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HE 1 1.1 that propounds an affaire to his inward friend, would be aduised. He that imparts a resolued busi∣nesse, would haue it concealed. In the first case, the Counsellor must vnlocke his heart: in the other he must seale vp his lippes. 2 1.8 For it is dangerous to be of a great mans counsaile, and not to keepe it.
Duke Valentinois is sent into France with a Cardinals hat, to George of Amboise Archbishop of Rouen. He followes his fathers principles of craft and subtiltie: for, hauing likewise brought with him a Bull of dispensation for the Kings mariage with the daughter and heire of Bretagne; he pretends to haue brought no such matter: hoping that the Kings desire to haue it, would worke him the sooner and better to his proper ends, rather then the memory thereof, when he had once got it. Onely the Bishop of Septa, the Popes Nuntio in France, knew the secret, and re∣ueales it closely to the King. The King without any farther vrging to haue it (being as he thought all one towards God, since it was granted) presently consummates the mariage. Valentinois when he saw no other remedy, deliuers it, and shortly after causeth the Nuntio, by whom it came to light, to be poisoned.
Atque adeò quàm non sint retegenda illa quae Princeps vult esse tecta, in * 1.2 ipsis priscarum fabularum inuolucris explicitum est: nam & Thamyris à Musis, & Tiresias à Pallade excaecati sunt: Marsias ille hispidus & multibarbus ab A∣polline excoriatus, & Lini temeritas morte punita.
Alexander, cum arcanas quasdam liter as Haephestioni legisset, detractum di∣gito annulum ori eius admouit. * 1.3
Philippide domandato da Lisimacho Re; qual maggior fauore gli potesse fare, perche cognoscesse quanto l' amaua: rispose, Che tu non mi communichi alcuno di * 1.4 tuoi segreti.
Principes non aliter videri volunt, quàm qua forma sese aspiciendos praebent.
Non salti il Cuor fuor delle Labbre ignudo, * 1.5
Che mal può ricuoprir Elmo ô Scudo.
Scire volunt secreta domus, atque inde timeri. * 1.6
Gran silentio è gran pondo a sostenerlo.
Consiliarij arcani esse debent, nec tamen arcanorum scrutatores. * 1.7
Abditos Principis sensus, & si quid occultius parat exquirere, anceps, pericu∣losum.
Pasch. Leg. cap. 21.
Cassiod. l. 8.
Remig. Flor. è Plutarch.
Pasch. Legat Ex Ammirat
Iuuen. Sat. 3. Am. è Soph.
Lip. pol. l. 3. Tacit. an. l. 3.
Digito compesce labellum:
Accusator erit qui verbum dixerit, hic est. * 1.9
Tiberius ex viginti consiliarijs vix duos aut tres incolumes praestitit. * 1.10
Thrasyllum secretorum temerè conscium, in mare praecipitare destinat.
Quae suauissima & pulcherrima habent reges, ea conspectui sunt exposita: coe∣nae, opes, beneficia: si verò arcani quid est, caue accesseris aut moueris. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
Lingua fuit damno, lingua faciente loquaci, * 1.11
Qui color albus erat, nunc est contrarius albo.
—Tanti tibi non sit opaci,
Omnis arena Tagi—vt à magno semper timearis amico. * 1.12
Iuuen. Sat. 1.
Suet. in Tib. Idem. Plut. de curi.
Ouid.
Iuuen. Sat. 3.