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fratricide upon reason of state, to guard his new 

 conquest by freedom from a competitor, is not 

 only vindicated from cruelty, but asserted to 

 be a piece of meritorious policy. Nor did this 

 happen to the city in its structure alone, but 

 after, in its reparation ; when the sons of Brutus 

 were sacrificed to the desig^n of their father : so 

 that Rome was not only nursed with blood, 

 but after growth and ripeness, she sustained 

 herself, lived and thrived upon Magna et san- 

 guinolenta latrocinia ; so that our politician can 

 scarce want examples in the applauded actions 

 of this city, to patronize the most crimson and 

 scarlet sin, that ambition can prompt. 



He admires the generosity of Nero's mother, 

 who is reported to have said of her son : ' Let 

 my son be my murderer, so he may be a mo- 

 narch.'* According to the advice of an high 

 spirited fury, ' an empire cannot be purchased 

 too dear, though it cost the blood of millions. 'f 



He is much taken with the gallantry of the 

 Mamelukes, who abused the easiness of the 

 Egyptian sultan, and wore the supremacy three 

 hundred years, upon the length and keenness 

 of an usurping sword. 



And rather than want a bongrace, he com- 



f Pro regno velim patriam, penates, conjugem flammis dare, 

 imperia pretio qiiolibet constant bene. 



