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A36946	Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites / by Sir Robert Naunton.; Traicté de la cour. English. 1694	Refuge, Eustache de, d. 1617.; Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.; Walsingham, Francis, Sir, 1530?-1590.; Naunton, Robert, Sir, 1563-1635. Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth.	1694 (1694)	Wing D2686; ESTC R33418	106,428	275

turns into Contempt which for that reason although the Prince invite us to it is to be avoided Let all things rather tend to Modesty and Respect For these Lions though sometimes they be Meek and Gentle are at other times Enraged against those they Love best and who are in most Authority with them They that are of a Sanguine Constitution are for the most part of a Pleasant Humour Lovers of Mirth and Recreation flying Sadness the seriousness of Business and trouble of Debates Lovers of Peace leaving the administration of their affairs to others in whom they suffer nothing more unwillingly than Complaints They are Courteous Gentle and Free if not from all at least from any Grievous Injuries more mindful of benefits Received from others than done by Themselves Complacent willing to help and for the most part Liberal He that lives with such as these must omit no circumstances of Veneration and Respect but very seldom must they treat of Business or serious Affairs Those that are imployed in the Greatest and most Important Offices and concernments of the Kingdom ought not to come near these Princes before they be either Called or certain that the Prince is not engaged in any Recreation least otherwise they should interrupt him in his greatest Delights and make him Blush to be surprised by those who he may apprehend are Secretly Angry to see him no better Entertained For so when Philip of Macedon was once at play it was told him That Antipater was at the door who presently troubled and conscious of his Transgression hid his dice under his Pillow Blushing that Antipater should catch him at that Sport Therefore with such a Prince as those that manage the Greatest Affairs of the Kingdom in serious and weighty Trusts do exceed others so also are they out-gone by others in a familiar and free access to the Prince's person who naturally avoids these kind of Serious Men as much as may be Those men that are of a Jovial and well tempered Disposition and capable as well of Pleasure as of Business are chiefly acceptable to these kind of Princes Provided That whilst they are out of the Prince's Sight they do not with too much Facility and Complacence lose their authority with others but they must preserve the Honour of their Rank intire for without that as the Proverb says Familiarity breeds contempt and Contempt gives encouragement to Quarrels upon the first appearance of an Injury Which the Prince being an enemy to Trouble and Strife to free himself of will endeavour to remove him that shall appear most Faulty A Melancholy Prince is Slow in his Counsels Anxious Thoughtful Diffident Jealous Witty and for the most part Peevish given to Silence and when he speaks Involving himself in Ambiguous Words a Dissembler apt rather to Sound other mens Opinions than Deliver his own an enemy of Jests and Freedom a lover of Solitude difficult of Access a friend to Few and to those but Coldly prone to Hatred out of Diffidence an inseparable Companion unto him Covetous and Fearful even to Absurdity one that Hates equally those that he hath Offended with those that have Offended him implacably greedy of revenge and whom though reconciled unto you you ought to be jealous of With these kind of dispositions we cannot deal with too much Wariness and Circumspection Principally we must take care of our Tongues and call as it were a Counsel upon every thing we say to the end we may speak nothing Strange or Offensive nor indeed scarce at all unless we be called upon In our Respect we must rather Exceed than fall Short and altogether Abstain from Contradiction without Pressing him when he Demurs in his Counsels least his Melancholy once kindled in Choler never quench till it convert to Hatred In our Demands we must not be Importunate when we see him deny us Readily for it is not convenient to accustom the Prince to give us Repulses especially such a Prince who being by his nature prone to ill Suspicions will think that man his Enemy that he hath given a Refusal unto neither will you Easily afterward by any skill take this Apprehension out of him for with such the Memory of an Injury endures Long and measuring Others by Themselves they believe all men as Malicious and as Obstinate in their Hatred as they In short These kind of men are the Worst and most difficult of all Others and whose Temper by reason of the variety of Cloudy Thoughts that Hover in their Dark Imag●nations is most Vnequal which makes their Conversation exceeding troublesome The Phlegmatick Prince participates of the Heaviness and Slowness of the Melancholy but as in Vnderstanding so in Peevishness and Distrust is Inferior to him for his heart is as it were Congealed with Cold and hence it comes to pass that he is Diffident of none so much as of Himself Fearing to undertake great matters because he Despairs of the Success and knows not how to go about it He is Doubtful in his Counsels Fearful in Execution not of a Quick Capacity and as his Hate is not Great so his Love is not Vehement To supply the Heaviness of these Princes an Active and Ready Minister is necessary When the Prince hath once found him capable to Effect those things that himself thought Desperate discovering the weakness of his own wit he Loves Admires and Cherishes this Man as necessary unto him And that kind of Favor which leans upon the opinion of such a Necessity is of all others ●●st Durable Which our Courtier once observing let him make it his business to bring to a Prosperous Issue those Businesses that seemed most Difficult and from which the Prince expected little or no success as it was the Constant Practice of that great Minister of France Cardinal Richelieu who always kept the King Intangled in such Dangerous Vndertakings That if he would he knew not How to be without him Let our Courtier also if it can be so contrived compass these things and Execute the most material part of his Business himself alone taking heed however he do that he take not to his assistance a Helper or Companion more Habile and Dexterous than Himself Withal let him beware he be not too long absent from Court least he chance to lose the Prince who if he shall once find one more Able or Vseful than him he will be either less valued or at least be held less necessary and so being laid aside once or twice in imployments that shall succeed in Other Hands will at last fall into Contempt Wherefore it is an Old art of Courtiers not to take unto themselves any Companions but such as in Vertue and Prudence they shall much excel to the end that in comparison of these their own Lustre may so much the more Appear and that the Prince being surrounded with such as these may not easily know where to find one whom he may either Prefer or Oppose unto the Introducer of these

or misfortune rather than consent to be made the Minister of villainy I fear the number of these is very few that are so Generously resolved as by a passive disobedience to expose themselves to the sacrifice for another especially if the occasion offered and the nature of the Prince admits of no denial or excuse nor affords any way of casting that displeasing imployment upon some third person Which later course Burrhus took Nero resolving the second time upon his Mother's Murther full of so much the more care and eargerness by how much the danger of her contrived Shipwrack in the Tyber had produced no other effect than that the Woman always before malicious and greedy of revenge was after so great an injury become more enraged than ever Burrhus and Seneca being call'd to Counsel stood long ambiguous and doubtful what to say as Tacitus reports Annal. 14. saying They were both of them a long time silent fearing lest they disswade in vain At last Seneca hitherto the forwarder man cast his eye upon Burrhus as if he would have asked whether the execution of that Murther should not be left to the Soldiers Burrhus prevented him with an answer and says that the Pretorian Bands were all devoted to Caesar's house and so mindful of Germanicus that they would act nothing of cruelty against his Progeny and therefore that Anicetus should perform his promise So he freed both himself and his soldiers from the execution of that ugly act I confess he is not beholding unto you whom to save your self innocent you shall intangle in such an employment But should such an occasion happen I thing it fitter that some such man as Anicetus was should undergo the infamy of such an act than any vertuous or honest man Yet the safest way of all is in time to foresee and in their birth to prevent and occur to the unjust desires and the unlawful designs of the Prince and before they either take Root or appear above Ground to suppress and pull them up There are many who with Seasonable and Gentle Admonitions and Silken words as Parisates calls them have done much good and had wonderful success in these cases yet it is necessary that whosoever would use such Remedies as these be of Great Authority with the Prince who must hear as much out of Reverence as Love And nevertheless when all is done though it may succeed well in this or that case it will hardly do so in all I am much pleased with the way of those men who are of a Conceited and Pleasant humour and for that Faculty acceptable with the Prince who as it were intending something else with a fit Similitude or a well chosen Story will represent unto the Prince the Danger and Foulness of those Counsels wherewith he seems to be carried Headlong away But to do this there is a great Nimbleness of wit and Pleasantness of discourse required besides they must take heed the Prince smell not out that himself is the argument of the Jest As Tiberius who in the Tragedy of Atreus composed by Scaurus believed he was reproached of his Brother's murder and Domitian in that which Helvidius had writ of Paris and Cenon thought himself upbraided with his divorces Wherefore it is necessary that these kind of stories be skilfully interwoven amongst other things not Squaring or Applyable to the Prince and it is very pertinent to this purpose That they take care not to Inculcate too plainly that matter which makes most to the purpose though least it should quite escape the Prince's observation it may be as it were by a casual repetition iterated The conceit and continuance of the story by how much the greater and more chearful it is by so much the more it will imprint those things that are said and because they seem to come by Chance not of Purpose or Design they will not distast the ticklish ear of the Prince For this kind of Moderation whereby you may neither contribute to the Prince's vices nor in vain resist them there are many critical times and means which those that attend upon the persons and are imployed in the affairs of Princes cannot but meet with If so be that the Case be such that you must needs contradict the Disposition and Inclination of the Prince you must seek out some other Passion or Hamor in him whereunto he is equally inclined and so beget a Strife and Contention in the Prince's mind but we must carefully pretend still that what we say comes from the Duty and Reverence that we bear him By this means did Mutianus keep Domitian in order and hinder him from joyning with Cerealis as out of what hopes I know not he was about to do says Tacitus Hist 4. CHAP. X. The several Natures and Tempers of Princes How to be Handled with the Art of Courtiers in Introducing their Companions YEt to do these things successfully it doth much conduce that we know the Inclinations of our Princes which depend upon the Natural Temperature of their Bodies The difference and variety of which is common to them with other men except that as they are more Powerful then others so they are less Masters of their Affections and Inclinations which are for the most part more violent and more unreasonable in them than in meaner persons He in whom Choler rules is Hasty Proud and prone to Anger a lover of Ceremony and Respect a sore enemy to those that are but in the least sort Refractary impatient in Execution and rash in Resolution a contemner of all mens opinions that differ from his own very apt to commit Injuries yet soon Friends with those he hath wronged if they renew not the memory of Passed Enmities but a hater of those that rip up old Offences and to the end he may prevent such as he is afraid of watches all occasions of doing them a greater mischief Whoever hath to do with such a Prince must always have his Eyes and Ears open that he may readily understand and obey the first Beck without making any reply or delay least by Contradiction the Prince come to suspect him of Arrogance as one that would seem to think himself wiser than he let him not stick to submit himself to the lowest kind of Imployments if need be though they suit not with his condition He must be Patient of Injuries and no ways mindful of them but after a wrong so much the more officious He must not brag of his merits least he should seem to reproach the Prince with them but rather heap Services upon Services least the memory of those that are past should wear out and to the end the pleasure and gratefulness of fresh ones may Revive the Remembrance of the Old When the Prince is angry let him not come near him for all things displease him then neither are those that are dearest unto him grateful in any thing they can devise to say or do Familiarity with such Humours as these

of Turinus who scarce worse than Zotirus yet more unhappy was commanded to be stifled to death with smoke by Alexander the son of Mammea the Executioner crying out Let him Perish with smoke who Sold smoke He was wont to brag That the Prince was governed by his Advices and so by Intruding upon the Princes Retirements and with Impertinent Senceless Whispers in Publique pretending to Favour was sought unto by very many and gathered together great Riches through the Tribes and Presents of Those to whom all his Interest in the Prince could not avail a straw The Arrogance of Plancianus is also worthy of Memory which being accompanied with great Vanity broke out at last into open Perfidy His Arrogance was such That he did not stick to contend with Bassianus the Emperors Son who was Author both of his Dignity and Fortune and he was withal so Vain that as he passed through the City he would not only Interdict all Access unto him but also would not suffer them to Behold him his Ushers going before still to Clear the streets of all that they could see Becoming a Traytor at last against his Prince and convicted of his Treason he was Beheaded In France during the time of Philip le Bell Enguarrandus Marigny daring to contest personally with Charles de Valoy what Misery he did pull upon himself and his friends may be observed in the French Histories Above all things we must take heed That we give not our selves in Court to sowing of Strife between Princes and Great men for they becoming friends do for the most part Sacrifice such unto their Friendship of which though the stories of all Nations are full yet the Bavarian History furnishes us with one Example very memorable of Otho Crondoserus who flourishing with Rodulphus the Palatine in singular savour was the Author of Great Enmities between the Frince and his Mother for a time but the Mother afterwards reconcling her self unto her son Crondoferus had his Eyes and Tongue pull'd out CHAP. XXIII How we must not only Take Care to Preserve the Prince's Favour but also That of Those in Power about him IT is not enough that the Princes themselves be not Averse unto us but we must also keep our selves Aright with those that are in Favour with them Germanicus at his death gave that advice to Agrippina his Wife of which Tacitus Annal. 2 speaks thus Then turning to his Wife he intreated her by his Memory and for their Children sake which were common to them both That she would pull down her stomach and submit her Great heart to the rage of Fortune lest returning to the City she should with Emulation of her Greatness stir up against her persons more powerful than her self Agrippina's neglect of this Document Ruined her and her children I told you before how much Eumenes his favour was diminished with Alexander after that railing against Hephaestion he carried himself irreverently towards the Prince and discovered his Spleen and Envy to him that he accused Wherefore when we see any one in the Prince's favour we must carefully weigh his Authority and compare it as it were in a Balance against our own that we may know certainly which weighs down the other And in the tryal of this we are not so much to observe Outward Appearances as the circumstances of Inward Causes Craterus and Hephaestion for a time did flourish both of them in Great and Equal Favour with Alexander until Alexander himself determined the business in calling one of them The Kings friend and the other Alexander's friends Out of which decision Craterus might have made this judgment That since Princes for the most part are more in love with their Own Wills than their Authority they also are held More Dear unto them who rather adore and worship Alexander that is their Person than their Fortune and Kingly Dignity And though that afterward upon a strife that arose between Him and Hephaestion when all the Court was divided into Factions Alexander seemed to incline to neither side but chiding them both heavily threaned punishment if ever they should Harp upon that string again yet his manner of dealing with them shewed rather his Singular Prudence to be imitated by all Princes than his Equal Affection to them both He apprehended that this Discord might produce Great Tuinults and Mischief For he knew both Craterus his great interest in the Macedonians and how much Hephaestion was Envied for his favour to him Therefore to diminish Hephaestion's Envy he reprehended him publickly and to avoid giving offence to the Macedonians he Reproved Craterus in private Amongst those that in this tryal and examen of the Prince's favour between themselves and others were out of negligence and in discretion most grosly Mistaken Antonius Primus ought to have the first place who daring to contend with Mutianus learnt at last That he had better have contested with Vespasian himself And in this manner you will find it is a thing witnessed by the examples of all Courts To vindicate more sharply an injury against the Favourites than against the Prince himself Dio tells us the reason of it when he had recounted how the same thing happened to Sejanus thus As those whom vertue and consciousness of their own Deserts hath lifted up to Dignities do not much stick upon the vain Ceremonies and outward Circumstances of Honor So on the contrary side those who seek to climb by Ambition Pride and Vice thereby to hide their unworthiness and meanness do presently take ill and understand as a contempt the least neglect of Ceremony and respect towards them Insomuch that it is harder to preserve the friendship of these men than of the Prince himself for he thinks it a Glorious and Princely Act to forgive Injuries When these lest they should seem to Remit that which they cannot Revenge even to ostentation do use their Borrowed Power in persecuting those that have offended them CHAP. XXIV Pride even in the Meanest Persons at Court noted with Examples as also Treachery in Betraying the Prince's Secrets NEither truly hath it been Destruction to Great Ones only to have carried themselves Insolently and Amiss but also to Men of the Lower Stage John King of Arragon loved Alvarez de Luna so much that he Trusted him with all his Affairs and even his Kingly Power it self notwithstanding the Repining of all his Nobles But when he by reason of his prosperous Fortune fell into that Pride and Presumption That he caused a Nobleman who in the King's name admonished him of his Duty to be Precipitated and Murthered he was by the King's command beheaded It is also an ordinary cause of shipwrack in Court when any one hath rendred either himself or the Prince Hateful to the Peers or People For either the Prince is fain of his own accord to cast such a one off to Rid himself of Envy or else others never leave till they have Overthrown him During the Reign of Commodus

he hath done his Duty and all that in Prudence he ought CHAP. XXXIV How to Preserve our Favor and Office with the Succeeding Prince HE is deservedly to be remembred amongst the Darlings of Fortune whose Authority and Interest being great with one Prince continues so with his Successor It is truly a thing very Rare in Courts because He that is to Succeed is for the most part Suspected by the Present Prince and therefore they who Manage his Affairs are necessitated to be Adverse unto the Heir Apparent from whence commonly Deadly Enmities arise Besides this also the Succeeding Prince hath for the most part Servants Known and Endeared unto him by a Long Fidelity and Many Services for whose Advancement to Dignity that he may make way he will Ordinarily either of his own Accord or by the Perswasion of those that desire to Succeed lay aside the Servants of the Deceased Prince Yet there are some whom either the State of Affairs for which they are more Able and Apt than Others or some other Dexterous Quality and Taking Humor doth so Insinuate them into the succeeding Prince That one Prince Dying they lose nothing thereby but his Person Macro that he might obtain Caligula his Favor sets his own Wife Ennia upon him to Inveigle him with Love and Bind him in a Marriage The same man Commanded Tiberius to be Smothered with Clothes as he was Sick and Dying as Tacitus affirms Julian the Emperor retained Arbetio still because he thought him Useful although he hated him for his Pride and Turbulent Disposition And Valentinian after him Called the same Man unto him to Oppose against Procopius We have hitherto Handled onely such things as our Courtier who will Enjoy the Prince's Favour ought to Avoid But the sum of all Counsels that can here be given to him is A Modesty towards the Prince such as becomes a Man More Mindful of his Duty than of his Swelling Fortune let him never Boast nor do any thing Irreverently and as much as possibly he can let him Avoid Envy which hath been so Dreadful to many and those Great Men That Some of them with pretending a Love of Ease others Imbracing a Retirement to Study have showed themselves Averse to Publick Affairs Examples in both which cases the Historians give us in Domitian and Galba He must take heed he pass not over Carelesly either those Treacherous kind of Praises we spoke of before nor the Slanders that are Cast upon him They that Calumniate us do say That Either we are Wanting in some thing that is Necessary to serve the Prince Well or else That we Have Said or Done Something either Really or Intentionally to the Prejudice of Him or His Service As to the Defects Imputed unto us we must either Modestly Excuse and Justifie Our selves or else Amend them or lastly Endeavor with some other Vertues to Recompense those Wants Our Words and Actions ought to be so Moderated and Weighed That they may not be Obnoxious to Ill Interpretations we ought Always to Endeavor to Search into Other Mens Opinions and Inclinations before we Discover our Own And if either by Chance or Negligence any thing Slip from us which may possibly Offend we must when we Reflect upon it by some Respective Means or by some kind of Occasional Interpretation amongst other Discourse let them see what we spoke was not with an Intention of Offending any body If we shall once Discover that we are Calumniated by any one we ought as little as may be be Absent from the Prince to whom we are Slandered for besides that Love abates towards those that are Absent Detraction also in time takes Root if it be not Seasonably Contradicted with Truth for a Jealousie being once put into the Prince's Head in Time through the Many Suggestions of the Accuser there being no body to Gainsay takes such Footing at last That oftentimes the Prince Hates the Person Accused before he Examines the Crime He therefore that will Provide for his Safety must Make himself at Court one Friend or more to Defend him in his Absence against the Dangerous Assaults of Calumny But withal he must take Care they be Persons of Condition and Honor or at least Men of Interest and such as have Access to the Prince's Ear as Readily as our Enemies I confess the Store of such Friends in Court is but very Small where it is the Usual Custom almost amongst all if not to Persecute their Companions themselves at least to Suffer Them to be Oppressed by Others But yet it happens sometimes That there is One that either out of Gratitude for Benefits Received or With a Desire of Obliging us or else out of Hatred Towards our Accusers will Perform that Office CHAP. XXXV Ostentation of the Prince's Favor to be Avoided Something also Concerning our Friends and Followers LEt our Courtier Avoid all Ostentation of the Prince's Favor not onely to Avoid the Envy of the Rest of his Companions but also of the Prince himself For lately when the Grandees of Spain went about to Supplant Cardinal Spinosa under Philip the Second See with what a Wile they Circumvented him They all Struck Sail to him they all seemed to Acknowledge that their Fortunes Depended upon His Favor the very Domestick Servants of the King shewed themselves very Obedient and Ready at his Beck Which when the Prince observed he was removed from Court and all that power and Greatness which he had Acquired in less than Two years fell to Nothing Let therefore our Courtier learn to be Contented with a Modest Train of Attendants and with a Rate of living rather Beneath the Dignity wherewith he is honoured by the Prince than Above it which he must be sure Never to exceed It is Unseasonable to lessen your Attendants when your Fortune is Declining It availed Seneca nothing after he had lost Nero's Favor to Hide himself in his Private House and betake himself to his Studies nor to Shut out Visitants with his Pretence of Want of Health Neither did it Advantage Agricola a whit to have Entred the City by Night and with a Slender Company of Followers Wherefore it is necessary That we put on a Face of Modesty Betimes and Hold on So. Yet although I would not have our Courtier be Besieged with too Great a Throng of Friends and Servants I would not have him neglect to make Many Creatures and Followers not to serve him in his Pomp but to Support and Comfort him if any Adversity should happen For although an Adverse Fortune finds Few of these Prove Friends yet there are for the most part Some among them who will Endeavor to Shelter and Assist you if not out of Friendship yet out of Respect to their own Advantage which they may well expect from the Restauration of your Fortune CHAP. XXXVI How to Manage and Dispense the Prince's Favor Advices and Comforts in Adversity with other Rules BUt as it is a Great Content and Help in

other Documents PRinces do sometimes also bestow this Favour on Women according as they are more or less Prone to Venereal Pleasures but they also do frequently Fall from Favour if not by their own Faults yet out of the Prince's Satiety or finding out a fairer Mistress Wherefore such Women as are Crafty are wont to Divert Princes as Much as may be from all Commerce with other Women especially such as may be likely to Intangle the Prince's Mind some also by Counterfeiting Disdain and Keeping State have Preserved their Lover and lastly some more Audacious and Bold when they saw the Prince once Truly Love Them have kept him still Drunk in Lust and Drowned in Pleasure Which arts Poppaea Practised upon Nero For when she saw that he was Enamoured of her becoming Proud If she Entertained him a might or two it was all she could Afford him saying She was a Married Wife and could not Abandon her Husband Otho who for his Parts and Behaviour Exceeded Nero That in using a Bondslave for his Concubine had learned nothing from that Servile Familiarity but Baseness and Nigardice Thus Tacitus reports her Discourses Annal. 13. And soon after Annal. 14 the same Poppaea Despairing now of Marrying Nero or of seeing him Divorced from Octavia as long as Agrippina lived sometimes Tauntingly and sometimes Merrily began to Reproach the Prince calling him a Ward and Subject to others Controulment and said he was so far from the Government of the Empire That he Wanted his own Liberty Some Princes Mistresses have by this Means held their Affections Faster than by the Dallyings and Blandishments of Pleasure yet as I said before there is no Constancy in this kind of Affection to be relied upon long Truly one would think that Love which you have Gained by your services should be Stable and more Firm than what comes from Flattery or Pleasure as arising out of an Honest Cause and which being Cherished in you is apt to stir up others to Merit as well by Vertuous Vndertakings Yet experience often Teaches us that very Great Services have in Courts been the Ruine of those that have Performed them by reason that Princes are wont to Hate whom they cannot Requite They will not be Indebted to a Subject and therefore do Fly the Sight of Those that have Exceeding well Deserved of Them as if they did with their Looks Reproach them of Ingratitude which is the Reason why the Condition of such Men in Courts is much to be Pitied for when they have Obliged the Prince by any Service they are Ashamed by and by to ask a Reward least they should seem not to have Given but Sold the Benefit they did him who in the mean time as Princes are often Regardless of the Service Received and Slow to Reward Draws out day after day till the Memory of the Benefit Wears out in the Minds of those that were Privy to it whose Silent Reproaches he feared before Which some men observing have judged it fit to Strike the Iron whilst it was Hot and when they were Designed for any Business to Look to their Reward before they Vndertook the Imployment knowing well that with Princes the hope of Future Services is more Prevalent to Induce Reward than the Memory of Those that are Past and that it is Better to be Obliged to Princes than to have them Obliged to us Because they believe Whoever they have Obliged do wish well to them whilst He that they are Indebted unto because he is Believed not to Love the Prince that hath Denied him what he Pretended unto is Recompensed onely with Hate This Commines tells us was Lewis the Eleventh his Opinion The love of Princes Towards the Ministers of their Pleasure would seem to be Stable and Truly it is of some Continuance as long as the Inclinations of the Prince to Pleasure Continue but those Changing the Affections to those that Fed them Change also Sometimes likewise the Prince Inclining to the Love of Vertue doth Reject and Abominate Those that are Instruments of his Pleasures But as some of the Inclinations of Princes are more Durable than others so also is their Favour as I said of a Proportioned Continuance towards the Servants of those Several Inclinations CHAP. XXXIX Sundry Precepts Concerning the Pleasures and Inclinations of the Prince c. I Will not Touch here upon all Pleasures whereunto the Nature of the Prince is Prone because All of them are not fit or apt to have the Greatness of any mans Fortune built upon them Those Passions that are of greatest sway in Princes Minds and familiar unto them are three to wit Wanton Love Cruelty and Avarice The first as it is more Vehement than All the Rest so it is More Vncertain and Inconstant for though the Vice still remains as to the Subject yet it keeps not Fixed still upon the Same Object nevertheless many have used this as a Foundation whereupon to Build their Fortunes not sticking to Prostitute their Wives so they might gain the Favour of the Prince as we Read in Tacitus that Otho did although it sell not out well with him for Nero removed him from Court least he should have a Rival there Others that they might Bind their Princes unto Them made themselves Witnesses and Companions of their Wickedness and Lusts by the Example of Tigellinus These Men do not think that Princes have a Trick to Free themselves of Publique Blame and Envy to sacrifice oftentimes such kind of men unto it And all those Servants of their Lusts are to Expect the same fortune as hapned to Remirus de Orco the Minister of Caesar Borgia his Cruelties whom at last Borgia caused to be Murthered as Guilty of All the Ill that he had done And from the Example of this Remirus we may also Read their Destiny who serve the Prince in his Cruelties for the Prince's Affection seldom endures towards them both because he doth as it were daily read his Wickedness in seeing them and also is Afraid of them whom he knows so Apt to Villainy Nero although hardned in Vice and of a Cruel Nature yet after his Mother's death Hated Anicetus as one whose face Daily Reproached him with his Mother's murther The Affections of Avarice are least of all changeable the diversity of the Object doth not vary in these as in those of Love it is not Diminished but Increases with Age and although it is as Hateful to the People as Cruelty yet it is Longer Endured because it Covers and Cloaks all Exactions under the pretence of Publick Necessity Parsimony and the Common good Therefore those that upon this score serve Princes may long preserve themselves in their Favour whilst which is rare in these kind of men they do not become Froward and Peevish nor too much intend Enriching Themselves Frowardness which for the most part is likewise Contumelious begets Hatred both to the Prince and to it self The author of which the Prince will at last cast