XII.
IF that true valour which my Soul possesseth could be purchased by Money, all Traffick would cease by Sea and Land and no more talk of Merchants or their Commodities, for every one would then labour and imploy their industry to the utmost, who should get the greatest share in me, one would aim at one of my Armes, another a Leg, one a Finger, a fourth a Nail, a fifth a Hair of my Eye-lids, and this to no other end, then that he might become valiant.
But I rejoyce that this cannot be by any means effected because it is one of the greatest causes of the present repose and quiet of all those Kings, Monarchs, and Princes, which are all my very good friends, and Kinsmen.