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A16264	The new-found politicke Disclosing the secret natures and dispositions as well of priuate persons as of statesmen and courtiers; wherein the gouernments, greatnesse, and power of the most notable kingdomes and common-wealths of the world are discouered and censured. Together with many excellent caueats and rules fit to be obserued by those princes and states of Christendome, both Protestants and papists, which haue reason to distrust the designes of the King of Spaine, as by the speech of the Duke of Hernia, vttered in the counsell of Spaine, and hereto annexed, may appeare. Written in Italian by Traiano Boccalini ... And now translated into English for the benefit of this kingdome.; De' ragguagli di Parnaso. English	Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613.; Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.; Florio, John, 1553?-1625.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626. Newes from Pernassus.; Boccalini, Traiano, 1556-1613. Pietra del paragone politico.	1626 (1626)	STC 3185; ESTC S106274	157,616	256

his fortune vpon the Table of Chance he might well speake those famous words anew Or Caes●r or nothing Then the Censer turned him to the Noble great Dutchy of Toscan and sharply reprehending him for going with his Galleyes as it were prouoking of Waspes hee recorded vnto him the misery and calamities which the Knights of Saint Iohn suffered at Rhodes at Tripoli and the great danger that lastly they ranne at Malta onely because they would imprudently haue tyed squibbes to the Buls taile And that euerywise Christian Prince ought rather to fauour the present carelesnesse of the Turkes then to waken them with injuries of little profit nay such as brought others much dammage and necessite them to apply their mindes anew vnto maritime affaires which in these times they had euen abandoned Also he remembred him how infinite people daily complained for that by his hindering Italy of the trade of the commodities of the L●vant all drugges that came from beyond the Seas were growne to an excessiue rate To this correction the great Dutchy of Toscan answered That the power of a Prince could not be termed perfect which with a number of armed Vessels had not some Dominion on the Sea And that his Galleyes were not onely very necessary for the Toscan greatnesse but also for the securitie of the Libertie of all Italy as seruing for a Schoole of Mariners for a Seminary of Captaines and Souldiers at Sea That he confessed the dammage which they did to the Trade of Merchandise but withall he desired it might be considered that the mysterie of Warre either by Land or by Sea could not be learned by Souldiers nor exercised by Princes without prejudice to others And that Toscan breeding much filthinesse of fantasticall vnquiet braines and extrauagant humours he had therefore great occasion for those Gallies that might serue as it were to carry forth all the filth of his State and thereby keepe it cleane imploying such onely for Gally-slaues in them as had done euill before and that in regard of their vnquiet nature were like to doe worse after This excuse of the Great Dutchy of Toscan was approoued both by the Censor and all the sacred Colledge Wherevpon the Count said vnto the Libertie of Geneua who was last drawne out of the Vrne That the excessiue vse of Exchanges which shee permitted vnto her Nobilitie caused that great disorder of inriching the priuate and withall of impouerishing the publike whose reuenues would haue risen to huge summes of Gold if the reall riches of her Nobilitie had beene imployed in a iust Trade of Merchandise The Genouese Libertie with a readinesse that gaue a particular gust to all the Learned answered How it was true that Exchanges doe worke that effect which the Censer had mentioned and therefore were most pernicious in any Monarchy whatsoeuer howbeit that notwithstanding they might bee permitted in a well-ordered Common-wealth without any prejudice of the publike interests because the richest and securest Treasures of a free State are the riches of the Nobility and Citizens together a matter which falleth not out in a Monarchy where betweene the commings in of the Prince and the meanes of priuate men there runneth a long wall of eight Stories high built by Mine and Thine Further that in a Monarchy the mutation of the State commonly followeth with little or no prejudice to the people onely changing the name of Matthew to that of Martin but in the subuersions of Common-weales where liberty is changed into seruitude there the proper substance of priuate men is the publike treasure for then will they profusely spend all that euer they haue for to defend their owne libertie euen to the last gaspe CHAP. 9. The Monarchie of Spaine inuiteth the Cardinall of Toledo to be her Theologian which he refuseth and why THe report goeth in this Court that the Mighty Monarchy of Spaine by her chiefe Secretarie inuiteth the worthy Cardinall of Toledo with allowance of a large pension to assist as her Theologian in the Royall Councell of State to the end that nothing should be determined there which might be against his conscience This matter filled the whole Court with maruell in regard euery one knew how little that Prelate in the rebenediction of the most Christian King Henry the 4. fauoured the affaires of his Prince for which cause no man could imagine the occasion wherefore so wise a Queene in a businesse of such weight should vse the seruice of so diffident a subiect Those which make profession best to vnderstand the manner of proceeding of the aduised Spanish Nation euen in this resolution acknowledged the inueterate prudence of the Kings of Spaine whose proper custome it is neuer to be at quiet vntill that with pensions with honourable charges with all kinde of louing demonstrations and humane deuices they haue drawne vnto their party all such great subiects as they see to be alienated from their Interest and from whom they know that one day yet they may receiue seruices The chiefest Confidents of so great a Cardinall deliuer that his Lordship very gladly accepted the noble Charge propounded vnto him howbeit with this condition which by the Spaniards was presently reiected that whensoeuer with the authority of the Sacred Scriptures with the Doctrine of the holy Fathers with the ordinances of the Canons he should make the Royall Councell capable how the resolutions made in it were disagreeing from the Lawes of God and men hee alone then would haue power to hinder the execution of them and all to the end the world might know That the Royall Theologian in that Councell was only to helpe the conscience of his King with the will of God not to serue for a maske to establish the Dominion of Kingdoms ouer men for it seemed too shamefull a matter vnto him that such a one as he should be imployed to authorise the diabolicall impiety of the moderne reason of State and to make most stinking Assa fetida appeare vnto simple people very excellent Muske CHAP. 10. The Spaniards attempt the acquisition of Sauoy but doe not preuaile SEeing that for to draw the French naile out of the table of Milan where it was fixed the ill-aduised Italian Princes had made vse of the Spanish pickaxe which entred in such manner into the very table it selfe that it was neuer possible since to draw it forth with any kinde of pincers whatsoeuer all the Potentates of Europe and especially the Italian Princes which perceiued that the Spaniards after the seruitude of the Milanesi openly aspired to the absolute Dominion of all Italy to the end they might secure that remainder of liberty which is yet resting in her agreed amongst themselues that euery fiue and twentieth yeare the Chaine which the Spaniards haue forged for the Italian seruitude should with exact diligence be measured by persons thereunto deputed And comming a few daies since accordingly to measure it the Italian Princes to their infinite amazement found that so odious a

THE New-found Politicke DISCLOSING THE SECRET NATVRES and dispositions as well of priuate persons as of Statesmen and Courtiers wherein the Gouernments Greatnesse and Power of the most notable Kingdomes and Common-wealths of the world are discouered and censured Together with Many excellent Caueats and Rules fit to be obserued by those Princes and States of Christendome both Protestants and Papists which haue reason to distrust the designes of the King of Spaine as by the Speech of the Duke of Hernia vttered in the Counsell of SPAINE and hereto annexed may appeare Written in Italian By Traiano Boccalini Gentleman of Rome and priuiledged by sundry Princes of Italy and also out of Italy by the most Christian King And now translated into English for the benefit of this Kingdome LONDON ¶ Printed for Francis Williams neere the Royall Exchange 1626. TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Maiestie Dread Soueraigne THe kinde welcome which these Raggualioes of Boccalini lately found among the French and in other Princes Courts who suspect the incroaching power of the House of Austria hath moued me to collect and consecrate them in English weeds vnto your Maiestie The First was translated by M. Florio sometime Seruant to your Royall Mother of blessed memory The Second by one vnto whom the common-wealth cannot as yet be beholding for his name And the Third part by me although farre inferiour vnto either of them for any knowledge which I dare arrogate to my selfe in the Italian Tongue hauing discontinued the vse thereof since my returne out of Italie being aboue 24. yeeres past vntill this present time Yet neuerthelesse when I had fully perused the noueltie of the Authors straine the pleasant conceits of the worke enterlaced with some matters of consequence which might serue for caueats and annotations to such as stand interessed in State-affaires I was encouraged to renew that which I had so long neglected and by compiling some of the choisest Obseruations to present them to your iudicious view And because my chiefest cares for many yeeres haue beene fixt vpon that most hopefull Plantation in the Iland commonly called The New-found Land I entituled this Worke The New-found Politicke as well in regard of my affection deuoted to that place as for the newnesse of the stile and matter wherein the Author poetically discouers some Mysteries of Policie which may rowze vp the Spirits of the State of Venice and other Neighbouring Prouinces to watch with Argus Eyes lest the deceitfull shew of Indian Gold a fitter bait for Turks and Moores might produce any sudden Innouation preiudiciall to the libertie of Christendome which ought to flourish in mutuall loue and charitie and not to liue in continuall iealousies to be surprized by any Prince that acknowledgeth Christ for their vniuersall Head The King is wise as is the Angell of God and conceiues more than it becomes a man of my ranke to insinuate to so high a Maiestie concerning the Affaires of long-handed Princes whom Experience and not the admonition of a contemplatiue Scholar hath taught to remember that Verse of the Poet Tunc tua res agitur paries cùm proximus ardet When the next wall vnto your house doth burne Looke to your selfe betimes next is your turne The King of Kings long preserue your Maiestie in all Earthly happinesse to his glory our comfort and the defence of the true Christian Faith So praieth from the bottome of his heart Your Maiesties most humble Subiect WILLIAM VAVGHAN The Contents of the first Part. Chap. 1. THE Company or Corporation of Polititians sets vp a Ware-house or publike Shop in Parnassus in which are to be sold diuers kinds of wares vsefull for the Vertuous life of the Learned Chap. 2. The most soueraigne vertue Fidelitie being secretly fled from Parnassus Apollo hauing discouered where she had hidden herselfe dispatcheth the two most excellent Muses Melpomene and Thalia to perswade her to returne Chap. 3. Apollo perceiuing the great disorders that the flight of the sacred vertue Fidelitie bred in all Mankind by the mediation of the Soueraigne Muses and of the sublime Heroike Vertues obtaineth her returne into Parnassus Chap. 4. Iustus Lipsius to make amends for the fault he had committed in accusing of Tacitus doth so passionately obserue him that before Apollo he is charged to idolatrize him whereupon after a faigned and but verball punishment he is in the end by his Maiestie not onely absolued but highly commended and admired Chap. 5. The chiefest learned men of Parnassus are sutors vnto Apollo to inioyne Tacitus to recompile those books of his Annales and Histories which are lost Chap. 6. Cornelius Tacitus for some complaints vrged against him by diuers great Princes by reason of certaine politicall spectacles which he hath deuised most preiudiciall vnto their gouernment hauing beene imprisoned is by Apollo set at liberty Chap. 7. The Duke of Laconia for hauing aduanced a most faithfull Secretary of his to the highest dignities of his estate is accused before Apollo to idolatrize and dote vpon a Mignon but he doth most egregiously defend himselfe Chap. 8. Apollo bewailing the wofull wracks which in the Courts of great Princes his vertuous followers suffer and fall into for to assure their Nauigation commandeth some of the chiefest learned men in his Dominion to endeuour to frame a Sailing-Card to saile safely by land Chap. 9. The Lord Iohn de la Casa hauing presented his quaint Galateo or booke of Manners vnto Apollo meeteth with great difficulties in diuers Nations about their promises to obserue the same Chap. 10. Apollo hauing highly commended the Statute made by the most mighty Kings of Spaine that no Aduocates Lawyers or Proctors shall passe into the Indies the Doctors of the Law finding themselues aggrieued complaine vnto his Maiestie Chap. 11. An Apothecarie at the very instant that he is taken prisoner by Sargeants without being examined at all is forthwith condemned and sent to the Gallies Chap. 12. The vertuous people of Apolloes State hauing consigned vnto his Maiesties Generall Treasurer the accustomed Donatiue of a thousand conceits according to their custome they beg a boone or grace at his hands Chap. 13. By letters intercepted and taken from a Currier dispatched by some Princes to the Lake of Averno the common people come to know that the rancors and hatreds now raigning among diuers Nations are occasioned and stirred vp by the artifices of their Princes Chap. 14. Antonio Perez of Aragon hauing presented the Booke of his Relations vnto Apollo his Maiestie doth not onely refuse to accept it but commandeth the same to bee presently burnt Chap. 15. The Monarchy of Spaine is much aggrieued that her falshoods and treacheries are discouered Chap. 16. The Spanish Monarchie arriueth in Parnassus Shee intreateth Apollo to be cured of a Cauterie Shee is dismissed by the politicke Physitians Chap. 17. The Spanish Monarchy goeth to the Oracle of Delphos to know whether she shall euer obtaine the Monarchy of the world she hath a crosse

laudable and precious custome to quaffe merily and to be drunke it being most palpable and euident that drinking of much wine hath the vertue to make bodies diaphaned or transparent For which solid reasons which by Apollo were both allowed and commended for militant it was resolued that concerning the particular point of drinking moderately and soberly the excellent and farre renowmed Dutch Nation should not bee subiect vnto the strict precepts of Galateo The vse of drunkennesse being among the Germanes rather an artifice of the Publike than a vice of priuate men It being manifestly knowne that both in times of peace and of warre those nations are best aduised that doe as the Germans Deliberant dum fingere nesciunt constituunt dum errare non possunt Apollo hauing highly commended the Statute made by the most mighty Kings of Spaine that no Aduocates Lawyers or Proctors shall passe into the Indies the Doctors of the Law finding themselues aggrieued complaine vnto his Majestie Rag. 83. 1 Part. THe renowmed Court and habitation of Parnassus may rightly be esteemed most happy not so much for the right excellent gouernment of Apollo's Maiestie nor because it is inhabited by the most quaint flourishing choise and sublime wits of the whole vniuerse as because the exquisitenesse of a vertuous life the perfection of all right honourable customes and the exactnesse of all the best lawes dispersed through the whole world are therein with all precise diligence introduced propagated cherished and obserued The reason is because those that inhabit or reside there are bound to bring the most commendable fashions of their Countries A custome that hath brought so great commoditie vnto the Priuate and so honourable reputation vnto the Publike as all men may euidently perceiue that to be a right blessed and happy country which liueth and subsisteth not so much by her owne proper lawes as by and with those iudiciously selected from out all other most ciuill and best established Nations Apollo hauing lately bin informed how the most potent Kings of Spaine hauing vnder great penalties prohibited that no Aduocates no Lawyers nor Proctors shall passe into the Indies was pleased to approue and ratifie the said Decree as most wholsome as most holy And did highly extoll and commend the piety of those Monarks who shewed so great charitie towards the new world in seeking to preserue it from that mischieuous infection that hath filled and infected the old-one with so many deplorable calamities and wailfull controuersies Whereupon his Maiestie commanded that the said holy and excellent Edict should forthwith be engrauen and enregistred in a faire table of metall which to the perpetuall memorie thereof should be affixed neere vnto the twelue Tables of the most famous Romane Lawes in Forum maximum We must not omit to let you vnderstand that the Doctors of the Lawes were greatly moued and vexed at this iniunction who earnestly recommended the indemnitie of their reputation vnto his Maiestie alleaging that if they should not obtaine the fauour to haue the publication of that ordinance staied occasion would be giuen vnto many to imitate those of Ancona of Norcia of Recanati and of other people who to the great dishonour of good letters had chased and expelled from out all their counsels and consultations those Pettie-foggers and Law-pleaders which of all other people were held in so great admiration for they verily beleeued that without the PLACET of a man skilfull in the Law it was impossible for any man to say or doe any thing well or honestly And that by so much the more they besought his Maiestie to take their cause into his consideration as there was question made of the indemnitie of the thrice-sacred Liberall Arts which all Students of the Lawes to their intolerable costs and charges and with vnspeakable toyle labour and sweat did waste and consume themselues to learne At whose strange instances Apollo against the opinion of all the by-standers fell into a chafing passion and with great indignation answered those malapert Doctors that hee much wondred how before his Maiesties sacred presence they had dared to affirme that they spent and laboured and sweat so much to learne the sacred Liberall Arts as if the Delphick Edict were not knowne to all the world in which the studie of the Lawes is especially declared to be no Liberall Science but a base trade and a mechanicall occupation brought into the world for the affliction of mankinde studied and plodded vpon without any delectation to the minde without any speculation of the intellect and without the so materially-needfull helpe of the soueraigne Muses in all perfect and commendable Sciences and only exercised for meere couetousnesse of lucre to fatten with pelfe and crownes a peece of man with two gloting eies in his skonce or a slouenly fellow who although he be altogether void of that viuacitie of wit which good and noble letters affect so much neuerthelesse to become an eminent Aduocate it sufficeth him to haue a blockish braine a porter-like grosse complexion a rusticall behauiour and a clownish demeanour fit rather to draw in a cart than to conuerse with ciuill or learned men An Apothecarie at the very instant that he is taken prisoner by Sergeants without being examined at all is forthwith condemned and sent to the Gallies Rag. 65. 2 Part. THe Apothecarie that dwelt at the signe of the two Crownes in the high Mercerie-street was foure daies since apprehended by the Officers of the Criminall Court and forsomuch as the poore wretch was suddenly hood-winkt and muffled and on mens shoulders carried to the hauen and put into a Gallie all Parnassus rested much amazed to see the execution of that vnfortunate mans condemnation foregoe the framing of his enditement It is reported that this hath hapned at the instant request of all the chiefe Monarks of the vniuerse now resident in this State who thinke themselues offended to the quicke by that Apothecarie forsomuch as hee did openly sell Fine smoake a merchandise which Princes challenge and pretend to belong onely to them and that no priuate person whatsoeuer should dare to sell but they Some suppose that by the example of that vnfortunate wretch they haue gone about to terrifie all others from troubling them in matters concerning their iurisdiction and prerogatiue And although the shallow-headed and simple sort of people giue out that the Apothecaries fault deserued not so rigorous a resentment yet those that will prie and thorowly diue into the secrets and interesses of great Princes affirme that he hath very gently and with much indulgence beene dealt withall Forsomuch as Fine smoake seruing Princes in many and daily occasions in lieu of fine coyned gold euery treasure of theirs though neuer so rich and great would soone be exhausted whensoeuer that so currant money of Fine smoake losing its credit and esteeme among the vulgar sort of people Princes should ere long bee enforced according to the Plebeian fashion to pay their debts