106 Large. Longiores et productiores, longer and more protracted." 107 Military Valour. Militia et Fortitudine spectatas, tried in war and valour.'

108 Court. Aulis Principum, 'the courts of princes.'

1625.

æt. 65.

V. fhort Speeches, which flie abroad like Darts, and are thought to be shot out of their fecret Intentions. For as for large 106 Difcourses, they are flat Things, and not fo much noted.

Laftly,let Princes,against

all Euents, not be without

fome Great Person, one, or rather more,
of Military Valour107 neere
vnto them, for the Repref-
fing of Seditions, in their
beginnings. For without
that, there vseth to be more
trepidation in Court,108
vpon the first Breaking out
of Troubles, then were fit.
And the State runneth the
danger of that, which Taci-
tus faith; Atque is Habitus
animorum fuit, vt pefsimum
facinus auderent Pauci,
Plures vellent, Omnes pat-
erentur.a But let fuch

Military Perfons, be Affured, and well reputed of, rather then Factious,

and Popular; Holding

also good Correspondence,

with the other Great Men in the State;

Or else the Remedie, is

worse then the Disease.

a And this was the disposition of their minds, that a few dared to attempt the greatest villany, that more desired it, and that all tolerated in it. Tacitus. History. i. 28.