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A11493	The quintesence of wit being a corrant comfort of conceites, maximies, and poleticke deuises, selected and gathered together by Francisco Sansouino. VVherin is set foorth sundrye excellent and wise sentences, worthie to be regarded and followed. Translated out of the Italian tung, and put into English for the benefit of all those that please to read and vnderstand the works and worth of a worthy writer.; Propositioni overo considerationi in materia di cose di stato. Book 1. English.	Hitchcock, Robert, Captain.; Sansovino, Francesco, 1521-1586.	1590 (1590)	STC 21744; ESTC S121812	137,938	218

therof is laide to no other end but that the one be not oppressed of the other Therefore he that might be assured that in the state of one alnoe or of many Iustice would be obserued should haue no occasion to desire liberty This was the occasion wherfore the wise men of olde time did not praise the gouernement of those that liue in liberty more then the rest but those in which there was best prouision made for the preseruation of the lawes and iustice MEn Iron Money and Bread are Sinewes of the warres but of these foure the firste two are most necessarye for that Men and Iron will be able to get mony and Bread but money and bread doo not prouide so easily for Men and Iron NEw and soddaine thinges make afraide and terrifie Armies those that are accustomed and sloe are smallye estéemed of them therefore a Generall ought to practise and make knowne to his Army with light small encounters a newe enemy before he come to a day of battaile with him A Prince when he hath about him his familiares dooth distribute his fauours amongst them that are most gratefull and most conformable to his honour but when a time of necessitie and occasion of affaires falles out then the diuersitie and difference that is amongst them is apparently known A Wise personage which hath the meanes to entertain ten thousund Footmen is more to be feared and estéemed then ten confederates together which haue euerye one of ●hem sixe thousand for that very sildome agréeing togither by reason of their sundrie and diuersitie of ends the one halfe of the time is lost and spent before they resolue vpon any thing IF a man would serue a great person let him rather choose him wise then ignorant for about a wise man there be many meanes to be found by the which his fauour is obtayned but about one that is ignorant there can no way be found that is good for that he hath no vnderstanding THe true note of the ruine of a Prouince dooth appeare when those that ought to vnite themselues together become deuided amongst themselues and doo band themselues to be abandoned HE that gaue this rule that a wise man cannot commit errour in speaking had no iudgement for that either because he is affectioned to the matter which is spoken off either for loue either for hate or for that he would be contrarie to another and sometimes through the indisposition of his person he is subiect to commit errours in his woords THe affaires of the world doo not alwaies remain stable and firme but are euer in continuall motion to go forward into that way and path into the which by reason they are to goe and where by their nature they are to take end but oftentimes they make longer staye then we would beléeue for that we doo measure them according to our life which is shorte and not according to their time which is long for that their féete be more sloe then ours be and farre sloe themselues by nature for although they moue yet oftentimes we doo not perceiue their motion by meanes whereof it dooth arise that those iudgements which we make fall very oftentimes to be false and fallible IN matters of importance he that dooth not very well knowe all the perticulars can giue no right iudgement for that one circumstance although it séeme very little dooth change and varie all the whole cause that ought to be iudged yet is it true that oftentimes he may giue good iudgement that hath knowledge of no other then of Generalities and knowing more perticulars giues woorsse iudgement forsomuch as he that hath not his braine very perfect and cleane and free from passions vnderstanding many particulars dooth verye easilye varie and confound himselfe A Man ought aboue all thinges in this worlde to desire and to attribute to his owne felicitie to see his enemie stricken prostrate to the ground and brought into such s●ate that he may vse him at his discretion but by how much the more happie he is vnto whom this aduēture doth befall by so much the more ought he to make himselfe glorious by vsing the victorie commendable in pardoning and in vsing of clemencie a thing proper and perticular to great and woorthy mindes AN inferiour Prince ought neuer to put his state in hazard of one battaile for if he ouercome he gaines nothing but glory and if he loose he is spoyled GReat personages are often much enclined to their own willes without hauing any respect at all to reason and that which is woorst they are for the most part environed with men that cast their eyes vpon nothing else then to praise and congratulate their good and euill déeds whither soeuer they be and if there be any that would doo the contrary he findes him selfe deceiued THose Princes which are equalle in power although they be not young for at such times they thinke onely vpon pleasure doo not well to meet and come to speak personally together forsomuch as besides that they doo not without perrill euil wil dooth spring vp betwixt them and enuie growes to be greater ALthough the issuing and fallying foorth of Souldiers out of a Cittie besiedged be necessarie yet neuerthelesse they be perrilous for those within for that it improts them much more to loose ten of their infantrie thē it is for them without to loose an hundreth IT is a manifest thing to euery one that he that dooth alwaies holde his Prince in tearmes of suspition and feare with aduertisements stuffed with feare and suspition either will become to be mortallye hated of him or in the ende shall fall into some other euill inconuenience HE that dooth possesse authoritie and rule maye likewise exstend the same ouer his owne forces for that his subiects doo not measure exquisitlie that which de can doo but rather imagining his power to be much more then it is yéeld to those thinges vnto which the Prince can not constraine them IT is to be discerned in those differences that doo arise with vrbanitie amongst Citizens and in those malicious humours into which men do incurre alwaies to haue recourse to those iudgements or to those remedies that of the antiquitie haue been ordained for that the ciuill lawes is nothing else then Sentences giuen by the ancient lawgiuers the which being brought into order do instruct our present Lawyers how to iudge and Phisicke likewise is nothing else but the experience which hath beene made by auncient Phisitions vpon which the Phisitions in these our daies doo ground their iudgements neuerthelesse in the ordering of a Common-wealth in the maintaining of States in the gouernement of Kingdomes in the militarie institutions in the administration of warfare in iudging the Subiects and in the encreasing of the Empire and State There is to be found neither Prince neither Common-wealth neither Generall or Captaine neither Cittizen that haue recourse to the examples of the antiquitie THere be infinite persons

euill drawe neere the phisick comes not in time forsomuch as not being known it both growes olde and to be without cure WHen a Prince would maintain his state in a Prouince disagreeing in customes and lawes from his nature finding therin much difficultie it is requisite that he haue great fortune and great industry but the most assured way is that he goe to remaine there in person to the intent y e possession may be assured and those disorders maye be discerned vnto which remedye maye be giuen besides that the subiects hauing their Prince néere at hand and carrying willing mindes to be good they haue greater cause to loue him and being the contrary to feare him and he that goes about to assault him shall remaine more doubtfull and although he determine to doo so yet he ouercomes with greater difficultie HE that is in a Prouince with his regiments or colonies that consist of many footmen and of many inhabitours therin ought to make himselfe the head and defendour of his neighbours that are of lesse power then he is himselfe or rather to indeuour himselfe to weaken the most mighty of them and he ought to haue care and regarde that for no accident no Strangers doo enter into his slate forsomuch as they are euer hunted after of those y t are mal-contents in that Prouince either through ouergreat ambition or through ouer-great pouertie IMmediatlye after a mightye Stranger is entered into a Prouince all those that are of meanest power in y e same doo ioyne themselues vnto him moued through the enuye that they haue had against him that hath beene mighty against them by reason that in respect of these small powers the stranger hath little trauail to gain y e same that assemble thēselues incontinētly about him he hath only this to thinke vpon that they take not vpon them ouer much force or ouermuch authoritie the which he may easily doo debasing with his forces the most mightye to remaine altogither the arbitratour of the Prouince and he that doth not gouerne himselfe well in this part he shall soone loose that he hath gotten THey doo not breake their accorde and compact who when they are not aided and succoured confederate themselues with others but rather those that yeelde no succours to them with whome they haue made cōuention and are in consorte And he merites no blame who because he will not fall into perrilles that be exceeding great castes his eyes with diligence vpon those things that are profitable vnto him rather thē vnto those which for other mens caus●s are damageable vnto him A Wise man knowes easily the generall inclination of any nation and the actions therof being publick it is necessarie that the same shewe perforce her minde and desires foorth of which afterward are drawne perticular determinations either more or lesse according to the capacitie of that wise man which hath charge to perce and desipher the same THe great and mighty Northern Princes which haue many Children carrie alwaies their mindes apt and prone to make warres as well in respect of glory as also to obtaine state for their Children and to deliuer their owne Kingdomes from those disturbations which for the most parte the first begotten amongst many brethren is accustomed to bring and if vnto these respects wrath and glorie be ioyned without all doubt they exalte very much that Kingdome which according to their imagination is most easie to be conquered or in the which they haue some 〈◊〉 or pr●tence of right to the intent they may in eche cas● that dooth chaunce either of Leages either towardes their aduersaries or in any iustifications salue the appearance thereof to the worlde SOliman the Emperour of the Turkes saide that Princes ought not to vse the help and aide of a Seruant oftner then once forsomuch as in that first fact his desire to obtaine the good grace of his Prince and the greatnes of the demaund dooth make him to resolue in himself to obey his request hauing no space to think either of the perrill or of his owne aduauntage but when after he comes afreshe to request him he thinkes no more of the fauour alreadye obtained but dooth imagine to make frée himselfe with the perrill of his Prince and to aduauntage himselfe by some meanes to the damage oftentimes of his Prince and the falsing of his own faith IT oftentimes comes to passe that when we demaund a thing and are not able to obtain it for that we haue not in a readines the reasons that may be opposed we lose reputation and he that doth deny the same besides that he dooth repute vs for presumptuous and imprudent imagining that he hath offended vs by reason of his deniall and growes to hate vs. Heerof it ariseth that y e gate is shutte vp against o●r obtaining of any other thing which easily would haue béene graunted vs the which we do not now procéed to demaund because the first hath been denyed wherupon he knowing our néede and necessitie dooth not offer the same supposing that we are displeased A Wise Officer or seruaunt ought after the maner of an excellent Phisition foresée that which he may hope for or that which he maye feare neither hoping nor fearing more or lesse then so much as is conuenient and he may very easily know in the beginning if that his hope be in augmentation in estate or in declination and knowing the same he may make his prognosticate to the intent he néede not altogither to expect his sorrowe and he ought to aduertise his Prince or Maister thereby to shewe himselfe prudent kéeping alwais his iudgement in hand not suffering him to be exalted through hope neither fall downe to the ground through feare and so affaires are handled with prudence and come to passe to his honor that dooth negotiate for the profit of his Master WHen Princes doo not graunt or are correspondent to other mens demaunds it growes vpon these occasions either that their silence giues them time to resolue vpon some thing that is doubtfull or else with their silence they deny the same iudging the demaund to be vniust or else they despise him y t hath made the demaund although it be vniust either else despise the seruaunt that doth demaund y e same or else exspects new aduertisements y e better to resolue himselfe or otherwise in this case giue good woords to their Seruants therfore the prudent negotiatour ought to make his considerations in which estate of these foresaide cases he dooth finde himselfe and takes his expedition in hand with the better deliberation PLato would haue the duetye of a good Citizen to consist in these fower thinges for the benefite of the common-weale that is that he be prudent in discearning those things that be present and preuent those that are to come iust in distributing to euerye one according to his demerites strong to ouer-come feares which are an impediment to the operation of vertue and temporate in our

permits that nouelties arise in his kingdome and y t those which ought to obeye liue in greater securitie then Princes and great Lords PRinces doo not gaine honour for going enuironed with wicked men for heaping vp treasures for killing the innocents for taking from others their goods but for being conuersant with those that be good for straite familiaritie with the wicked bringes the life of a good man to be suspected For spending his riches in good woorkes it beeing a thing by proofe verye manifest that that man which makes account of his fame estéemes little of mony for routing out tirants for that the good hermonye in the gouernment of a Prince dooth consist in chastesing of the wicked and rewarding the good and for the giuing fréelye of that which is his own for nothing dooth make more notable the maiestie of a Prince then to shew his greatnes in helping of others and not to be gréedy to be ouerpassed and aduauntaged by others TWo things makes a cittie safe and secure and brings vnto those that gouernes the same praise and honour the one is when it is garded by the most mighty and kept and conserued with due defence the other is if the Gouernours doo ioyne and knit themselues together in amitie with their neighbours without the which they cannot fréely conduct victua●les and other necessarye thinges from one place to another in safetie A Prince or Lord that desires to be obeyed it is necessary that what he commaundes be first obserued to be in his owne person for no Lord or Prince can well withdrawe or exempt himselfe from vertuous opperations for so much as a Prince being an example to others is bound to vse such actions and opperations that he may become a woorthye and notable example to those that he gouernes IF a Prince would knowe for what end he is a Prince I would tell him to gouerne well and to be patient when he is tolde that men murmure at his dooinges forsomuch as finallye they are men and become handled like men neither can they shunne the miseries of men and neuer was there any Prince in this worlde but that he was touched yea and torne with the tunges of wicked persons for they are subiectes to those two euents that if they be wicked they incurre the euill will of those that be good and if they be good soddainly all those that be wicked murmure THere be two thinges amongst the rest that woorke great effectes against the State the one is ambition the other is desperation neuerthelesse the second is much woorsse then the first for so much as ambition may expect occasion and oppertunitie but so cannot desperation it being a Subiect vnto the which there beeing no time permitted or graunted it neither can nor is able to graunt it to others TO receiue losse is neuer good of his owne nature yet it is very true that it may sometimes accidently helpe and benefite when it is receiued and dooth chaunce vnto men that be of good vnderstanding for it is an occasion to bring them to be of great experience since there is a fewe if once they haue not proued the euill will enter into conceite or beléeue that the same is such as it is whereof it ariseth that those that be vnexpert and ignorant in their affaires doo euer procéede either with ouer-great rashenes wheras if once they haue tasted the wrath of fortune they become more warie carefull and prouident PRinces ought to studye to indeuour themselues to vse such conuersation with their Subiects that they may make choise rather to serue them for their good wills then for wages and rewardes for when money begins to deminish their seruice likewise beginnes to diminish and a thousand troubles dooth folowe them which doo not serue with a good hart for he that dooth loue with all his whole affection dooth not become arrogant in propertie doth not withdraw himselfe in aduerse fortune dooth not complain of his pouertye dooth not grudge at y e small fauour which is vsed towardes him neither dooth departe from him in time of persecution and bréefly that course of life and loue doth neuer take end vntill the houre of death PRinces without doubt haue greater néede to haue about them more wiseand prudent men to the intent 〈◊〉 preuaile by them and to vse their counsell then any other whosoeuer for since they are to stand in centernell and watch to beholde and discouer what the dooings of all others be they haue lesse liberty or licence then their subiects haue to commit errours for euen as they haue liberty to beholde and iudge of others euen so are they behelde and iudged of others without any licence or liberty granted them so to doo EUery state ought to desire peace and thereof to make demonstrations both with déeds and with woords but for al that they ought to shew themselues in military preparations and prouisions most warlicke for a disarmed peace is weake and féeble neither dooth there séeme to be contradiction betwixt the desiring of peace and to arme our selues since there is nothing more fréend to ease and peace then knowledge and specculation to the antiquitie it did seeme conuenient that the image of Pallace which is the Goddesse of science should be portraited and figured armed DUetie requires that a fréend doo indeuour him selfe to yéeld helpe vnto an other freend and must not expect and tarry vntill he be requested for he that dooth so dooth not only offer it thankfully but dooth also cause it to be receiued as thankfully preuenting and taking away in his fréend a certaine shamefastnes and feare which dooth alwaies accompany y e demaunder wherby it comes to passe that he receiues it with a more gratefull minde and with greater disposition to yéelde the like againe in exchange A Prince dooth playe a verye wise parte when he dooth procure to haue prudent and valiant Captaines for the warres but without comparison it is much better to kéepe in his Courte wise men for the victories of battailes dooth finally consist in the force of many but the gouernement of the Common-wealth sometimes is referred and credited to the aduise and iudgement of one alone THat particular loue that princes very often shew more to one then to another is a thousand times occasion of gréeuous alterations in kingdomes for by reason that one is in disgrace and out of fauour and another in loue and credit there dooth spring vp harmefull hates pernitious thoughtes and great enuye the end whereof is wicked woordes and finallye wicked déedes And therefore that Prince that dooth make any difference in conuersation with those that be equall dooth kindle and set fire in his Common-wealth AMongst all other offices there is none wursse then to take charge to chastise other mens vices and therefore a wise man ought to flée this care like the infection of the plague for to reprehend vices dooth spring greater hate against him that dooth chastice thē

the life of a Prince be ordered and corrected more then that of all others for euen as with the length of an elme all the whole goods of a Marchant is measured so with the life of the Prince all the whole common-wealth is measured PRinces that are wise indéed doo neuer glorye in any thing more then to kéepe about them valiant men to defend their state and prudent men to gouerne their common-wealth THose which are to counsell to instruct and to giue rule to the life of Princes ought to haue their iudgement their vnderstanding their woords their doctrine and their manner of liuing very cleare very vpright very sound and without blot or any suspition at all for to goe about to handle and discourse of great thinges without hauing experience is no other then that a man that is starke blinde should goe about to guide an other that dooth see verye well WHen a man is brought to those tearmes that either standing still or going forward he remaines in the selfe perrill he ought to apply himself to practise or woorke somwhat for whilste he standes lingering the same accidents which doo holde him in perrill doo stand in the same state whereas by endeuouring himselfe to practise some actions either he may finde out somewhat that may saue him or at leastwise not finding the same he hath shewed that he hath carried a minde and courage to knowe how to seek for his safetie HE is very presumpteous y t dooth dare to giue counsell to a prince for as princes in many matters carry lofty imaginations and many of them giue libertie to y e reines of their own will desires so we finde them thinking thē to haue them propitious more incensed against vs for counsell is rather more damegeable then commodious if he that giues the same be not of excellent iudgement and he that receiues it of very great patience GReat is that worke of Fortune whē a notable man dooth rise vp more at one time then at an other for if a valiant man come in the time of a couragious Prince he shall be holden in great estimation and shall be sent to performe worthie enterprises but if he come in the time of a doutfull and fearefull Prince he will make more account of him that dooth encrease his rents then of him that dooth ouercome a mighty warre or makes his honor great and famous The very same falles out in respect of wise and vertuous men who if they chaunce to come in the time of a vertuous and wise Prince they shal be estéemed and honoured but if they spring in the time of a vitious Prince small account is made of them for it is an auncient and olde custome amongst vaine men not to honour those that be profitable to the Common-wealth but rather those that are most gratefull and acceptable to the Prince PRinces that desire much to be good ought liuelye to know euen at the fingers ends what the procéeding of good Princes hath beene for we must not despise all that which is blamed of wicked men neither accept all y ● which is spoken of men abroade in the worlde AS there be certaine lawes sometimes made for other occasion then to punishe vice so there be some rather chastised to the intent that they may receiue losse then for any desire that the lawes which condemnes them should be obserued the which is easily knowne when it is discerned and séene that neither the Prince his fauourites o●●●gnius doo leaue off that vice the which they chastice in others and héereof in time doo spring such pernitious effects as scarse are to be credited besides that it is of it selfe a thing of most wicked example NO man ought to be more carefull of any thing then to searche out those that maye aduise and counsell him how to gouerne the Common-wealth well and how to maintaine his estate with iustice the which is not to be perfourmed with woordes that terrifie neither with déedes that scandalize but gentlenes and curtisies that may embolden their harts and with good woorks that may edifie them for a woorthye noble and gentle hart cannot make resistance if he that commaunds be of good life and behauiour AS in the head of a man are placed the sence of smelling and hearing so a Prince which is the head of the common-wealth must giue eare to al those that are oppressed and know all those that serue him to the intent to reward them for their seruice I Haue many times séene large experience of one thing in this worlde worthie to be noted that as there is to be found one amongst the good which is of marke for his singuler goodnes so amongst the wicked there dooth appeare one extreamely wicked but the wurst is that the vertuous man doth not obteine so much glorie for his vertue as the wicked through his wickednes possesseth impudence for vertue makes a man naturally discreet and vice makes him dissolute AMongst wicked men the tippe and height of their euill is that forgetting themselues to be men and treading reason vnder foot they wander farre astray from y e trueth and from vertuous men and let slacke their raines with liberty to followe vice for if it be an euill thing that one should be wicked it is much more euill to procure that an other should not be good PRinces in aduerse times ought not to become terrified amased or ameruailed but rather resist their enemies alwaies with the firme and staide counsell of mature men and with the counsell of those that be olde and wise THat man which is oppressed dooth ordinarily cry after the change of Fortune And there is nothing more abhorred of a man in felicitie then to thinke how full Fortune is of mutabilitie for the oppressed doth imagine that by changing oftentimes his state may growe to be better but the man that is in felicitie dooth think y ● one change of Fortune may throw him down headlong into y e deapth of disgrace and miserie CErtaine wise men giue this rule that when the Common-wealth will choose a Gouernour let them haue care that he haue béen before hand at the least tenne yeeres in the warres for he only is able to maintaine the desired peace who by experience hath tryed the toiles and the troubles of warrefare THere is no doubt but that a Prince when hee measureth his forces dooth playe a very wise parte for if he possesse but small and consumes much he shall be assured either to loose his principalitie or else become a Tirant IT dooth much consist in the handes of the people that their Gouernours be good or euill for there is no Prince that is so humble or lowlye that he can alwaies dissemble his euill and wickednes neither any such a tirant but that sometimes hee will take notice of that which is good THere is nothing in this worlde which dooth more make Common-wealths to runne into ruine then when the prince giues consent or