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A58845	The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems written in Spanish by Don Diego Saavedra Faxardo ... ; with a large preface, containing an account of the author, his works, and the usefulness thereof ; done into English from the original, by Sir Ja. Astry.; Idea de un príncipe político-cristiano. English	Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648.; Astry, James, Sir.	1700 (1700)	Wing S211; ESTC R21588	533,202	785

Navarrois when in their Coronations they seated the Kings on a Shield This was their Throne and Heaven their Canopy The Prince should be a Buckler to his Subjects armed against all Assaults and exposed to Dangers and Injuries He will never appear more beautiful either to them or Foreigners than when in Armour The first Ornaments and Marks of Honour the ancient Germans gave their Youth was a Sword and Buckler Till then they were part of their Family but afterwards became Members of their Government 8 Scuto Frameaque juvenes ●●abant Haec apud illos toga hic primus Iuventae honos ante hoc Domus 〈◊〉 videbantur mox Reipublicae Tac. de Mor. Germ. The Prince never looks like himself but when in Arms. There 's no Equipage more splendid than a Troop of Curiassiers no Train more pleasing to the Eye than that of Squadrons whose Sight is then most agreeable when they are Martially equipt with all things necessary for an Attack and want Nothing either for their Defence or Subsistence An Army requires no other Ornament but what is necessary for them Splendid Furniture is but Luggage and Cumber 9 Supellex pretiosa nihil aliud quam onus impedimentum Curt. l. 5. That makes the best Appearance in War which conduces most to the principal End of Victory Hence Scipio the African upon going into Spain commanded each of his Men to carry on his Shoulders Thirty Days Provision and Seven Stakes for Intrenchments Such was then the Equipage of that Warlike Nation so inured to Hardships that they took the City to be built for the Roman Senate and People the Temples for the Gods but thought their Glory was in the Fields under Tents and Pavilions 10 Vrbem Senatui Populo Romano Templa Diis reddita propri● esse Militiae decus in Armis Tac. l. 3. Hist. By such Discipline they were able to rule the World Delights Costly Cloaths and Riches are for Courtiers in Soldiers they do but excite the Enemy's Avarice Hence Hannibal had just cause to smile when Antiochus shewing him his Army rather beautiful in Apparel than strong in Arms demanded whether this would be enough for the Romans Yes answer'd he with an African Subtilty certainly enough be they never so Covetous Let not the empty Show and Glittering of Gold and Silver terrifie you which neither Defend nor Wound said Galgacus to the Britains to take away the fear of the Romans 11 Ne terreat va●● aspectus auri fulgor atque argenti quod neque regit neque vulner●● Tac. in Vit. Agric. And Solyman going to relieve Ierusalem to encourage his Men tells them Their Glorious Equipage you view from hence Shall be our Plunder ' stead of their Defence * Tass. Can. 9. And tho' Iulius Caesar was for having his Soldiers Rich because he thought fear of losing their Estates would make such Men more Resolute yet large Spoils expose Victory to sale 12 Quod tenaciores eorum i● pretio essent metu damni Sueton. and Arms adorned with nothing but their own Strength buy it For the Soldier is generally more solicitous to preserve what he has than even to get the Victory He that goes to fight with a Spirit of Covetousness is desirous to conquer his Enemy only that he may afterwards rifle him Interest and Glory are powerful Incentives to Man's Breast How would Hannibal have laugh'd to have seen the Soldiers of these times so fine and spruce and with such sumptuous Equipages that there are scarce Horses and Carriages enough for them How could he have pass'd the Pyrenaean Hills or open'd a Way over the Snowy Alps with such a number of Chariots They now particularly in Germany look not like Armies but large Colonies of Nations removing from one Place to another with their whole Families and all their Houshold Goods as if they were Instruments of War 13 Quidam luxuriosos apparatus conviviorum irritamenta libidinum 〈◊〉 instrumenta belli mercarentur Tac. l. 1. Hist. The like Remissness in Discipline Tacitus observ'd to be in Otho's Army There is no Prince rich enough no Province plentiful enough to supply them with Provision They are equally injurious to Friends and Enemies The same slackness was introduc'd by Duke Fridland to raise a great number of Soldiers suffering them to Forage whole Countries with a Design as some thought to oppress and weaken them so that they should never after be able to make head against his Forces or else by this Licentiousness to enervate the Army it self following herein the Practice of Caecinna 14 Cui perfidiam 〈◊〉 infringere exercitûs virtutem inter artes erat Tac. l. 2. Hist. This Abuse threatens great Inconveniencies unless a timely Remedy be applied and that one which shall not appear desperate For tho' it costs no less Pains to correct undisciplin'd Soldiers than resist Enemies as Corbulo ●ound in Syria 15 Sed Corbuloni plus molis adversus ignaviam militum quàm contra per●●iam hostium erat Tac. l. 13. Annal. yet this must be understood when the Enemy gives not Time or at least when it is improper to make so sudden a leap from one extreme to the other But if Time allow nothing hinders but an Army may be reduced to Order and Discipline by Exercise Severity and Example without which three it is impossible it should be reformed at least long continue so as Vitellius experimentally found true 16 Degenerabat à labore ac virtute miles assuetudine voluptatum conviviorum Tac. l. 2. Hist. Corbulo was sensible of the same when he was sent into Germany and therefore reduced those slothful disorderly Legions to their ancient Discipline The same he did afterwards with his Army in Syria 17 Legiones operum laboris ignar●● popul●tionibus laetantes veterem ad morem reduxit Tac. l. 11. Annal. where he found Soldiers so ignorant in the Affairs of War that there were many even Veterans who had never kept Guard or stood Centinel who were utter Strangers to Trenches and Fortifications unarmed but rich and magnificent as having served all their time in good Garrisons 18 Veterani qui non stationem non vigilias inissent vallum fossamque quasi nova mira viserent sine galeis sine loricis nitidi quaestuo●● militi● per oppida expietâ Tac. l. 13. Annal. and cashiering such as were unserviceable kept the rest encamped all the Winter to inure them to Cold himself in a thin Habit and his Head uncovered always attending them whether on a March or in their Works commending the Valiant comforting the Weak and giving Example to all 19 ●pse cultu levi capite intecto in agmine in laboribus frequens adesse laudem strenu●● solatium invalidis exemplum omnibus o●tendere Ibid. and when he perceiv'd the Inclemency of the Weather made many leave their Colours he remedy'd that by Severity not pardoning as was

sides yet could they never take away Iacob's Distrust who notwithstanding endeavoured all he could to be severed from him and secure himself * Gen. 33. 12. Renewed Friendship is like a vessel of Metal which to day shines and to morrow is covered with Rust 4 Never trust thine enemy for like as iron rusteth so is his wickedness though he humble himself and go crouching yet take good heed and beware of him Eccl. 12. 10. Nor are all the good offices in the World capable of making it firm because the remembrance of Injuries is never quite erased out of the Mind Ervigius after the Usurpation of Wamba's Crown marry'd his Daughter Cixilon to Egica a very near Relation of that King 's and afterwards nominated him for his Successor but even this could not keep Egica from giving some marks of his Hatred to his Father-in-Law as soon as ever he came to the Crown * Mar. Hist. Hisp. The Scars of Wounds made by Injuries on the Mind always remain in the Person wrong'd and upon the first motion bleed afresh Injuries are like Marshes which though dried up are easily filled with Water again There is a certain Shadow always betwixt the Offender and the Offended which no Light of Excuse or Satisfaction can dispell Nor is Friendship secure on the former's side in that he never is persuaded the other has really and from his heart forgiven the Injury and always looks on him as an Enemy Besides that it is natural to hate one you have injured 5 Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeser is Tac. Vit. Agric. This is what happens in the Friendship of private Persons but 't is not so in those of Princes if indeed there be any true Friendship to be met with between them for Self-Interest makes them Friends or Enemies and though the Friendship be broke a thousand times yet it is presently renewed again by hopes of Advantage and as long as this may be executed continues firm and constant Wherefore in such Friendships as these no regard is to be had to the Ties of Blood or Obligations of Favours received for these are things disowned by Ambition Their Duration is to be esteem'd by Utility in that all Friendships now-a-days are like those of Philip King of Macedon who made Interest not Faith the Measure of them In these Friendships which are more Reason of State than any Mutual Harmony of Wills Aristotle and Cicero would never have so sharply reprimanded Bias for saying We ought to love no otherwise than if we were to hate again For a Prince would be deceived in his Confidence should he ground it upon such Friendship It is best then for Princes to be Friends so to day as to think they may possibly fall out to morrow But although this Precaution is not to be found fault with yet Interest and Self-ends are not to be preferred to Friendship ever the more for that 't is common for others to do so Let Friendship fail in others but not the Prince we propose to form by these Emblems whom we exhort to Constancy in his Actions and Obligations All that has been said hitherto has respect to such Friendships as are betwixt neighbouring Princes between whom there is some Emulation of Grandeur for among others sincere Amity and a reciprocal Correspondence may have place Power should not be so over-careful as to trust no one Like a Tyrant he will be ever in Fear who puts no Confidence in his Friends Without these the Crown is Slavery not Majesty 'T is an unjust Empire that deprives Princes of Friendships Not Armies nor Treasures are the Defence of a Kingdom but Friends 6 Non exercitus neque thesauri praesidia Regni sunt verum amici Sallust 'T is not the Golden Scepter that protects a King but abundance of Friends those are the truest those the securest Scepter 7 Non aureum istud sceptrum est quod Regem custodit sed copia amicorum ea Regibus sceptrum tutissimum Xenoph. Nor is there any greater Instrument of good Government than good Friends 8 Nec ●llum majus boni Imperii instrumen●um quam boni Amici Tac. Annal. l. 4. Friendship between great Princes should be maintained rather by a good Correspondence than by Presents for Interest is always ungrateful and insatiable For the sake of that Friendships are pretended never really contracted as Vitellius found who thinking to preserve his Friends by the Richness of his Presents not by his Merit deserved rather than had them 9 Dum amicitias magnitudine munerum non constantia morum continere putavit meruit magis quam habuit Tac. Hist. l. 2. Friends are to be kept by Iron not Gold for Fear of Arms creates more of them than Desire of Money Pecuniary Subsidies enervate the Giver and the greater they are the lesser time can they be continued and as fast as the Prince's Coffers empty his Reputation diminishes Princes are esteem'd and lov'd for the Treasures they still have not those they have already squandered away more I say for what they can give than for what they have given For Hope prevails much more with Men than Gratitude He who buys Peace is unable to uphold it with Arms. This is a Fault which almost all Monarchies fall into when arrived to some height of Grandeur they strive to maintain it by Money not Arms and thus consuming their Treasures and oppressing their Subjects to raise Contributions for neighbouring Princes to keep the Circumference quiet they weaken the Center And though that Greatness be supported for a time yet 't is at the Price of a greater Downfall for that Weakness being known and the Frontiers once lost the Enemy without Opposition makes way to their Heart Thus it befell the Roman Empire when after having been at so many useless Expences and wasted their Strength the Emperors went about to gain the Parthians and Germans by Presents which was the first beginning of their Ruine Hence Alcibiades advised Tisaphernes not to be so liberal of his Succors to the Lacedaemonians but to remember that it was not his own but another's Victory he promoted and that he was to support the War so as not to be obliged to abandon it through Want 10 Ne tanta stipendia classi Lacedaemoniorum praeberet sed nec auxiliis nimis enixe ju●andos quippe non immemorem esse debere alienam esse victoriam non suam instruere eatenus bellum sustinendum ne inopia deseratur Trog l. 5. This Counsel we may make our Advantage of by taking care what is expended on Favour of Foreign Princes to the great prejudice and weakening of Castile which yet as being the Heart of the whole Monarchy should be furnish'd with the greatest quantity of Blood to distribute Vital Spirits to all the other Parts of the Body as Nature her self the best Mistress of Politicks instructs who fortifies with the strongest Fences the interiour Parts

aetatem ●●gisque fama q●a● v● stare res 〈◊〉 Tac. Annal. l. 6. Besides we pass over a great many Slips in Old Age which would be unpardonable in Youth as Drusus 16 Sane gravaretur aspectum civium senex imperator fessamque ●●atem actos labores praetender●t Druso quod nisi ex arrogant●a impedimentum Tac. Annal. l. 3. observed The more boisterous the Storms are with the more Resolution the Prince had need be armed to bear up against them and the closer he ought to keep to the Helm of Government lest by entrusting it in the Hands of others both himself and the Commonwealth should fall a Prey to the Sea While the Prince's Vigour lasts he should live and die in Action Government is like the Spheres which never stand still it admits no Poles but those of the Prince In the Arms of the State not those of Sloth the Prince must find Refreshment in the Toils of his Old Age 17 Se tamen fortiora solatia è complexu Reip. petivisse Tac. Annal. l. 4. And if through the Infirmities of his Age he wants Strength to bear them and has need of other Shoulders yet let him not wholly refuse the Assistance of his own were it only for Shew since that is the same thing in the Eyes of the ignorant Mobb as Reality and as we observed elsewhere is a Restraint to Ministers and Support to Reputation In this Case it is safer to form a Privy-Council of Three as Philip II. did than to leave all to the Management of One single Person because the People look not on them as Favourites but as Councellors Let the Prince beware of Covetousness a Vice universally detested and peculiar to Old Age which it never forsakes though it has bid adieu to all others Undoubtedly Galba might have ingratiated himself with the People had he been in the least Generous 18 Constat po●uisse con●iliari animos quantulacu●que parci senis liberalitate Tac. Hist. lib. 1. Let him conform to the Mode and present Customs and forget those more harsh and rigid ones of former Times a fault Old Men are too apt to fall into whether it proceed from the prejudice of their Education from Vain-glory or the difficulty they find in taking up those new Customs whence they incurr the hate of all Men. They give way to that melancholy Humour which ariseth from the Coldness of their Age and exclaim against all Pastimes and Divertisements not remembring how much Time they have formerly spent in them themselves Let him not discover any Jealousy of his Successor as Ferdinand the Catholick did when Philip I. was to succeed him in the Kingdom of Castile That is the time when most adore the Rising Sun and if any one appears reserved in this particular it is a Trick to make himself pass for a Loyal Constant Man in the Opinion of the Successor and to gain his Esteem as was observed of several at the Death of Augustus 19 Patres Eq●es 〈◊〉 quis illustrior ●●nto magis falsi a● 〈◊〉 ●●ltuque composito ne laeti excessu P●incipis neu tristiores pri●ordio lachrymas gaudi●● quaestus adulationes misceb●nt Tac. Annal. lib● 1. Let him strive to endear himself to All by Courtesy Equality of Justice by Clemency and Plenty being assured that if he have governed well and got the Love and good Opinion of his Subjects he will maintain them without much difficulty begetting in their Minds a fear of losing and a desire of keeping him All these Methods will be yet of more force if the Successor be such as he may be in a manner born again and immortalized by for although Adoption be only a Fiction of the Law yet the Person Adopting seems to renew his Youth in him as Galba 20 Et audita adoptione defi●am videri senex q●iod nu●● 〈…〉 objicitur Tac. Hist. l. 1. said to Piso. Succession ought not to be the least Care of Princes it being not so frivolous a thing as Solomon imagined 21 Y●a I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me Eccles. 2. 18. Sons are the Anchors and Props of a State the Joy and Comfort of a Government and Court Augustus well knew this when having none he Adapted his Nearest Relations to be as it were Pillars to support the Empire 22 Quo pluri●us munimentis insis●eret Tac. Annal. l. 1. Neither Fleets nor Armies are greater Securities to a Prince than a numerous Off-spring 23 Non legiones non classer perinde firma imperii munimenta quàm numer●● liberorum Tac. Hist. l. 4. There are no greater Friends than They no more zealous Opposers of Tyranny Domestick and Foreign All bear a part in the Happiness of Princes their Children only are Sharers in their Misfortunes 24 Quorum prosperis alii fruantur adversa ad justissimos perti●eant Tac. Hist. l. 4. Friends change and fall off with Adversity but never our own Blood which though transfused into another still corresponds with us by a secret and Natural Inclination 25 Nam a●icos tempore fortuna cupiainibus aliquando aut erroribus imminui transfer●i desinere suum cuique sanguinem indis●retum Tac. Hist. lib. 4. The Safety of the Prince includes that of his Relations and his Faults reflect upon them and therefore they endeavour to mend them being most concerned to observe and most free and bold to reprove them Thus Drusus made it his business to discover what was disliked at Rome in his Father that he might correct it 26 Vtrumque in laudem Drusi trabebatu● ab eo in urbe inter coetus sermones bominum obversante secreta patris mitigari Tac. Annal. l 3. And these Reasons may serve to excuse that Authority which some Popes have allowed their Nephews in the Management of Affairs The Subject has in the Heir one to reward his Services and on the other side he is afraid to offend the Father who leaves a Son to inherit his Power and Quarrels 27 He leaveth behind him an avenger against his enemies and one that should shew favour unto his friends Ecclus. 30. 6. On this Marcellus grounded his Advice to Priscus not to pretend to prescribe to Vespasian a Man grown old in Triumphs and the Father of many young Children 28 Suadere 〈◊〉 Prisco ne supra Principem scanderet ne Vespasianum senem triu● ●ha●em juvenum liberorum Patrem prae●eptis ●oër●eret Tac. Hist. l. 4. The Hopes of the Rising Sun makes the cold and gloomy Evenings of the Setting much more tolerable Ambition is confounded and Tyranny trembles Liberty dare not break the Chain of Servitude when she sees the Links continued in a Long Train of Successors The Publick Repose is not disturbed by Factions and Differences about the Succession 29 Intempera●tia civitatis donec ●us eligatur ●ultos desti●andi Tac. Hist.

faults they then most accuse them So Augustus reprehended the Vices of Tiberius 3 Q●anqua● 〈◊〉 or●●t●one quaedam de habitu cultuque institutis ejus fecer●t● quae velut excusand● exprobraret Tac. 1 ann Others there are who to cover their Malice and gain credit under pretence of Goodness begin under the title of Friendship with the praises of him whom they would remove extolling some little insignificant Service and at the same time by a feign'd zeal for the Princes interest which they pretend to prefer before all Friendship and Relation gradually discover his faults which may procure his Disgrace or loss of Place But if their Ambition and Malice can't procure this they at least establish their own Reputation by carping at their Friends faults and gain themselves Glory by his infamy 4 Unde amico infamiam parat inde gloriam sibi re●ipere Tac. 1. ann Alphonso the Wise King of Naples was well acquainted with all these practices wherefore when he heard one full of the praises of his Enemy Observe says he the Artifice of that man and you will find that the drift of these commendations is only to do him more mischief And so it fell out when he had for six Months endeavour'd to gain credit to his intentions that he might afterwards the sooner be believ'd in what he should say against him Mines are always sprung at a distance from the Walls where they are to do execution Those Friends who praise you are worse than Enemies who murmur at you 5 Pessimum ini●icorum genus ●●udantes Tac. in vit Agric. Others that they may cheat more securely praise in publick and in private scandalize 6 Secr●tis cum criminationibus infa●●n●verat ignarum quo cautius dec●peretur palam laudat●●● Tac. 1. hist. Nor is their subtilty less malicious who so adorn their Calumnies that they look like praises as Aleto did in T●sso Gran fabro di calumnie adorne in modi Novi che sono accuse e payen lodi These the Psalmist meant when he said They were turned aside like a deceitful bow 7 Psal. 78. 57. Or as Hosea the Prophet says like a deceitfull bow which 〈◊〉 at one place and hits another 8 Hos. 7. 16. Some extoll their Rivals to that degree that It may Plainly appear they don't speak seriously and really as was observ'd in Tiberius when he prais'd Germanicus 9 Multaque de virtute ejus memoravit magis in speciem verbis ad●rnata quam ut penitus sentire crederetur Tac. 1. ann Others make use of these commendations to raise their Enemy to such posts as may at last ruin them or at least procure their removal from Court though to his greater advantage which I believe was among others the reason why Ruigomez caus'd Ferdinand Duke of Alba to be sent into Flanders when those Provinces revolted With the same in t ntion Macian prais'd Anthony in the Senate and pro●pos'd for him the Government of the Neither Spain 10 Igitur Mucianus quia propalam opprimi Antonius nequibat multis in senatu laudil●s cumulatum s●cretis promissis onerat Citerierem Hispaiam ostenta●s discessu Cluvii Rufi vacuam Tac. 4. hist. and to facilitate it he divided his Offices and Honours among his Friends 'T is scarce credible how liberal Envy is when it would remove him who eclipses its Glory or obstructs its Rise 't is a wave which drives him who can't swim upon the Shore of Fortune Sometimes Commendations are us'd with a design of creating Envy to the party prais'd a strange way of striking with others Vices Many endeavour to introduce their own Creatures with such Artifice as no one can penetrate their designs and to that end they first carp at some trivial faults committed by others in the same Offices then praise and cry up others as more fit for those places and sometimes they entertain them as if they had no knowledge of them as Lacon did Piso that he might be adopted by Galba 12 Sed callidè ut ignotum 〈◊〉 Tac. 1. ann Others the better to conceal their Passion lay their Plots at a distance and instill their hatred gradually into the Prince's Mind that being at last full he may burst upon their Enemies These means Sejanus us'd to alienate the Mind of Tiberius from Germanicus 13 Odia in longum jacens quae reconderet auct●que prom●r●t Tac. 1. ann And these the Holy Spirit seems to condemn under the Metaphor of plowing Lyes 14 Devise not Lat. noli arare a lye against thy Brothers Eccl 7. 13. Which is the same as sowing Tares in the Mind that they may afterwards reap the fruit of Wickedness 15 Ye have plowed wickedness ye have reaped iniquity ye have eaten the fruit of Lyes Hos. 10. 13. Some not with less cunning first deceive those Ministers in whom the Prince has most confidence by insinuating into them some Falshoods which they afterwards imprint in the Prince This was the art of that lying Spirit of the Prophet Micaiah which propos'd to deceive King Achab by being in the Mouth of all his Prophets and God permitted it as the most effectual means 16 And he said I will go forth and be a Lying Spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets 1 Kin. 22. 22. There are others who make advantage of the injuries the Prince has receiv'd and perswade him to revenge either that they may themselves be thereby reveng'd of their Enemies or else cause him to be turn'd out of Favour and Trust. By this Artifice Iohn Pacheco perswaded King Henry the IVth to apprehend Alphonso Fonseca Archbishop of Sevil and afterwards advis'd him privately to provide for his own safety These are the usual practices of Courts and though they are oft discover'd yet they never want Patrons nay there are those who will suffer themselves to be cheated twice whence we often see bare-fac'd Impostors remain at Court so long an effect of the weakness of our deprav'd Nature which is more taken with Lyes than Truth We are more apt to admire the Picture of a Horse than a real one that being but a Lye of th' other What is Rhetorick with all its Tropes and Figures but a kind of Falshood and Cheat From all which we may see how much danger there is of a Prince's being deceiv'd in his opinion unless he with great application and diligence examine things suspending his belief untill he not only sees the things themselves but also as it were feels them those especially which he has only by hear-say For the Breath of Flattery and the Winds of Hatred and Envy enter at the Ears and raise the Passions and Affections of the Mind before there can be any Certainty of the truth of the thing 'T would therefore be very convenient for a Prince to have his Ears near his Thoughts and Reason As are the Owl's for that reason perhaps sacred to Minerva upon the top