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liberty of the subject remain inviolate. He is 

 the Atlas of the falling state, cures it when sick, 

 sets it when disjointed, meets it in its several 

 pressures with suitable reliefs. Such was 

 Philip de Commines, of whom one said, it was 

 a measuring cast, whether Lewis were the wiser 

 king, or Philip the wiser counsellor ; such was 

 Burleigh to our late Queen Elizabeth, whose 

 advice had very eminent influence into the 

 prosperity of her reign, which was such as I 

 believe few ages can parallel, and future times 

 will render her happy annals, as written like 

 Xenophon's Cyrus,* discovering not so much 

 what was, as what should be : not intended for 

 a true history, but for the effigies of a just em- 

 pire. So that if we love peace, or plenty, or 

 liberty, we are bound in way of acknowledg- 

 ment, to own that in Plutarch,^ True Policy 

 deserves to be put in the first file of virtues. 



But as the corruption of the best things 

 makes them worst, so this noble knowledge 

 hath been abused to loose and ambitious ends 

 by some men,:j: who seem to have sucked the 

 venom out of all politics, misapplying what was 

 good, and creating new, according to the ur- 



* Non ad historiae fidem^ sed ad exemplum justi Imperii, 

 'f Tviq 'aoXUmviq a^diiq ccvQ^UTTovq a xrarai n^eioje^av. Cato Maj. 

 :|: Ophyogenes et Psylli. 



