both Courages will effeminate, and Manners corrupt. But how foever it be for Happiness without all Queftion; for Greatnefs, it maketh to be ftill, for the most part in Arms; and the strength of a Veterane Army (though it be a chargeable Business) always on Foot, is that which commonly giveth the Law, or at leaft the Reputation amongit all Neighbour-States; as may well be feen in Spain, which hath had in one part or other a Veterane Army, almoft continually, now by the space of fixfcore years.

To be Master of the Sea, is an Abridgment of a Monarchy. Cicero writing to Atticus, of Pompey his Preparation against Cæfar, faith, Confilium Pompeii planè Themistocleum eft; Putat enim qui Mari potitur, eum Rerum potiri. And without doubt Pompey had tired out Cafar, if upon vain Confidence he had not left that Way. We fee the great effects of Battels by Sea. The Battel of Actium decided the Empire of the World. The Battel of Lepanto arrefted the Greatness of the Turk There be many examples, where Sea Fights have been Final to the War; but this is when Princes or States have fet up their Reft upon the Battels. But thus much is certain, that he that commands the Sea, is at great liberty, and may take as much, and as little of the War, as he will; whereas thofe that be strongest by Land, are many times nevertheless in great. ftreights. Surely at this day, with us of Europe, the Vantage of ftrength at Sea (which is one of the principal Dowries of this Kingdom of Great

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Britain) is great: both because most of the Kingdoms of Europe are not meerly In-land, but girt with the Sea,moft part of their Compafs; and because the Wealth of both Indies feem in great part but an Acceffary to the Command of the Seas.

The Wars of Latter Ages feem to be made in the Dark, in refpect of the Glory and Honour. which reflected upon Men from the Wars in Antient Time. There be now for Martial Encouragement, fome Degrees and Orders of Chivalry, which nevertheless are conferred promifcuoufly upon Soldiers, and no Soldiers; and fome Remembrance perhaps upon the Scutchion; and fome Hofpitals for maimed Soldiers, and fuch like Things. But in Antient Times, the Trophies erected upon the place of the Victory; the Funeral Laudatives and Monuments for thofe that died in the Wars; the Crowns and Garlands perfonal; the Style of Emperor, which the great King of the World after borrowed; the Triumphs of the Generals upon their Return; the great Donatives and Largeffes upon the Disbanding of the Armies, were things able to enflame all mens Courages. But above all, that of the Triumph amongft the Romans, was not Pageant or Gaudery, but one of the Wifeft and Nobleft Inftitutions that ever was: for it contained three things; Honour to the General; Riches to the Treafury out, of the Spoyl; and Donatives to the Army. But that Honour perhaps were not fit for Monarchies, except it be in the Perfon of the Monarch himself,' I 2

or his Sons; as it came to pass in the times of the Roman Emperors, who did impropriate the Actual Triumphs to themselves, and their Sons, for fuch Wars as they did atchieve in Perfon; and left only for Wars atchieved by Subjects, fome Triumphal Garments and Enfigns to the General.

To conclude, No Man can, by Care taking (as the Scripture faith) add a cubit to his Stature, in this little Model of a Mans Body; but in the great Frame of Kingdoms and Commonwealths; it is in the power of Princes or Eftates to add Amplitude and Greatnefs to their Kingdoms. For by introducing fuch Ordinances, Conftitutions and Customs, as we have now touched, they may fow Greatness to their Pofterity and Succeffion. But these things are commonly not observed, but left to take their chance.

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Of Regiment of Health.

HERE is a Wifdom in this beyond the Rules of Phyfick: A Mans own obfervation what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the beft Phyfick to preferve Health But it is a fafer conclufion to say, This agreeth not well with me, therefore I will not continue it, than this, I find no offence of this, therefore I may use it. For Itrength of Nature in Youth paffeth

over many Exceffes which are owing by a Man till his Age. Difcern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the fame things ftill; for Age will not be defied. Beware of fudden change in any great point of Diet; and if neceffity inforce it, fit the reft to it: For it is a fecret both in Nature and State, that it is safer to change many things than one. Examine thy Customs of Diet, Sleep, Exercise, Apparel, and the like: And try in any thing thou fhalt judg hurtful, to discontinue it by little and little; but fo, as if thou doft find any inconvenience by the change, thou come back to it again: For it is hard to diftinguish that which is generally held good and wholfome, from that which is good particularly, and fit for a mans own Body. To be free minded, and cheerfully difpofed at hours of Meat, and of Sleep, and of Exercise, is one of the beft precepts for long Life. As for the Paffions and Studies of the Mind; avoid Envy, anxious Fears, Anger fretting inwards, fubtile and knotty Inquifitions, Joys, and Exhilarations in Excels, Sadnefs not communicated; entertain Hopes, Mirth rather than Joy, variety of Delights, rather than Surfeit of them, Wonder and Admiration, and therefore Novelties, Studies that fill the mind with fplendid and illustrious Objects, as Hiftories, Fables, and Contemplations of Nature. If you fly Phyfick in Health altogether, it will be too ftrange for your Body when you shall need it. If you make it too familiar, it will work no extraordinary effect when Sickness

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Sickness cometh. I commend rather fome Diet for certain Seafons, than frequent use of Phyfick, except it be grown into a cuftom: For those Diets alter the Body more, and trouble it lefs. Defpife no new accident in your Body, but ask opinion of it. In Sickness refpect Health principally, and in Health, Action: For thofe that put their Bodies to endure in Health, may in most Sickneffes, which are not very fharp, be cured only with Diet and tending. Celfus could never have fpoken it as a Phyfician, had he not been a wife Man withal, when he giveth it for one of the great Precepts of Health and Lafting, That a Man do vary, and interchange contraries, but with an inclination to the more benign extream. Ufe Fafting and full Eating, but rather full Eating; Watching and Sleep, but rather Sleep; Sitting and Exercife, but rather Exercife, and the like: So fhall Nature be cherished, and yet taught Mafteries. Phyficians are fome of them fo pleafing, and conformable to the humour of the Patient, as they prefs not the true cure of the Difeafe; and fome other are fo regular, in proceeding according to Art for the Disease, as they refpect not fufficiently the condition of the Patient. Take one of a middle temper, or if it may not be found in one Man, combine two of either fort; and forget not to call as well the beft acquainted with your Body, as the best reputed of for his Faculty.

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