. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . md againft a SuperiorPower, does but find it Exercife, and render it morepowerful by the Addition of its own Spoils. This Me-thod Cerealis took to compofe the Minds of thofe ofTreves, leaft they fhould take up Arms againft the Ro-Tftans, laying, A Fahrick, as that was, -wbich had heenthe VroduEi of Eight hundred years Succefs and Induftry,could not be pulld doivn , but its Ruin ffiuli of nece£itybury the Authors of it (5). Many things would not fuc-ceed fo ill, did not our Fear and Imagination ad withtoo much Precipitation. Apprehenfi
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . md againft a SuperiorPower, does but find it Exercife, and render it morepowerful by the Addition of its own Spoils. This Me-thod Cerealis took to compofe the Minds of thofe ofTreves, leaft they fhould take up Arms againft the Ro-Tftans, laying, A Fahrick, as that was, -wbich had heenthe VroduEi of Eight hundred years Succefs and Induftry,could not be pulld doivn , but its Ruin ffiuli of nece£itybury the Authors of it (5). Many things would not fuc-ceed fo ill, did not our Fear and Imagination ad withtoo much Precipitation. Apprehenfion and Jealoufy ofTyranny, when once difcovered, make it begin to bereally, though it were not before. Whence in fuch likeCafes, tis a piece of no lefs Courage to know how todilTemble, than to be too rafh in remedying. The for-mer is the genuine Effed of Prudence, this generallythe Refult of Fear. ^5) OSogentorum annorum fortpina, difciplinaquey cotnpages hxc coalmsqn£ conveSi fine excidio conveOemium non fotejt, Tac. 4. Hi/1. £M- VoU. ^SS EMBLEM XHE clofer the Breath Is preffed in a Trumpet,* with the greater Harmonv and Variety it goes outof it ,• thus tis with Virtue^which is never more clear andharmonious than when fuppreffed by Malice (»). TheFlame of Valour is apt to die, if the Wind of Adver-fity dont revive it; that awakens the Mind^ and makesit look about for means to amend it. Happinels, likethe Role, grows out of Thorns and Mife ies. ^Iphonjothe Fifth, King of Arragon, was vancjilh d and takenin a Sea-fight with the Gevoeze; and that, which in allprobability was like to retard his Jixpediciori againlt theKingdom of N^v^/a, was the very thing that furthered Ci) Multorum imprabuae deprejfd verifas tmerf^t, (^ rnxmU de-fefijfk intcrclitfa ref^irat, KtiCQWo h ic6, a trtnce Learn to draw felicity Vol. I. it with greater Happinefs-and Power; for by makinga League with P-6////>, Duke of Milan, who recaindhim Prifoner, he obtained both his Liberty, and F
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