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10. The wars of latter Agesfeemto be mack '» tjje clarl{^^ ip refpe^^ of 

 the dory and Honour which reflected upon MiUlary men frovt the fears 

 in ancient times. We have now perchance, for Martial encourage- 

 ment,(bme degrees and orders of Chivalry, which nevertheleis are 

 conferred promifcuoufly upon Soldiers, and no Soldiers; and ibme 

 Pedegrees of Families perhaps upon Scutchions ; and fome pub- 

 lick Hofpitals for eraerited and maim'd Soldiers,and fuch like things. 

 But in ancient times^ the Trophy erefted upon the place of the Vi- 

 ftory, the Funeral Laudatives and ftately Monuments for thofe 

 that died in the Wars 5 Civick Crowns, and Military Garlands a- 

 warded to particular perfons ; the ftile of Emperor , which the 

 greateft Kingsof the World after, borrowed from Commanders in 

 War; the foleran Triumphs of the Generals upon their return, af- 

 ter the Wars were profperoufly ended ; the great Donatives and 

 Largefles upon the disbanding of the Armies : thefe, I fay, were 

 matters (b many and great, and of fuch glorious luftre and blaze in 

 eyes of the world , as were able to create a Fire in the moft fro- 

 zen breafts, and to inflame them to War. But above all^ that ofthe 

 7r7»«zp/j amongft the Romans, was not a matter of mere pomp, or 

 (bme vain fpe&acle or pageants , but one of the wifefl: and noblefl: 

 inftitutions that ever was : for it-contain'd in it three things , Honor 

 and Glory to the Generals ; Riches to the Treafury out of the Spoils , and 

 Donatives to the Army. But the Honours of Triumph perhaps were 

 not fit for Monarchies, ^Xcept it be in the perfbo ofthe King him- 

 lelf, or of the Kings Sons 5 as it came to pafs in the times of the Ro- 

 wan Emperors ^ who did impropriate the Honor of Triumph to thera- 

 relves,and their Sons; for fuch Wars as they did atchieve in Perfbn, 

 and left only by wz.yorwiAnXgQncQfiarmentszndTrinmphalEu'dgns 

 to the Generals. 



§ But to conclude thefe difcourfes 5 (There is no man (as (acred M«t-v^= 

 Scripture teftifies) that by~care taking can add a cubit to his fialure ^ 

 in this little Model of Man's body 5 but in the great Frame of King-' 

 dcms znA CoMVDon-wealths^ it is in the Power of Princes and Eftates, 

 to add Amplitude and Greatnefs to their Kingdoms. For by intro- 

 ducing fuch ordinances, conftitutions and cuftoms, as we have now 

 propounded, and others of like nature with thefe, they may fow 

 greatnefs to Pofterity and Future Ages. But thefe ccunfels are fel- 

 dom taken into confideration by Princes 5 but the Matter is common- 

 ly left to fortune to take its chance. 



§ And thus much for the points that, for the prefent, have offered 

 themfelves to our confideration touching the Enlarging of the Limits 

 ttf a State or Kingdom. But to what end is this coratemphtiorl, fee- 

 ingof all Imperial Soveraignties in this World, the Roman Monar- 

 chy (as it is believed) was to be the laft ? but that, being true to 

 our own Defign, nor any where declining out ofthe way (in as much 

 Ins the Amplification of a Kingdom was, amongft the three Politick 

 Duties, the third} we could not altogether pafs it over untoucht. 

 There remains now anothQt Deficient of the two we have' fet down, 

 that rs, of Vnitferfaljujiice, or the Fountains of lam. 



O O 2 Ilr All 



