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A16632	Almansor the learned and victorious king that conquered Spaine. His life and death published by Robert Ashley, out of the librarie of the Uniuersitie of Oxford.; Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo. Part 2. English. Selections	Luna, Miguel de, 16th/17th cent.; Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641.	1627 (1627)	STC 354; ESTC S100094	34,400	96

his weightiest affaires and matters of most importance as with a man of Learning and Wisdome who gaue him sound aduice and of whom he had learned much To that house therefore among those woodie Mountaines he withdrew himselfe there hence often repayring to that Mezquita and Monasterie to recreate himselfe in conference and couersation with Mahomet el Gazeli not permitting any to visit him but his Seruants and his ancient Alcaydes neither them for their pleasure or pastime for if they came not on some businesse of importance or earnest occasion he admitted them not to his presence neither suffered them to visit him In this manner hee passed his life with great quietnesse and freedome from cares Hee very cunningly and subtilly vsed to examine such of his ancient Seruants and Alcaydes as came vnto him euery of them apart by himselfe and that very particularly in what manner his Sonne Abilgualit Abninace gouerned his Kingdomes whether his Subiects spake well of him whether they complayned or misliked him on iust cause or otherwise with such diligence he learned out of all of them what faults they found and obserued in him And this King Almansor being zealous of the common good of his Kingdomes and desirous that his Sonne should rule well intending to reprehend him of some things and instruct him how hee should gouerne without reciting or mentioning any one particular case of any that had complayned to him wrote this Letter vnto him which for the good admonitions therein contayned I haue thought fit heere to set downe The Letter of King Almansor PRayse bee giuen to the Souereigne God to whom Sacrifice and Prayer belongeth Amen And his plenteous blessing and Grace come vpon you my Sonne for without it no creature of his can doe any good thing be it neuer so little seeing all that is good commeth of his hand This being thus premised I haue thought good by this Letter to aduertize you of some things which you are to obserue co●●erning the Gouernment of your Kingdoms that your Subiects may enioy much peace with safetie and tranquillitie and that also you may be duely reuerenced loued and feared of them as is conuenient The first that you are to take care of is that you be not proud high-minded nor presumptuous imagining diuers imaginatiōs because you see your selfe made Lord of so many and so great Kingdomes and Armies by Sea and by Land so many valorous Alcaydes and Captaines humbled in your Royall presence obedient to all your commands and readie to execute whatsoeuer you shall appoint To free your selfe from this great Temptation you are to consider the infinite power and euerlasting Kingdom of God hauing no beginning middle nor end being of incomprehensible power and wisdome And therewithall you are to consider that your Kingdome is not infinite but hath his limits and bounds and is to finish and to haue an end as also the very memory of it among men With this consideration you shall bee in such sort humbled as is requisite you should Secondly you ought to consider that the Souereigne God created you in this World and gaue you power as a second cause of his to fulfill his most holy will in the Gouernment of his creatures heere on earth by mayntayning Iustice and vsing Mercie and Clemencie imitating your Creatour and not to erre in the administration of this Office you ought to behold and contemplate the Booke of this faire Theatre called the World this subordination of naturall Causes this regular and continuall mouing of the Heauens Signes and Planets so many Generations and corruptions in reasonable men and in all other things created in the Earth in the Water and in the Aire the Night and the Day the Raine Haile and Wind the changes of Times Heate and Cold and other alterations innumerable being all created in such orderly disposition with such Wisdome perfection and Prouidence as the wisest and skilfullest could neuer attaine to know and how from the time in which hee created this goodly Frame to this present and to the last instant in which it shall please him that it cease and haue end it neither hath beene nor shal be needfull to adde or take any thing to it or from it for that were to suppose some imperfection in his Workes which cannot bee because he is the God of highest perfection Moreouer to consider how hee sustayneth it gouerning and maintayning all things with Iudgement and Mercy with great and wonderfull Prouiden●● such a one he is You ought therefore to perceiue that your Gouernment is Disorder your Iustice Jniustice your Mercie is want of Clemencie your Charitie Couetousnesse your carefull Diligence is Slothfulnesse and to conclude that all your Knowledge is but Ignorance And I can assure you that if you would be mercifull to his Creatures yet you cannot pardon their sinnes If you bee a good Iusticer you can onely chasten their bodies not their Soules If neuer so charitable you cannot giue a blessing to their goods If you bee large and louing yet you cannot make them liue foreuer If you incline to giue them case and rest yet you cannot giue them glorie If you desire to adde comfort to them yet you can giue them no true and perfect consolation of Spirit Behold therefore what I say vnto you that you may know how great is the miserie of man Seeing that with all your power and Kingdomes you cannot make one drop of water to fall out of the Region of the Cloudes nor make one lease of a Palmotree nor yet deliuer and free your selfe from the least tribulation of the World The third thing which you are to call to mind is that you must die and must be iudged by our Souereigne God with a strict account of the good and euill you haue done in this life like a sinfull miserable man and that ouer and aboue this account which is to bee giuen by all men in generall Kings are to yeeld another particular to the Almightie God which is whether they haue well administred and gouerned their Common-weales If only in regard of their Kingly power they haue dealt hardly with their Subiects without any iust cause or offence of theirs If they haue imposed great payments or exacted vnnecessarie Tributes If they haue done wrong or vniustly for their particular interest if they did not condole with the poore and relieue and ease the oppressed hauing power to remedie their distresse and to redresse their grieuances and to conclude if they haue beene carelesse of the good of their Common-weales Woe bee to the Soules of such for they shall be condemned to perpetuall torments By this you may cleerely see that you and your Kingdomes are nothing and haue no being whereof to make any reckoning I assure you therefore that if you had duely considered the charge and dutie whereunto you bound your selfe that day on which I resigned the Gouernment into your hands that you had more cause to mourne and to

Alfaqui Mayor of the Mezquita of his Court and the Morabito Mahometo Algazeli with all his Monkes or Disciples and the King Abilgualit and the Infant Abraham his Brother with all their Seruants the Alcaydes that were Gouernours and those of the Supreme Councels with their Presidents and all the other Alcaydes of the Court whether of Peace or of Warre which were twelue hundred in number The common people being there innumerable for there was almost none but would bee present at this Solemnitie All these Courtiers and Alfaqui were clad in mourning garments trayling their Royall Ensignes and Standards on the ground That which was most to be noted was the abundance of teares flowing from them and the great mourning and lamentation they all made that day especially when they saw their good King laid in his Sepulchre and the entrance thereof closed and fast mured vp with stone hauing no farther hope to see him any more Praysed bee God Amen For the good which commeth to vs by his hand And thus ended this good King leaning an eternall memorie of himselfe among those that should come after The Epitaphs on his Sepulchre were composed by Mahomet Algazeli and are these that follow The first Epitaph HEere lyeth buried the high and highly reuerenced King of most Noble Birth famous Race and Linage descended of eightie and two Kings Abilgualit Miramamolin Iacob Almanfor who was worthily called the Conquerour being neuer ouercome the famousest of the Sonnes of Nasts Abu Malique Seeing hee wonne eightie and sixe Battailes by Sea and by Land and tooke fiue Kings subdued three parts of the World Asia Africke and Europe and gaue Peace and Tranquilitie to his Subiects obseruing Iustice with benignitie and mercie This is he that vsed Charitie and augmented his Religion hauing at his owne cost builded in his Kingdomes fiue hundred and sixe principall Mezquitas eightie and two Hospitals with as many Royall Colledges and endowed them with large and sumptuous reuenues This is hee that married euerie yeere at his charge a thousand Orphanes he that banished Jgnorance and imbraced Learning He that gaue to all the World examples of life in his Sayings and Sentences and notable Deeds of Armes Hee who was an example of good and laudable customes He that killed the hunger and thirst and nakednesse of his Subiects with his large and liberall hands Let immortall fame euer 〈◊〉 on this Sepulchre and acknowledge him that●l yet 〈◊〉 therein for her King and Lord seeing by him she is made triumphant and victorious ouer 〈…〉 This great 〈…〉 dyed 〈…〉 in his Inuocation of the Name of the mercifull God the Creatour of Heauen and Earth without ceasing so much at a moment vntill his last gaspe imploring his incomprehensible mercie and fearing his high justice the third day of the Moone of Rageb the night before Fryday This agreeth with the said yeare of 723. after the last watch in the hundred and second yeare of the Hixera Praysed bee God and blessed bee his most holy Name for euer Amen The second Epitaph O How great is the Miserie of men which hath brought a King of so great Power Empire and Command to the estate wherein hee is at this present who as yesterday was honoured reuerenced and beloued of his people and is now forgotten and forsaken of them all and remayneth solitarie in the darke Caues of the earth He which was wont to bee clad in Silke and Cloth of Gold and Siluer and to sleepe in the softest and sweetest beds curiously and richly decked and adorned lyeth heere buried in the hard earth He which vsed to goe persumed with Muske and Amber and other excellent odours now yeeldeth in his base estate a noysome and stinking smell He that as yesterday did eate the choisest meates and dranke the most delicate drinkes is here become himselfe to be the meat of wretched and loth some Wormes O mortall men let none put confidence in the delights of this life Take example of him that lyeth here buried who hauing possessed them obserue how little while they continued There is no confidence to bee placed in any but in God and in things eternall Let these terrene transitorie worldly things bee forgotten for his loue and reuerence Let vs follow good and holy workes which endure for euer that with them through his Grace and Mercie we may obtayne that eternall Life which endureth for euer and euer Amen The third Epitaph HEere lieth buried the terrour and feare of the Moores Christians and Gentiles that ploughed vp the Sea and made the Land euen and playne He that subdued the Nations of the World The example and patterne of benignitie and mercie and the right Rule of executing Iustice seuerely for the chastisement of those which do not liue vertuously as the Souereigne God commandeth Here resteth that liberall hand that was neuer shut or closed to any that sought reliefe thereof The Protector of the poore the Father of the Orphans the refuge of the Widowes the Zeale of Chastitie The Mirrour of Honestie and Shamefastnesse accompanied with Modestie The Patterne of Princes the Modell of Gouernment the Picture of p●ritie and cleannesse the. Type of Nobilitie the preseruer of truth in his Tongue the Banisher of Lyes the true Louer of Learning he that hath lest a liuing fame of himselfe for the future ages and a worthy example of such lasting memory as Time cannot consume which hath consumed the great deeds and exployts of Kings Princes and Emperors burying their memory in Obliuion O yee Mortall Men let vs pray to our Souereigne God that he vouchsafe to prosper and augment his memory for example of the Kings to come that by imitation of him they may gouerne their Common-weales in Peace directing vs also to his holy Seruice and filling vs with his Grace Amen The fourth Epitaph EVen as Gold is refined and purified in the Crusible placed on the fire which discouereth the finenes thereof among the flames So a sinfull man who preserueth his patience in the persecution of this life doth purifie and perfect himselfe thereby A man ought to consider that hee was borne to suffer and her ●●ay comfort himselfe in this that all the trauailes of this life shall haue an and with him at his death and that only the good and holy works are they which remayne for euer being accepted and regarded of our Souereigne God O man consider that hee created thee for his seruice and that thou vngratefully hast departed from him without recompence of amends Behold how luke warme thy loue is towards him and that of thy Creatour towards thee is constant and true hauing giuen thee thy being and accomplishment for his Mercie Consider with how high a price he hough thee and gaue thee meanes to saue thy selfe by vsing well thy libertie and freedome as he hath commanded thee And therefore doe I admonish thee that thou lose not the much for the little the certaine for the vncertaine for if so thou doe thou wilt find thy selfe deceiued Consider how Miserie and Pouertie consisteth not in the wanting of Parents or Kindred or of temporall goods but in want of the fauour of God and of his Benediction