1&amp;lt; THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS. 



of princes, and the rebellious insurrection of traitors 

 in a state. For princes may well be said to be mar 

 ried to their dominions, as Jupiter was to Juno ; but 

 it happens now and then, that being deboshed by the 

 long custom of empiring and bending towards 

 tyranny, they endeavour to draw all to themselves, 

 and, contemning the counsel of their nobles and sena 

 tors, hatched laws in their own brain, that is, dispose 

 of things by their own fancy and absolute power. 

 The people, repining at this, study how to create 

 and set up a chief of their own choice. This project, 

 by the secret instigation of the peers and nobles, doth 

 for the most part take his beginning ; by whose con 

 nivance the commons being set on edge, there fol 

 lows a kind of murmuring or discontent in the state, 

 shadowed by the infancy of Typhon, which being 

 nursed by the natural pravity and clownish malignity 

 of the vulgar sort, (unto princes as infestuous as ser 

 pents,) is again repaired by renewed strength, and at 

 last breaks out into open rebellion, which, because it 

 brings infinite mischiefs upon prince and people, is 

 represented by the monstrous deformity of Typhon : 

 his hundred heads signify their divided powers, his 

 fiery mouths their inflamed intents, his serpentine 

 circles their pestilent malice in besieging, his iron 

 hands their merciless slaughters, his eagle s talons 

 their greedy rapines, his plumed body their con 

 tinual rumours, and scouts, and fears, and such like ; 

 and sometimes these rebellions grow so potent, that 

 princes are enforced (transported as it were by the 

 rebels, and forsaking the chief seats and cities of the 



