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as if a hoftile invafion were made upon a confederate, which alfb had 

 leagues Defenfive with other ftateSjand the fame implored their ay ds 

 feverally , the Romans would ever be the formoft, and leave it to 

 no other to have the Honour of the Affiftance. As for the wars which 

 were anciently made for a kind of conformityjOr tacite correfponden- 

 cy of Eftates, I do not fee upon what Law they are grounded. Such 

 were the wars undertaken by the Romans, for the liberty oiGrecra : 

 fuch were thole of the Lacedtmoniam and Athenians^ to fet up or pull 

 down Der/tocracics and Oligarchies : fuch are the wars made fometiroes 

 by States, and Princes, under pretence of protecting Forreign fub- 

 jefts, and freeing them from Tyranny and oppreffion, and the like. 

 Let it fufEcefor theprefent point that it be concluded. That no ejiate 

 expeli to be Great ^ that is not injlantly avpake^ upon anyJuH occajion of 

 Arming, 



8 Nobody can he healthful without exercife, neither Natural Body nor 

 Volitick^: and certainly to a Kingdom or Efiate ajttji and honourable war 

 if in place of a rvholjome exercife. A Civil war indeed, is lil^e the heat 

 of a Fever-y but a Forreign is like the heat ofExercife^zad ferves to keep 

 the body in health : for in a floathful and drowfle Peace, both cou- 

 rages will effeminate, and Manners corrupt But hovvfoever it be for 

 the Happinefs of any Eliate^ without all queftion, for Greatnef, it 

 maketh, to be ftill for the mofi: part in Arras ; and a veteran Army 

 (though it be a chargeable Bufinefs) always on foot, is that which 

 commonly gives the Law, or at lead the Reputation amongft all neigh' 

 hour-Jiates. This is notably to be feen in Sparn^ which had in one 

 part or other a veterane Army almoft continually, now by the (pace of 

 fix-fcore years. 



9 To he Mafler of the Sea, is an Abridgement of a Monarchy^ Cicero 

 writing to Atticus of PompeiMt his preparation againft Cff/i?r,(aith 5 Con-' 

 filium Pompeii, plane ThemiHocleum ei?; putat enim, qui mart Potitur^ 

 earn Rerum potiri. And without doubt Pompey had tyred out and 

 broken Cafar, if upon a vain confidence he had not left that way. We 

 fee from many examples the great effefts of Battels by Sea : The Bat- 

 tel ofActium decided the Empire of the world ; the Battel of £e/?4«- 

 io put a ring in the nofc of the Turk: Certainly it hath often fallen 

 out that Sea-fights have been final to the war , but this is when Prin- 

 ces or States have fet up their Reft upon thole Battels. Thus much 

 is without all doubt, that he that commands the Sea, is at great liber' 

 ty-i and may tah^ as much and as little of the war as he tpill: whereas 

 on the Contrary, tbofe that befirongeti by Land, are many times never- 

 thelefs in great fir aits. But at this day and with us of Europe, the van- 

 tage of firength at Sea (which is indeed one of the principal Dowries of 

 this Kingdom of Great Brittain)h in the fum of Affairs of great 

 import : both becaufe moft of the Kindoms of Europe , are not 

 merely Inland , but girt with the Sea moft part of their com- 

 pafs , and becaufe the Treafures and Wealth of both Indies, (kcms 

 in great part but an Acceflary to the command of the Seas, 



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