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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56890	Fortune in her wits, or, The hour of all men written in Spanish by the most ingenious Don Francisco de Quivedo Villegas ... ; translated into English by Capt. John Stevens.; Fortuna con seso. English	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.; Stevens, John, d. 1726.	1697 (1697)	Wing Q188; ESTC R5377	77,088	150

a Turbant the Christian for a Hat the Moore for a Cap and you for a Veil We admit not of the Name of a Kingdom Commonwealth or any other but only that of Monopanti We yield all Titles to Kings and Commonwealths we take from them the power abstracted from the Vanity of those noisy Words We lay our Design that they may be Lords over the World and we over them To attain so glorious an end we have not found any to 〈◊〉 with in Confederacy on equal Terms like you who are at present the sharpers of Europe you only want our quality to compleat the subverting of all which we offer you entire by way of Contagion or Infection to be transmitted by means of an infernal device found out against Christians by us here present which is that as Treacle is prepared with the sharp poison of the Viper because it is the moisture that goes the quickest and most directly to the Heart for which reason being compounded with many Simples of Efficacious Virtue it conveys them to the Heart to defend it against Poison which is the design of the Medicine so we have invented a counter-Treacle to convey Poisons to the Heart by falling upon the Vertues and good works that go to it and to carry to the Soul the Vices Abominations and Errors which on these Vehicles will slip into it If you resolve upon this Alliance we will give you the Receipt with the weight and number of Ingredients and furnish Apothecaries well versed in the composition in the contriving whereof Danipe Alkemiastos and I have taken great pains and our labour is nothing inferior to the Trochisks of the Viper Be ruled by our Pragas for you need not cease to be Jews and at the same time will learn to be Monopanti At the very uttering of these words the Hour had its effect and Rabbi Maimon one of those that came from the Synagogue of Venice rising up and putting aside with his hand a Fathom and a half of Snout that he might come the closer to the Ear of Rabbi Saadias whispered these words Rabbi I smell a Rat in that word be govern'd we must keep a sharp Eye upon these Fellows for to me they look like famely Pharaos and subtile encroachers Saadias replied Now at length I am convinced they are the very Manna of instruction for they tast as every one would have them The best way is to say little and give them a bait in the Trap as to Republican Mice Christotheus seeing the numbling Dialogue said to Philargiros and Danipe I smoke the Jealousie of the wicked Jews Let every Man of the Monopanti give himself a lick of the Golden Calf and they will all fall upon their Knees They all run upon Snares and Contrivances against one another and Rabbi Saadias to amuse the Monopanti said We look upon you as discoverers of the Land of promise and the true basis of our designs that we may be united in a mischievous body it will be requisite we consult the methods and conclude and sign Articles at our next meeting which we appoint three days hence Pacasmazo covering his Snake Skin with Doves Feathers said The time was sufficient and the resolution discreet but that it was requisite exact secrecy should be observed Then taking out a Book bound in Sheeps skin with the Wooll on which was curiously interwoven and wrought with Gold Thread he gave it to Saadias saying This Jewel we give you as a Pledge He took it and asked Whose works are these Pacasmazo answered The works of our words The Author is Nicolas Matchiavel who composed the thorough Base to our Trebel The Jews attentively looking upon them and particularly observing the binding in Sheeps skin Rabbi Asapha who was Deputy for Oran said This is some of the Wooll the Spaniards tell us in their Proverb which says they that go to fetch it are fleeced before they return Thus they parted both parties contriving to meet again like the Steel and Flint for to batter bruize and beat one another to pieces till they struck fire against all the World for founding the new Sect of Monetism changing the name of Atheists into that of Moneymongers or Monetists The general Assembly of all Nations for redress of grievances The Subjects of Princes Common-wealths Kings and Emperors assembled together at Liege a Neuter Country to consult about their Affairs redress their Grievances vent their Spleen and breath out their thoughts before stifled under the fear of Sovereign Power There were people of all Nations Conditions and Qualities The number was so great it looked more like an Army than an Assembly for which reason they made choice of the open Fields to meet in On the one hand it was surprising to behold the wonderful variety of Garbs and Countenances on the other the Ears were Confounded and Attention it self deceived by the strange diversity of Languages The voices seemed to rend the Air and resounded in the same manner as when in the heat of harvest time the Fields ring with the indefatigable noise of Grashoppers The most piercing cry was that raised by the Women tearing their Throats with Actions altogether distracted All was full of tumultuous Madness and raging Discord The Republicans would be govern'd by Princes and the Subjects of Princes were for erecting themselves into Common-wealths This controversie set a Noble Savoyard and a Commoner of Genoua together by the Eares The Savoyard complained That his Duke was the perpetual motion and consumed his Subjects with continual Wars to hear up his Dominions which are ever ready to sink betwixt France and Spain That his safety consisted in embroiling the two Kings at the Expence of his Subjects to the end that they two being employed against one another neither of them might swallow him since both those Princes alternatively first one and then the other Conquer and Defend him all which the Subjects pay for being never allowed any respite to breath When France attacks Spain supports him and when Spain invades France defends him and whereas neither protects him for his sake but to obstruct the others enlarging his Dominion by that accession and becoming a nearer and more formidable Neighbour the Defence is often as fatal if not more to the Subjects than the Invasion The Duke retains a secret ambition to be thought the Founder of the Liberty of Itatly bearing before him the better to draw to his party the See of Rome The History of Amadee surnamed the Pacifick because some Persons impiously Malicious have suspected he designs to reduce the Pope to his bare stock of Pardons in indulgences The Duke is Disceased of the Distemper of King of Cyprus is perplexed with the remembrance of having been Lord of Geneva and grows sick with the desire of being Supream among the Italian Princes All these motives are spurs to his Ambition which rather stands in need of a Curb and for these Reasons I come to propose that Savoy and

All three plied the Spaniard and he answered them all there being such plenty of that sort of Ammunition in the place that they stumbled upon it The Frenchmen kept their distance for fear of the Dagger The Spaniard guarded himself with his Cloak and giving a Kick to the Pin-Box it tumbled down the Rocks and flew open strewing the Mountain with Pins and Combs he seeing the Merchandize confounded cryed out I have already begun to do my King good service and seeing some Passengers on Mules come up and part them desired they would give him a Certificate of the Victory he had obtained over the Vermin that infested Spain The Passengers laught understanding the cause of the Fray and carrying away the Spaniard behind one of them left the Frenchmen busie stopping the Holes in the Bellows patching together the Mouse-traps mending the Wheel and picking up the Pins that were scattered about the Clifts The Spaniard being at a good distance cryed out to them If you were Malecontents in your own Country ye Scoundrels thank me for making you so in mine Italy Dancing on the Rope France and Spain watching to catch her if she falls Italy once the Mistress of the World and now only retaining the Memory of its former Grandeur seeing its vast Monarchy cut out into so many Parcels to enlarge the Dominions of several Princes and its Territories rent asunder to patch up many scattered States was now at length convinced how easie it was for others to take from her all that she alone had with wonderful felicity taken from them all Now therefore finding her self poor and extreamly light as being eased of the Burden of many Provinces she resolved to turn Rope-Dancer and for want of Ground to walk upon exercised her self upon the Sreight Rope to the astonishment of the whole World She fixt the ends of her Rope the one at Rome and the other at Savoy France and Spain were the Spectators The two Kings kept a watchful Eye upon her observing to which side she inclined as she Danced each striving to be ready to catch her if she fell Italy perceiving what they aimed at laid hold of the Republick of Venice and grasping it with both Hands as a Pole to poise her leap'd and skipp'd at a wonderful rate sometimes making as if she would fall to one side and sometimes to the other diverting her self with the eagerness of both Parties stretching out their Arms to catch her and surprizing others with her Skill in recovering her self and deceiving them both As they stood thus upon the catch the Hour began and the King of France seeing no probability of laying hold on her began to loosen the end of the Rope which was six't in Savoy that she might come tumbling towards him The Spanish Monarch perceiving it clapt in the State of Milan and Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily as Supporters Italy skipping in the Air discovered that Vevice which she used as a Pole to poise at the same time crucified her and therefore casting it from her and laying hold of the Rope she said So much for Rope-Dancing for it is not for me to rise high when the Lookers on wish I may fall and the Pole that should poise crucifies me Then suspecting the support of Savoy she betook her self to Rome saying Since all are for seizing me I 'le take sanctuary in the Church where if I chance to fall I shall not want some body to absolve me The Kingdom of Naples and Duke of Osuna The Neapolitan Courser from whom some have stolen his Oats and others drawn away his Hay while some strove to make of him a Gelding others a Mare and others a Post-Horse perceiving that whilst he was in the keeping of that incomparable Viceroy and invincible Captain General the Duke of Osuna he could cope with Bucephalus his Furniture being composed of the Treasures of Venice and Brindisi That he had made him a Sea Horse by his many glorious Naval Victories that he had turned him to Grass in Cyprus and Water'd him at Tenedos when he dragg'd after him the mighty Ship Sultana from Thessalonica for which Action Neptune own'd him for his first begotten Son brought forth in opposition to Minerva He remembred that Great Duke had shod him with the Turkish Half Moons and that kicking up his Heels he had dashed out the Teeth of the Venetian Lion at the prodigious Battle near Ragusa where with only 15 Sail he defeated 80 obliging them shamefully to retire with the loss of many Galleys and Galleasses and of the best of their Men. Calling to mind these Triumphs and considering he had not now so much as a Horse-Cloth but was gaul'd and Snuffled because they had thrown Feathers into his Manger and that he was now put to draw a Coach having been once so Mettlesome that die Frenchmen tho good Jockeys could never sit him The Miserable Condition he saw himself reduced to drove him into a desperate Melancholy and that into raving Madness so that Neighing fiercely and Breathing Fire he thought to have imitated the Trojan Horse and kicking and plunging to have overthrown the City At the Noise in came the Magistrates of Naples who throwing one of their Gowns over his Head blinded him then stroaking and speaking him fair they put on his Collar and Fetters but as they were tying him to a Ring in the Stable the Hour began Two of them that were farthest off said It was more convenient and cheaper to give the Courser at once to the Pope than every year to send him a Nag with a Purse for by their Malicious Eyes it might be judged the Popes Nephews would some time overlook him The others surprized at this Motion answered That the King of Spain had secured him against that Distemper by placing three Castles on his Forehead as a Spell and that they would sooner cut off his Legs than see him serve like a Mule under long black Trappings resembling a Pall. The two first replied They talked like Hereticks in refusing to be Papists and that no Saddle would fit the Courser like that of St. Peter The others in a Passion said That to prevent the Hereticks making the Pope loose his Stirrups in that Saddle it was convenient only the King of Spain should mount the Horse Some were for the Mitre others for the Crown and Words passing at last they came to Blows so that a terrible Havock had been among them but that the Elect of the People came in in the Godspeed and understanding the cause of the Quarrel said This Horse tho hard Mouthed has had many Masters and for the most part has gone to them of his own accord and not suffered himself to be led It is requisite he be carefully looked after for there are in Italy many a-foot that look for Baggage Horses and Jockeys ready Booted and Spurred and the old Horse-stealer who catched him sometimes before and has now got a back Door to the Stable