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&quot; hath better iron than you, he will be lord of all 

 &quot; your gold.&quot; Neither is the authority of Machiavel 

 to be despised, who scorneth that proverb of state, 

 taken first from a speech of Mucianus, That moneys 

 are the sinews of war ; and saith, &quot; There are no 

 &quot; true sinews of war, but the very sinews of the arms 

 &quot; of valiant men.&quot; 



Nay more, Mr. Speaker, whosoever shall look 

 into the seminaries and beginnings of the monarchies 

 of the world, he shall find them founded in poverty. 



Persia, a country barren and poor, in respect of 

 Media, which they subdued. 



Macedon, a kingdom ignoble and mercenary 

 until the time of Philip the son of Amyntas. 



Rome had poor and pastoral beginnings. 



The Turks, a band of Sarmatian Scythes, that in 

 a vagabond manner made incursion upon that part 

 of Asia, which is yet called Turcomania; out of 

 which after much variety of fortune, sprung the Ot 

 toman family, now the terror of the world. 



So, we know, the Goths, Vandals, Alans, Huns, 

 Lombards, Normans, and the rest of the northern 

 people, in one age of the world made their descent 

 or expedition upon the Roman empire, and came not, 

 as rovers, to carry away prey, and be gone again ; 

 but planted themselves in a number of rich and 

 fruitful provinces, where not only their generations, 

 but their names, remain to this day ; witness Lom- 

 bardy, Catalonia, a name compounded of Goth and 

 Alan, Andalusia, a name corrupted from Vandalitia, 

 Hungaria, Normandy, and others. 



