ESSAY XXV.
THose that were too lavish of their Flatteries, He himself restrain'd and reprov'd.
Says D'Ablancourt, And if any suffer'd
The compleat courtier: or, The morals of the famous historian Cornelius Tacitus concerning flattery, &c. In above one hundred essays. Paraphras'd and illustrated with useful observations by the Sieur Amelo de la Houssaie and M. D'Ablancourt. Done out of French.
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"The compleat courtier: or, The morals of the famous historian Cornelius Tacitus concerning flattery, &c. In above one hundred essays. Paraphras'd and illustrated with useful observations by the Sieur Amelo de la Houssaie and M. D'Ablancourt. Done out of French." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62449.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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themselves to run into high-strain'd Flattery, those the Prince was the first that repre∣hended.
This was the True means to preserve himself from being mislead. For it is with many Princes, as with Women that are given to tell Stories, that their Ears are too open to the Charms of pleasing Impertinents. If Flatterers never open'd their Lips, Princes would never be mis∣guided, for Verity would take place of Untruth. For this Reason it was, that the prudent Senator Helvidius, deliver∣ing his Opinion concerning the Deputies which the Senate had resolv'd to send to Vespasian, to Congratulate his Advance∣ment to the Empire, alledging, That it was for the Interest of the Public Weal, and the Honour of the Prince, to depute the first time, such of their Number, whose Lives and conversations were free from stain or reproach, that they might accustom his Ears to whole∣some Counsel; that Thraseas, Soranus, and Sentius, (who were three of the Since∣rest Persons in the Senate) having been Honour'd already with Vespasians Friendship, it behov'd 'em to be careful to let him see their Accusers. That a Deputation so judicious would be as it were a tart Intimation which
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the Senate gave him of those Persons, who were most worthy his Esteem and Favour; and likewise of those other whom he had rea∣son to mistrust. That is to say, Flatter∣ers, and other wicked People, that build their Fortunes upon the Ruin of others.