. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . nd bear patiently the In-conveniencies of Nature j fo alfo we ihouldtheDefe&s ofour Princes (19). While there are Men, there will beVices (20). Where is there to be found a Prince with-out them ? Thefe Evils are not continual. If one Princebe bad, another good one fucceeds, and fo one makesamends for the other (21). (1 $) An Neronem extremum Dominorum putatü f idem credidermt, quiTiberio, qui Caiofuperftites fuenmt: cum interim inftabilior ify fevior exor-tu& eft. Tac. 4. Hift. (16) Ferenda Regum ingenia, ñeque ufui cruras mu-tañones.
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . nd bear patiently the In-conveniencies of Nature j fo alfo we ihouldtheDefe&s ofour Princes (19). While there are Men, there will beVices (20). Where is there to be found a Prince with-out them ? Thefe Evils are not continual. If one Princebe bad, another good one fucceeds, and fo one makesamends for the other (21). (1 $) An Neronem extremum Dominorum putatü f idem credidermt, quiTiberio, qui Caiofuperftites fuenmt: cum interim inftabilior ify fevior exor-tu& eft. Tac. 4. Hift. (16) Ferenda Regum ingenia, ñeque ufui cruras mu-tañones. Tac. 12. Annal. (17) Ulteriora mirari, prafentia fequi, bonosImpei•atores votoexpetere, quakfcunque tolerare. Tac. 4. Hift. (18) fer,27. 6. (ig) Quomodofierilitatem, aut nimios imbres, ££ tatera Naturamala, ita Luxuriam vel avaritiam dominantium tderare. Tac. 4. Hift»(20) Vitiaerunt, donee Homines. Ibid. (2 \) Sedneque hxc continua \Cr mdiomm internum penfwtur. Ibid. EMBLEM Vol. H. A Prince fhould oppofe Artifice, &c. 219EMBLEM NO Bird fo much refembles Man in the Articulationof the Voice, as the Parrot *. Its Vivacity is fogreat, that fome Philofophers have doubtedwhether it did not participate of Reafon. Cardan fays,that it furpafies all Birds in Ingenuity, and Quicknefs ofApprehenfion \ and that it not only learns to Speak, butalfo to Meditate with a Defire of Glory (1). This Birdis very Candid and Ingenuous, the Quality of Great Spi-rits : yet is not its Candour expofed to Deceit, but (he * Si me non videos efe negabis avem. Marc. (1 j Inter aves Ingenio,Sagacitateque prnftat, quod ¿randi fit capite, atque in India, calo fmcerowfcitur, undé didicit non folum toqui, ft¿ €t^am meditan, meditatur obJJudium Gkrifc Cardac* knows izo A Prince jboulcl oppofe Artifice to Artifice, knows how to prevent it \ and as fly and crafty as theSerpent is, it evades his Artifices, and to fecure its Neifcfrom him,it hangs it at the end of the higheit and ílendere
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