Sect. 5.
As his Illustration is to blame, so is his Conclusion;* 1.1 the disposition to warre, no not the known disposition to it, is warre, for that disposition is nothing but an inclination to warre; but an actual, or habitual hostility, not enmity only, makes warre; a man may hate another, one King another, and yet not make warre upon him; yet that ha∣tred is a disposition to war. So that a disposition to war makes not war, and then the knowledge of it cannot make it other then it is; but then is war, when two Na∣tions endeavour the subjugation or assaulting one another, or one doth it alone; for although true friendship requires a mutual consent of both parties; yet a war doth not, for war may be, and is commonly, begun by one party, be∣fore the other undertakes it; and we say often, that one Nation makes war, and invade's the other unprovided. But because he vaunts often of the propriety of speech,* 1.2 I may tell him, that war is not properly spoke of single men but Kings or Nations; for single men hate one another, cantend one with another, fight one with another, are at enmity one with the other, but not at war, that is proper to publique persons, or Nations, only.