CHAP. XVI.
* 1.1O Prince, worthy alwaies to bee called by fathers into their Coun∣saile, worthy to bee made coheire with their innocent children. This Clemencie becommeth a Prince, that whether so euer hee commeth, should make all things more mild. Let no man be so abiect in a Princes eye, that hee hath no feeling of his death or danger, whatsoeuer he bee, he is a part of the Empire. Let vs make a compari∣son, betwixt the smallest Kingdomes and the greatest Empires; There is but one kind of Gouernement. The Prince commandeth his Subiects, the father his children, the master his schollers, the Captaine or Lieutenant his Souldiers. Shall he not be reputed a wicked father, who with continuall whipping vpon the sleightest occasion, seeketh to still his children? Whether should that Ma∣ster be more worthy the liberall studies, who fleaeth his Schollers, if they haue not exactly remembred their lessons; or by reason of their weake sight haue faulted in their reading; or he that had rather mend them, and teach them by admonitions and modestie? Giue me a Captaine or Lieutenant that is cruell, he will make his Souldiers forsake him, and yet these are to be pardoned. Were it a reasonable matter, to handle a man worse then we doe bruit beasts? But hee that is a good breaker of horses, terrifieth them not with often strookes, for by that meanes he will become more fearefull and stubberne, except thou handle and stroake him with a gentle hand. The same doth the Huntsman, who tea∣cheth his hound to draw drie foote, and who vseth those whom he hath alrea∣die trained to the game to rowse or hunt it. Neither doth hee often threaten them, for therefore their courage is directed, and whatsoeuer forwardnesse is in them, is daunted by degenerate feare; neither doth hee giue them libertie to wander and stray here and there. To these maiest thou adde those that haue the driuing of slower Cattle, which being bred vnto reproach and miserie tho∣row too much crueltie, are inforced to refuse their yoke.