Aphorismes ciuill and militarie amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.

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Title: Aphorismes ciuill and militarie amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.
Author: Dallington, Robert, 1561-1637.
Publication: London :: Imprinted [by R. Field] for Edward Blount,; 1613.
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Subject terms: 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 XVII.

ADuersity bendeth but neuer breaketh a noble and vn∣daunted courage: he abandons not himselfe though all the world forsake him: but hopes that when Fortune is come to the Brumall solstice of her frowning, she will be retrograde, and shine againe vpon him with the beames of better successe. A Prince therefore plunged to the lowest deepe of desasters, must beware he sincke not to the neathermost hell of despaire, whence is no redemption: but reserue himselfe to better fortunes. * 1.1

Frederick King of Naples is dispossessed of all he held in the realme, by the Victors. He resolues in hate of the Spaniard, to flee into the armes of the French Kings mercy, and end the re∣mainder of his daies in France, as desperate of all hope euer to recouer. He desires safe-conduct: obtaines it: and sailes thither. The King giues him the Duchie of Aniow: and thirty thousand Duckats of yearely reuenew for his maintenance. Prospero Co∣lonna, his trusty friend and souldier, had euer aduised and impor∣tuned him to the contrary: dissuading this course as vnfortunate

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and desperate. Whose counsaile if he had followed, the great warres and troubles which after fell out between those two great Kings, had made him an open way (if retired into some neuter place, and reserued there for some good occasion) to the reco∣uery of his lost kingdome.

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* 1.1

Viuite fortes,—Fortia{que} aduersis opponite pectora rebus. * 1.2

Erectum & fidentem animi teipsum ostende.

Il faut ployer plus tost que rompre: & se reseruer à meilleur temps.

〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Decet * 1.3 virum verè generosum ferre tum bona tum mala, si lapsus fuerit.

Vir est sapientissimus, qui tum quom res secundae sunt, se poterit noscere, & * 1.4 qui aequo animo patietur, sibi esse peius quàm fuit.

Animus aequus, optimum est aerumnarum condimentum. * 1.5

Virtutis iam sola fides, quam turbine nullo

Excutiet Fortuna tibi.—

Per vno de megliori consigli che si possa dar à Prencipe, ô à Priuato, stimo io che sia, l'accomodarsi l'animo à qualun{que} accidente, ô prospero ô desauuenturato che * 1.6 possa auuenirgli.

—Fisus cuncta sibi cessur a pericula Caesar.

Virtus{que} nostra nescit ignauos metus. * 1.7

Fata viam inuenient, aderit{que} vocatus Apollo.

Fortuna opes auferre non animum potest.

Maiestas non fracta malis.
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* 1.2

Venusi. Lir. Tacit. an. l. 4. Am. Plu. Cic.

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* 1.3

Menand.

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* 1.4

Plaut. Stych

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* 1.5

Plaut. Rud. Lucan. l. 4.

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* 1.6

Am. in Tacit lib. 10.

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* 1.7

Lucan. l. 8. Senec. Oed. Virg. Aen. 3. Sen. Med. Lucan 4.

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