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A38818	Gymnasiarchon, or, The schoole of potentates wherein is shewn, the mutability of worldly honour / written in Latine by Acatius Evenkellius ; Englished, with some illustrations and observations, by T. N. ...; Sejanus, seu, De praepotentibus regum ac principum ministris, commonefactio. English	Ennenckel, Georgius Acacius, b. 1573.; Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1648 (1648)	Wing E3526A; ESTC R39517	168,645	466

the French Knig Lewis the eleventh after he changed his bed-chamber men and others that waited upon him was used to answer all such as taxed him for it that nature delighted in novelties many other causes may be added as the naturall inclination and disposition of man and accidents which do often fall out which doe alter and change the minde of the Prince as Spartianus affirmes that Adrianus the Emperour had an open eare to heare any thing that could be told him of them unto whom he professed the greatest love wherefore all those that he most affected and advanced to the highest degree of Honour in the end he esteemed no better then enemies so Henry the third King of England esteemed of * 57 Hugo de Burgo pro to justi●iarius Angliae sub H. 3. 57 Hugo de Burgo cheife Justice of England being one that deserved well both of King and Common-wealth who for the love that he bore unto him and to the safty of the Realme did incurr the displeasure of all the Nobility of the Kingdom for by instigation of Peter Bishop of Winchester he did not only withdraw his affections from him but deprived him of his office and persecuted him with all extremitie But most memorable are the examples of the Earle Vlrick Cilensis and Vlrick Eizingerus in the Country of Austria when Ladislaus sonne of Alburt King of Hungary and Bohemia and Arch-Duke of Austria took upon him the Government of the Kingdome during his minority both the King and Kingdome were in the power of the Earle who being an eyesore to many especially to Vlricus Eizingerus a man most powerfull with the King he privily acquainted him how odiour the Earle was among many of the inhabitants of Austria and unlesse hee did take some course with him hee did verily perswade himselfe they would rise in rebellion for that hee injuriously took from them their mony pillaged the Common-wealth filled his own emptied the Kings Treasury and I may Boldly say his power was so great that he ruled as King and did what he would only he left the bare title of King unto the King There is nothing that makes us more degenerate from our selves and transgresse the lawes of God and men then ambition it was not enough for him to enjoy the second place of the Kingdom but he must covet after the first neither is it a marvell that he that of late would not endure an equall should not now admit of a Superiour wherefote Vlricus perswaded the King speedily to banish him the Court who departed thence with four Knights only left his place to Eizingerus * 58 Cum quatuor tantum militibus insultante plebe vix manibus temperante ex urbe proficiscitur 58 the people rejoycing thereat and hardly forbearing to lay violent hands upon him But this Eizingerus not long after being complayned of to the King by Pancratius Plankenstanius the King before the yeare came about sent for the Earle and honourably received him and restored him to his former dignity Eizingerus left the Court with much grace and favour wisely yeilded unto the times and betooke himselfe to live upon his own Possessions and it is said that the Earle did much applaud him for so doing for that hee had learned by his own example that the minds of Monarks are carried hither and thither in a moment which Gerardus de Roo taking into consideration commended the saying of him who compared the Minions of Princes unto counters with which wee cast account which being removed from place to place stand sometimes for much sometimes for little and sometimes for nothing A cause likewise wherefore Princes doe withdraw their affections from their Minions is to give their Subjects satisfaction whom they have grieved and oppressed examples whereof we have before alledged unto which we may add the example of Duke Borgio Valentino whom Nicholas Machivell hath remembred who after that hee had reduced Flaminia to his obedience hee made Remerus Orcus a cruell man and a great undertaker governour thereof who so carried the matter that in a short time hee had every man at his beck yet not without a great deale of cruelty which drew the hatred of all men upon him insomuch that the Duke to winn their hearts againe was faine to acquaint them that if any exorbitances were committed in Flaminia by Orcus it was done of his own accord without his consent or approbation and so he took that occasion early in the morning to have his body divided into two parts and girding a sword by his side with a wooden scabberd exposed him to the view of the multitude in the market place which when the people saw they went home every one well satisfied Envy is ever an attendant of such a man and not undeservedly for whosoever is advanced by meer favour without any desert of his owne or approbation of the people to have rule and authority over others of more worth the people will hate and despise for the favour of a Prince is like unto a faire Virgin whom many affect and will not indure that she should looke more favourably walke or talke more frequently with any then with themselves so that between men of this condition there is seldome or never any true friendship or familiarity for upon every light occasion they study how to bring one another in disgrace Tully well saith there is no faith or friendship observed when a Kingdome is at stake for whatsoever is of that nature that many may contend for yet but one can injoy The contention is great but faith and honesty little hee that dotes upon one seems to neglect all others And hee is a very bold Prince as Christopher Besoldus observes that for the love of one will draw the hatred of the multitude upon him Examples hereof we have before alledged in Nicolas Gara Count Palatine of Hungary and in others and during the raigne of the French King Henry the second in Amiralius Comestabilius and the Chancellour who having attained to the chiefest degrees of honour envied each others prosperity How incertaine the condition of mortall men is upon Earth Sleidan hath sufficiently shewed by his owne example And who is ignorant of the civill Warres which have been in France both in the dayes of our progenitors and in our owne memories for this cause onely that the government of the Kingdome hath been committed unto such unto whom it did not belong This Hanniball the great Captaine of the Carthaginians found to be true by wofull experience for he being forced to leave his Country betook himselfe to Antiochus King of Asia who so well behaved himselfe during the time that he was with him that within a very short time hee became very gracious in his eyes therefore when the King made warre against the Romanes hee would have made him commander of his fleet had not Thoas A●tolus disswaded him to the cōtrary saying it was too much honor unto him

and wisht them to remember that they were not made to rule but to obey that they were inferiour to men in every respect that by reason of them men undergoe all the misery in the World that they are of themselves unperfect Creatures and for that cause every woman desires to bee a man that they are cold and timorous and therefore not fit to undergoe the offices of the Common-Wealth that if they should bee admitted to any places of Command and should but once transgresse the bounds of chastity they would dishonour themselves and their places in perpetuity when as the same offence in men is many times past by and soone forgotten that men accompanying them become imperfect and for that cause hate them most that had their virginity and that women accompanying men become more perfect and for that cause love them best that had theirs which Philogynes hearing began to grow in choler and plainly told him hee was in an errour and that hee would make it plainly appeare unto him and all the World that women according to the naturalists are no way inferiour unto men for if they be said he it is either in respect of their substance or their accidents but in respect of their substance it cannot be because they are both of the same substance and according to the Logicians are a species comprehended under one and the same genus and in respect of their accidents it is not because it must be either in respect of the accidents belonging to the body or the accidents belonging to the minde if by reason of the accidents belonging to the body it is because men are more strong more agile and more laborious then women but that 's no reason for that among men the strongest are not in most esteeme but the wisest if by reason of the endowments belonging to the minde it is because men are more wise more valiant more temperate and more just then women but that is no reason for that we may reade of many women that have governed Kingdomes with as great wisedome as men to have been as excellent Philosophers and Poets as men to have led on Armies in the field as couragiously as men to have decided controversies in the Courts of justice as judiciously as men and to have been as sober and temperate in the whole course of their lives as men yea which is more if any preheminence bee to bee given concerning the endowments of the minde the woman is to have it because her flesh is more delicate and tender and according to Philosophy the more delicate the constitution of the body is the more excellent are the endowments of the minde for that the form followes the temperature of the body and where you alledge that a woman is an imperfect creature without a man you might as well say a man is imperfect without a woman for being that God made man and woman to encrease and multiply humane generation upon the face of the earth both are imperfect without each other and to speake the truth the woman in that case is the more perfect of the two and is to have the preheminence if any preheminence bee to bee given because that man engenders with delight without any trouble but the woman brings forth with sorrow and not without hazzard of life and where you alledge that every woman desires to bee a man to the end she may be more perfect certainly you are deceived in the end for they do not desire it to the end they may be more perfect but to the end they may avoid that tyranny which men have usurp't over them and where you say that man is hot and woman cold and by how much heat is to bee preferred before cold by so much is a man to bee preferted before a woman it is true heat is the more noble quality of the two if we consider it in the elements as they are simple but consider it in the mixt bodies there it is otherwise for if cold cause women to bee timorous and fearefull which is a defect heat causeth men to bee furious and frantick which is an excesse and it cannot bee maintained that a man that is a foole because hee hath more heat then a woman ought to be preferred because a wary distrust in a woman which proceeds of cold is to bee preferred before a rash and giddy forwardnesse in a man which proceeds of heate and where you say that had it not been for a woman man had never tasted of misery you might as well have remembred had it not been for a woman man had never tasted of felicity and where you say if women should bee advanced to any places of Command and should but once transgresse the bounds of chastity they would dishonour themselves and their places in perpetuity when men do often transgresse in that kinde and no notice taken of it certainly that is the fault folly of the times that doe not lay the burthen upon the right horse the man deserves to be condemned and the woman pitied for being that the hardest stone is in time worn by the soft drops of rain the strongest fort with often batteries levelled with the dust the gravest judge with bribes flatteries corrupted why should a poore weak woman if after a long seige shee yield her selfe captive bee condemned and not rather he that made the breach and where you say that man hates the woman most that had his virginity because thereby hee becomes more imperfect and the woman loves the man best that had hers because thereby shee becomes most perfect I confesse there is such a probleme but you are mistaken in the reason of the problematist it is not because the man becomes more imperfect the women more perfect but because the man is fickle whom he loves to day he hates to morrow and the woman constant in her first love to her first lover that I may fully stop your mouth I will tell you of some women whom you shall hardly finde me men to paralell there was one Mirte the first Queen of the Lydians who was of so low a stature that shee seemed to be a Dwarfe yet of so great a spirit that shee led on Armies in the field and decided causes in courts of justice insomuch that the Lydians thought it no dishonour to them to give her the precedency amongst their Kings Cornelia the Mother of the Gracchi was more honoured in Rome for the Lectures which she read then her sonnes were for the Victories which they obteined of whom Cicero gave this testimony that hee never knew out of so weak a body to proceed so strong a wit Arete the daughter of Aristippus read the Naturall and Morall Philosophy Lecture 35 years in Athens whom the Athenians honoured with this Epitaph here lies Arete il splendore di Grecia la quale hebbe la bellezza d' Helena l'honesta di Tirma la penna d' Aristippo l'anima di

ancients is aptly termed a game of inconstancy wherein there is nothing but shufling and cutting the Card that now is on the top anon is in the bottome anon discarded Tib who whilome rul'd as Commanders the next dealing if trump withdraw his Colours are of no better esteem then a common Card vix horae momentum nonnunquam inter est inter solium solitudinem saith Seneca heur malheur se suivent tour a tour good lucke and bad follow each other turne by turne O dii boni saith the Orator quid est in hominis vita diu O good God what is there of any continuance in the World 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as are most powerfull with their Princes are aptly compared to counters which now stand for a ●ound anon for a Cipher every mortall thing is fading fleeting and transitory n De Ludovico iidicitur quod dicere solebat naturā hominis novitate delectari ideoque crebro mutasse cubicularios Com. lib. 9. The mindes of men are desirous of changes and alterations and those whom we now most affect anon after wee most neglect Besides the many examples which our author hath set forth see one memorable one in the generall History of the Turkes in the raigne of Solyman the magnificent of Abrahem the Visier Basse President of the Councell * 57. Hugo de Burgo proto-justitiarius Angliae Hugh de Burge chiefe Iustice of England Invidia virtutis comes besides the testimony which our Authour hath given of Hugh de Burgh Matthew Paris goes further and saith that hee was miles strenuus fidelis Constable of Dover Castle which hee stoutly defended against Lewis of France and the Barons of England in the behalfe of the King who when Lewis sent unto him after the Kings death Mat. Par. in Ioh. An. 1213. to have him deliver up the Castle with large promises that he would make him one of his Councell and confer upon him many honours returned this answer though the King bee dead yet he hath left behinde him filios filias qui ei debent succedere and that to the uttermost of his power hee would in their behalfe defend and keep it Mat. Par. in H. 3. initio ne illud turpiter reddendo notam proditionis incurreret yet notwithstanding by the instigation of Peter Bishop of Winchester the King did not onely withdraw his affections from him and deprive him of his Offices but prosecuted him with all severity * 58. Plebe vix manibus temperante The people hardly forbearing to lay hands upon him Demosthenes being banisht Athens lifting up his hands towards the City made a bitter invective against it saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O Minerva that hast the government of the City committed unto thee why dost thou harbor within thee three most insufferable beasts the Nightbird the Dragon and the Common-people hee rankes the multitude in Athens with the most unlucky creatures and not without cause 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the common sort of people in Athens are a most ingratefull and barborous kinde of people persecuting them most that have most deserved of them nullum fretum nullus Euripus tantas tam varias habet agitationes fluctuum the Sea doth not so often ebbe and flow as the unstable multitude change their mindes if one sheep transgresse the bounds of the pasture all the rest will follow after and for no other reason but because hee went before When Earle Vlrick Ciliensis was banisht by Ladislaus the peoples hatred was such unto him that had not the Marquesse of Brandenburgh brought him to the Gates of Vienna the people would have stoned him yet when the King the next yeare received him into favour againe Aeneas Sil. Hist Europ c. 22. eadem plebs as Aeneas Sylvius observes quae paulo ante l●tum lapides in fugientem jactare tentavit sternere viam floribus qua redeunti transitus fuit non dubitavit the very same people that threw dirt in his face the yeare before strowed flowers in his way the yeare after When the Nobility of Hungary deposed Maria and set up Carolus Parvus the common people cried susus colus sunt arma mulierum imperium mulieri non aliter quam clitella bovi convenit down with her down with her for that it is against the Law of nature that men should bee subject unto women Spindles and Distaffes doe better become women then Scepters yet not long after as soone as ever hee was Crowned Bons dec 3. lib. 1. ●erū Hungar they fell off from him quem iniquè as saith Bonfinius imprudenterque multitudo affectavit mutatis subinde animis oderit whom not long before they so much affected without any reason within a short time after they hated and neglected cum fortuna statque caditque fides populi * 59 Inquilini sui putant juris esse Natives thinke it their Birth right to be governed by men of their owne Nation Some have been of opinion that there is no better way to advance the good of a City then to open the gates to let in strangers into it for that therby the City is empeopled which is the glory of a City but these men neither tooke into their consideration either that of Eunius Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque that thereby the foundation of the City the ancient Lawes and Customes are endangered for that strangers desire to be governed by their own Lawes or the seditious and tumultuous Insurrections which thereby usually are occasioned for that Natives will not endure that strangers should carry away the fat and sweetnesse of their Countrey or the Lawes of Lycurgus who by his Lawes advenas in urbe residentes abegit ne alieujus noxae doctores forent others have gone further and have thought it a speciall meanes to advance the good of a City to suffer strangers to execute places of authority there because thereby correspondency is kept with Forraigne Nations but King James utterly opposeth it and therefore amongst many other things which hee giveth in charge to Prince Henry in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee giveth him this Caveat cavendum est ut ne peregrino homini publicum mupus committas and Lipsius shewes the inconveniences thereby saith hee the Prince draws much hatred upon himselfe for when the Natives of a Countrey where many able men are to be found doe perceive the Prince to preferre strangers before others they doe alien their affections from them and oftentimes betake themselves to the service of Forraine Princes Again the Commonwealth cannot bee well governed for that it is impossible that strangers should know the manners and conditions of the people or the state of the Common-Wealth in any degree like unto Natives or if they did yet generally they fayle in fidelity and true affection nam qui potest in alienam remp benè agere in qua illud semper