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A57360	The cabinet-council containing the cheif [sic] arts of empire and mysteries of state : discabineted in political and polemical aphorisms grounded on authority, and experience : and illustrated with the choicest examples and historical observations / by the ever-renowned knight, Sir Walter Raleigh ; published by John Milton, Esq.; Cabinet-council	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1658 (1658)	Wing R156; ESTC R8392	78,451	210

●rince then vertue it self for neither overmuch familiarity nor too great austeritie ●ought to be used by Princes Facilitas ●ntoritatem severitas amorem minuit Tac. To these vertues we may apply Liberality which doth not only adorn but highly advance the honor due to Princes there●y also the good will of men is gained for nothing is more fitting a Princes nature then Bounty the same being accompanied with judgment and performed according to the laws of liberality Perdere multi sci●nt donare nesciunt Tac. It seemeth also that Prudence is not only fit but also among other vertues necessary in a Prince for the daily use thereof is in all humane actions required and chiefly in matters of State and Government Prudentia imperantis propria et unica virtus Arist. The success of all wordly proceeding● doth shew that prudence hath compassed the prosperous event of humane actions more then force of arms or other power●Mens una sapiens plurium vincit manus Eurip. Prudence is either natural or received from others for who so can counsel himself what is fit to be done needeth not the advice of others But they that want such perfection and are nevertheless capable and are willing to know what others informe ought to be accompted wise enough Laudatissimus est qui cuncta vid●bit sed laudandus est is qui paret rectè monenti Hesiod CHAP. XIIII Of the Princes intimate Counsellors and Ministers of State with their several Requisites ALbeit the excellent spirit of some Princes be such as doth justly deserve the highest ●ommendation yet for that every course of life needeth the aid of men and the mind of one cannot comprehend the infinite care appertaining to publick affairs it behooveth Princes to be assisted Magna negocia adjutoribus egent Tac. These assistants may be properly divided into Counsellors and Ministers the one to advise the other to execute without Counsel no Kingdom no State no private house can stand for experience hath proved that Common weals have prospered so long as good counsell did governe but when favor fear or voluptuosness entred those nations became disordered and in the end subject to slavery Quiddam sacrum profecto est consultatio Plato Counsellors are men specially selected to give advice to Princes or Commonwealths as well in peace as in war the chief qualities required in such men are Fidelity and Knowledg which two concurring do make them both good and wise and consequen●●y fit for Counsel Prudentis proprium m●nus rectè con●ulere Arist. The election of Counsellors is and ought to be chiefly among men of long experience and grave years for as youth is fittest for action in respect of corporal strength so elder folk having felt the force of every fortune and observed the course of worldly proceedings do seem most meet for consultation Consilia senum facta juvenum Pla●● Albeit we say that the excellency of wisdom should be in Counsellors yet do we not require so quick and fiery a conceipt as is more apt for innovation then orderly government Hebet ●ores quàm acutiores meliùs Remp. a●ministrant Thucyd. To Fidelity and Experience we wish that our Councellors should be endued with Piety Liberty Constancy Modesty and Silence for as the aid and assistance of God is that which governeth all good counsels so liberty of speech and magnanimus uttering of what is good and fit is necessary in Counsellors Likewise to be constant and not to varie in opinion either for feare or favor is very commendable Also as modesty in giving Counsel escheweth all offences and gaineth good will so secrecy is the best and most secure meanes to govern all publick affairs Res magnae sustineri non possunt ab ●o qui tacere nequit Curt. The first obstacle to good Counsel is ●ertinacy or Opiniativeness a condition far unfit for Counsellors yet some men are so far in love with their own Opiniastre conceipts as that they cannot patiently endure opposition Secondly Discord must from Counsellors be removed because private offence many times impeacheth publick proceedings Thirdly affection is an enemy to counsel the same being commonly accompanied with anger wherewith nothing can be rightly or considerately done Lastly Avarice seemeth a vice worthy to be abhorred of all Counsellors because it driveth away both Fidelity and Honesty the principall pillars of all good counsell Pessimum veri affectus et judicii venenum● utilitas Tac. To good Counsell other impediments there are which square not with wisdom for all crafty and hazarding Counsells do seem in the beginning likely to succeed but afterwards and chiefly in the end do prove hard and of evil event It therefore seemeth behovefull to be wary in resolving and bold in executing Animus vereri qui scit scit tutò aggredi Pub. An other let to good consultation is immoderate desire which every wise man must endeavor to restrain Cupiditate pauca rectè fiunt circumspectione plurima Thucyd. Thirdly haste is an Enemy to good deliberation for whoso greedily desireth any thing proceedeth rashly and rash proceeding endeth ever in repentance Scelera impetu bona consilia morâ vales●unt Tac. Of Ministers of State Having already spoken of Counsellors somwhat is to be spoken of Ministers I mean those that either publickly or privately serve the Prince in any function in choice of which men care must be had First that they be person honestly born for no man descended of base parentage may be admitted unless in him be found some noble and excellent vertue Optimus quisque Nobilismus Plato Secondly they ought to be of honest condition and of good ●ame for that common-weal is better and more secure where the Prince is not good then is that where his Ministers are evill It seemeth therefore that Ministers should be men of good quality and blamelesse Emitur sola virtute p●testas Claud. Thirdly consideration is to be had of their Capacity and fitness for that Function wherein they are to be used for as some men are apt for learning so others are naturally disposed to arms Also it is necessary that every one square with the office whereuntoh e is appointed in which matter some Princes have used great caution for as they little liked of men excellent so they utterly detested the vitious the one they doubted to trust in regard of themselves the other were thought a publick indignity to the State VVise men have therefore resolved that those witts which are neither over haughty and singular nor they which be base or dull are fittest for Princes secrets and services howsoever we may hereof say with Tacitus Nesci● quomodo Aulica hae● comitia affect us dirigit et fato quodam ac sorte nascendi ut caetera it a principum inclinatio in hos offensio in illos est Tac. And because the course and quality of mens lives serving in Court is of all other the most uncertain and dangerous great heed and circumspection ought therein to be used

know what shall be must consider what is past for all worldly things hold the same course they had at ●irst The reason is that as long as men are possest with the same Passions with former ages consequently of these doings the same effects ensue Example The Almains and French have ever bin noted for their Avarice Pride Fury and Infidelity and so in divers ages experience hath proved even to this present For perfidious dealing the French have given sufficient proof not onely in ancient times but also in the time of Charls the Eighth who promised to render to the Florentines the Forts of Pisa● but having divers tim●● received money held them notwithstanding in possession The Florentines found the like in the Almains● for in the Wars of the Visconti Dukes of Milan they prayed aid of the Emperor who promised them great forces in consideration whereof● he was to receive of the Florentines One hundred thousand Crowns in hand and as much more when his Army was arived in Italy both which payments were performed but as soon as the Emperor came to Verona he devised cavillations of unkindness whereupon he returned home A Prince desirous to obtain any thing of another must if occasion so permit urge his demand so earnestly and press for so sudden and present answer as he who is prest may not have leisure to consider how to excuse himself in denial Example Pope Julio endeavored to drive out of Bologna all the Bentivoli in which action he thought the aid of the French necessary and that the Venetians should stand neutral and by divers messengers did sollicite them to that effect but not receiving any resolute answer he thought fit with those few forces he had to take his journey to Bol●gna whereupon the Venetians advertised him they would remain neutral and the French King forthwith sent him forces as fearing the Popes indignation likewise the Tuscans having formerly desired aid of the Samnites against the Romans took Armes suddenly and obtained their request which the Samintes had before denied When a multitude offendeth all may not be punisht because they are too many to punish part and leave the rest unpunisht were injurie to the sufferers and to those that escape an encouragement to offend again therefore to eschew all extremity mean courses have bin anciently used Example When all the Wives of the Romans conspired to poyson their Husbands a convenient number of them were punisht and the rest suffered to pass Likewise at the conspiracy of the Bacchanals in the time of the Macedonian War wherein many thousands Men and Women had part every tenth person only was put to death by lot although the offence were general by which manner of punishing he that suffered complaind on his fortune and he that escaped was put in feare that offending again the same punishment might light upon himself and therefore would no more offend A Battel or great action in Armes ought not to be enterprised without special Commission or Command from the Prince otherwise the General incurs great danger Example Papyrius the Dictator punisht the General of the horse in the Roman Army for having fought without his consent although he had in battaile slain 20000 Enemies without loss of 200 of his own and Caesar commended his Captain Silanus for having refrained to fight though with great advantage he might Also Count Egmont hazarded the favor of the King his Master for giving battel to Marshall de Thermes albeit he were victorious for upon the success of that action the loss or or safety of all the Low Countries depended To govern without Council is not only dangerous in Aristocracies and Popular States but unto independent Princes an occas●on of utter ruine Example Hieron the first King of Sicile in all his proceedings used the advice of Counsels and lived fifty years prosperously in Peace but his grandchild succeding refusing all Counsell lost his Kingdom and was with all his Kinsfolk and Friends cruelly slain In all Monarchies the Senate or privyCouncil is or ought to be composed of persons of great dignity or men of approved wisdom and understanding Example In Polonia no man is Counsellor unless he be a Palatine a Bishop a C●st●llan a Captain or such a one as hath bin Ambassador and in Turky the title of Counsellor is not given but only to the four Bassaes the two Cad●lesquir●s the twelve Beglerbegs and Kings son who in his Fathers absence is as it were● a president of the Divano or Senate Many Princes Ancient and Modern have used to select out of their Council two or three or four at most to whom only they did impart their affairs Example The Emperor Augustus had Maec●nas and Agrippa Julius Caesar Q ●aedius and Cor. Balbus whom he only trusted with his Cipher and secrets being Counsellors of the Cabinet as we now call them The alteration of old Laws or introduction of new are in all States very dangerous notwithstanding any appearance of profit or publick utility which moved wise Governors to decree that ancient Lawes once established might never be called in question Example The Athenians decreed that no Law should be propounded to the people without the consent of the Senate the like use is observed in Venice where no Petition is prefered to the Senate but by advice of the Sages and among the Locrians the Custom was that whosoever presented any new Law to be confirmed should come with a halter about his Neck and be therewith hanged if his request were rejected also Lycurgus to prevent the alteration of his Lawes did sweare the people of Sparta to observe them untill his return and thereupon retired himself into voluntary exile with intent never to returne When necessity or good reason moves Innovation or Abolition of Laws a course more secure it is to do it rather by degrees then suddenly Example The Romans finding the Laws of the twelve Tables unprofitable suffered them to be observed or neglected at discretion but would not publickly suppress them for fear of calling other Laws into contempt so did they continue 700 years and were then cassed by Ebutius the Tribune But Agis King of Lacedemon desirous to revive the Laws of Lycurgus long discontinued enforced all men to bring in their evidence and writings to be cancelled to the end a new partition of Lands and Goods might be made which suddain and violent proceeding proved so fatal that it moved a dangerous sedition wherein he was deposed and with his Mother and Friends put to death which Example haply moved the Venetians not to attempt any thing against the Authority of Augustino Barberino their Duke but after his death and before the Election of Lovedono the Signiory publisht new Ordinances detractive from the Ducal Anthority Whoso hath won to himself so great Love and Affection as thereby to become master of the forces and at his pleasure commands the Subjects apt for Armes may also without right or title assure himself of the whole

as the best for to find all perfect void and secure of suspect or imperfection is impossible A Prince being instantly required to take part with other Princes the one being in arms against the other if he deny both incureth suspicion of both and may be thought to have secret intelligences with one or both of them so as either of them shall accompt him an enemy and consequently he that proves victorious will be revenged and the other holding him suspected will not acknowledg his Friendship It is the use of men to presume much upon their own merit and seeing the success of some others to be such as without cause or desert are aspired to dignity thereby uncouraged they promised to themselves the like Nevertheless being entred into the course of their design and finding many crosses and impeachments they do not a little repent their over-weening and presumption but also many times utterly abandon their rash and unadvised enterprize neither can I think th●t the vertue or sufficiencie of any man without the favor of the heavens can advance him for as the Poet saith Ne● velle juvat potiúsue nocet si fata repugnant Whoso serveth a Prince far from his presence shall with great difficulty content him For if he commit any error it shall be aggravated besides that the instructions sent unto him cannot be particularly conceived because the State of worldly things doth daily alter Also to serve alooffe is a thing full of danger and far from reward which inconvenience may for the most part be avoided by him that attendeth near to his Princes person Let no man that cometh to serve in Court assure himself by his wisdom to be advanced or eschew all encounters Neither is he to bear himself so careless as to commit all to fortune but be perswaded that this wordly life is like to a voyage by Sea wherein albeit Art with the favor of the wind may do much yet can we not assure our selves to arrive safe in the Haven appointed for daily experience doth shew that some strange ships in the calmest weather are drowned or impeached by the way when others much weaker and disarmed passe securely Among men worthy of commendations those have merited best that first planted true Religion next they that framed Kingdoms and Commonwealths the third place is due to such as have augmented or enlarged their dominions lastly learned men deserve fame and memory and as every of these are worthy of fame and honor so ought they to be accompted infamous that introduce Atheism or the subversion of kingdoms or are become enemies to Learning and Vertue Whosoever taketh in hand to governe a Multitude either by way of liberty or principality and cannot assure himse●f of those persons that are Enemies to that Enterprise doth frame a State of short perseverance yet true it is that such Princes be infortunate● as for their own security are inforced to hold a course extraordinary and have the multitude their enemy for he that hath few foes may with small dishonor be assured but he that is generally hated can by no means live assured and the more cruelty he useth the weaker his principality proveth In commending another man great moderation is to be used for as contumely offendeth him against whom it is used so great praise besides that it is uttered with danger to his judgment that speaketh it the same doth oftentimes offend him that heareth it For self love which commonly possesseth men causes the good or evil we hear to be measured with our own And consequently every man that is touched with like deserts and defects doth grow● offended that his commendation is not set forth and feareth lest his imperfection should be discovered It is often or rather ever seen that the force of Leagues not used in their first heat becomes cold because Suspition soon entereth which in short space will destroy whatsoever was concluded and may not without long time be rejoyned The power of Ambition which possesseth the mindes of men is such as rarely or never suffereth them to rest The reason thereof is That nature hath framed in them a certain disposition to desire all things but not to obtain them so as our desires being greater then our power thereof followeth discontent and evil satisfaction Hereof also proceedeth the variation of Fortune for some men desiring to get and others fearing to lose that they have gotten do occasion one man to injure another and consequently Publick Wars do follow by means whereof one Countrey is ruined and an other inlarged Princes of great power and cheifly those that are Inhabitants of the North having many Children were wont to be much inclined to the Wars as well to win unto themselves honor as also to get possessions for their Sons which manner of proceedings did oftentimes remove such disturbance as the plurality of Brethren bringeth These and other reasons induced Princes to attempt War against those Kingdoms which in their opinion seemed easily conquered or whereunto they can pretend litle for by colour thereof they may the rather justifie their proceedings When a Prince deferreth to answer an Ambassador it proceedeth from some of these respects either because he will take time to resolve himself of somewhat whereof he doubteth or that he intendeth covertly to deny that which is demanded or that he esteemeth not the Prince that doth demand or that he disdaineth the person by whom the demand is made or else that he intendeth to hear from his own Ministers to be better resolved Wherefore a discreet Negotiator ought in such cases to consider which of these reasons move the Prince where he is employed to entertain him with delays and make his dispatch accordingly The sufficiency of good Counsellors consisteth in four things First They ought to be wise and skilful how to handle their affairs directing all doings to publick commodity Secondly To be just in their proceedings giving to every one that which to him appertaineth Thirdly To be stout and void both of partial respects and fear And lastly To be temperate and moderate in their desires Whoso desireth to govern well and securely it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great Princes and to consider seriously of their designs For it is a matter of small difficulty to live in peace with him who desireth our amity and provideth for others that endeavor to offend us The intelligences that Princes study to attain are procured by divers means Some are brought by report some vented by conversation and sounding some by means of espials but the most sure and credible accurrents are those which come from Ambassadors cheifly those that either for the greatness of their Prince or their own Vertue be of most reputation For those men conversing daily with great personages and pondering diligently their Manners Words Wisdom and the order of each mans proceedings yea of the Prince himself may with commodity attain unto matters of importance sooner