Aphorismes ciuill and militarie amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.
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Aphorismes ciuill and militarie amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.
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Dallington, Robert, 1561-1637.
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London :: Imprinted [by R. Field] for Edward Blount,
1613.
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Aphorisms and apothegms -- Early works to 1800.
Political science -- Early works to 1800.
Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Italy -- History -- Early works to 1800.
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APHORISME XLI.
MEns1 1.1manners change with their honours: and therefore popular States haue cut off aspirers to ouer-much greatnesse and popularitie, (though o∣therwise men of eminent vertue and worth) be∣cause it is scarce knowne to themselues (much lesse to the State) what maner of men they would proue, hauing gained their purpose.2 1.4So do mens fortunes often change with their honours: for as historie giues vs instances of diuers Princes, to whom successe and desaster, glorie and disgrace, haue bene alternatiue: so are they plentifull in examples of such as haue had a continuall cur∣rent of good fortune, to a certaine period; and then a perpetuall ebbe,
and course of the contrarie, all their life after.
Alphonso of Arragon, king of Naples, during the raigne of his father old Ferdinand, and while himselfe was but Duke of Cala∣bria, was renowmed through all Europe for his famous deeds of armes, and succesfull issue in all his actions. But after he once came to the Crowne, there was no one enterprise wherein he prospered: his glorie was daily eclipsed with the thicke clouds of blacke infamie, for his crueltie, auarice, and oppression: and his felicitie hourely wained to the last change of extreme mis∣fortune.
Sunt quidam hoc Astro, vt ijs ad amplitudinem & gloriam, & ad res magnas benè gerendas, diuinitùs adiuncta fortuna videatur: Alij quibus etiam venti tem∣pestates{que} obsecundant.
Alij quibus dormientibus Dij omnia conficiunt.* 1.8
In sinum ijs victoria de coelo deuolat.
Reti vrbes capiunt.
Sunt verò alij〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. Quarta luna nati, & infoelices.