but will have empty Veines, and nourish little.[1] Taxes and Imposts upon them doe seldome good to the King's Revenew; For that that he winnes in the Hundred, he leeseth[2] in the Shire; The particular Rates being increased, but the totall Bulke of Trading rather decreased.
For[3] their Commons; There is little danger from them, except it be, where they have Great and Potent Heads; Or where you meddle with the Point of Religion, Or their Customes, or Meanes of Life.
For[3] their Men of warre;[4] It is a dangerous State where they live and remaine in a Body and are used to Donatives;[5] whereof we see Examples in the Ianizaries and Pretorian Bands of Rome: But Traynings of Men, and Arming them in severall places, and under severall[6] Commanders, and without Donatives, are Things of Defence, and no Danger.
Princes are like to Heavenly Bodies, which cause good or evill times; And which have much Veneration, but no Rest. All precepts concerning Kings are in effect comprehended in those two Remembrances: Memento quod es Homo ,[7] And Memento quod es Deus, or Vice Dei:[8] The one bridleth their Power, and the other their Will.
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OF COUNSELL
The greatest Trust, betweene Man and Man is the Trust of Giving Counsell. For in other Confidences, Men commit the parts of life; Their Lands, their Goods, their Children, their Credit, some particular Affaire; But to such as they make their Counsellors, they commit the whole:
