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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31687	The Character of a disbanded courtier		1681 (1681)	Wing C1969; ESTC R8413	2,038	2

THE CHARACTER OF A Disbanded Courtier Ingenium Galbae male habitat HE was born with an aspiring Mind by much too high flown for his Quality and his Estate His dexterity in doing ill made him thought capable of performing admirably well if ever he came to be employed and entrusted He was preferr'd for Ability to high degrees of Honour and Office admitted into the Cabinet Councils made acquanted with all the secret Wheels and could tell how many Coggs there was in each Wheel upon which the great Engine of State was turned and kept in motion By the favour of his Prince he acquired sufficient Riches to support the Splendor of a new raised Family His Glory was eminently conspicuous that there were but a few persons below the Crown seem'd above him And nothing was wanting to render his Felicity as lasting as Nature intended his Life but a heart that knew how to be grateful to a most Munificent Benefactor He thought all the Favours and Honours he enjoy'd were less then the reward of his Merit That Thought puff'd him with Pride such a sort of Pride as is commonly attended with an irrecoverable Fall which was his Fortune And at his Fall like that of his Predecessor might very well have been proclaimed Woe to you the Inhabitants of the Earth for the Devil is come down among you Open Revenge against his Soveraign being too dangerous to attempt he presently resolves upon secret He exp●ses all the Weaknesses and Infirmities of the Court from which no Court is free and where he can find no real Faults he Feigns imaginary ones and passes them off for Currant By this new and false Optick he represents every Mole-hill of mistake in the publick Administration for a Mountain as tall as Teneriff and as dangerous as the top of Aetna Nay he multiplies and magnifies the very Miscarriages which were the effect of his own Evil Councel He Amuses the freest Nation in the Vniverse with wild Rumours and extravagant Apprehensions of Slavery under the Government of a Prince who in Acts of Favour and Mercy and Clemency has exceeded all His Predecessors He fills the Heads of the People full with Whimsical Fears of Fantastick Devils Chymaera's which only his Malice had raised on purpose to Frighten them out of their Loyalty and their Wits and prepare and ripen them for Bedlam or for Rebellion He makes the pretences of Liberty the Stirrup to get up and Religion the Steed he Rides in pursuit of his Monstrous Designs With these pretences he Cheats the Innocent and promising to open their Eyes serves them as the Apostate Angel did our Parents in Paradice Only blows into them the Magical dust of Disobedience and robs them of those Jewels he pretends to bestow viz. Liberty and Religion which are both so much talk'd of and both so little understood Being a Gentleman of little or no Religion himself he seems for all that to espouse every Division and Sub-division of it every Faction and Person who are bold enough to stand stiff in opposition against the well setled Government What avails it that he is in his own nature a Frugal man he keeps open House for entertainment of all State Male-Contents without consideration either of Qualities or Qualifications And what is he the better for being Temperate himself So long as he Accompanies and Carrowses and contracts Intimacy and Amity with the Lewdest Debauchees that he thinks will help to forward his private Intriuges He becomes all things to all men in the very worst of Senses perverting the design of St. Paul that he may at least delude some to be as bad as himself Having lost his Honour with his Prince and Reputation with the best of men he Cringes and Creeps and Sneaks to the lowest and Basest of the People to procure himself among them an empty vain glorious and undeserved name the Patriot of his Country And lastly hoping to be made the Little Head of the Great Rabble he perswades them to believe that they are all betray'd Encourages them to strike home against the Enemies of King and Kingdom pointing at the Faithfullest and most Affectionate Servants to both well knowing that the Mighty Fabrick can never be shaken till its Main Pillars and and Supporters be by Cunning and Sly Stratagem either destroy'd or undermined By this may appear the weakness of that Modern piece of State Policy Oblige your Enemies your Friends you are sure of already And the transcendant Wisdom of Solomons advice Let thy own Friend and thy Fathers Friend never be forsaken LONDON Printed for N. Thompson Anno Dom. 1681. * Liberty is not a Freedom for every man to do what he pleases an exemption from just Laws These Laws were made for the punishment of Transgressors and are the true Libery of every honest man The destroying of which Laws is throwing down the Fence whereby Virtuous and good men are secured and protected † Religion does not consist in the stubborn adhering to this or that Party or in crying up one Faction as Infallible and censuring all others as Damnable But in Doing Justice and Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly with God says Micha the Prophet And it is first pure and then Peaceable says St. Paul the Apostle