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A28504	I ragguagli di Parnasso, or, Advertisements from Parnassus in two centuries : with the politick touch-stone / written originally in Italian by that famous Roman Trajano Bocalini ; and now put into English by the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Monmouth.; De' ragguagli di Parnaso. English	Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.; Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661.	1656 (1656)	Wing B3380; ESTC R2352	497,035	486

to live and die what they were born For if it should so fall out that any one to better his condition should presume to make himself head of any Heresie the power of all the other free Towns who were joyntly interessed in Liberty with that City where factions began to arise would presently assist with arms in hand to beat down that faction Moreover that though the diversity of religions occasioned in those Cities by the Liberty of Conscience were less dangerous in them yet could it not be said that they were totally free nor that the humor was not pernitious and apt to occasion deadly evils and that no father of a family was ever induced to set his own house one fire for having the means of quickly quenching it by a neighbouring River But that in Empires and great Kingdoms it fared otherwise for in them there were oft-times brothers to him who Governed in Chief and other Princes of the bloud and there were alwaies therein great store of particular privat men eminent for birth riches and adherents who were all of them ambitious and out of a thirst of reigning thought any enterprize how desperate soever easie And that to boot with these they had potent forreign enemies upon whom they confined who were more then ready to foment such heads of faction as should appear to arise as had lately been seen in France and in Flanders and that as well the lay Princes Electors as every other Prince of the Empire who had imbraced the present Heresies did not live with liberty of conscience but with a particular thirst accommodated to human Interest As appeared clearly in the Lutheran impiety which taking its beginning in the Dukedom of Saxony to the end that he who declared himself to be Head thereof might not grow too great the rest of the Heretick Princes had introduced the new Sects of Calvin Zwinglius and of others in their States with such confusion to sacred things as it might be truely said that there was as many Heresies in Germany as Princes and Potentates that did rule there And that which made me wonder most was to hear that some Subjects in Germany were forced to alter their Religion at their Princes pleasure an inconvenience which was seen to happen so often amongst them as some Cities have past sundry times from one Heresie to another in less then one months space All which are things of very bad example and an excellent means to introduce that Atheism amongst men which I said I thought was not to be found amongst beasts Wherefore Bodin as a horse which is long suffered to go without a bridle becomes fierce and unserviceable to man so people when they have the Reyns of Religion let loose in their necks grow wild seditious unruly and no longer apt to be governed or ruled by a Prince For he who is not taught by a sound and well regulated religion to love honor and fear God cannot obey honor nor fear man So great a truth as it is the nature of all people who alwaies err in the extreams to despise Humane Laws when they are miss-led in those that are Divine for the freedom which they have to offend the Majestie of God provokes them against their Prince who gave them that liberty This truth which I tell you is apparently seen in those who seduced the Flemmish to change their religion and to rebell against their natural Prince who to bring them to so wicked an enterprize permitted them to plunder Churches and Church-men and when at last they would have refrained and regulated them in their highest Towring Tumults they found that when God is despised men are so likewise The Government of people is a weighty affair for any Prince how wise soever nor is it possible for him alone to support so heavy a burthen but being assisted by Religion it becomes so easie unto him as one Prince may govern many millions of men for very many are so ill conditioned as they despise human Laws yet do they often fear divine ones and many who little esteem the anger of an earthly Prince dread the King of heaven and live peaceably Bodin was sorely cast down when he heard the Ottaman Emperor speak so solidly of the care which Princes ought to have of the unity of Religion and was then more grieved when the Judges told him that it was wicked ignorance to maintain that Princes are Lords of mens bodies and not fit to rule their souls as if the Allegiance which by Gods command Subjects owe their Princes be not as well a duty of the soul as of the body and that God hath constituted the most Christian Kings of France and other earthly Princes only that they might feed their ambition by reigning and pass away their time in delight wallowing in the plenty of so many earthly blessings and had not made them his Lieutenants on earth to the end that they may observe his holy Law for these reasons all the Lords of Parliament ordered that he might be immediately punished by fire who had publisht a Tenet fit only to set the world on fire The LXV ADVERTISEMENT Apollo punisheth a Poet severely for having been so desperate as to blaspheme APollo doth so abhor Blasphemy above all other vices as two daies ago he caused a Poets tongue to be struck through with a naile in the Delfick Temples Porch who had presumed to say that Nature had dealt injuriously with him in having indowed him with a Princely soul and allotted him but a beggarly fortune And though many Litterati earnestly beseeched his Majesty that he would in some sort mittigate this punishment he did not only deny to do it but in a great rage said that such wits deserved the severest punishments who being born to a poor fortune consumed all their time in afflicting themselves by seeking out new conceits which might make poverty appear unto them more shamefull and insupportable which they should imploy in seeking out such Instructions as might make it appear less shamefull and more tollerable and that he would teach men of but mean fortunes by this example how to accommodate their minds to their means it being a hatefull piece of petulancy to envy great Princes fortunes whilst others in tattered clothes died of hunger The LXVI ADVERTISEMENT The Vertuosi of Parnassus visit the Temple of Divine Providence whom they thank for the great Charity which she hath shewn to mankind THis morning according to the ancient custom of this Court all the Prince-Poets and the Litterati-Lords of Parnassus went to visit the Temple of Divine Providence to whom Giovan Ioviano Pontano made a learned Oration wherein he highly praised the infinite Charity and immence love which she had shewed to mankind in creating frogs without teeth For it would have been of no advantage to man that this world canopied by so many heavens full of so many stars should not only abound in all things necessary but even be fully fraught

use of the Grecian rites and the cause of this diversity is because there being no Grecian Prince who can cause jealousie to my greatness and consequently the Grecians which live in my Empire not being able to be fomented by any Prince of their own religion they do not trouble me so much as do the Latins who have many and potent Princes which is the cause I take such care to annihilate their religion But I am so watchfull that all my Mahometan Subjects should punctually observe the Religion profest in my State as it is not lawfull for any of them to prevaricate I give you for a clear example of all this That I having the Persian who is held an Heretick by my Religion no Turk that is my Subject dare upon pain of life believe much less preach the Persian Faith nor is that Heresie permitted in my States For though my last Emperors by reason of the divisions of Germany and the great jealousies which are amongst all Christian Princes might much to their advantage have made War in Hungary and so extend my Empire even to Austria the acquisition of which Province would throw open the Gates unto me to conquer Italy yet they have been wisely better advised rather to weaken the Persian Heretick then to make War upon the Christian Princes who being so far distant in poynt of belief from my Religion do not frighten me so much as the Persian Hereticks do for there is a great difference between tolerating Infidelity in a State from which the passage to true belief is so hard and the permitting of Heresie a plague which so easily infects any Kingdom how great soever as the Germans English Flemmings French and others have seen and tryed And know that I have rooted out all Sciences and Learning from out my Dominion only to the end that my Subjects may live in such simplicity as is most requisite for my Religion and to this purpose I have considerately and upon severe punishment inhibited the translation of my Alcheron which is written in the Arabick tongue into vulgar Turkish language having learnt at the cost of some Christian Kingdoms what mischief the translation of the Bible into vulgar languages hath occasioned which falling into the hands of ignorant people I hear that in those parts where this abuse is introduced even poor silly women spend more time in disputes about Religion then in spinning Wherefore to free my self from the evil of Heresie which may be introduced into my Empire by ambitious men I have commanded that whosoever shall propound any doubts in Religion be answered by the Scimiter Because the Heresies which now reigne in the Christian Religion have opened all mens eyes so as they may discern that those who have first sowed them are more moved by ambition of governing the earth then out of charity as they would make blockheads believe of sending mens souls to heaven by their new positions My Subjects sobriety who are all of them bound to drink water makes much for the keeping of my Territories from the contagion of Heresie and I say this for that I see the fire of Heresie amongst Christians breaks most forth there where they drink merriliest I very well know that all divisions in States are very dangerous but especially those which arise in point of Religion because people do not only not love honour or faithfully serve those who are not of the same religion with them but hold them to be beasts and bear them that cruel hatred which we see reigns amongst Nations of different Religion Add hereunto That as it is impossible for a man to live without a head so is it for diversity of Factions and where there are two Religions there must of necessity be two Heads and every fool knows whether or no one Kingdom can at one and the same time receive two Kings And thou Bodin oughtest so much the less to have published the seditious opinion which hath caused thee so much sorrow for that thou knowst better then any other that the modern Heresies which now reign in many Chri●… Kingdoms have been sowed and fomented by great Princes to whom Lutherans Calvinists and many others like thy self have served to seduce the people and to be bawds to their ambition only that they may thereby be followed by the mal-content Nobility who greedily imbrace new sects out of a desire to better their condition and by Plebeians who follow them out of avarice and a detestation which they bear to their own unfortunate condition And if for the quiet of Empires all the people of one and the same Kingdom ought to be under one and the same human Law how much more for the same reasons and out of the same considerations ought this to be endeavored in matters of Religion which being bred with us in our mothers belly hath taken such deep rooting in our hearts as she is become the absolute Queen of all our affections and of all our passions and therefore she ought to be so much the better regulated in every State for that we cannot live without her nor can we be touched in any thing which is more ticklish These things are all of them so true as I will boldly affirm that even bruit beasts could they speak or could we understand their yelping braying and other noises which they make would be heard to praise God even as we do who hath created them and who doth feed them I remember that many years ago I heard a Polititian discoursing of this very Article and because he esteemed it too wicked to God-ward and seditious towards Princes I desired to inform my self of him whether there were any Prince or Commonwealth in the world who did permit so wicked a thing in their Dominions And he freely told me That even the most modern Hereticks themselves who had cryed up Liberty of Conscience in other mens States would by no means allow of it amongst themselves For they hated to see their own houses burn with the same fire which they by their seditions had kindled in other mens habitations And of this said he Geneva which I call the sink of all seditious impiety is an evident example where they who endeavor to raise new Heresies are condemned to be burnt The same man told me moreover that in Germany where so many modern Heresies were invented in their Hans Towns only to suppress the house of Austria Liberty of Conscience was permitted but that it would be evidently dangerous to imitate them for that the example of others would prove unfortunate to those who had not all the same requisite circumstances as those whom they set before them for a President He said that the Hans Towns of Germany live without any apprehension of any enemy-Prince who might aspire to deprive them of their Liberty that their Emperors were weak and that their Citizens were not only by nature far from the ambition of Governing the Country but were forced by necessity

very first day that he sees an illaffected eye water to his clouts and cauters and is forced to leave his patient vvith a bleer eye vvhen if the eye vvere quite blind it vvere too late to seek for remedy so reformers should oppose abuses vvith severe remedies the very first hour that they commence For when vice and corruption hath got deep rooting it is wiselier done to tolerate the evil then to go about to remedy it out of time with danger to occasion worse inconveniences it being more dangerous to cut of an old Wen then it is misbecoming to let it stand Moreover we are here to call to mind the disorders of private men and to use modesty in so doing but to be silent in what concerns Princes and to bury their disorders which a wise man must either touch very tenderly or else say nothing of them for they having no Superiors in this world it belongs onely to God to reform them he having given them the prerogative to command us the glory to obey And certainly not without much reason for subjects ought to correct their Rulers defects onely by their own good and godly living For the hearts of Princes being in the hands of God when people deserve ill from his divine Majestie he raiseth up Pharoahs against them and on the contrary makes Princes tender hearted when people by their fidelity and obedience deserves Gods assistance What Solon had said was much commended by all the hearers and then Cato began thus Your opinions most wise Grecians are much to be admired and by them you have infinitely verified the Tenet which all the Litterati have of you for the vices corruptions and those ulcerated wounds which the present age doth suffer under could not be better nor more lively discovered and pointed out Nor are your opinions which are full of infinite wisdom and humane knowledge gain-said here for that they were not excellently good but for that the malady is so habituated in the veins and is even so grounded in the bones as that humane complexion is become so weak as vital virtue gives place to the mightiness of vice whereby we are made to know clearly that the patient we have in hand is one sick of a consumption who spits putrifaction and whose hair fals from his head The Physician hath a very hard part to play Gentlemen when the Patients maladies are many and the one so far differing from the other as cooling medicines and such as are good for a hot liver are nought for the stomach and weaken it too much And truly this is just our case for the maladies which molest our present age and wherewithal all other times have been affected do for number equal the stars of heaven or the sea-sands and are more various and further differing one from another then are the flowers of the field I therefore think this cure desperate and that the patient is totally incapable of humane help And my opinion is That we must have recourse to prayers and to other Divine helps which in like cases are usually implored from God And this is the true North-Star which in the greatest difficulties leads men into the haven of perfection for Pauci prudentia honesta ab deterioribus utilia ab noxiis discernunt plures aliorum eventis docentur Tacit. lib. 4. Annal. And if we will approve as we ought to do of this consideration we shall find that when the world was formerly fallen into the like difficulties it was no thought of man but Gods care that did help it who by sending universal deluges of water razed mankind full of abominable and incorrigible vice from off the world And Gentlemen when a man sees the walls of his house all gaping and runious and the foundations so weakened as in all appearance it is ready to fall certainly it is more wisely done to pull down the house and build it anew then to spend his money and waste his time in piecing and in patching it Therefore since mans life is so foully depraved with vice as it is past all humane power to restore it to its former health I do with all my heart beseech the Divine Majestie and counsel you to do the like that he will again open the Cataracts of heaven and send new deluges of water upon the earth and so by pouring forth his wrath upon mankind mend the incurable wounds thereof by the salve of death but withal that a new Ark may be made wherein all boys of not above twelve years of age may be saved and that all the female sex of what soever age be so wholly consumed as nothing but the unhappy memory thereof may remain And I beseech the same Divine Majestie that as he hath granted the singular benefit to Bees Fishes Beetles and other annimals to procreate without the feminine sex that he will think men worthy the like favour For Gentlemen I have learnt for certain that as long as there shall be any women in the world men will be wicked It is not to be believed how much Cato's discourse displeased the whole Assembly who did all of them so abhor the harsh conceit of a deluge as casting themselves upon the ground with their hands held up to heaven they humbly beseeched Almighty God that he would preserve the excellent femal sex that he would keep mankind from any more Deluges and that he should send them upon the earth onely to extirpate those discomposed and wilde wits those untnuable and blood thirsty souls those Hetorotrical and phantastick brains who being of a depraved judgement and out of an overweening opinion which they have of themselves are in truth nothing but mad men whose ambition was boundless and pride without end and that when mankind should through their misdemerits become unvvorthy of any mercy from his divine Majestie he would be pleased to punish them with the scourges of Plague Svvord and Famine and that he vvould make use of his severest and of all others most cruel rod as it is recorded by Seneca of inriching mean men but that he should keep from being so cruel and causing such horrid calamity as to deliver mankind unto the good vvill and pleasuree of those insolent vvicked Rulers vvho being composed of nothing else but blind zeal and diabolical folly vvould pull the vvorld in pieces if they could compass and put in practice the beastial and odde Caprichios vvhich they hourly hatch in their heads Cato's opinion had this unlucky end when Seneca thus began Rough dealings is not so greatly requisite in point of Reformation as it seems by many of your discourses Gentlemen to be especially when disorders are grown to so great a height The chief thing to be considered is to deal gently with them They must be toucht with a light hand like wounds which are subject to convulsions It redounds much to the Physians shame when the Patient dying with the potion in his body every one knows the medicine hath

lib. 13. Ann. and then gave sentence that this Divel incarnate should be thrown into the Boat where Melossus Melampus Lisisca and other Poets Dogs were kept by which he was presently torne in pieces and devoured This being over the Commendador Hanibal Caro was brought to the visitation and his Majesty was told that the quarrels between the Commendador and Castelvetro were wel known unto him which could no otherwise be accommodated then by taking security that they should not offend one another After which Castelvetro passing one morning often before the Commendadors house the Poet did so call to mind the injury he had received by that rigorous sentence as by a railing Sonnet which was a thing prohibited he wounded Castelvetro's honor Apollo contrary to all mens beleef commanded that the Commendador should be presently set at liberty and said that Castelvetro deserved to be severely punisht for his being so foolishly adventurous For knowing that he had so hainously offended a revengful man he did foolishly to trust his life upon money-security and so much the rather for that Castelvetro knew that the Marchigiani who were otherwise very gallant men but very bloudy have less patience then discretion Caro's cause being ended Aristides that great Athenian Senator was brought to the Visitation who was imprisoned for having given out great quantity of Corn to the people of Athens in a very hard year Aristides imprisonment appeared altogether unjust to most of the Visitors but Apollo who was of a contrary opinion told them in severe words that in free Countries where people are more jealous of the publick Liberty then in any other sort of Principality in exercising charity men should observe that pious Precept of not letting the right hand know what the left hand did For in all Commonwealths too vain-glorious alms and done out of too much ostentation were very dangerous that therefore he should hereafter forbear to use such charity towards the poor which smelt more of ambition then of any true zeal or piety and which might make men suspect that they were rather done out of a desire of purchasing Principalities on earth then to gain the Kingdom of Heaven Pietro Pomponatio a Mantuan appeared next all besmeared with sweat and very ill acoutred who was found composing a Book wherein by foolish and sophistical arguments he endeavored to prove that the soul of man was mortal Apollo not able to look upon so wicked a wretch commanded that his Library should be presently burnt and that he himself should be consumed in the same flames for that fool deserved not the advantage of books who laboured thereby only to prove that men were beasts Pomponatio cryed out then with a loud voice protesting that he believed the mortality of the soul only as a Philosopher Then said Apollo to the Executioners Let him be burnt only as a Philosopher A Prisoner was afterwards heard who said that he being of Coos had entred bond for one who was not sent thither as Governor by his Prince and who having committed many Larcenaries fled from thence by night wherefore he was forced to pay the whole summe which was laid to the charge of that thief-Officer Apollo wondring at this mans imprisonment turned to the Prince of Coos who was there President and told him that the sure way to have an Officer rule well lay not in his security to stand a Trial but was only grounded upon the Princes good choice That therefore the prisoner who had entred security upon firm belief that his Lord and Master would never have imployed such lewd men in places of such importance should by all means be set at liberty and that the punishment belonging of right to him that had done the fault the Prince should pay his forfeiture who had been so abusive in his charge of whom he might at his leasure repair himself To which the Prince answered that his Officer was a stranger another Princes subject and therefore he could have no right against him Apollo reply'd That he having been so very a fool as to make use of a forreiner whilst he might be served by his own subjects he had no reason to complain of his loss For that Shepherd who was so foolish as to lead other folks sheep to feed ought to blame none but himself if when he brought them back at night to their folds he could neither shear nor milk them This was the end of that imprisoned security which the Prince of Coos liked not though all the Visitors were well pleased with it Tito Strozzi the famous Ferara Poet was the next that appeared imprisoned upon the Suit of Francisco Filelpho who having given him some moneys to deliver to Cintio Geraldi a Creditor of his Strozzo as soon as he had it lost it at play which Filelpho complained of in the Visitation Apollo who knew that Strozzi wanted a leg merrily asked Filelpho whether if a man should have bought a blind horse in his Market of Tolentino the buyer might redemand his money which was ill laid out To which Filelpho answered That whosoever bought a beast that was palpably defective could blame nothing but his own folly If it be so saies Apollo you have judged aright Filelpho in your own cause Filelpho understood then whither his Majesties question tended and being much afflicted answered that he was not ignorant of the common Proverb That one must be carefull how he deals with those that Nature hath markt but that he did not hold it to be alwaies true Know Filelpho said Apollo that Proverbs are nothing else but experimented Sentences approved sayings and I tell you that Mother Nature in procuring men may be fitly said to imitate a conscientious Potter who when he takes his Vessel out of the Furnace if he find any that have holes in them that be not sufficiently baked or that have any other imperfection to the end that unwary people may not take them for good he breaks off one of their ears or gives them some other mark of being amiss And because all men cannot be born equally honest as nor can all the Potters pots come equally perfect out of the Furnace as let a Garden be never so well looked unto and weeded it is impossible but some nettles or other weeds will spring up Dame Nature who greatly hates cheaters and crosbiters to the end that honest men be not deceived by hollow brains crafty pates and half-baked wits as soon as she sees any such born she puts out one of their eys breaks an arm or leg by which evident signs tying a bel about the horses neck that is given to kicking and fastning a board to the oxes horns which use to thrust therewith she admonisheth all men to be aware of such Amalteo's Cause was discust immediately after who was imprisoned for having called Nero's liberality which he used to Cornelius Tacitus when he rewarded him for the praises he had given him with 25 Mules loaded with Gold foolish