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violence. Usurpation hath only these two pil- 

 lars, its own arms and militia, and public oath 

 and acknowledgment ; and it is scarce worth 

 query, whether, when the gross of a nation is 

 thus bound, the oath be not as valid, and the 

 conscience as much concerned, as if it had been 

 sworn to a lawful prince. It is reasonable, that 

 an usurping power cannot, upon any prudent 

 persuasion, have the same confidence in the love 

 of the people that a just one hath : nor is the 

 following government enticing, as Tacitus notes, 

 ' Never any kingdom, badly acquired, was well 

 administered.'* The same with Cuazzo, where 

 one, objecting the vices of princes, receives 

 this answer, ' Therefore they were not natural 

 princes, but violent usurpers, and so more be- 

 holding to the fear than love of their subjects.'! 

 And therefore if the politician can, by the 

 blessed means fore-mentioned, gain a superi- 

 ority, there is no trusting to those ingenious 

 guards, his own goodness, and the love of 

 others : his best defence is awe, and fear, and 

 scaffold, and gibbet, and the like. For he that 

 hath no voluntary room in the hearts of his peo- 

 ple, must use all means to gain a coercive. 



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* Nec quisquam imperium malis artibus qusesitum bene ad- 

 ministravit. 



t Perch^ non erano principi per natura, ma per violenzaj 

 ed erano pi^ temuti cbe amati. De civil, convers. 1. 2. p. 132. 



