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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

successors As touching Pallas of whom we have before spoken who perswaded and procured Claudius incestuously to marry Agrippina his brothers daughter and afterwards to be his Concubine though hee contracted with the Senate that for any offence past hee should not be questioned yet Nero observing how proudly hee caried himselfe exceeding the limits of a free man grew in hatred with him so that after that he had removed him from all places of Authority which Claudius had conferred upon him having had indeed the Key of the Empire in his power he was by Nero put to death the excessive pride of this man is remarkable in this one passage he being accused by Nero upon a time for words spoken when hee heard the Libertines named that should be his accusers answered that at home hee never spoke word but did all by signes and tokens if the matter were short hee exprest himselfe either by his nod or by his hand if long by writing In the next place Tigellinus descended of meane Parentage vitious in his youth vitious in his age who having by his dishonest courses wherein hee grew so notorious that be surpassed all the men of his time crept into Neros favour and attained divers offices of Command and Authority executed the same with all kinde of cruelty rapine and villany having corrupted Nero with all kinde of vices being most inward with him for when he was angry none except himselfe and Pappea durst speake unto him at length was so bold as to make some attempt upon Nero himselfe yea to forsake him and betray him But when Vitellius came to the Crown the people petitioned him that he might be called to an accompt for it and so being condemned in the midst of his jollities whilst he was revelling with his Whores his jawes being first cut off with a rasor he * 17 Infamem vitam infami exitu faedavit 17 ended his ignominious life with as ignominious a death So Vitellius being promoted to the Empire within four months after that he overcame Otho * 18 Asiaticum in favorem cepit 18 hee took into his favour one Asiaticus a freed man of his no way inferiour in all kinde of villany * 19 Policletos Patrob ios vetera odiorum nomina aequabat 19 to the Policleti and Patrobii the old detestable names amongst the Romans but immediatly after the death of Vitellius under Vespasian he received condigne punishment for abusing the power conferred upon him Commodus the Emperour had many of these men whom he raised and pulled down againe who after the time that he fell into the hands of the Southsayers and Conjurers never shewed himselfe in publick * 20 Ne quicquam sibi annuntiari est passus nisi quod Perrenius ante tractasset 20 neither would endure to heare or be told of anything if it had not first been made known unto Perrenius This man therefore knowing the Emperours minde found out the way how to make himselfe powerfull hee perswaded * 21 Persuasit Cōmodo ut lipse deliciis vacaret ut curae illi demandarentur 21 the Emperour to follow his delights and leave the cares of the Commonwealth to him which motion of his the Emperour readily entertained so Perrenius is the only man that swayes the Empire puts to death whom he will robbs and spoyls whom hee will and all that he may make a prey out of every thing and enrich himselfe but why did this man thus tyrannyse did he thinke that though he had power for a time that it would continue for ever no for as soone as he was made cheife Commander of the Horse in the Brittish warr his villanyes being everywhere divulged he was called by no other name then by the name of the Enemy of the Armyes and was delivered over by the Souldiers to be pulled in pieces Herodian writes that because hee did conspire with his sonne to kill Commodus and usurpe the Empire they were both put to death If either of these were true it serves well enough for our purpose To succeed Perrenius Commodus chose Cleander from amongst them that waited upon him in his bed chamber being a man of meane Parentage this man so much abused the favour of Commodus that * 22 Omnes praefecturas pro libitu vendit distribuit 22 hee sold all offices of Command and Authority disposed of them and tooke them away againe at his will and pleasure sent for such home as were in exile and preferred them to places of dignities disannuld the decrees of the Courts of Iustice and made havock and sale of every thing yea so bewitcht the Emperour that hee procured Burrhus the Emperours brother in law his owne Sisters husband with many others that stood out in his defence to bee put to death for no other cause as hee could surmise but for suspition that hee desired to be Emperour and this displeasure Cleander took against him because that Birrhus observing his unruly courses freely reprehended him for them and made the Emperour acquainted with his actions but these enormious offences escaped not unpunished for in the end hee smarted for them Arrius Montanus being by his plots and conspiracies put to death for crimes laid to his charge which he never did It drew the Emperours wrath upon him and occasioned deadly hatred in the people insomuch that they made an insurrection for pacification whereof as Herodian and Dion observe the Emperour was compell'd to send his Souldiers amongst them but untill they saw the head of Cleander they would not be pacified wherefore the Emperour caus'd his head to be cut off and to be set upon a pole which when they saw there was an end of the businesse all parties were agreed To succeed him were called Iulianus and Regillus but they continued not long in his favour Severus the Emperour raised Plautianus Afer from a very meane estate to bee very potent and mighty by confiscated goods which hee conferred upon him yet kept from him all places of Command and Authority whose gracious favour he so much abused to the exercise of his cruelty that hee became more tyrannicall then any of the Princes of former times for when Severus preferred in Mariage Plautianus his Daughter to his Sonne Anthony against the will of Anthony for which hee distasted both his Wife and Father and threatned to kill them both and so to aspire to the Empire Plautianus considering then what danger he was in and on the other side being spurred on with a desire of Soveraignty knowing well the age and weaknesse of the Emperour and his own power bethinks himselfe how hee might kill the Father and the Sonne and so attaine the Empire and avoyd the danger hee was like to fall into if Anthonyes designe should take effect the executioner being sent to do the deed when Plautianus should give the word the Treachery being discovered * 23 Convictus jussu Antonii occisus