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shewed himselfe a wise man and gaue wise Iephtha counsel to his Captaines how they might find out the false Ephramites from the true Israelites by pronouncing of the letter Shiboleth and that before the Ephramites Iud. 12. should passe ouer Iorden lest they should gather head against the Israelites againe Great wisdome it is to looke in time to such and to cut off the heads of them that would willingly haue many heads like Hidra I wish there were no heads of Hidra yet lurking in any English Laerna Thus was Iephtha called from the land of Tob and Gedeon from the Barne-threshing to kill and destroy Gedeon these wicked Madianites and false Ephramites which were scattered and dispersed into all partes of the world Was not Dauid called frō a Shepheard to be anoynted Dauid a Shepheard king in Israel by Samuel while yet Saul liued for the sinnes of Saul and to ouerthrow the house of Saul for all the practice and policy of Saul to the contrary Was not Ieroboam the seruant of Salomon called Ieroboam a seruant anoynted king in Israel by the Prophet Ahias in the time of Salomon of his sonne Rehoboam and to take ten of the twelue Tribes from Salomon And was not Iehu from a soldier called and anoynted king by Elizeus Iehu a soldier seruant while Achab yet reigned in Israel to destroy Achab and all his posterity for the Idolatry of Achab The iust iudgement of God against wicked Princes And so in other like practisers that seek by policy to ouerthrow kingdomes Saul with all his policy with his sonnes his seruants and his daughter that he maried to Dauid onely to deceiue Dauid could not preuent Dauid of the kingdom It was the purpose of God Salomon for all his wisedome and royalty and his friends could not hinder Ieroboam his seruant from the kingdome It was so determined Achab with all his gods and Idols could not preuent Iehu nor take reuenge vpon Elizeus no more thē Benhadad king of Syria could feed his wrath vpon Elizeus no policy no practice no coūsel against the Lord. Elizeus looking in the face of Hazael said that hee should be king after Benhadad in Syria withall wept knowing how he would strangle his master Benhadad the king and how Tyrant-like he would plague Israel during the time of his cruell gouernment Many had cause to weepe if men knewe as Elizeus did what policies are practised in many mens hearts And therefore had olde Osiris king of Egypt the Osiris his scepter likenes of a mans eye in the vpper end of his Scepter to signifie that kings should be circumspect and wise to see vnto the policy and practice of wicked men for against such wise and godly Princes no policy can preuaile no more then a little cloud can darken the brightnes of the Sunne And as the Sunne with his brightnes lighteneth all the Sky so doth a vertuous Prince with his wisdome his subiects for so Aristotle sayth Vnica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. Polit. sola virtus Principis prudentia The only vertue of a Prince is to become wise to chuse such Wise Counsellers as Moyses did of graue godly wise men which counsell was called synadrion to help to ayd him in the gouernmēt of 600000. men that in a wildernes By counsel Commonwealths Kingdomes stand So in Salust it is sayd vnto Caesar Quò magis Imperium cò maior cura So long shal kingdoms prosper while good Counsel gouernes Dum apud eos vera consilia valuerūt For sayd Plato All good and godly Counsayles are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sacred according to that which Christ sayd Where two or three are gathered in my name there am I among them It is neyther sayd Scipio to Micipsa strong armies treasures nor goldē Scepters that vphold kingdoms but truth wisedome and Counsayle So Aristotle Pro. 20. sayth vnto the great Alexander that Counsel is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arist Rhet. ad Alex. Suet. cap. 25. Augustus saying most diuine in matters of states for that hee was euer careful to haue Alexander gouerned by counsaile knowing well the greatnesse of his minde the conquest which he took in hand Many perish for want of counsayle and many more for not accepting of counsell Wise counsayle and the reward thereof was more giuen in Sparta to the Captayne that subdued the enemyes by policy and counsell then by the sword for that attempt sayd Augustus is not to bee enterprised where more feare is in losing then hope in getting the victory The Carthagineans so esteemed wise counsel that if any of their Captains had done any thing but by wise counsel though they had obteyned great victories the law in Carthage was that they should die Great Captaynes wanne more by counsaile then by the Sword Pluraconsilio quàm vi magnos Duces perfecisse Wise Princes must be like Ianus looking backward as well as Tacit. 11. Ann. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 forward It was Sertorius saying to Pompey the great Quod respicere magis quàm prospicere oporteat Ducem That a wise Gouernor looketh backward as well as forward But Ambition sayth Seneca neuer looketh backe but forward Plut. in Serto. how hee may enterteyne factious and seditious men to hold him vp They neuer thinke of their owne liues when they imagine to preuent others of their liues Sedition therfore is as dangerous to Kings in their kingdomes as to Commaunders in Field in the Army For so Seneca said Idem ius habet aduersus imperia atque aduersus imperantes Sectio 2. SERVIVS GALBA vnder pretence Oros lib. 5 cap. 21. of doing of some great good vnto the Lusitanians assēbled the chiefest men the gallantest Youths of three great Cities to the nomber of seuen thousand whome hee most trecherously and falsly slewe which mooued great Sedition and tumult in Spaine against the Romanes Hastrubal intending vnder the colour of hunting to inuade Numidia being resisted by the Numidians told them hee came but to hunt Elephants By the like policy of hunting Hanibal got Tarentū Such a hunter was Nymrod that hunted kings and kingdomes and therefore he was called The mighty Gen. 10. Hunter Ninus was a great hunter of kingdoms countries So may it be said of Cyrus and of Alexander so great hunters were they that they died in their hunting out of their kingdomes Hunting is a military exercise which made Sertorius Plut. in Serto. to vse hunting and to trauaile the hard rockes of Affrica and that he and his soldiers thereby might better indure labour and payne against the Romanes hee acquainted them so much with hunting that they were able to sustayne any hardnesse The cause therefore why Brasidas compared hunting to warre was for that the like stratagems are often inuented and executed in warres against soldiers as the Hunter doeth against diuers kindes of beasts specially

that he was alwayes practised busily to ouerthrow townes and cities and to triumph in his tyranny hee would euer boast and bragge what euill hee had done reioycing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. much in titles of violence and of his conquests as many of the Greekes were wont to do but none of equity and iustice but onely Aristides Another Antigonus surnamed Dosan for that he wold promise any thing but as Plutarch sayth would performe nothing This Antigonus left more heires behinde him in Courts and in Countreyes And there was another Antigonus surnamed Euargetes for that he was a beneficiall Prince a benefactor in all Greece and therfore his Statue was carried at Athens in the Banner of Peplon with the Statues of Iupiter and Mars in memorie of his benefits to the Grecians Such is the continuance of a good Prince for vertues sake and the decay of euyll Princes for their wickednes Cyrus being relieued of the rude and barbarous nation Diodor. lib. 17. called Arimaspi being in much want and great extremytie of victualles for their friendship liberality chāged the name of Arimaspi called them Euargetes Among many Emperours of Rome called Antonines one onely Antoninus surnamed Pius for his zeale and loue towards his coūtry in banishing of Vsury punishing Vsurers in Rome one Alexander called Seuerus for his vertuous seuerity The rest as Heliogabalus Comodus Caracalla others were rather Monsters then good Emperours So much might bee spoken of the kings of Egypt among Many Ptolomies in Egypt so many Ptolomies fewe good sauing Ptolo surnamed Euargetes a benefactor to his countrey and Ptol. Philodelphos for his singular loue zeale to his Countrey in prouiding the Bible to bee translated from Hebrew to Greek yet had the other kings of Egypt of such louing names one surnamed Ptol. Philopater another Philometor as though they should reuerence and loue their parents when in trueth they were no otherwise but paracides and murtherers of their parents and destroyers of their Countreyes The old kings of Egypt which were in nomber 330. were called Pharaones whose names Herodot doth not recite because they were all called Pharaones which in the Egyptian tongue are called kings frō Mineus time that builded Memphis vntil Salomons time for his father in lawe was the last Pharao in Egypt Then reigned Nicaule the Q. of Egypt and Ethiopia Ioseph lib. 8. cap. 2. How long the name of Pharaoes continued who came to Ierusalem to heare to see Salomon with Camelles laden with gold siluer and precious stones After this Queene the name of Pharaoes ended which had continued 1300. yeres from the first vnto the last whose daughter Salomon maried Sectio 5. ANaxarchus the Philosopher flattered Alexander The flattery of Anaxarchus the great when he saw him make much mourning for Clytus whom in his fury he slue Art thou ignorant Alexander said Anaxarchus that anciēt wise men haue placed the Image of Iustice hard by Iupiter that whatsoeuer Iupiter doeth that Iustice doeth alwayes allowe A small matter for Diodor. lib. 17. Gel. lib. 3. cap. 8. Alexander the great to kil Clitus Parmenio and Philotas his sonne when other meaner men then Alexander do practise their policy not onely to kill but also to poyson kings princes so was Alexander that killed so many kings princes poysoned by his seruant Cassander So should Pyrrhus haue bin by his Phisicion seruant Timochares who offered Fabritius to poyson Pirrhus if Fabritius would But the Romane Consull sent word to Pirrhus Vrbem nostram a filio Martis conditam non venenis Cic. 3. Offic. sed armis bellum gerere That Rome was builded by Mars his sonne to wat with weapons and not with poyson concealing the name of Timochares and yet warned Pirrhus to looke better to himselfe Antiochus the great had a Parasite in court named Minio who flattering Antiochus as Anaxarchus did Alexander counselled him to moue warres against the Romanes as Hanibal did before him whereby he lost the name of Antiochus the great in Asia and in Syria Antiochus the great and was driuen by the Romanes to liue within the precinct of mount Taurus so that the Romane Scipio wan Asia frō Antiochus and was named Scipio Asiaticus and not Magnus for the Romanes could not abide the name of Magnus So that by following of ill coūsel Antiochus the Great lost his Greatnesse in Asia and Alexander the Great lost his life in Babylon The like is historied of one Alexander Acarnan that contrarywise neuer tooke counsell to take warres in hand for that he neuer doubted of the victory but cōsulted where how he might haue money by practising of policy Liui. 33. Many do imitate this rash felow who to accomplish their trecherous purpose make more haste then good speed without regard of that which doth follow for delayes are dangerous for seditious men to practise Policy Malum nascens facile opprimitur Rebelles may not delay as Fab. Maximus did to weary Hanibal Sedition is Tacit. 11. full of feare one fearing another lest the one bee betrayed by the other all the practises of the seditious is to sowe Discord no hope resteth vnto them but by discord and therefore said Cicero against that seditious Romane Cateline Qui honores quieta Repub. desperant perturbata se consequi posse arbitrantur Many Catelines were in Rome which vnder pretence of liberty practised all the policyes they could to ouerthrow the Commonwealth Tumultum ex tumultu et bellum ex bello serunt Neuer quiet vntil they see the state of a kingdome vnquiet and many say in their hearts as Cateline spake of Rome Aut incendio aut ruina extinguam Attilius Regulus was a man of great credit and authority and of more truth and fayth towards his countrey Front lib. 4. cap. 3. then Cateline hauing runne ouer so many great Offices in Rome and out of Rome that at his death he wrote nothing to the Senators but de Successore of a Successor which was hard for the Senators to find in Rome the like to succeed him So iust and faythfull a man was Attilius found in Rome The like is historied of Luc. Mummius after he had subdued many townes and Cities but especially Corinthus Luc. Mummius the richest and chiefest City in all Greece that he filled all Italy with Tablets Statues and Images all other rich ornaments and though Mummius might haue bin Lord of Corinthus yet had he rather dye a poore man in his countrey at Rome Attalus surnamed Philometor had great delight to plant venemous hearbs as Hemlocke Wolfeband Eleborum others and being required of one of his Nobles why he planted such venemous hearbs he answered To practise policy Such policy practised Dalila against Samson Pharaoes daughter against Salomon Tullia Tarquins wife Iudg. 14. 3. Reg. 11. practised such policy against the king Seruius Tullus her father Some plow