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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

his Masters who had the charge and gouernment of him For he was at this age so skilfull in the seuen Liberall Sciences that they who were the most learned in them spake of them in his presence With much feare and bashfulnesse for at euery other word he corrected the Imperfections which proceeded out of their Ignorance And at the eighteenth yeare of his age he wrote the three bookes of Mathematickes and Astrologie which are so renowmed at this day amongst the Arabians Hee wrote also the abridgement of Histories the great Art of Algebra and the booke of the exercise of the militarie Art and that which hee entitled The Mirrour of Princes At the one and twentieth yeare of his age he wrote the three Bookes of Philosophie vpon the Texts of Aristotle in forme of a Comment Notwithstanding that which was most to be admired was that at the fiue and twentieth yeare of his age he spake eleuen Languages reading and writing them as perfectly as the very Naturals themselues The King Abilgualit his father being himselfe a wise man yet vndertooke no enterprise without his counsell and aduice because hee found that in so doing his affaires euer succeeded according to his hearts desire This valorous Prince hauing liued after this manner a certaine season and hauing ordayned a Iurgo di canas and other disports called vnto them the great Alcaydes who were Gouernors of his Kingdomes one of which at his comming presented to the King Abilgualit his father an Alfange which is a Sword or Cimiter of inestimable value for the handle was of the finest Emerald the pommell of a stone called a Balais Tabeli the scabberd and chape hilt of fine gold wrought with the hammer with sundry sorts of precious stones enchaced H●ia and the blade most excellently damasked Some of the Alcaydes hauing seene and handled it from hand to hand they all concluded in saying that were it but halfe a hands bredth longer it would then be the best weapon in the world whereat the King Abilgualit was much distasted because hee had taken a great liking thereof and therfore caused the Prince Jacob Almansor to be called that hee might see it and giue his iudgement thereon admonishing the Alcaydes that none should aduertise him of the fault they found who being come to his presence he commanded that the Alfange should be showne him who was so wel pleased with the sight of it that he presently spake these words This Weapon is worth a Citie The King his father replyed that hee should looke well theron and consider what fault there was to be found therein but hee said hee found none the thing being as well framed and wrought as he could desire Then his father the King Abilgualit acquainted him how the Alcaydes did say that the Blade was too short Whereat the Prince taking the Alfange in his hand said with a smiling countenance these words To the hardie and couragious caualiers no weapon no weapon is too short and then stepping with his right foot one step forwards with the Alfange in his hand prosecuting his reason hee said because with one pace forward it will bee made as long as one would desire This his speech was so pleasing to his father Abilgualit that he presently cast his armes about his neck and embraced him saying Certainly my Sonne thou mayest well seeke out other Kingdoms to conquer for those which I shall leaue thee are too few for that wisdome and valour which the Soueraigne God hath giuen thee and girding the Alfange about him hee said that it could not belong to any but to him since hee found no fault with it This being thus ended the Prince went downe with all the Alcaydes that were present to play at the Canes and at other deuices in such sort that all admired his dexterity in deuising guiding such delightfull disports The next day with many gracious fauours he dispatched those Alcaydes Which done hee said it were not reasonable to shew himselfe gracious only to the Alcaydes of his Kingdomes and to leaue his poore Subiects comfortlesse and vnrewarded With which resolution he commanded all the poore about his Court to bee called that they might also bee partakers of his bounty and when they were come hee placed himselfe at the Gate of his Treasurie and as they passed by him hee gaue to euery one of them a handfull of gold coyne vntold which hauing done he vnderstood after by his tellers that hee had that day distributed two and twentie Arrobas Arrobas and thirteene pounds of gold This being reported to his father Abilgualit hee was reprehended by him as being too free and aduised him to stay his hand lest otherwise he might becom poore saying that a King without his Treasure is like a dead man among the liuing But the Prince answered that he might rather be said to be dead that is close fisted towards his followers because hee could not expect any comfort of them in his necessitie and in the day of his distresse and that hee was not borne but to doe good in imitation of his Creator who vsed so much clemencie towards his creatures whose second cause or Instrument hee esteemed himselfe here on earth and that none might iustly reprehend him in that behalfe seeing hee considered that nothing was more certaine then death and that he could carrie nothing out of this life but 〈◊〉 poore shrowd or Winding sheet Mortaia and those good or euill deeds which he had done in this life to giue accompt of them to that high most omnipotent God as to a iust Iudge at the day of that fearefull finall Iudgement These reasons were so agrecable to his father Abilgualit that considering well the great worth of the Prince he or dayned eft-soones in his life and Kingdomes such order and course as the next Chapter declares CHAP. II. How the King Abilgualit resigned his Kingdom to his Sonne Iacob Almansor and retired to a solitarie life THe King Abilgualit perceiuing the great valour of his Sonne the Prince Iacob Almansor and that he himselfe was old being aboue seuentie yeares of Age he resolued to resigne his Kingdome into his hands and to retire to his rest and resigned the same accordingly with the agreement and consent of the great Alcaydes of his Kingdome in such sort that the Prince Iacob Almansor was crowned and sworne for King the tenth day of the Moone of Moharram three and thirtie yeeres of the Higera being then fully complete Aune Chr. 654. Ian. which Coronation was confirmed the third day of the Moone of Rabeh being the second of that yeare Hauing began his Raigne and Gouernment he tooke also a new habit in his conditions kind and manner of Liuing which because they are worth the remembring I will not forbeare to rehearse at large in this briefe Treatise For contrary to that gallantry and brauerie which he vsed whiles he was Prince hee clothed himselfe in the plainest sort