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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02296	The dial of princes, compiled by the reuerend father in God, Don Antony of Gueuara, Byshop of Guadix, preacher, and chronicler to Charles the fifte, late of that name Emperour. Englished out of the Frenche by T. North, sonne of Sir Edvvard North knight, L. North of Kyrtheling; Relox de príncipes. English	Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545?; North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Guevara, Antonio de, Bp., d. 1545? Aviso de privados. English.; Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180.	1568 (1568)	STC 12428; ESTC S120709	960,446	762

shoulde they see therein thinkest thou Trulye as thou knowest they should see the common wealthe destroyed iustice not ministed and moreouer Rome not obeyed and not without iuste cause For of righte oughte that common wealthe to be distroyed which ons of al other hath bene the flower and most beautified with vertues and after becommeth moste abhominable and defiled with vices The case was suche that two yeares after the warres of Sylla and Marius the Censor went yearely to Nola whiche is a place in the prouince of Campania to visite the same countrey as the custome was And in those dayes the tyme and season being verye hote and the prouince quiet not dysturbed with warres and perceiuyng that none of the people cam to him The censour sayde to the hoste which lodged hym Frend I am a iudge sent from the Senatours of Rome to visite this land Therefore goe thy wayes quicklye and call the good men hither whiche be amonge the people For I haue to saye vnto theym from the sacred senate This hoste who peraduenture was wyser then the Romayne iudge althoughe not so ryche goeth to the graues of the dead whiche in that place were buryed and spake vnto them with a loude voyce sayinge O ye good men come awaye with me quickelie for the Romayne Censour calleth you The iudge perceiuyng they came not sent hym agayne to cal them and the host as he dyd at the first tyme so dyd he nowe at the seconde For when he was at the graues with a loud voyce he said O ye good men come hither for the censour of Rome woulde talke with you And lykewyse they were called the third tyme with the selfsame wordes And the Censour seyng no body come was maruelous angrie and said to the hoste Sithe these good men dysdayne to come at my commandement and shewe their allegiaunce to the sacred senate of Rome to thintente I maye punyshe this their dysobedience I wil goe vnto them my selfe Come and go with me The poore hoste without any wordes takyng the censour by the hand led him to the graues where he had ben before and agayne with a loude voice cried vnto the dead men and sayed O ye good men here is the Roman censor come to speake with you The censor beyng angry sayde to hym what meanest thou by this host I sent the to cal them that are aliue not those that are dead the host made answer o thou Roman Iudge if thou wert wyse thou woldest not marueil at that that I haue done For I let the vnderstand in this our citie of Nola al the good men all I say are now deade and lye here buried in these graues Therfore thou hast no cause to marueile nor yet to be dyspleased with my answere but I rather ought to be offended with thy demaunde willyng me to enquire for good menne and thou thy selfe doste offende with the euill dailie Wherfore I let the know if thou be ignoraunt therof if thou wilt speake with any good man thou shalte not finde him in all the hole worlde vnles the dead be reuiued or excepte the gods wil make a newe creation The Consul Sylla was fyue monethes our captain in this oure citye of Nola in Campania sowinge the fruite whiche ye other Romaines gathered that is to say he lefte children without fathers fathers without children daughters without mothers and husbandes without wyues wiues without husbandes vncles without nephewes subiectes withoute Lordes Lordes withoute tenauntes gods without Temples Temples without priestes mountaines without heardes and fieldes without frutes And the worste of all is that this cursed Sylla dispeopled this oure citye of good and vertuous men and replenyshed it with wycked and vitious personnes Ruine and decay neuer destroyed the walles so muche neyther the mothes euer marred so many garmeÌ„tes ne the wormes rotted so much fruites nor yet the hayle beate downe so muche corne as the disorder and vices of Sylla the Romaine Consul dyd harme whiche he broughte vnto this land of campania And although the euils that he did here to the men were many folde greate yet muche greater herein was that which he did to their customes and maners For in the ende the good men whiche he beheaded are now at rest with the dead but the vices whiche he left vs. In this land ther are none but proude arrogant men that desire to commaunde In this land there are none other but enuious men that know nought els but malice In this land there are idle men which doe nothing but lose their tyme. In thys land there are none but gluttons whych doe nothyng but eateth In this land ther are non but theues which entende nought els but robberies In thys lande there are none but rebelles that doe nothyng but stirre sedicion And if thou and al the Romaynes esteme these men for good tary a while I wyl goe to cal them al to the. For if we should kil and put in the shambles al the yll men and wey theym as we doe the flesh of shepe or other lyke beastes all the neighbours and inhabitantes of Italye shoulde haue meate sufficiente to eate Beholde Censor in this lande of Campania they case none good but those which are quyet sober wise and discret men Thei cal none good but the pacient honest and verteous men Finallie I say that we cal none good but those which wyll doe no harme and will occupy them selues in good workes without teares I speke not that whych I wil say that is if we seke for any of them we shal finde none but in these graues For the iuste iudgment of god it was they should repose them selues in the intrailles of the earthe whom the publike weale deserued not to haue alyue Thou comest to visite thys land where thou shalt imediatly be serued with the wycked and to hyde theyr faultes theyr dissolute lyfe and theyr vices thou shalt not be a little solicited Beliue me if thou wilt not vndoe thy self be deceiued Trust thou rather these rotteÌ„ bones then their deceiptful harts For in the end the examples of the dead that were good doe profyte men more to lyue well than the counsaile of the liuing that be wicked doe interre and burye al those that be nowe lyuyng Â¶ Marcus Aurelius concludeth the letter and declareth at large the sciences he learned and al the maisters which he had And in the ende he reciteth fiue notable thynges in the obseruaunce of whych the Romaynes were verye curious Cap. iii. I Haue recyted these thynges vnto the my frende Pulio to the ende thou shouldest know what an infinite number there is of the wycked sort in that world and how smal and scant a number there is in Italye of the good and this procedeth of none other thynge but because the Fatheres doe not bryng vp their chyldren as our auncestours dyd It is vnpossyble a young chylde shoulde be vicious yf wyth due correction he had bene instructed in vertues

vpright a iusticer but in the end hee geeueth more trust credit to one then to an other And hereof proceedes most coÌ„monly that wee loue not those wee ought to loue but those whom wee fansy most Now therefore following our intent touching the visitacion of courtiers hee must lay watch consider wel to procure knowledge first if any such noble men or other his frends which hee hath deuotion to visyt bee occupied or withdrawen to their bed chaÌ„bers for some priuate busynes of theirs for if it were so they woold rather think hee came to trouble them theÌ„ to visit them And therefore hee that is wise in visiting his freÌ„ds may not be too importune vpon them to prease into their bed chaÌ„ber neither to bee too tedious vnpleasant in his woords There are some so solitary that woold neuer be vysyted others that desires to bee visited euery day others there bee that woold the visitacion shoold bee short others that take such pleasure to heare a long discours that hee woold his tale shoold neuer bee ended So that the courtier must looke into the natures of men so to frame his visitacions according to the condicions of their mynd and to remember his visitations to great graue men bee not so oft dayly that they bee troublesome to him nor so seldome that they may think them strauÌ„gers that they had forgotten him That only deserueth the name of a trew visitacion where the person visyted may not bee troubled with importunacy nor the visyter may dymynish any part of his credyt and estimacion and also that hee preiudice not his own commodyty in his affaires I speak it for some that are so troublesome in their visytacions so foolish and tedious in their woords not knowing how to make an end that wee may better call them troublesome enuious and impudent then honest vysiters and faithfull frends And therefore wee should leaue them so contented wee vysyt that they shoold rather bee angry to leaue our company then that they should complayn of our importunity geeuing them rather occasyon to meete vs with a pleasant countenaunce when wee enter into their house then to make them hyde them selues or fly from vs when they see vs to say they are not within And mee thinks in deede where wee haue not great and straight frendship or els some affaires of great importaunce that toucheth vs much it should bee sufficient to vysyt our frends and acquaintance once in a moneth and where they would see vs more oftner let vs carry till they complayn and fynd fault and send to vs to let vs vnderstand it and not that wee bee so ready to come to offer and present our selues vnto them onlesse the necessity of our cause doo vrge vs. There are some persons so vndiscreete in being vysited that when others come to see them eyther they make the gates to bee shutte vppon them or they cause their seruants to say they are not within or els they get them out at the backdore or they fayn that they are a lytle aâ—rafed onely to auoyd and flye from these troublesome and babling visyters â–ª So that they had rather see a seriant enter into his house to arrest them for debt then to bee cumbred wyth these lothsome and pratyng vysyters Also yt ys not fyt to goe see their frends at vnlawfull howers as about dynner or supper tyme for those that are vysyted wyll rather thynk they come to dyne or suppe wyth them then of curtesy and good wyll to see them It happeneth sometymes that many are braue and rytch in apparell that keepe but a poore and mean ordynary at their table sparyng from their mouth to lay yt vppon their backs and therefore they are very loth and offended that any of their frends or famylyars should take them at meales to iudge of them for they thynk yt lesse payn to fast from meat secretly then that their scarcety should openly bee discouered Also the laws of honesty and ciuylity doo not permit any man to enter into the house hall or chamber of an other wythout knockyng or callyng fyrst at the doore For that onely pryuyledge to come into the house sodeynly and speak neuer a woord beelongeth to the husband or masters of the house Also it is not good to goe see hys frend when hee is at play for yf hee bee a loser it can not bee but hee wyll chafe and bee in choler in hys mynd wyth his frend to come then to trouble hym and to let hym of his play And yf haply hee were a wynner beefore his frend came to see him and afterwards chaunce to bee a loser agayn hee will lay thoccasyon of his losse vppon his frend that came of good wyl to see hym and say that hee turned hys good luck away from him and that hee came but to trouble him takyng it rather for an offence and iniury doone him then for any good loue or duty shewed him If our frend in lyke manner whom wee goe to vysyt come out of his chamber to receyue vs not byddyng vs come into the camber nor to syt down but standing to talke wyth vs wythout any other curtesy or enterteynment wee may easely perceyue by this his maner of interteynment that hee geeueth vs good and honest leaue to depart when wee wyll The wyse and fyne courtyer will as easely fynd and vnderstand hym by his signes as hee wyll doo sometymes by his woords Also the courtier must take great heede that inseemyng to vse curtesy hee happen not to make some foolish countenance in pulling of his cap in makyng curtesy coming into the hall or taking a stoole to syt down lest he bee therfore marked mocked of the standers by or noted for proud or presuÌ„ptuous for to stay or let at these triffles a man rather getteth the name of a glorious light and proud then of a graue sober man All things touching consciens ciuility honor the good courtier should always haue in memory beefore his eyes when hee shall discours with his lord or vysyt his frend And for the first beeginning of his discourse talk with him after they are set down togethers hee must ask him how his body dooth whether all his house bee meery and in good health for yt is the thyng that wee must first procure for our own priuate commodity and secondly desire yt for our frends Also in the courtyers vysitacions hee may not bee too curious or inquisytiue of news nether ouer beesy to tell news for after his frend were once aduertised of the troth it might bee lightly hee woold thank him for his coÌ„ming comend him for his curtesy and notwtstanding blame him for his news count him a lyer And yf it happen wee fynd the party whom wee visyt sad comfortles and in some necessity although hee were not our frend yet for that hee is a chrystyan wee ought to comfort him

the knighte to be nimble if the horse be not redy what auaileth it the owner of the ship to be sage expert if the Pilot be a foole ignoraunt What profiteth the king to be valiaunt and stout and the Captayne of the warre to be a cowarde I meane by this I haue spokeÌ„ what profiteth it a Prince to be honest if those which minister iustice be dissolute What profiteth it vs that ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ prince be true if his officers beliers What profiteth it vs that the prince be sober if his ministers be dronkerds What profiteth it that the prince be gentle louing if his officers be cruell malicious What profiteth it vs that the prince be a geuer liberall an almes man if the iudge that ministreth iustice be a bryber an open thefe What profiteth it that the prince be carefull vertuous if the iudge be negligent and vicious finally I say that it lytel auaileth that the prince in his house be secretly iust if adioyning to that he trust a tiraunt open these with the gouernement of the common weale Princes and great Lordes wheÌ„ they are within their pallaces at pleasure theire myndes occupyed in hyghe things do not receiue into their secreat companye but their entier frindes Another time they wil not but occupy them selues in pastimes and pleasure so that they know not what they haue to amend in their ê‘soÌ„s much lesse that whych they ought to remedy in their common weales I will not be so eger in reprouing neither so satirycal in writing that it should seme I would perswade Princes that theye liue not accordinge to the highnesse of theire estates but accordynge to the life of the religious For if theye will keepe them selues from beinge tyrauntes or beinge outragiouslye vicious we cannot denay them some times to take theire pleasures But mye intention is not so strayghtelye to commaunde Princes to be iuste but onelye to shewe them howe theye are bounde to doe iustice Common wealthes are not loste for that their Princes liue in pleasure but because they haue lytel care of iustice In the ende people doe not murmure when the Prince dothe recreat his person but when he is to slacke to cause iustice to be executed I would to GOD that Princes toke an accompte withe godde in the thynges of theire conscience touchynge the common wealthe as theye doe withe men touchynge theire rentes and reuenewes Plutarche in an Epistle hee wrate to Traiayne the Emperoure sayethe it pleasethe me verye well moste puissaunte Prince that the Prynce be suche one as all maye saye that in hym there is nothynge worthye of reprehension butte addynge thereunto it dyspleasethe mee muche more that he shoulde haue so euill iudges that all shoulde saye in them were nothinge worthye of commendacion For the faultes of Prynces verye well maye bee excused butte the offences of the officers can by noe meanes bee endured Manye Prynces and greate Lordes deceiue them selues in thynkynge that theye doe theire dutye in that theye bee vertuous in theire personnes but it is not so For it suffysethe not a Prynce to drawe vnto hym all vertues butte allso he is bounde to roote all vices oute of the common wealthe Admitte that Princes will not or of them selues cannot gouerne the common wealthe yet let vs desire and admonyshe them to seeke good offycers to doe it for them For the poore Plebeian hathe noe accompte to render but of hys good or euill lyfe butte the Prynce shall render accompte of hys vicious lyfe whiche hee hathe ledde and of the lytle care that hee hath had of hys common wealthe Seneca in an epistle he wrote to a frinde of his named Lucilla sayeth My dere frend Lucilla I would gladly thou wouldest come see me here in Rome but I pray thee recoÌ„mend to good iudges the I le of Scicile For I would not desire to enioy thy sight if through my occasion that shouldest leaue the commoÌ„ wealthe out of order And to the entent thou mayest knowe what condicioÌ„s they ought to haue whom thou shouldest chose for gouernours or iudges I will let thee vnderstand that they ought to be graue in theire sentences iust in theire wordes honest in their workes mercyfull in their iustice and aboue all not corrupted with bribes And if I do aduertise thee of this it is because if thou diddest take care to gouerne thy common wealth well thou shouldest now be circumspect to examine them to whom presently thou must recommende the gouernement therof I woulde saye afterwardes that all that whiche the auncyent Phylosophers haue written in manye bookes and haue lefte by dyuers sentences Seneca dyd reherse in these fewe woordes the whiche are so graue and necessarie that if Princes reteyned them in their memorie to put them in execucion and iudges had them before their eyes for to accomplish them they woulde excuse the common wealthe of dyuers slaunders and theye shoulde allso delyuer them selues from a great burdeyn of theire conscience It is not a thinge voluntarye butte necessarie that the mynysters of iustice be vertuous well established and verye honest For to Iudges nothynge can be more slaunderous and hurtefull then when theye shoulde reprooue yonge men of theire youthe others maye iustlye reprehende them of they re lyghtnes He which hath a publike offyce in the common wealthe and sytteth openlye to iudge therein oughte to obserue a good order in hys persone least he be noted dysolute in hys doynge For the Iudge whiche is wythoute honestye and consideracion oughte to consider wyth hym selfe that if he alone haue aucthoritie to iudge of other mens goodes that there are a thousande whyche wyll iudge of hys lyfe It is not onelye a bourden of conscience to Princes to commit the charge of gouernaunce of the people to dyssolute persones but also it is a greate contempt and dysprayse of Iustice For the senteÌ„ce geeuen of hym who deserueth to be iudged is among the people litel estemed Plutarche in hys Apothegmes sayethe that Phillyppe kynge of Macedony father of the greate Alexander created for iudge of a prouince a freende of his whoe after he sawe him selfe in suche offyce occupyed hym selfe more in kemmynge hys heade then in woorkynge or studyinge hys bookes Kynge Philyppe beynge enfourmed of the vanytye and insolencye of thys iudge reuoked the power whyche he hadde geeuen hym and when he complayned to all of the wronge and griefe whyche was done vnto hym takyng hys office from hym Kynge Phyllippe sayed vnto hym If I hadde geuen the office to thee for none other cause but beinge my friende beeleue mee that nothinge in the worlde coulde haue suffysed to haue taken it from thee beecause I louynge thee so entierlye as I dyd reason woulde not I shoulde haue depriued thee of this office wherewith I honoured thee I gaue thee thys office thinkyng that thou wert vertuous sage honest and allso a man well occupyed and mee thynkethe thou rather occupyest thy selfe in

common wealthe and not with a mynde to reuenge To the ende the faultye maye haue occasion to amende the faultes past and not to reuenge iniuries present the diuine Plato in the bookes of his common wealth saide that iudges ought to haue two things alwaies present before their eyes that is to wete that in iudging thinges touching the goodes of others they shewe no couetousnes and in punishing anye man they shewe no reuenge For iudges haue lycence to chastice the bodye but therefore they haue not lycence to hurte theire hartes Nero the emperour was greatly defamed in his lyfe and verye cruell in his iustice and with all hys crueltyes iâ— chaunced that as one on a daye brought him a iudgement for to subscribe to behead certeine murtherers He fetching a greate syghe said these woordes O howe happye were I that I had neuer learned to write onlye to be excused to subscribe this sentence Certaynly the Emperour Nero for speking such a pitifull worde at that tyme deserued immortall memorie but afterwardes his so cruell lyfe peruerted so notable a sentence For speaking the cruche one euil worke suffiseth to deface many good words O how manye realmes and countreys haue beene loste not so muche for the euilles whyche in those the wicked haue committed as for the disordinate Iustices whyche the ministers of iustice therein haue executed For they thinkinge by rigour to correct the dommages past haue raised vp present sclaunder for euer It is knowen to al men who and what the emperour Augustus hath beene whoe in all his doinges was exceadinge good For he was noble valyaunt stoute fyerse and a louer of iustice and aboue all verye pitiefull And for so muche as in other thinges he shewed his pitye and clemency he ordained that no prince should subscribe iudgementes of deathe with his owne hande neyther that he shoulde see iuystce done of anye wyth hys owne eyes Truelye the lawe was pitifullye ordeyned and for the cleannesse and purenes of Emperours verye necessarye For it semeth better for Prynces to defende theire lande with the sharpe sworde then to subscribe a sentence of deathe with the cruell penne Thys good Emperour Augustus was verye diligent to choose ministers of iustyce and verye carefull to teache them howe they shoulde behaue them selues in the common wealth admonishing them not onely of that they had to doe but also of that they ought to flye For the mynisters of iustyce oftentymes sayle of theire dutye In Capua there was a gouernour named Escaurus who was a iuste iudge thoughe he were somewhat seuere whome the Emperour Augustus sent to the realme of Dace to take charge of that prouince And amongest dyuers other thynges he spake these wordes vnto him to retayne theym in hys memorye Frynde Escaurus I haue determyned to plucke thee from Capua and to put into thy custodye the gouernement of the prouynce of Dace where thou shalt represent the roiall maiestye of my persone and thou oughtest also to consyder well that as I make thee better in honour and goodes so thou in like case shouldest make thy selfe better in lyfe and more temperate in iustice For hitherto in iustice thou hast bene a lyttle to rigorous and in thy lyfe somewhat to rashe I counsaile thee therefore I doe desire thee and further I commaunde thee that thou chaunge thy trade of lyfe and haue great respecte to my honour and good name For thou knowest right well that the onelye profite and honour of the common wealth of Romayne Princes consysteth in hauinge good or euyll ministers of theire iustyce If thou wylt doe that I woulde thou shouldest I let the vnderstande that I doe not commyt my honour in thy truste neyther my iustyce to thintente thou shouldest bee an enuyer of the innocent a scourge of transgressours but that onelye wyth the one hande thou helpe to sustanie the good and wyth the other thou healpe to amende the euyll And if thou wilt more perticulerly knowe my entencion I do send the to the end thou shouldest be graundfather to the Orphanes an aduocate for the wydowes a plaister for the greued a staffe for the blynde and a father to all Let therefore the resolution of all be to reioyce myne enemies to comfort my frindes to lift vp the weke to fauour the stroÌ„g so that thou be indifferent to all parcyall to none to the end that through thy vpright dealing myne may reioice to dwel there strangers desire to come serue me here This was the instruccion whiche the emperour Augustus gaue to the gouernour Escaurus And if a man wil consider way his words wel he shal synde them compendious enough that I would they were written in our iudges hartes By thy letter thou declarest that the iudges whom the Senate sent to that I le are not very honest nor yet without some suspicion of couetousnes O wofull coÌ„mon wealth where the iudges therofare cruell dishonest couetous forthe cruell iudges seeke nought elles but the bloude of innocentes they couet the goods of the poore they sclaunder the good to suche so wicked a common welth I would saye that it were better to remaine in the mountains among the brute bestes then by such vniust iudges to be gouerned in a comoÌ„ wealth For the firce Lyons which of all beasts are moste cruell if in his presens the hunter prostrate him self on the earth before him the Lyon wil neither touch him nor his garment O my frinde Antigonus dost thou thinke that if the coÌ„mon welth be vnhappy which hath such iudges that therfore Rome may reioise which prouyded them By the faith of a good maÌ„ I swere vnto the that I count the Senatours worse which sent them than the Iudges which weÌ„t thither It is a great griefe to a noble stoute harte to demaunde iustyce of a man which neither is true nor yet obserueth Iustice but it is a greater grief to see a Iudge that to many hath executed tyraÌ„ny to many poore men hath done sundry wronges afterwardes not with the lyfe he leadeth but with the authoritie he hath presumeth to correct diuers Iudges He that hath the offyce to punish the vicious ought him selfe to be voide of all vyces otherwyse he that hath that office by tyraÌ„ny executeth iustice furthermore he is a traitour to the common welth It is vnpossible that any Iudge shoulde be good vnlesse he hath the aucthoritie of his office for accessary and his pure lyfe for principall The ende why a iudge is sente in prouinces is to defyne doubtfull causes to refourme their maners to fauour those which can lytle by vyoleÌ„ce to enforce those whiche can do muche And for the most parte there is no common welth so weake but may well hang a thefe on the gallouse though there came no Iudge from Rome to geue sentence O how many iudges are there now a dayes in Rome whiche haue caused dyuers to be hanged regardynge nothyng

destroy thy selfe For men which haue not the gods mercifull and the men frendly doo eat the bread of grief and drink the tears of sorow I am sure thy sorow is not so great to see that the nyght dooth end my life as is the pleasure which thou hast to see that in short space thou shalt bee emperor of Rome And I doo not maruell hereat For where sensuality reigneth reason is banished constrayned to fly Many loue diuers things beecause of trouth they know them not the which if they did know without doubt they woold hate them Though men loue in mockry the gods men hate vs in earnest In al things wee are so doubtfull and in all our woorks so dysordered that at some tyme our vnderstanding is dull and loseth the edge an other tyme it is more sharp then it is necessary Thereby I mean that the good wee wil not here and much lesse wee will learn it but of the euil wee know more then beehoueth vs or necessity requireth I will counsaile thee my sonne by woords that which in lxii yeares I haue learned by scyence and experience And since thou art as yet so yong it is reason that thou beleeue him which is aged For since wee prynces are the mirrour of all euery man dooth beehold vs wee other doo not beehold ourselues This day or to morow thou shalt enherit the Romain empire think that inheriting the same thou shalt bee lord of the world Yet if thow knewst how many cares and perilles coÌ„maunding bringeth with it I sweare vnto thee that thou wooldst rather chose to obey all then to commaund one Thou thinkest my sonne that I leaue thee a great lord for to leaue thee the empire which is not so For all they haue neede but of thee and thou alone hast neede of all Thou thinkest that I leaue thee much treasure leauing thee the great reuenews of the empire the which also is as litle For though a prince haue treasures in aboundance yet if hee want frends hee hath great want of tresures Thou thinkest also my sonne that I leaue thee that thou bee obeyed of all and that none dare gayn say thee Truly it ought not to bee so For it is more meete for the prince which desireth to preserue his lyfe and augment his honor to bee conformable to the will of all then to desire that all shoold bee agreable to him For thou my sonne that knowest not what truth is lies wil not greeue thee For asmuch as thou knowest not what rest is the broyls and mocions of the people shall not vex thee For that thou knowest not what frends meane thou shalt esteeme it litle to haue enemies For if thou were pacient reposed true a louing man thou wouldst not only refuse the empire of Rome but also the wooldst curse the father which woold leaue thee such inheritance I will thou know if thou knowest it not that in leauing thee the empire I leaue thee not riches but pouerty not rest but trauayle not peace but warr not frends but enemies not pleasures but displeasures finally in place I leaue thee where alwayes thou shalt haue somwhat to beewayle And though thou wouldst thou shalt not laugh I aduertise admonish and also exhort thee my sonne to think that all that which I leaue thee is vanity lightnes and folly and a disgised mockry And if thou beeleuest it is in mockry from hensforth I know thou art deceyued I haue liued longer then thou I haue read more than thou and with great payne haue gone further than thou And sins that with all these aduertisements in the end I find my selfe mocked hopest thou to liue surely and escape without fraud or guyle When thou shalt think to haue the empire in rest then shall there arise a prouince in Affrica or in Asia the losse of the which should come to a great inconuenience and for to recouer it great charges would ensue When thou thinkest to recouer frends then shall straunge enemyes inuade thee So that in flattering and reioysing our frends wee can not keepe theym and in flying and reiecting theym wee can not defend our selues When thou shalt think to bee in gretest ioy then shall some care oppresse thy hart For princes which haue and possesse much the news which geeue them pleasure are very seldome but the thinges which annoy them come hourely When thou shalt think to haue liberty to doo what thou wilt then shalt thou bee most restrayned For the good and well ordered princes ought not to go whither their wanton desires moueth theym but where it is most lawful and decent for the honour of their estates When thou shalt think that none dare reproue thee for that thou art emperour then oughtst the most to beeware For if they dare not threaten euell princes with woords they haue the hardines to sell them by treason If they dare not punish them they dare murmour at them and these which can not bee their frendes doo procure to bee their enemies fynally if they lay not hands on their persons thei let their tong runne at large to prate of their renoune When thou shalt thynk to haue satisfyed thy seruants then wyll they demaund recompence for their seruices For it is an old custome among courtyers to spend freely and couet greedily Therefore if thou doost credit these things I know not who is so foolish that for his enherytaunce desyreth such sorow For admit that any man come to the empire without comparison the rest is more woorth which the empire taketh from him then the pleasures which it geeueth him If the empire of Rome were as well corrected and ordred as in old time it was accustomed to bee though it were great payne to gouerne it yet it were more honor to keepe it but it is so rooted in vices and so many tiraÌ„ts are entred therin that I woold tak theÌ„ more wise to iudge it a mockry then those which embrase it as an honor If thou knewst what Rome is woorth what Rome hath what Rome may and what Rome is I sweare vnto thee that thou wouldst not labor much to be lord therof For though Rome with walles bee strongly compassed yet of vertuous Citezins it is greatly vnprouided If the inhabitants bee great the vices are without nomber Finally I say that the stones which are in the buyldings in one day may bee counted but the euils which are therin in a .1000 yeres can not bee declared By the faith of a good man I sweare vnto thee my sonne that when I beegan to reygne in 3. yeres I repaired the decayed walles that were of Rome fallen and one onely streete to liue wel in xx yers I could not refourme The deuine Plato said very well That much more ought the great cityes to glorify to haue vertuous citezins then to haue proud sumptuous buildings Beeware beeware my sonne that the inconstancy of youth and the liberty which thou

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