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thing of unhappy presidency ;' fortunate sins 

 may prove dangerous temptations ; but to say, 

 that God doth signally attest the actions of such 

 a person, or the justice of such a cause, by per- 

 mitting it to prosper, and taper up in the world, 

 is such a deceit, as deserves our serious abhor- 

 rency — I leave it with Ovid's wish :* 



Let him for ever in success be poor. 

 That thinks it justifies his cause the more. 



PRINCIPLE VI. 



The Politician must change ivith the Times, 



That alterations and revolutions in kingdoms 

 are the rods with which God scourges miscar- 

 rying princes, is resolved by my lord of Argen- 

 ton : to which may be added out of Aristotle, 

 in the fifth of his Politiquest — ' That the ruins 

 of a kinsfdom are often derived from fraud and 

 subtleties.' I shall omit an inquiry into other 

 causes, as foreign to my present purpose. 



The politician knows best how to improve 

 these popular gusts, because he caused them : 



* — Careat successibus opto, 



Quisquis ab eventu facta notanda piitat. 

 f Per fraudem et doluiii regna cvertuntur. 



