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Show Thefourth Bookeofthefirspart Cuar.s.6.3) he had dared more than he meant. Burall his Captaines aduifed himtoretire into E. gypt;alleaging many good argumentsto tliatparpofe : whichthey might well perceiue to be agreeable to his owneintent,by his propoundingthat courfe;not without remem. brance ofthe good fuceeffeagainit Pérdigcessin.the like defenfine Warte:Sohe departed out of Sytiaspreferuing his heriour;as being rather ledibyanature deliberation;than any faddaine pation of fear:and hedeparted arvaire leifure, not only carrying his treafures along withhim, but ftaying to difmantle fome principall Cities ‘that he thought moft likely to trouble himin the future.All the Country thathe left at his backe,fell prefent. ly to, dntigonins,, without pitting hinptothe troubleof, winningiit by pieces:si fo cafe was itin thofe times,forthe Captain ofa ftrong Awmy,to make himfelf Lord ofa great 7° Prowince:; , i Wemay.iuftly wonderthat thefe Kingdomes of Syria, Media; Babylon} & many o ther Nations, (which the victory ofalexander had,ouer-runy with fo hafty acoirfe, ag gaue him notleifureto take any, good view ofthem) yvere:{o eafily held nor onely by himifelfe, butby the Captaines.ofhis Armyafter him. .The hat contentions iforfupes tiority betweenethe King of Ifrach, and rhofejof Damafcus,; betweene Egypt, :and Babylon; Babylon and Nineue;the Perfians,and many Countries ; argueamor¢ manly temper, to haiie, once beene in thofe,people which arenow fo patientof a fortaigne yoke,that like Sheep or Oxen,they fitfer, them felnes to be diftribured,fought for,won, loft,andagainerecouered by: contentioris Matters ; as if they, had:na title to cheirowne 10 heads, but were borne to follow the forquae ofthe Macedonians, ‘This willappearthe more ftrange,ifwe thall confidershow the feuerall States of Greece(tnany ofwhichhad neuer poflefted fodarge Dominion,as might caufe thein{pirirsto.fwel beyond their abi. lity) did greedily,embracealloccafions of \liberty,:iand how, theft proud Conquerours were glad to offerit, defiriug to hauethemirather.friends chan. fermants,for feate offut therinconuenience, LRN nis aor iT ni bi ls » Temutt therefore be noted; that moft ofthefe Countiies +had-alivayes beetie fabied vnto the rule-of Kings,oriperry Lords, -whomthe-Babyloniang dnd Perfians longfince had rootedout, and held them.in fuck bondage, than few oftemknéw abyiother Law, than the command offouraigee Matters} ‘This had neterly'takenfrom chenvall rememts 39 brance of home-borne Prigeesj& ineorporated them intothegreatbody ofthePeriian Empire: forhat wanting withinthemfelucsall foueraigne power, onhigh authority, the lifeand fpitit ofeuery Eftate; theylay aa dead,andwetebereauedof motion;whenthat Kingdome fell,whereofithey lately hadbeen members. ones Wythe Perlian Satrape.or Princes ofthat Empire,idid-not, when Derias was caked fromthom,as the Macedonian Captaitis, aftenthie death ofAlexander, ftrinetolay hold ¥ponthofpProuinees,which had many ages binifubiedtivnto thehn,é: {car¢efoute yours in quiet pofleffion oftheir enemies;otwhy.atleatt they contetided not (when sie tertit blenantes£that- great Canquerour didceafeto affright them co get cheir {hares among his followens,if nor, wholly to difpoffelfé them. oftheirinew putchafes: itisaquestions whexein;svhois nox{atisfied,, may adeno) leflé seafonto fifpect thie |Hikow tae authority;toconficme it, Forivefeldome reade,thatany, fmall, Kingdome, prevailing Againfta fave greater, hathimade fo entixe aconquelt,-in sha gompatie of tem yates asileft wnt ihevangquithedine hope ofrecouery; hormeanestasebell.; efpecially Wn fuch diforderssor racher virex confufionhath ena fcby the furyioficiuill warts #008 the Vidors.., iy ee agar ie aly . zishe caylewhy the Macedonians heldfo quierlyche Penfian Empire, issvell fer dow? by Atachianell; and concerfiesall ticeKingdomesstbararefabiedt vato,the like forms SFGoucinmeors che fumyme whereofis this; WhBrefoduer the Princedoth holdall his Subietts yngonthe coadition offlautesy thereisthe conquefteasie, and foone allure: Where ancicat Wobiliry ishad in dusnepasdin these isic hard to:winne i3!)s tod bards tokeepethat, which \iswon., Examples ofthisiarestie Furkih-Empire, andthe bane some of France, Ifany Inuader fhould \preuaile if) farxe vpon Tairkies Baarthe grt {ane s Sultanandhis-Children for Brethren, he vicchnerto faffer aliuey were taken" the whole-Empire, would quickly be wonne siandreaGly kepty wishout acy-<*janges ofrebellion. For the Baffaes,howgreat focuer they may feeme, are meer¢ avs theristhere in all chat large Dominign,anyoneman, whole perfonall regaudon . the Peopleito,follawhioasa leita, nat fachwan.aempr, welicrein : hope ofprivate : Recer oCuar5.§.8. of the Eiftory of the Korld,. counteruaile all apparant matter of feare. .Contrariwife,in France, itwerenet enough for him that a make a. conquelt , to get into his hands the King and his Children s though he further got the better part ofthe Country, and were by farrethe ftrongeft in thefeld. For,befides the Princes ofthe Royall bloud,therearein thatKingdomeftore ofgreat men;whoare mightyin their feucrall Countries,and hauing certaine Royalties and Principalities oftheir owne, areable to raife Warrein all quarters ofthe Realme 3 whereunto the remembrance of their owne ancient Families, and long continued Nobility,will alwayesftirre vpand inflame them; fothatvntill euery one piece were won, and every one (an endleffe worke) ofthe chiefe Nobility, brought vnderor deftroyed, 10 the vidtory were not compleat,nor wel affured.Itis true,that fuch power ofthe Nobili« , doth often-times make way for.an Inuader; to whom the difcontentments ofa few can eafily make a faire entrance. But fuch affiftants are not fo eafily kept, as they, aregotten : for they looke to be {atisfied at full,in all their demands); and hauing what they ney foonereturneto their old allegeance, vpon condition to keepe what they haue,vnleffethey be daily hired with new rewards : wherin itis hard to pleafe one man,withoutoffending another as good as himfelfe.The Turke,onthe otherfide,needs not to fear any peril,that might arife from the difcontented {pirits ofhis principal nen; The greateft mifchiefe that any ofthem could worke again{t him, werethe betraying of fome frontier. Towne, or the wilfull loffe of a battaile: vvhich done, the Traitor 20 hath {pent his fting,and muft either fyeto theenemy, whereby he lofeth; all that; he formerly did hold; orelfe,in hope ofdoing fomefurther harme, he muft aduentureto excufe himfelfe vnto his Mafter, whofeldomeforgiues the Captaine,that hath not ftriued by defperate valour againft misfortune. As for making head, or arming their followers againft the great Sultan,and fo ioyning themfelues ynto any Inuader; itis amat- ter not to be doubted: for none of them haueanyfollowers or, dependantsatall, other than fuch,asare fubieét vatothem, by vertue oftheir Offices and Commiifions. Now as this bafe condition of the principall men, doth leauevnto them no:neanes, whereby to oppofe themfelues againft the flourifhing eftate oftheir, Prince ; {0 would it. weaken both their power and their courage in giuing him affiftance, if aduerfity fhould make him ftand in need ofthem.Forthere is {carce any one among the Turks Baffacs,or Proe uinciall Goucrnours, that knoweseither from whence he was brought, or from whom defcended,nor any one among them,that by the loffe & viter tuine of the Turkith Empite,can lofe any foote of his properinheritance; anditis the proper inheritance ofthe fubieét,which isalfo 2 Kingdom vato him,which makes him fight with an armed heart pink the Conquerer, wito hath no other denice painted onhis Enfignc, chau thepi reofflauery. Asinthe Turkith Empire, fo wasthe Perfian, voideofliberty in the Subie@s,and viterly deftitute of other Nobility , than fuch as depended vpon meere fauour ofthe Prince, Some indeede there were ofthe Royall bloud, and others, defcended from the Princes that ioyned with Darius, the Sonne of Hy/ta/pes , in oppreffing the Afagé: thefe were men of reputation in Perfia, but their reputation confifted only in theirPe- digréc, and their {afety in not medling with affaires of State, which madethem litle, eftecined.In what {mall account thefe Perfian Princes wereheld,it may appear bythis, thatthe Kings Vaclés, Coufin Germans, and Brethren, were called by the Kings, Their Slaues, and fo did ftile themfelucs,in {peaking vate thele great Monarchs. That vpon cuerylight occafion of difpleafurethey were handledas Slques; it is eafie to bee differed, in that example. ofcruelty , ra@ifed by Xerxes vpomhis.owne brother the SaMéfilles, which hath been formerly ar in place more conucnicnt. As Fox frape, ox Gouernours ofthe Provinces, it is needleffe co. cite cxamples,:prouing them tohane beene meer flaues : it mayfuffice, that their heads were taken from them at the Kings will , that is, at the will of thofe Women and Eunuchs, by whom the King .was Boucrned, . Tothis want ofNobility in Perfia, may be added the generall want ofliberty, conWenient amtongthe people:a matter nolefleauaileable;in making caffe and fure the or his Affe li Guelt of a Nation, than is the caufe affigned by Machianel. Fot as Afope Botearcto run from thc eniemics, becaule it was not poflible,that they fhould load him ith htauier burthens, chan his Matter caufed him daily to beate : forthe Nations,that Shdurethe worlt vader their owne Princes, arc not greatly fcarfull ofa forraigne rer |