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A51726	The pourtract of the politicke Christian-favourite originally drawn from some of the actions of the Lord Duke of St. Lucar : written to the Catholick Majesty of Philip the Great, and the fourth of that name : a piece worthy to be read by all gentlemen, who desire to know the secrets of state, and mysteries of government / by Marquesse Virgilio Malvezzi ; to this translation is annexed, the chiefe state maxims, political and historical observations, in a brief and sententious way, upon the same story of Count Olivares, Duke of St. Lucar.; Ritratto del privata politico christiano. English	Malvezzi, Virgilio, marchese, 1595-1653.; Powell, Thomas, 1608-1660.	1647 (1647)	Wing M360; ESTC R9198	61,007	163

to maintain it All opinions that seem best are not so because a man doth not alwaies negotiate with the best irresolution is reputed weaknesse and perhaps it is the noblenesse of the understanding the object of it is that which cannot be false if it be quieted with that which may be and may not be it is deceived the man that is the chiefe of the Counsellours is not for all that found to be chiefest in Counsels he that hath got a strong Fort is not to adventure it upon the uncertainty of one issve for the danger and the gain are not equall in him he ought alwaies to propound businesse by way of doubt without hearing a case beyond distinction or knot to be untied or evasion to be propounded to that end that an opinion may not be held that may not be framed by Arguments and defended by the solutions which he hath propounded in his understanding and in this case if they fall out well he shall have the honour of it because they were taken for the reasons that he had adopted if they prove ill he shall not be ashamed for he shall meet with those difficulties which he foresaw and if by chance he hath ometimes a desire to apply them more to one resolution then to another he must provide to make some confident of his the president of the businesse True it is that a subject of great worth that is not known and moves not in a large Spheere after having exquisitely pondered the reasons may for once be the leader of an opinion because it is doubtfull whether the losse or the gain may be greater to him It is necessary for a man to make himselfe famous in the opinion of him to whom he should appear so and to adventure himselfe to him that will make him famous The first day that Do● Francisco of Contreras entred into his office the Duke spake to him after this manner Many are the years that I have lived in Court and in those years I have seen many Lords and Knights consume their Estates been sent to prison and be banished for having had brawles with representers of justice as Notaries Provost Marshals Sergeants and such like and yet I never saw any of those hang'd though it be impossible that such kind of people which are of inferiour condition should alwaies have reason for what they do and therefore it is to be believed that these being such as hale men to prison and such as forme processes do find meanes to unburthen themselves to burthen others Your Excellency then shall do a great service to his Majestie and a great good to the Common-wealth if you will ridd the Court of this abuse yet doe I not meane that offendours of any condition should escape unpunished for that would diminish the respect that is due to justice but that you should cause such Officers that abuse their Authority to be hang'd This advertisement that manifested the upright intention of the Duke did likewise notably comfort all the Nobility Monarchies which are the great Colosses of the world are kept up by two of the basest pillars that can be that is by Executioners and Serjeants but what of that Hath not likewise every garden that is full of sweetest hearbs rich in choicest flowers fruitfull in every plant the basest excrements of bruite beasts for its foundation If Monarchies were not degenerated into Tyrannies if zeale for God would alwaies administer justice then would there be Samuels found that would put Agags to death Eliahs that would rip up the bellies of the false Prophets But that zeale is lost and insteed of it we find that subjects of great bloud are ashamed to be Officers for such imployments So that it was necessary to have recourse to the vilest of the vile people and because the base fellowes which undertake that charge if they find it not vile do make it so Princes were as it were compel'd yea the very wisest of them to defend and uphold such kind of instruments For should they likewise have had them in a base esteem that weaknesse of the foundation would have drawn with it the ruine of Dominion into consequence but it may be too that it is a cunning in Princes to put these charges into the hands of people of a vile condition for such offices have in them something of terrible so that if they should have joyn'd reputation to such terriblenesse I am not certain whether instead of making the subjects only stand in feare they would not likewise have terrified Princes whereas now they cannot offend with that reputation which the Prince giveth them because he defends them they thinke it an errour to punish them by whom they punish they believe that the Domination which relieth upon them in generall relyeth upon every Individuall as if that the neck of a rascall were the neck of the Monarchie but it is a too too ordinary a course to make justice become impudent that they may keep their government untouch't The Duke of Ascot of Flanders went into Spaine sent thither by the she that is beyond all praise the Infanta Elizabeth who as she did assure the Catholique King of the integrity of that Duke in the insurrection propounded by Count Henry and some other Rebels so likewise she writ to him that by him he might be able to discover all the persons of the Confederacy and all the designes that they had Now in regard that the effects of it were begun to be felt in Flanders the King question'd the Duke of As●ot about it whose answer was that he knew no more of any thing then what he had revealed to the most renowned Infanta such a Negation in so dangerous a businesse looked as if it deserved an imprisonment but the Lord Duke who knew that it did not proceed from any ill mind in the Duke of Ascot but from a certai● nicenesse of laying them open which had trusted him taking upon himselfe the assurance of his not flying away did intreat his Majestie to question him once again Many there are that believe that they are not bound to discover what they know so that they do not what they ought not but they do that they should not when they tell not that they know It is the most capitall offence in conspiracy to conceale the conspiracy for if they be knowne they are hindred he that doth not run himselfe into a rebellion yet knowes of it and holds his peace shewes more feare then love I confidently believe that the character of nobility of mind in the Duke of Ascot which made him loyall to his Prince was the very same thing that made him faithfull to his friends but what faith is to be observ'd with such an one as keeps not his faith with one that would make him unfaithfull I was about to say that had made him when he tempted him what kind of friend call you him that perswades his friend unto treason he is doubtlesse

many as their victories would they are too too quickly falne under the gentlenesse of so courteous Princes If our Lord God would have been pleased to shew in a glasse to the Princes and Cities that have moved commotions in Germany upon future condition that which such an Insurrection would have brought forth this so horrible a Tragedy had not now been to be seen but he forbeare not doubtlesse to present it to such eyes as were willing to see it What understanding could be so blockish as not to know it did it but discourse it What memory so slippery that could not as it were lively represent the future successe which it had observed in the forepassed Warrs that which hath been is that which shall be particularly when that which was is that which is The space of an hundred years is the breadth of the Channell that the River of forgetfulnesse hath those men are now dead who did know Rebellions to be unfruitfull vaine not without great danger and extreame great los●e there is now no Reliques to be disovered of burnt downe Townes Trees burnt to ashes Lands become barren Cities laid defart destroyed and demollished the losse is not believed or if it be not valued because it is knowne reparable and is seen to be repair●● How ought it to be desiderable by many to have no walls about their Cities The Romanes certainly were not more courteous to the Grecians in any one thing then in beating downe their walls and that Law-maker that would not have the Citizens repaire them had not only an opinion peradventure to make them more Vertuous but had a conceit likewise to make them lesse rash The good complexion of men is oftentimes their death because they being confident of it fall into disorders that kill them Power that is great in name and not great in Authority or at the least greater in forces should not adventure without security to be beaten down by them whose losses it may increase because sometimes Princes are not moved to great purchases either because they think them not necessary to be gotten and so content themselves or because they feare to loose and so endanger not themselves but if by chance some violence spurre them on to take Arms they begin to believe that for to maintain their●reputation of not being afraid it is necessary to take them up and then they lay them not down till they have inlarged their Dominions or increased their Authority but it is very true that wars come again to sprout out because Conquerours either know not how or will not know or indeed are not able to make an end of their victories sometimes being full of glory they are Satiate sometimes afflicted by the charges affrighted by the many slaughters and desirous of quiet they enjoy the present recommending the future into the hands of Time and Fortune and the valour of their successours he deserves sufficiently in this world that can put danger a great way from him because great ones may be defer'd but not taken away so many wars would not doubtlesse be if a meanes could be found that greatnesse amongst equalls should not bring forth Envy and that they could take away jealousie from Inferiours I certainly hold that Princes I speak of such as are past after that they were come the Monarchs had a regard only to the preservation of their states and I believe likewise that they were oftentimes informed they could not be able to keep them without the taking in of some places that might threaten a disturbance and then assoon as that was gain'd they would begin to find out another that might be prejudiciall to the last that was got and so indeed go infinitely on from whence peradventure it comes that by this insensible deceit they have made it be believed that the desire to keep what they have hath beene a covetuousnesse to get large Dominions That Emperour alwaies Augustus that in his time saw the world in a calme to keep it in that tranquility which might have been disturbed by envy and feare more then by any other thing whatsoever had a purpose not to dilate but to restrain and likewise peradventure to fortify the Confines of the Empire thereby to be able the better to keep and more quietly to enjoy it by his making it knowne that the desire of domination was not infinite being terminated in a Prince that had bounded the Imperiall Confines He that was the first that made faith violable was the He that did ruine the world for had not men been deceived by breach of faith there would never have been jealousie and without jealousie envy would have been of small account because it would have beene alone FINIS