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<P>THE EPISTLES OF PHALARIS, THE TYRANT of <HI>Agrigentum</HI> in SICILY.</P>
<P>Tran&s;lated into Engli&s;h by <HI>W. D.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON. Printed by RICHARD BADGER, for GEORGE LATHAM, dwel|ling at the &s;igne of the Bi&s;hops|head in <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard. 1634.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, IOHN Lord <HI>Mordant,</HI> Earle of Peterborough.</HEAD>
<P>_THis little Volume falling into my hands, and finding therein &s;o much ancient cou|rage, liberalitie, and mag|nificence; and <HI>Phalaris</HI> re|pre&s;ented in another &s;hape,
<PB REF="3">than that, which is given by &s;uch Hi&s;torians as have writ|ten of him; who (either &s;wayed with the univer&s;all hatred, wherwith all men (almo&s;t) in tho&s;e times were po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed a|gain&s;t &s;uch as &s;ubdued a po|pular Government under the command of one man) painted him for one of the mo&s;t cruell and bloudie Tyrants of the world; Or the age wherein he lived, being of &s;uch antiqui|tie, that few write with truth or certainty his actions, which
<PB REF="3">were many and variable, yet ob&s;cured by the iniquitie of time, hath appeared unto my fancie, as an ancient Statue found by chance in &s;ome rui|ned place of old <HI>Rome;</HI> which although it bee defective by lo&s;&s;e, or breach of &s;ome part or member, yet there appeareth in it &s;uch a lively expre&s;sion of &s;hape, &s;trength, or counte|nance; that it is e&s;teemed in a farre higher degree, than the most curious peece of the most excellent worke-man of this
<PB REF="4">time. And although the&s;e are in a plaine &s;tile, &s;avouring of antiquitie; yet doe they &s;o far &s;et forth the condition of the man; that I think no Hi&s;tori|an, unle&s;&s;e inwardly conver|&s;ant, could &s;o lively character him, as the many expre&s;sions herein, of his high magnifi|cence, fidelity, and other roy|all vertues: Amongst which, if any cur&s;tne&s;&s;e or rather cru|elty of nature appear; it &s;erves to confirme as a truth: <HI>That attempts again&s;t the per|&s;on
<PB REF="4">of a Prince, for the mo&s;t part doe change his nature (though good with the be&s;t of men) into &s;u&s;pi|tions, and cruelties, and never or &s;eldome faile to ruine the attempters.</HI> From hence my de&s;ire hath rai&s;ed my boldne&s;&s;e; with the be&s;t of my endevours, by conference with my great Ma&s;ters in the Ori|ginall (for I confe&s;&s;e my ab|&s;olute ignorance therein,) and by comparing of Tran&s;|lations in three &s;everall Lan|guages,
<PB REF="5">to render them in our Engli&s;h tongue, as neere as I can in their ancient and na|turall plainene&s;&s;e, without the poli&s;hing of the&s;e times; and to expo&s;e it to a publike view, under your Lord&s;hips patro|nage; to whom for your noble favours, freely, aptly, and lo|vingly done, I doe acknow|ledge my &s;elfe uncapable of o|ther repayment: And doe therefore intreat you, my Lord, to accept thereof, as a pledge, that nothing but a
<PB REF="5">hard winter, hath diverted into unknowne paths my feet (though never the eye of my affection) from waiting upon your &s;ervice. And the better to a&s;&s;ure your Honour therof; If J may perceive, that this manuel findeth grace in your eyes; I &s;hall be bold, with all convenient &s;peed, to offer to your hands a peece of an|other nature, not yet fini&s;hed, through the con&s;traint of ma|lignant interruption; But if otherwayes, I will give &s;top
<PB REF="6">both to the birth and life thereof; The giving you con|tentment in any thing I un|dertake in this kinde, being the principall end of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble and mo&s;t devoted &s;ervant, <HI>W. D.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE EPISTLES OF PHALARIS the <HI>Tyrant,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>I. <HI>Phalaris</HI> to <HI>Alcibes.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>_POlycletes</HI> of <HI>Me&s;si|na,</HI> whom thou ha&s;t fal&s;ly accu&s;ed of Trea&s;on to thy fellow Citizens, hath delivered mee from a di&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;e, thought incurable. I know this newes will cau&s;e in thee a
<PB N="2" REF="7">mo&s;t extreame griefe; from whence I conclude, that neither <HI>Ae&s;culapius,</HI> the Prince of Phy|&s;itians, nor all the other gods, can ever cure thee: for al|though, Art may finde a reme|dy unto the infirmity of the body; Yet the malice of the minde is not to bee cured, but by death; which &s;hall be grie|vous and cruell unto thee, for tho&s;e great wickedne&s;&s;es, which thou ha&s;t committed mo&s;t wil|fully, and not by <HI>con&s;traint, as I doe mine.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>II. To the <HI>Megarians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe not complaine, that like ungratefull per&s;ons; In the difference which was be|tweene me and my neighbours about bounds, you te&s;tified fal&s;|ly:
<PB N="3" REF="7">But I accu&s;e my ignorance; that having received many in|juries from you, I was &s;o foo|li&s;h, as alwayes to &s;hew you good will and liberality, though I found you &s;till forgetfull of good turnes.</P>
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<HEAD>III. To <HI>Thir&s;enes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF it bee mo&s;t a&s;&s;ured, that tho&s;e, who con&s;trained by nece&s;&s;itie, commit wicked Acts again&s;t rea&s;on and their duty, mu&s;t expect grievous puni&s;h|ment; as thou did&s;t main|taine before the coun&s;ell of <HI>Ege&s;tines</HI> when thou did&s;t a&s;|cribe my acts unto the divine providence; What ought&s;t thou to hope for, who volunta|rily and out of precogitated malice, give&s;t thy &s;elfe to all ini|quities?</P>
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<PB N="4" REF="8">
<HEAD>IV. To <HI>Licinius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF I had beene pre&s;ent, to have an&s;wered thee, when in the a&s;&s;embly of the <HI>Leontines,</HI> thou demanded&s;t, what I was, from whence I came, and who were my Parents? Thou would&s;t not have committed &s;o much folly as thou did&s;t: For as I am knowne to be <HI>Phalaris,</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Laodamantus,</HI> borne in <HI>A&s;tipale&s;us,</HI> bani&s;hed from my Country, a Tyrant in <HI>Agri|gentum,</HI> expert in many things, and unto this in&s;tant of an un|vincible courage: So cleane contrary, I know <HI>Licinius</HI> to be la&s;civious with children, a bug|gerer with young men, an adul|terer with women, ra&s;h in judgement, incontinent in his
<PB N="5" REF="8">plea&s;ures: a &s;luggard in Peace, and a cowardly runne-away in warre. To conclude, thou art he, who for thy fooli&s;h prating of me, and for the wickedne&s;&s;es and ba&s;ene&s;&s;e whereof I doe reprehend thee, &s;halt bee puni|&s;hed by mee, if not &s;uddainely, yet at the length, when the <HI>Le|ontines</HI> wearied with the warre, which I &s;hall make upon them, deliver thee a pri&s;oner into my hands.</P>
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<HEAD>V. To the <HI>Leontines.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF you de&s;ire the warre, which I make upon you, &s;hould bee forborne, and that you &s;hould have no more feare, give me <HI>Li|cinius,</HI> that powring upon him all my wrath, I may lay by the di&s;plea&s;ure which I have con|ceaved
<PB N="6" REF="9">again&s;t your Citie, and bee you a&s;&s;ured, I will inflict no greater puni&s;hment, than I know all of you de&s;ire &s;hould light upon him.</P>
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<HEAD>VI. To <HI>Zeu&s;ibus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALthough thou and thy Son have committed faults which de&s;erve no pardon, yet I pardon thee for thy Age, and him for his youth; But if here|after, you correct not your ra&s;h arrogance, nor thou for thy Age, nor hee for his Youth &s;hall bee &s;pared; but for the &s;ame cau&s;e that now I thinke you worthy of pardon, &s;hall you then bee grievou&s;ly puni|&s;hed.</P>
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<HEAD>VII. To <HI>Eveno.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AT the fir&s;t I concluded to put thy &s;onne (whom I have pri&s;oner) to death, and thereby to puni&s;h the injuries which hee did unto the Cap|taines of my army; but &s;ithence I am minded to let him live, for I had rather the wickedne&s;&s;e of his life &s;hould bee a continuall hell unto thee, than that his death &s;hould bring thee to thy grave.</P>
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<HEAD>VIII. To <HI>Sameas.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BEcau&s;e I know the good|ne&s;&s;e of thy manners, the &s;weetne&s;&s;e of thy nature, and thy great humanity towards all men, and how compa&s;&s;ionately
<PB N="8" REF="10">and courteou&s;ly, thou doe&s;t e&s;teeme thy neighbours felicity to be thy owne proper misfor|tune, and griefe; I doe briefly &s;end thee word, that I have ob|tained the victory both by Sea, and Land, and finally vanqui|&s;hed the hor&s;e. And I doe it, that by this newes thou may&s;t have perpetuall griefe. For it is very fitting, that a man of thy benigne and loving nature, &s;hold be tormented with paines agreeable to thy malicious di&s;|po&s;ition.</P>
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<HEAD>IX. To <HI>Cleo&s;tratus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT &s;eemes unto mee ridicu|lous, that any man &s;hould be|come better by thy remon&s;tran|ces: for he that would cha&s;ti&s;e another, &s;hould be free from all
<PB N="9" REF="10">vice him&s;elf; yet although thou <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rt tainted with the &s;ame wick|edne&s;&s;e, which thou reprehen|de&s;t in another, and with ma|ny more, yet blame&s;t them no other wayes, then as if thou wert without fault.</P>
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<HEAD>X. To <HI>Lacrites.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALthough thou doe&s;t appre|hend the death of thy Son with great &s;orrow, and inelan|choly, yet art thou to bee excu|&s;ed; for in good faith, I have &s;o great a feeling of it, that if I were of thy family, I could not bee more truely grieved; although I am naturally firme again&s;t &s;uch accidents, well knowing that beyond mea&s;ure to bee troubled with griefe, bringeth many inconve|niences
<PB N="10" REF="11">and lo&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es. Let it there|fore bee a comfort unto thee in thy adver&s;ity, that hee died in battayle, fighting valiantly for his Country; and that together with victory, his de&s;tiny gave him an honourable end: &s;o that having lived without blemi&s;h, his death &s;erved for a marke of his vertue. Neither is it cer|taine, that hee, which is now an hone&s;t man, may not be altered with time; wee often &s;eeing, that fortune is victorious, over the coun&s;ells and re&s;olutions of men. From whence I con|clude, that hee who departeth this world without blame, ought to bee placed among&s;t tho&s;e of highe&s;t prai&s;e. Per|&s;wade thy &s;elfe then, that hee hath repaied thee with grate|fulne&s;&s;e, for thy begetting and
<PB N="11" REF="11">nouri&s;hing him: and that thou &s;halt much more augment it, if with temperance and a firme re|&s;olution thou doe&s;t patiently beare the &s;orrow, which thou conceave&s;t by his lo&s;&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>XI. To <HI>Megacles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I have &s;ent thee hor&s;es fit for the Warre, with comman|dement to <HI>Teucreus,</HI> that hee &s;hould furni&s;h thee with mony. Feare not to let me know what it is thou ha&s;t neede of: For thou can&s;t not aske mee the thing (how great &s;oever) which I will not mo&s;t willingly &s;end thee.</P>
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<HEAD>XII. To <HI>Aglas.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe trea&s;ures which GOD hath given mee, again&s;t all changes of fortune, I have not laid them in the bowels of the earth, (as thou did&s;t advi&s;e me) but in the bo&s;ome of my friends, who have not di&s;dained my pre&s;ents, as thou ha&s;t done; who hitherto ha&s;t &s;hewed thy &s;elfe &s;o un-courteous unto me, that if I were put from my principallity, I could not ex|pect helpe from thy friend&s;hip; I therefore pray thee, hence|forth, refu&s;e them no more, but accept the pre&s;ent, which I &s;end thee; If not as thy owne, yet as depo&s;ited, and to keepe it for me: herein thou &s;halt doe the part of a friend; other|wayes
<PB N="13" REF="12">it is not po&s;&s;ible for mee to be a&s;&s;ured in any part of the world, leaving behinde mee, more un&s;table then the du&s;t, the be&s;t of my friends; who if they pro&s;per, though I bee other|wayes afflicted, yet would I ac|count my &s;elfe no le&s;&s;e happy.</P>
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<HEAD>XIII. To <HI>Emuellus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SEeing it is not unju&s;t, for a man to revenge him&s;elfe of one who hath injured him, thou who ha&s;t fir&s;t injured mee, ex|pect the like from me.</P>
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<HEAD>XIIII. To <HI>Erodicus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HEE that is injured doth &s;eldome threaten revenge, becau&s;e the offendor may not be in Iealou&s;y, and con&s;equent|ly
<PB N="14" REF="13">upon his guard. But I thinke it not the part of a valiant man to a&s;&s;ayle another unawares: for which cau&s;e, I give thee warning, that having injured mee, thou take&s;t heed of my revenge, which will fall upon thee; and I doe it the rather, that thou maye&s;t have double puni&s;hment; fir&s;t the feare of the puni&s;hment, then the torment it &s;elfe.</P>
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<HEAD>XV. To <HI>Ariphetus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THy actions are commen|dable, and worthy of re|compence which I have &s;ent thee, and will &s;end thee grea|ter. But I pray thee forbeare inquiring of my affaires; for it is be&s;t for me, to have them kept &s;ecret.</P>
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<PB N="15" REF="13">
<HEAD>XVI. To <HI>Amphionomus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVHen I &s;end pre&s;ents un|to hone&s;t men, I doe not thinke that I doe them a fa|vour; but rather, that they doe mee a plea&s;ure in receaving them. Wherefore, in that thou ha&s;t vouch&s;afed to accept of what I &s;ent thee, I doe not think I have bin gracious to thee, but that thou ha&s;t done me a &s;ingu|lar plea&s;ure.</P>
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<HEAD>XVII. To <HI>Erithea</HI> his Wife.</HEAD>
<P>I know well (my Love) that I am obliged unto thee, both for my &s;elfe and our Sonne, whom I have left with thee; for my &s;elfe, in that I being ba|ni&s;hed from my Country, thou
<PB N="16" REF="14">had&s;t rather continue a wid|dow than marry againe, al|though thou wert &s;ued unto by many. For my Sonne, in that thou art his Father his Mother and his Nur&s;e; Neither ha&s;t thou taken any other Husband than <HI>Phalaris,</HI> nor willing to have any other Sonne but <HI>Pau|rolas,</HI> contenting thy &s;elfe with thy fir&s;t husband in &s;tead of a &s;econd, and in&s;tead of another Son, ha&s;t rather taken care to bring up him, which was be|gotten by me: Per&s;evere then, and perfect that loving worke, which thou ha&s;t freely begun, both for the father and the Son, untill hee may neither neede fa|ther nor mother. I &s;peake this out of great affection; not that I di&s;tru&s;t the mother, or that I doe not know her mo&s;t &s;ingu|larly
<PB N="17" REF="14">care full of him, but as a father who having but one Son, is in great care for him, as in truth I am; If then by this my affection, thou doe&s;t con&s;ider the Fathers heart unto his Son, thou wilt excu&s;e mee for wri|ting unto thee of him with &s;o much tender pa&s;&s;ion. Fare|well.</P>
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<HEAD>XVIII. To <HI>Paurolas</HI> the <HI>Sonne.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SOnne, thou oughte&s;t truly to love thy Father and thy Mo|ther, and beare great reverence unto them; for it is both hone&s;t and ju&s;t, that the child &s;hould remember tho&s;e who have be|gotten and borne him, and who have done him &s;o many fa|vours. Yet if thou wert con|&s;trained
<PB N="18" REF="15">to quite thy filiall duty unto one of the twaine, it were fitter thou &s;houlde&s;t for&s;ake thy Father than thy Mother; for in bringing forth, and breeding children, the fathers paine, and trouble is not comparable unto the Mothers, who, in concea|ving, bringing forth, and nou|ri&s;hing them unto a competent age, doe undergoe infinite &s;ick|ne&s;&s;es, travels and labours. And when the child is brought up, the Father, who hath taken lit|tle or no care for him, hopes to receave no le&s;&s;e fruit thereof than the mother. Now in thy ca&s;e, in regard of my bani&s;h|ment, thy mother hath &s;uffered more for thee then mo&s;t wo|men have done for their chil|dren: For &s;hee alone hath un|dergone all the care which wee
<PB N="19" REF="15">both ought to have done. Ren|der then unto her alone all tho&s;e duties wherein thou art obliged to us both, &s;ince &s;he alone hath hath had all the vexation. And by &s;hewing dutifull love unto her, thou &s;halt di&s;charge what|&s;oever thou owe&s;t to me: nei|ther will I, in re&s;pect of my &s;elfe, require any more from thee, but rather freely confe&s;&s;e, that I have receaved many pi|ous offices from thee, for it is rea&s;onable, if thou doe&s;t ac|knowledge &s;o many benefits from thy mother, that thou &s;houlde&s;t have great thankes of thy father.</P>
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<DIV2 N="19" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XIX. To the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>ALL that a Father can rea|&s;onably doe for his Son, I
<PB N="20" REF="16">have done for thee <HI>Paurolas;</HI> If thou, in like manner, do&s;t not render unto thy father the duty wherein thou art bounde, thou committe&s;t a great fault. I write this, becau&s;e thou make&s;t little account of good learning, for which I have often reprehen|ded thee. If now thou any more de&s;pi&s;e&s;t it, I will never hereafter reque&s;t any thing at thy hands; for mo&s;t a&s;&s;uredly know, that if thou doe&s;t mee this plea&s;ure, the great profit which will ari&s;e thereby, will not accrew to him, who makes the reque&s;t, but to him who &s;hall yeeld unto it.</P>
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<DIV2 N="20" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XX. To <HI>Erithea.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF thou dare&s;t not &s;end <HI>Pauro|las</HI> to <HI>Agrigent,</HI> becau&s;e I
<PB N="21" REF="16">live there tyranically; I pardon thee as a woman, and a Mother, who feareth that her onely Son &s;hould be in any danger. But if thou thinke&s;t that thou alone oughte&s;t to injoy him, as if thou alone had&s;t begotten him with|out mee, thou doe&s;t not truly judge of the generative cau&s;e; for it is already decided by &s;trict rea&s;on, that the Son doth belong rather to the father than to the mother. Yet by a more benevolent re&s;pect, he is equal|ly from them both. But if thou thinke&s;t, that in &s;uffering the Sonne to remaine a little while with the father; the intere&s;t, which thou ha&s;t in him may be dimini&s;hed. Iudge with thy &s;elfe, what he may thinke, who hath not at all participated in the plea&s;ure of having him.
<PB N="22" REF="17">Make us equall partakers in him by &s;ending him to me, hee &s;hall in &s;hort time returne unto thee with all things fitting for <HI>Phala|ris</HI> and <HI>Eritheas</HI> Sonne; to the end that if not with me, yet without me, you may live toge|ther in plenty and aboundance. For what man will de&s;ire to in|rich him&s;elfe for his friends, without any care of his Wife, or Son. Truly as it becommeth a carefull and loving father, I am determined to lay out for you, a great part of the riches, and wealth which I po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e, having nothing in &s;o deare e&s;teeme as you two. And this I will doe, within &s;hort time, for many rea&s;ons, but chiefely in re&s;pect of my Age and of my late &s;ickne&s;&s;e, which maketh me &s;ay; that I am a man to be
<PB N="23" REF="17">every houre reduced to the la&s;t point of his life. Send mee then our <HI>Paurolas</HI> without de|lay; the Love of his Father being able to bring him from <HI>Candy</HI> to <HI>Agrigentum,</HI> with more &s;urety, and &s;o againe to returne him to thee, then all the feares and doubts which his mother makes, can doe.</P>
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<HEAD>XXI. To <HI>Paurolas.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have receaved the Crowne which thou ha&s;t &s;ent mee, weighing &s;ix hundred crownes of gold, and I have willingly accepted it, as well in re&s;pect of thy good fortune, as to doe ho|nour unto his liberality, from whom I received it; I onely wore it upon that day we &s;acri|ficed unto the gods of our
<PB N="24" REF="18">country, for our victory obtai|ned again&s;t the <HI>Leontines,</HI> after|wards I &s;ent it to thy mother, not knowing any per&s;on more worthy of &s;o precious a gift. But this would bee a Crowne more beautifull and more ho|nourable unto us to &s;ee thee exerci&s;e thy &s;elfe in things worthy the de&s;ire of thy Pa|rents.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="22" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXII. To <HI>Him.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVHen I was in <HI>Hymera,</HI> about &s;ome nece&s;&s;ary occa&s;ions, <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> his daugh|ters &s;ung &s;ome poe&s;ies unto me; &s;ome of them made by their Father, the re&s;t by the little maides. It is true, that their ver&s;es ought to give place to their fathers: But if theirs had
<PB N="25" REF="18">bin compared with any of the other <HI>Poets,</HI> they would have appeared much more elegant. For this cau&s;e I think him hap|py, having taught them &s;o well, and them more happy, con&s;ide|ring their tender youth, to have attained unto &s;o great learning beyond the cour&s;e of nature; And thou <HI>Paurolas</HI> exerci&s;e&s;t thy body in armes, in hunting, and in other labours, leaving thy mind, (which principally thou oughte&s;t to exerci&s;e) un|tilled and un&s;eeded with <HI>Greeke,</HI> or other good learning. It is true that care mu&s;t bee had of the body, both for health, and to fortify the members, al|though it bee not exerci&s;ed in combating in the publike and &s;acred agonall &s;ports: But he which &s;tudieth to live in cheefe
<PB N="26" REF="19">dignity of a Common-wealth, mu&s;t diligently indeavour to furni&s;h his minde with good manners. It may be thou de&s;i|re&s;t to make thy &s;elfe a Ty|rant, as ju&s;tly due unto thee; and for this cau&s;e thou nouri&s;he&s;t the &s;trength of thy body, be|leeving, that the forces of the body are nece&s;&s;ary to maintaine a principality. If this bee thy opinion; I de&s;ire rather thou woulde&s;t bee wi&s;e, and take ad|vice, from him who repenteth that ever he was a Tyrant, and continueth this life by con|&s;traint and not willingly. For he who hath tryed what it is to bee a Tyrant, had rather bee a Tyrants &s;ubject, then one him|&s;elfe, being &s;o freed from all in|conveniency but the feare of the Tyrant, whereas a Tyrant is
<PB N="27" REF="19">not alone in feare of tho&s;e who being a farre of, lay wait for him, but his greate&s;t mi&s;ery is, that he is in continuall feare of tho&s;e who have the guard of his body. For this cau&s;e I pray thee, taking my coun&s;ell, &s;hew thy &s;elfe ju&s;t and courteous to all, and leave the de&s;ire of a kingdome (full of continuall feares and dangers unto thy enemies and their children. Yet, if out of thy &s;mall expe|rience, and out of thy youth, thou per&s;wade&s;t thy &s;elfe, that a Tyranny is a plea&s;ant and glo|rious thing and not a wretched fortune, thou doe&s;t abu&s;e thy &s;elfe out of ignorance. Pray therefore the gods, that thou never prove this e&s;tate.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="23" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="28" REF="20">
<HEAD>XXIII. To the <HI>Cama|rians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have &s;ent unto the <HI>Gellians,</HI> and unto the <HI>Leontines,</HI> and doe thinke good to write unto you, that you would a&s;&s;emble not armes, hor&s;es nor men, whereof you &s;ay your Citie is unfurni&s;hed, but good &s;tore of money. So &s;oone as the <HI>Le|ontines</HI> had receaved my me&s;|&s;age they &s;ent mee five Ta|lents, and the <HI>Gellians</HI> have pro|mi&s;ed mee tenne. And I may in rea&s;on thinke, that you will not bee &s;lower than the <HI>Leon|tines,</HI> nor le&s;&s;e liberall than the <HI>Gellians.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="24" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="29" REF="20">
<HEAD>XXIV. To the <HI>Leon|tines.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>LEonidas</HI> whom you &s;ent as a &s;py, hath beene by me ap|prehended, and being in my power to put him to death; I have delivered him, and &s;ent him unto you, that you may be no longer in trouble to know, what preparations. I have to|wards the Warre, which I in|tend to make upon you; For he in like manner did freely and without con&s;traint declare your whole enterpri&s;e: telling mee that you were poore in all things, but of feare and famine; In which two, he hath by oath a&s;&s;ured me, you abound.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="25" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="30" REF="21">
<HEAD>XXV. To <HI>Iero&s;me.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou demande&s;t, how I can hope to vanqui&s;h the <HI>Leon|tines,</HI> who have committed ma|ny un&s;ufferable in&s;olencies in the land, which they have taken from mee. I will not tell thee, that I have a Iu&s;ter cau&s;e than they, and that I am not the be|ginner of the Warre, but a de|fender of my &s;elfe: for the&s;e are not rea&s;ons which doe at any time prevaile with thee: But I will boldly &s;ay (although you <HI>Leontines</HI> make little account thereof;) I am a&s;&s;ured to van|qui&s;h you, by force of armes, by &s;trength and valiant men, with money, Shippes, and Hor&s;es: whereof you are in want; yet fight again&s;t an ene|my
<PB N="31" REF="21">who in all the&s;e things, as al&s;o in good fortune is, mo&s;t rich.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="26" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXVI. To <HI>Nico|phemes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou &s;ayed&s;t in the coun&s;ell of the <HI>Leontines,</HI> tho&s;e whom I put to death &s;uffered mi&s;erable torment; and that I puni&s;hed them onely becau&s;e they were on the contrary &s;ide. But thou doe&s;t not ob&s;erve, that the example of their mi&s;erable death maketh the <HI>Leontines</HI> more &s;low to undertake the Warre, which thou by all meanes doe&s;t labour to have them make; telling them, that to offer an injury again&s;t &s;uch an effeminat enemy as I am, is alone &s;ufficient to obtaine the victory.
<PB N="32" REF="22">Surely it cannot bee, that hee &s;hould be hated for his cruelty, who is taxed for his over much delicacy; yet if thy talkative|ne&s;&s;e bringeth thy de&s;ire to ef|fect, know that I doe not envy thee; neither will I di&s;&s;wade thee from making the greate&s;t re&s;i&s;tance thou can&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXVII. To <HI>Tymo|natus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have conquered the <HI>Leon|tines</HI> in Warre: But that thou maye&s;t bee able to &s;upport the griefe, and not kill thy &s;elfe at an in&s;tant by hearing a relation at once of the whole &s;ucce&s;&s;e, I was not willing to adverti&s;e thee of all that happened, nor how in the end I vanqui&s;hed the <HI>Tauromenitans,</HI> and the <HI>Tan|cleans,</HI>
<PB N="33" REF="22">who were their confede|rates: neither was I willing to let thee know that I delivered all the pri&s;oners, having recea|ved for them a hundred talents. Fearing lea&s;t, if I &s;hould adver|ti&s;e thee of all my happy &s;uc|ce&s;&s;es, thou &s;houlde&s;t dye out of griefe, and I thereby, accoun|ted cau&s;ele&s;ly the Author of thy death.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="28" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXVII. To <HI>Pytha|goras.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT &s;eemes that <HI>Phalaris</HI> his ty|ranny, is utterly oppo&s;ite un|to <HI>Pythagoras</HI> his philo&s;ophy: yet if experience were had; no|thing could keepe us from pro|ving our &s;elves: for continuall frequenting together may bring into the &s;ame &s;tate things,
<PB N="34" REF="23">which doe much differ. That which I have heard of thy acts, makes mee beleeve thou art a good man; neither would I have thee pa&s;&s;e thy &s;entence a|gain&s;t me without tryall. And the fal&s;e opinion which men have conceaved again&s;t mee, doth &s;o much wound me; that I cannot with &s;uerty goe to thee, being accu&s;ed of tyranny: For if I goe di&s;armed and with|out my guard, I may ea&s;ily bee taken; and if with great mul|titude, &s;u&s;pition will bee had of me. But thou being free from all danger, mai&s;t come without feare and prove me; then if thou doe&s;t con&s;ider me as a Tyrant, thou &s;halt finde me rather a pri|vate man, and if thou doe&s;t be|hold me as a private man, thou wilt know that I hold &s;ome|thing
<PB N="35" REF="23">of a Tyrant, although by con&s;trainte; for it is impo&s;&s;ible to pre&s;erve &s;uch an e&s;tate with|out cruelty. Now if good|ne&s;&s;e can bee in &s;urety with Ty|ranny, I de&s;ire for many rea|&s;ons to bee with thee; for be|ing under thy guiding (if truth, together with <HI>Pythagoras</HI> his opinion, to whom I will give faith, doe promi&s;e me &s;afety) I will indeavour to walke in a more delightfull way then I have done.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="29" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXIX. To <HI>Torax.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe not know, whether I &s;hould accu&s;e my &s;elfe, for writing ob&s;curely unto thee, or thee, who out of malice wilt not under&s;tand me: yet know thus much that by our account
<PB N="36" REF="24">thou art indebted unto mee twenty thou&s;and frankes. If thou art willing to have it told more cleerely; Stay but a while, and I will &s;hew it unto thee: in another manner then willingly thou would&s;t know.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="30" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXX. To <HI>Ari|phades.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe ignorance, and ra&s;h|ne&s;&s;e of youth, hath ruined an infinite number of men; now I defire thou &s;houlde&s;t know, that thy Son is violently po&s;&s;e&s;t with the&s;e two evills. And although through them he hath done mee many and great injuries; yet I have with-held my revenge, not out of any love to him, but to doe thee a plea&s;ure; many having a&s;&s;ured
<PB N="37" REF="24">me of thy incredible goodne&s;&s;e; wherefore I could never con|&s;ent, that the Sonnes malice &s;hould bring &s;orrow and heavy trouble to the innocent age of the Father. It being to be pre|&s;umed, that thou having but one Sonne, how wicked &s;o ever hee bee, can&s;t not forbeare to love him; I al&s;o con&s;ider, that his death, will determine thy &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, and that the love un|to a father ought to &s;urmounte the &s;onnes malice. Yet if here|after hee doe not forbeare his ra&s;h in&s;olences, obeying thy commands and my remon|&s;trances; let him be a&s;&s;ured to receave puni&s;hment for his re|bellion again&s;t us both; and be|cau&s;e he &s;hall not pretend igno|rance herein, when he &s;hall bee taken in fault, heaping offence
<PB N="38" REF="25">upon offence, I doe let thee know, that what I write un|to thee, I have &s;ent unto him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="31" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXXI. To <HI>Nice|netes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT may bee thou per&s;wade&s;t thy &s;elfe, that what I have written to thy father, to divert thee from committing &s;uch fol|lyes, hath beene out of feare of thee; If there were no other cau&s;e, there would be no occa&s;i|on for my writing now; but I heare thy father is a mode&s;t hone&s;t man; and that he hath no other Sonne but thy &s;elfe, which hath moved me to com|pa&s;&s;ion: So that pardoning thee, who&s;e ignorant youth is too too ra&s;h, I have beene hi|therto patient. Yet thou art
<PB N="39" REF="25">without pitty or care of thy fa|ther, who having attained unto an Old age, is now in danger for his Sonne. And be&s;ides thou without any providence continue&s;t in thy ra&s;hne&s;&s;e. It may be this happeneth becau&s;e thou ha&s;t not beene cha&s;tened by me; or that thou thinke&s;t to be able to retire thy &s;elfe at thy plea&s;ure, which many more mighty then thou art, have not beene able to doe. What&s;oever it bee, which hath moved thee heretofore; choice being given, now take the mo&s;t profitable, and have a care thou doe&s;t not imitate <HI>Timander,</HI> but follow rather the coun&s;ell of a profi|table enemy; then of a perni|tious friend.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="32" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="40" REF="26">
<HEAD>XXXII. To <HI>Anti|magnus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF thou can&s;t pay mee that which thou ha&s;t borrowed and doe&s;t it not, thou art wil|fully wicked; but if thou ha&s;t not wherewith to pay, yet thou doe&s;t mee wrong. And becau&s;e a fault committed again&s;t ones will, is worthy of pardon in their mindes, who doe iudge with humanity; know that the pardon which I give thee, is on|ly to prolong the payment, not that I de&s;paire of recovering what I have lent.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="33" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="41" REF="26">
<HEAD>XXXIII. To <HI>Ari&s;to|menes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALthough thy compa&s;&s;ion and love bee mo&s;t plea&s;ing unto me, yet I intreate thee not to be troubled or grieved at my wounds; for &s;o farre am I from apprehending them (although they were almo&s;t to death,) that again&s;t the opinion of the vulgar, unto whom death is odious and terrible, I would rather die in Warre, and ha&s;ten my end appointed by the good gods; then that they &s;hould grant me longer life than ordi|nary. For what can bee more acceptable to a noble man than to lo&s;e his life in fighting for vertue and victory.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="34" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="42" REF="27">
<HEAD>XXXIIII. To <HI>Xeno|pithes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe vile and &s;landerous opi|nions, which are held of me doe not trouble me; becau&s;e if I doe evill I am con&s;trained thereunto by nece&s;&s;ity, which admitteth of no law; where|as others commit wickedne&s;&s;e naturally. Wee differ al&s;o, in that I being a Tyrant, con|fe&s;&s;e my fault having power and liberty; whereas you, of a private condition, dare not con|fe&s;&s;e what you doe, fearing the rigor of the Law.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="35" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXXV. To the <HI>Cataneans.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHen &s;ome of your Ci|tizens were brought
<PB N="43" REF="27">pri&s;oners unto mee, and not one of a hundred hoping of life; I delivered them, becau&s;e I &s;aw you carele&s;&s;e of them: not that I would have you thinke, I have forgotten my hatred towards you, (for I &s;hould want of my wit; if my revenge &s;hould bee le&s;&s;e than my anger) but to the end, that when you &s;hall have &s;uffered &s;ufficiently, de&s;erved puni&s;hment, the greatne&s;&s;e of your mi&s;ery may bring to your memory, the evills which you have committed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="36" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXXVI. To the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>YOu (it may bee) thinke you have &s;uffered too much, for tho&s;e injuries, which you did unto me and mine, becau&s;e that
<PB N="44" REF="28">for thirtie of my men which you have cruelly burned, you have lo&s;t five hundred men at armes, and in &s;tead of &s;eaven ta|lents which you &s;tole from me, you are deprived of great rich|es by my meanes: But I would have you know; that what you have hitherto &s;uffered, is but a beginning to what you &s;hall &s;uf|fer. So that you &s;hall bee a&s;ha|med to confe&s;&s;e, the harmes which you have receaved through my meanes, ayde, and &s;uccour. Neither then, &s;o long as that providence, which go|verneth the world, &s;hall main|taine it in the harmony wherein it is, will I leave the hatred, which I beare you. Neither &s;hall the Warre, which I &s;hall make again&s;t you, be to vindi|cate my &s;elfe, but the gods al&s;o,
<PB N="45" REF="28">who have power to maintaine and ruine all things. For as all the other elements doe partici|pate of the fatall divinity, &s;o al|&s;o doth the fire of <HI>Aetna:</HI> Into which mo&s;t iniquu&s;ly ca&s;ting my innocent men, you have not onely made <HI>Phalaris</HI> your ene|my, but the Sun al&s;o who &s;eeth all things.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="37" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXXVII. To <HI>Chrito|phemes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou, and all tho&s;e, who ex|ce&s;&s;ively prai&s;e me, witne&s;|&s;ing my force, and per&s;wading your &s;elves that the <HI>Leontines</HI> have beene conquered by my coun&s;ell and labour, doe the part of good friends; becau&s;e honour is a &s;purre unto vertue. And I may boldly affirme I
<PB N="46" REF="29">have not beene wanting in any thing required in &s;o great a worke: yet the de&s;ired victory proceedeth from the hand of fortune: for there is nothing, how great or &s;mall &s;oever in all humane acts, which is not confirmed by her ayde and fa|vour.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="38" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXXVIII. To <HI>Po|lygnotes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Will henceforward for|beare, either writing or offe|ring any thing unto thee, to the end, thou mai&s;t leave tho&s;e prai&s;es, with which thou doe&s;t indeavour to honour mee a|mong&s;t men. For in effect thou doe&s;t blame me, in refu&s;ing my pre&s;ents, and value&s;t me only in words. Knowe&s;t not thou that
<PB N="47" REF="29"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">mong&s;t men of wi&s;edome, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ords are but e&s;teemed the &s;ha|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ow of the thing?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="39" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XXXIX. To <HI>Axi|ognes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is not ami&s;&s;e to glorifie ones &s;elfe of his Nobility, as of any other good; yet I know no other Nobility than ver|tue. All other things hold of fortune: And in truth he who is a vertuous man, although hee be de&s;cended of ba&s;e Parents, is more noble, then hee who is a King, or then all others. So contrary, he who is de&s;cended of a mo&s;t antient &s;tocke and of mo&s;t high lineage, and a vitious per&s;on, is more ignoble than any other, who is vertuous, in how ba&s;e or low a degree &s;oever hee
<PB N="48" REF="30">live. For this cau&s;e, among&s;t the <HI>Siracu&s;ans</HI> doe thou commend the vertue of the mind, and not the nobility of the dead, which is lo&s;t by ignoble &s;ucce&s;&s;ors.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="40" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XL. To <HI>Demoteles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Excu&s;e the remon&s;trances which thou ha&s;t made unto mee, in that thou having never beene a Tyrant per&s;wade&s;t mee to leave my Tyranny, without fortifying thy rea&s;ons with the authority of &s;ome god, to whom I might rather have gi|ven credit than unto thee; who would&s;t be accounted the onely wi&s;e and a&s;&s;ured coun&s;ellor in a matter of &s;o great importance: yet doe&s;t not know that in the giving over &s;uch a principality, there is more danger than in the
<PB N="49" REF="30">acquiring thereof; for as unto a private man, it is better not to become a <HI>Tyrant;</HI> So he, who is one, doth much better to keepe and maintaine the e&s;tate than to leave it. In briefe the &s;ame con&s;ideration ought to be had of a Tyranny, as is u&s;ually had of the birth and life of a man. For if it were po&s;&s;ible for man to know before hee were borne into how many misfortunes and mi&s;chiefes hee &s;hould fall during his life, with|out doubt hee would never bee borne. So if a private man a&s;piring to a Tyranny, &s;hould fir&s;t under&s;tand, what, and how many calamities are accompa|nying, he would rather choo&s;e a private life. Thus I know <HI>De|moteles,</HI> that not to be borne, is better than to bee borne, and a
<PB N="50" REF="31">private life is better than a <HI>Ty|ranny;</HI> If before I had beene po&s;&s;e&s;t of the Tyranny, thou had&s;t given me this coun&s;ell, de|claring unto me the qualities of the evills thereof, a&s;&s;ure thy &s;elfe I would have obeyed thee; but being a Tyrant, and con|&s;trained thereby to commit an infinite number of evills, &s;o far is it from the power of any man; that none of the gods can per&s;wade me to leave the arme of a Tyrant. For I know well, that in leaving it I &s;hould bee forced to &s;uffer infinite and mo&s;t grievous torments, and in the end a mi&s;erable and &s;hamefull death by their hands, over whom, I have tyrannically ru|led.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="41" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="51" REF="31">
<HEAD>XLI. To <HI>Epicarmes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe firmely beleeve, that thy coun&s;ell and <HI>Demotele&s;is,</HI> who per&s;wade me to give over this Tyranny doth not proceed from any hatred towards mee, but from the &s;mall experience which you have in the world, becau&s;e, one may de&s;ire the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of a Tyranny; but not the quitting thereof, in re&s;pect of many unju&s;t acts, therein committed. For it is not unlike to an Archer, when he hath lo|&s;ed his arrow, he hath no power to &s;tay it. But if you can bring to pa&s;&s;e; that I never had exer|ci&s;ed Tyranny, doe it and I will beleeve you. Yet it is more dif|ficult for your remon&s;trances to doe me good.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="42" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="52" REF="32">
<HEAD>LII. Vnto the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>THou who thinke&s;t me ju&s;t, art alone a &s;ufficient te&s;ti|mony for me; though no man give faith unto thy words: be|cau&s;e I repute a man of thy in|tegritie to be a rule and law un|to all <HI>Sici~lie,</HI> and the &s;otti&s;h multitude I have alwayes e&s;tee|med as an empty ve&s;&s;ell. Of which multitude to be accoun|ted evill, and wor&s;e than we are, is a thing (it may bee) of no &s;mall profit. Yet there are ma|ny like thee, who&s;e vertue and not their number I take into con&s;ideration; which have con|curred with thy opinion of me. But if thou wert alone it is te&s;timony &s;ufficient, neither have I need of others.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="43" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="53" REF="32">
<HEAD>XLIII. To <HI>Hipo|licion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have permitted thee to come &s;afely unto mee, with|out giving thee any &s;afe conduct by oath; for I would in this, that my hone&s;ty &s;hould &s;erve. But if thou doe&s;t not tru&s;t me, thou doe&s;t me an injury, grea|ter than that, for which thou wert accu&s;ed unto me; becau&s;e thou art a&s;&s;ured, for any cau&s;e what ever, I have never broken my faith, and notwith&s;tan|ding my permi&s;&s;ion, thou de|mande&s;t a &s;afe conduct, as if thou did&s;t di&s;tru&s;t me; I pray thee tell mee, in true religion, what difference is there be|tweene breach of a promi&s;e and breach of an oath; the
<PB N="54" REF="33">minde only being that, which ought to confirme both.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="44" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XLIV. To <HI>Poly|timon.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF in judging my manners, by thy evill conditions, thou do|e&s;t di&s;tru&s;t me; thou doe&s;t not accu&s;e my malice, rather thy prudence; but if thou accu&s;e&s;t me by my owne manners, thou art in a great error, not truly knowing me. For I am &s;o farre from breaking my faith, that mea&s;uring another mans heart by mine; and tru&s;ting in ano|ther, more than I ought: pre|&s;uming he had beene faithfull, I have beene deceaved. Come then upon my a&s;&s;urance, with|out doubting of fraud or de|ceit; then may&s;t thou witne&s;&s;e
<PB N="55" REF="33">that <HI>Phalaris</HI> doth faithfully keepe his promi&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="45" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XLV. To <HI>Nicias.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou hate&s;t thy Sonne, be|cau&s;e he approveth not thy manners; and for this cau&s;e he is e&s;teemed and beloved of all others. Be thou therefore a&s;&s;u|red, that all tho&s;e who love him, hate thee.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="46" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XLVI. To <HI>Adi|mates.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Heare thou debate&s;t with thy brother, which of you two is the verie&s;t Villan; by that which I have heard from thee of him, and from him of thee. I doe verily beleeve, and hold it for a firme truth; that hee is as
<PB N="56" REF="34">bad as any, and that none is wor&s;e than thy &s;elfe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="47" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XLVII. To the <HI>Ege|&s;tines.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TAke heede you doe not re|ceave tho&s;e whom I have bani&s;hed; for never man excee|ded <HI>Phalaris</HI> in retribution of good turnes, nor in revenging of Injuries. You may di&s;cerne &s;omething to this purpo&s;e, if you con&s;ider the <HI>Leontines</HI> and the <HI>Melitines;</HI> for wee have beene the cau&s;e of liberty unto the la&s;t, and of &s;ervitude unto the fir&s;t: the <HI>Leontines</HI> drow|ned my Galley; and the <HI>Meli|tines</HI> indeavoured to &s;ave it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="48" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="57" REF="34">
<HEAD>XLVIII. To <HI>Anti&s;the|nes</HI> and to <HI>Theotine.</HI></HEAD>
<P>OF the pre&s;ents which I &s;ent, <HI>Anti&s;thenes</HI> hath re|ceaved a part, but <HI>Theotine</HI> would not take any; wherein I am to thanke one, but not to complaine of the other; for he who receaved, did not de&s;pi&s;e my good will; and he who re|fu&s;ed did me no harme.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="49" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XLIX. To <HI>Menecles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF thou woulde&s;t bee thought free from thy fathers vices, doe not repent that thou art be|come good: other wayes thou wilt lo&s;e the good opinion which the <HI>Cammarians</HI> have of thee; who will beleeve that
<PB N="58" REF="35">thou art not truly good, but that thou counterfeite&s;t, and art on|ly a time-&s;erver.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="50" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>L. To <HI>Epi&s;trates.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou write&s;t unto me, as if I were a mo&s;t fortunate and happy man: But I will briefly tell thee my e&s;tate; In my in|fancy I was deprived of my fa|ther and mother. In my youth (by my misfortune) bani&s;hed from my Country and lo&s;t the greate&s;t part of my e&s;tate; I was taught by <HI>Barbarous</HI> peo|ple: And to avoide injuries, I was driven to flye from all pla|ces; where I was not onely a&s;|&s;ayled by my enemies, but by tho&s;e al&s;o to whom I had done plea&s;ure. La&s;t of all having at|tained to a Tyranny, I hate a
<PB N="59" REF="35">Tyrannicall life. If this may be called happine&s;&s;e; truely I am happy.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="51" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LI. To <HI>One&s;ton.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou and all my friends &s;hall doe mee a plea&s;ure to forbeare looking narrowly in|to my affaires; and from &s;ear|ching into things which doe no wayes concerne you; for &s;uch is the condition of my e&s;tate, that my enemies will have more cau&s;e to rejoyce by knowing it, than my friends to bee vexed or &s;orrow for their ignorance therein.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="52" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="60" REF="36">
<HEAD>LII. To <HI>Eteonicus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ACcording to thy coun&s;ell, I will no more remember my hatred towards tho&s;e, who have injured me: becau&s;e it is not fit (according to &s;ome mens &s;aying) that wee being mortall, &s;hould retaine an im|mortall hatred. Yet <HI>Fithons</HI> in|juries to me &s;hall neither in this life nor after death (which mu&s;t certainely happen to all) ever depart out of my memory for among&s;t many other mar|vailous di&s;plea&s;ures, he poy&s;o|ned my Wife <HI>Erithea,</HI> becau&s;e out of de&s;ire to follow me, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> refu&s;ed to marry him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="53" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="61" REF="36">
<HEAD>LIII. To <HI>Thrai&s;onor.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe ca&s;tle, which thou lef|te&s;t defending it &s;elfe, hath beene taken and ruined by <HI>Teu|creus</HI> and his &s;oldiours, by a &s;urpri&s;e; and know, that it was done in as &s;mall time, as I have beene writing this let|ter.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="54" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LIV. To <HI>Abaridas.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is told mee, that thou art come out of the mountaines of <HI>Tartary</HI> into our regions, led by a de&s;ire to conver&s;e with fa|mous men, and that thou ha&s;t &s;poken with <HI>Pythagoras</HI> the <HI>Phi|lo&s;opher,</HI> with the Poet <HI>Ste&s;ico|rus,</HI> and other renowned Gre|cians, from whom thou ha&s;t
<PB N="62" REF="37">learned much goodne&s;&s;e: And that thou de&s;ire&s;t to find others, from whom thou mighte&s;t learne the &s;tories which are un|knowne unto thee. But becau&s;e at the fir&s;t I have beene evilly reported, and thereby thou art per&s;waded, that I am &s;uch a man as my Slanderers doe &s;peake me; it is no ea&s;y thing, to make, thee beleeve the contrary. Yet if thou can&s;t be per&s;waded, that to know the truth of things, it is nece&s;&s;ary to frequent men of long experience and know|ledge; come and &s;tay with me, as many brave and gentle per&s;ons have done: and thou &s;halt finde by experience, that al things are better, more &s;eemely, (and if without blame I may prai&s;e my &s;elfe) with more humanity di&s;|po&s;ed, than is beleeved, and
<PB N="63" REF="37">that <HI>Phalaris,</HI> who governeth the&s;e affaires, is not inferiour to &s;ome of them, who for &s;uch Acts are beheld with admira|tion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="55" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LV. To <HI>Or&s;iloquus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF it hath beene a&s;cribed as a fault unto me; That <HI>Pytha|goras</HI> hath never come unto me, although by me many times re|quired, thou alwayes per&s;wa|ding him to &s;hun my acquain|tance; Now that hee is come, and hath &s;tayed with me in all contentment, for the &s;pace of five moneths, it mu&s;t needs bee to my prai&s;e. For if my man|ners and his had not beene in &s;ome &s;ort conformable, hee would not have &s;tayed a minute of time in my company.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="56" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="64" REF="38">
<HEAD>LVI. To <HI>Ege&s;ippus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOw there is no remedy in <HI>Cli&s;tenes</HI> his bani&s;hment, but only repentance; It may be, that thou and his other Parents, who are oppre&s;&s;ed with &s;or|row, doe know that hee hath evill under&s;tood the affaires, for which hee is bani&s;hed from his Countrey: but I &s;eeing him la|bour in the affaires of the com|mon-wealth, with abundance of vaine glory, had great compa&s;|&s;ion of him, and by my letters did foretell him, what would happen. Yet he over-weening, and drawen by the delightfull hope of honour, made no reckoning of me, thinking my admonitions fooleries; as if I had no experience in publike
<PB N="65" REF="38">affaires: Or that I did it to pre|&s;erve my Tyranny; not willing to &s;ee any body governe well in a politicke &s;tate. And this was his beleefe untill hee being blowne up (more than was fit|ting) with the empty winde of honour, was therby flung head|long to the ground. Wherein he found to his great prejudice, that <HI>Phalaris</HI> was not ignorant of civill government, but rather hee him&s;elfe; who in his &s;hort pro&s;perity, not judging rightly of the nature of the people, which doth ea&s;ily bring a man unto mi&s;ery, and &s;eldome or never hath the beginning cor|re&s;pondent with the end. I and all others who would not bee accounted fooles, ought rather de&s;ire to bee blamed then ho|noured by the indi&s;creete mul|titude;
<PB N="66" REF="39">becau&s;e their hatred i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> ea&s;ilyer quenched, than kind|led; neither is the &s;hort time of the vigor thereof &s;o hurtfull. And that which ordinarily &s;pringeth from a popular love, is &s;eldome any other thing but bani&s;hment, death, confi&s;cation of goods, and things no le&s;&s;e intollerable. I &s;weare unto thee <HI>Ege&s;ippus</HI> by the great god; that in my heart I never had other opinion than what I write. All multitudes, are ra&s;h, fooli&s;h and &s;eldome or never effecting any thing, ever changing in their coun&s;els, without faith, incon|&s;tant, giddy, treacherous, and deceavours, an unprofitable voice, ea&s;y to blame or to prai&s;e; In briefe he that in go|verning a common wealth in|deavoureth to plea&s;e the peo|ple,
<PB N="67" REF="39">for the mo&s;t part ruines him&s;elfe, with &s;hame in &s;tead of honour; yet there are &s;ome &s;o eagerly affected thereunto, that madne&s;&s;e may rather bee a&s;|cribed unto them, than ra&s;h|ne&s;&s;e. The father doth not love his &s;onne with &s;o great af|fection, tho&s;e that de&s;ire to mar|ry doe not looke upon their loves with that eager longing, others who love mony doe not &s;eeke it with that diligence; and tho&s;e who delight in armes, in War, in Hor&s;es to be victorious in the <HI>Olympick</HI> games, take not &s;o much plea&s;ure in any of the&s;e things, as tho&s;e doe, who &s;eeke after wretched glory, vaine ho|nour, and the peoples favour, to their mo&s;t extreame dam|mage: But the friends of &s;uch as are &s;o tran&s;ported with this
<PB N="68" REF="40">popular applau&s;e, ought exce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|dingly to grieve, and their en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|mies may mo&s;t confidently re|joyce.</P>
<P>You then, who are <HI>Cli&s;ten<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> his Parents and kindred; if h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> be in griefe comfort him, that h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> may the better beare this adver|&s;itie as a humane thing: and al|though hee bee in a fault, whe<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> it cannot bee helped, remon|&s;trate &s;o unto him, that he may have no more de&s;ire to travail<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters"> in the like affaires.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="57" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LVII. To <HI>Antonie.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SO &s;oone as I receaved thy letter, I &s;ent thee the &s;ilver, thinking; that it was not alone a fit time to doe thee a plea&s;ure, but that it was to bee executed &s;uddainely. I have therefore
<PB N="69" REF="40">delivered for thee, three Ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nts; that thy Sonnes ran&s;ome <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eing payed, he may be called <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">om his bani&s;hment, and be no <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nger a vagabond in the world: <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or by experience I have <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nowne, how grievous and ex|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">reame a mi&s;ery, bani&s;hment is. Further, out of my free good will, I have &s;ent thee three Ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ents more, to the end, that the goods by thee &s;old may bee bought againe. I al&s;o advi&s;e <HI>Cli&s;tenes,</HI> that hereafter he med|dle no more in publike affaires, nor in any &s;uch bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, the profit whereof goes to the Common wealth, and the hurt to them who meddle therein. And if his own example be not &s;ufficient, let him &s;et me before his eyes, who am his couzen by the mother, and who out
<PB N="70" REF="41">of the little knowledge which I had in governing publike af|faires, was bani&s;hed from my countrie; where it was never in my power to returne, after I was become a Tyrant. And I doe a&s;&s;ure thee, that there is not &s;o much plea&s;ure in being a Prince, as there is griefe in ba|ni&s;hment. I &s;weare al&s;o unto thee, by the great gods, I write not this out of any regreat I have, for the money which I &s;end thee, but out of &s;orrow which I have, for the mi&s;eries thou &s;uffere&s;t. Neither doe I it, becau&s;e I will not give thee ano|ther time; but, that I would not have thee imploy me, in do|ing thee plea&s;ures, which are of no availe; for truly when my friends require any thing of me which make to their profit; I
<PB N="71" REF="41">&s;trive to gratifie them, with a better will, and more liberally.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="58" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LVIII. To <HI>Cli|&s;tenes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe &s;uffer in thy misfortune; yet I write not this letter, to reprehend thee for things, wherein (not beleeving my coun&s;ell) thou ha&s;t extreamely erred; although it is many mens fa&s;hion, when they are not able to profit by their re|mon&s;trances, (their coun&s;ell wanting &s;ucce&s;&s;e) they repre|hend tho&s;e, who would not be|leeve them, wherein (to my judgement) they doe but e&s;teeme their owne advice in too high a degree, and over|much le&s;&s;en tho&s;e who com|mit the errour; for my part,
<PB N="72" REF="42">fore&s;eeing the mi&s;chiefe which hath hapned; that thou might&s;t not bee oppre&s;&s;ed, I familiarly adverti&s;ed thee, and now &s;eeing the evill which thou indure&s;t, I thinke I have erred; and am in mi&s;erie with thee. And I in|treate thee to beleeve the rea&s;on why I foretold thee, was onely becau&s;e it might not happen. But &s;eeing, either by fortune, or by determined coun&s;ell, it is thus happened; I will not lay malice to thy charge: rather to witne&s;&s;e that I beare an e|quall &s;orrow with thee; I have indeavoured, with all my &s;trength, that thou &s;hould&s;t not long abide in thy mi&s;ery; as more plainely thou wilt un|der&s;tand, when thou &s;ee&s;t thy mother. In the meane time I will for beare reproaching thee,
<PB N="73" REF="42">of a great villany; that &s;eeing thy &s;elfe bani&s;hed from thy Coun|try, thou did&s;t not vouch&s;afe in thy exile to re&s;t thy &s;elfe with me, being &s;o true a friend, unto thee, as thou knowe&s;t I am. Yet if it were out of &s;hame, and feare to be taunted, becau&s;e thou did&s;t not obey the coun&s;ell, which I gave when I foretold thee what hath now happe|ned; I am &s;o farre from bla|ming thee, that I much rejoyce truely, &s;eeing that thou art be|come wi&s;e: For it is to bee thought; that hee, who is a&s;ha|med of his pa&s;&s;ed faults, will carefully take heed he commit|teth not the like againe.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="59" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="74" REF="43">
<HEAD>LIX. To <HI>Leonicles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou ha&s;t u&s;ed many rea|&s;ons to per&s;wade the <HI>Ca|marines</HI> to make Warre again&s;t me, yet bee thou a&s;&s;ured thou can&s;t not prevaile, and that I will bee revenged of thee, not in vaine words, wherewith thou ha&s;t injured me, but by deeds; the feare whereof out of experience, hath kept the <HI>Camarians</HI> from falling into <HI>Phalaris</HI> his anger, whom they have found both gentle, and courteous, being a friend.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="60" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LX. To the <HI>Eunefien&s;es.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe per&s;wade my &s;elfe I am the cau&s;e of your liberty: for
<PB N="75" REF="43">which although you are un|gratefull; yet I doe not repent mee, but would have you &s;end mee the money which I have lent you, becau&s;e I have &s;o much need, that I am con&s;trai|ned to &s;end up and downe all <HI>Sicily</HI> to get in money. Some have freely lent me as the <HI>Le|ontines,</HI> and the <HI>Gelians;</HI> others have promi&s;ed me, as the <HI>Hiale|fians,</HI> and <HI>Phintie&s;ians.</HI> Vpon what doe you thinke? Seeing, that what I have willingly lent, you doe not re&s;tore me againe, in &s;uch a time, when tho&s;e, who have receaved no benefit from me; doe &s;uccour me with their meanes. If tho&s;e who have promi&s;ed to lend did know; that in&s;tead of recovering my debts, I importuned them, who ought me nothing; doe you
<PB N="76" REF="44">thinke they would lend mee. Yet I firmely beleeve, they will keepe promi&s;e with mee; and may peradventure thinke that hee who is negligent, in recovering his owne, will bee as &s;low in paying, what hee hath borrowed: If you weigh the&s;e things, you need not bee a&s;hamed to pay mee my mony. And if this which I have &s;ayd bee not &s;ufficient to induce you thereunto, bee you a&s;&s;u|red, I will finde the meanes to con&s;traine you; at the lea&s;t, if to doe what is ju&s;t and rea&s;o|nable may be &s;o termed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="61" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXI. To the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>I Having told you, that of all the money, which I have lent, you &s;hould onely re&s;tore met
<PB N="77" REF="44">eight talents, ea&s;ing you of the re&s;t, e&s;pecially in a time of great nece&s;&s;itie, I thinke you ob&s;erve no mode&s;ty: For of the eight; you keepe back foure, and with regreat pay me the other. Yet I &s;weare by the great gods, that I am only di&s;plea&s;ed; you doe not acknowledge the benefits I have yeelded you. For al|though I &s;uffer the dividing of my debt, the dammage con&s;i|&s;teth but in foure talents, but your ingratitude amounteth to twenty: Yet, you profe&s;&s;e you will pay them foure al&s;o, think|ing (in the meane time) you have obliged mee by what you have done; In which re&s;pect, I cannot ground any hope upon your ingratitude, if, having the meanes, you doe not &s;peedily render them. But if you have
<PB N="78" REF="45">the will to doe it, and that I un|der&s;tand by your emba&s;&s;adours you are poore, and have collect|ed the moneys which you have &s;ent, upon particular men; I will give the re&s;t unto your Citie: And if you will receave them, which you have &s;ent me; I am willing with all my heart to give them backe, provided they may bee imployed to the publike benefit, and not robbed away by tho&s;e, who &s;tealing from the poore people, make the common-wealth needy, and them&s;elves rich. And whereas, by your Emba&s;&s;adours, you &s;end mee word, you will erect &s;tatues in remembrance of the good turnes I have done you; I advi&s;e you not to bee at that charge; for be&s;ide my liberality now, and formerly, unto you, I
<PB N="79" REF="45">will al&s;o pay the charges there|in imployed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="62" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXII. To <HI>the &s;ame men.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Write this letter, not repen|ting of my liberality to you; but to the end that by puni&s;hing of <HI>Periander,</HI> you may acquire more favour from me. Yet if you have ready mony in your City, and by forged excu&s;es, forbeare acquiting your debts unto &s;uch, who out of good will have lent you, it is a mani|fe&s;t &s;igne, that (the &s;aying your money was imbe&s;eled) is not true. Neither is it rea&s;onable, that tho&s;e, who borrow money in their need, when they &s;hould pay, &s;hould like rich men hide it in great quantity for robbers. It were much more hone&s;t, to
<PB N="80" REF="46">be rich to your Creditors, and poore towards the wicked: for, if as rich men, you give the mo|ney of your common-wealth to wicked men; and in the meane time, as governors there|of defraud your creditors: Fir&s;t, (a thing mo&s;t evill) you injury another, who hath done you none. Secondly it is much better you &s;hould pay what you borrow, then &s;uffer robbers to &s;teale it away, thereby di&s;ap|pointing <HI>Phalaris</HI> make <HI>Perian|der,</HI> (befides many other plea|&s;ures) become rich. It is for you therefore to re&s;olve, that your money being not imbe&s;e|led, you render tho&s;e kindne&s;&s;es unto me, which you have recea|ved; or with the lo&s;&s;e of tho&s;e moneys, which you &s;ent mee you bee con&s;trained to part al&s;o
<PB N="81" REF="46">with tho&s;e which I have given you.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="63" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXIII. To <HI>Hierom.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALthough I could &s;ay a world of injurie of thee, and of the fooli&s;h, and ignorant &s;peeches which thou uttered&s;t of mee to the <HI>Leontines;</HI> yet I will only &s;ay; the <HI>Elephants</HI> of <HI>India,</HI> make no account of flyes.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="64" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXIV. To <HI>Ari&s;tenetes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AGe is not grievous unto mee, becau&s;e it is not the Tyranny, but <HI>Phalaris</HI> which waxeth old: yet thy (beyond mea&s;ure) fearing, frets me; &s;ee|ing what is de&s;tined mu&s;t hap|pen; although <HI>Ari&s;teneter</HI> fea|ieth more than is fitting. And,
<PB N="82" REF="47">to write unto thee in Poetick termes, it is better to &s;uffer with an undaunted courage, that which is expected with griefe and mole&s;tation, than to be al|wayes martyred with feare.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="65" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXV. To the <HI>Mile&s;ians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOur Emba&s;&s;adors have per|&s;waded me to lend you mo|ny, though I have not much at this time, in re&s;pect of the Warre wherein I have dayly con&s;umed it. Yet it is an old proverbe, among&s;t friends ex|cu&s;es mu&s;t not be u&s;ed.</P>
<P>Wherefore I pray bee not like unto many who, when they borrow, u&s;e mo&s;t gentle and faire words; but when they are intreated to pay, grow an|gry, &s;hewing them&s;elves, both
<PB N="83" REF="47">unrea&s;onable and ungratefull. For in equity hee who recea|veth a good turne, ought to re|member tho&s;e who doe it, and untill it be repayed, not to think their creditors changed: So if their creditor be an hone&s;t man, l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t him bee payed as an hone&s;t man; if hee be wicked, yet let him be payed; for although he be not good, it is ju&s;t and civill to pay debts. Beleeve it then my friends, that, in lending and gathering in my debts, I am al|wayes my &s;elfe. Neverthele&s;&s;e, tho&s;e unto whom I doe plea|&s;ures, change their manners as occa&s;ions are offered, like the <HI>Camelions</HI> changing their cou|lors, according to the object of the places where they are, and while they receave benefit from mee, they highly pray&s;e
<PB N="84" REF="48">me, as one of their gods, and benefactors; but when it is de|manded againe, they call mee villaine and Tyrant; which ma|keth me know, that if the man who lendeth his money be in danger of lo&s;ing it, he were bet|ter lend it to a particular, then to a Communalty; for if a par|ticular man deceave him, hee getteth but one enemy, and hee a weake one; but if a Commu|nalty deny him, the lo&s;&s;e is no le&s;&s;e, and in &s;tead of one, he &s;hall have many enemyes. I have not hitherto found this malice in you, which maketh mee, all &s;u&s;pition &s;et apart, &s;end you what you demand; a&s;&s;uring my &s;elfe, that in all things el&s;e you have a good memory, and are faithfull in merchandizing. Furthermore, I doe thinke you
<PB N="85" REF="48">well know, it is a greater &s;hame, for many to injurie one, then for one to injury many; It be|ing no way likely, that one &s;hould de&s;pi&s;e many, although it often happeneth, that a com|munalty makes light account of one man.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="66" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXVI. To the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P>I Have not fent back your em|ba&s;&s;ador with this letter, be|cau&s;e I reckon not of your prai|&s;es; but becau&s;e my actions may not well permit this ho|nour; yet it may be, you make this high e&s;teeme to incite other to hold the &s;ame opinion of me, who am a&s;&s;ured that all men thinke evill of me but you, who ju&s;tly repute mee good. Neverthele&s;&s;e, becau&s;e my me|rits,
<PB N="86" REF="49">cannot be printed in other mens beleefe, (through a fal&s;e opinion of men) I feare it may bee more hurtfull to you, than available to me, becau&s;e every one is apt to &s;ay, you would ne|ver e&s;teeme &s;o much of a wick|ed man, if you were not like him. Wherefore becau&s;e (though wrongfully) the&s;e your pray&s;ings of mee, may make you bee reputed evill, though I am never the better, I intreate you forbeare them as unnece&s;&s;ary.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="67" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXVII. To <HI>Mne&s;icles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe truely rejoyce at thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">appine&s;&s;e hearing (although thou did&s;t de&s;ire a Sonne) thou ha&s;t a daughter borne, which I thinke, is the more plea&s;ing in|to
<PB N="87" REF="49">thee, becau&s;e &s;he may bee in &s;tead of a Son. And in truth, daughters naturally, have more re&s;pect to their fathers, than Sonnes.</P>
<P>Concerning the gifts which I &s;end thee, I &s;hall thinke thou receave&s;t them with the better heart, by thy free taking, not what I now &s;end thee, but what thou &s;halt advertile me to &s;end, my ignorance of what is ne|ce&s;&s;ary having now withheld them; For I beleeve, in re&s;pect of thy daughter thou ha&s;t need of more and more pretious things.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="68" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXVIII. To <HI>Alcandre.</HI></HEAD>
<P>DOe not thinke, that thou, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> any el&s;e whoever can feare mee, tither in word or
<PB N="88" REF="50">deed: For I have experience in Warre, wherein I was never &s;o bold, as to attempt an unju&s;t thing, or any thing above my &s;trength. I know the &s;uddaine altering and changing of times: And can better teach others, than bee taught by any other, how uncon&s;tant fortune is. Moreover, I am as confi|dent of my &s;elfe, as any other marrican bee; tru&s;ting in the great god, that hee will defend me from the injuries of men, and that hee will bring under my hand all tho&s;e, who &s;hall a&s;&s;aile me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="69" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXIX. To <HI>Licinius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FOoli&s;h <HI>Licinius,</HI> wilt thoune|ver forbeare thy ra&s;hne&s;&s;e? wilt thou never have care of thy
<PB N="89" REF="50">&s;elfe? Thou art thirtie yeeres of age, and yet continue&s;t in thy madne&s;&s;e and by diver&s;e wayes &s;tirre&s;t up enemies, too powerfull for thy re&s;i&s;tance. Thou compo&s;e&s;t ver&s;es and Tragedyes to my di&s;honour; as if I &s;hould bee vexed at them: but I would have thee take heed lea&s;t thou be per&s;ecuted by ef|fects, more mi&s;erable and &s;e|vere than any Tragedy.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="70" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXX. To <HI>Cerbon.</HI></HEAD>
<P>How comes it to pa&s;&s;e, that men &s;hould wonder, at the extreame puni&s;hments, which I inflict upon them, who injury me; yet tho&s;e among&s;t you, cannot bee deterred from a&s;&s;ayling mee? So, that with teares, you bewaile their for|tune,
<PB N="90" REF="51">who are tormented, and doe not rather advi&s;e them, not to attempt again&s;t <HI>Phalaris.</HI> It were better for mee; you would not con&s;traine mee to take &s;uch revenge, and more profit to you, not to be carried with &s;uch ra&s;hne&s;&s;e again&s;t mee. But (if I truly under&s;tand your nature) wherein would not you have attempted again&s;t me, if in my revenge I had not beene ex|treame cruell? Seeing that without hope of finding mer|cie, you &s;o de&s;peratly expo&s;e your &s;elves to all danger. I will then forbeare to bre cru|ell, when you ab&s;taine from in|juring me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="71" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="91" REF="51">
<HEAD>LXXI. To <HI>Entimon.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou ha&s;t &s;aid a truth in all the&s;e things which thou ha&s;t laid to my charge; and I doe freely confe&s;&s;e all thy accu|&s;ations concerning the <HI>Siracu|&s;ans:</HI> for, if I did not puni&s;h tho&s;e who offend me in &s;o high a degree, that they merit no pardon; and if you or others, were not &s;o mortally enemyes to your &s;elves and to me; neither &s;hould I bee taxed for wicked cruelty, neither &s;hould any one among&s;t you be moved to com|pa&s;&s;ion, by &s;eeing your &s;elves put to &s;uch intollerable puni&s;h|ments.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="72" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="92" REF="52">
<HEAD>LXXII. To <HI>Cleobolus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALthough thou ha&s;t im|ployed the &s;trength of thy &s;pirit, to per&s;wade the <HI>Camma|rians</HI> to undertake a war again&s;t me, yet can&s;t not thou make them lay their hands to it; for they know truly that Warre is made by deeds, and not by Orators words; but if thou woulde&s;t have them enterpri&s;e it indeed, demon&s;trate unto them, that thou art in effect, as thou art in coun&s;ell. If, by this meanes, thou can&s;t not attaine thy purpo&s;e, change thy minde, and coun&s;ell the contrary: So (it may bee) maye&s;t thou at|taine thy de&s;ire; For it is cer|taine, they neither reckon of coun&s;ell nor coun&s;ellor, which
<PB N="93" REF="52">is not profitable. For this cau&s;e and fault alone, re&s;t a&s;&s;ured I will puni&s;h thee, not invaine words, wherein thou doe&s;t in|jury me; but by executing, and in &s;uch a manner, as tho&s;e who have once tryed it, never after offended me. Which the <HI>Cam|marians</HI> well knowing, are not willing to feele <HI>Phalaris</HI> his an|ger, and the rather, becau&s;e when they hold me for their friend, they finde me kinde and loving.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="73" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXIII. To <HI>Cleodicus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou intende&s;t greater cru|eltie again&s;t me than is in thy power to execute; I pray thee from whence proceedeth this de&s;ire, which thou ha&s;t to offend <HI>Phalaris,</HI> thereby to gra|tify
<PB N="94" REF="53">a Tanners neece, the Wife of <HI>Antand,</HI> who killed his fa|ther in Law? By meanes of which foule crime, again&s;t na|ture, hee is become rich. But my ju&s;t anger &s;hall not &s;o farre tran&s;port me, as at this time, with multitude of words, to recount all his wickedne&s;&s;es; becau&s;e judging him worthy of puni&s;hment, I will not in words, but in effect lay it upon him; And, for tho&s;e things, which thou ha&s;t indeavoured again&s;t mee, I will make it fall upon thy head, and upon all thy race.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="74" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXIV. To <HI>Necolaides.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Will not doe any di&s;plea&s;ure unto thee: For I am adverti|&s;ed, that thou ha&s;t rather done
<PB N="95" REF="53">good than harme; but I intreate thee, that unto the be&s;t of thy actions thou wilt not mixe &s;uch things as may con&s;traine me, to be other wayes unto thee, then I am now.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="75" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>IXXV. To <HI>Polax.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Gather by thy letters, that thou much wondre&s;t at my alteration in the cour&s;e of my life: In that heretofore I &s;hewed my &s;elf more familiarly and ea|&s;ily then was fit for the e&s;tate of a Tyrant; and now will hardly be &s;eene, either to kinred or dea|re&s;t friends; by all meanes flying from the company of men. But at the&s;e things thou oughte&s;t not to marvaile; becau&s;e that not alone in men, who have no relation unto me,
<PB N="96" REF="54">but in my mo&s;t private friends, I cannot find a &s;ound and firme faith. And having with great difficulty proved all things, I &s;ay it is better dwelling in the de&s;erts of <HI>Affrica,</HI> and in the wild woods of <HI>Numidia,</HI> only accompanied with cruel bea&s;ts, than to live with men; for I &s;hall have a more &s;afe aboad with Lions, and &s;leepe more &s;e|curely with Serpents, than with men of this age. This I &s;ay out of the great experience, which by the malice of variable and uncon&s;tant fortune, I have gai|ned.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="76" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXVI. To <HI>the &s;ame man.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou &s;peake&s;t mo&s;t truly, <HI>Polux,</HI> in &s;aying, that the in|jury, which every one doth
<PB N="97" REF="54">me, farre exceeds the revenge which I take; for I willingly have pardoned tho&s;e twice, or thrice, who have attempted again&s;t mee. Yet of all tho&s;e, who out of premeditated coun|&s;ell have a&s;&s;aulted me, there is not one, who can be a&s;hamed, to &s;ee him&s;elfe taken in his wick|edne&s;&s;e the &s;econd time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="77" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXVII. To <HI>the &s;ame man.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF tho&s;e, who are prepared for Warre again&s;t me, to re|venge tho&s;e, whom I have ju&s;t|ly put to death, did plainely know the cau&s;e for which they doe it, they might thinke them|&s;elves worthily revengers. Therefore thou who accu&s;e&s;t me to the <HI>Siracu&s;ans,</HI> calling me a revengefull Tyrant (without
<PB N="98" REF="55">any gravitie or mode&s;ty) ough|te&s;t to relate the rea&s;ons why I have put &s;uch men to death, who; by no wit of man, could be excu&s;ed: that thereby, thou might&s;t &s;tirre up the courages of thy Auditors again&s;t him of whom thou &s;peake&s;t. Now if thou art a&s;hamed to di&s;cover the rea&s;ons of what thou accu|&s;e&s;t mee, what occa&s;ion have they to bring their Warre.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="78" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXVIII. To <HI>the Eginians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe thinke I have ju&s;t cau&s;e to revenge my &s;elf upon you. Neither is my power wanting; And I ought to doe it, did I not feare their death, whom for three moneths &s;pace you have kept pri&s;oners, onely, to plea&s;e a wicked villaine, who
<PB N="99" REF="55">abideth in your Towne.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="79" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXIX. To <HI>Nicippus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Yeeld thee many thanks, that thou ha&s;t vouch&s;afed to re|ceave the pre&s;ents, for w^c^h. thou &s;aye&s;t, thou art afraid the <HI>Sira|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;ans</HI> will puni&s;h thee: but bee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">hou a&s;&s;ured, that if thou had&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">efu&s;ed them, I was determined <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o accu&s;e thee, as if thou had&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eceaved them &s;o refu&s;ing them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">hou &s;hould&s;t have run the dan|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">er which thou feared&s;t in ta|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ing; And without doubt, if I <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ad cau&s;ed thee to bee accu&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">or taking them, I &s;hould have <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eene beleeved; But if (as it is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">rue) I affirme I have given thee <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">othing; Thou wilt be delive|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ed, and held free from &s;u&s;pi|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="80" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="100" REF="56">
<HEAD>LXXX. To <HI>Nicarquus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou coulde&s;t not have pro|voked the <HI>Cammarians</HI> to make Warre upon me, but to be vanqui&s;hed by me. But they as wi&s;e and provident men, doe rather con&s;ider deeds than words, and whether they were able to archieve it, if they &s;hould begin it; for which cau&s;e they make little reckoning of thy vauntings; though thou art not a&s;hamed, to bee more hurtfull unto them by thy words, than unto him again&s;t whom thou &s;peake&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="81" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXXI. To <HI>Leonciades.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF thou thinke&s;t, that by thy marriage, thou ha&s;t receaved
<PB N="101" REF="56">favour from me, and that thou oughte&s;t not to be ungratefull; I tell thee I would not have thee yeeld me any thankes: but pay me all, in perfectly loving thy Wife, in whom thou &s;aye&s;t our kindred fir&s;t began.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="82" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXXII. To <HI>Timo&s;tenes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>LEt part of the Souldiers la|bour in the <HI>Ca&s;tell,</HI> and ano|ther part make up the bankes again&s;t the high flouds of the Sea; that the cour&s;e of the wa|ter being turned, the fields, which are barren, may become fertill. And we &s;hall thinke our &s;elves obliged to tho&s;e, who &s;hall have fir&s;t fini&s;hed their Taske.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="83" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="102" REF="57">
<HEAD>LXXXIII. To <HI>Cleomenides.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVEE have &s;ent thee gifts fit for the <HI>Gimni</HI> of playes; to wit Iarres of oyle, and foure hundred mea&s;ures of Corne; but the gifts, which are more agreeing to youth, as wine and <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> his ver&s;es, wee &s;end unto thy Son: Although it may be &s;ome <HI>Siracu&s;an,</HI> may &s;u&s;pect, that the&s;e things are &s;ent, by the Tyrant to &s;tirre up &s;ome novelty.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="84" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXXIV. To <HI>Polycletes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TO &s;atisfie thy de&s;ire, I have delivered <HI>Cale&s;creus,</HI> who had con&s;pired again&s;t me, w^c^h. he not only confe&s;&s;ed, but al&s;o revealed his companions,
<PB N="103" REF="57">adding farther, where, when, and how they were to a&s;&s;ault me. For in truth I did thinke it the part of an ungratefull man to deny life unto any one, be|ing reque&s;ted by him who gi|veth health unto others: I have herein done my duty, yeelding this favour unto the Phy&s;itian, who healed me, It being mo&s;t fit that thou &s;hould&s;t receave all grace, who art the chiefe&s;t in Phy&s;icke and heale&s;t all that have neede of thee. Yet let <HI>Cale&s;creus</HI> con&s;ider, that beyond all mens opinion, (for thy &s;ake) his life is &s;pared, hee having un|ju&s;tly taken life from another, for although fortune did deny him the execution of his wick|ed intent, yet he did all that was in his power.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="85" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="104" REF="58">
<HEAD>LXXXV. To <HI>the Me&s;sinians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Vnder&s;tand that you accu&s;e <HI>Polycletes</HI> for trea&s;on again&s;t the <HI>Agrigentines;</HI> in that I being grievou&s;ly &s;icke, he tookeupon him to cure me, and it being in his power to de&s;troy me, he de|livered me &s;ound and in health; for, in&s;teade of commending his hone&s;tie you accu&s;e him of ma|lice, and &s;hame not to confe&s;&s;e it. Whereas all good men ad|mire his knowledge, much more his hone&s;ty and integri|ty. For when I came under his hands, I was at the point of death; and although I were ac|cu&s;ed for a Tyrant, yet he was &s;o farre from killing me, that he laboured to re&s;tore mee to my
<PB N="105" REF="58">former health. Yet doe not you thinke that all your calum|nies can any way prejudice him; For my liberality hath made him one of the riche&s;t men in <HI>Sicily,</HI> and the acknow|ledgement which I have made of the plea&s;ure which hee did me, doth (I know) make you ra|ther de&s;ire to be called traytors unto the <HI>Agrigentines,</HI> than the murderers of <HI>Phalaris.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="86" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXXVI. To <HI>Gorgias.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THy letters are full of wit, and doe witne&s;&s;e the gen|tlene&s;&s;e of thy &s;pirit; yet the coun&s;ell, which thou give&s;t me concerning things to come, it &s;eemes to me &s;uperfluous; for in truth I neither feare death nor any puni&s;hment; propoun|ding
<PB N="106" REF="59">to my &s;elfe, that herein I doe well; knowing that fate is not governed by men. And to tell you my minde in a few words; I account him a foole, who fir&s;t contrived the&s;e things or who hopeth or feareth, good or evills to come, or who doth per&s;wade him&s;elfe that things to come are to bee fore&s;eene, and to be avoided. But if any one be of opinion they are to be fore&s;eene, yet impo&s;&s;ible to be avoided, to what purpo&s;e is the labour to fore&s;ee them? Seeing, that knowing them, or not, they mu&s;t needs happen. Thou wilt tell me, that being fore&s;eene, it is the more ea&s;ily receaved, or de|fended and in&s;tead of one thing fore&s;eene which is evill, the bet|ter meanes may bee u&s;ed to in|terpo&s;e another, then that which
<PB N="107" REF="59">&s;hould happen: which I cannot beleeve, becau&s;e it is the worke of <HI>God</HI> and not of man; He then &s;eemes wi&s;e unto mee, who is not troubled at his de&s;tiny, nor afraid of his death. Studie then as long as thou plea&s;e, about the&s;e uncertainties to confirme the opinion, about which, there is no neede for thee to trouble thy thought; and be thou a&s;&s;u|red I make no account of it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="87" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXXVII. To <HI>Nan&s;icles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have writ unto thee, that <HI>Hermocrates</HI> his labouring, together with the indeavours of all his partakers, could not keepe <HI>Philodemes</HI> his married daughter from receaving the pre&s;ents which I &s;ent her; So, that all their labour hath not le&s;|&s;ened
<PB N="108" REF="60">but increa&s;ed my ho|nour for hereby I being a Ty|rant and having no relation un|to her, am made equall in e&s;teeme with her mo&s;t neere and eminent kindred. Tho&s;e then who in blaming mee doe &s;ay by pre&s;ents I indeavour to get beleefe, may take for an|&s;wer; That to tho&s;e, unto whom one doth a plea&s;ure, vio|lence is not u&s;ed, rather true af|fection.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="88" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>LXXXVIII. To <HI>Alaerites.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT was no way needfull, that out of vaine and youthfull hopes, thou &s;hould&s;t throw us into dangers, and grievous feares; neither doe I de&s;ire, by &s;uch difficult effects to have any
<PB N="109" REF="60">further a&s;&s;urance of thy great valour. Yet &s;eeing thy vertue hath &s;urmounted my feare, pur|&s;ue this good pre&s;age, all other things will &s;uceed to thy wi&s;h. Not, that I am not in continuall feare and care of thee, though thou art in health; for untill thy returne I &s;hall be &s;till in doubts, &s;till expecting thy letters. Wherefore I put thee in minde of what I told thee at thy par|ting, when thou lefts the City, that thou &s;hould&s;t indeavour to keepe mee <HI>Lacrites,</HI> whom I doe hold more deere than Ca&s;tles, Townes, and Tyran|nies, I (by the living gods) than my owne life.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="89" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="110" REF="61">
<HEAD>LXXXIX. To <HI>the &s;ame men.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Pray thee <HI>Lacrites,</HI> remem|ber the promi&s;es thou mad&s;t me, and bee carefull, that I bee not driven to remaine alone. Thou knowe&s;t how poore I am of friends: I write unto thee that I am in feare, but it is not of tho&s;e who are inferior unto us, nor for the weakene&s;&s;e of our confederates: For alwayes, and in all things wee &s;urmount our enemyes. But it is of thy active and forward courage in ex|ployts of Warre, and becau&s;e thou laboure&s;t, with too great violence and affection, to ap|peare too excellent above al, be|ing grieved that thou can&s;t not, in one in&s;tant bee pre&s;ent at
<PB N="111" REF="61">all the incounters. Remember, that at thy departure, I gave thee in charge to thy &s;elfe, and thou did&s;t promi&s;e to render thy &s;elfe &s;afe and whole into my hands againe; which now I mo&s;t affectionately de&s;ire of thee; not that thou &s;houlde&s;t doe any thing unworthy of thy Noble courage (for that's impo&s;&s;ible) but that thou &s;hould&s;t in other more needfull occa&s;ions to &s;hew thy gentle courage, and that thou art a Souldiour, who neither avoy|deth danger nor labour. And if thou thinke&s;t this thy forbea|ring, may bee a&s;cribed to want of courage; thou maye&s;t in other things &s;hew the excellen|cy of thy vertue.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="90" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="112" REF="62">
<HEAD>XC. To <HI>Li&s;icles.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe not wonder <HI>Li&s;icles,</HI> if thou doe&s;t not re&s;emble thy Father, nor thy Sonne in any thing; For thou art not <HI>Li&s;icra|tes</HI> his Sonne, nor <HI>Neoptole|mus</HI> his Father. Which many <HI>Sicilians</HI> doe affirme hath beene a&s;&s;ured by thy Mother and thy Wife; wherein they have ac|quired honour; for it is a mo&s;t commendable thing and wor|thy of prai&s;e to &s;peake truth to all, e&s;pecially to tho&s;e who know it.</P>
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<DIV2 N="91" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XCI. To <HI>Timolias.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOt to offend, is truly and properly attributed to god done: And to erre, and by the
<PB N="113" REF="62">erring, to become wife, is a hu|mane thing. But truly he, who after his erring and thereby fal|ling into mi&s;ery, yet becom|ming no more advi&s;ed; I can|not conceave that he can be ac|counted other than mo&s;t wret|ched, and infortunate. To con|clude then, hee partakes of a bea&s;t, that being made an exam|ple of ra&s;hne&s;&s;e and folly, doth not, by his owne adver&s;e and mi&s;erable fortune, become well in&s;tructed and wi&s;e in after times.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="92" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XCII. To <HI>Phedimes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVEE have three &s;eve|rall times, made our &s;elves beleeve, that thou ha&s;t not injured us; Although in every quarrell, rai&s;ed by thee
<PB N="114" REF="63">again&s;t us, it is knowne thou ha&s;t greatly erred. And if hi|therto we have accounted thee &s;uch as wee de&s;ire or as thou oughte&s;t to bee towards us: e&s;teeming thy accu&s;ers words fal&s;e, though there were preg|nant cau&s;e to thinke them true; And that oftentimes, &s;ome doe &s;uffer, who have not merited it, &s;o that it &s;eemes fortunes malice ought to be accu&s;ed. I would then, that hereafter, neither thy manners nor thy fortune, may occa&s;ion us to be thy ene|my. And con&s;ider well (for we will no longer &s;uffer thy malice to attempt unpuni&s;hed upon our goodne&s;&s;e) that what injury &s;o|ever thou ha&s;t done us, we have alwayes u&s;ed thee courteou&s;ly, for which thou ha&s;t not beene &s;o thankefull as thou oughte&s;t.
<PB N="115" REF="63">Strive therefore, that thou be not more in humane to thy &s;elf, than he is, who hath continual|ly &s;hewed him&s;elfe ready to do thee plea&s;ure.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="93" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XCIII. To <HI>Age&s;ilaus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT &s;eemes unto me that <HI>Tele|&s;ippa</HI> is grievou&s;ly di&s;plea&s;ed at thy &s;taying in <HI>Siracu&s;e:</HI> She (like a mode&s;t and loving Wife to her husband) prote&s;ted a|gain&s;t mee; as if I did u&s;e too great authority over thee; And told mee &s;hee could no longer beare with thy ab&s;ence.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides &s;he calleth her fa|ther to her a&s;&s;i&s;tance; It may bee thou under&s;tande&s;t what &s;he would doe: be thou a&s;&s;ured that &s;he will doe it: for &s;he will no longer indure, that a hus|band,
<PB N="116" REF="64">who ought to be wholly hers, &s;hould bee no more unto her than a &s;tranger. She judg|eth that I, and I conceive, that &s;hee can con&s;traine thee to re|turne; for I cannot beleeve, that thou feare&s;t <HI>Phalaris</HI> &s;o much as thou doe&s;t <HI>Tele&s;ippa.</HI> Come then and give thy &s;elfe unto tho&s;e who de&s;ire thee, either for my &s;ake or for hers, who (by the living God) is worthy to be infinitely beloved.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="94" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XCIV. To <HI>Poline&s;tor.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>LAcrites,</HI> hath given a&s;&s;ured te&s;timony of thy vertuous acts, which hath beene (as hee &s;aith) glorious and in great number; e&s;pecially the &s;uccors of thy foote, and how by thy direction, and the bravery of the a&s;&s;aylants, the Towne was
<PB N="117" REF="64">taken: he al&s;o let me know that hee offered the hor&s;e unto thy command: which if thou had&s;t accepted of; all that I can give thee; yet by the immor|tall GOD, I &s;hould thinke my &s;elfe obliged to thee: And if thou do&s;t not receave my pre|&s;ents, with the &s;ame affection, wherewith I &s;end them, I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e, a private man hath overcome the Tyrant, &s;o much that if thou doe&s;t not accept of the third part of the &s;poyle, which ought to bee divided a|mong&s;t the Souldiours, and which thou did&s;t refu&s;e, when it was given thee by <HI>Lacrites,</HI> be thou a&s;&s;ured, that herafter I will be more &s;low, not in liberality, but in receaving the noble fa|vours, which thou maye&s;t doe mee.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="95" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="118" REF="65">
<HEAD>XCV. To <HI>the &s;ame man.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOw I know, there is no need to intreate thee the &s;econd time, and that fearing my threatnings, thou ha&s;t divi|ded the &s;poyles, giving the re|ward of dangers, unto tho&s;e who underwent the labour. Wherein thou ha&s;t done excee|ding well, and I am very glad of it; having now a confident boldne&s;&s;e, to reque&s;t thy a&s;&s;i|&s;tance in my affaires: thou thereby ha&s;t al&s;o beene the cau&s;e, that in time of nece&s;&s;ity, the Soldiours will fight with more courage; For who wil|lingly will undergoe labour, and danger, without hope of re|ward? None &s;uch as have ex|perience. The&s;e pre&s;ents are re|ceaved
<PB N="119" REF="65">by thee to my profit; the Souldiours thereby being made loving, faithfull, and ready when need requires.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="96" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XCVI. To <HI>Ly&s;ander.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BEfore thy &s;uccours came, we had fought, the enemies being di&s;covered before <HI>Euclids</HI> hor&s;es came: through want therefore of Soldiours, we had no advantage by the battaile; but onely, in reputation and prai&s;e, whereof we got much; for to a part of our army which fought, and not to all the victo|ry was to be attributed; So by thru&s;ting our &s;elves into the greater danger, we have gotten an excellent and a famous prize.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="97" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="120" REF="66">
<HEAD>XCVII. To <HI>Arimagnus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe evill opinion which men of this time have of me, does not trouble me; for &s;eeing every one doe unju&s;t acts frequently, evill is rather e&s;teemed Iu&s;tice, than equity it &s;elfe: Not that I indeavour to hide my acts, but will freely publi&s;h them. For, that, which others doe but of their perver&s;e nature, I doe by con&s;traint. I doe al&s;o freely confe&s;&s;e, I am polluted, with many wicked affections, which are naturall in others: See here our difference, I being a Tyrant, having liberty and power to do what I intend, freely confe&s;&s;e it; and others being private men, deny for feare of puni&s;hment.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="98" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="121" REF="66">
<HEAD>XCVIII. To <HI>Poly&s;trates.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have &s;ent for all my friends to come to <HI>Agrigentum,</HI> and doe al&s;o intreate thee mo&s;t af|fectionatly to come before the <HI>Olympiads:</HI> For I am determi|ned (having a&s;&s;embled all my friends as formerly I have done) to &s;ettle a cour&s;e for the con&s;er|vation of my e&s;tate, and to de|liberate of great and weighty matters; in other affaires (for feare of troubling them) I will not imploy them, I my &s;elfe be|ing &s;ufficient in my particular. Yet I will not refu&s;e your ad|vi&s;e, to the end that continuing the principality in the &s;tate wherein it is, I may often re|ceave you with &s;afe and hearty
<PB N="122" REF="67">welcome. And if other wayes fortune bee plea&s;ed, that this &s;hould be our la&s;t meeting, yet you may remember the love I have borne you. Come then without &s;tay and &s;hew the rea|dine&s;&s;e of your affection to <HI>Phalaris,</HI> whom you wel know.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="99" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>XCIX. To <HI>the &s;ame man.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT &s;hall never bee &s;aid that I will tell thee, or any other man, unto whom I have &s;hew|ed my &s;elfe liberall; Neither is it fit, (having an intent thou &s;houlde&s;t receave my pre&s;ents, which hitherto thou ha&s;t refu|&s;ed) that I &s;hould manife&s;t tho&s;e, who, (without cau&s;e, worthy) of reproofe or &s;u&s;pition of evill&punc; have taken them; for I thinke a man cannot hone&s;tly recite th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="123" REF="67">plea&s;ures, which he hath done to another, neither is it com|mendable to hear them related. Yet that many there are, who by force again&s;t my will, have unju&s;tly robbed away my goods thou can&s;t tell; many al|&s;o have unju&s;tly detained them, who afterwards have delivered them by con&s;traint, and to a|voide a Warre: Others have kept them as things holily and ju&s;tly gotten, while they were able to defend them; which could not be long, in regard of the many dangers which do ac|company evill gotten goods; &s;o what willingly they tooke by force from me, they were for|ced though unwillingly to &s;ur|render. Whom doe&s;t thou in|deavour to imitate, being not willing to receave, what I with
<PB N="124" REF="68">a free heart give thee? Thy ex|cu&s;es are weake and ea&s;ily an|&s;wered; For by the te&s;timony of my very enemies, the mony is pure and holy, if thou doe&s;t make a difference, betweene what is got by unju&s;t rapine, and what is offered as a pledge of affection. Take then (I mo&s;t earne&s;tly intreate thee) from a faithfull friend, that which in pure good will he &s;ends thee.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="100" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>C. To <HI>the A&s;tipale&s;ians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ALthough, by infinite and unlooked for changes of fortune, I am grievou&s;ly troub|led; yet I doe not remember, that in all my life, I either felt greater griefe, or greater joy, then now I doe; for if my heart were extreamely grieved, in
<PB N="125" REF="68">that day wherein without cau&s;e I was bani&s;hed from my coun|try; which you may well think, it beeing a thing almo&s;t un&s;up|portable even unto tho&s;e who de&s;erve it. I am now in as ex|ceeding joy, that in your com|mon-wealth, you have mee in remembrance, writing unto me of your affaires, as unto a friend, who loveth you; which you doe not (as I verily thinke) &s;o much out of a hope to receave profit in this your publike deli|beration, as to give a true te&s;ti|mony that I am unju&s;tly bani|&s;hed, and that you layd the blame upon tho&s;e who were the cau&s;e; for it is not probable, that a man &s;hould make reque&s;t unto one, who hee knoweth doth hate him, or &s;hould hope from him, who doth not love
<PB N="124" REF="69">
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<PB N="126" REF="70">him; Therefore, I have no cau&s;e to complaine of you, who in the time when you were my enemyes, made no reque&s;t unto me, and now, you mini&s;ter oc|ca&s;ion for me to gratifie you, in granting your reque&s;t: And withall know, that when you receave from me; I doe thinke, that you doe truly give me; in as much as I doe account your demand for a &s;ingular plea&s;ure. For what greater glory can come to a man who loveth his country, than to doe good to his Citizens, which in thanke|fulne&s;&s;e for your letters I have done. And if what I &s;end, comes later unto you than is de&s;ired; I de&s;ire you, not to lay the fault upon me, nor upon your Emba&s;&s;adors; a&s;&s;uring you, it was neither want of di|ligence,
<PB N="127" REF="70">nor of skilfull Marri|ners, but a mo&s;t violent and tempe&s;tuous Winter, which hath occa&s;ioned this &s;tay; wherefore if tho&s;e things, which I &s;end you, and have beene expo&s;ed to the mercy of the Sea, arrive in &s;afety; you &s;hall not doe ami&s;&s;e, if you give thankes unto fortune. Your Emba&s;&s;adours will give you all, and <HI>Eubolus,</HI> by whom I &s;end my letters will tell you all things particularly; And when you under&s;tand from him the number and the quality, you may di&s;tribute according to your minde. As for the mo|neys, imploy them, in adorning and repayring your Towne; Not that you &s;hould doe it by my admonition, but by your owne proper coun&s;ell; for ne|ver
<PB N="128" REF="71">any man became good, by the will of another, but by his owne. If then, you imploy that which is given you to one purpo&s;e, in other unnece&s;&s;ary wayes (which &s;hould bee un|worthily done by you) beleeve that your mis-imploying will procure you more blame than the prai&s;e unto the giver. Be|&s;ides it is not convenient, that a bani&s;hed man, &s;hould with his owne money cau&s;e the ruines of his City to bee repayred, nor that the inhabitants therein &s;hould neglect the rebuilding, e&s;pecially, when it is at ano|thers co&s;t. And if you &s;hall thinke, that I have not &s;ent my pre&s;ents to you only, but to the people, to the City, and to the gods of the country, your opi|nion will de&s;erve more prai&s;e,
<PB N="129" REF="71">than he who &s;ent them doth. For no man can bee ignorant, that gifts are the glory of the giver, but the well imploying them, doth rai&s;e to a farre high|er degree of honour, the recea|ver. For my part, I &s;hall re|ceave perfect contentment, if you beleeve, I rather witne&s;&s;e my love, than my liberality; the fir&s;t, being an effect of the good|ne&s;&s;e of the minde, the other may bee under&s;tood (though fini&s;terly) to bee a bragging of my riches.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="101" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>CI. To <HI>the Athenians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOur curious Image-worker <HI>Perillus</HI> came, and pre&s;en|ted to us his workes, laboured with wonderfull art, wherein wee tooke &s;ingular plea&s;ure,
<PB N="130" REF="72" MS="y">courteou&s;ly receaving and gi|ving him many gifts, as well for the honour hee did us, in &s;hewing his excellent art, as for his country &s;ake. Shortly af|ter, he framed a Bull of bra&s;&s;e, greater than a naturall Bull, which he pre&s;ented unto me: I tooke a &s;ingular plea&s;ure there|in, as in a creature nouri&s;hed with men, and u&s;efull in his ex|ceeding labour. And in truth, it &s;eemed unto mee a kingly &s;pectacle, and a commendable worke, not yet knowing the &s;ecrets; but &s;hortly, he opening the flankes, di&s;covered a tor|ment of extreame cruelty, and more mi&s;erable than any kinde of death. Then exalting his worke, I judged his wicked nature worthy of puni&s;hment, and that he ought in rea&s;on to
<PB N="131" REF="72">to make the fir&s;t tryall of his worke, having never &s;eene more malice in any art, than in his. I therefore cau&s;ed him to be &s;hut into this Bull, and (as he had in&s;tructed) kindled a fire about, to have an a&s;&s;ured con|clu&s;ion of his mo&s;t cruell art; wee having no &s;ight of him, who was tormented, nor &s;eeing any teares, nor hearing any noi&s;e, but his voice onely, (which &s;ounding from within the hollowne&s;&s;e of the bra&s;&s;e) came unto our eares like the bellowing of a Bull. Since, I have heard, that you are much di&s;plea&s;ed at his death and ex|ceeding angry with me, where|at I cannot &s;ufficiently wonder, verily per&s;wading my &s;elfe, that you ought not to bee any way grieved; for, if you accu&s;e
<PB N="132" REF="73">me, becau&s;e I inflicted no grea|ter puni&s;hment upon him; I &s;weare unto you, by all the gods, I could not invent a grea|ter. But if you &s;ay, that he de|&s;erved no puni&s;hment, it &s;eemes unto mee, that all of you, O <HI>Athenians,</HI> who glorifie your &s;elves for your great humanity, doe now commend cruelty; Seeing that it mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily be, that this Bull was either the worke of one alone, or of all together. Now which of the two it is, will be knowne by the love or hatred which you beare me. For if <HI>Perillus</HI> hath meri|ted death, and that none of you are like him, in manners or in nature, you will not reprehend me. And if you &s;ay he is un|ju&s;tly put to death, you con|fe&s;&s;e you are no better than he.
<PB N="133" REF="73">I doe not therefore repent his putting to death, neither will I ever thinke I have done wrong, if fir&s;t it doth not appeare unto mee to be again&s;t Iu&s;tice. And if it appeare unto others that <HI>Perillus</HI> is unju&s;tly puni&s;hed; I may as well thinke, that they goe about to take from me the firme and a&s;&s;ured defence of my dignity; For I cannot bee per&s;waded, that either you or any other of the <HI>Greekes</HI> &s;hould thinke his puni&s;hment unju&s;t, &s;eeing it was mo&s;t fit, that hee &s;hould fir&s;t make experience of his engine, forged with &s;uch malice to the prejudice of o|thers; be&s;ides, in my opinion and in others al&s;o, by this pre|&s;ent, he would manife&s;t, that I was worthy this grievous pu|ni&s;hment. And although (in
<PB N="134" REF="74">re&s;pect of tho&s;e who con&s;pire again&s;t mee) this permi&s;cuous invention was for my profit; yet I (being to judge, of a thing whether ju&s;t, or no, in the na|ture thereof) neglected that, which might turne to my ad|vantage, inre&s;pect of what was naturally ju&s;t in it &s;elfe. Wher|fore hee hath beene worthily put to death in his owne worke by mee, to whom he did thinke it fit to bee pre&s;ented; Yet &ocirc; <HI>Athenians,</HI> you (contrary to their opinions, who doe rightly Iudge that who&s;oever inventeth a torment wherewith to puni&s;h another, in ju&s;tice ought to bee puni&s;hed fir&s;t therewith him|&s;elfe) doe you thinke mee wor|thy to be puni&s;hed by the infer|nall furyes, and that, that is not enough to pacifie <HI>Perillus</HI> his
<PB N="135" REF="74">&s;oule? But let mee de&s;ire you to weigh it well in equity, and you will finde that I doe not the&s;e things willingly: and that it is again&s;t rea&s;on I &s;hould be &s;o traver&s;ed by the malice of fortune. For although by my Tyranny, I have full liberty to do the&s;e cruelties, yet I do well know they are not commen|dable, and I doe confe&s;&s;e it much di&s;plea&s;eth me that I can|not reduce the&s;e things to their fir&s;t e&s;tate; And I would to God, that I were not by ex|treame nece&s;&s;ity con&s;trained to doe them. But &ocirc; you <HI>Athe|nians,</HI> which of you, or what man is there in the world, who finding a con&s;piracy again&s;t his life, will not pro&s;ecute with all revenge again&s;t the con&s;pira|tors? From thence it happened,
<PB N="136" REF="75">that I, finding <HI>Perillus</HI> to be &s;uch a one, have puni&s;hed him; yet this comforts me, that I doe not the&s;e things willingly, as they doe upon whom I revenge my &s;elfe. Truly, &ocirc; you wi&s;e and mo&s;t antient <HI>Athenians,</HI> I have in this imitated your cu&s;tomes; and what hath beene done to <HI>Perillus,</HI> was very fit for us to doe being a Tyrant, and I have beene unto him (de&s;erving it) not &s;uch as by nature I am, but as hee did imagine mee to bee. And bee you a&s;&s;ured, that if I were a private man, I would not bee <HI>Perillus,</HI> nor if hee had beene a Prince, would he have beene <HI>Phalaris.</HI> More|over, your &s;orrow for his pu|ni&s;hment turneth to your &s;hame, and if you doe not de|&s;ire that wicked men, like unto
<PB N="137" REF="75">him, &s;hould bee cha&s;ti&s;ed, you will acquire a perpetuall blame; for hee having invented &s;uch a cruell torment, did an univer|&s;all injury to all men, and more particularly did brand you with a marke of cruelty; the &s;pot whereof, doth &s;poile the naturall cu&s;tomes of your Country. I doe then verily beleeve, that every one will commend the manner of <HI>Pe|rillus</HI> his puni&s;hment, for &s;o ought all good Citizens to doe: But if there bee any one, who doth di&s;like this his kinde of death; let him bee a&s;&s;ured, that, therein we did not plea&s;e <HI>Perillus.</HI></P>
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<PB N="138" REF="76">
<HEAD>CII. To <HI>Teleclides.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou ha&s;t told many of my friends (it may bee that it might come to my eares) that after <HI>Perillus</HI> his death, I ought not to have puni&s;hed any other with that torment, &s;aying that thereby I had lo&s;t all the prai&s;e which I had gotten by his pu|ni&s;hment. Beleeve mee, I did never puni&s;h any for prai&s;e, or cha&s;ti&s;e any man for glory; Neither doth it trouble me, to be blamed, for puni&s;hing others with the &s;ame torment; for re|venge taketh not into con&s;ide|ration good or evill report. Yet I would have thee know, that to puni&s;h others in the Bull, I made experience of it in <HI>Peril|lus,</HI> who&s;e worke in regard of
<PB N="139" REF="76">the &s;tateline&s;&s;e thereof, was worthy of reward rather than of death; I would have them then who are therein puni&s;hed, a&s;cribe all unto tho&s;e who in|cite them unto &s;uch wicked|ne&s;&s;e, as brings them to this mi|&s;ery. Yet if any one (out of weake judgement) doth lay the fault upon me, I am no way vexed at it, &s;o long as I can &s;hew that tho&s;e, whom I have put to death are ju&s;tly puni&s;hed. And what thou thinke&s;t of the fir&s;t, who was burned in it, think the like of all others: And if you commend the death which was inflicted upon <HI>Perillus;</HI> you ac|cu&s;e me without rea&s;on for put|ting them to death in the &s;ame manner, who out of trea&s;on, and by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of my ene|mies doe attempt again&s;t my
<PB N="140" REF="77">life. Otherwayes I &s;hould be a very foole, if for injury done unto others, I cha&s;ti&s;e them, who pretend me a plea&s;ure, and &s;uffer tho&s;e to goe unpuni&s;hed who mo&s;t treacherou&s;ly offend me. Yet, for all the&s;e rea&s;ons, I yeeld to thy opinion; de&s;i|ring thee neverthele&s;&s;e, to la|bour no more in it; nor give unto me, or thy &s;elfe any more travaile.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="103" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>CII. To <HI>Nigeus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou doe&s;t not thinke, that either the Bull, or any o|ther in&s;trument of torment, which we have, is painefull, or bitter; &s;eeing that without any cau&s;e given thee, by thy con|tinuall invectives again&s;t us, thou ha&s;t extingui&s;hed and
<PB N="141" REF="77">buried all pittie and compa&s;|&s;ion.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="104" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>CIV. To <HI>Cleomedon.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe heare, that blaming me without cea&s;e, thou doe&s;t be|wayle the mi&s;erable end of <HI>Cle|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mbrotus;</HI> but I doe a&s;&s;ure my &s;elfe, that thou, who ha&s;t the boldne&s;&s;e to doe things farre more wicked than what he did, and art every way of le&s;&s;e pow|er, wilt al&s;o at la&s;t fall into my hands.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="110" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>CX. To <HI>Lamack.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou, in the coun&s;ell of the <HI>Camarians,</HI> ha&s;t bewailed the death of &s;eaven and thirty, &s;aying that, beyond all the cru|clty of mankinde, they mi&s;e|rably
<PB N="142" REF="78">ended their dayes in the Bull: but I praying unto the Soveraigne God, that the num|ber be not increa&s;ed, doe feare that there bee &s;ome, who by being overmuch bu&s;ie will not &s;uffer my prayers in that to be heard, nor that kinde of pu|ni&s;hment to end in them; for thou wilt con&s;traine me to make up the number thirty nine, by adding thee and that foole <HI>Epi|ter&s;cus:</HI> And I would have you know, there is a great odds betweene your blaming mee in words behinde my backe, and my putting you to death for your wickedne&s;&s;e, which a&s;&s;u|redly I will revenge.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="106" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="143" REF="78">
<HEAD>CVI. To <HI>Tymandre.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT may be that the <HI>Camarians</HI> comming now again&s;t mee with a warlike army, thou art rejoyced in&s;tead of the griefe conceaved, becau&s;e thou could&s;t not per&s;wade them to make warre upon me for a &s;mall oc|ca&s;ion; but when thou doe&s;t finde thy hope di&s;appointed, thou wilt mo&s;t ju&s;tly be puni&s;h|ed with griefe; not for any thing thou ha&s;t done, but for what thou ha&s;t &s;uffered. Tell mee now, what profit commeth un|to thee by this thy rejoycing? To &s;ay true, if I were to &s;uffer, as thou doe&s;t fooli&s;hly thinke, thou had&s;t &s;ome rea&s;on to re|joyce, at the lo&s;&s;e which might fall upon mee. But neither in
<PB N="144" REF="79">this nor in any other thing ha&s;t thou given me the lea&s;t cau&s;e of griefe; neither art thou of worth to bee puni&s;hed by ex|treame torments, nor is it fit to give thee any other death, than the &s;uffering under thy own mi|&s;ery; and if it were po&s;&s;ible, to let thee live a longer time, than Nature hath afforded thee.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="107" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>CVII. <HI>To the &s;ame Man.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe words, which thou ha&s;t u&s;ed to the <HI>Camarians,</HI> and the great lamentation, which thou make&s;t for tho&s;e whom I have put to death, have con|&s;trained me to torment <HI>Cleom|brotus</HI> his companions in the Bull; for I feared that delive|ring them, thou woulde&s;t de|&s;i&s;t from &s;tirring the Citie a|gain&s;t
<PB N="145" REF="79">me. Moreover, I &s;uffer the people to intermeddle in the government, till they be|come wearie of <HI>Tymanders</HI> babling, who&s;e advice, not a|gain&s;t <HI>Phalaris,</HI> but again&s;t one of his meane&s;t &s;ervants will be contemned. And although it were profitable for the <HI>Cama|rians</HI> to make war again&s;t the <HI>Agrigentines,</HI> yet is it not an ea&s;ie matter to per&s;wade them to enterpri&s;e it; &s;eeing they know that warre is every way, more grievous and mi&s;erable, than the coun&s;ellor thereunto hath related: Be&s;ides, they know, the Oratour is not of &s;mall importance, to the bring|ing it to an evill end. Thou therefore wert be&s;t to declare the points, which may excite the people again&s;t mee, that
<PB N="146" REF="80">thereby they may be per&s;wa|ded to commit their Army to the warlike conducting, but I feare they will not bee drawne thereunto; for among&s;t many other rea&s;ons which probably they may u&s;e again&s;t thee, they will &s;ay that to maintaine war again&s;t me, thou ha&s;t &s;old the hou&s;e, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions and &s;ervants which thy father left thee, and being become a begger, woul|de&s;t per&s;wade the <HI>Camarians</HI> to the like folly; wherein thou do&s;t mo&s;t certainly manife&s;t thy de&s;paire, and indeavoure&s;t much evil, by per&s;wading &s;uch a Citie as <HI>Camaria</HI> not to fol|low her owne good and wi&s;e coun&s;ell, but thy ra&s;h fooli&s;h|ne&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="108" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="147" REF="80">
<HEAD>108. To <HI>Epi&s;tratus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SEeing I have thrice pardo|ned thee, doe not put thy &s;elfe in danger, and con&s;traine me to take revenge; for <HI>Pha|laris</HI> hath layd by his pitie, which thou peradventure mai&s;t with many prayers begge, yet finde nothing but the wrath of a Tyrant.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="109" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>109. To <HI>Arimetes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>DOe not inquire after the number of tho&s;e, whom I have put to death in the Bull; for if thou doe&s;t well con&s;ider their workes, thou wilt finde them to be many more, then thou &s;halt finde names; yet &s;uch as they were, they fell in|to
<PB N="148" REF="81">my hands. Be thou al&s;o a&s;|&s;ured, that I am not minded, for thy &s;ake, who art young, to abide the malice of tho&s;e who are old, but will make knowne (as I have oft done) how wret|ched tho&s;e are who without a cau&s;e offend me: And if thou have a de&s;ire to &s;ee and know the changes of this life; I doe admoni&s;h thee in the name of the gods, to con&s;ider it in o|thers, and remaine in quiet thy &s;elfe: neither do I &s;peak this, fearing I may receive hurt from thee; for <HI>Phalaris</HI> mu&s;t not dye by a feminine hand: But I advi&s;e thee, that thou doe&s;t not increa&s;e the number of tho&s;e, who have dyed in my Bull, and that my puni&s;h|ing thee, bee not a part of the accu&s;ation, which unju&s;tly is
<PB N="149" REF="81">layd to my charge for cruelty. If herein thou wilt not beleeve me, a&s;&s;ure thy &s;elfe (and the ra|ther becau&s;e thou contemne&s;t my admonitions) thou &s;halt be &s;everely puni&s;hed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="110" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>110. To <HI>Agemort.</HI></HEAD>
<P>NOw doe I di&s;cerne the na|ture of my coun&s;ells in my affaires; truly I have indu|red many labours by this illu|&s;trious Monarchie: and tho|row my folly and love there|unto, I have wilfully thru&s;t my &s;elfe into infinite &s;orrowes and dangers: yet the greate&s;t of my afflictions is, that no hone&s;t man will receive any benefit from me. For, if by chance I u&s;e liberality to any, who hath need, hee is in&s;tantly reputed
<PB N="150" REF="82">wicked: And I doe verely be|leeve, that this is the onely cau&s;e, why you hone&s;t men do &s;o &s;hunne me; for what other occa&s;ion can there be, but be|cau&s;e I &s;hould not benefit you? In briefe, there mu&s;t needes be &s;ome great cau&s;e why none of my &s;choole-fellowes, compa|nions and friends, would ever come at me, neither hath a|ny of them ever promi&s;ed to come to me, but <HI>Cali&s;tenes,</HI> nei|ther am I certaine that he will come. Some others, becau&s;e they would not openly refu&s;e my kindnes, in excu&s;ing them|&s;elves &s;ayd they were &s;icke; o|thers that they were hindred by their Parents, and others by publike affaires. For thy part, I was unwilling to at|tempt the calling of thee, well
<PB N="151" REF="82">knowing I &s;hould not prevaile; neither will I invite thee now, hearing of thy &s;ickne&s;&s;e, and that &s;ince my departure, <HI>Prau|lea</HI> hath brought thee a Sonne; of which &s;ickne&s;&s;e of thine, I &s;weare unto thee, I am much grieved, and am much rejoiced that thou ha&s;t many children. But what excu&s;e can&s;t thou finde, to avoide the &s;eeming feare, wherein thou ha&s;t been, through my &s;ending of gifts unto thee, &s;o &s;mall, that (in truth) they were not capable of rai&s;ing envie, nor to be &s;eene of the Towne, or to be carried with &s;ongs and mu&s;ike; It be|ing but a little gold &s;ent at mid|night, and at unaccu&s;tomed houres; yet &s;o &s;oone as thou &s;awe&s;t it, as if it had beene a mo&s;t wicked and abominable
<PB N="152" REF="83">thing, thou didde&s;t violently refu&s;e it &s;aying, it was not to bee received from a wicked man, who was &s;o imbrued with humane bloud. Wherein thou ha&s;t &s;hewed thy &s;elfe, un|courteous, cruell, and without compa&s;&s;ion of the affliction of <HI>Phalaris,</HI> who&s;e mi&s;ery is &s;uch, that having de&s;ired the Mo|narchie, thereby the freelier to u&s;e courte&s;ie and liberality to my friends; and by the good|ne&s;&s;e of the great God, having attained thereunto, I cannot finde any one, who will &s;uffer mee to &s;hew unto him, the bounty of my heart, they ther|by utterly depriving me of this only comfort, where with I did hope, to content my &s;elfe, and incounter all my mi&s;-fortunes; neither will you favour me &s;o
<PB N="153" REF="83">much as to &s;uffer mee to make any one of you partaker of my riches; but di&s;daining my pre|&s;ents you con&s;traine me to give them where I would not: and many times unworthily.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="111" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>111. To <HI>Teucer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>PO&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion hath beene given unto <HI>Ari&s;tomenes. Hipoli|tion</HI> is delivered. I expect thee according to thy promi&s;e; I am well, if thou al&s;o bee in good health; I can boldly &s;ay, I have attempted many things, and more will follow; and in te&s;pect of the evill, I repent me of the good.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="112" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="154" REF="84">
<HEAD>112. To <HI>the &s;ame man.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WHen I had a purpo&s;e to &s;peake to <HI>Cleonetes, Philodemons</HI> wife (thou know|e&s;t her) to marrie her daugh|ter; I was hindred by many occa&s;ions: about which I had thought to have &s;ent for thee hither, but for this very bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, I determine upon thy &s;tay at <HI>Siracu&s;e;</HI> whereby thou mai&s;t ea&s;ily know, that I doe not write without cau&s;e. Goe to her, and let her know, that to him who will marrie her daughter, thou wilt promi&s;e five talents for her dowry: this not to be by way of a pre&s;ent, but as paying unto <HI>Philodemon</HI> what I owe him. And if any &s;hould aske thee, how it hap|ned
<PB N="155" REF="84">that I had &s;o much money of him, &s;ay, thou knowe&s;t not; but referre it to me, who received it, and to him, who lent it. If thou can&s;t, work that <HI>Leon</HI> may bee accepted Son in lawe; for he came unto me, re|que&s;ting my furtherance, to obtaine her to wife; and ha|ving promi&s;ed him my be&s;t in|devour, I pre&s;ently adverti&s;e thee thereof. Yet if the mo|ther have a better husband, promi&s;e him the dowry, and &s;eeke no further; for I would not, by the dowrie which I give her, tye her to a husband again&s;t her liking. I al&s;o ear|ne&s;tly intreat thee, if thou fin|de&s;t the mother determined to give her in mariage, make her the offer for her daughter; nei|ther would I have thee doe it
<PB N="156" REF="85">negligently, as if thou wert to pay but with all cheerfulne&s;&s;e, as if thou wert to receive five Talents. For, it is mo&s;t un|plea&s;ing to give with a kind of unwillingne&s;&s;e, which witne&s;|&s;eth that the gift is not out of that re&s;pect, for which wee with all our heart doe give it: Neither is my minde (I thanke the great God) &s;ubject to this ba&s;ene&s;&s;e, that having <HI>Philode|mon</HI> his mony, I &s;hould think, the great contentment &amp; pro|fit, which the Mayd &s;hould have in mariage, &s;hould be my dammage. Although I verely beleeve, tho&s;e who know mee not, doe &s;u&s;pect it in me; But I wi&s;h <HI>Phalaris</HI> could not be ac|cu&s;ed for other crimes. When &s;hee is to be maried, let her be led by foure maydes neere her
<PB N="157" REF="85">owne yeeres, and give her the apparell for a wife which I have &s;ent thee, and for that purpo&s;e have them ready. Be|fides as my gift, &s;ixty peeces of gold. Let the mariage bee accompli&s;hed with diligence, it having been too long delay|ed already. Send the pre&s;ents with &s;peed and alacritie, that in <HI>Phalaris</HI> his affaires, thou mai&s;t acquire a particular grace. Let that which I command be ex|ecuted, as I write. Further|more, give all the honour you can unto Mother and daugh|ter, unto one as without a hu&s;|band, unto the other as with|out a father, helping them in all things they want, and let the mariage bee &s;umptuou&s;ly &s;olemnized; that upon that day <HI>Philodemon</HI> and his friends
<PB N="158" REF="86">may not otherwaies be thought then happy: For we will over|come his evill fortune, and be victorious.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="113" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>113. To <HI>Cleonetes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT appeares unto me, that <HI>Philodemon</HI> thy husband, and my deere friends travel, addeth much unto thy honour, and bringeth a kinde of infelicitie to thy daughter, being twentie yeeres of age, becau&s;e a ma|ried woman, remaining a yeere from her husband un&s;potted, acquireth a vertuous name, and a Mayd mariageable, and loo|&s;ing her time gets di&s;honour. For, every one di&s;e&s;teemes a mayd who is pa&s;t her tender yeeres and without a husband; but I thinke, thou keepe&s;t her
<PB N="159" REF="86">unmaried, to comfort thy &s;elfe in <HI>Philodemons</HI> ab&s;ence, with the daughter of you two. How&s;oever it be, to protract the daughters mariage, in re|gard of the fathers ab&s;ence is not well done; &s;eeing there is a great deale of difference be|tweene a wife without a hu&s;|band, which in &s;hort time is to returne; and a mayd who ne|ver had tryall of a man. If her Parents &s;hould dye, and mony wanting, it were a token of great misfortune, if &s;hee were not maried; wherfore I intreat thee by no meanes make triall. And that it may not happen, I adverti&s;e thee, that when <HI>Phi|lodemon</HI> went, he left with me, for his daughters portion, five talents, and more al&s;o; for <HI>Phalaris</HI> his money is common
<PB N="160" REF="87">to him. Why then do&s;t thou delay the mariage: it being no way needfull to attend the Fa|thers comming, nor of nece&s;&s;i|ty that he mu&s;t be at the mari|age. Yet I am of the minde, that what meriteth his pre|&s;ence, &s;hould be deferred un|til his arrivall; But what nature con&s;traineth us to doe, if it be in our power, let us not hinder, although it bee &s;omething a|gain&s;t our will; &s;eeing the daughters yeeres, may not comport with our &s;lowne&s;&s;e. If <HI>Philodemon</HI> have any great affaires abroad (as it is proba|ble, one who hath a daughter marriageable, mu&s;t travell) this doth not excu&s;e your longer &s;taying within dores, beyond the cu&s;tome: for the daughter hath more neede of a husband
<PB N="161" REF="87">than a Father: Yet, it may be, thou wilt &s;ay, the wife ought to joine in the ab&s;ent husbands fortune, as if &s;hee were with him, of which opinion I am not; but rather, that thou &s;houlde&s;t rai&s;e a felicity to thy husband, and honour unto thy daughter: adding unto a num|ber of good workes, which thou ha&s;t done without him, this one &s;peciall good, com|mon unto you both: in mary|ing thy daughter, wherin thou wilt merit the name of a pru|dent woman. Our <HI>Teucer</HI> will furni&s;h thee with mony, when|&s;oever thou wilt, and if thou ha&s;t neede of any other thing for the mariage, he &s;hall helpe thee; thou mai&s;t onely com|mand, and pray that <HI>Philode|mon</HI> may bee returned by the
<PB N="162" REF="88">mariage: not that the mariage be delayed by his ab&s;ence; but that the de&s;ire of his returne in health, and &s;uch like wi&s;hes, may be a true token, that thy love to him is not dimini&s;hed.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="114" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>114. To <HI>Teucer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BEfore I received thy let|ters, I knew that <HI>Philode|mons</HI> daughters mariage was fini&s;hed: for report goeth fa|&s;ter then tho&s;e, who u&s;e grea|te&s;t diligence to give adverti&s;e|ment of what is done. And although this me&s;&s;enger god|de&s;&s;e hath brought mee from farre, this newes; yet I may ju&s;tly complaine of her: For, although I be not &s;uch as o|thers &s;peake; yet I am by her, and her occa&s;ion blamed and
<PB N="163" REF="88">condemned of mo&s;t great cru|elty, for &s;hee publi&s;heth to all the world, that I am wicked; which maketh tho&s;e who ne|ver made triall of me, nor ever &s;aw me, di&s;prai&s;e me beyond mea&s;ure, as if I were a man, borne onely for the dammage and ruine of mankinde. This is my mi&s;erie. The hou&s;e, wherin <HI>Leon</HI> and <HI>Theantes</HI> were fir&s;t coupled together, I would have thee leave it to them for ever, and drive not <HI>Hymen</HI> the god of mariage, from the place vvhere hee vvas fir&s;t knowne unto them. It beeing an apt gift for tho&s;e who &s;hall receave it; the place where the Virgine knot is untyed, being mo&s;t plea&s;ing to the maried couple. The rea&s;on why I de|&s;ire it &s;hould be &s;o, is, that <HI>Phi|lodemon</HI>
<PB N="164" REF="89" MS="y">may rather be envied than pitied; and that no man how great &s;oever his felicitie be, &s;hall be judged &s;o happie as <HI>Philodemon,</HI> in his adver&s;e for|tune. Let the greate&s;t hatred be rai&s;ed again&s;t me; I care not, I make no account of what cannot hurt me. I wil that this, which I have commanded be done, that every one may de|&s;ire to finde &s;uch a friend as <HI>Phalaris,</HI> although they finde the contrary.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="115" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>115. To <HI>Philodemon.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou deceive&s;t thy &s;elfe <HI>Philodemon,</HI> to think, that I make &s;o many vowes and prai|ers for thy return; that I might not loo&s;e the 5. talents which I freely gave at the mariage of
<PB N="165" REF="89">thy daughter, not looking for it againe, for that had been un|worthy even of a mechanicke: yet if thou de&s;ire&s;t thy daugh|ters portion &s;hould have been given wholly by thy &s;elfe, It is enough for thee to &s;ay, the mo|ney was all thine: but if thou de&s;ire&s;t otherwaies, adde five more, and write her dowrie tenne; To the end (at the lea&s;t if thou thinke&s;t fit) part may be out of <HI>Phalaris</HI> love, the other of her fathers wealth. In ac|knowledgement of this my good-wil, thy daughter <HI>Theana</HI> hath made honorable mention of me, which plea&s;eth me ex|ceedingly, in as much, as what &s;hee received in her mayden|time, now &s;he being a wife and mi&s;t ^i^s of a family, &s;he acknow|ledgeth and giveth te&s;timony thereof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="116" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="166" REF="90" MS="y">
<HEAD>116. To <HI>Cleon</HI> and <HI>Theana.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat out of your good wil, you vouch&s;afe to &s;peak of <HI>Phalaris,</HI> with &s;o much honour and affection you wonderfully plea&s;e me, and although I inde|vour my uttermo&s;t, to make my &s;elfe worthie of &s;uch &s;pee|ches from others; yet fortune doth not permit it. For, in truth you &s;hall finde, from my begininng, that my name was never worthy of blame or re|prehen&s;ion; yet I am infinitely condemned for many foule things, which my perver&s;e and fatall nece&s;&s;itie hath con&s;trai|ned me to doe again&s;t my will. And my name is odious, be|cau&s;e, in&s;tead of obeying the Law, I am a Law unto my Ci|tizens.
<PB N="167" REF="90">But if you will have a retribution of thankes, for what you have done; doe me the plea&s;ure not to &s;peake &s;o of mee.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="117" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>117. To the <HI>Me&s;sinians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVHen I &s;ent the Del|phique plate, the Crownes of gold, and other pretious giftes to offer unto your gods, as a thankfull ac|knowledgement for the health which they have re&s;tored unto me; I did verily beleeve that of two things you would doe one: either religiou&s;ly offer them, or depriving the gods of them (as you have done) di|&s;tribute them among&s;t your &s;elves, feigning to doe me an injurie, but indeed committing
<PB N="168" REF="91">Sacriledge; as if the offerings, becau&s;e of the offerer were not Holy. For what difference is there, in &s;tealing things con&s;e|crated to the gods, and tho&s;e which are only addre&s;&s;ed unto them; &s;eeing both belong un|to them, and no more to tho&s;e from whence they were &s;ent. My acknowledgement there|fore, and your impiety is cleer|ly manife&s;ted; becau&s;e, they know, that I thankfully gave, and that you &s;tole. It &s;hall &s;a|tisfie me, to &s;ee you cur&s;ed by the divine anger, for keeping my offerings from beeing pre|&s;ented. Among&s;t other rea|&s;ons, which move you to be|leeve, that it is good gaine, you confe&s;&s;e that in the things &s;ent, there was nothing abominable; unle&s;s there &s;hould be a double
<PB N="169" REF="91">quality in them; that is, if you divide them among&s;t you, good; if given to the gods, evill. You al&s;o plainly demon|&s;tra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, that, in your owne con|&s;ciences you commit impietie, For your chiefe Magi&s;trate re|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">eth unto the people, to de|liberate what &s;hall bee done with the enemies trea&s;ures; and you, &ocirc; people, referre it to the Magi&s;trate. And (which is mo&s;t intollerable) you &s;ay, if the gods did receive a Tyrants goods, they were traytours to you, &s;o &s;oone as they did re|ceive them: wherein you ac|cu&s;e the gods of wickedne&s;&s;e, at if they were &s;ubject there|unto; yet you puni&s;h none of your citizens, but account them good Governours of your Common-wealth, who, not
<PB N="170" REF="92">onely once; but three &s;everall times, would have given <HI>Me&s;si|na</HI> into my hands, as ab&s;olute|ly as <HI>Agrigent</HI> is, if I would have given them the money, which they demanded. And the rea&s;on why you puni&s;h them not, is, becau&s;e you are of the &s;ame minde that they are, and cannot proceed again&s;t them being principalls freely; you your &s;elves being all to be corrupted with pre&s;ents. And that you may not thinke, I &s;peake the&s;e things, becau&s;e my offerings are neither in my hands, nor pre&s;ented to the gods; I will thinke no more of it; not doubting, but the gods, whom you have robbed, will timely and ju&s;tly puni&s;h your ra&s;h boldne&s;&s;e again&s;t me, and your impietie again&s;t them.
<PB N="171" REF="92">And &s;o I leave you to &s;uch a god as you de&s;erve.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="118" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>118. To <HI>Polycletes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>OF two things which thou <HI>Polycletes</HI> art endowed with; I doe not know which I &s;hould have mo&s;t in reverence and in e&s;teeme; either thy skill in phy&s;icke, or thy goodne&s;&s;e of minde. For the one hath o|vercome the Tyrants &s;ickne&s;&s;e; and the other the gifts, which were offered to kill him. So thy Iu&s;tice and knowledge di&s;|covering them&s;elves, have de|livered him, who was oppre&s;|&s;ed with two dangers, the vio|lence of my di&s;ea&s;e, and the malice of mine enemies. For if thou had&s;t neglected the gi|ving mee fitting medicines for
<PB N="172" REF="93">my health, &s;uffering me to die, it would ea&s;ily have beene thought, the Tyrant had died by thy meanes; and if by this my di&s;ea&s;e I had not beene in danger of death, yet, to get the reward offered unto thee, thou mighte&s;t ea&s;ily have killed me, for I tooke what&s;oever thou gave&s;t me as apt for my health: But thy &s;ingular goodne&s;&s;e did rather choo&s;e a ju&s;t prai&s;e, than an unju&s;t gaine. Seeing then, that I was in thy power, to have done thy will with mee, I cannot give thee condigne prai&s;e for thy hone&s;ty; only I will a&s;&s;uredly hold, that thou ha&s;t beene in&s;tructed, to thinke mo&s;t religiou&s;ly upon the god, who found out the art of Phy|&s;icke. Vnto who&s;e honour, and unto thy &s;ingular hone&s;ty,
<PB N="173" REF="93">I have commanded that foure ve&s;&s;els of gold &s;hould be given, two cups of &s;ilver, wrought after an antick manner, ten paire of gla&s;&s;e drinking-bowles, twenty virgins, and fifty thou|&s;and Atticks. I have al&s;o com|manded <HI>Teucer,</HI> my Trea&s;urer, to give thee as much wages as unto any of my &s;ea Captaines, and unto any of my Guard: which (I mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e) is but a &s;mall recompence for &s;o great goodne&s;&s;e. But in &s;tead of &s;atisfying according to thy merit; let it &s;erve, that I con|fe&s;&s;e, it is not in my power to reward thee equall to the good thou ha&s;t done me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="119" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="174" REF="94">
<HEAD>119. To the <HI>Hymerians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Sent unto you, to &s;end me pre&s;ently, <HI>Ste&s;icorus, Her|mocrates</HI> and <HI>Conon;</HI> but in &s;tead of them, you have &s;ent <HI>Sameas</HI> and <HI>Nicarques;</HI> whereby I well know, that if I were &s;uch a one, as you repute mee to bee, you would make me doe &s;uch mi&s;|chiefe unto you, as &s;hould con|&s;traine you, to &s;end me them whom I required. But I finde you do not make &s;mall account of that villaine <HI>Conon</HI>'s lewd|ne&s;&s;e, &s;eeing that in his &s;tead, you have &s;ent mee <HI>Sameas</HI> and <HI>Nicarques,</HI> as men of &s;mall e&s;teeme; whom neverthele&s;&s;e I know are illu&s;trious, and brave per&s;ons, and of a more hone&s;t life than any of you.
<PB N="175" REF="94">Wherefore I con&s;idered, the&s;e hone&s;t men ought not to bee tormented, having done no|thing injuriou&s;ly again&s;t mee, or the country. Neither will I violate the Common law of <HI>Greece,</HI> as you in divers things, and at divers times have done, e&s;pecially in that, which mo&s;t iniquu&s;ly you have executed again&s;t me; I need not recount the particulars, they are well knowne, both to me, and unto them, to whom I write. In which acts, truly, I whom you call a murderer, and a villaine, neither doe, nor will ever imi|tate you. I therefore returne you your Emba&s;&s;adours; al|though without difficultie, I could of two things have done one, either have con&s;trained you to &s;end me whom I requi|red
<PB N="176" REF="95">in liew of the&s;e two, or in tormenting the&s;e which are in my hands, have powred out my wrath upon them; which thing, though I have not done, yet you repute me as bad, as if I had done it; and no better, for returning them &s;afe. From whence I plainly &s;ee, that my good or bad acts, doe little a|vaile, to the acquiring the good will or hatred of men. Yet (&s;hutting in my wrath, untill I may puni&s;h with ju&s;tice) I would have you con&s;ider that I, being a Tyrant and angrie; having al&s;o in my hands, if not tho&s;e whom I de&s;ire; yet, at the lea&s;t &s;uch, as, if I &s;hould have put them to death, it would have beene very grie|vous unto you, have pardoned them, and lodged them with
<PB N="177" REF="95">me, have &s;ent them backe: Al|&s;o, if you will be ju&s;t in any thing, think it is better, the dan|ger &s;hould fall upon two or three, than upon a Citie. But if you re&s;olve to keepe <HI>Conon</HI> (who&s;e body hath di&s;hone&s;tly &s;erved all of you) in &s;afety, re|&s;olve al&s;o, that I wil ruine your City; For I will with all my &s;trength labour to let you know, that I am as cruell as you repute me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="120" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>120. To <HI>Ste&s;icorus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have beene told, that when thou con&s;idere&s;t with thy &s;elfe, my great power, and what thou ha&s;t done again&s;t me, thou art mightily afraid; whereat I much wonder, and why thou &s;hould&s;t beginne to
<PB N="178" REF="96">feare now, rather, than when thou did&s;t fir&s;t bandy again&s;t me; and &s;ayed&s;t unto the <HI>Hy|merians,</HI> that thou would'&s;t de|liver them from the unju&s;t Ty|rant, hoping (it may be) thou could'&s;t effect what thou &s;pa|ke&s;t. If then thou de&s;pi&s;e&s;t death, (as it was fit for a ver|tuous and wife man to doe) why then (foole as thou art) doth the feare thereof &s;o much trouble thee now, &s;eeing it is fit thou &s;hould'&s;t abide that, which thou did&s;t with &s;o much bravery offer to &s;uffer? But if thou wert naturally a coward, and fearefully di&s;po&s;ed to &s;uf|fer the paine, which I &s;hall lay upon thee; what a ra&s;h fellow wert thou to cry out again&s;t me, calling me villaine, a mur|derer, and cruell? and what
<PB N="179" REF="96">made thee bring into the open Senate thy &s;entences and ver&s;es again&s;t me? Why al&s;o, thou being a Mu&s;itian and a Poet, ha&s;t cho&s;en a life contrary to thy &s;tudy? Seeing thou migh|te&s;t have lived in quiet, with|out enterpri&s;ing any thing of more difficulty than fitted thy Poetry. Yet, &s;eeing, in &s;tead of addicting thy &s;elfe to that, thou de&s;ire&s;t to governe a Common-wealth; I doe fore|tell that &s;hall happen unto thee, not which unto Poets and unto Mu&s;icians, but what unto Go|vernours of Republiques, who are in their enemies hands, for fooli&s;hly attempting things beyond their &s;trength.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="121" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="180" REF="97">
<HEAD>121. To <HI>Him againe.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>STe&s;icorus,</HI> we are not Tyrant of <HI>Hymera,</HI> but of <HI>Agri|gent:</HI> wherefore, we give thee infinite thanks, that, by thy ac|cepting a &s;mall Seignury, thou ha&s;t given us a greater. From which rea&s;on be thou a&s;&s;ured, that we being Tyrant of <HI>Agri|gent,</HI> can revenge our &s;elves of our Enemies in <HI>Hymera.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="122" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>122. <HI>To the &s;ame Man.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Heare thou ha&s;t gone into <HI>Alontia,</HI> and to <HI>Ale&s;ia,</HI> and ha&s;t &s;ent me&s;&s;engers round a|bout to rai&s;e men and money again&s;t mee: Being old, wilt thou not yet forbeare thy fol|ly, and medling in publike af|faires,
<PB N="181" REF="97">having no re&s;pect unto the <HI>Mu&s;es,</HI> with whom thou &s;aine&s;t thy &s;elfe to be in love? Truely thou doe&s;t vilifie them, making u&s;e of them again&s;t ho|ne&s;t men. Ha&s;t thou no com|pa&s;&s;ion of thy children, now growen up? Thou art excee|ding ra&s;h, thus to labour in thy age, to a&s;&s;emble men again&s;t &s;o powerfull an enemie, who will overthrow them, and breake them as &s;mall as chaffe. Mee thinkes I &s;ee thee de&s;cribing the returne of the <HI>Greekes,</HI> ex|ceedingly blaming the ra&s;h|ne&s;&s;e of the Captaines. Yet, in all this thy travelling, thou doe&s;t not con&s;ider whether thou can&s;t returne in &s;afetie from <HI>Ale&s;ia,</HI> to <HI>Hymera.</HI> But I will tell thee, that the Rockes of the <HI>Capharian</HI> Sea, the <HI>Ca|ribdes,</HI>
<PB N="182" REF="98">and the armie of <HI>Nau|plius</HI> doe attend thee; neither can&s;t thou e&s;cape my hands, al|though &s;ome god (as you Poets feigne) &s;hould make thee goe invifible.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="123" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>123. To the <HI>Hymerians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>KNow that I have taken <HI>Ste&s;icorus, Conon,</HI> and <HI>Dro|pidas,</HI> &s;ailing from <HI>Pachi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a</HI> to <HI>Peloponne&s;us,</HI> for the <HI>Corinthi|aus;</HI> whither you had &s;ent them. It may be wee will &s;end you <HI>Dropidas. Con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> we in&s;tantly put him to death. But <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> wee yet keepe alive, untill wee have con&s;idered what kinde of death he &s;hall die.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="124" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="183" REF="98">
<HEAD>124. <HI>To the &s;ame.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOu have openly manife|&s;ted your affection, in thin|king that there is no difference betweene <HI>Phalaris</HI> his love or hatred. God hath done ju&s;tly; And I doe verily beleeve, that having given mee &s;uch begin|ning, the end al&s;o will &s;ucceed according to my defire. As I formerly writ unto you; I commanded <HI>Conon</HI> &s;hould in|&s;tantly bee put to death, know|ing him to be both crafty and a villaine, having neither father, mother, nor kindred in your Citie. I &s;end you <HI>Dropidas</HI> home honourably, as befitting him; becau&s;e he is neither evill, nor had ever done me harme; for <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> I will advi&s;e with time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="125" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="184" REF="99">
<HEAD>125. <HI>To the &s;ame.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have delivered <HI>Ste&s;icorus,</HI> pardoning what&s;oever hee intended again&s;t mee; not for love unto you; for, if there had beene no other re&s;pect, he &s;hould have died a thou&s;and times: But for the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> &s;ake, who have a care of him; And for all the gods and demie gods, which inhabite the Land of <HI>Hymera:</HI> becau&s;e I cannot complaine of them, but of you, who know well, what enter|pri&s;e he had again&s;t me: yet I was a&s;hamed, that, with that vile harlot <HI>Conon,</HI> &s;o &s;acred a man, (and who I doe verily be|leeve, is under the protection of the gods) &s;hould die. And I doe heartily wi&s;h of the great
<PB N="185" REF="99">god, that it had beene in my power, to have pre&s;erved from death tho&s;e, who were of con|dition like unto him. I coun|&s;ell you therefore and com|mand you, no farther to trou|ble him, by laying upon him, the burden of your common affaires: For it is no way pro|per nor apt for him, as I have beene a&s;&s;ured by tho&s;e who went with him into <HI>Ale&s;ia;</HI> they telling me, that again&s;t his will, and forced by your pertina<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ie, he was employed in tho&s;e affaires. Forbeare then to con|&s;traine him, and imploy others more fit, leaving him at re&s;t to tend his Harpe, without acqui|ring enemies like unto me. For it may be they will not u&s;e him as I have done. And if you have &s;uch need of men, to take
<PB N="186" REF="100">in hand the government of the Common-wealth; choo&s;e a|mong&s;t you &s;uch others, that when they are taken by me, I may puni&s;h them at my will, without any &s;uper&s;titious ap|prehen&s;ion, wherein it may be you will thinke I doe you a plea&s;ure.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="126" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>126. To <HI>Ste&s;icorus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have not &s;ent the oyle unto thee, but to thy nephew: be|cau&s;e his youth &s;eemes unto me worthy of reputation; and that in the <HI>Gymnick</HI> plaies he &s;hould not yeeld to <HI>Age&s;ilaus.</HI> And I de&s;ire that he may attaine the highe&s;t degree of perfection. As for thy &s;elfe, who ha&s;t re|fu&s;ed the money which I &s;ent thee; If now thou doe&s;t not
<PB N="187" REF="100">take it; bee thou a&s;&s;ured, (al|though it be fal&s;e) I will accu&s;e thee of Trea&s;on to the <HI>Hymeri|ans;</HI> w^c^h in my mind (if it &s;hould happen) would be farre wor&s;e, than the receiving that which I had provided for thee. More|over, I de&s;ire, that thou woul|de&s;t apply thy &s;elfe to the&s;e &s;tudies, which make thee (a|bove many other) honourable, admirable; In doing this, thou &s;halt forbeare other things, which (although thou art a|bove all others in teputation) make thee like unto the wor&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="127" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>127. <HI>To the &s;ame man.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe intreat thee <HI>Ste&s;icorus,</HI> &s;peake no more of me, be it in ver&s;e or other wayes: be|cau&s;e in all my bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, I de|&s;ire
<PB N="188" REF="101">nothing more than filence. Of others thou maye&s;t &s;peake as the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> &s;hall in&s;pire thee, and as thou plea&s;e&s;t, without reprehen&s;ion. But above all things, &s;hunne the government of the Common-wealth; &s;et|ting mee as an example before thy eyes. For although I am of mo&s;t men reputed happie; yet I know well the greatne&s;&s;e of my paine and travell. And, if thou doe&s;t thinke, that be|cau&s;e I have, of my owne ac|cord po&s;&s;e&s;t my &s;elfe of this Tyranny, therefore I ought worthily to &s;uffer this great vexation and care; And that to thee, who by con&s;traint too|ke&s;t this publike charge upon thee, no mole&s;tation ought to come: Lay a&s;ide all my acti|ons, and con&s;ider exactly thy
<PB N="189" REF="101">owne; and that no wi&s;e man, who, peradventure, would walke more warily, than thou ha&s;t done, would willingly medle in publike affairs. Think al&s;o, apart by thy &s;elfe, what thou ha&s;t &s;uffered, and what thou mighte&s;t have &s;uffered; if I had not been &s;uch an Enemie as thou founde&s;t me; facill, and ea&s;ie to appea&s;e. A man, who &s;ailes in a quiet &s;ea, and blowen with the pro&s;perous winds of fortune, in rea&s;on ought not to put him&s;elfe, for all that, whol|ly into the Arbitrement of for|tune. And if thou doe&s;t thinke, that; being no Tyrant, nor ha|ted of all men (as I am) thou oughte&s;t for thy friends, and for the Common-wealth, to under-goe the burden, thou much abu&s;e&s;t thy &s;elfe; for a
<PB N="190" REF="102">mans goodne&s;&s;e, is oftentimes as headlong a &s;tep as his ruine, as his wickedne&s;&s;e: Beleeve me, I could wi&s;h to be an ex|ample unto thee, and (if it were &s;afe) to become a private man, of a Tyrant; yet thou maye&s;t well con&s;ider, what the love thereof hath made me &s;uffer: If thou do&s;t al&s;o behold them; who have received for good turnes, many injuries of their fellow citizens; and great in|gratitude, for all the dangers, which they for the Common|wealths &s;ake have undergone, thou wilt well know; that hee, who forbeareth publike bu&s;i|ne&s;&s;e, and wholly intendeth his private, &s;hall finde in him&s;elfe great contentment.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="128" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="191" REF="102">
<HEAD>128. <HI>To the &s;ame man.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THou oughte&s;t not bee veued, becau&s;e thou art ac|cu&s;ed unto me by <HI>Eubolus,</HI> and <HI>Ariphantes,</HI> nor becau&s;e they a&s;cribe their affaulting of mee, unto thee, and to thy excellent ver&s;es, oughte&s;t thou to be me|lancholy, although thou doe&s;t know the great danger, where|in I was at <HI>Hymera.</HI> But cleare contrary, &s;eeing I had no great harme, it is fit, that again&s;t their intention, yet by their meanes, thou &s;hould'&s;t have rather fa|vour, than griefe; As well be|cau&s;e the&s;e ver&s;es, wherewith the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> have in&s;pired thee, have had &s;o much power, as becau&s;e (if thou ha&s;t any me|mory of me) it renders me wel
<PB N="192" REF="103">di&s;po&s;ed; And as that which thou ha&s;t compo&s;ed, is of more value by it &s;elfe alone, than fung with the Harpe; So <HI>Pha|laris</HI> is of more power, than they are who would kill Ty|rants. When I was in extreame danger, and tooke the Tyran|nie upon me, thou pre&s;erved&s;t thy friend&s;hip: wherefore I will nor complaine of thee, though by the wounds which I received, I &s;hould, (as I was neere) have died. Be&s;ides, I know, if &s;o wicked an attempt had taken effect, it would not have beene a fit &s;ubject for <HI>Ste|&s;icorus</HI> his ver&s;es. Yet, it may be, that by thy divine ver&s;es thou approve&s;t the killing of Tyrants; wherein every one prai&s;eth thee, and thy ver&s;es. For my part, I blame not the
<PB N="193" REF="103">killing of Tyrants, but of <HI>Pha|laris,</HI> becau&s;e that were to kill a man, not a Tyrant: Knowe&s;t thou not that I can better de|fend my &s;elfe from injuries, than offer any? Yet, nor <HI>Dro|pidas,</HI> nor any hone&s;t man what&s;oever, no, nor <HI>Iupiter</HI> him&s;elfe, who is the &s;aver of others, and hath pre&s;erved my life, can be in &s;urety in a Tem|ple, if <HI>Eubolus,</HI> and <HI>Ariphantes</HI> be there: To whom I have beene Iu&s;t, as I was to <HI>Conon,</HI> and <HI>Theagoras,</HI> who endevou|red to kill me, and as I was to <HI>Antimedes</HI> and <HI>Pericles,</HI> and o|ther their like whom I have put to death, out of a ju&s;t rea&s;on of revenge. Let them &s;ay that I am a Murderer, that I doe not think there is a God, that I am a Tyrant, and that I am full of
<PB N="194" REF="104">great and mo&s;t foule malices; and if they can, let them yet &s;ay wor&s;e without &s;paring; If &s;uch villaines &s;hould e&s;teeme of me, I &s;hould thinke I were to bee blamed by the good. Some of tho&s;e whom I puni|&s;hed, were burned in the Bull, &s;ome impaled, that they might &s;erve for example to deterre o|thers; &s;ome had their eyes pul|led out; others broken and laid upon a wheele; and others had their heads &s;corched: To bee &s;hort, al that offended me, ju&s;t|ly received a cruell death; So that to them I confe&s;&s;e I was a Tyrant; neither will I deny, that I de&s;ire this kinde of Ty|ranny; For in puni&s;hing the wicked, I &s;hall never be other than as they account me; But to the good, I will be alwayes,
<PB N="195" REF="104">&s;uch as I was, before I was a Tyrant. Doe not thinke there|fore <HI>Ste&s;icorus,</HI> that in writing again&s;t a Tyrant, thou write&s;t again&s;t me. Nor would I have thee neglect the embracing of the <HI>Mu&s;es,</HI> with all thy affecti|on; nor from &s;peaking what|&s;oever comes into thy fanta&s;ie of a Tyrant; For I de&s;ire thou &s;hould'&s;t know, that nothing can kill <HI>Phalaris</HI> but his proper de&s;tiny, which although the Poets doe not &s;peake of; yet from our birth wee carry it with us. Seeing, therefore of nece&s;&s;itie it mu&s;t come, I will receive it as due to mee. But <HI>Eubolus,</HI> and &s;uch homicides, who, for reward, have a&s;&s;ailed mee, I have given them their ju&s;t reward, not &s;uch as, accor|ding to the Lawes is given un|to
<PB N="196" REF="105">tho&s;e, who in killing of Ty|rants &s;eeke for glory: But &s;uch as was fit for a Tyrant to give, who was above the Lawes; Them, in the pre&s;ence of the <HI>Hymerians,</HI> I cau&s;ed to be im|paled up to the bre&s;t, letting them &s;o remaineuntil morning in great torment. Now be|cau&s;e I doe not de&s;ire that thou &s;hould'&s;t be put to the triall of the&s;e things, for thou would'&s;t &s;ay it were cau&s;ele&s;&s;ely done, I doe intreat thee to &s;eeke the meanes to enjoy a happie, long, and peaceable life, and provoke not <HI>Phalaris</HI> again&s;t thee; but exerci&s;e thy &s;elfe in the glori|ous labour with the <HI>Mu&s;es,</HI> &s;ending mee of thy workes, wherewith, I may free my &s;elfe from many thoughts, which doe oppre&s;&s;e me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="129" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="197" REF="105">
<HEAD>129. To <HI>Androcleus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have writ unto <HI>Ste&s;icorus,</HI> a&s;&s;uring him, that I am not angred with him, becau&s;e <HI>Eu|bolus</HI> and his fellow con&s;pira|tours, have &s;landered him. I doe al&s;o entreat thee, to a&s;&s;ure him, that I have no evil thought of him. For I doe beleeve, that the&s;e con&s;piratours (as they confe&s;&s;ed to mee) lay in wait for me, rather out of their owne malice, than incited by <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> ver&s;es.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="130" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>130. To <HI>Ari&s;tolocus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IF my enlarging of <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> and delivering him out of pri&s;on, hath incited thee to write Tragedies again&s;t mee;
<PB N="198" REF="106">thinking I will be &s;o mercifull to all Poets, thou art deceived; for I doe not e&s;teeme ordinary Poets, but tho&s;e who are ex|cellent; nor all enemies, but &s;uch only as are vertuous: Yet, thou, a wretched vile Poet, and a weake enemie, dar'&s;t com|pare thy &s;elfe in poetry, and goodne&s;&s;e of heart to <HI>Ste&s;ico|rus;</HI> But in &s;mall time I will make thee know a difference; not becau&s;e thou write&s;t a|gain&s;t mee; for if I &s;hould bee moved at thy fooli&s;h &s;otti&s;h|ne&s;&s;e, I were the poore&s;t &s;piri|ted man that ever lived; but becau&s;e thou being &s;uch an enemie, and &s;o dull a Poet, da|re&s;t parallel thy &s;elfe with <HI>Ste|&s;icorus.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="131" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="199" REF="106">
<HEAD>131. To <HI>Ste&s;icorus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Beleeve thou knowe&s;t <HI>Nico|cleus</HI> of <HI>Siracu&s;e,</HI> becau&s;e &s;uch is the noblene&s;&s;e of his fa|mily; that he cannot be of their number who are unknowne to <HI>Ste&s;icorus,</HI> he is at this time (and not without great cau&s;e) in ex|tremity of griefe; his wife, (who was not only a wife, but by his &s;i&s;ter a neece) is dead: This <HI>Nicocleus</HI> knowing the friend&s;hip betweene us, hath &s;ent his brother <HI>Cleonicus</HI> to me, with a reque&s;t, that I would intreat thee, to compo&s;e ver&s;es in honour of the dead; Of who&s;e vertues, principally of her Cha&s;tity, the <HI>Syracu&s;ans</HI> have given mee &s;o good te&s;ti|mony; that I doe not think her
<PB N="200" REF="107">unworthy to bee &s;ung in thy mouth. It is true, I confe&s;&s;e, thou ha&s;t ab&s;tained from wri|ting mens prai&s;es; becau&s;e thou woulde&s;t not have thy <HI>Mu&s;e</HI> e&s;teemed mercenary: But the greatne&s;&s;e of this womans ver|tue, un-imitable in our time, doth de&s;erve, that thou &s;houl|de&s;t &s;et apart that Scrupulous thought in this cau&s;e; I there|fore intreat thee, that, laying a&s;ide the &s;tiffene&s;&s;e of thy opi|nion; thou wilt not deny my intreaty; For <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> ought not to refu&s;e <HI>Phalaris</HI> in what he doth demand: not that thou art any way obliged; but be|cau&s;e I de&s;ire thou woulde&s;t confirme the opinion that the world holdeth, that I am thy friend. Doe me then this plea|&s;ure worthy of thy Spirit;
<PB N="201" REF="107">which I aske for my &s;elfe, that I may receive it for a friend. If thou wilt doe it; This is the &s;ubject; That <HI>Clari&s;ta</HI> a <HI>Syra|cu&s;an,</HI> the daughter of <HI>Equetra|cides,</HI> neece unto <HI>Nicocles</HI> by his &s;i&s;ter, unto whom al&s;o, &s;hee was a wife, and married at fix|teene yeares of age, &s;hee lived thirty, &s;he had i&s;&s;ue two daugh|ters, and died by &s;ickne&s;&s;e. There remaines no more, but that I pray the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> (who are alwayes with thee, and adorne thy &s;acred head) that they will in&s;pire thee, when&s;oever, thou either compo&s;e&s;t ver&s;es, or &s;ongs; e&s;pecially tho&s;e which I de&s;ire, thou &s;houlde&s;t make in honour of <HI>Clari&s;ta.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="132" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="202" REF="108">
<HEAD>132. To <HI>Nicocleus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Have written unto <HI>Ste&s;ico|rus</HI> about the Elegie which thou de&s;ire&s;t, and have given him the &s;ubject. He hath pro|mi&s;ed me, willingly to imploy him&s;elfe to the uttermo&s;t of his skill, thinking (it may be) to bring &s;ome ea&s;e unto thy &s;orrow, by the excellencie of his &s;pirit; but thy griefe is &s;o waighty, and &s;o un&s;upportable, that by words it is not to bee mitigated; being in one time two wayes doubly tormented, lo&s;ing thy neece, by thy Si&s;ter, and thy wife; who was the top of goodnes, of mo&s;t rare beau|tie, and of &s;uch cha&s;titie, that there was no woman, to whom &s;he &s;hould have been a &s;econd.
<PB N="203" REF="108">From hence proceeds your &s;orrow (I may call it de&s;paire) and all your teares, with care|le&s;ne&s;&s;e of life; But friends mu&s;t heare one the other, from whence I beg of you to bor|row &s;o much of your griefe; The heart of a vertuous man, (what&s;oever the affliction be) ought not to let in more &s;or|row, than the &s;pirit can beare. It were altogether unworthy of your vertue, to &s;uffer your &s;elfe to be captivated by griefe, and to murder your &s;elfe for a di&s;a&s;ter, which is not by mans nature to be re&s;i&s;ted. Give end therefore unto &s;orrow, and con&s;ider the weak &s;tate of man, and with what condition he is compo&s;ed. We are all borne, accompanied with infinite mi|&s;eries, which onely end when
<PB N="204" REF="109">we leave the pilgrimage of this life. Yet we think it delightfull becau&s;e we hope not to &s;uffer in it, any thing &s;o grievous as death. In which re&s;pect, wee pitie him, who is dead before us, yet we mu&s;t &s;hortly follow in the &s;ame voyage. Neither doe we know then, that wee ought &s;peedily to lament for our &s;elves. Such is the condi|tion of Humanity, neither is there any thing which more tyrannou&s;ly joyneth to man; All humane Creatures are &s;ub|ject unto it; neither can any in|chantment divert it or delay it. I, who am a Tyrant, and jud|ged of men mo&s;t mighty, yet cannot avoide it. Nor will I employ my forces again&s;t it; but with obedience bee ready when it comes. Yet I could
<PB N="205" REF="109">wi&s;h, I had power to governe it; not that I would deliver my &s;elfe from death (for no doubt &s;ome judge me worthy thereof before my time: which I gain|&s;ay not) but that I might change the fatall con&s;traint of &s;uch, who&s;e vertue and good conditions, de&s;erve to live long. Seeing then, that Death is a Tyrant over us, and that we have no power over it, let us plea&s;ingly &s;upport it; not alone becau&s;e teares cannot a|vaile, but becau&s;e it is to be be|leeved, that if thy wifes &s;oule did know thou wert &s;o affli|cted; &s;he would be much grie|ved: For &s;he being alive was a great comfort, doing with a cheereful countenance and free heart, what&s;oever &s;hee found plea&s;ing to thee. And in truth
<PB N="206" REF="110">thou art not to complaine the lo&s;&s;e of &s;uch a wife, rather &s;hee the lo&s;&s;e of &s;uch an husband, who, neither being the fir&s;t, nor the only man, who fell into the&s;e afflictions, thou oughte&s;t to thinke, that humane misfor|tunes ought to be borne pati|ently: If not by my example, who (oppre&s;&s;ed with diver&s;e travels) doe expect death with alacrity of &s;pirit: Yet in re&s;pect of the equalitie which Nature herein u&s;eth; For death is com|mon to all, but marvellou&s;ly feared by &s;ome; but &s;pecially by &s;uch, who&s;e long lives, are accompanied, with ea&s;e, quiet, pro&s;perity, health and riches.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="133" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="207" REF="110">
<HEAD>133. To <HI>Ste&s;icorus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Give thee infinite thankes, for the ver&s;es, which thou ha&s;t compo&s;ed in <HI>Clari&s;tas</HI> prai&s;e: and that, at my reque&s;t thou didde&s;t it &s;o willingly. Thou ha&s;t, in every part of them, witne&s;&s;ed the excellencie of thy &s;pirit; And not alone with me, (who equally pri&s;e all <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> his workes) but with the <HI>Agrigentines</HI> (a great num|ber of whom were at the rea|ding of them) thou ha&s;t ac|quired a great honour. Neither will thy ver&s;es live in the me|morie of tho&s;e only, who are alive, but in theirs al&s;o, who &s;hall be borne after us. I am therefore tyed to give thee thankes, that at my intreatie
<PB N="208" REF="111">thou ha&s;t made ver&s;es, admired by all men of this time, and by al po&s;terity; yet I be&s;eech thee, in the name of <HI>Iupiter,</HI> the great god of ho&s;pitality, and by all the other dome&s;tick gods, that in thy workes thou make no mention of my good or evill, which in one of thy letters thou &s;end&s;t me word thou wilt doe. For my misfortune hath made mee odious to all men. But let <HI>Phalaris</HI> be writ in <HI>Ste|&s;icorus</HI> his heart, either better than the common opinion which is held of him, or more wicked than hee is reputed, as thy judgement &s;hall direct thee.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="134" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="209" REF="111">
<HEAD>134. To <HI>Pelopidas.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Will not for any thing in the world &s;end unto <HI>Ste&s;ico|nus,</HI> about that which thou doe&s;t reque&s;t me: For I know well, that, although I &s;hould reque&s;t him, he will not com|po&s;e ver&s;es in prai&s;e of any man that is dead. And it doth content mee, that he &s;o much favoured me, as to write in ho|nour of <HI>Nicoclea</HI>'s wife. Wher|fore, if thou de&s;ire&s;t any thing of mee, aske that which is in my power, and not that, which dependeth upon another mans will.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="135" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="210" REF="112">
<HEAD>135 To <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> his Daughters.</HEAD>
<P>VVHat greater comfort, (faire Maidens) can be given in your griefe, than the remembrance of your fa|thers vertue, who&s;e death you bewaile? For <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> is not worthy of Teares, but of ho|nour. Wherefore, weepe not for him dead; not, that it is not a common thing to weepe for all; but it is only fit to be done for the wicked, who&s;e life, and not their death, ought to be be|wailed; And not <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI>'s; who, for &s;o many yeares, hath lived with the holy gods in &s;ongs and in mu&s;icke, whereby he hath gotten immortall ho|nour, and attained the highe&s;t
<PB N="211" REF="112">degree of prai&s;e; neither in this age, nor in any after, will any approach to that height. For in truth <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> his quality, &s;eemeth to me to differ little from the quality of a god, who is immortall, and extendeth every where. You mu&s;t there|fore (&ocirc; faire daughters of &s;uch a father) doe things worthy of him; which, beleeve it, is no &s;mall matter to effect. Bewayle not therefore any more the death of &s;uch a demy god, who ought to be &s;ung unto (as unto one mo&s;t happie) not onely in our time, but through all ages, nor take not from him, the marke of honour, which the <HI>Hymerians</HI> intend unto him, as unto a demy god. I know it was not di&s;plea&s;ing unto him, to be drawne from us, by that
<PB N="212" REF="113">irrevocable law of death: for he had infinitely commended worthy men, who died out of love unto honour and glory; And that by tho&s;e ver&s;es w^c^h are in your hands, and which &s;erve for an example unto good life. You mu&s;t al&s;o know, that when he was our pri&s;oner, and wee his enemie, hee alwayes &s;hewed him&s;elfe of an undaun|ted courage, nor was ever aba|&s;hed, as tho&s;e are, who expect a grievous puni&s;hment: But, contrariwi&s;e, I knew him more vertuou&s;ly couragious in our pri&s;ons, than when he was our enemie at liberty: By which meanes, his wi&s;edome trium|phed over cruelty; neither could I worke him any griefe: For what&s;oever I did, was ta|ken in good part: yet I imploid
<PB N="213" REF="113">all my forces, and bent all my wits to take him; but when I had taken him, or rather, when I was taken by him, I was not contented, but in doing him plea&s;ure; wherein I do not con|ceive, that he was beholding to me, nor in that I &s;pared twelve yeares of his life (which is the time he lived after his taking;) But I rather think my &s;elfe ob|liged to him, for having in ma|ny things confirmed my heart; but principally, (wherein hee hath exceeded al men that ever I conver&s;ed with) in building me to the contempt of death.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="136" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>136. To <HI>Teucreus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>TO &s;atisfie the reque&s;ts, which have been made un|to me for the <HI>Tauromenitans,</HI> I
<PB N="214" REF="114">would have thee deliver them their pri&s;oners; not, that I doe it to plea&s;ure them, but <HI>Ste&s;ico|rus:</HI> That hee, (having made this reque&s;t for them) may have the thankes, for courte&s;ie, which I doe for his &s;ake; Yet I thinke, the thankes will not be given: Such I conceive their ingratitude to be.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="137" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>137. To <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> his Daughters.</HEAD>
<P>YOu write unto me, that your father, upon his death-bed, gave you in charge; to intreat me in the behalfe of the <HI>Tauro|menitans.</HI> They are unworthy of all pitie; having, (without any injury (little, or much) done them by mee) unju&s;tly moved war again&s;t me. Yet <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI>
<PB N="215" REF="114">is worthy, not alone to obtaine the favour you demand, which is the ran&s;ome for the pri&s;o|ners; But any other thing, al|though it were (if it bee to bee done) greater than impo&s;&s;ible. And although, to &s;ome men he &s;eeme to bee dead, (which no prudent man will confe&s;&s;e) yet to me he is &s;till living. Neither &s;hall the hatred I beare unto the <HI>Tauromenitans</HI> have &s;o much power, but that your fathers memory &s;hall obtain for them, what he will of <HI>Phalaris,</HI> if it be in his power. For he did de&s;erve to command over all men, e&s;|pecially over me; who, among all men, that ever I conver&s;t with, never found any &s;o gene|rous or good as he. Wherefore I have commanded that the <HI>Tauromenitans</HI> have their mony re&s;tored.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="138" TYPE="letter">
<PB N="216" REF="115">
<HEAD>138. To <HI>Cte&s;iphus.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IN the beginning of the war, which the <HI>Tauromenitans</HI> made upon mee, I delivered their pri&s;oners upon ran&s;ome, not to doe them a plea&s;ure, but becau&s;e I would not violate the common Law of <HI>Greece.</HI> Nei|ther was my rendering unto them the money, which I had in ran&s;ome; (as thou thinke&s;t, and for which thou reprehen|de&s;t me) in favour or love unto them; But to &s;atisfie <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> his intreaty, made unto me by his Daughters. Wherefore, let them think them&s;elves obliged unto him, and acknowledge them&s;elves to his good inclina|tion. For my part, I am &s;o much obliged to him, for many great
<PB N="217" REF="115">matters, that I may not deny the doing his will; For I know that his obtaining of this from me, hath done them a great plea&s;ure, neither hath it beene <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">profitable to me; for there|by have I te&s;tified the benigni|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ie of my nature; whereof ma|ny men thinke I have no peece.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="139" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>139. To the <HI>Hymerians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Am ready to imploy my &s;elfe in any thing, for <HI>Ste&s;i|corus</HI> &s;ake; I, (if need were) a|gain&s;t the De&s;tinies, to pre&s;erve the memory of this divine man, who for the &s;weetne&s;&s;e of his ver&s;es, is prai&s;ed both of you, and of all others. And whom the holy and &s;acred <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> have reverenced and honored, more than all other Poets; In favour
<PB N="218" REF="116">of whom al&s;o they have pro|duced Odes and Songs in Mu|&s;ike. You ought al&s;o to con&s;i|der, that, where&s;oever he be bu|ried, he is &s;till a <HI>Hymerian;</HI> Al|though for his vertue &s;ake eve|ry countrey challengeth him; yet hee will alwayes remaine yours. Thinke not that <HI>Ste&s;ico|rus</HI> is dead, hee lives &s;till in his excellent works, which he hath made common to all. And re|member, &ocirc; <HI>Hymerians,</HI> that be|ing borne with you, hee was brought up, taught, and lived, exerci&s;ing him&s;elfe in compo|&s;ing Hymnes and Songs. After he changing, he died with the <HI>Catanians,</HI> according to their will and power. Doe you ther|fore build him a temple in <HI>Hy|mera,</HI> to the perpetuall memo|ry of his name. As for his
<PB N="219" REF="116">Tombe, it is already prepared in <HI>Catania,</HI> by the inhabitants. Yet you may doe what you plea&s;e, a&s;&s;uring your &s;elves, that you &s;hall not want in any thing that I can doe; be it in money, armes, or men: But, I could ra|ther coun&s;ell, fir&s;t to con&s;i|der, that you <HI>Sicilians</HI> taking a towne of <HI>Sicily,</HI> get no honour: And if you doe not take it, you will acquire &s;hame. Neither would I have you &s;o much la|ment <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> his death; For therein you may trouble his happine&s;&s;e. And although his body be dead, his fame is &s;till living, and glorious, and &s;hal be through all time; (which can have no power of him) pre&s;er|ved happie in the memory of men. As for his ver&s;es, &s;ongs, and his other Poems; I coun|&s;ell
<PB N="220" REF="117">you that they may be al|wayes publikely read, and &s;ung in your Temples, and privatly in your hou&s;es; for where there is memory of his ver&s;es, hee cannot be &s;aid to be dead. To keep him therefore alive, make many copies, and di&s;per&s;e them abroad: A&s;&s;uring your &s;elves, that the Citie, which hath had the felicity, to bring forth &s;uch a Poet, will be highly e&s;teemed by all men for his &s;ake.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="140" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>140. To <HI>Tra&s;ibulus</HI> and <HI>Aphilantes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>YOu &s;ay, that you paid to <HI>Teucreus,</HI> the money which I lent you; and he denieth the receiving it. In truth I have no occa&s;ion, not to beleeve you, or to di&s;tru&s;t him. He deman|deth
<PB N="221" REF="117">a witne&s;&s;e of the payment; you &s;ay you paid it as to a faithfull friend. Wherefore no other certainty being, and that you may not thinke that I di|&s;tru&s;t any of you; I allow it in my accounts as payed to me. And I pray god, (who&s;oever be in the fault) the truth may be ever hid from mee, rather than I &s;hould di&s;cover fraud or malice in any of you. For mo|ney is a le&s;&s;e lo&s;&s;e than a friend, and of nece&s;&s;ity it would fall out, if the truth &s;hould di&s;cover the malicious offender, that of my friend, he would become my enemie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="141" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>141. To <HI>Paurolas.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MY wealth is &s;mall to &s;up|ply thy bounty; yet I
<PB N="222" REF="118">&s;weare unto thee by the great god, I do not think the &s;umme great, which thou demande&s;t; I onely pray, that thou laye&s;t it out, as thou pretende&s;t: for if thou di&s;tribute&s;t in that man|ner, be a&s;&s;ured, thou &s;halt ra|ther want friends to di&s;tribute unto, than gifts in abundance from thy father: For when great and excellent gifts doe precede, the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of things worthy a great &s;pirit do follow; Be&s;ides Fortune doth u&s;ually and quickely render, what is given or &s;pent upon a noble friend, with franckne&s;&s;e of heart: nor &s;u&s;pect, that what I &s;peak freely unto thee, &s;erves to give &s;paringly, and in &s;mall gifts unto my &s;onne, for whom I have acquired, what&s;oever I po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e: For I am &s;o far from
<PB N="223" REF="118">reprehending thy liberality to thy companions, that, the un|&s;peakable delight which I take therein, makes me advi&s;e thee to u&s;e all the meanes thou can&s;t to exerci&s;e this thy noble cour|te&s;ie; and not alone in this time, but while this fortune of ours gives leave, that thou per&s;e|vere in this thy magnanimous will. To maintaine thee there|fore in that minde, know, that what I &s;end, I give mo&s;t wil|lingly, a&s;&s;uring thee, thou &s;halt doe mee a plea&s;ure, to &s;pend in this commendable and hope|full manner.</P>
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<HEAD>142. <HI>To the Megarians.</HI></HEAD>
<P>VVIthout expecting any plea&s;ure from you, I have &s;et your Galley, which I
<PB N="224" REF="119">had taken, free and at liberty; although I know &s;hee was ar|med, and rigged out again&s;t me. If you can remember any courte&s;ies done unto you; you ought not to forget, that here|tofore, I have al&s;o three times delivered you, when you were ready to be fami&s;hed, out of &s;carcitie of Corne.</P>
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<DIV2 N="143" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>143. To <HI>Peri&s;tenes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AT the fir&s;t I had a great de&s;ire to put to death the wives of <HI>Eubolus</HI> and <HI>Ariphan|tes,</HI> who had con&s;pired again&s;t me; And thou having taken them, didde&s;t &s;end them unto me, to that end. But I &s;et them free; whereat I know thou wilt wonder. Yet when thou &s;halt know, that the cau&s;e thereof
<PB N="225" REF="119">proceeded from the demon|&s;tration which they made of their great vertue, thou wilt much more wonder: for when I asked them if they were pri|vie to the con&s;piracie of their husbands again&s;t me, they not onely confe&s;&s;ed it, but affirmed that they were determined to come with their husbands to the doing of the act: then I de|manded what injury, great or &s;mall I had ever done them; they an&s;wered, no particular, but publike, for we thinke it a common injury to reduce free Cities to &s;lavery: And when I a&s;ked what puni&s;hment was an|&s;werable to the hatred they bore me; they an&s;wered death: I hearing the&s;e an&s;wers, judged that they willing to dye &s;o va|liantly, were worthy of life,
<PB N="226" REF="120">not of death, and therefore pardoned them, commanding that all that was taken from them may be re&s;tored to them, &s;ending them to their parents free from any complaint of any injury done unto them by us.</P>
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<DIV2 N="144" TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>144. To <HI>Evander.</HI></HEAD>
<P>I Doe thinke, that though all the <HI>Hymerians,</HI> and the grea|te&s;t part of the <HI>Sicilians</HI> know, that in <HI>Hymera,</HI> many did con|&s;pire again&s;t my life, and how when they a&s;&s;aulted me, I avoi|ded the danger, for I was more ju&s;t than they: And god who cannot be iniquus, as they were who had the boldne&s;&s;e to at|tempt this wickedne&s;&s;e in his Temple, would not have per|mitted,
<PB N="227" REF="120">that they being the exe|cutioners of a ju&s;t enterpri&s;e, &s;hould as malefactours have fallen into the power of him, who had ju&s;tly de&s;erved to die by their hands. Yet becau&s;e I have heard <HI>Ste&s;icorus</HI> is ex|tremely grieved, that <HI>Eubolus</HI> and <HI>Ariphantes,</HI> doe a&s;cribe their enterpri&s;e again&s;t me, un|to his ver&s;es; I de&s;ire (although I beleeve it to be true) that hee would lay a&s;ide all &s;orrow; for if their mindes had beene guided by his ver&s;es, they would not have de&s;erved to be puni&s;hed as wicked; but rather rewarded for their vertue.</P>
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<P><HI>Jmprimatur:</HI> THOMAS WEEKES, <HI>R. P. D.</HI> Epi&s;copo Lond. <HI>Cap. domest.</HI></P>
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