*248 OF A WAR WITH SPAIN. 



&quot; name ; but the truth is, that there is ever between 

 &quot; all estates a secret war.&quot; I know well this speech 

 is the objection and not the decision, and that it is 

 after refuted ; but yet, as I said before, it bears thus 

 much of truth, that if that general malignity, and 

 predisposition to war, which he untruly figureth to 

 be in all nations, be produced and extended to a just 

 fear of being oppressed, then it is no more a true 

 peace, but a name of a peace. 



As for the opinion of Iphicrates the Athenian, it 

 demands not so much towards a war as a just fear, 

 but rather cometh near the opinion of Clinias ; as if 

 there were ever amongst nations a brooding of a war, 

 and that there is no sure league but impuissance to 

 do hurt. For he, in the treaty of peace with the 

 Lacedaemonians, speaketh plain language ; telling 

 them, there could be no true and secure peace, 

 except the Lacedaemonians yielded to those things, 

 which being granted, it would be no longer in their 

 power to hurt the Athenians, though they would : 

 and to say truth, if one mark it well, this was in all 

 memory the main piece of wisdom, in strong and 

 prudent counsels, to be in perpetual watch, that the 

 states about them should neither by approach, nor 

 by increase of dominion, nor by ruining confederates, 

 nor by blocking of trade, nor by any the like means, 

 have it in their power to hurt or annoy the states 

 they serve ; and whensoever any such cause did but 

 appear, straightways to buy it out with a war, and 

 never take up peace at credit and upon interest. It 

 is so memorable, as it is yet as fresh as if it were done 



