. Politick discourses;. y thefe men feem not to know,to howmany and how great and various accidents all humane works arc fubject, and whatthe true rule and meafurc is whe. eby the perfedlion of States is comprehended : Forthat is net iimply the greatncfs oi an Empire, to which fhe at the beginning rifethby Fortune, and which is increafed by Injurtice-, but that may well be faid to bethe true Form of Government, by which people living in peace and union, maywoik lighteoufly, and obtain Civil felicity. He therefore who Will judge aright ofthe actions of that Commonwealth, without iuffering his e
. Politick discourses;. y thefe men feem not to know,to howmany and how great and various accidents all humane works arc fubject, and whatthe true rule and meafurc is whe. eby the perfedlion of States is comprehended : Forthat is net iimply the greatncfs oi an Empire, to which fhe at the beginning rifethby Fortune, and which is increafed by Injurtice-, but that may well be faid to bethe true Form of Government, by which people living in peace and union, maywoik lighteoufly, and obtain Civil felicity. He therefore who Will judge aright ofthe actions of that Commonwealth, without iuffering his eyes to be dazeied fplenoorof the Roman gre:tners,let him confider them nakediy,as void of thacleputation which Antiquity and the power of Empire purchafed ihem, and he willfind fome things peradvcnture ainongft the many for which Hie worthily defervcdto be cryed up by all men, which aie more to be obferved for the amendment ofpicfent Governments by their example^ then for imitation, out of hopes of aftain- B ing. ing any true praifc or apparent good. But as there is nothing of greater importancein a City, then the Form of Govsrnmenr, by which, as by the loul thereof, everygood aft is produced ; foof all other obfeivations which may be had of the Cityof Rome, there is not any more worthy, or of more ufe, then to examine what wasthe ttueft Form of her Government, that wc may afterwards fee whether (he mighthave been better ordered in Civil affairs then ^\q was, without difordering her Mi-litia; and whether flie could keep together the People armed, and obedient to theLaws. To know then what the condrtion of her Government was, and thence tocomprehend whether that fupreme excellencic were in it, as hath been thought byfome men -, following the Rule which Phiiofophy teacheth us, which fays,that everyForm of Republick is not convenient for every City, but that they muft be variedaccording to the divers natures of the people, and according to other accidents•,we rault exami
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