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THe 1 1.1 building, whose ground-sels are rotten, may for a time be vnder-propped, and kept vp: but when it is once falling, there is no possible meanes to stay it. So the Gouernment, whose foundation is laid in bloud, or banishment of the Nobilitie, and oppression of the Commons, may subsist for a while:
2 1.3 But when it once beginnes to fall, the downe-fall is violent, and so∣daine.
Rome is turnd French. Aquila, and almost all Abbruzzi is reuol∣ted. The Flower de Lys is set vp in euery place. Fabritio Colonna hath taken in the countries of Albi and Tagliacozzo. The An∣iowine faction is vp in armes. All the kingdome cries out of the former cruelties and tyrannies of Alphonso, and his deceassed fa∣ther. The distressed king seeing now all things, not in the way of commotion, but of manifest precipitation and open rebellion; amazed with the terrour of this sight, and tormented with the horrour of his guiltie conscience, despairing of meanes to re∣sist so fatall a tempest, and forgetting the reputation and fame he had got in his former warres; flies secretly with some few Iewels and treasure, into the Isle of Sicilia, and abandones all to the enemie, not acquainting either his brother or his sonne with his flight.
Violenta nemo imperia continuit diù: moderata durant.
Malos Principes detestantur, etiam qui malos faciunt. * 1.2
Regna cum scelere, omnibus sunt exilijs grauiora.
Seneca. Plin. Paneg. Incer. Aut. Sen. Her. fur.
Semel profectò premere foelices, Deus—
Cum coepit, vrget: hos habent magna exitus.
Adeò vt nullis consilijs vel auxilijs, id vitemus aut mutemus. * 1.4
Reges consenescunt, liberis{que} ac nepotibus tradunt regnum: Tyrannorum verò execrabilis, ac breuis potestas est.
Geux qui veulent bastir leurs maisons, sur les ruines de l' estat publique, ba∣stissent leur ruine propre. * 1.5
Ad generum Cereris, sine caede & vulnere pauci
Descendunt Reges, & sicca morte tyranni. * 1.6
—Sic sors incerta vagatur,
Fert{que} refert{que} vices, & habent mortalia casum. * 1.7
—Sic omnia fatis * 1.8
In peius ruere, & retrò sublapsa referri.
Lip. pol. l. 1. Sen. de Cle. l. 5.
Am. Plu. Cic
Iuuen. Sat. 10
Lucan. l. 2.
Virgil.