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A07680	Principles for yong princes Collected out of sundry authors, by George More, Esquire.	More, George, Esquire.; More, George, Sir, 1553?-1632, attributed name.	1629 (1629)	STC 18069; ESTC S113368	43,524	88

them to pray to their God for his and the Armies deliuery out of that danger Which they presently did and incontinent a great thunder fell amongst the enemies and abundance of water vpon the Romans wherby their thirst was quenched and the enemy ouerthrowne without any fight But prayer will not auaile euery Christian vnlesse he walke vprightly for God wil not heare the prayers of those that lye and wallow in sinue as appeareth Joh. 9. And Dauid saith Psal 65. Jf J finde iniquity in my heart the Lord will not heare me And God saith when you shall extend and lift vp your hands I will turne mine eyes from you and when you shall multiply your prayers I will not heare you for your hands are full of bloud I saias chap. 1. Therefore if a man be in wicked or bloudy sinne his prayer is in vaine CHAP. 11. A Prince not to shed innocent blood IT behoueth therefore a Prince to be vertuous and to haue speciall care that he put not his hand in innocent blood neither by tyranny malice ambition pollicy or vpon false reports and informations For to be a Tyrant is odious to God and man and to bring himselfe to an euill end As the Emperour Nero who after he had put to death his mother Agrippina his wife Octauia his brother Brittannicus and his Master Seneca Besides many others being proclaimed an enemy to the Common-wealth could get no body to kill him but was glad to kill himselfe saying Turpiter vixi turpius morior The Emperour Caius Caligula amongst other his tyrannies caused at his dinner and supper ordinarily one to cut off before him the heads of poore prisoners wherein he tooke great pleasure in the end he himselfe was killed by his men who conspired against him Nabis the Tyrant who vsurped the gouernment of the Lacedaemonians sent for eighty of their yong Princes and without any cause put them all to death And shortly after Alexamenes vnder pretence to serue him with some company suddenly strucke him off from his horse and killed him And as these tyrants had their iust rewards so all others had the like measure And for their wicked instruments the people oftentimes did Iustice vpon them For Plutarch writeth that the wicked Counsellors and Instruments of Apollodus of Phalaris Dionysius Nero and other tyrants were cruelly tormented to death by the people and iustly saith he because they who corrupt or seduce a Prince deserue as much to be abhorred of euery one as those who should poyson a publicke Spring or Fountaine whereof all the people doe drinke But sometimes those Princes that doe vse instruments for their murthers will not auow their Commission but doe themselues many times put them to death whom they imployed therein sometimes secretly sometimes publikely either to rid themselues of the suspition and infamy thereof or for feare of discouery As Alexander Magnus at his fathers Funerals commanded publike Iustice to be done vpon those who himselfe had secretly imployed to kill him The Emperour Tiberius did not onely dissauow his Commission giuen to a Souldier to kill Agrippa but put to death Seianus his speciall fauourite and instrument of his mischiefe Caesar Borgia did the like by a fauourite of his And let no Prince thinke that he can so contriue his matters but in the end truth will be discouered and knowne to the world and through ambition many haue shewed themselues very barbarous and bloudy as Tullia daughter to Seruius seeing her selfe married to Aruus a man of milde disposition and her sister of a gentle spirit married to Lucius Tarquinius who was ambitious and she not enduring to be thus matched killed her husband Aruus and her sister and then married Tarquinius whom she perswaded to kill her father Seruius to haue the Kingdome and she being in the streets when he was killed went with her Coach very inhumanely ouer his body that his bloud besprinkled her cloathes Soliman King of the Turks when he heard the great noyse and shout of ioy his Army made for the returne of his sonne Sultan Mustapha out of Persia caused him presently to be strangled in his outward Chamber and his dead body to be cast out before the whole Army and one to cry with a loud voyce that there was but one God and one Sultan vpon the earth He put to death also Sultan Soba because he wept for his brother and Sultan Mahomet his third sonne because he fled for feare leauing one onely aliue to auoyde the inconuenience of many Lords The Emperour Seuerus hauing vanquished Albinus and Niger his Competitor in the Empire embrued with blood put a great number to death and told his sonne Geta that he would not leaue him an enemy Geta asked him if those he put to death had neither parents friends nor kinsfolke yes said the Emperour a great number Then said Geta you will leaue vs many moe enemies then you take from vs. His sonne Bassianus hauing murthered his brother Geta to haue the Empire alone and doubting that the Senate would greatly mislike thereof made a shew that he was sorry for his brothers death and that he did it by the perswasion of Letus his fauourite whom therefore he put to death and all those that did assist him in that action likewise all those that were friends to Geta lest they should attempt any thing against him yet in the end he was killed Alphonsus King of Naples hauing vniustly murthered twenty foure of his Barons could neuer sleepe quietly for representation of their shapes which alwayes vexed him in his dreames And in the end hee fell into that feare of the French as leauing his Kingdome to his sonne he fled into Spaine to liue a in a Monastery making such haste as he would take nothing with him And his men perswading him to stay two or three dayes to make his prouision no no said hee let vs be gone doe you not heare how all the world cryes France France Hee knew himselfe to be so hated King Iohn of England murthered his nephew and in the end was murthered himselfe Richard likewise Duke of Glocester murthered his two nephews sonnes to Edward the fourth to make himselfe King and after was slaine in battell by Henry the seuenth for blood requires blood and let a bloody Prince neuer looke for better end CHAP. 12. A Prince to be circumspect in giuing credit to reports BVt many Princes haue been mightily abused by false reports and wrong informations yea sometimes by the nearest and dearest vnto them and those that should be most faithfull Dauid therefore prayed God to deliuer him from wicked lips and a lying tongue Psal 119. And in Eccle. 31. we are warned to take heed of our children and of our houshold seruants And in the sixt chapter it is said Seperate thy selfe from thine enemies and beware euen of thy friends for where a man doth trust the most there he may soonest be deceiued As was the Emperour Glaudius a

tymorous man and gouerned most by his wife Messaline and by one Narcissus who of a slaue he had made free and had familiar credit with Messaline This Empresse became enamoured of a yong Gentleman a Roman of a Noble house called Appius Sillanus and seeing that by no meanes she could draw him to satisfie her wanton defires she practised with Narcissus that they both early one morning should come to the Emperour and tell him that they dreamed that Sillanus went about to kill him which they did one after the other Messaline had giuen commandement that Sillanus at that instant should come to speake with the Emperour Whereupon Sillanus innocently came and knocked at the Emperours chamber doore which the Emperour vnderstanding and perswaded by them that their dreams were true and that he came then to kill him commanded Sillanus presently to be put to death which was done Salome sister to Herod King of Jury perswaded him that the Queene his wife sought to poyson him and brought certaine false witnesses to confirme her report to which the King giuing credit put his Queen to death But this wicked sister not satisfied with this fearing that the Kings two sonnes would reuenge their mothers death perswaded the King that they were practising how to kill him for putting their mother to death The King fearing the Authority of the Emperour if he should put them to death brought them before Augustus Caesar who knowing their innocency by their weeping great lamentation exhorted thē to be dutifull to their father their father to make much of them and so dismissed them but the Kings sister inuented new matter against them perswaded her brother to send the Emperor word theref which he did then the Emperor gaue him authority to punish them as he thought good whereupon the King put them both to death But after vnderstanding the truth and that Antipater his sonne by another wife practised all this with his sister he put him to death within few dayes after dyed himselfe his intrailes being inflamed and thereby his bowels rotted raging at these accidents Philip King of Macedonia put to death his owne sonne Demetrius vpon the false report and accusation of Persius his base sonne and after vnderstanding how he was abused dyed raging Adelstan first Monarch of England after the entry of the Saxons through the false report of his fauourite put his owne brother to death Francis Duke of Britaine put his brother Giles to death vpon the false report of those that were messengers betwixt them and after he vnderstanding the truth put them to death also Therefore as in 1 Iohn 4. it is said Beleeue not euery spirit but proue the spirits whether they be of God or not So a Prince should duly and throughly examine report whether it be true or not before he giue credit thereunto and especially if it concernelife for innocent bloud doth cry to God for reuenge as appeareth in the Apoc. 6. saying How long Lord holy and iust iudgest thou not and reuengest thou not our bloud on them that dwel vpon the earth And Salomon saith that the hands which shed innocent blood are most odious in the sight of God Prou. ch 4. Likewise Dauid affirmeth Ps 65. That God doth abhorre abloody man Therefore Junenal saith that euery stay which is made to giue life to man is good And he that doth vse to examine a report made vnto him that toucheth a mans reputation shall free himselfe from lyars for a lye cannot abide examination CHAP. 13. A Prince to be mercifull A Prince therefore should incline himselfe to mercy and pardon iniuries and auoyd the vices which may draw him to blood which chiefly are ambition pride choller and subiection to a woman Seneca saith that forgiunesse is a valiant kind of reuenge And the more powerfull a man is the more is his honour to forgiue And Pittacus the Philosopher doth affirme that pardon is better then reuenge the one saith he being proper to the spirit the other to a cruell beast Therefore Alexander Magnus said that a man wronged had need of a more noble heart to forgiue then to reuenge And Cicero did more commend Caesar for ouercomming his owne courage in pardoning Marcellus then for the great victories against his enemies The Emperor Adrian attaining to the Empire forgot and put away all the enemies hee had before Insomuch that after he was Emperour meeting one of his enemies would not touch him but said to him thou art escaped Augustus Caesar hauing many enemies by reason of the ciuill warre did not onely pardon them but aduanced them to dignities and offices and thereby wonne their loue and made them faithfull Hamilcar hauing ouerthrowne Splendius Generall of the Mutineers against Carthage pardoned the prisoners and offered them seruice or liberty to returne to their countrey which got him great honour and loue of many of his enemies Scipio Affircanus set at liberty all the Hostages he found in new Carthage after he had wonne it by assault saying He had rather bind men to him by good deeds then by feare And amongst the Hostages there was a maruellous beautifull young Lady who was contract to Allucius Prince of the Celtiberians Scipio commanded them both to be brought before him and her parents came with great treasure to redeeme her by ransome But Scipio said to Allucius my friend vnderstanding of the loue betwixt this Lady and you I haue kept her for you not touched in honor for recompence of this fauour I pray you be a friend to the Romans Her parents then presented Scipio with great treasure which through much importunity he was content to take but bestowed it presently vpon Allucius who not long after came to serue Scipio with 1400 horse Scipio likewise by pardoning Massima his vncle Massinissa became and continued a friend to the Romans So that mercy bringeth friendship and cruelty hatred CHAP. 14. A Prince not to be proud PRide was the fall of Lucifer the ouerthrow of Babylon and the ruine of many a Prince for nemo superbus amat superos nec amatur ab illis A proud man loueth not the gods nor is beloued of them Pride produceth sometimes cruelty but alwayes shame for Salomon saith when pride commeth then commeth shame but with the humble is wisedome Prou. 11. Therefore God resisteth the proude and giueth grace to the humble Iam. 3. Allades King of the Latines contemning the gods deuised how to make a noyse like thunder and lightning to make the people feare him as a god but thunder and lightning falling vpon his house from heauen and a Lake ioyning vpon his house ouerflowing extraordinarily he and his family were were all swallowed vp Iulius Caesar after he was Emperour grew so proud as he was therefore killed by the Senators in the Senate And the Emperour Domitian was so proud as that hee commanded in all his Proclamations and publicke speeches these words to be vsed Be it knowne vnto