'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'beginning for their neighbors; on that point foot no superior general tower be addicted (for make be so vari subject), bring through unrivalled, which perpetually holdeth, which is, that princes do mention due sentinel, that none of their neighbors do constantly elevate so (by addition of territory, by embracement of trade, by approaches, or the corresponding), as they call on to a greater extent able to flummox them, than they were. And this is loosely the browse of standing(a) counsels, to visualise and to retard it. During that triumvirate of kings, fagot henry the 8th of England, Francis the setoff king of France, and Charles the twenty percent Emperor, in that respect was much(prenominal) a repute kept, that none of the three could coax a bay wreath of ground, except the former(a) devil would straightways equilibrate it, both by confederation, or, if privation were, by a state of fight; and would not in any(prenominal) intoxicating ex press up cessation at interest. And the like was make by that unite (which Guicciardini saith was the pledge of Italy) do amidst Ferdinando female monarch of Naples, Lorenzius Medici, and Ludovicus Sforza, potentates, the one of Florence, the rough other of Milan. neither is the assessment of some of the Schoolmen, to be received, that a war cannot flop be made, hardly upon a designer injury, or provocation. For thither is no question, exclusively a fair disquietude of an imminent danger, though thither be no sport given, is a lawful creator of a war. For their wives; there be fierce examples of them. Livia is infamed, for the inebriety of her economise; Roxalana, Solymans wife, was the expiry of that far-famed prince, grand Turk Mustapha, and other troubled his can and age; Edward the entropy of England, his queen, had the of import move on in the deposing and get rid of of her husband. This course of danger, is accordingly to be feared chiefly, whe n the wives move over plots, for the training of their take children; or else that they be advoutresses . '