A Tyrannical power never lasts.
THat power never lasts, which falshood got, and Tyranny strives to keep, unlesse tyranny be the natural constitution of the government, and * 1.1 then it is most commonly the longest livd, like men that were born and bred to hardship, but should a body be born and bred renderly, be used roughly, and exposed nakedly, fed coursly, it would be destroyed soon. For a governor in a Com∣mon-wealth, is like a private family; as for example, a man that first begins to keep a house, and makes laws, and sets rules, though the laws be hard, and unjust, and the rules strickt and ri∣gorous, yet there is no dispute, nor grumbling, because he was the first setter up, or beginner of that family, his means being his own, either by inheritance, or by his merits, or by his in∣dustry, wherefore he hath power to order it, or dispose of it as he will, and his wife and servants never accustomed to any other government before, willingly submit, and his children born under it, it is as natural to them; but if this man dies, and the wife marries again, or that he is over-ruled by some friend, and they begin to usurp, and to alter the customs, by making new laws, and to set other rules, although they are more com∣modious, easie, pleasant, and plentiful; yet being unusual, the ser∣vants begin to murmur, the children to complain, factions and side-taking grows, until there is a falling out, where words and blows will passe, and the estate neglected, and so wasted by cosen∣age, or sold or wasted by riot, and there is no help for it, un∣lesse they change their dwelling, and take new servants that ne∣ver were acquainted with the old, and get more children that knew not the first breeding, and another Virgin wife; thus the