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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20143	The three orations of Demosthenes chiefe orator among the Grecians, in fauour of the Olynthians, a people in Thracia, now called Romania with those his fower orations titled expressely & by name against king Philip of Macedonie: most nedefull to be redde in these daungerous dayes, of all them that loue their countries libertie, and desire to take warning for their better auayle, by example of others. Englished out of the Greeke by Thomas Wylson doctor of the ciuill lawes. After these orations ended, Demosthenes lyfe is set foorth, and gathered out of Plutarch, Lucian, Suidas, and others, with a large table, declaring all the principall matters conteyned in euerye part of this booke. Seene and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunctions.; Selections. English	Demosthenes.; Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581.	1570 (1570)	STC 6578; ESTC S109558	171,123	198

those things wherein euery man is bounde to serue both with his bodie and goodes surely that is not well no God knowes it is farre wide Howbeit there may be some excuse made for it Marie in that you be not willing to giue eare to that which might be told you should be fitte for you to receyue councell in surely that is altogither worthie of blame in you For it is your custome neuer to heare of the matter till things be come euen vppon you as it is now Neyther will you take coūcel of any matter so long as you be in quietnesse but when Philip maketh preparation against you than do you neglecting to do the same in like maner to prepare against him sit still ydlely And who so euer telleth you of it you thrust him out streight Againe when you heare of any place lost or besieged then you begin to hearken and buckle to armor where as your fittest tyme had béene to haue giuen eare euē then to haue taken councel when you weare most vnwilling And that preparation which you had made to put in practise and execution euen nowe at this present when you make it your tyme of consultation So that by this your maner of dealing you onely amongst all others doe things cleane contrary to all the worlde For all other folkes vse to take councell before thinges be in doing whereas you begin to deale when all is done Nowe therefore that thing which remayneth to be sayde and should haue bene done long before and yet there is no time to late nowe neyther I will shewe the same vnto you Of all things in the worlde our Citie hath néede of none so much for these matters that be euen at hande as of money And fortune of hir selfe hath offered vs good lucke which if we can vse well there may perhappes some méete thing be done First and formost suche as the king of Persia puttes hys trust in and hath taken to be his benefactor sthey do hate Philip and be at warre with him Again he that was all in all and priuie with Philips practises agaynst the Persian the same man is nowe taken away from his charge And the Persian shall heare al his practises not by any of our cōplaints in which case he might suspect vs to speake for our owne profite but by him that was himselfe the aucthor and chiefe minister there in so that our accusasion shal cary the more credite with it and your Ambassadours talke shall be such hereafter as the king will heare it to his very great delyte and pleasure that he who hurteth vs both shall be reuenged of vs both and also that King Philip shall be a much more terrible enimie to the Persian if he first set vpon vs For should we be once forsaken and distressed he would then without feare marche towardes him And for all these causes I thinke it good that you doe dispatch Ambassadors to treate with the king of Persia and lay away these simple and slender reasons of your owne whereby you haue béene so oftentymes hindered as those The Persian he is a Barbarian so he is forsooth and a common enimy to al men and al the lyke talke Nowe surely I for my part when I sée a man stande in great feare of him that dwelles at Susae and Ecbatana and beare vs in hand that he is enimy to this country who both heretofore hath holpen the matters of our City that weare out of frame nowe also hath promised vs his ayde which his offer if you did not receyue but refused it by common decrée he is not to be blamed therfore And yet the same man to report otherwise of that errant rouer of the Gréekes who is risen aloft hard by our noses euen at our owne gates within the verye hart of Greece at him do I much marueile and that man feare I whosoeuer he be bicause he feareth not Philip. There is an other thing plagues this City besides al this which is cast abrode vpon a certain vniust slaunder vncomly talke of men and besides that giueth an excuse cloke to such as be not willing to doe their duties within the Citie and of all those things that are wanting when that want shoulde be supplied by anye bodie you shall finde the blame layde on this thing Whereof albeit I am greatly adradde to speake yet for all that I will tell you my mind and I hope I shal haue good matter to speake of for the profite of the Citie aswel on the behalfe of the poore to the rich as for them that haue substaunce to the néedie so that we remooue those slaunderous reports which certaine men do spreade abrode vpon no iust cause touching the theater charges or stage money and also if we woulde cast away this feare that this thing will not be stayed without some great mischiefe than which thing I thinke there can be nothing more for our profit nor generally more for the preseruation and establishment of this Citie Consider the matter thus with your selues Albeit first of all I will speake of them that are the poorer sort The time was and that not long ago neyther when the reuenues of this Citie weare not aboue a hundred thirtie talents and yet there was no man that was able to mainteine a Galley at his owne proper charges or to pay any taxe or tallage that grudged to doe his dutie for want of money But there weare Galleyes set foorth and they made money in good tyme and all things were done as they should be After this by good lucke the common reuenew of the Citie encreased and in stéed of one hundred there came in foure hundred talents and yet was no man pinched in his goodes or lost any thing but rather got by it For why the rich wealthie men came to haue their part of it and good reason Then what ayleth vs that we hit one another in the téeth and vnder a cloke therof resist to do our duties Vnlesse it be so that we doe enuie the offered ayde that fortune sendeth to the poore whome neyther I my selfe doe blame nor yet would haue others to finde fault with them For euen in priuate families and housholdes I cannot sée the yonger sort to be of that disposition towardes their elders nor any so out of order or so foolish that if any bodie doe not so much as himselfe he will therefore say that he will doe nothing neyther Such a fellowe surely should then féele the daunger of the lawes prouided agaynst euill handling of our elders For I think euery man is bound of right to yéeld that dutie willingly of his owne accorde towards his parents which both nature and lawe haue ordeyned And as euery one of vs particularly hath a father so ought we all to thinke that all the Citizens are commō parents of the whole