Sage) for thousands to take weapon in hand for the defense of one person, or with many deaths to redeeme the single life of an olde per∣haps, and feeble man, for they tender their pro∣per safeguard, while they fight for their prin∣ces, in whose weale, or woe their owne is com∣prehended. To this purpose he, with a great deale more. But whereas the sentence points vpon CLAVDIVS, who was that olde, and feeble man, it holds good not only to olde, and feeble, but to all sorts of princes persons, whether olde, or young, tame or violent, ciuil, or sauage. The truth whereof appeared before in CALIGVLA, now in NERO, & after-wards in other wicked rulers. Therefore it vvas possible, that the empire should be kept together for the vses of the people of ROME, by permitting all power to one, though it was to that inhumane SYLLA, who first of mortalls taught his countrey to feele (saith Halicarnassian DIONYSIVS) that the Dictatorship was a tyrannie; it had not other∣wise beene possible. And if NERO, (in whom alone all the corruptions which had beene en∣gendred in ROME, from the birth of ROME till his owne dayes, seem'd drawne together into one apostem, or bile) could not putrifie those strengths which princedome gaue more vnto the state, then either the commons, or the nobles when they ruled all, who can enough admire, or reuerence that sacred institution which vertue crownes, and vice cannot dissolue? The excellen∣cies of it speake their author: for so diuine a good as the fast connection of mankinde together in one vnder one, could bee the guift of onely God, vvho in his gouernement of heauen, and earth,