limbs, but will have empty veins, and nourish little. Taxes and imposts upon them do seldom good to the king's revenue; for that he wins in the hundred[1] he leeseth[2] in the shire; the particular rates being increased, but the total bulk of trading rather decreased.
For 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 customs, or means of life.
For their men of war; it is a dangerous state where they live and remain in a body, and are used to donatives;[3] whereof we see examples in the janizaries,[4] and pretorian[5] bands of Rome; but trainings of men, and arming them in several places, and under several commanders, and without donatives, are things of defence, and no danger.
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil 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; and memento quod es Deus, or vice Dei;[6] the one bridleth their power, and the other their will.
- ↑ Hundred. A division of a county in England.
- ↑ Leeseth. Loseth.
- ↑ Donatives. Gifts, gratuities.
- ↑ Janizary. One of a former body of Turkish infantry, constituting the Sultan's guard and the main part of the standing army.
- ↑ Pretorian, or praetorian bands. In imperial Rome, the bodyguards of the Emperor.
- ↑ Remember that thou art man; remember that thou art God, or God's lieutenant.
body and brings it into contact with the external air, and then redistributes it everywhere, would I think have taken the place of the vena porta, after Harvey's discovery had become known; especially as the latter is a mere conduit, and not a source of motion." S.
