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king_n	england_n	france_n	french_a	29,770	5	7.7778	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01365	A very briefe and profitable treatise declaring hovve many counsells, and vvhat maner of counselers a prince that will gouerne well ought to haue The book speaketh. ...; Consejo i consejeros del principe. English. Abridgments	Furio Ceriol, Fadrique, d. 1592.; Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.	1570 (1570)	STC 11488; ESTC S105670	28,475	130

ovvne countrie hovve good or euill it is and knovveth hovv to roote out all abuses and euill customes and to plant good in their stead He knovveth hovve to entertayne straungers be they friends foes or nevvtralls by reason that he is acquainted vvith their manners and conditions can apply his vvordes vvryting and deedes according as the condition of the men of the matter of the tyme and of the Prince shall require knovving both the commodities and discommodities of tymes and places vvherby the Prince or his coūsell can neuer bee decey ued in any thing by vvrong or false information of straungers neyther shall hee neede to depende vppon their iudgement The Prince to knovve vvhy ther his counseler bee a traueiler and vvhat profite hee hath reaped thereby maye question vvyth him in this vvise Hovv many myles contayneth the length of Fraunce and hovv many in breadth and also hovv manye in circute vvhat notable cities tovvnes and Vniuersities it hath specially vvhat holdes and Fortes And on vvhat side the countrie is most easie to be inuaded vvhat floudes and streames it hath that bee not vvádable vvhat vertue or vice is most proper or peculyer to the French men and in vvhat thing they most delyght also vvherin the nobilitie of Fraūce differeth from the nobilitie of Englande and vvherein their people differ from oures hovv much their buildings differ frō oures vvhich of the tvvo kings of Fraunce and Englande hath most absolute povver vppon vvhat occasions and hovve the people of Fraunce is vvont to vvithstande their prince And vvherein their seruitude differeth from the seruitude of our people hovv the king of Fran̄ce leauyeth his Souldiours hovv they are exercised and trayned And in marching through the countrie vvhat order is taken and vvhat prouision is made that the poore countriemen be not spoyled nor molested by them The like questions may bee demaunded of anye other countrie or vvythout asking these questions it is easie to perceyue by his ovvne talke of the countries vvhere he hath bene vvhat profite he hath gathered For if he be alvvayes ready eyther to condemne straunge coūtries and their customes or gouernment and to prayse hys ovvne or else contrary vvise to prayse the others to dispraise his ovvne vvithout due consideration or comparison had it is an euident signe that hee maketh no distinctiō of things and vvhereas is no distinction there can be no choyse or election and vvhere election vvanteth there is no vvisedome nor iudgement and vvhere vvisedome and iudgement fayleth all things fayle The eyght qualitie requisite in a counseler is to knovve as vvell the strength and povver of his Prince as also of his allyes friendes neyghbours and enimies for vvant of vvhich knovvledge manye tymes the Prince is counseled to vvarre vvith those vvith vvhome he ought to lyue in peace and to make peace vvith those vvyth vvhome he should rather haue vvarres And the Prince maye try the knovvledge of his coūseler in thys behalfe by asking him these or suche lyke questions As vvhat ordinary or extraordinarye reuenevves hys friendes or foes haue vvherof such reuenevves do rise vvhat Souldyours they are able to make hovve they are leauyed armed trayned and exercysed vvhat Captaines they haue of vvhat thinges necessarye to maintaine vvarre their countries haue eyther plentye or lack and such lyke The ninth qualitie requisite in a counseler is to loue hys common vvealth so vvell as he doth alvvayes regarde the profite and honour thereof more than his ovvne esteeming in respecte thereof neyther hys goodes dignitie lyfe nor fame vvithout vvhich loue he can neuer bee so carefull for the preseruation of hys common vvealth nor so diligent in doing his duetie as hee ought to be vvhich loue or zeale vvhyther the counseler hath or not the Prince may knovve partly by hearing his opinion in such matters as doe redovvnde more to the Princes peculier profite than eyther to his honor or to to the profite of the common vvealth As vvhyther vppon some fained cause it be good to breake a league or truce made vvyth some Prince or to depryue Cyties or tovvnes of their liberties or to charge the commons vvith some extreme subsedie taske loane beneuolence and such like And partly he may knovv him by his conditions For if he be eyther an hipocrite or dissembler a couetous person or a flatterer ready to vpholde the Princes vvordes vvith yea and naye affirming alvvayes that the Prince maye doe vvhat him lysteth and that he can not erre it is vnpossible that such one can loue his common vvealth but must needes be a great enimy thervnto The tenth qualitie is to haue a right iudgement in all things and to heare al men indifferentlye vvythout partialitie or respect of persons and to thinke hymselfe more bounde to right and Iustice than to Lorde or Duke to friend or kinsmā For the counseler is a publique person and therefore ought to bee voyde of all priuate affection louing in general all good men for their vertue and hating the euil in like maner for their vice of vvhat countrie or nation soeuer they be For though there be many nations yet there bee but tvvo sortes of people that is eyther good or euil Notvvithstanding of those that be good vvee are bounde both by Gods lavve and mans lavve to preferre in some respectes our Parents kinsmen and countrymen before others The Prince may knovv vvhither his counseler hath this qualitie or not by obseruing his doings and marking vvhyther he be a procurer of fauour lyuing office or dignitie for his kinsmen or others that bee not vvorthye therof Agayne vvhyther he be factious that is to saye fauouring and maintayning one part of the state more than another as the Nobles more than the cōmons or contraryvvise And vvhyther he vpholdeth the Ecclesiasticall povver more than the lay povver vvhich kinde of men are perillous in all commō vvealthes For so as their faction may stande be it by right or by vvrong they care not vvhat mischiefe they doe hauing no regarde to the commō vvealth at al. Neither is it good for a Prince to admyt into hys counsell anye man that hath beene knovvne to bee an open enimie to any dominion Prouince Citie or tovvne that is subiect to the Prince or to suffer any such to beare rule in any of those places For man being naturallye vindicatiue hauing once gotten povver to execute his desire vvill vndoubtedly vvhen he seeth his tyme vnder the colour of Iustice reuenge his priuate vvrong vvith the publicke svvorde Neyther is it good to put anye man that is the heade of any faction in authoritie or to make more accompt of hym than of the contrarye part for that breedeth disdayne and hatred in that part not onely against the partie so promoted but also against the Princes ovvne persó for his partialitie shevved therin vvhich thing hath brought many Princes to their destruction The leauenth qualitie belonging to a counseler is to

is the somme and effect of all that mine Author thought meete to treate of in this his firste of those eyght Bookes vvhich he hath promised to set foorth touching thys matter vvho vvisheth that he had bene as able to frame such a counsell in deede as hee hath heare descrybed in vvryting for then he vvoulde haue set foorth to the vvorlde a visible example of the goodnesse thereof to bee seene and felt rather than this imagined patterne to be considered onely vvith the minde And bicause he doubteth not but that some vvyll bee readye to finde faultes vvith this his vvorke he briefely aunfvvereth to such obiections as maye be lay de against him And first vvhereas it maye bee obiected that it is not a meete thing for a Prince to take such paine and to trouble himselfe in making so precyse a choyse He aunsvvereth that it is no trouble or paine at all in respect of the great ease rest and quietnesse that he shall thereby purchase to hymselfe vvhen he shall haue to deale in great affayres and matters of vvayte be it eyther in time of peace or vvarre for be they neuer so troublous or vvaytie of themselues yet to him hauing such counsells and counselers they shall seeme very easie and light Some againe vvill obiect that the Prince is free that he maye giue dispose his offices as him pleaseth best VVhervnto mine author ansvvereth that the freedome or libertie of the Prince is no freedome vvhen it passeth the bounds of reason and that in preferring vvill before reason he ought rather to be called a tyrant than a Prince Thirdly it may be sayde that it behooueth Noble men Gentlemen to bee revvarded according to their birth and calling vvhich mine Author denyeth not and yet therevvith sayth that it is not al one thing to revvarde a noble man to make him a counseler sith there bee meanes ynough to revvard him vvythout that vnlesse he bee meete for it Fourthly it may be obiected that there are no such counselers as he hath descrybed to hee founde in all the vvorlde VVherevnto he aunsvvereth that there are a number of good men and verie sufficient in all conditions to bee had if the Prince choose them for their vertue and deserts and not by his ovvne affection fauour or povver And thoughe there were not yet if the Prince vvould doe as he ought to doe he might make men of stones For to vvhat soeuer the Prince is giuen be it to vice or to vertue all men vvill follovve the same And therfore if the Prince delight in vvise learned and vertuóus counselers mine Author sayth that he dare aduenture his heade that a number of Barrons and Knightes in fevve yeres vvoulde become most sufficient counselers And for proofe thereof vvisheth that some Prince vvoulde put these his preceptes in vre not doubting but that in so doing hee should quickly see such an alteration in his Courte as those that doe novv leavvdely spende their tyme in ydlenesse vayne pastymes and in vvantonnesse of life vvould giue themselues to lavvdable exercises and therby make the Court to become a schoole of vertue and knovvledge VVhich should be to the great honour of the Prince to the profite of the common vvealth and to the glorye of God vvho giue grace to all Christian Princes so to order their courtes and to giue such ensample themselues as the cōmon people may learne therby to liue in the feare of God to doe that vvhich is acceptable in his sight and thus I ende thys treatise FINIS 1 2 3 4 5 The Eschequer These thinges belong to our high Courte of Parlament The priuie counsell which for worthinesse woulde be first placed The counsell of war whereof Englande hath most neede Purueyours The cōmon place These pointes also doe belong to our high Courte of Parlament The kings bench The Whitehal or court of revvards A liuely vvytte Eloquence Knowledge of tongues Reading of Hystories Morall Philosophy Pollicie Traueling of Countries Knowledge of the Princes power The zeale and true loue of the Counseler towardes his country Vpright iudgement Iustice. Liberalitie Beneficialnesse Affability Qualities of the body Age. Complexiō Stature ▪ Proportion of body Vysage The first aduertisement The second aduertisement The thirde aduertisement The fourth aduertisement The fift aduertisment The sixt aduertisment