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A02299	Archontorologion, or The diall of princes containing the golden and famous booke of Marcus Aurelius, sometime Emperour of Rome. Declaring what excellcncy [sic] consisteth in a prince that is a good Christian: and what euils attend on him that is a cruell tirant. Written by the Reuerend Father in God, Don Antonio of Gueuara, Lord Bishop of Guadix; preacher and chronicler to the late mighty Emperour Charles the fift. First translated out of French by Thomas North, sonne to Sir Edward North, Lord North of Kirthling: and lately reperused, and corrected from many grosse imperfections. With addition of a fourth booke, stiled by the name of The fauoured courtier.; Relox de príncipes. English	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545? Aviso de privados. English.	1619 (1619)	STC 12430; ESTC S120712	985,362	801

strife comming to the Noble-mans eare whome they accompanie it might easily happen that that companie that came to wayte vpon him and to doe him honour and seruice should then seeme to dishonour and offend him Little knoweth he what honor meaneth when in these trifles hee seeketh it For the wise and courteous Courtyer hath not only to seeke honour with them with whom he rideth cheeke by cheeke but also with those that are beloued of the Prince Now when the Noble-man is accompanyed and that hee is come hard by the Court your Courtyers bee readie to alight off your horse quickely before him and when hee shall likewise take his horse againe be as ready to take your horse backe before him For doing thus you shall bee neare about him when hee lighteth off his horse and afterwards helpe him when hee mounteth on his horse againe If perhaps at the comming in of a Chamber the Lordes seruants want consideration or that they remember not to holde open the cloth ouer the dore the good and diligent Courtier should sodenly put himselfe before him to lift and hold it vp For many times it is as great an honour for a Courtier to be accounted one of good maner and bringing vp in the Court as out of the Court it is to be reputed a great and famous Captaine in wars And since the Courtier is determined to accompany some noble man to the Court hee is also bound by the Lawes of the Court to wayte vpon him home againe which if hee doe the Noble man shall bee more beholding to him for the attendance hee hath giuen vpon him then for his cōpany to ride with him If any come to speake with the courtier that were equall with him in degree or meaner of calling or condition then himselfe it is one of the first and chiefest points of ciuility good manner not to suffer him to open his lips to speake to him before hee haue his cappe on his head for one to talke commonly with the other with his cappe in his hand is of great authority and reuerence as from the duty of the subiect to the Prince or that of the seruant to the Master The good Courtier must euer speake againe to him that speaketh to him do him reuerence that doeth him reuerence put off his cappe to him that putteth off his and this hee must doe without any respect that hee is his friend or foe for in the effects of good maners no man ought so much to bee an Enemie that the enmitie should breake the boundes of curtesie and humanity It is rather fit for common persons then for Courtlike gentlemen in so meane things to shewe their enmitie For to say truely the good Courtyer should not shewe the enmitie of the heart by putting on or pulling off his Cap but by taking sworde in hand to reuenge his quarrell And if the Courtyer were in the Church Court or in the Chappell of the Prince and set and an other gentleman happely commeth in the same place where he is he must doe him the curtesie to giue him the place and seat and to pray him to sit downe yea and if there were no other place fit for the gentleman to sit in and that of curtesie also hee would not offer him that iniurie to accept it yet at the least let the Courtyer doe what hee may to make him take a peece of his stoole that parting with him his seate the other may also come to part with him his heart If those that were set hard by the Courtyer begun to talke in secrete together he should rise from thence or goe a little aside from them For in the Court they wil say he is ill taught and brought vp and wanteth ciuilitie and good manners that will seeme to harken to any bodyes tales or secrets The Courtyers must haue frienship also with the Porters to open him the Court-gates that are kept fast chained in that they be contented to suffer their Moyle or Foot-cloth-nagge to enter into the vtter-court And the like must be practised with the gentlemen-Vshers of the Chamber and Captaine of the Garde to whom hee must doe a thousand pleasures that they may respect his person and let him come in when he wil. and the next way to winne his friendship and to continue them friendes and to be welcome of them is to feast them otherwhiles sometimes with a banket but especially not to faile them with a new-yeares gift on New-yeares day what Trifle or present soeuer it bee That Courtyer that is not acquaynted with the Vshers and doth them no pleasures may bee well assured that those aboue in the Hall will make him tarry in the vtter-Court and those that stand at the gate of the Cheyne they will make him light in the myre With the Vshers of the priuie-Chamber hee must needes deale honourably withall as to come and see them sometimes and to do them much honour in giuing them some faire iewell or presenting them with a Gowne or Coate-cloth of silke or veluet And thus he shall be assured they will not only let him into the priuie-chamber but they will also procure him to speake with the Prince at his best leysure To make the yeomen of the Guarde also that make gentlemen giue place and stand a loose off-from the Prince it cannot bee but very profitable for the Courtyer to haue them his friends For many times they may helpe vs to a fit place to talke with the King it is such a trouble and charge to speake with the Prince that if wee haue not greaat Friendship with these we haue spoken of and that we doe them some pleasures before we come to the Court they will shut the dores against vs and wee shall come home ashamed of our selues For a Courtyer to bee acquaynted with the Ladies and gentlemen of the Court it is rather of pleasure then of necessitie albeit it be true that the young-Courtyer that serueth not some Ladie or Dame in the Court shall be rather blamed of his shamefastnesse and Cowardly heart then approued for his modestie and grauitie In deede for a young-Gentleman that is rich noble and free-harted it is an honest and comely entertainment to become some Ladyes seruaunt of the Court But for him that is poore liuing in disgrace and out of fauour let him vtterly flye the loue of Courtly Dames and sticke to the poor-friends ship of deuout Nunnes For the property of Courtly Mistresses is to empty their seruants-purses and the manner of religious-Nunnes to beg alwayes of him that visites her The Courtyer that offereth himselfe to serue any Ladie or gentlewoman in court doth bind himselfe to a streight religion For sometimes hee must kneele by her of one knee sometimes he must stand vppon his Feete before her and alwayes he must haue his cap in his hand and he may not speake to her vnlesse shee commaund him first and if shee aske any thing

vndefamed Diadumius the Hystoriographer in the life of Seuerus the xxj Emperour declareth that Apuleius Rufinus who had beene Consull twice and at that time was also Tribune of the people a man who was very aged and likewise of great authoritie throughout Rome came one day to the Emperour Seuerus and saide vnto him in this sort Most inuict Prince alwayes Augustus knowe that I had two children the which I committed to a Maister to bring vp and by chaunce the oldest increasing in yeares and diminishing in vertues fell in loue with a Romaine Ladie the which loue came too late to my knowledge For to such vnfortunate men as I am the disease is alwayes past remedie before the daunger thereof commeth to our knowledge The greatest griefe that herein I feele is that his Maister knewe and concealed the euill and was not onely not a meanes to remedie it but also was the chiefe worker of Adultery betweene them to be committed And my Sonne made him an obligation wherein he bound himselfe if he brought him that Romaine Ladie hee would giue him after my death the house and Heritages which I haue in the gate Salaria and yet heerewith not contented but he and my Sonne together robbed me of much money For loue is costly to him that maintaineth it and alwayes the loues of the Children are chargeable to the Fathers Iudge you now therefore Noble Prince this so haynous and slaunderous cause For it is too much presumption of the subiect to reuenge any iniurie knowing that the Lorde himselfe will reuenge all wrongs When the Emperour Seuerus had vnderstood this so heynous a case as one that was both in name and deede seuere commaunded good inquisition of the matter to be had and that before his presence they should cause to appeare the Father the Sonne and the Maister to the ende eache one should alledge for his own right For in Rome none could bee condemned for any offence vnlesse the plaintife had first declared the fault before his presence and that the accused should haue no time to make his excuse The truth and certaintie vpon due examination then knowne and the Offenders confessing the offences the Emperor Seuerus gaue iudgmēt thus I commaund that this Maister be cast aliue among the beastes of the parke Palatine For it is but meete that Beastes deuoure him which teacheth others to liue like beasts Also I do command that the Sonne be vtterly disinherited of all the goods of his Father and banished the Countrey into the Isles of Baleares and Maiorques For the Childe which from his youth is vicious ought iustly to be banished the Countrey and be disinherited of his Fathers goods This therefore of the Maister and the Sonne was done by the complainte of Apuleius Rufynus O how vnconstant fortune is and how oft not thinking of it the thred of life doth breake I say it because if this Master had not beene couetous the Father had not been depriued of his sonne the childe had not beene banished the mother had not beene defamed the common weale had not beene slaundered the master of wilde beasts had not been deuoured neyther the Emperour had been so cruell against them nor yet theyr names in Histories to their infamies had alwayes continued I doe not speake this without a cause to declare by writing that which the euill doe in the World for wisemen ought more to feare the infamy of the little pen then the slander of the babling tongue For in the end the wicked tongue cannot defame but the liuing but the little penne doth defame them that are that were and that shall be To conclude this my minde is that the Master should endeuour himselfe that his Scholler should bee vertuous and that hee doe not despayre though immediately for his paines hee bee not rewarded For though hee bee not of the creature let him bee assured that hee shall be of the Creator For God is so mercifull that hee often times taking pitty of the swette of those that bee good chasteneth the vnthankefull and taketh vpon him to require their seruices CHAP. XXXVIII Of the determination of the Emperour when he committed his childe to the Tutors which hee had prouided for his education CInna the Historian in the first booke of the times of Comodus declareth that Marcus Aurelius the Emperour chose foureteene Masters learned and wise men to teach his son Comodus of the which he refused fiue not for that they were not wise but for that they were not honest And so hee kept these nine onely which were both learned in the Sciences and also expert in bringing vp the children of the Senators though indeed they were very vnluckie in the bringing vp of the Prince Comodus for this cursed Prince had nine Masters which instructed him but hee had aboue nine thousand vices wich vndid him The Emperour Marcus Aurelius made fiue books of declamations and in the third booke the 6. Chapter vnder the title Adsapientes Pedagogos hee brought in these nine Masters and perswaded them greatly that they should bee diligent and attentiue to teach his sonne Comodus And in this matter hee spake vnto them many and graue sentences the words whereof do follow The matter is manifest in Rome and no lesse published thorow out all Italy what paines I tooke to search out so many Sages to instruct my sonne Comodus the which all being examined I kept onely the wisest and the best and though in very deed I haue done much yet I haue not done so much as I am bound For Princes in doubtfull matters ought not onely to demaund counsell of all the good that be aliue but also to take paine to talke with those which are dead That is to reade the deedes of the good in their writings You were foureteene masters chosen whereof I haue put out fiue so that presently you are but nine if indeede you bee Wise men you shall not bee offended with that I haue done for the griefe of euill things proceedeth of wisdome but the admiration of good things commeth of small experience I doe not deny but the wise men doe feele in them passions as men but in the end there is no arte nor science that doth excuse vs from the miseries of men But that whereat I maruell is how it is possible that a wise man should maruell at any thing in this world For if the wise man should be astonied at euery thing of the world it appeareth that there is little constancy or vertue in him at all Returning therefore to our particular talke I haue taken you to bee masters of my sonne and you see of many I chose a few to the end that with few my sonne should be taught For as it is the Fathers duty to search out good masters so it is the masters duty to be diligent about his Scholler The Nurse of my sonne Comodus gaue him sucke two yeares with her teates at the gate

faithfull friend about them to helpe them to passe that paine And not without a cause I say that he ought to be a faithfull friend For many in our life do gape after our goods few at our deaths are sory for our offences The wise and sage men before nature compelleth them to die of their owne will ought to die That is to say that before they see themselues in the pangs of death they haue their consciences ready prepared For if we count him a foole which wil passe the sea without a ship truely we will not count him wise which taketh his death without any preparation before What losest a wisest man to haue his will well ordained in what aduenuenture of honour is any man before death to reconcile himselfe to his enemies and to those whom he hath borne hate and malice What loseth he of his credite who in his life time restoreth that which at his death they will command him to render wherein may a man shew himselfe to bee more wise then when willingly hee hath discharged that which afterwards by processe they will take from him O how many Princes and great Lords are there which onely not for spending one day about their testament haue caused their children and heires all the dayes of their life to bee in trauerse in the Law So that they supposing to haue left their children wealthy haue not left them but for Atturneyes and Counsellers of the law The true and vnfained Christian ought euery morning so to dispose his goods and correct life as if he shold dye the same night And at night in like manner he ought to commit himselfe to GOD as if he hoped for no life vntill morning For to say the truth to sustaine life there are infinite trauels but to meete with death there is but one way If they will credite my wordes I would coūsell no man in such estate to liue that for any thing in the worlde he should vndoe himselfe The Riche and the poore the great and the smal the Gentlemen and the Plebeyans all say and sweare that of death they are exceeding fearefull To whome I say and affirm that he alone feareth death in whome we see amendment of life Princes and great Lords ought also to be perfect to ende before they ende to dye before they die and to be mortified before they bee mortified If they doe this with themselues they shall as easily leaue their life as if they channged from one house to another For the most parte of men delight to talke with leysure to drinke with leysure to eate with leysure and to sleepe with leysure but they die in haste Not without cause I say they die in haste since wee see them receiue the sacrament of the Supper of the Lord in haste male their willes by force and with speede to confesse and receyue So that they take it and demaund it so late and so without reason that often times they haue loste their Sences and are readie to giue vp the spirite when they bring it vnto them What auaileth the Ship-master after the ship is sunke what doe weapons after the battell is lost What auaileth pleasures after men are dead By this which I haue spoken I will demaund what it auayleth the sicke being heauie with sleepe and berefte of their sences to call for Confessors vnto whome they confesse their sinnes Euill shall hee bee confessed which hath no vnderstanding to repent himselfe What auaileth it to call the confessor to vnderstand the secrets of his Conscience when the sicke man hath lost his speech Let vs not deceyue our selues saying in our age we will amend hereafter and make restitution at our death For in mine opinion it is not the poynt of wise men nor of good Christiās to desire so much time to offend and they will not espie any to amend Would to GOD that the third parte of the precious time which men occupie in sinne were employed about the meditations of Death and the cares which they haue to accomplish their Fleshly lusts were spent in bewayling their filthie sinnes I am very sorrie with my heart that they so wickedly spend and passe their-life in vices and pleasures as if there were no GOD vnto whom they shold render account for their offences All worldlings willingly doe sinne vpon a vaine hope onely in Age to amend and at death to repent But I would demaund him that in this hope sinned what certainty he hath in age of amendment and what assurance he hath to haue long warning before hee die Since we see by experience there are moe in number which dye young then olde it is no reason wee should commit so many sinnes in one day as that wee should haue cause to lament afterwards all the rest of our life And afterwards to bewayle the sins of our long life we desire no more but one space of an houre Considering the the Omnipotencie of the Diuine mercie it sufficeth yea and I say that the space of an houreis to much to repent vs of our wicked life but I would counsel all since the sinner for to repent taketh but one houre that that be not the last houre For the sighes and repentance which proceed from the bottome of the heart penetrate the high Heauens but those which come of necessity doeth not pierce the bare seeling of the House I allow and commende that those which visit● the sick do counsell them to examin their consciences to receiue the Communion to pray vnto GOD to forgiue their enemyes and to recommend themselues to the deuoute prayers of the people and to repent them of their sinnes Finally I say that it is very good to doe all this But yet I say it is better to haue done it before For the diligent and careful Pyrate prepareth for the Tempest when the Sea is calme Hee that deepely would consider how little the goods of this life are to be esteemed Let him go to see a rich man when hee dyeth and what he doeth in his bed And he shall finde that the wife demandeth of the poore husband her dowrie the Daughter the third parte the other the fifth the childe the preheminence of age the Sonne in law his Marriage the physition his duetie the Slaue his libertie the Seruaunts their wages the creditours their debtes and the worst of all is that none of those that ought to inherite his goods will giue him one glasse of water Those that shall heare or read this ought to consider that that which they haue seene done at the death of their neighbours the same shall come vnto them when they shall be sicke at the poynt of death For so soone as the Rich shutteth his eyes forthwith there is great strife betweene the children for his goods And this strife is not to vnburthen his soule but which of them shall inherite most of his possessions In this case I will not my pen trauell any

further since both rich and poore doe daylie see the experience hereof And in thigs verie manifest it sufficeth onely for wise men to be put in memorie without wasting any more time to perswade them Now the Emperor Marcus Aurelius had a secretarie verie wise vertuous through whose hands the affaires of the Empire passed And when this secretarie saw his Lord and Master so sicke and almost at the houre of death and that none of his parents or friends durst speake vnto him he plainly determined to doe his dutie wherein hee shewed verie well the profound knowledge hee had in wisedome and the great good wil he bare to his Lord. This Secretary was called Panutius the vertues and life of whom Sextus Cheronensis in the life of Marcus Aurelius declareth CHAP. L. Of the Comfortable words which the Secretary Panutius spake to the Emperour Marcus Aurelius at the houre of his death O My Lord and Master mytongue cannot keepe silence mine eyes cannot refraine from bitter teares nor my heart leaue from fetching sighs nor yet reason can vse his duty For my bloud boyleth my sinews are dried my powers be open my heart doth faint and my spirit is troubled And the occasion of all this is to see that the wholesome counsels which thou giuest to others ether thou canst not or will not take for thy selfe I see thee die my Lord and I die for that I cannot remedy thee For if the gods would haue granted me my request for the lengthning of thy life one day I would giue willingly my whole life Whither the sorrow bee true or fayned it needeth not I declare vnto thee with wordes since thou mayest manifestly discerne it by my countenance For mine eyes with teares are wet and my heart with sighes is very heauie I feele much the want of thy companie I feele much the dammage which of thy death to the whole commonwealth shall ensue I feele much thy sorrowe which in thy pallace shall remaine I feele much for that Rome this day is vndone but that which aboue all things doth most torment my heart is to haue seene thee liue as wise and now to see thee dye as simple Tell me I pray thee my Lord why do men learne the Greeke tongue trauell to vnderstand the Hebrew sweate in the Latine chaunge so many Maisters turne so many bookes and in studie consume so much money and so many yeares if it were not to knowe how to passe life with honor and take death with patience The end why men ought to studie is to learne to liue well For there is no truer science in man then to know how to order his life well What profiteth it me to know much if thereby I take no profite what profiteth me to know straunge Languages if I refrain nor my tongue from other mens matters what profiteth it to studie many bookes if I studie not but to begyule my friendes what profiteth it to know the influence of the starres and the course of the Elements if I cannot keepe my selfe from vices Finally I say that it little auayleth to to bee a master of the Sage if secretly hee bee reported to bee a follower of fooles The chiefe of all Phylosophie consisteth to serue GOD and not to offend men I aske thee most Noble Prince what auaileth it the Pilot to know the Arte of Sayling and after in a Tempest by negligence to perish What auaileth it the valiaunt Captaine to talke much of Warres and afterwards he knoweth not how to giue the Battell What auayleth it the guyde to tell the nearest way and afterwards in the middest to loose himselfe All this which I haue spoken is saide for thee my Lord For what auayleth it that thou beeing in health shouldest sigh for death since now when hee doeth approche thou weepest because thou wouldest not leaue life One of the things wherein the wise man sheweth his wisdome is to know how to loue and how to hate For it is great lightnes I should rather say follie to day to loue him whome yesterday we hated and to morrowe to slaunder him whom this day wee honoured What Prince so high or what Plebeyan so base hath there been or in the world shall euer be the which hath so little as thou regarded life and so highly commended death What things haue I written beeing thy Secretarie with mine owne hand to diuers Prouinces of the world where thou speakest so much good of death that sometimes thou madest mee to hate life What was it to see that letter which thou wrotest vnto the noble Romaine Claudinaes widdowe comforting her of the death of her Husband which dyed in the warres Wherein shee aunswered that she thought her trouble comfort to deserue that thou shouldst write her such a Letter What a pittifull and sundry letter hast thou written to Antigonus on the death of thy childe Verissimus thy sonne so much desired Whose death thou tookest so that thou exceedest the limits of Phylosophie but in the ende with thy princely vertues thou didst qualifie thy woful sorows What Sentences so profound what wordes so well couched didst thou write in that booke intituled The remedy of the sorrowfull the which thou didst send from the warre of Asia to the Senatours of Rome and that was to comfort them after a sore plague And how much profite hath thy doctrine done since with what new kinde of consolation hast thou comforted Helius Fabatus the Sensour when his son was drowned in the riuer where I do remember that when we entred into his house we found him weeping and when wee went from thence wee lest him laughing I doe remember that when thou wentst to visite Gneus Rusticus in his last disease thou didst speake to him so effectuously that with the vehemency of thy words thou madest the teares to runne downe his cheekes And I demanding him the occasions of his lamentations he said The Emperor my Lord hath told me so much euils that I haue won and of so much good that I haue lost that I weepe I weepe not for life which is short but for death which is long The man whom aboue all thou hast loued was Torquatus whom thou didst obey as thy father and seruedst as thy master This thy faithfull friend being readie to die and desiring yet to liue thou sendest to offer sacrifices to the gods not for that they should graunt himselfe but that they should hasten his death Herewith I being astonied thy noblenesse to so satisfie my ignorance sayd vnto mee in secret these wordes Maruell not Panutius to see me offer sacrifices to hasten my friends death and not to prolong his life for there is nothing that the faithfull friend ought so much to desire to true friend as to see him ridde from the trauels of the earth and to enioy the pleasures of heauen Why thinkest thou most noble Prince that I reduce all these things to thy memory but for to

although it may be borne betweene men of like degree and coequalitie yet is it not tollerable between the prince the fauored of the Prince But rather euery day houre moment that the Fauoured Courtyer entreth into the Princes pallace or into his priuy-chamber hee ought euer to doe it with as great curtesie reuerence humilitie and honour and in speaking to the King as if hee had neuer spoken with him nor seene him So that hee should let all men see that though it please the Kings Majesty to make of him and to accept him into his fauour yet that hee leaue not to serue him and doe him that duety that all other seruants doe and are bounde to doe The safest and most certaine way to maintaine those that are sublimated and exalted in the Courtes of Princes and to raise vp and bring those to aucthority that are lowe and of base condition is that the esteemed repute himselfe euer a Seruant and that the seruant neuer vaunt nor boast himselfe to be fauoured or esteemed The familiars of Princes ought euer to beware that there come no complaints of them to the Princes care For as a drop of Water by Time and continuall Fall commeth to pierce the hardest stone so it might happen that the numbers of complaints might bee occasion for the prince to withdrawe his fauor and loue from the Courtier againe If his only seruices were sufficient to induce the Prince to fauor loue him so the number of his subiects cōplaints against him were occasion enough to make him mislike him and and put him out of fauor clean changing his loue and fauor to hate and discredite For it is a certaine thing that when the Prince doth looke well into his owne doings he had rather be be loued of all then serued of one alone The honored Fauorite of the Court may not so much regarde the honour and credit he is called to by his prince as the basenes and pouertie he was in when it pleased the king to like of him and that he came first acquainted with the King For if he did otherwise it might so happen that like as Fortune had brought him to that high estate hee had So Pride might ouerthrow him againe and bring him as low as hee was before For I should haue saide more truely a great deale saying That it would haue made him fall downe right beeing the propertie of Fortune to suffer the baser sort whom she hath caled to honour onely to returne them to their meane estate calling they were of at first and neuer to leaue the fauored of the Prince and men of aucthoritie nor neuer satisfied till shee hath throwne them downe headlong into extreame misery neuer to rise againe Agathocles first the sonne of a Potter and afterwards made king of Scicilia whilst hee liued hee euer vsed this manner that in his treasurie or iewell house yea and also at his Table amongst all his cups and dishes of gold and siluer hee had also some of Earth amongst them and beeing asked the occasion why in so great a Treasurie and masse of golde and siluer he had so vile and base a thing as Earth Hee aunswered thus I drinke in golden cups and eate in Earthen dyshes to giue thankes vnto the Gods which of a Potters-sonne that I was brought mee to this Royall estate of a mighty King And I do it also to haue euer more cause to bee humble and lowly and to flye Pryde For it is an easier thing and more likelyer for a king to become a Potter then for a Potter to attain to the greatnes state of a king These wordes of Agathocles were euer worthie to bee noted and had in ●●nory since we see plainly that to giue a man a fall a little stone sufficeth to make vs stumble and fall to the ground but to rayse vs vp againe wee must needes helpe vs with power of handes and feet It may well be that this braue Courtier and fauoured of the Court before hee came to this degree of honour was but of a meane house and b●fuly borne and besides that esteemed of few for his nobilitie of bloud of an vnknowne Countrey of poore parents of small substance and no better nor otherwise fauoured of fortune in his birth or linage of all which things he hath no cause to be ashamed but rather to glory praise God For hee shall euer bee more esteemed in the Court and wel thoght of to remember from whence hee came and to regarde his first estate then hee shall if he waxe glorious high minded by reason of the fauour he is at this present vtterly forgetting his first rising Titus Liuius reciteth that the renowmed Romane Quintus Cincinnatus before he came to bee made Captaine of Rome hee was taken out of the fields a labouring man plowing tilling the ground And this so noble a person beeing occupied in great affayres of the common weale eyther in prouisions or munitions or in expeditions of warre was wont to sigh before all the Captaines and say Alas who could tell me now any newes how my Beefes doe in my graunge my sheepe in the mountaines and whether my seruauntes haue prouided them of Hay and Pasture for to keepe them the next yeare Surely it is to be thought that whosoeuer speakes these wordes with his mouth must needes haue little pride in his heart And vndoubtedly hee proued his words true and shewed that hee spake as hee thought and in good earnest without intent of iest since afterwards returned home againe to follow the plough to plant his vines and to see his owne thinges gouerned leauing behinde him a perpetuall testimony of his noble and worthy doings And his common Weale also greatly enriched by his famous acts Saul was King of Israel and taken fot a God and was annointed of Samuel his Father a poore husbandman of the Countrey and hee from his youth brought vp in that trade for to holde the plough and yet when hee was King he neuer disdayned for to plough his ground to sow his oates and to driue his beasts now to pasture then home againe So that the good King did glory this day to holde the plough and to morrow to fight with his sword When Fortune therfore sheweth her selfe enemy to any and that from great dignity and high calling shee ouerthroweth him and bringeth him to low and meane estate It is then that he hath good cause to complain of fortunes cruelty and to bewayle his wretched happe ashamed to see his lothsome misery But when shee worketh contrarily and from mean estate brings him to great honour and credite that must needes be great honor and glory to him Therefore I say let them beware that beare rule and authority in the Court that they be not proud glorious high minded neither otherwise detected of any kinde of vice though they be neuer so much in fauour and estimation Sith Fortune sheweth most

beginner ender of all things God the giuer of all things Laert. de antiq Graec. The wisdome of Bias the Philosopher Bias the occasion of peace Laert de antiq Graec. Certaine questions resolued by Byas Laws made by Byas God the Creator of all things Rewards 〈…〉 to the 〈…〉 the wicked The mercifull goodnes of God How God punisheth ingratitude Leuit. 10. God the onely ruler of all estates The iust iudgement of God The permission of God The plague of God vpon Idolaters 2. Reg. 6. A good admonition for all Estates Babylon besieged The stout resolution of Pirius The reward due to those that contemne God A good caneat for Magistrates The wickednes of Ahab The punishment of Ahab What mischiefe followes the contemners of God The cruelty of Pompeius The punishment of sacriledge The pride of Xerxes euerthrown The misrable end of Brennus The valour of Gracian What maketh a man to be respected in this world Gracian chosen Emperour The heresie of Arian The description of a religious man The cruelty of Valente The duety of euery good Prince The folly and ouersight of the Emperour The miserable end of the Emperour Valentinian A custome among the Romanes The duty of euery good Christian The description of the Emperour Valentinian The saying of Seneca The death of the Emperour The wisedome and discretion of young Gracian The olde Prouerbe not alwayes true The Oration of the Emperour The duety of euery good Souldier The tyranny of Thyrmus The death of Thyrmus The wickednes of Valent. The death of Theodosius The iudgement of God The lawes ordained by the Counsel of Hyponense What is required of euery true Christian No respect of persons with God Man may purpose but God disposeth The speech of Appolonius A wort saving 〈◊〉 worthie obseruation What we lost by the fall of Adam The difference of opinions The soule mistresse of the body What is required in the gouernemēt of the common wealth God suffereth euill Gouernors for the offences of the people 1 Reg. 8. The folly of youth The power and 〈…〉 of a King The folly of men How much we are boūd to pray vnto God for good Gouernors The gouernment of Rome The care of Princes The reason why warres first began How seruitude began The first tyrant that euer was Belus the first inuentor of wars The mutability of the World God made al things for the vse of man What man loft by Adams fall A warning for all sorts of people Nothing so sure as death The reason wee haue to obey our Prince The pride of Alexander A compendious reprehension How wee ought to iudge of men The propertie of a tyrant In what true Honor consisteth How a Prince must winne honour How true honour is wonne The propertie of a wise man What mean a wise man should vse The greedy desires of man neuer satisfied The man is happie that hath content How a man ought to conceyue of himselfe The lawes of the Garamantes What gifts God bestoweth vp on Princes aboue other men What is required in a Prince What time Thales the Philosopher flourished Thales the first that found out the North starre Questions resolued by Thaks Princes and Magistrates supporters of the common wealth The description of Plutarch The authoritie of Princes What is most requisite in the Common wealth God the only letter vp of Princes Man differeth from all other creatures What benfite cōmeth by a good Prince Good lawes ordayned What the Prince ought to do The King compared to the Common wealth The King the onely head of all The death of Iulius Caesar A Prince ought not to be sparing in words What is required in a Prince for the gouernment of the Common-wealth The commendations of the Emperour Alexander Scue us The feasts of the Romanes The duty of euery good Christian An ancient custome in Rome An other custome in Rome Nothing so hurtfull as an enuious tongne Enuse an enemie to vertue The prayse of Marcus Aurelius Patience ouercommeth many matters True patience described The property of a wise man The replye of the Emperour How a Prince ought to behaue himselfe The Court neuer without flatterers The loue of the prince to his people The fondnes of our time Pride the ouerthrow of great personages Pride the fall of many great men Tarquine noted of vnthankfullnes The punishment of Tarqui The miserable end of euill Gouernours The true patterne of a vertuous Prince A true saying of Homer A description of a perfect friend What pleasure it is to remember dāgers past Two good properties of Marcus Aurelius The Epitaph of Periander An vsuall custome among all Nations Diuers laws made by to Periander the tyrant The punishment of ingratitude The commendation of Phylosophy The battell betweene the Athenians and Lysander The pouerty of the Philosophers of Athens The small hope of the wicked The Philosopher Aeschilus described Aeschilus the first inuenter of Tragedies Aeschilus his opinion wherein the felicity of this life consisted Wherein true felicity consisteth Of the Philosopher Zeno. The strength of Zeno. Wherein felicity consisteth No respect of persons with God The opinion of Anacharsis The felicity of the Sarmatians The Epitaph of Lucius Pius An ancient custome in Rome Warres in Greece euer since the destruction of Troy Idlenes and pastimes hated by the philosopher Crates the Philosopher Estilpho Simonides Archita Gorgias Chrysippus Antistenes Sophocles Euripides Palemon Themistocles Aristides Heraclitus No perfect felicity in this world A description of the City of Thebes Strabo de situ orbis A Law among the Aegyptians By the example of the Thebanes is shewed the duty of euery Christian An in humane custome among the Thebans Beauty the mother of vices Time the consumer of al things The smalest creatures profitable in the commonwealth What folly it is for man not to regard his own soule The vertue of the mind beautifieth the whole body The deformity of Iulius Caesar The valiant deeds of Hanniball The description of Alexander The letter of Marcus Aurelius What offence comes by much talke Learning well regarin ancient times An euill man a wicked member in a common-wealth How children should be brought The description of a yong man The of the wicked The office of death What death is The miserable estate of man The counsell of wise men euer respected among the Ancients What is required of euery Magistrate What hurt commeth by euill Counsellors What benefite proceedeth frō good Councellors Time best spent in the seruice of God How little wisedome now a dayes is regarded Youth subiect to many vices How circumspect Princes ought to be 〈…〉 Theodosius The duety of euery good Christian The loue of a master to his seruants The fault of many Princes The inconstancy of the world The younger sort must accompany with the vertuous Proud and ambitious men ought not to gouerne Plin lib. de nat hist The description of Cresus The godly minde of Cresus The letter of king Cresus The description

Iudaic What caused Cicero to bee famous The opiniō of Plato The commendation of Iulius Caesar The ordinances of Socrates How euerie man ought to guide gouerne himselfe Children compared to Trees How to choose Nurses for children The glory of the Ancients to enioy vertuous women Greece euer famous for learned women Disputation betweene the women of Greece and Rome The wickednes of Heliogabalus The ancient women farre excelled these in our times The difference betweene one man and another The commendation of Aretha The Epitaph of Aretha The proty of women Man without truth is not worthie to be regarded The humilitie of Pythagoras The wife of King Euander a Prophetesse A custome among the Macedonians K. Alexanders answer concerning his mariage The prayse of Cornificia The speech betweene Calphurnius and Cornificius How great Ladies ought to to esteeme of thēselues What difference there is betweene the women of our time the ancients Fiue Families in Rome chiefly were esteemed The Epitaph of Cornelia A letter of a Romane Lady to her two sons The wickednesse of Rome described The vncertainety of mans life 〈…〉 The commendations of warlike men A Law among the Tharentines How euery man women ought to spend their time What a good traueller in this worlde ought to seeke for The vanity and foolish opinion of the commō people The Philosopher Phetonius his answere to the Thebaines The Philosophers counsell acceptable to the Thebanes The reason why parents are bound to instruct then children How childrē ought to bee brought vp What mischiefe commeth by giuing childrē their owne will in their youth Questions demaunded of Dyogenes the Phylosopher 2. Things to be obserued of all men What comfort parents may looke for of their children Ordinances and customes of the Rhodians What youth ought to obstaine from A Lawe among the Athenians The miserable estate of man What misfortunes are incident to man in this life Men ought to flie the pleasures vanities of this life Wholsome and warie lawes of the Lacedemonians The speech of 〈…〉 concerning the professe of the Lygures The stoute answere of the English Ambassadour to the Romanes The prowesse of Viriatus and his vntimely death An ancient Law obserued by the inhabitants of Capua The answer of the Emperour Augustus Caesar The prouidence of a careful mother The commendations of the labouring man The more tēderly children are brought vp the more diseased they proue Childrē the dishonor of their parēts whē they be not well brought vp Distastfull things vnfit for either young or olde Vide Genes c. Excellent comparison and forewarning c. Aduised caueats for the bringing vp of tēder youth What conditions belong to a good schol master Like master like scholler What is required in a well gouerned Cōmon welth The speech of Camillus Camillus loued of the Romanes and feared of his enemies A good law in Rome fitte to bee vsed all the world ouer A custome of the Carthagenians The carefulnes of Princes in times past to bring vp their chidren A custome among the Athemans Questions demaunded by the phylosophers of Athens Affro de rebus Atheniensium A great thing for parents to chuse good Tutors to their children The descrip of a cruell and wicked Prince The death of the Prince Verissimus greatly bewayled The tendernes of the Emperour toward his sonne How euery man ought to examine their tutors How circūspect the Emperour was in chusing teachers for his sonne With what vertues Princes ought to be adorned How princes shoulde giue credite to their seruants Three of offences neuer pardoned in Rome The greate loue of the Romanes to the Emperour A question demaunded of the Emperour and his answere The wisedome of the Emperour Marcus Aurelius The speech of the Emperour to the philosophers How a wiseman is discerned from a foole An ancient Law among the Romans worthy obseruation What Rome was in ancient time Rome in auncient times ●●iled the Mother of good workes One badde worke marres many good speeches What is required in a sage Phylosopher Whē Rome flourished in vertue What moued the Emperour to put away the Phylosophers The counsell of the Emperour What is required in good Tutors The Phylosophers speeche to K. Seleucus King Seuleucus his answer What profit cometh to children by good counsell Tutors ought not to beare with the vices of theyr schollers Custome in sinning is hardly to be reclaimed Schoolemasters ought not to bee couetous The complaint of Apuleius Rufynus to the Emperour Seuerus The sentēce of the Emp Seuerus What euil followed covetousnesse The speech of the Emperour to the nine Masters of his sonne Comodus The duty of euery good Father to prouide good instructors for their children Good tutors compared to naturall Fathers What is required in a good instructor of children Difference betweene the Teachers of Princes children others What is required in a Scholler The earefulnes of the Emperour for the Common-wealth Children in their youth apt to entertain all vices What is required in the master towards his Schollers An ancient Law in Rome A cruell sentence vpon a lyer The speech of a Senator to the Emperour The Emperours answere How carefull masters ought to be to refraine their schollers from lying and gaming The speech of the Emperour Octauian The sentence of the Emperour vpon the Prince and his master What is required in great mens Children The reward of shamefastnes Commendation of the Empeperour The odosius A memorable thing of the Emperour Theodosius The ordinances of Plato Young mē ought to abstaine from the vice of the flesh What inconueniēce followeth the fleshly minded man A good lesson for Parents The excellency of vertue How vile man were if Iustice were wanting Nothing mor profitable to the Common-wealth then true lustice No nation so barbarous but it founded of instice The office of euery Magistrate What a great thing it is to doe iustice vprightly Hee that in his life is vn iust cannot doe iustice to another Lawes giuē to the Egyptians What is required in a vertuous Iudge How circūspect Princes ought to be in chusing Iudges How Iudge ought to bestowe their time Difference betweene him that is iust and him that administreth iustice Ancient Lawes and customes ought nor to be broken Princes ought not to be partiall in iudgement Princes the ministers of God for Iustice An excellēt saying of Alexander Seuerus The Lawes of Plato concerning princes The difference betweene a tyrant and a good prince A great pestilence in Rome in the time of M Aurelius The description of the villaine The oration of the villaine to the Senators of Rome Hee that taketh away another mans goods putteth his life also in peril Euery man giuen to one sinne or other The villain continueth his Oration wherein hee layeth open the tyranny and oppression of the Romanes against the Germanes Man may giue the battell but God must giue the victorie Iniury done wher iustice is neglected An Apologie of the