CHAP. II.
I Dare well hope and promise Caesar that the greater part hereof shall come to pass••.* 1.1 This Clemencie of thin•• shall by little and little be published, and spread thorow all the bodie of thine Empire, and all thinges shall conforme themselues according to the example which thou giuest them. Good health proceedeth from the head, and afterwardes causeth that all the members are nimble and strong, as contrariwise they languish, if the spirit that quickneth them, bee a∣mated. And both thy Cittizens and associates shall be worthie of this bountie, and good maners shal be re-established thorow out the whole World, & shal be extended in euerie place. Suffer me to insist a little longer one this point, not to the intent to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 flatter thine cares, for it is not my custome. I had rather offend thee in speaking truth, then please thee by flatterie. What is the cause then, why I desire thou shouldest bee so familiarly exercised in the knowledge of thy good words and actions? Truly no other but that one day thou mayest say and doe that with judgment, which now thou sayst and doest by a naturall aptitude of thy minde. This consider I with my selfe that many great, but they detestable speeches of Princes are entred into mens hearts, and are ordi∣narie in their mouthes as this.
With deadly hate let them pursue me, Prouided alwayes that they feare me.Whereunto resembleth that Greeke verse who willeth that when he is dead,
The solid Earth should with the fire be mixt.And others of this kinde: But I know not how such spirits, so prodigious and so hatefull, haue expressed their violent and furious conceits in a more plentiful manner. I haue neuer as yet heard a proud word vttered by a good and merci∣full Prince. What is it then that thou art to doe? Forsooth this, that as slackly as thou mayest and with some remorse; and with some delayes also vntill such