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A06782	Romulus and Tarquin. First written in Italian by the Marques Virgilio Malvezzi: and now taught English, by HCL.; Romulo. English	Malvezzi, Virgilio, marchese, 1595-1653.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.; Monmouth, Henry Carey, Earl of, 1596-1661.	1637 (1637)	STC 17219; ESTC S111904	76,547	312

and buried his death not being knowne A like case from a differing cause and differing end because it was effected by different agents God because hee saw the Israelites addicted to idolatry that they might not adore Moses as God would not suffer them to see his bones buried Gods adversary out of a desire to keepe and continue the Romans Idolaters to the end that Romulus may bee adored as a God procures that his death bee not knowne nor his bones seene the one because hee is not found is not worshipped the other is worshipped because he is not found Romulus his morall faults were the rape of the Sabine women the death of his brother and of his collegue his politicall error was onely his indowing the Senate with so much power and then his bereaving them of it The government of a State is but a slippery path one onely bad action is sufficient to ruinate a Prince who hath beene raised up by a thousand good ones I doe not remember that ever any Ruler sped amisse for having left authority to the Senate but oft for having taken it from them If men commit errors men ought to bee punished and not the calling and if the calling be feared wherefore was it ordained but it is not feare which causeth such wickednesse it is the violent thirst after rule otherwise they would not leave the condition when they take away the authority being no lesse subject to their possibility of reuniting than of command the institution and permission of Senators in the original of commands is not only done that subjects may be content with their servitude but because Princes are really satisfied with what they ordaine It is the nature of beginnings not the art of ruling Who prepares for a great leap is content to arrive at the side of the ditch but afterwards stayes not there mans understanding because it hath not in this world any adequate end coveteth as an end any thing that seems desirable unto it and it hath no sooner compast that end but it makes use thereof as a medium to arrive at some other end which was first hidden from it by the former and continues to be the desired end till it be obtained a little master-hood seemes enough where there is none at all but where there is but a little enough seemes nothing if all be not had Romulus in his beginning was followed by the noblest sort because he won upon them by conferring on them authority in his end he was hated by them for that hee incensed them by bereaving them of it Hee cannot suffer the Senate which he himselfe did institute and because they would have him as a companion whom they accepted for their Prince hee would make them slaves whom he tooke for assistant Officers both exceed their bounds they in obeying he in commanding The Senate which is made to assist the Prince thinkes onely how they may lessen him the Prince who ought governe the Senate seekes to destroy it that Magistracy in States is of duration which is content to execute as a Minister not to command as a Lord. I have nothing of misfortune to recount of Romulus save what was the occasion of his death and yet therein he was fortunate because it was sudden If there bee nothing else of evill in death but the troublesome cogitations of the minde and the painfull torments of the body both which doe precede it that death which is sudden preventing torments that which happens soone preventing the troubles of the mind should be esteemed best There is nothing better in generall than what is worst in the individuall the foundation whereon the Colossus of the world doth erect it selfe to manifest its beauty is death it is the most solid part of consort on which all descants doe depend What would there be after the losse of originall righteousnesse if men did not die the feare thereof holds in fortunate men the hope thereof withholds unfortunate men from wickednesse Who should take away death should take away the Corner stone from the worlds Fabrique should take away all Harmony all order and should leave nothing but dissonance and confusion the order of the universall is contrary to that of individualls The heavens which of their owne particular nature doe turne from West to East are by the universall nature carried every day from East to West Death can neither bee bad nor painfull if to die be naturall for naturall things are good I am of opinion that to end ones dayes in decrepit age is to fall asleepe not to die and say to die were to bee accounted amongst the worst of things yet to bee dead were certainly to be numbred amongst the best One must live as considering he must live alwayes not that hee must once die the Soule which is that which understands ought not to thinke of death for shee never dies and if the Soule doe not the Body cannot feare it because it knowes it not as that which by meanes of contemplation is a dead carkas before it be dead Wherefore should the Soule rather feare than desire the death of the Body which is burthensome unto her and why should not the body also be desirous to bee bereft of its imperfections it leaveth frailty to put on immortality it dyes base and may rise glorious death is alwayes good but appeares sometimes to bee bad because they are sometimes bad who dye let a man live innocent for he shall bee joyd at the remembrance of death not terrified and were not natures frailty subject to lapse I should be sory shee should bee provoked to do good out of the feare of death or allured by the love of reward the very foule ill favorednesse of doing ill ought to be a sufficient feare and the comelinesse of having done well a sufficicent reward and if a man would consider that rewards are received he might consider what reward he hath already received when of nothing hee was created to immortality nor am I any whit the more satisfied with well doing out of gratitude but much when good is done out of love due to the infinitely lovely Nature of GOD. Let us then say I doe not only love thee Lord because thou hast created me but I will returne againe to nothing for thee I doe not love thee because thou hast promised mee the beatificall vision of thy divine Essence but I will goe even into hell for thee I doe not love thee my God for feare of evill for if it bee thy Will I covet it as the greatest good I love thee because thou art altogether lovely because thou art all Love it selfe Lord if I love thee not as I instruct others to love thee assist the weaknesse of my nature with the efficacy of thy helps Stir up my understanding direct my will whilest to the Glory and Honour of thy great Name in the which I desire to end my life I put an end to this my Booke Where the

quiet it would argue great wisdome to passe by them but without any other profit it makes the injured parties be esteemed or foolish or cowards as if they either wanted wit to know them or courage to revenge them whence men lose both compassion and feare affections onely able to refraine affections in worldly men Rome had her beginning in the midst of us and wee despise her shee augmenteth and wee nourish her we give her life she threatens our death those who saw her in her beginning foreseeing the danger that might ensue to their posterity left the care thereof to their posteritie and as a thing which th●…ned all every one f●…ll to b●… her none to hinder her in common evils private men feare not and in future events men looke for helpe from Time and Fortune The eye which beholds noveltie leaves no space for the understanding to judge the danger till it be so farre advanced as there is no remedie for it the errours of slothfulnesse are then discerned when all diligence is bootlesse It is a false opinion held by melancholy men to give the title of Wisdome to delay most businesses suffer shipwrack because occasions are hasty and men slow men talke of the present time when 't is already past moments ought not to be neglected when upon these moments an eternitie depends In things which are arrived at full perfection if not their finall end at least their decaying ●…ge may in time be expected but in things which but begin to increase to expect is as much as to give time that they may increase If a traveller meet with a River at its head when it is yet but a small brooke he should doe ill to travell further along it till he must ferry it over where it is become a large streame Rome is a little Rivelet our people like torr●…nts flocke thither wee must fight not discourse and fight with Romans before that Romans become a Race of Sabins before our enemies be our kinsfolke haste is the best remedie where time is the greatest enemie This man having ended his discourse wee may beleeve that Titus Tatius answered in this manner YOU ought either to have granted women to the Romans or else have fought against their Citie and gone unto their sports with troopes of armed men not of young girles I expected they should have come within our walls to take them from us by force had not you gone within their walls to offer them to their rapine hee who denyes another what of necessity he must have having gain-said intreaties ought prepare for violence To endevour Romes ruine by force was a wise consideration but dangerous for your owne more safeties sake you resolved to deny them women Good resolutions are seldome taken all together in all things dangers doe appeare and to secure our selves from evill good is done by halfes and the halfe of that good is not good which consisting in the whole admits of no division To renew things now irreparable and which cannot bee diverted is to beleeve ones selfe greater than the gods and a labour without profit or rather accompanied with losse since thereby wee call to minde those things the chiefest happinesse whereof consists in forgetfulnesse Rome may be said to have its rise and its increase from us and it is fatall that fathers should lose in the having of children drawing neerer to death by giving life to others if it be true that the generation of one be the corruption of another 'T is true there ought a remedy be had for the appearing danger but I not commend the repairing of past errours caused by delay with new and greater caused by impatiencie Injuries received tend to the ruine of men who with the zeale of honour doe not accompany wisedome they run upon revenge for past wrongs and throw themselves headlong upon new miseries they would amend one errour and produce a thousand Too much haste is as much before time as too much delay is out of time Errours of impatience are worse than errors of delay for it is better to sh●…n precipices than to run upon them if they be not hindred they are retarded Justice is not beleeved to be there where violence is observed to be nor can it be accounted wisdome where there is no argumentation Argumentation is not had in an instant Time is not measured by instants Wisedome is the daughter of Cold Violence of Heat things which have not beene done in times past may well be effected in times to come but things alreadie done cannot be undone againe occasions are never wanting to men but men are wanting to occasions they may bee expected they ought not be prevented He who fights egged on by Fury begins his warre for having lost he satisfies his affection not his dutie and is sooner beaten by his owne weaknesse than by anothers valour Our forbearance is to be feared not despised the world is his who hath patience when it proceeds from sagacitie not timiditie Generous spirits addresse themselves to endure present injuries out of hope of future revenge they reserve their anger to vindicate offences not to evaporate passion Dissimulation is not to be blamed when by the injury of Time it is not transformed into oblivion dissimulation is never worse than when it becomes forgetfulnesse never better than when it resembles it It is more safe to hinder the increase of Rome than her subsistancie for it is easier to let her wax old than cause her dye increase is not there had where there is no motion nor can Cities in peace increase and receive nourishment new Plantations are augmented by the ruine of old ones and tender plants which are hindered by the shade and roots of neighbouring trees want force to grow up Rome cannot grow greater without the ruine of our Cities nor can they ruine our Cities without warre to wage armes to destroy her may afford matter for her increase All fires are not supprest by ruines nor quencht by bloud that fire which wanteth nourishment wanteth life and where of it selfe it must needs goe out it needs not the ruine of others All industry ought to be used to have peace with a people who can never have a worser war than peace faire pretences are not wanting to cloake our received injuries Necessity commits no offence kindred are not enemies matrimony is no rape let injuries done unto the gods be left unto the gods 't is they were injured not man and if men not Cities and though Cities recourse ought not therefore be had to armes to revenge injuries to reward good turnes love and hatred are the affections of private men Common-wealths and States have selfe interest for the spheare of their actions beyond the which they neither see nor heare it is the object of their senses the mover of their affections the ruler of their passions The discord caused between Titus Tatius his slacknesse and the peoples impatiencie was good harmony for Romes increase

be assembled where I may suppose hee spake in this manner TO conquer people and not to know how to make the victory beneficiall to win subjects and not be able to keepe them in subjection is a losse both of men and time Providence is necessary and 't is laborious Meanes are not wanting but those meanes are full of difficulties were there any infallible rule found whereby to secure ones selfe from the rebellions of such as are under him I beleeve the world ere long would belong to one onely man but in politike affaires there is no rule but fortune To captivate mens mindes with rewards is impossible servitude cannot be rewarded with any other recompence than being set at liberty to tye them by an oath is no way safe they are not subjects whose power is only subject to will Liberty is naturall servitude violent what is violent needes somewhat which from without may withstand it if its beginning be not occasioned from some internall cause To raze the walls of strong Cities when subdued encourageth strangers to make themselves masters of them to leave them standing facilitates the insurrection of Citizens and say it were a good advice for places that are within the body of the State it is undoubtedly bad for frontier places where it is hard so to doe as that they may be of defence against the enemie and not subject to the rebellion of friends hee leaves mens mindes apt to commotions who takes not from them all meanes of defence Those who send Garrisons thither or build Castles there endevour to maintaine them by force and often-times lose them voluntarily they secure themselves from strangers and put themselves into the hands of their owne people over whom they lose the authoritie of command because they lose the power of punishment they free themselves from the danger of citizens they submit themselves to the fidelitie of a Captaine and he though he may thinke it ignominious to deliver up the Citie to an enemie may thinke it may bee borne withall if hee keepe it for himselfe He who builds Fortresses in weake Cities depends also too much upon the too mutable faith of the Captaine nor can they much hinder him that is master of the field as being only usefull to curbe unarmed Citizens of no use against armed enemies To send Colonies to worke this effect more incenses the ancient inhabitants and protests the n●…w ones but for a small time they are plants transplanted they soone accommodate themselves to the Country from whence their roots receive nourishment They forget their originall in all things save in their desire to be no more subjects but companions Men who goe from their own homes to plant themselves in new places goe not thither to be servants to them who send them thither but companions and equals to those who remaine behind To keepe Armies stil on foot to suffocat sullevations in their cradle is the greatest and would be the best remedy if then it were not in the Generals choyce to make a Common-wealth a Monarchie and himselfe Lord thereof He that were alwayes sure to returne victorious needed no other meanes to secure himselfe if enemies be vanquished friends are tardie because their feare is greater and their shame lesse but the successe of war is uncertaine and it is almost certaine that rebellions succeed overthrowes I should thinke the best course for the present is to send abroad Colonies by so doing the Citie will be free from beggars nor will any couragiously minded man leave Rome while shee is bent upon glorious actions and the people round about our walls being subjected unto us by keeping an Armie alwayes on foot we shall secure them from their enemies our selves from rebellions According to Romulus his opinion Colonies were appointed for such places as were won This meane while the Sabins waged war against the Romans a war the more to be feared by how much the later it was undertaken being governed by reason deprived of its first cholerike violence nor sooner taken notice of than in the field The Sabins seeke rather to secure their State than to vent their anger they assault the Citie not the Citizens that they may bring it in subjection without intention of revenge The feare of Romes greatnesse causes them to move their rage for the committed violence the originall thereof STates that enjoy rest and quiet because they are in league and friendship with all their Neighbours have great good fortune if they meet with any occasion of offence and wise men in such like occasions seeke after them for the common people will not be perswaded to more than what they see they judge by the eye not the understanding nor is there any argument with them of force enough to gain-say appearance To keepe friendship with neighbours is exceeding good but hereupon to build the securitie of a State is passing bad they are well held for friends if they bee considered as enemies that so they may bee bound to love and not able to hurt the height of that building which is delightfull and pleasing when one thinkes to enjoy it for an habitation is displeasing if he looke it shall fall upon his head The Sabins by deceit get into the Citadel of Rome having by gold corrupted the daughter of Spurius Tarpeius Captaine thereof not without the death of the treacherous young woman whether it were out of hatred of the treason or did they feare mischiefe by the example or were it for that they did expect great glory by making men beleeve they had wonne it by force and not by fraud THE obligation which remaines sowres the sweet of a benefit which either is rewarded and then as good a turne is done to the benefactor or else the badge of ingratitude remaines which is equall shame to the benefit received those benefits seeme sweet which are received by treason which is a thing so hatefull as it takes all merit from whatsoever action A traytour cannot finde fault without accusing himselfe ingrati●…de becomes praise reward blame and thus depriving men of hope a new benefit is received from being ingratefull The Capitoll being possest the next day they give battell in the plaine betweene the hill of the Capitoll and the Palatine hill where by the death of Hostilius who opposed himselfe to Mutius the upholder of the Sabine squadrons the Romans began to give backe Romulus borne along by them that fled made a stand upon the Palatine hill he vowes a Temple to Jupiter and prayes to him for victory wherein he is not wanting in his owne endevours IN vaine doe men call to Heaven for helpe when they withstand the helpes of Heaven many doe invoke it and yet doe hinder it they require help from others and doe abandon themselves and by their deeds contrarying their words they shew not to desire what they have intreated and to have intreated that they might not be heard Romulus gives on where the danger is greatest

the most hardy follow him they drive Metius into a moorish ground where both parties meet with all their forces the one to succour their Captain the other to oppresse the enemie THe death of valiant Leaders is the losse of battels the danger of death is the cause of Victory all run to the battell as well out of hopes of reward by freeing of him as feare of losse in losing of him all dangers ought to be shunned when the State is in safetie The businesse was doubtfull when amidst bloud and dead bodies the Sabin women came running forth treading underfoot their own feare with the feare they had of others with haires about their eares their garments rent and turned towards their brethren towards their parents TOo late said they is Rape revenged now when Violence is turned to Love Rape to Matrimony and by that Matrimony children are had we are mothers we are wives who is it you will revenge if there be none that suffer offence but in being revenged You cannot redresse our losses and you take from us our recompense you revenge our long agoe lost virginitie by bereaving us of the fruits we have thereby received you revenge your sisters Rape with the slaughter of your brethren in law if you desire revenge pardon the innocent let them only suffer death who are the occasions of so great evils Though we be without fault it may in some sort bee termed a fault to have beene the occasion of great mischiefe Wherefore endevour you with your weapons to pierce our husbands bowels they love your sisters but we your enemies Cut off these armes which have so oft served for chaines about their neckes pierce these breasts which give suc●…e unto your enemies let the injuries of kisses and embraces be cancelled by wounds and bloud O how much more unhappie are we in being revenged than in being ravished deare husbands cast away your weapons suffer your selves to bee slaine in a warre where it is more glorious to lose than to overcome where victory is parricide Such like and more ardent passions proceeded from the mouths eyes of the grieved Sabine women when both sides made a stand either inchanted by their laments or induced thereunto by danger which being equall they stood more in need of interposal than perswasion THere hath alwayes beene a scarcitie of men who love to interpose themselves in businesse the shame of yeelding hath ruinated more Princes than the coveting to overcome how many are there that have cast away themselves for want of some that would disswade them Heat and cold meet together in luke-warme for contraries often joyne if they have a meane But those who want a meame never unite but consume one another In the already wearied affaires and dangerous to all sides wise men doe willingly intercede and are rather the occasion than the cause of accommodation for hee easily suffers himselfe to bee perswaded by another who was already perswaded by himselfe contrary Elements when they are weary of fighting appease themselves in mixture FOrc'd mariages amongst Strāgers begin with warre and end in peace because they have those women alwayes as mediatours for peace who first caused the warre Voluntary marriages amongst friends are worse they serve for ballance to some present accōmodatiō they begin in laughter and end in teares but they are worst of all when they are violent inforst betweene enemies for such matches having not any one good moment the tyes of love serve for incitements of hatred The uprore being ceased the one and the other Captaine meet in the midst to become friends and as not hatred alone but rather desire of rule had share in the warre so had it also place in the peace OH the deceitfulnesse of man which makes the desire rule seeme necessitie of revenge there is too great a difference betweene the true and pretended cause the formers thoughts are wholly bent upon the State the latters upon particular persons the one after a little vent having anger for its ground vanisheth the other keeps still its station beco●…es hereditary in our posterity by acquiring what it desires it increaseth the end serves for a beginning and sometime serves for the occasionall meanes and for such a covetous desire the world is too narrow wee doe destroy our owne desires wee hinder our end whilst we doe endevour it and as most inhumane in the most humane affection we kill those out of a desire of rule which being dead cannot be ruled What other passion is there in man by seeking to satisfie the which part of that is lost which is able to satisfie This affection was placed in all men to tender the rule over al difficult to one alone nor would this peradventure suffice did not every one hinder it in himselfe facilitating his being overcome by overcomming our very body it selfe whilst we endevour that it may live wee bring it nearer death so as we cannot so much as therein overcome our enemies without losse of our friends The victory which by Physicke we obtaine over our diseases weakens us more and more and at the last we lose at once with as much facilitie as at another time wee were with violence victorious we have need of as much force to keepe a State as to win it People which are overcome by bloud in being subjected make the Conquerour subject to service by their losse they hinder his rule they put a period to his victory things sublunary are not eternall because all who are actors by winning lose and suffer by working Those Princes may be called fortunate who inherit their States those wise who finding them full of malecontents winde themselves smoothly into them those most happy who wi●…hout losse of bloud by reputation only or some such like meeanes make themselves masters of them these like Rivers the further they goe the greater they become whereas they who have need to use force in conquering lose it by using it and like Bees whilest they hurt another lose their sting These end the warre joyning together with their minds their Cities a more profitable agreement for Rome because she thereby grew greater than would have beene the victory which would have lessened her The Sabins would free their Country of one infirmitie and drawing from out of her her best bloud they expose her to death by every little accident they would extinguish Rome and they make her greater they bring stones to stone withall and they use them for building the chiefe Sabins become Senators Titus Tatius partner with the King HE might well enough have knowne by the example of Rhemus that it was safer to be Romulus his enemie than his companion Examples if they be of actions which have had good successe they make us more fervent in them and though of such as have had bad events they make us notwithstanding cease to goe on because men have greater hope of good fortune than feare of bad they feigne a likelihood