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A56827	Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]; Enchiridion. 1698	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.	1698 (1698)	Wing Q100; ESTC R41062	51,002	313

great blemish in Sovereignty when the Will roars and the Power whispers If thou canst not Execute as freely as thou Commandst Command no more than what thou mayst as freely Execute MAX. 86. If one Prince desire to obtain any thing of another let him if occasion will bear it give him no time to advise let him endeavour to make him see a necessity of sudden resolution and the danger either of denial or delay He that gives times to resolve gives leisure to deny and warning to prepare MAX. 87. Let not thine Army at the first Encounter be too prodigal in her assaults but husband her strength at a dead lift When the Enemy hath abated the fury of his first heat let him then feel thou hast reserved thy Forces for the last blow So shall the honour he hath gained by his Valour encrease the Glory of thy Victory Fore-Games when they prove are speediest but After-games if wisely plaid are surest MAX. 88. It is very requisite for a Prince to keep the Church always in proportion to the State If the Government of the one be Monarchical and the other Democratical they will agree like Metal joyned with Clay But for a while durable is that State where Aaron commands the People and where Moses commands Aaron but most happy in the continuance where God commands both MAX. 89. Let not the Covetousness of a Captain purloyn to his own own use or any way bereave his Soldiers of any profit due unto their service either in their means or spoils Such injuries being quickned by their daily Necessities are never forgot What Soldiers earn with the hazard of their Lives if not enjoyed prophesies an Overthrow in the next battle MAX. 90. If a Prince expect Virtuous Subjects let his Subjects have a Virtuous Prince and so shall he the better punish the Vices of his degenerate Subjects so shall they trulier prize Virtue and follow it being exemplified in their Prince MAX. 91. It is the property of a Wise Commander to cast an Eye rather upon Actions than upon Persons and rather to reward the Merits of Men than to read the Letters of Ladies He that for favour or reward prefers a worthless Soldier Betrays a Kingdom to advance a Traytor MAX. 92. Where order and fury are well acquainted the War prospers and Soldiers end no less Men than they begun Order is quickned by Fury and Fury is regulated by Order but where Order is wanting Fury runs her own way and being unthrift of its own strength failing in the first assault cravens and such beginning more than Men end less than Women MAX. 93. It is the quality of a wise Commander to make his Soldiers confident of his Wisdom and their own Strength If any danger be to conceal it if manifest to lessen it Let him possess his Army with the Justness of the War and a certainty of Victory A good Cause makes a stout Heart and a strong Arm. They that fear an Overthrow are half Conquered MAX. 94. It is requisite in a General to mingle Love with the severity of his Discipline They that cannot be induced to Fear for Love will never be inforced to Love for Fear Love opens the heart Fear shuts it that Encourages this Compels and Victory meets Encouragement but flees Compulsion MAX. 95. It is the part of a well-advised State never to entrust a weighty service unto whom a noted Injury or dishonour hath been done he can never be Zealous in performance of service the height of whose Expectation can rather recover a lost Name than gain a fresh Honour MAX. 96. Three ways there be to begin a repute and gain Dignities in a Common wealth The first by the Virtue of glorious Parents which till thou degenerate too much may raise thee upon the wings of Opinion The second is by associating with those whose actions are known Eminent The third by acting some Exploit either Publick or Private which in thy hand hath proved Honourable The two first may miss being founded upon Opinion The last seldom fails being grounded upon Evidence MAX. 97. If thou art called to the Dignity of a Commander dignify thy place by thy Commands and that thou mayst be the more perfect in Commanding others practise upon thy self Remember that thou art a Servant to the Publick-weal and therefore forget all private respects either of Kin or Friends Remember thou art a Champion for a Kingdom Forget therefore all private affections either of Love or Hate He that would do his Country right must not be too sensible of a Personal wrong MAX. 98. It is the part of a wise Commander to read Books not so much as Men nor Men so much as Nations He that can discern the Inclinations Conditions and Passions of a Kingdom gains his Prince a great advantage both in Peace and War MAX. 99. And you most high and mighty Princes of this Lower World who at this Intricate and various Game of War vye Kingdoms and win Crowns and by the death of your reverend Subjects gain the Lives of your bold hearted Enemies Know there is a Quo Quarranto whereto you are to give account of your Eye-Glorious Actions according to the Righteous rules of Sacred Justice How Warrantable it is to read Imperial Crowns from off the Sovereign Heads of their too weak Possessors or to snatch Scepters from out the hand of Heaven Anointed Majesty and by your vast ambitions still to enlarge Dominions with Kingdoms ravish'd from their Natural Princes Judge you O let your brave designs and well weighed actions be as Just as they are Glorious and consider that all your Wars whose ends are not to defend your own Possessions or to recover your dispossessions are but Princely Injuries which none but Heaven can right But where necessity strikes up her hard alarms or wrong'd Religion beats her Zealous marches go on and prosper and let both Swords and Stratagems proclaim a Victory whose Nois'd Renown may fill the World with your Eternal Glory MAX. 100. Piety and Policy are like Martha and Mary Sisters Martha fails if Mary helps not and Mary suffers if Martha be Idle Happy is that Kingdom where Martha complains of Mary but most happy where Mary complys with Martha where Piety and Policy go hand in hand there War shall be Just and Peace honourable The End of the First Century INSTITUTIONS AND MAXIMS Moral and Divine c. CENT II. MAXIM 1. A Promise is a Child of the Understanding and the Will the Understanding begets it the Will brings it forth He that performs it delivers the Mother He that breaks it Murthers the Child If he be begotten in the absence of the Understanding it is a Bastard but the Child must be kept If thou mistrust thy Understanding Promise not If thou hast Promis'd break it not It is better to maintain a Bastard than to murther a Child MAX. 2. Charity is a Naked Child giving Honey to a Bee without Wings Naked because Excuseless and

Institutions Essays AND MAXIMS Political Moral and Divine Divided into Four Centuries BY THE Right Honoura 〈…〉 L. Marqu of 〈…〉 LONDON Printed for and are to be Sol 〈…〉 Josias Shaw Bookseller at 〈…〉 Coffee-House on Cork-hill 1698. THE INDEX CENT I. ALteration Max. 5 Auxiliar 48 Ambitious Men 78 Ambitious Natures 58 Assault 87 Advice 71 Conquest 2 Climatical Advantages 10 Calumny 11 Composition 12 Conspiracy 18 Correspondency 20 Custom 34 Conquest 35 Civil Commotion 36 Courage 42 Castles 44 Clergy 53 Covetousness 89 Counsellors 23 59 Commanders 64 97 Clemency and Severity 69 80 Commission 82 Church Government 88 Confidence 93 Demeanour 14 Deliberation 15 Disposition 28 Discovery 30 Design 40 Debt 63 Discontents 66 Delay 67 Deserts 91 Experiments 25 Exactions 27 Exuls 49 Encouragement 70 Fortresses 29 61 Foolish confidence 37 Foreign King 65 Foreign Humours 84 Foreign Inclinations 98 Hearts of Subjects 41 Hierarchy 60 Hunting 79 Invasion 1 Just War 19 Idleness 21 Liberality 16 League 75 Love and Fear 94 Mixt Government 6 Money 9 Manufacture 46 Neutrality 22 Nobility 24 57 Necessity 68 New Gentry 76 Opinion 74 Order and turn 92 Piety and Policy 100 Peace 39 62 Pillars of State 45 Prevention 51 Pleasures 55 Popular Sects 83 Power 85 Quo Warranto 99 Rebel 3 Rewards and Punishments 13 Reformation 38 Religion 47 56 Resolution 54 Repute 96 Strength of Parts 4 Successor 26 Strength to keep 36 Scandal 43 State-change 50 Secrecy 73 Scruples 77 Situation 80 Sudden Resolution 86 Times 7 Timely War 17 True Temper 31 Treachery 72 Variance 52 Virtue 90 War in League 8 War Offensive and Defensive 32 Weighty Service 95 CENT II. Action 4 5 98 Affections 16 25 94 Afflictions 36 38 Anger 37 60 67 Acquaintance 43 45 Advancement 49 Advantage 54 Avarice 64 Apparel 79 Brother 42 Charity 2 70 Care 24 Company 29 Custom 65 Confession 76 Censure 81 Child 87 97 Ceremonies 88 Daughter 56 Death 100 84 Evil 40 78 Enemy 68 Faith 11 59 Fancy 15 Friendship 26 Friend 52 Haste 89 God 28 30 Gift 63 Grace 65 Giver 85 Honour 21 47 72 82 Happiness 83 Heaven 99 Ignorance 8 92 Love 7 14 Loss 53 Luxury 74 Money 10 55 Moderation 73 Mysteries 90 Mother 95 News 51 Oppression 61 Promise 1 Pleasing 6 Pride 9 Possession 20 Passion 32 33 46 Prosperity 33 57 Popularity 41 Prayer 62 Puritan 91 Pride 96 Riches 17 Reason 19 22 Religion 31 Recreation 80 Redemption 75 Sinful custom 12 Souls Progress 18 Sin 48 71 Swearer 50 Servant 93 Time 27 Trembling 34 Theology 35 Thy self 43 Treasure 77 Vndertaking 3 Vow 23 Valour 59 Work 13 Wrong 69 86 CENT III. ARgument Max. 22 Alms 38 Actions 48 Apparel 67 Argument 69 Adversity 89 97 Banishment 7 Beauty 9 Brother 45 Censure 13 78 Child 18 Children 37 Conversation 47 Copy-Book 58 Charity 71 Conscience 90 Consideration 94 Discourse 5 55 Drunkenness 14 Danger 64 Doubt and Opinion 86 Eucharist 34 Esteem 87 Exercise 91 Familiars 27 Fasting 79 Festival 83 Gift 61 God 63 92 Harlot 26 Heir 28 Honour 51 Hope 62 Hope and Fear 77 Idiot 16 Journey 30 Intention 36 Justice 74 Innocence and Wisdom 82 Knowledge 73 81 Laughter 3 Lyer 4 Law and Physick 19 Love 46 95 Library 85 Mysteries 20 Mercy 23 Money 31 Multitude 41 Mirth 44 Merit 54 Magistrate 65 98 Obloquy 17 Pains 1 Poor 15 21 Priest 24 Patience 34 Palat 75 Providence and Experience 88 Repentance 25 Resolution 35 Reproof 42 Rest 49 Riches 50 Reproof 52 Saviour 6 Sin 12 Silence 57 93 Servant 60 Sabbath 76 Soldier 84 Treasure 29 Tongue 32 Traffick 40 Theft 56 Table 66 Theology 72 Truth 99 Virtue 8 59 Vanity 33 Vndertaking 53 Wife 2 Wedlock 11 Well-doing 43 Words 68 96 Wages 80 Wisdom 80 100 CENT IV. Action Max. 12 Affection 61 Banquet 70 Contentedness 10 Content 13 20 Church 33 Confession 35 Cross 41 Commendations 58 Calling 74 Circumspection 77 Common-place-book 78 Complaint 94 Child 99 Demeanour 1 56 Drunkenness 2 Death 37 53 Discourse 73 Devotion 85 Envy 24 Example 66 Exercise 81 Estimation 88 Fear 15 38 Folly 22 Forgiveness 64 Frugality 75 Friend 100 God 86 Giver 8 Glory 47 Gift 52 Give and Forgive 57 Gaming 59 Humiliation 11 Heaven 30 Humility 54 Humane Writings 65 Heir 98 Infamy 5 Impropriations 19 Ignorance 23 Idleness 27 Jest 83 Knowledge 4 26 62 Loss 67 71 Letters 80 Language 36 Last Sin 90 Magistracy 6 Man 21 Marriage 40 Magnanimity 42 Misery 48 Mysteries 91 Name 92 Obedience 29 41 Obsceneness 76 Opinion 84 Painting 28 Praise 32 Prayer 39 Practice 43 Place 44 Philosophy 46 Praise and Censure 50 Reputation 25 Repentance 31 45 Recreations 49 Rules 72 Reversion 87 Sin 3 Security 60 Safety 63 Superstition 69 Scoffs 68 Scripture 89 93 Style 97 Truth 9 Theft 14 Tapor 55 Temperance 79 Tuition 82 To Day 45 Times 96 Virgin 7 Vain-Glory 16 Vse of Creatures 17 Wicked 18 Want 34 INSTITUTIONS AND MAXIMS Political and Moral c. CENT I. MAXIM 1. LET not Civil Discords in a foreign Kingdom encourage thee to make Invasion They that are factious among themselves are jealous of one another and more strongly prepared to encounter with a common Enemy Those whom Civil Commotions set at variance foreign Hostility reconciles Men rather affect the Possession of an inconvenient Good than the Possibility of an uncertain Better MAX. 2. If thou hast made a Conquest with thy Sword think not to maintain it with thy Sceptre neither conceive That new Favours can cancel old Injuries No Conquerour sits secure upon his new got Throne so long as they subsist in Power that were despoiled of their Possessession by this Conqueror MAX. 3. Let no Price nor Promise of Honour bribe thee to take part with the Enemy of thy Natural Prince assure thy self whoever wins thou art lost If thy Prince prevail thou art proclaimed a Rebel and branded for Death if the Enemy prosper thou shalt be reckoned but as a meritorious Traytor and not secure of thy self He that loves the Treason hates the Traitor MAX. 4. If thy strength of Parts hath raised thee to eminent Place in the Commonwealth take heed thou sit sure if not thy Fall will be the greater As Worth is fit matter for Glory so Glory is a fair mark for Envy By how much the more thy Advancement was thought the Reward of Desert by so much thy Fall will administer matter for Disdain It is the ill fortune of a strong Brain if not to be dignified as meritorious to be deprest as dangerous MAX. 5. It is the Duty of a Statesman especially in a free State to hold the Commonwealth to her first frame of Government from which the more it swerves the more it declines which being declined is not commonly reduced without that Extremity the danger whereof rather ruines than rectifies Fundamental Alterations being inevitable Perils MAX. 6. There be three sorts of Governments Monarchical Aristocratical Democratical and they are apt to

for a while maintain a happy State by the remaining Virtue of his Glorious Predecessor but if his Life be long or dying he be succeeded by one less Valiant than the first the Kingdom is in danger to fall to ruine that Prince is a true Father to his Country that leaves it the rich Inheritance of a brave Son When Alexander succeeded Philip the World was too little for the Conqueror MAX. 27. It is very dangerous for a Prince or Republick to make continual practice of Cruel Exaction For where the subject stands in sense or Expectation of Evil he is apt to provide for his safety or for the Danger he fears and growing bold in Conspiracy makes Faction which Faction is the Mother of Ruine MAX. 28. Be careful to consider the Good or Ill Disposition of the People towards thee upon Ordinary Occasions if it be Good labour to continue it if Evil provide against it As there is nothing more terrible than a dissolute Multitude without a head so there is nothing more easily reduc'd if thou canst endure the first shock of their Fury which if a little appeased every one begins to doubt himself and think of home and secure themselves either by flight or agreement MAX. 29. That Prince who stands in fear more of his own People than Strangers ought to build Fortresses in his Land But he that is more afraid of Strangers than his own People shall build them more secure in the affections of his Subjects MAX. 30. Carry a watchful Eye upon dangers before they come to Ripeness and when they are ripe let loose a Speedy hand He that expects them too long or meets them too soon gives advantage to the Evil Commit their beginnings to Argus his hundred Eyes and their end to Briareus's hundred Hands and thou art safe MAX. 31. Of all the difficulties of a State the temper of true Government most felicifies and perpetuates it Too sudden alteration distempers it Had Nero tuned his Kingdom as he did his Harp his harmony had been more honourable and his Reign more prosperous MAX. 32. If a Prince Fearing to be assailed by a Foreign Enemy hath a well armed People well addrest for War Let him stay at home and expect him there but if his Subjects be unarmed or his Kingdom unacquainted with the stroke of War let him meet the Enemy in his Quarters The farther he keeps the War from his own home the less Danger The Seat of War is always miserable MAX. 33. It is a necessary Wisdom for a Prince to grow in Strength as he encreases in Dominions It is no less Virtue to keep than to get Conquests not having power answerable to their Greatness invite new Conquerors to the Ruine of the Old MAX. 34. It is great prudence in a Statesman to discover an Inconvenience in the birth which so discovered is easie to be supprest But if it ripen into a Custom the sudden Remedy thereof is often worse than the Disease In such a case it is better to temporise a little than to struggle too much He that opposes a full aged Inconvenience too suddenly strengthens it MAX. 35. If thou hast Conquered a Land whose Language differs not from thine change not their Laws and Taxes and the two Kingdoms will in a short time incorporate and make one body But if the Laws and Language differ it is difficult to maintain thy Conquest which that thou mayst the easier do observe three things First to live there in Person or rather send Colonies Secondly to assist the weak Inhabitants and weaken the mighty Thirdly To admit no powerful Foreigner to reside there Remember Lewis XIII of France how suddenly he took Milan and how soon he lost it MAX. 36. It is a gracious Wisdom in a Prince in Civil Comotions rather to use Juleps than Phlebotomy and rather to break the Distemper by a wise delay than to Correct it with too rash an Onset It is more honourable by a slow preparation to declare himself a gracious Father than by a hasty War to appear a furious Enemy MAX. 37. It is Wisdom for a Prince in Fair Weather to provide for Tempests He that so much relies upon his People's Faith to neglect his own Preparation discovers more Confidence than Wisdom He that ventures to fall from above with hopes to be catch'd below may be dead e'er he come to Ground MAX. 38. He that would reform an ancient State in a free City buys Convenience with a great danger To work this Reformation with the less mischief let such a one keep the shadows of their ancient Customs tho' in substance they be new Let him take heed when he alters the Nature of things they bear at least their antient Names The Common People that are naturally impatient of Innovations will be satisfied with that which seems to be as well as that which is MAX. 39. Upon any difference between Foreign States It is neither safe nor honourable for a Prince either to buy his Peace or to take it up at Interest He that hath not a Sword to command it shall either want it or want honour with it MAX. 40. It is very requisite for a Prince not only to weigh his Designs in the Flower but likewise in the Fruit. He is an unthrift of his Honour that enterprises a design the failing wherein may bring him more disgrace than the Success can gain him Honour MAX. 41. It is much Conducible to the happiness of a Prince and the security of his State to gain the Hearts of his Subjects They that Love for Fear will seldom Fear for Love It is a wise Government which gains such a tye upon the Subject that he either cannot hurt or will not But the Government is best and most sure when the Subject joys in his Obedience MAX. 42. Let every Soldier arm his mind with hopes and put on Courage whatsoever disaster falls let not his Heart sink The passage of Providence lies through many Crooked ways a despairing Heart is the true Prophet of approaching Evil. His actions may weave the Webs of Fortune but not break them MAX. 43. It is the part of a wise Magistrate to vindicate a Man of Power or State-Employment from the malicious Scandals of the Giddy-headed Multitude and to punish it with great severity Scandal breeds hatred hatred begets Division Division makes Faction and Faction brings Ruine MAX. 44. The strongest Castles a Prince can build to secure him from Domestick Commotions or Foreign Invasions is in the Hearts of his Subjects and means to gain that Strength is in all his actions to appear for the Publick Good Studious to contrive and resolute to perform MAX. 45. A Kingdom is a great Building whose two main Supporters are the Government of the State and the Government of the Church It is the part of a Wise Master to keep those Pillars in their first posture Irremoveable If either fail it is Wisdom rather to repair it than to remove it

He that pulls down the Old to set up a New may draw the Roof upon his head and ruine the Foundation MAX. 46. It is a necessary Wisdom in a Prince to encourage in his Kingdoms Manufacture Merchandise Arts and Arms in Manufacture lies the Vital Spirits of the Body-Politique In Merchandise the Spirits Natural In Arts and Arms the Animal If either of these Languish the Body droops as these flourish the Body flourishes MAX. 47. True Religion is a Settler in a State rather than a Stickler while she confirms an Established Government she moves in her own Sphere but when she endeavours to alter the old or to erect a new she works out of her own Vineyard When she keeps the Keys she sends Showers of Milk But when she draws the Sword she sails in Seas of Blood Labour therefore to settle Religion in the Church and Religion shall settle Peace in thy Land MAX. 48. If thou entertain any Foreign Soldiers into thine Army let them bear thy Colours and receive thy pay lest they Interest their own Prince Auxiliary Soldiers are most dangerous A Foreign Prince needs no greater Invitation to seize upon thy City then when he is required to defend it MAX. 49. Be cautious in undertaking a design upon the report of those that are banish'd their Country lest thou come off with shame or loss or both Their end expects advantages from thy actions whose miseries lay hold of all opportunities and seek to be redrest by thy Ruines MAX. 50. If thou endeavourest to make a Republick in a Nation where the Gentry abound thou shalt hardly prosper in that Design and if thou would'st erect a Principality in a Land where there is much equality of People thou shalt not easily effect it The way to bring the first to pass is to weaken the Gentry The means to effect the last is to advance and strengthen ambitious and turbulent Spirits so that being placed in the midst of them their Forces may maintain thy Power and thy Favour may preserve their Ambition Otherwise there shall be neither Property nor continuance MAX. 51. It is more excellent for a Prince to have a provident Eye for the preventing future mischiefs than to have a potent Arm for the suppressing present Evils Mischiefs in a State are like Hectick Feavers in a Body in the beginning hard to be known but easie to be cured But let it alone a while it becomes more easie to be known but more hard to be cured MAX. 52. If a Kingdom be apt to Rebellion it is Wisdom to preserve the Nobility and Commons at variance where one of them is discontented the Danger is not great The Commons are flow of motion if not quicken'd with the Nobility The Nobility is weak of Power if not strengthen'd by the Commons Then is Danger when the Commonalty troubles the Water and the Nobility steps in MAX. 53. It is very requisite for a Prince to have an Eye That the Clergy be elected and come in either by Collation from him or particular Patrons and not by the People and that their Power hold Dependance upon home and not foreign Authority It is dangerous in a Kingdom where the Crosiers receive not their Power from the Regal Sword MAX. 54. It is a perillous Weakness in a State to be slow of Resolution in the time of War To be irresolute in Determination is both the sign and the Ruine of a weak State Such Affairs attend not time Let the wise Statesman therefore abhor Delay and resolve rather to do than advise what to say Slow Deliberations are Symptoms either of a faint Courage or weak Forces or false Hearts MAX. 55. If a Conqueror hath subdued a Country or a City abounding with Pleasures let him be very circumspect to keep himself and his Soldiers temperate Pleasures bring Effeminacy and Effeminacy foreruns Ruine Such Conquests without blood or sweat sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate Conquerors MAX. 56. It is an infallible sign of approaching Ruine in a Republick when Religion is neglected and her establisht Ceremonies interrupted Let therefore that Prince that would be Potent be Pious and that he may punish Loosness the better let him be Religious The Joy of Jerusalem depends upon the Peace of Sion MAX. 57. Let that Prince that desires full Sovereignty temper the Greatness of too potent a Nobility A great and potent Nobility quickens the People but presses their Fortunes It adds Majesty to a Monarch but diminishes his Power MAX. 58. It is dangerous for a Prince to use ambitious Natures but upon necessity either for his Wars or to be Skreens to his Dangers or Instruments for the demolishing insolent Greatness and that they may be the less dangerous let him choose them rather out of mean Births than noble and out of harsh Natures rather than plausible and always be sure to ballance them with those that are as proud as they MAX. 59. Let Princes be very circumspect in the choice of their Councellours choosing neither by the greatness of the Beard nor by the smoothness of the Face Let him be wise but not crafty active without private ends couragious without malice religious without faction secret without fraud One better read in his Prince's Business than his Nature and a Riddle only to be read above MAX. 60. In a mixt Monarchy if the Hierarchy grow too absolute it is Wisdom in a Prince rather to depress it than suppress it all Alterations in a Fundamental Government being apparent Dangers but too sudden Alteration threatens inevitable Ruine When Aaron made a molten Calf Moses alter'd not the Government but reproved the Governour MAX. 61. Before thou build a Fortress consider to what End If for Resistance against the Enemy it is useless a valiant Army is a living Fortress If for suppressing the Subject it is hurtful it breeds Jealousies and Jealousies beget Hatred If thou hast a strong Army to maintain it it adds nothing to thy Strength If thy Army be weak it conduces much to thy Danger The surest Fortress is the Hands of thy Soldiers and the safest Cittadel is the Hearts of thy Subjects MAX. 62. It is a Princely Alchymy out of a necessary War to extract an Honourable Peace and more beseeming the Majesty of a Prince to thirst after Peace than Conquest Blessedness is promised to the Peace-maker not the Conqueror It is an happy State whose Prince hath a Peaceful Hand and a Martial Heart able both to use Peace and to manage War MAX. 63. It is a dishonourable thing for a Prince to run in Debt for State-service but to pay it in the Pardon of a Criminal Offence is most dangerous To cancel the Eaults of Subjects with their Deserts is not only the Symptom of a disorder'd Commonwealth but also of her Ruine MAX. 64. Let not a Commander be too forward to undertake a War without the Person of his Prince It is a thankless Employment where Mischief attends upon the best