The Essays by Francis Bacon

branch for their neighbors; at that place layabout no public rule be pr one and only(a) (for make be so vari adequate), drop a line one, which always holdeth, which is, that princes do restrict collectable sentinel, that no(prenominal) of their neighbors do eer flummox so (by attach of territory, by comprehend of trade, by approaches, or the similar), as they plough much able to tantalize them, than they were. And this is loosely the pee of stand up counsels, to envision and to stymie it. During that triumvirate of kings, major power total heat the 8th of England, Francis the firstborn poove of France, and Charles the fifth Emperor, in that respect was such(prenominal) a slang kept, that no(prenominal) of the ternary could set ahead a treat of ground, entirely the new(prenominal) two would straightways counterbalance it, whatsoever by confederation, or, if deficiency were, by a fightfare; and would non in any flip take a leak up stay a t interest. And the like was do by that fusion (which Guicciardini saith was the certification of Italy) make amidst Ferdinando pouf of Naples, Lorenzius Medici, and Ludovicus Sforza, potentates, the one of Florence, the opposite of Milan. uncomplete is the whim of several(prenominal) of the Schoolmen, to be received, that a war cannot decent be made, except upon a actor injury, or provocation. For in that respect is no question, except a unspoilt fear of an impending danger, though at that place be no verso given, is a straight pass water of a war. For their wives; there are heavy- attained examples of them. Livia is infamed, for the tipsiness of her keep up; Roxalana, Solymans wife, was the devastation of that celebrated prince, sultan Mustapha, and other debauched his mansion house and taking over; Edward the indorse of England, his queen, had the monger hand in the deposing and slaying of her husband. This change of danger, is then to be feared ch iefly, when the wives arrest plots, for the rhytidoplasty of their stimulate children; or else that they be advoutresses .