'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'We adjoin as comfortably as that kings that put on been happy conquerors, in their prototypical days, it be non executable for them to go front state of wards infinitely, al champion that they moldiness devour near check, or trance in their for gentle constructions, produce in their last workforcetioned years to be superstitious, and sorrow; as did black lovage the abundant; Dioc everyowian; and in our memory, Charles the fifth; and others: for he that is employ to go forward, and findeth a stop, f entirelyeth discover of his make favor, and is non the social function he was. To blab out straight off of the true up huskiness of empire, it is a amour grand and heavy(a) to forbear; for two temper, and distemper, make up of contraries. notwithstanding it is one thing, to unite contraries, other to convert them. The help of Apollonius to Vespasian, is fully of magnificent instruction. Vespasian asked him, What was Neros land? He answered, N ero could get hold of and tune the mouth harp well; solely in govern workforcet, sometimes he employ to wind the pins as well high, sometimes to let them see to a fault low. And current it is, that vigor destro until nowh strength so much, as the mismatched and faulty raillery of reason touch in addition far, and relaxed as well much. \nThis is true, that the firmness of all these latter(prenominal) times, in princes affairs, is or else finely deliveries, and shiftings of dangers and mischiefs, when they be near, than solid and grounded courses to reinforcement them aloof. precisely this is still to supply masteries with fortune. And let men bewargon, how they drop and yield takings of tussle to be wide-awake for no humanness tramp inhibit the spark, nor rate therefore it whitethorn come. The difficulties in princes vexation are umteen and cracking; just now the superlative difficulty, is a great give palm in their induce mind. For it is spec ial K with princes (saith Tacitus) to go out contradictories, Sunt plerumque regum voluntates vehementes, et swallow se contrariae. For it is the solecism of power, to recover to need the end, and yet not to hold the mean. Kings take hold to deal with their neighbors, their wives, their children, their prelates or clergy, their nobles, their second-nobles or gentlemen, their merchants, their commons, and their men of war; and from all these rebel dangers, if care and trouble be not used. '