari and other magnificent edifices built with such Royall expences in this renowned City being miraculous things in the sight of ordinary persons But farre more miraculous in his conceit was that he saw the Noble Signior Sebastian Venieri a little after he had returned to Venice from that memorable victory at Sea which hee had gotten being Generall against the Turkes liue retired at his priuate house and when hee walked abroad to the market place hee differed in nothing from these Senators who had stayed behind at Venice but went very plaine and simple in apparell And surely it is a most singular Custome which they haue that their Nobilitie can vse that ciuility and modestie in their owne Citie and being employed abroad in matters of import and of high command that they can sodainly transforme themselues into most costly garments with such magnificence and Princely liberality to let the world know them for no Citizens of an ordinary State but for men borne for great enterprizes and for bra●e Commanders as if they were subiects descended from Royall bloud and also to make themselues famous vnto all other Nations by thus accommodating their affections and spirits to the nature of the place and framing themselues as well to modesty ciuilitie and thrift at home as to pompuous authority abroad A thing so true that whereas other States for the reputation and countenance of publike Magistrates are wont to recommend to their Gouernours that they maintaine the Maiestie of their soueraigne places with magnificence and stately comportments both of courage and gorgeous apparell The Venetian State on the contrary haue enacted Statutes to forbid any of their Citizens which supply Offices or charge vnder them in any of their Territories to grace their presence with glorious shewes or to weare any costly suits of apparell So great a care haue those politicke Senators of their Cities thrift and prosperitie This spake Caualcanti whē Flauio Biondo said that whē he was at Venice he became much astonisht to find in a pure Aristocracie that the Citizens and Common people liued with such cōtentment in this fortunate coūtry that in many years of his abode there he could neuer learne whether the publike State were better beloued and respected of the Nobility which cōmanded them or of the cōmon people which obeyed Next to him spake Paulus Iouius that not onely vnto himselfe but also vnto many great Princes with whom hee oftentimes had conference touching the wonders of Venice it seemed a thing of great momēt that the Senate of this most famous Republicke did altogether bend their endeauours vnto Peace and to no other end at all withall their vigilancy and care not studying to make perpetuall preparations for the warres as others did whereupon they all concluded that in this flourishing State alone a man might find the Lady Peace armed withall exquisite appurtenances After ●ovius ensued Iohn Boccace who said that the true salt which preserued the Venetian State from the purrefaction and corruption of abuses was the soueraigne Queene of all Lawes that most excellent Order so inuiolably obserued of her that for the aduancing of a Senatour to a higher place not the glory of his Riches not the merits of his Father or Ancestors nor the multitude of his Tenants or Friends nor the fauour of great persons but his owne worth and naked vertue were had in most consideration From whence it comes to passe that in Venice the vitious and ignorant Nobles were onely accounted a number as Ciphers in Arithm●●ke while the Vertuous alone and the best deseruing subiect bare the chiefe sway detur Digniori with that prudent care and circumspection as is knowne vnto all the world But Leonardus Aretinus after he had extolled the opinion of Boccace added that the excellēt vsage of the Venetian State in not granting to their Nobilitie the charge and Offices at the first iumpe but by degrees was the true solid foundation wheron their Greatnesse consisted most firmely built withall the eternitie of their Libertie For this is one of their most admired Precepts That euery Nobleman whatsoeuer before he mount vp into the highest Dignity must from his youth vpwards be forced like an enfranchised Townesman to beginne from the lowest Offices and not leaping wise and sodainly A most safe Custome as that which iustly distributed this important effect of vpholding the true and substantiall equality among the Nobilitie of an Aristocracie which giues long life to a free State because according to the certaine and vnderstanding policie of true gouernment the equality of goods made not Senatours equall in a Common-wealth but that all the Nobles should be first compelled to walke faire and softly to the most eminent places of command from the inferiour steps which I haue formerly shewed The which if the Roman Empire had practised it had not shortned the life of their libertie nor wrought those dangerous and fatall infirmities of tyrannies and tumults Their grosse abuses in affording the Consular authority and the charge of armies vnto Pompey the Caesars and to other wealthy and powerfull Citizens in their greene and vnsetled youth was no other then as if they had chosen some of the Bloud-Royall in a Monarchy as Lords and Patrons of their liberty rather then Senatours of a well ordered Common-wealth By which vnwitting errour all men may note that the freedome of Rome got her mortall wound and vtter desolation Albeit that the most excellent Lady of the State of Venice gaue apparant signes that she seemed well contented with the opinion of Aretine shee commanded notwithstanding th●● her Vertuous Statesmen who aduanced themselues forwards to proceed with their opinions And then Benedict Varchi thus began My Florentine State which neuer knew the way of good fortune to bring in among her Noble Families that Peace Vnion and mutuall loue which makes the liberty of a Common-wealth euerlastingly durable in the end fell into the infirmitie of serui●ude puts me now in a great amazement and I thinke it may surpasse all other maruells in this State when I consider with deliberation that a Nobleman of Venice although most grieuously offended for the life of his sonnes and for his owne proper person enforced more with a feruent charity towards the freedome of his Countrey then terrified with the seuerity of Magistrates had learned that difficult lesson of resolution to forgiue at the instant the wrong which he had receiued at his Aduersaries hands and that with a free heart A resolution worthy of remembrance and by so much the more wonderfull by how much it is cleerely obserued that a Nobleman of Venice referres the reuenge of all receiued iniuries into the Senates hand with all willingnesse of mind the which sensuall and brutish men yea many of the wiser sort without the length time and much strugling of nature

the world in the case as we see it The correction then consisteth in insusing of Charitie in mens hearts and the sacred loue towards their Neighbours which is one of the Precepts of God We must now imploy the whole engine of our ablest wits to take away the occasions of Hatred which make them so sauage and implacable I haue to the vttermost of my vnderstanding diued into the mysticall cause of this Hatred and I finde it to proceed of the inequalitie of worldly goods by that hellish vsage of Mine and Thine among our worldlings the very rock of all scandals And it is manifest that mens mindes depraued by Ambition Couetousnesse and Tyrannie haue occasioned this inequality and disproportioned Diuision And seeing that is true which all must confesse that this world is no other than an inheritance left by one Father and one Mother vnto mankind from whom as Brothers we all descend what Iustice is there but that euery one of vs should not haue share and share like throughout all the wide world the one as well as the other But now it falls out otherwise that the Good and Vertuous haue the least part and the wicked the greatest part The honest man a begger the dishonest by a preposterous order haue gotten their right and will not communicate the same no not to their owne flesh and bloud and neerest kinne Now I haue discouered vnto you the wound it is easie to apply the medicine The best aduise which I can giue is to come vnto a new diuision of the world and to let euery man haue his share and by this meanes there will be enough for euery one of vs without troubling one another Though Tyrants and Lawyers may for a time grudge at this equalitie yet true Iustice requires it for the pacifying of this vnnaturall hurly-barly And further to take away all disorders in time to come let there bee a Law enacted to forbid all chopping and changing all buying and selling to the worlds end A long time this opinion of Solon was canuased the which although it was esteemed necessary but not altogether good by Bias Periander and Pittacus was reproued notwithstanding by the rest of the Philosophicall Lords whiles that the iudgement of the wise Seneca preuailed who with most liuely reasons made all the Lords of the Congregation to vnderstand that if now they should come to a new diuision of the world againe there would ensue a very great disorder that too great a part would fall into the share of Gluttons and too little among braue Spirits who hold Sobriety Temperance and Reason the chiefe meanes to distinguish them which beare the image of God in their soules from bestiall Satanicall creatures and that the Plague Famine and Warre were not as many thought the most rigorous scourges wherewith God in his anger afflicts mankind but that the sorest and most grieuous whip wherewith he may torment them is to enrich villaines and base minded misers whose pelfe will at last worke the ruine of their dearest and better part being their Soules As soone as Solons opinion was refelled Chilon produced his Which of you quoth he most wise Philosophers knowes not That the insatiable thirst of Gold and Siluer hath not occasioned such mischiefes in the world as wee all see and many of vs haue felt What impietie what wickednesse what vnnaturall act is there which men will not commit and that with all diligence to rake together a masse of money and wealth Conclude yee then all couragiously with me that to root those vices out of the world wherewith this Age is corrupted there is no better way than to exterminate and vtterly to abolish the vse of those pestiferous mettals Gold and Siluer the true prouocations of all these miseries Irrimenta malorum Very goodly and specious in apparance seemed the sentence of Chilon but when it came to the scanning and triall it proued not solid at the stroke of the hammer of liuely reasons Because it was answered that men had brought the vse of Gold and Siluer that it might stand for the measure and counterpoyse of all bargains commerce betwixt party and party And if Gold and Siluer were prohibited they must of force imploy some other mettall or commoditie to supply their necessities which likewise would replenish the world with the same greedinesse of minde as before As in some part of the Indies they vse shels as currant as wee doe money And Cleobulus in particular with a kinde of Ironicall scoffe said My Lords we may as well banish out of the world Iron seeing that it is also a mettall which hath wrought infinite confusion among men Gold and Siluer for the vse destinated of God to be the balancing proportion of all things whereas Iron produced of Nature to make Ploughs Spades Harrowes necessarie tooles for tillage and gardens as for buildings hath beene maliciously peruerted toswords poniards and other instruments of war to destroy mankind With this opinion of Cleobulus albeit most true it was neuerthelesse concluded by all the Lords of the Reformation that it being a thing impossible to conuert Iron from men without peruerting Iron it should be no prudence to multiply their miseries and to heale the wound with more blowes Vnanimously it was resolued and concluded that men should still retaine the mettals of Gold and Siluer but to admonish the Refiners to take care for the well purifying of them not to lift them off from the fire vntill they were throughly assured that they had cleansed them from that clammie and fast clinging Turpentine which these kinde of mettals haue in them which caused that their Coines stucke exceeding fast to mens hands yea sometimes to their hands whom the world reputes for honest men After this with extraordinary grauity Pitiacus began thus The world most learned Philosophers is fallen into deplorable miseries because this moderne generation of mankind haue relinquished the beaten way of Vertue and haue chose to walke through those crooked by-paths of Vice whereby they steale away those Rewards due onely to the Vertuous Things are now reduced Lords to this passe that no man enters into the house of Dignities of Honors of Rewards as in old time through the Gate of Merit true desert and by vertuous paines but by the windowes they clammer like vnto filching theeues which climbe to peare-trees with their back-sides turned to the true owners Yea and we haue known some with the force of fauours and Violence of Bribes haue not beene ashamed to enter through the tops of Chimneyes and by casting downe the tiles haue through the very roofe come into the house of Honour To amend this corrupted course of behauiour the best way in my iudgement is to decree vpon paine of Death that no man hereafter be so hardy as to get into any well-deseruing place whether it be of Honor or Gaine but by the Royall high-way of Desert and to shut vp all other darke