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IT is good for States & Princes (if thy use ambitious men for their ad∣vantage) so to order things, that they be still progressive, rather than retrogra∣de: When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busie than dan¦gerous; and if well watcht in their pro¦ceedings, they will catch themselvs in∣their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction.