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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07487	The carde and compasse of life Containing many passages, fit for these times. And directing all men in a true, Christian, godly and ciuill course, to arriue at the blessed and glorious harbour of heauen.	Middleton, Richard, d. 1641.	1613 (1613)	STC 17870; ESTC S104498	98,424	266

THE CARDE AND COMPASSE OF LIFE CONTAINING MANY PASSAGES FIT FOR These times And directing all men in a True Christian Godly and Ciuill course to arriue at the blessed and glorious harbour of Heauen 2. TIM 2.7 Consider what I say and the Lord giue thee vnderstanding in all things Cato Quicquid feceris honestum cum labore labor abit honestum manet quicquid feceris turpe cum voluptate voluptas abit turpitudo manet Heraclitus Intrate nam his dij sunt LONDON Printed by W. S. for Walter Burre and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard 1613. To the most Heroicall and worthie Prince CHARLES heire apparant to the Crowne of Great BRITAINE Most Religious Prince THE devout Bernard spake it and it is a profitable precept for al Posterities Si vis securus esse time securitatem intimating that man is neuer lesse safe then when he seemes furthest from danger feare of securitie being the gard of safetie great fortunes and high places the rocks of ruine Pythagoras was wont to say That no horse without a bridle could well bee gouerned nor any felicitie without great wisdome well swayed More difficult it is to beare prosperous then aduerse fortune because it chanceth but to few to bee both happie and wise For as one saith well Fortuna quem nimiùm fouet stultum fecit which the wisest King expresseth thus Prosperitie destroieth fooles Pro. 10.22 herein not much vnlike to Merchants who hauing had good successe at Sea adventure for more and loose all So that it is too true That as much light offends the eyes so much felicitie clouds the vnderstanding and abuseth the iudgement 〈◊〉 1. ●1 ● making the conceit of our safetie to be the cause of our sorrow Hence the golden rule of Salomon Pro. 28.14 Beatus est homo qui semper est pauidus Blessed is the man that feareth euer viz. who euer carefully avoides the deceits of the Deuil the World and the flesh who euer liues in the feare of God least hee attempt any thing against his will whoeuer perse●ers in true repentance and takes heed of offending God Now seeing the safetie of your sacred person being the most glorious Starre in our firmament the hope of future times and safetie of our safetie is the thing that most doe wish many labour for and is the dutie of all Subiects to ayme at it must be valued of vs at no lesse rate then our deerest liues and of you at no lesse then your hardest and godliest labours Else should wee bee all ingrate to the Diuine goodnesse whose blessed showers of mercies are well approued to vs in the faire-springing blossomes of your grace-promising and religious Youth Therfore knowing ingratitude to be odious with God and all good men Isay 5 insomuch that God by the Prophet hath sentenced a fearefu●l destruction vpon the ingrate Nation and at Athens an Action would lie against the ingrate as in other causes 2. Iā 18.3 wee must all striue to stop this iust plea of God and men against vs. For which cause my selfe to cast from me the iust aspersion of so foule a vice doe euer pay my vowes vnto our good God for your safetie and at this time to beginue a payment of my neuer-dying dutie haue adventured to present your Highnesse with a few chosen flowers much conducing to your present safetie in this life and eternall saluation in a better And seeing there is no greater pest to a King or Prince then the hatred of his Subiects and that as Seneca saith simul ista mundi Conditor posuit Deus God hath euer placed hatred gouernmēt in one ranke Odium Regnum this little booke being well obserued shall defraught and vnload the Ship of this Kingdome of Odium which is the pest and danger and shall leaue you Regnum which is the Diamond and Treasure Which diuorce betwixt Hatred and Kingdome if firmely made shall make an happie coniunction of King and people by no violence to be sundered I must cōfesse that in Me there is plus ruboris quàm roboris seeing my presumption oner-ballanceth my performance but in the Work it self is plus roboris quàm ruboris being in part wellicke ouer as the Beare doth her welphs by the industrie of those prudent Counsailors who knew well how to fashion an excellent proportion and the rest by me not misse-shapen for my owne part I may well with Apelles lie hid vnder the couert of my picture to espie and heare the diuers iudgements which to know shall not bee vnsavourie vnto mee Pro. 27. For I account the woundes of a friend more happie to mee then the kisses of an Enemie socrates admonition to De●onicus ●lin Iunior to Traian Emperour Vnto my selfe I am conscious of some paines and diligence in the translation of one peece out of Greeke and another out of Latine together with some meditations and matters of moment the Collections of some Aphorismes and Rules out of my owne various reading and the disposition of the whole Something I haue done if but as Ruth in the field of Booz I haue gathered the scattered eares Ruth 2. and albeit I could not bring great hand fuls from the haruest into the Barne yet some few eares and not to be despised haue I cast into the Garner knowing that worthie sentence of the wise Oratour and States-man Omnis nostra curain hoc versari debet semper Cicero 2. de Oratore si possumus vt boni aliquid efficiamus sin minus at certe nihil mali The chiefe care of euery good man ought to be euer to doe what good he can but if hee cannot to take heed that he doe no euil Sure I am that as the Noble Historian saith Nusquàm nee opera est sine emolumento Liuie lib. 5. nèc emolumentum fermè sine impensa opera est No labour is without his profitte not almost any profitte to a mans labour without charge and expense Besides if little profitte should hence bee conceiued to arise by some Lamb. Dan to the 17. Prouince● Lael Zaech to Henrie the 4 K. of France Iacob Simancha to Philip King of Spaine more conceitedly iudicious then truly wise yet it doth much protect my designe and adde winges to my drooping hopes in that some thinges of like nature haue beene tendered by diuers very learned to the greatest States and Personages of our Westerne World Wherin the ancient custome of some Nations confirmed mee which was That none might come to the King or Prince without giftes the Law ordayning that none should passe by them either in their progresse or any part of their Kingdome not giuing them something as the example of the great Artaxerxes Mnem●n King of Persia sheweth whom Syneed the poore Husbandman meeting in the field presented with an handfull of water out of the next Riuer and was rewarded by the King with a Persian garment Aelianus a