250 OF A WAR WITH SPAIN. 



other states, assuredly, cannot be justly accused for 

 not staying for the first blow ; or for not accepting 

 Polyphemus s courtesy, to be the last that shall be 

 eaten up. 



Nay, I observe farther, that in that passage of 

 Plato which I cited before, and even in the tenet of 

 that person that beareth the resolving part, and not 

 the objecting part, a just fear is justified for a cause 

 of an invasive war, though the same fear proceed not 

 from the fault of the foreign state to be assailed : 

 for it is there insinuated, that if a state, out of the 

 distemper of their own body, do fear sedition and 

 intestine troubles to break out amongst themselves, 

 they may discharge their own ill humours upon a 

 foreign war for a cure. And this kind of cure was 

 tendered by Jasper Coligni, admiral of France, to 

 Charles the ninth the French king, when by a vive 

 and forcible persuasion he moved him to a war upon 

 Flanders, for the better extinguishment of the civil 

 wars of France ; but neither was that counsel pros 

 perous ; neither will I maintain that position : for I 

 will never set politics against ethics ; especially for 

 that true ethics are but as a handmaid to divinity 

 and religion. Surely St. Thomas, who had the 

 largest heart of the school divines, bendeth chiefly his 

 style against the depraved passions which reign in 

 making wars, speaking out of St. Augustine : &quot; No- 

 &quot; cendi cupiditas, ulciscendi crudelitas, implacatus 

 &quot; et implacabilis animus, feritas rebellandi, libido 

 &quot; dominandi, et si qua3 sunt similia, haec sunt qua? in 

 &quot; bellis jure culpantur.&quot; And the same St. Thomas 



