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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57525	The prince, or, Maxims of state written by Sir Walter Ravvley ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1642 (1642)	Wing R179; ESTC R23010	25,911	54

persons be not more then the State or Common-wealth can-beare In quality as that none grow in wealth liberty honours c. more then that is meet for that degree For as in weights the heavier weights beare downe the Skale So in Common-wealths that part or degree that excelleth the rest in Qu●lity and Quantity overswayeth the rest after it whereof follow alterations and conversions of State Secondly to provide by all meanes that the middle sort of people exceed both the extreames viz. of Nobility and Gentry and the Base Rascall and beggerly sort For this maketh the State constant and firme when both the Extreames are tied together by a middle sort as it were with a band as for any conspiracy of the rich and beggerly sort together it is not to bee feared To these two points the Particular Rules or Sophismes of every Common-wealth are to bee applied 2. Particular That serve for preservation of every Common-wealth in that forme of State wherein it is setled as in a Kingdome That the Nobility may bee accustomed to beare the Government of the Prince especially such as have their dwelling in remote places from the Princes eye it is expedient to call them up at certaine times to the Princes Court under pretence of doing them honour or being desirous to see and enjoy their presence and to have their children especially their eldest to bee attendant upon the Prince as of speciall favour towards them and theirs that so they may bee trained up in duty and obedience towards the Prince and bee as Hostages for the good behaviour and faithfull dealing of their Parents especially if they bee of any suspected note To that end serves the Persian practize in having a band or traine of the Satrapaes children and other Nobles to attend the Court which was well imited by our traine of Henchm●n if they were of the Nobler sort Againe sometimes to borrow smale summes of his Subjects and to pay them againe that hee may after borrow greater summes and never pay So in an Oligarchy least it decline to a Popular State they deceive the people with this and the like Sophismes viz. They compell their owne sort to wit the rich men by great penalties to frequent their assemblies for choosing of Magistrates for provision of Armour warlike Exercise making an Execution of lawes c. By that meanes seeming to beare a hard hand over the richer but to suffer the poorer and meaner sort to bee absent and to neglect those assemblies under pretence that they will no● draw them from their businesse and private earnings Yet withall to cite thither some few of them viz. so many as are easily over-matched by the richer sort to make a shew that they would have the people or poorer sort partakers likewise of those matters yet terrifying those that come to their Assemblies with the tediousnesse of consultations greatnesse of fines if they should mi●doc To the end to make them unwilling to come againe or to have to doe with those consultations by which meanes the Richer sort doe still governe the State with the people● liking and good contentment Axioms Axioms or Rules of preserving the State are 1. Generall that serve for all Common-wealths 2. Particular that serve for every severall State Generall Rules 1. THe first and principall Rule of Policy to bee observed in all States is to professe and practize and maintaine the true worship and religion of Almighty God prescribed unto us in his word which is the chiefe end of all Government The Axiom that God bee obeyed simply without exception though hee command that which seemeth unreasonable and absurd to humane Policy as in the Iewes Common-wealth That all the men should repaire yearely to one place to worship God foure times leaving none to defend their coast though being beset with many Enemies Not to sow the seventh yeare but to suffer the ground to rest untilled without respect or feare of famine c. 2. To avoid the causes of conversions whereby States are overthrowne that are set downe in the title of conversions For that Common-wealths as naturall bodies are preserved by avoiding that which hurteth the health and State thereof and are so cured by contrary Medicines 3. To take heed that no Magistrate bee created or continued contrary to the Lawes and Policy of that State As that in a Senate there bee not created a perpetuall Dictator as Caesar in Rome In a Kingdome that there bee no Senate or convention of equall power with the Prince in State matters as in Poland 4. To create such Magistrates as love the State as it is setled and take heed of the contrary practize as to advance Popular persons in a Kingdome or Aristocraty And secondly to advance such as have skill to discerne what doth preserve and what hurteth or altereth the present State 5. To that end to have certaine Officers to pry abroad and to observe such as doe not live and behave ●hemselves in fit sort agreeable to the present State but desire rather to bee under some other forme or kind of Government 6. To take heed that Magistracies bee not sold for money nor bribe in their Offices which is specially to bee observed in that Common-wealth which is governed by a few of the Richer sort For if the Magistrate gaine nothing but his Common Fees the Common sort and such as want honour take in good part that they bee not preferred and are glad rather that themselves are suffered to intend private businesse But if the Magistrate ●uy and sell matters the Common people are do●bly grieved both because they are debarred of those preferments and of that gaine which they see to grow by them which is the cause that the Germaine Olygarchies continue ●o firme for both they suffer the poorer sort to grow into wealth and the Richer sort are by that meanes freed and secured from being under the poore 7. To take heed that the State as it is setled and maintained bee not over strict nor exceed in his kind viz. That a Kingdome be not too Monarchicall Nor a Popular State bee too Popular For which cause it is good that the Magistrates sometimes yeeld of his right touching honour and behave themselves familiarly with those that are equall unto them in other parts though inferiour for place and office And sometimes popularly with the Common people which is the cause that some Common-wealths though they bee very simply and unskilfully set yet continue firme because the Magistrates behave themselves wisely and with due respect towards the rest that are without honour And therefore some kind of Moderate popularity is to bee used in every Common-wealth 8. To take heed of small beginnings and to meet with them even at the first as well touching the breaking and altering of Lawes as of other Rules which concerne the continuance of every severall State For the disease and alteration of a Common-wealth doth not happen all at once but growes by degrees