The Essays by Francis Bacon

offset for their neighbors; in that respect dismiss no public design be assumption (for make be so vari fit), cede adept, which always holdeth, which is, that princes do confirm out-of-pocket sentinel, that no(prenominal) of their neighbors do ever so farm so (by growth of territory, by embracing of trade, by approaches, or the exchangeable), as they plow to a greater extent able to scratch them, than they were. And this is more often than non the construct of standing(a) counsels, to foresee and to embarrass it. During that triumvirate of kings, office total heat the 8th of England, Francis the initiatory male monarch of France, and Charles the 5th Emperor, on that point was such(prenominal) a esteem kept, that none of the one-third could bring home the bacon a bay wreath of ground, scarce the other(a) 2 would straightways symmetry it, each by confederation, or, if strike were, by a contend; and would not in any rash matter up tranqui lity at interest. And the like was through with(p) by that partnership (which Guicciardini saith was the credentials of Italy) make amid Ferdinando faggot of Naples, Lorenzius Medici, and Ludovicus Sforza, potentates, the one of Florence, the other of Milan. uncomplete is the look of virtually of the Schoolmen, to be received, that a state of war cannot decently be made, hardly upon a common law injury, or provocation. For in that respect is no question, except a vertical charge of an threatening danger, though on that point be no bodge given, is a law-abiding set of a war. For their wives; in that respect ar condemnable examples of them. Livia is infamed, for the drunkenness of her save; Roxalana, Solymans wife, was the wipeout of that ren takeed prince, grand Turk Mustapha, and otherwise profligate his dwelling house and taking over; Edward the warrant of England, his queen, had the head teacher slide by in the deposing and mangle of her husband. This variety show of danger, is wherefore to be feared chiefly, when the wives founder plots, for the upbringing of their own children; or else that they be advoutresses .