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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90783	Pliny's panegyricke: a speech in Senate: wherein publike thankes are presented to the Emperour Traian, / by C. Plinius Cæcilius Secundus Consul of Rome. Translated out of the originall Latin, illustrated with annotations, and dedicated to the prince, by Sr Rob. Stapylton Knight, Gent. in Ordinary of the Privy Chamber to His Highnesse.; Panegyricus. English	Pliny, the Younger.; Stapylton, Robert, Sir, d. 1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P2579; Thomason E283_5; ESTC R200055	90,710	86

Trajan died before he was declared one that had thrice been Consul when you refused your third Consulship A heavy taske our votes would have imposed upon your modesty that you the Prince should be as often Consul as your Senatour The refusall whereof would have argued too much bashfulnesse even when you were a private man the sonne of a Consular and a tryumphant Father when hee a third time is created Consul doth hee ascend is it not his due yea though he could pleade no other merit but the nobilitie of his birth Private persons therefore had the honour to open the k The Romans dated their Records and Deedes from Consulships as we doe from kings Reignes and the Consuls began with the yeare in January yeare and to unlock the l The Roman Kalender began with the Consuls names proceeded with the Festivals Court dayes which properly were the Fasti Kalender and this likewise was an instance of liberty restored that another was Consul and not Caesar Thus the Tyrants being expelled the free yeare beganne thus heretofore servitude shaken off our Kalender was inscribed with the names of private men Miserable they were in their ambition that continued their Consulshippes like their Principalitie yet seemes it not to be more their ambition then their envy and malignitie to ingrosse to themselves all yeares and not to put off that supreame ornament of the purple but when it was worne and soiled like their old robes But in you which shall I first admire magnanimity or modestie or bounty It was magnanimity to absteine from an honour so much affected by Princes modesty to wave it bounty to enjoy it by others But now it is time that you do a favour to the Consulship it selfe that by undertaking to mannage it you may make it greater for still to refuse would beare an ambiguous interpretation and rather signifie that you thought it too meane It is true you refused it as the greatest but none will be so perswaded unlesse sometimes you will likewise not refuse it When you excuse your selfe from triumphall Arches from Trophies from statues we may pardon your modesty for indeede those are dedicated to your selfe But we now make it our suite that you will teach future Princes to renounce idlenesse a while to adjourne their pleasures awhile at least for a little while to awake out of their slumber of felicity to put on our pretexted purple which when they should have bestowed they have invaded and to ascend the Sella Curulis the Chariot tribunall which 't is fit they should possesse lastly to be indeed what they have coveted to seeme not to desire the name of Consul only for the name You have discharged a second Consulshippe I know it but that you may alleage as a favour to our Armies to our Provinces to forreyne nations not to us We have heard indeed you have done all that concerns the office of a Consul but wee have heard It is reported you were most just most gratious most patient but it is reported 'T is fit that sometimes we should credit our owne judgment our owne eyes not alwaies fame and rumor How long absent from one another shall we joy in you give us leave to make triall whether that second Consulshippe have put no pride into you Halfe a yeare hath much influence upon the manners of men much more of Princes Indeed we say he that hath one vertue hath all yet we desire a proofe whether once againe a good Consul and a good Prince be one and the same thing For besides the difficulty of mannageing two and both of them soveraigne powers there is likewise diversity in the powers themselves for that may become a Prince which a Consul must not doe But I see the cheefest reason that moved you next yeare to refuse the Consulshippe was that you could not discharge it in your absence but now being restored to the Citty and our publicke wishes wherein can you clearlyer shew us what and how great the blessing was that we desired It were little favour to Come into the Senate unlesse you please to assemble it to be present unlesse president to heare us passe our votes unlesse you would give sentence Would you as our Consul in time restore to i'ts majesty that dread Tribunall ascend Would you have awefulnesse in the Magistrate authority in the Lawes and modesty in the Petulant sit in person in the Senate For so much as it would have concerned our Republike if you were a private man not to have you only our Consull unlesse you likewise were a Senator so much it concernes your selfe not to be only our Prince unlesse you likewise be our Consull With these so many and prevalent reasons though our Prince's modesty long strugled yet at last it yielded but how not to equall himselfe with private men but to make private men his equalls For he a third time received the Consulship that he might a third time give it for he knew mens moderation he knew their bashfullnesse that would not indure a third time to be Consuls unlesse a third time he were Consul with them Anciently this honour was bestowed and that sparingly upon adjutants to Generalls and partners in their dangers * Vide sis m which you have given to two particular men that indeed have served you faithfully and valiantly but in the gowne Both their cares both their industryes have layed an obligation Caesar upon you but in a Prince 't is rare and seldome heard of to think himselfe obliged or thinking so to love You therefore Caesar owe and pay but when a third time you make Consuls you thinke not in so doing that you are a great Prince but that you are not an ingratefull freind Nay even the low deservings of your subjects you raise higher by the supremacy of your fortune for you make every one thought to have done you service according to the greatnesse of your retribution What prayers shall I make for such benignity but that you may ever oblige ever be obliged and leave it doubtfull whether it were more expedient for your subjects to be your debters or to have you theirs Truly methought I saw that ancient Senate when one thrice Consul sitting one a third time designed Consul stood to desire suffrages As great as they were then so great are you It happens indeed that bodies though vast and high approaching higher bodies then themselves decrease in like manner the greatest subjects dignities compared with your greatnesse loose their height and the nearer they ascend to your elevation the more they seeme to descend from their owne Yet those which though you would you could not raise to your owne height you have yet placed so conspicuously as they appear as much above others as below you If a third time you had made one Consul in the same yeare with your selfe it had argued a great soule For as it is a declaration of felicity to have as