and Largesses[1] upon the Disbanding of the Armies, were Things able to enflame all Men's Courages. But above all, That of the Triumph[2], amongst the Romans, was not Pageants or Gauderie[3], but one of the Wisest and Noblest Institutions that ever was. For it contained three Things, Honour to the Generall; Riches to the Treasury out of the Spoiles; And Donatives to the Army. But that Honour, perhaps, were not fit[4] for Monarchies, Except it be in the Person of the Monarch himselfe or his Sonnes; As it came to passe, in the Times of the Roman Emperours, who did impropriate[5] the Actuall Triumphs to Themselves and their Sonnes, for such Wars as they did atchieve in Person, And left onely, for Wars atchieved by Subiects, some Triumphall Garments and Ensignes[6] to the Generall.
To conclude; No Man can by Care taking (as the Scripture saith) adde a Cubite to his Stature, in this little Modell of a Man's Body[7]: But in the Great Frame of Kingdomes and Common Wealths, it is in the power of Princes or Estates[8] to adde Amplitude and Greatnesse to their Kingdomes. For by introducing such Ordinances, Constitutions, and Customes, as we have now touched[9], they may sow Greatnesse to their Posteritie and Succession. But these Things are commonly not Observed, but left to take their Chance.
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OF REGIMENT[10] OF HEALTH
There is a wisdome in this beyond the Rules of Physicke: A Man's owne Observation, what he findes Good of[11] and what he findes Hurt of[11], is the best Physicke
