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A72894 A briefe discourse of royall monarchie, as of the best common weale vvherin the subiect may beholde the sacred maiestie of the princes most royall estate. VVritten by Charles Merbury Gentleman in duetifull reuerence of her Maiesties most princely Highnesse. Whereunto is added by the same gen. a collection of Italian prouerbes, in benefite of such as are studious of that language. Merbury, Charles. 1581 (1581) STC 17823.5; ESTC S112612 39,761 95

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alwayes in confusion she enuyeth the riche and malliceth the mightie seeking how to betraye the nobilitie she is of so base and vile condition as she can not applie her selfe vnto any kinde of good gouernement she is ignorant of all thinges and yet she thinketh to know euery thing In few wordes she is no better then an vniuersall confusion a horrible monster of many heddes without reason a tempestuous Sea tossed with boysterous windes in euery place at euery season Betwene the gouernement of the best and that of the mightiest there is this difference Those of the best haue no other ende prefixed vnto them but vertue and honestie They refuse no traualle or paines The difference betwene Aristocratie and Oligarchie for the benefit of such as are committed vnto their charge they loue and cherish the poore people procuring to make them liue in good and plentifull estate defending them also from being iniured of mightier and richer then they and aboue all thinges they seeke to traine vp their citizens and subiectes as they would doe their owne proper children vnder a continuall discipline of vertue and good education These of the mightiest studie onely how to pull from their subiectes all the wealth vnto them selues by laying intollerable taxes and tributes vpon them All profites honors pleasures and commodities they thinke to be due vnto them onely All charges labours troubles and dangers postinge ouer vppon the people whome neuerthelesse they hate deadly inuenting by all meanes how to intrappe them and that with all kind of insolencie Betwene a good Kinge and The difference betwene Monarchis Tyrannie a Tyrante there is this difference The one is courteous mercifull endewed with all vertue the other is hautie and cruell defiled with all vice The one embraceth equitie and iustice the other treadeth both Gods lawe and mans lawe vnder his feete The one hath his minde and all his care vpon the health and wealth of his subiectes th' other estemeth his owne pleasure more then their profit his owne wealth more then their good willes The good Kinge taketh pleasure to be freely aduertised and wisely reprehended when he doth amisse the Tyrante can abide nothing worse then a graue free spoken and a vertuous man The good Kinge punisheth publicke iniuries and pardoneth those which are done vnto him selfe the Tyrante reuengeth most cruelly his owne iniuries neglecting those which are done vnto others The good King hath an especiall regarde vnto the honour and good name of chaste matrones the Tyranttriumpheth in abusing and shaming of them The good Kinge deliteth to be seene and other whiles hard of his subiectes the Tyrant Hideth himselfe from them as from his enemies The good Kinge loueth his people and is beloued of them againe the Tyrant neither loueth them that are like vnto himselfe fearing lest they being as wicked as he will be ready to betray him for euery light cause he hateth and pursueth all those that haue any valor or vertue in them as men whome he knoweth to be by nature contrarie and enemies vnto his tyrannie Againe the one chargeth his people as litle as he can and but vpon publicke honorable and necessarie occasions the other gnaweth the bones and sucketh out the very blood and marowe of them with vnlawfull taxes towles and confiscations The one maketh choise of the best and most sufficient persones about him to imploye in the publicke affaires the other imployeth none but ruffianes and cutthrotes such as he may best serue his owne turne withall The one vseth the assured fayth and forces of his owne subiectes in time of warre against his enemies the other calleth in forreinc nations whome he can not safely trust as LONOVIKO SFORZA duke of MIDANE did to warre against his owne contreymen The one hath no garde nor garrison but of his owne naturall people the other but of strangers The one liueth in assured hope merrie voide of suspition alwayes enioying the sweete rewarde of his vpright conscience the other hath the pointe of a sworde hanging ouer his head alwayes languishing in continuall feare The one looketh for euerlasting ioye the other can hardly escape euerlasting paine The one is honored in his life time and wished for after his death the other is hated in his life time and torne in peeces after he is deade so that liuing and dying he is in a continuall hell of all miserie VVherefore as the gouernement of a Tyrant is of all other the most odious and of Which is the best common weale the three ill common weales the worst So is a Lawefull kingdome of the three good the best the happiest and that which I desire to preferre in this my Treatice before all other Not ledde therunto onely by bonde of duetie as subiecte and seruant vnto so worthy a Prince Nor moued by affection onely as borne in so quiet and prosperous estate of countrey But moued ledde and drawen by force of good reason grounded vpon the naturall excellenoie and excellent properties therof as it shall at large appeare after that I haue first shewed of what especiall kinde and qualitie this best common weale of kindome is Sundry kindes of Monarchies For there are diuers kindes of kingdomes according vnto the diuersitie of countryes and of their lawes and customes though all good lawfull yet not all of like excellencie though all pertakers of soueranitie yet not all in equall proportion though of like nature and essence Kingdomes by Gifte yet differing accidētally For some kingdomes go by gifte as IVBA was by OCTAVIVS made of a slaue kinge of NVMIDIA now called Barbarie and as the kingdomes of NAPLES and SICILE were giuen first vnto CHARLES Earle of Prouence in the yeare 1266 and after vnto LEWIS the first Duke of Anioue brother vnto the french kinge CHARLES the fifth surnamed the wise and as some haue written that VVILLIAM the Conquerour by the gifte of his Nephew kinge EDWARD sonne of king EGELRED pretended and attained vnto the Kingdomes by Testamente Crowne of England Others are lefte by will of testament as CHARLES Nephew and heire vnto RENALD Duke of Anioue bequethed all his estates and dominions vnto the french Kingdomes by Customes kinge LEWIS the leuenth Some descende by the vertue of a Lawe as the Realme of Fraunce in practise of late descentes doth by the Lawe which they call SALICKE Others goe by adoption as E●EVS kinge of ATHENES adopted Kingdomes by Adoptiō THESEVS MICIPSA kinge of the Numidians adopted IVGVRTHA SCIPIO th' elder adopted the sonne of PAVLVS AEMILIVS CAESAR the dictator his Nephew AVGVSTVS th' Emperor adopted TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS NERO NERVA TRAIAN TRAIAN ADRIAN who after adopted ANTONINVS surnamed the Pityfull so were AELIVS VERVS and MARCVS AVRELIVS also adopted vnto th' Empire Likewise of late yeares ANNE and IANE Queenes of NAPLES and SICILLE adopted LEWIS and RENALTE Dukes of Anioue and in the yeare 1408. MARGARIT Queene of Demnarke