. The Florentine THE FOVRTH BOOKS;. LL Cities (and chiefly they which be well goucrned vnder the;name ofCommon-vveales) doo often alter their ftate and gouern->ment: not of libertie and fubiedion (as many imagine)but by onely thenameof libertie is honoured of the people, who are the mimfiers of Jy-centioufnefle, and feruitude ftill fought for by the Nobilitfe;? \o aseither ofthem dofiadie not to {ubied themfelues, ,thatwhenithappeneth (asfildomeitdoth) that by goodfortuneof fome Citie, there rifeth vp ther
. The Florentine THE FOVRTH BOOKS;. LL Cities (and chiefly they which be well goucrned vnder the;name ofCommon-vveales) doo often alter their ftate and gouern->ment: not of libertie and fubiedion (as many imagine)but by onely thenameof libertie is honoured of the people, who are the mimfiers of Jy-centioufnefle, and feruitude ftill fought for by the Nobilitfe;? \o aseither ofthem dofiadie not to {ubied themfelues, ,thatwhenithappeneth (asfildomeitdoth) that by goodfortuneof fome Citie, there rifeth vp therein, a wife, good,and mightie Citizen, of whomcfuchlawes be made, as thefe humours of the Nobilitie * and of the people, hckeptquiet (or attheleaft lb reftrained as they cannot doo euill) then may that Cittie becalled free, and that ftatefirme andftable. For being buildedvpon good lawes,andgood orders, it needeth notaftervvardes the vertue of anie nianto vphold it. 0£fuch Iawesand orders^ manie auncicnt Common-weales (wh
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