by a faire occasion perswaded He would not ingage them in great affaires before they had great power when the obligation is greater than the meanes man either dyes unfortunately or lives discontented hee would not sowre the sweets of their Victories with the wormwood of their birth for whereas to bee the chiefe of Shepherds was the greatest glory that could befall the sonnes of Faustulus it would prove a deplorable miserie to the sonnes of a King THat birth detracts frō the merits of great actions w ch obliges to greater He is not glorious that is borne a Prince but he that becomes one nor is he to be accounted abject who is borne a private man but he whose actiōs make him so that graine of corne is called great w ch is bigger than the rest and that mountain little w ch doth not exalt his head so high as others A certaine wise man said that God is a Geometrician perhaps because the world consists more of a Geometricall than Arithmeticall proportion Praise or dispraise are not occasioned by descent but may well be weighed together with descent they consist in differing from them in valour to whom a man is equall in nature herein consist mans rancor and hee is not the aymed at marke of envie to whom honour hath not formerly had refuge Necessity administring occasion he acquaints Romulus with the businesse TO know ones selfe descended from famous ancestors serves as a go◅d to those magnanimous spirits who take it for a note of infamie to be held famous for the actions of other men but serves for a chaine or clog to such poore mindes who hold it lawfull quietly to enjoy the rest caused by other mens labours and glory in a long Series of hewen out marble worthy memories of dead mens actions hatefull sepulchers of renowne to such as live When Romulus knew his descent he was more violently incenst against the Tyrant by whose death hee might appease two powerfull affections the one of Glory the other of Revenge He knowes his forces too weake for open violence hee hath recourse to Stratagem He took his way straight to the Kings Palace accompanied by many others disguised in poore apparell being come thither and incouraged by his brothers armed neighbourhood hee set upon the King and slew him on that seat where he had committed so many wickednesses A Tyrant is to all men hatefull hee builds the whole bodie of his State upon the colums of feare his ruines arise from either not fearing or not being feared confidence destroyes him feare secures him not and oft-times when he thinkes to abase mens hearts he infuses valour into them for the greatest daring proceeds from the greatest feare to talke against him is dangerous to kill him safe the action is easie to be effected which hath nothing of fearfull in it but the act it selfe it were more easie to kill a good Prince if there were not more difficulty in having killed him it were more dangerous to kill a Tyrant were not the danger lesse when hee is slaine who doth not for revenge adhere unto the fact adheres for glory no man appeares enemie to him that killed him because no man will see me to bee friend to him that was killed Numitor who was not ignorant of Rhemus his descent and who by just at least justifiable pretences had seconded the act committed favoured by the guardianship of Rhemus committed to his custodie seeming ignorant that they had assaulted the King though the Palace with intention of purging not of taking the Citie summoned the Albian youths to defend the Tower but when hee saw the two young men come towards him calling a Councell hee related unto them how they had bin brought up how borne how exposed to the waters and how saved The young men saluted their Grandfather with title of King the which was followed unanimously by all the rest as well for that it is usuall in such assemblies for all to follow where a few doe but begin as also for very commiseration which never forsakes infelicitie TO have beene hated by the Tyrant is desert enough to purchase the good will of the people to them he who is in danger is alwayes acceptable they would alwayes raise him up whom they see kept down they have compassion on any one that suffers violence where the fire of tyrannicall hatred flames highest there 't is that the waters of popular favour showre downe all men doe more naturally desire to restore him to his state from whom it was taken than to adhere to him that tooke it they have compassion on him because there are but few that can use violence and all those hate it that feare it they helpe him because a greater reward is expected for helping out of misery than for applauding prosperitie Envie remaines to the happie for punishment and losse compassion to the miserable for comfort and re-establishment to restore Princes into their estates hath alwayes the face of charitie but if selfe interest concurre not therewithall they are pitied not holpen and then the envie which hurts not is punishment though but a vaine one to such as are fortunate compassion which helpes not is a comfort though unprofitable to man in miserie Romulus and Remus having made their Grandfather King they turned their thoughts elsewhere MAny know how to give a Kingdome to another who know not how to brooke a King to uncoth a thing is to obey him who through ones owne meanes commands to receive a Principalitie from another mans valour is a kinde of servitude which necessitates a man either to shew himselfe simple or ingratefull to satisfie their intolerable desires is voluntarily to surrender up the Principality to them that gave it not to humour them is to hazzard the surrendring of it up to them by force for it is an easie thing for them who got a kingdome for another the same cunning not failing them to get it for themselves who hath once with good successe imbrued his hands in Royall bloud feares not to venter the second time and he who was deprived of a Kingdome is alwayes jealous and feares that which he knowes is fesable how can the Obligation be cancel'd which one owes to him who hath got a Kingdome for him if it be not to be paid but with the losse of the same Kingdome 't is great discretion to keepe farre from that Soveraigne who cannot sufficiently requite the Obligation he oweth benefits are alwayes willingly received but the benefactours are not alwayes willingly beheld and when the debt is such as cannot be paid as if upbraided with disabilitie favour is often chang'd into hatred and then the obligation not being to be acquitted they indevour to acquit themselves of the Obliger Service which is received from an inferiour argues weaknesse and challengeth great recompence to equalize the recompence to the benefit received is to equalize the receiver to the Benefactour the name of Magnanimus is lost and the
for if she were likely to be lost if set on only by the Sabine forces what thinke you would have become of her when they should have been assisted by so many other confederates SUndry people assembled together to worke the same end doe not alwayes endevour it with the same end lines which meet all in one point go not al the same way they often meet and yet differ These men will overthrow this frame but because each one puts it upon anothers backe none move it WHere there is store of pates there is store of confusion many stones of not above three inches thicke may raise a height of a thousand yards but the uniting of many wits serve not to the advancement of one understanding they helpe not they hinder one another nor is it true that two eyes joyned see more than one if one see more than both disjoyned when the greatest spheare of the eyes motion is understood to be the greatest distance In such an assembly there cannot be so good a resolution had but will become bad if observed but by a few nor so bad which may not prove exceeding good if observed by all wise men ought alwayes to counsell the best yet sometime follow the worst if the worst be the opinion of the most The Cernetians Crustumanians and those of Antenna depart no waies contented with the Sabins slow resolutions and the Cernetians more impatient than the rest enter the Roman territories to ransacke them THe desire of revenge is more eager than any other affection yea more than love it selfe for that the bloud is more active in the arteries than in the veines Choler hath no commerce with Wisdome she is companion to audacitie she levels precipices makes mountaines valleyes The cholericke man feares not because hee lookes upon the object only how he may offend it not how he may by it be offended his eyes are alwayes on the extremes hee sees not the middle and oft-times fals because he knowes not that he can fall all his spirits flocke to assist him making him beleeve he is able to doe more than indeed he is and hindering one another hee oft-times is of lesse ability than usuall he thinkes upon nothing but how to quench that fire that burnes nor findes he other water to quench it withall than that of revenge he runs for remedy to him that first did kindle it that by his bloud he may extinguish it nor doth he stop till it be thus fed or by feare quite put out Romulus makes towards them teaching them how vaine that Anger is which is not sustained by forces He overcomes them treads them under foot kills their Leader takes their Citie and brings home his victorious Armie Romulus was no lesse daring in his actions than eloquent in his speech valiant in doing brave things wary in assisting them with faire appearances GReat actions have need of helpe else they will be suffocated by simplicity when wonder is conceived thence proceeds reverence It is easie to adde to the greatnesse of actions by words to truth by appearances and it is not amisse A Prince obliges himself to things greater than he hath yet done if he make them not seeme lesse than what they are beleeved to bee to adde to petty actions moves laughter and merits the name of vanity to assist actions of a middle condition causes admiration and immortall fame Hee caused the enemies spoiles bee erected and from top of the Capitoll did dedicate them together with a Temple to Jupiter Feretreus Whilst the Romans were busied about such solemnities those of Antemna did in hostile manner forrage their Country the Romans without delay bring forth a Squadron of men against them and easily defeated them who of spoilers became a spoile and they which lay in wait for the goods of other men lost their owne Castle but Ersiglia Romulus his wife solicited by the teares of those women which had beene violently detained by profitable intreaties perswaded her triumphing husband to pardon those who were their parents and kinsfolke and to receive them into the City THis manner of making the conquered companions to receive for citizens those whom the same day they had seene as enemies did make the waging of war more easie to other people but made it more difficult to overcome in warre it increased the desire of combat but tooke from the heat of fighting where it was a question whether were the greater reward to overcome or be overcome whilst they who lost acquired the honour of being a Citizen of Rome Whosoever shall read the Roman Histories considering their wayes of growing greater will either beleeve that they did ill or else will blame those who now adayes having Monarchies and needfull of people doe rather drive away former forrenners than they are perswaded to receive in new ones whereunto they have by some beene solicited but the diversitie of circumstances hath not given applause to such counsâ—…ls The Romans by taking people of the same Province may be rather said to have framed one body out of many members than out of many bodies there being under the selfe-same clime of the same language and little or nothing differing in manners freed them from tumults their union was the more secured by their being all new and tender easie to bee joyned together as it fals out in young childrens bones their love was the more secured by calling them to Senators places and other commands in the Citie for being straitned by warres they were easily perswaded to accept of their enemies company when being come to a greater growth they refused the societie even of their friends Strangers may be received for companions where there is a forme of Common-wealth or bodie of a Senate but where there is an absolute Monarchie they cannot be accepted of but as servants They therefore doe wisely who having passed their younger yeares in which it was necessary to receive into their body people of different language climate and manners doe not call in strangers to enjoy or without all peradventure to trouble what they have with their sweat wonne Those of Antemna being vanquished the Crustumanians take armes and were soone overcome fighting more out of feare than out of hope disheartned and made weak by their neighbours losses THe glory of the first warres had its rise from honour of the rest from reputation to have overcome in these availes as much as to overcome in those An armie which feares to lose the day is already beaten by its owne beleefe each noise the enemie makes seemes victory each motion of its owne men flight such an armie is more prepared for what it feares than for what it hopes and oft-times it leaves the field more for that it feares to lose than for that it hath lost he who alwaies thinks to overcome fights alwayes but he that doubts defends himselfe but fights not Romulus knowing that things wonne by valour must bee maintained by wisdome caused the Senat
name of ungratefull hardly wiped off those benefits which are received from a Superiour are willingly acknowledged for acknowledgment is all he expects â—…he which witnessing the receivall of them obliges to an addition of more These respects the motives of ambition and incitements of glory caused the generously minded young men keepe aloofe off from their grandfathers subjection TO expect a Kingdome after anothers death hinders or retards glory mens spirits with yeares grow cold and during the fathers life that a man may live secure he often-times must live idle Princes doe sometimes envie yea even the egregious deeds of their sonnes because they feare them private men rejoyce because they share therein amongst the good fortunes of valiant men their parents speedie death ought to be accounted one who after having brought them up cannot doe better for them than die a kingdome is not to be desired if it bring not glory along with it glory belongs to them who have wonne it with the sweat of their brow not to those who receive it calmely from another valiant men who are borne fortunate are unfortunate for the inheritance of Monarchies takes away the glory of acquiring them They goe about to build a new Citie or rather to build the walls of that which their generous actions brought along with them to this purpose they chuse that place where they were exposed to waters as I beleeve either out of memory of their fortune or out of gratitude The places choyce shewes the builders wisedome the first stone they laid is a Touch-stone by by which the worth of their metall is tryed HE is not to be praised who to withdraw himselfe from the downey bed of idlenesse hath recourse to the brutishnesse of sterilitie one ought seeke helpe from education not situation that it may appeare vertue not necessity the way of Merchandize makes men industrious but withall tiâ—…orous and that Citie is in no good condition the riches whereof consists amongst some particulars not in the publike where the riches is lockt up in 〈◊〉 not in the Common-wealth when danger comes men know not how to defend it but study how they may quit it and such estates as are portable set their owner at libertie for they make them but inhabitants not subjects Nor can it be affirmed that the barrennesse of a place takes from its neighbours the desire of dominion which is the childe of glory not of avarice He that builds in strong places erects fortresses for tyrants at least nests for vices and they that live in securitie want that feare of losing their owne which oft-times serves for just occasion to usurpe anothers right and on the contrary side to build open Cities without walls was a melancholy humour of some ancient Philosopher which neither deserves discourse nor imitation Romes situation was full of health-inspiring hils not too far distant from the sea that they might receive commodities not too neere that they might shun the inundations of barbarous people watered with a continually running River placed in the midst of Italy They were readie to raise the walls of the Citie when neither of them would yeeld in the naming thereof unto the other nor in the making of laws Equality the producer of envy had much more force in them for that beyond the common equalitie amongst brethren they did particularise in being equally conceived and equally at the same time borne WHen any excuse is to bee found seniority is allow'd of many would yeeld if they could finde pretence to doe so and many times men contend more out of shame than pride The mixture of greater and lesse is good but that of equals starke naught either in the varietie of nature it is not found requisite or else it lasts not in the world because it is founded upon the perpetuity of motion and inequalitie doth by so much the more differ from tolerable by how much it comes neare to equality therefore is an Unison displeasing in musicke which though it were exquisite is unfruitfull it makes no action produces no harmonie the greater and lesse answer to the sharpe and flat from those the world receives its forme from these musicke her sweetnesse and each are damnified by the contrary if it be dissonant profited if it be harmonious Since they could not find on earth how to decide precedencie they seeke to Heaven by auguries Rhemus on the Auventine hill Romulus on the Palatine and whilst it is reported that six Vulturs appeared to Rhemus Romulus shews that number doubled to them that stood about him some are of opinion that from hence a contention rising betwixt them Rhemus was slaine by Romulus TO have an equall prefer'd by man is a sufficient anxiety but therein may be deceit to have the like prefer'd by Heaven makes the anxietie greater because it is alwayes truth This accident was the first canker that introduced man-slaughter and the first man-slaughter was betweene brethren The more common opinion notwithstanding is that hee lost his life in leaping by way of derision over the walls his Brother built Rhemus by this action either declared himselfe to be Prince by pretending not to be subject to any Lawes or else intended to take the principalitie from others by making a mockery of the Lawes MIsobservancie differs from contempt the one reflects upon the Institution the other upon the Institutor he who covertly transgresseth the Lawes leaves the reputation of him that made them untoucht hee who openly offends against them aimes more to weaken the Prince than the Laws Errors which are occasioned by whatsoever other affecti-on may be great or little those who are occasioned by contempt are alwayes giant-like somâ—… of them reflect upon the profit of the subject and it is good to punish them others upon the Majestie of the Superiour and it is necessary to chastise them Respect is the soule of government a Prince fallen to neglect is a dead carkas Giving to the begun Citie the beginning of his own name he called it Rome and instituted pastimes in the honour of Hercules Lawes were yet wanting to a Citie which full fraught with divers Nations and of divers manners could not without them receive unity LAwes are of divers sorts some aime at the preservation of mankind others at the maintenance of the State the former belong to ministers of law as Judiciall the latter to the Prince as Poliâ—…call the first requires stability because they are judiciously considered before they be made but once being made they ought not to be judged since by them judgement is made The other sort to be good ought not to be perpetuall for that if they continue still in force they ruinate the State and if they be transgressed as time necessitates an ill example without profit is introduced It sufficeth not not to observe the old ones when there is no way given to make new ones The Prince is Superintendent over the Lawes not in that hee may not observe them
the turning of the Scene ownes himselfe He makes himselfe knowne when hee drives out the Tyrant hee unmaskes himselfe at the last Scene every one commends him when they consider him because they considered him not till the end of the Tragedie TYrants ought more to feare those who cloake their passions than those who discover them these stand nakedly exposed to the injuries of who hath a minde to hurt them the other defend themselves behind the trenches from such as assault them that they may sally forth when iâ—…â—…s fit time to make assault The â—…arily advised and hare-brained â—…ole-hardy flattery and libertie â—…e equally dangerous to a Prince â—…hat man never sufficiently to bâ—…â—…raised who speaking of a Tyâ—…nt left in writing how he feaâ—…ed liberty and hated flattery perhaps might as well have said that â—…ee hated liberty and feared flatterie They come to the Oracle and after having made known their Fathers desires they make inquiry touching the succession of the Kingdome a voyce was heard to answer hee of you shall reigne who shal first kisse his mother the two brothers agreed not to speake of this to Sextus who staid at Rome and to commit it to Fortune which of them should first kisse their mother but Brutus seeming as if he fell kist the earth as he who knew the answers of Oracles not to be so cleere but full of a thousand ambiguities THE Devill did not this as knowing what was to come but he told what was to come that he might procure that that might afterwards happen which hee had fore-told hee endevoured it to winue himselfe credit God permitted it to punish humane arrogancie it may be also the truth of Astrologicall predictions are rather caused by the Devill than by the Starres so by God permitted to confound our rashnesse whereby it happens that when wee would foretell things wee doe it by the Devill The desire to know things to come is a desire to bee like God and this was the forerunner of originall sin who tels them is presumptuous who inquires after them is vaine Some seeme desirous to search into them that they may incounter the good which thereby is promised and shunne the evill which is thereby threatned and many times by incountring the good they lose it and by shunning the evill they meet with it but they seeke after them that they may finde what they desire which if they finde not they beleeve them not they begge food for their present ambition with the deceitful hopes of future greatnesse They returne with their answer to their Father whom they find hath waged war with the Rutuli and besieged Ardea TARQUIN would make good his expences by the riches of that people and by ransaking that Citie reunite his souldiers hearts who were not well satisfied in their having changed their swords into mattocks and the emptying of their enemies bosome of bloud into emptying of sinkes When the Treasury is emptied by magnificent expences it is filled againe by wicked meanes Some Philosophers have held it good that Cities should be poore that they might bee safe they would have them shunne envie which hardly can be shund without falling into the hands of compassion It is better being rich than poore riches may at any time be leâ—…t but not povertie The worst that can befall a prospering Citie is the happinesse which they wish it these are things which heard of è cathedra make men lowre but out of the Schooles provoke to laughter If riches move desire they are likewise a help to defence For one time that a Prince is incited to invade States for the increase of his revenues hee is a thousand times spurd thereunto out of a desire to inlarge his bounds War is not usually good merchandize whereby to become rich but whereby to become great more is consumed in the acquiring than the thing acquired is worth the gaine is alwayes uncertaine the losse certaine Whilst they were besieging of Ardea which siege was more tedious than otherwise troublesome Collatine and other young men supt one night with Sextus Tarquin and warmed with overmuch wine there grew a contention amongst them concerning their wives each praising his owne above the rest they resolve to goe find them out forthwith that they may be certain of the truth WIne molests the fancie by sending up into the braine many grosse vapours it bounds them not because they are humid it agitates them because they are hot and whilst by its steame it represents many fancies it affords occasion of speaking much and considering nothing it is good to make mens hearts be knowne but not their braines where there is no cold there is no judgement where no drinesse is there is no weighing of words Men are all prone to think well of their wives whether it proceeds from their husbands great desire that they should be such or from their cunning in appearing such or from the gift of Nature which is never wont to bee defective in things necessary for I am of opinion that if all things were knowne in them as they are and not much beleeved of them which is not either more libertie ought to be allowed to women and so change the law of honour or if the former ought to be preserved the latter ought more strictly to bee restrained since through the mis-fortune of the generall there are very few of them that are good and through the good fortune of individuals every man beleeves his to be one of them whence it happens that a great part of worldly felicitie is taken upon trust consisting more in beleefe than reall being Men ought not talke of their wives no not when sober who speakes ill of them incurres blame for it is the husbands fault if the wife be bad who speakes well of them is in danger to be practised upon because hee moves desire men desire the good they possesse should be knowne and oft-times whilst they make it knowne they make it be possest it is true that reall good is in its owne essence communicable and by being communicated receives increase but ours which is but an apparition if communicated is many times lost Praise if it be of any thing within us is to be desired because it cannot be taken from us if of any thing without or forth of us it ought bee avoided because it may be taken from us praise makes it be desired and desire makes us lose it I wonder at those men who complaine of their being annoyed when they have done all they are able to make themselves be annoyed it is a great comfort it is true to possesse things commended by all men but as Philosophie to counterpoize the vexations of the intellect hath placed greatest honour there where is greatest trouble so Nature to counterpoize the pleasure of the sense hath placed most danger there where most delight is These young men make haste first to Rome then to Collatia they finde Lucretia not like the Kings
their gates not to save him but to shut him up His fate leads him thither where hee hath trespassed that those who were injured might revenge themselves he flies from one who expels him and goes to another who kils him Sextus betakes himselfe to the Gabins for though hee hath lost that force and reputation which made him be feared and esteemed yet hee thinking himselfe rather beloved by them than but tolerated not having lost those qualities which he thought desireable returnes to them The Tyrant who heares himselfe flattered thinkes himselfe beloved he thinkes his being had in reverence to bee the fruits of his wisedome and because hee makes away with all those whom hee hates he thinkes nothing remains for him but love he seeth himselfe honored and beleeves he doth deserve it not knowing that it proceeds from his cruelty not worth And wherewithall are men easilier deceived than by being honoured They suddēly imagine in themselves some merit to which it is due and though sometimes they know they deserve it not they are so infatuated with the desire that the reverence done them should be reall and not fained as they rather beleeve he that honors them is himselfe deceived than that hee deceives them This is the greatest of all affections the last which departs not but with the last breath common to both good and bad affected likewise by those who seeme not to value it Observance reverence humble bowings of the body are inchantments are adulations which are often done with the feet and are so much worse than those which are done by the tongue by how much they seem to be more lawful by how much they are more concealed The honour therefore which Subjects use unto their Princes ruines them for they whom for our owne interests wee honour beleeve it done for their deserts and honour being indeed the reward of vertue they are not aware that sometimes too it is yeelded to Titles and Riches These are the actions done by Lucius Tarquin the Proud in the progresse of his reigne of five and twentie yeares after which Aristocracie was constituted BRUTUS was to blame in the framing of the Common-wealth to make it too much Aristocraticall for had he granted in those beginnings a share of government unto the people hee would not have necessitated them to assume the whole unto themselves nor would he have put the Citie in danger of being lost in those Tumults wherein if he did not ruine the Common-wealth he did for certaine ruine the forme of that Common-wealth Perhaps Brutus beleeved the people would give way to the Majestie of the Senate States which are maintained by Art may well continue if managed by intelligent Arts-men but this but for a while Art will be discovered nor can it be conceald if it be often used if the Cocke should tarry long where the Lion is after having some few times been afraid of his crowing the Lion would devoure him when that would be made seeme to be which is not it must be cursorily done if any good successe be expected Hee who in the beginning of Common-wealths doth constitute the best forme doth not constitute the most durable when a man can climbe no higher and cannot stay himselfe upon a point individible he must down again and so doing oftentimes precipitates himselfe So a Common-wealth reduced to the very best forme not able to retaine it whilst it seekes after what is naturall it oft-times fals upon what is violent which doth corrupt it A man must shape his designes according to his materials and of what he cannot make a Colossus be contented to make a Statue no bigger than the life The most part of Cities w ch once freed from the hands of Tyrants have falne into them againe have done it by reason of this great judgement is required in the sounding what forme a City is capable of and one ought not alwayes thinke of forming there a Common-wealth but sometimes where a Tyrant is driven forth a King should be erected to shun the ensuing of another Tyrant There is no man how wise soever who being a former or reformer Institutor or Law-maker doth not commit some errors in his first Ordinations Statutes or Lawes which in the processe of time may ruine his structure that Machine is onely of duration which in the first appearing of errors or in the correcting of them runs not totall ruine It is apparant that the City of Rome whose people had their weapons in their hands and were every day verst in the atchivement of new States did rather require a Democraticall than Aristocraticall government and that not being to be withstood by a greater force she would come to it of her selfe it was therefore her great good fortune that in approching thereunto shee fell not because she made her approch leasurely It is worthy observation how the formes of state require a disposed matter the which they no sooner find but they introduce themselves it is not men which constitute Cōmon-wealths or yet Principalities but a certaine nature or power of interest which though not knowne suffers them not to be in quiet till it hath brought them where they have a great proportion just as it useth to befall elements which not knowing whither they goe being led by a naturall instinct never are at quiet till they arrive at that place which though being naturall unto them was not knowne by them Wa◅er in its proper sphere is not heavie and common people in their naturall forme are easily governed nor can they be takē out or with-held from thence without a not lasting violence Had not Tarquin beene driven out by Brutus and had the regall power yet a little longer endured I doe almost nay undoubtedly assure my selfe that Rome had never tasted the sweets of Liberty not for that the corruptions which were in the King as some have beleeved entring into the other members of the Citie had disinabled her for this purpose but because that hee would totally have extinguished the Senate the memory whereof being forgotten the hope of liberty would have beene likewise lost Those Monarchies which are governed Monarchically where one onely commands and all the rest obey have seldome an end but those which by meanes of a Senate are governed Aristocratically end most commonly in an Aristocracie I seldome find that the Senate of Rome hath cast away their chiefe conspiracies would be sudden and knowne but to a few here they are slow and knowne to many the greatest harme occasioned hereby to a Prince is the holding alwayes before the citizens eies the picture of Liberty those who see it desire it hope for it and when they happen upon a Tyrant Prin◅ there wants not some amongst them who will adhere to the bringing in thereof A Senate when uncorrupted alwayes endevours equality and whilst it endevours that none be greater than other it is true it makes a Tyrant lyable to the danger of a Common-wealth which may arise