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A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

the victorie the thirteenth of September the fourteenth of September Sultan Syliman dyed before Segett and the seuenteenth the towne was taken the day following Sigismund the father of Augustus king of Polonia put to flight the armie of the Muscouits the day after Iames the king of Scots was slaine with many of his Nobilitie by the English in battayle He reciteth many moe examples besides which we may reade in the fourth booke of his De Republica where hee likewise affirmeth that there haue been many great Princes who haue dyed in that moneth and there he reciteth at least twentie But me thinkes as one well noteth that this should giue too much credit to the moneth of September to the preiudice of the other in that it hath force to change estates and that these curiosities are not to bee admitted of vs but to bee referred rather to the historicall Calender then to bee reputed a matter of sounde doctrine for what moneth is there which may not be authorised with like examples At least it is changed from his former naturall force in respect of that time present for the greatest alterations and change of states at this day and especially in the kingdome of France haue happened betwixt December and August The same may I alleadge likewise of the death of the greatest Lordes of France who dyed in other moneths and that the moneth of September hath almost lost his prerogatiue since For concerning the Princes which haue dyed of late in France and which haue brought notable change with them as we may see at this day we shal finde none which dyed in the moneth of September Mounsâ—ier Duke of Alenson and brother of the late King dyed in Iune 1584. and the tenth of that moneth The Prince of Orange whose death can neuer be sufficiently lamented nor the manner hated and abhorred likewise dyed the same day of Iuly following whose death was violent and practised by the Spanish treason in that manner that neuer historie in respect of the proscription hath made mention of the like vnlesse it be of Pyrats Robbers by sea and such who according to the lawes of nations haue euer been excluded from the benefit of faith trueth and loyaltie and consequently from all saftie for as Tullie writeth Pyrata non est ex perduellium numero definitus sed communis hostis omnium alioqui ius etiam bellicum fidesque iurisiurandi saepe cum hoste seruanda For instance we haue the memorable proscription of Crocotas the arch pyrat of whom Augustus the Emperor caused proclamation to be made by the sounde of his trumpet that whosoeuer would take him should haue a hundred twentie thousand crownes I onely alleadge this in respect of the most detestable murder of the worthie and vertuous Prince of Orange not long after the death of these two great personages followed the fatall ruines of the Lowe Countrey In one worde Catherine of Medices the Duke of Guyse his brother the Cardinall the King of France last slayne by that false Iacobin a murther written in Tymes forhead by the pen of aeternitie to astonish all posteritie these all happened from December to August and therefore mee thinkes September hath small vertue to induce vs to respect it But of all rules which I knowe worth the marking to iudge by of the falles of kingdomes Common wealths I finde none more renounced by Master Bodin then the numbers of seuen and nine and those which arise from the multiplication of these two and the perfect number of 496. which first is obserued by him and he saith the reason is because of the infinite wisdome of God who hath so disposed all things by number that kingdomes themselues after certaine yeres haue ordinarilie come to ende and that humane things fall not out by chance I confesse indeede concerning the criticall dayes whereof the seauenth day is called the King by Galen that from theÌ„ce are drawne strange meruailes of numbers applyed to weekes moneths yeares ages worlds and so to townes Common wealths and Kingdomes whereunto all that may bee referred which we haue spoken before of the periods of 500. of 250. of 700. yeares although I finde such contrarietie in the examples alleadged by Master Bodin for the confirming of these numbers that they are not firmly to be relied on as vndoubtedly true For to the inteÌ„t to haue them established more stronglie he alleadgeth the Romane fasts who as he sayth can neither faile nor lye But on the contrarie Onuphrius who hath corrected them iustly maketh a doubt And as Master Augier sayth he likewise would relye vpon the annales of Fabius pictor And in the first place the better to confirme his Square being the roote of the fatall number composed of twelue Twelues multiplied by 12. he saith that the Monarchie of Rome continued a hundred and fortie yeares which by the consent of all authors continued 244. yeares or thereabout and I finde another which saith it endured longer namely 245. yeares which cannot serue to fulfil the Cube of the fatall number but it is an exceeding fault to slippe a hundred yeares Furthermore to confirme one of the perfect numbers namely that of 196. and to shew the effect of it he sayth that since Augustus vnto Augustulus the last Emperour of the Romanes the one whereof he calleth by the name of Conquering the other of Diminishing there was 496. yeares where the Histories and Chronicles mention fiue hundred On the other side to the intent the better to ground his opinion of nuÌ„bers as likewise to shewe their force he alleadgeth that in holie scripture the law of GOD hath nothing so often as the 7. number be it either in the solemne feasts of the Sabboth or the seauenth moneth be it for the freeing of seruants and leauing the ground without tilth the seauenth yeare which was the yeare of Iubile But some doe reproue this for as much as that the places out of scripture implie naturally a rest or Sabboth whereas on the contrarie the seauenth alleadged for the fall and change of kingdomes is full of troubles depending on humane actions which number can neither be drawne out of the law of God either in plaine tearmes or by way of necessarie consequent yet for all this he confesseth that of those aboue named rules indifferently obserued of diuers authors there is none of necessitie whereupon wee may so iustly relye our selues as to set down a certaine iudgement of things to come seeing that the greatest part of those who haue been willing to iudge of the meanes rules surely touching the foresayd changes they haue ofteÌ„ stayed themselues vpon Astronomie supposing that change of Kingdomes chieflie to depende vpon starres and celestiall causes whereunto God hath sometimes as it were tyed himselfe for the shewing of things to come wherein Satan as the Prince of the ayre maketh

association which wicked spirites haue with men to the example of this diuine conference chiefely that which is done by recitall of certaine charmes namely the papisticall consecrations themselues in respect of salte water and hallowed oyle from whence all had their beginning For if wee would sift out narrowly the meanes which the Chaldeans and Assyrians vsed in their Magick arts to call out the Diuell we shall finde that they vsed as well light waxe candels and holy wordes as the priests doe at this daye There haue been also of other nations as Greekes and Romans who obserued other sortes of superstitions and idolatries by them to forge their diuinations which they did to the imitation of the diuine sacrifices by the inspection of the intrales of beastes which were slaine namely the liuer the hart and the gall which the Latins call Extispicium quasi extorum inspectio Finallie from hence came it in former time that they haue sacrificed humane flesh as it is apparant a thing which was ordinarie long since in the westerne Ilands and chiefely with the Normanes and Danes who alwaies in the moneth of Ianuary made an oblation yearely of ninetie nine men The Romans had in singular estimation the art of diuining by the flying of birds and chiefely by the Angures who had the young ones to that ende nourished in Cages to serue them for their vses but in the ende they were so mocked with them as P. Claudius did well shew then when he would know the successe of the battaile by sea which was to bee performed in the time of the Punicke warre and when the poulterers toulde him the young ones woulde not come out of the Cage he commaunded to cast them into Tyber saying Quia esse nolunt bibant because they will not eate let them drinke And Tullie with diuerse others haue mocked him all they could I onely alleadge these places to this end to touch by the way the ground of these Diuinations and diuelish superstitions which are entred into the world vnder the couer of religion yet notwithstaÌ„ding remaine so ingrafted in many places that they can hardly be rooted out But I intend not to entre at particularlie of many other kindes of Diuinations as Orneomantie Hieroscopie Hidromantie and many like kindes because these properly cannot serue to iudge of the change or ruine of Common wealths contenting my selfe to note out those which concerne the subiect of this particular matter Then it is certaine that al these abominable impieties are by successe of time so increased that the Romane Emperors were constrained for the weale publike to forbid them vpon payne of their liues as appeareth by the draught of the ode de pagan Sacraf Temp. where the second lawe maketh mention of the inspection of intrails and by the 13. lawe ad legem Cor. de Sicarijs may bee seene likewise the forbidding of the foresaide sacrifices whereof there is mention in the title De pagan Sacraf contrarie to the opinion of Accursius Moreouer they haue forbidden all sortes of Diuinations in generall by the title of the Code de Malef Mathemat caeteris By reason whereof the Mathematician of the Duke of Saxonie Iohn UUaynstler complaineth greatly saying that the lawmakers make no distinction of Sorcerers Magitians Cheiromants such like wicked Arts but haue vnder a generall law forbidden all sorts of Diuination But although the lawe generally forbid yet notwithstanding the intent of the law-maker is not such that he would wholly frustrate the true and lawfull Science of Astronomie whereof he maketh no expresse mention but only the abuse of it and other Arts of the Heathen ful of superstition as that of Aruspices of the Augures for theÌ„ they fouÌ„d out 1000. Arts to deceiue the Idiots namely the Diuiners and other Impostors being in so great abundance that the law after the naming of a great part of theÌ„ not knowing the true distinction saith Et caeteros quos maleficos ob facinorum multitudinem vulgus appellat and for this abuse the Mathematicians likewise are comprehended in them Saint Augustine giuing the true interpretatioÌ„ of the word Mathematician by reason of the abuses aboue mentioned he compareth them to those whom at that time they called Genethliacos and sayth Perniciosae superstitionis homines qui Genethliaci propter natalium dierum considerationeÌ„ nunc autem vulgo Mathematici vocaÌ„tur Tully speaketh expresly that the Mathematicians agree with the Soothsayers in that which concerneth the art of Diuining Bodin speaking of the lawes contained in the title aboue sayd compareth theÌ„ with Sorcerers whereas they are called enemies of nature enemies of mankind witches for the great wickednesses they commit and by reason of the exceeding imprecations which the lawes haue against them the like whereof are in no law to be found but against Sorcerers That cruell plague sayth the law may be extinguished consumed And although that the lawe Item apud vers Si quis Astrologus D. de iniurijs seemeth willingly to take indifferently the Astrologer for the Diuiner Magitian or like abuser yet notwithstanding it must be rightly vnderstood and according to the proper words of the text namely Qui aliquam illicitam Diuinationem pollicetur onely taxing there the abuse and vnlawfull meanes vsed vnder the cloake of Astrologie wherefore he reporteth that lawe Si quis aliquid D. de poenis like as the former law De extraord cognit vers Medicos sayth that he is not to be called a Phisition which either by exorcising or inchaunting cureth so likewise he is not to be called an Astrologer who abuseth his arte and the notable skill of Astronomie We shall find also that the word Chaldaeus is often vsed for a Sorcerer or Inchaunter yet notwithstanding it doth not followe thereupon in general it must be vnderstood so of all The Dreames which wee call Diuinatorie or presaging differ from naturall Dreames in that these happen not by reason of the motion or abundance of any humor or other qualitie of the bodie but by a singular vertue and influence of the starres who as it were moued with an vnderstanding of things to come affect likewise the braine of him that dreameth by a commixtion coniunction of the first qualities which are betwixt theÌ„ from the beginning in such sort that the Dreamer being as it were aduertised hee imprinteth that in his braine and so continually thinking to knowe the euent by little and little the formes and figures of things to come represent themselues vnto his spirit Somtimes that is reueiled by a comparison of things to come as the Dreame of King Astyages who dreamed that from the wombe of his daughter Madanes came forth a Vine so great large that it couered with the shadowe of it all the parts of his Realme The like haue we of Madian who dreamed that

or none can be fouÌ„d to followe their example Wee liue to render an account for this offence but God graunt wee bee not found faultie and chastised for our labour for it is not by chance but by our sinne that we haue but the apparance of a state well gouerned the trueth whereof we haue lost long since This Orator weighing the vertue and honestie of the ancient Romanes against the ambition ryotous demeanour of his time found that his feare was not causeles for the ruine of the Common wealth In like manner may I poore desolate and distressed caitife doe if within my bowels vntimely bred by my owne follie be found signes of greater daunger and not so much remaining as the verie name of honestie for to my vnsufferable vnpitied griefe Modestie Sobrietie are changed into all manner of dissolution There could not bee found amongst them in the sober times of our forefathers such needles excesse of all superfluities for they were sober frugall and full of strength fit to labour the earth and to weild armes knowing as Alexander the Great made remonstrance to them of Macedon who sawe Darius his armie shine with gold that all that sumptuous showe should bee nothing but a richer spoyle to them which were clad with yron Late is the time since the Lowe Countries Images of my state and a glasse whereby to addresse my selfe since the Duke of Burgonie as Cominaeus writeth could gaine nothing of the Swizard for his poore pouertie And howsoeuer in Caesars time conquering ambition that ment to make the Romane Eagle pearch vnder the North-pole could hardly bee content to suffer me to liue free from inuasion yet now my abundance hath made me an eye sore to my neighbour Kings and the vaine superfluities of some hath made the world beleeue that my Albion cliffes are white rockes of pure Diamont and that vnder pretence of burning coale my poore inhabitants digge out mines of burnisht gold Sparta howsoeuer thy wise counselling Licurgus aduised thee often yet vntimely didst thou perish by this meanes And Rome late mentioned to honours infamie thou hadst neuer been spoyled by the Gaules sought vnto by theÌ„ of Carthage sacked by the Gothes VaÌ„dals if thy streets had not bin hung with tapestrie thy Matrons brau'd it in their golden chariots and thy young men vnaduisedly lasciuious as mine doe at this day neglect their home borne poore and brag of their wealth as to make challenge by proclamation to the whole world what can this bee but vntimely set me to saile make me a pray to the neuer glutted couetous monster enuies marke that which my owne cannot spend fast enough by prodigalitie that to cause others to rob me of by tyrannie and that which is worst of al fewe or none but distressed I consider the harmes caused by these euils For to remember the times neuer to be forgotten when old Brutus liu'd seuere lawes prohibiting these intemperancies which howsoeuer made in abundance seeme to sleepe at this day with seuere discipline strengthned the sinewes of my Common wealth forbidding me thereby to come to dissolution and couetousnesse imitating their estates who haue highly risen by obseruation of such lawes and by their continuall paynes gained that fame which I loose by my perpetuall ease O if those ancient lawes if those strict and seuere customs had renewed their force in the midst of me they would haue serued to haue remedied my euill by want whereof I feare my state shall be no better then Rome or Sparta betwixt whom these lawes hauing lost their vertue in stead of emulation for woorth in true honor they proudly bandied vaine titles striuing which should be most prodigal and thus each corrupting other both became so distressed that they were compelled to retaile that which they had bought by grosse and in the end remaine a perpetuall example of a memorable vengeance and so make Rome subiect to Caesars Tiberius and other tyrannies Behold a true mirrhor which makes me see my sentence to bee iust and that there is no plague more deadly poysonful then pleasure whose rash desires presume vpon gouernmeÌ„t and not fearing to touch her sacred throne fill the land ful of treasons the subiects full of impietie and in the end doth ruinate the whole state This I might witnesse by sundrie whose excessiue pride and intollerable pleasures putrifying the ayre haue filled their houses with contagion fiered their walles and the earth as wearie hath deuoured them vp But that which besides these for these I silently passe as being but the faults of some fewe which doth make my feare to increase daily like the warlike engine that ploweth furrowes in the armie shall batter downe the walles of my peace if prouision in time preuent not so foule a mischiefe is the hatefull discord vntying those firme knottes which once bound my armor so faste about mee that I contemned open violence as being too weake to encounter mee and scorned vndermining treacherie as beeing too foolish to supplant my prosperitie For where are now become these renowmed amities of our forefathers these common resolutions sometime vsuall to mine inhabitants those iealous mindes impatient of strangers pride vniting themselues least forreiners should doe them wrong what is become of that once vsed true-hearted loue towardes me their countrie hath not enuie dissimulation and needeles discord so shaken the pillars of my age the staye of mine honor the fortresse of my Iland and the posteritie of my land that my diuines may say Ephraim is against Manasses Manasses against Ephraim and both against Iuda that my tragick-writers may compare me to poore Iocasta that Eteocles and Pollinyces haue both forgotten that one wombe bare them both smale distance parted but those two teates which so often gaue them both sucke nor could that hatred after death liuing hatred possiblie proceede from poore Iocasta And let these speake if shame will let them speake if the least shew of harme the smallest shadowe of iniurie if pretence were giuen of the least wrong by my meanes did I spoyle them of their wealth and closelie solde them to be a praie to strangers did I banish without cause their kinsemen wiues or children to liue distressed in a forraine countrie did I hide nigardly the benefites of my peace and plentie from them Let him answer me that is most vnthankeful hath iust cause been offered on my part why discorde distracting my inhabitants shoulde lay me open to the spoile of mine enemies could their cause proceed from a poore Iland that I should haue my princesse surprised by treason my nobilitie defamed by slander my statelie buildings vndermined by tyrannie and my selfe left comfortles to lament my fortune was it english men for though crueltie forbids yet kindenes makes mee so tearme you was it I say any iust cause but supposed by my meanes I

dayes of Theodosius the younger when the Sarracins came to helpe the Persians against whome hee fought the Angels from heauen like the starres against Sisera troubled the Sarracens that in Euphrates there was drowned a hundred thousand thus Iulian whilest he was my friende made Italie Afrike stoope to the Roman Empire but sodainely perished wheÌ„ he had reuolted thus Heraclius conquered the Persians till hee became a Monothelite I could alleadge histories of these latter times but being a controuersie for the true religion howsoeuer indeede it is without controuersie I will not doe them that wrong to grounde vpon a thing that is not yet graunted the contentions for my cause and the apish pollicies of other countries hath pittifully perswaded them to become Atheists I haue encountred the Papists and tolde him he mistakes the trueth his religion is meere erronious and whilst I went about soundely to perswade this Satan raised vp the lewde faction of irreligious Brownists to tell the worlde that England was not so happie to haue a Churche that titles of honour were things impertinent to trew religion that decencie was a matter of ceremonie which was no sooner bruted in the worlds eare but the Papists began scoffingly to contemne my trueth and the Atheist prophanely to thinke there was none at all But I am loath to rake in the dead cinders of polluted Machiuell whoÌ„ though Satan made an instrument to disgrace me and with his dregges dangerouslie poysoned the best states yet shall my trueth like the sunne from vnder a cloude shine clearely in the dayes of Elizabeth And men famouslie learned in all knowledge as some haue done in other places shall openly shew vnto the worlde that such pollicies are but cankers to a Common wealth such discordes weapons sheathed in the wombe of true religion and those great promises nothing but Cannon shot to vndermine if it were possible the rocke where vpon I stand And concerning the other which in a forwarde pretended zeale haue desired to cleare the mudde that hath troubled the fountaine to roote out the weedes that haue hindered the corne to trie out the drosse that hath dimd the golde haue vnawares howsoeuer some of them politickelie malicious stopped the fountaine plucked vp the corne and confounded the treasure of true religion so that if they might haue preuailed as they might haue preuailed if diligent care had not been taken in this respect the Churche must haue withered as wanting springs the people must haue famished as wanting corne and religion must haue begged as wanting treasure In deede iust faultes haue been founde for that many insufficient haue taken vpon them so great charge that the Bishops haue paultered their liuings in so base a manner that forgetting their honor they haue seemed to be familiar with meane persons that they haue suffered the patrons of their liuings to present any nay that which is most intollerable that they haue consented whilest patrons haue paused so long a thing needelesse so neere an Vniuersitie to finde one sufficient to take the charge that either a haruest must quite the cost that the patron hath had by many suters or if it can bee compasfed it shall bee plainelie temporall I feele my selfe both too feeble to complaine and too farre spent to remedie so great a mischiefe faultes will bee yet religion must bee the daies are euill but my charge is not to leaue England whilest the world endureth and if I must being her companion I will dye valiantly in her cause LOYALTIES SPEECH TO ENGLANDS CHILDREN AFter abundant triall of my many fauours giue me leaue not vpbrayding you with benefits you haue receiued only in equall comparison of other countries to shew the wealth of Englands subiects the happines of her land the increase of her honor the contentment and the euerlasting fame of her three children and of all these obtained by my meanes Now as the religious dutie to your Prince the kind affection to your countrie and the common care amongst your selues one towards another are things not onely requisite for your good but likewise commanded by the lawes of God and nature so rebellion a thing which I quake to heare of sedition a thing which I hope I shal neuer heare of are both so capitall in themselues and so detested of all ages as the people must needs be barbarous that liue to doe them and the Prince land and people lamentably miserable that liue to suffer them And if it were not that false pretences an vsuall cloak for the greatest faults did make men thinke they were lesse offensiue neuer traitor would intend his Princes death but take punishment of himselfe for so bad a thought neuer subiects would draw their swords in seditious manner but sheath them in the guiltie intrals of their owne bowels And therfore those who haue intended to alter or vsurpe the state of their superiours which we call rebellion not to bee branded with so foule a shame not to be noted with so blacke a marke not to be called by so bad a name haue indeuoured to signifie their sinisters practises by a good pretence and haue imployed such for the effecting of them as inconstancie hath made desirous of a chaunge Atheisme careles by what meanes Prodigalitie beggars and full of want and lastly want hath made them to growe desperate The trueth hereof is apparantly knowne both by ancient histories and of later time not onely within these small dominions hemmed with the narrow seas but in populous and large Italie within the walles of proud stately and commaunding Rome where the often Secessions of the coÌ„mon people to the Mount Auentin may plainly testifie that malecontented they preteÌ„ded a reformation of the rich Nobilitie So that the horrible strange and detested practises of our time which some most irreligiously haue plotted to obtaine their purpose being nothing in trueth but an ouerflowing ambition an insatiable desire to rule haue been smoothed ouer with the fine tearmes of a common good of the freedome of the people of iustice of religion of reformation and such like things onely mentioned in name and no further intended then in a bare shewe thus delt they that sought to alter the Romane Empire by lighting the torch of ciuill dissention pretending the more easily to winne the people to free them from subsidies and oppression which then seemed by their gouernours to lye vpon them making a shew to the common sorte that they tendered their case in so great a measure that they could not longer indure to see them afflicted in so bad a manner These pretences wee reade to haue been made in France these haue been made in our countrie and there was neuer either subiect seditious in the CommoÌ„ wealth or heretike hatefull to Gods Church but they desired to be accounted Euangelike and Apostolike reformers their bad conuenticles Cockatrices to hatch

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