Politick Observation.
HAppy is that Prince whose Councels in War become unprofitable by a favou∣rable Treaty of Peace, who can doubt but that the one is the source of all miseries, brings all things into necessities, deprives the people of their liberties, maketh the land barren, destroyeth the most glorious Pallaces, tieth up the hands of Justice and bringeth the Country men under the barbarous insolency of souldi∣ers; and that on the contrary, the other is acknowledged to be the Mother of Plenty, the beginning of the happinesse of Kingdomes, and the joy of Nations, that it giveth all Liberty of Commerce and Labour, leaving to every one the power of injoying his own Goods, making Arts to flourish, Justice to Reign, and banish∣ing all fear, which keepeth the mind in hell and in a continual unquietness, whilest there are any troubles. It is not much more pleasant to behold the earth, decked with its verdure, painted with all sorts of Flowers, inriched with the diversity of Trees, which either nature or the Labourers hand had Planted, replenished with all fruits and spices, and flowing with Milk and Honey, then when it languisheth by the insufferable hardnesses of Winter, converted into Snow and Ice, become stiffe and dis-coloured, and the Land Barren, and over-flowed with Water. So much more satisfaction ought a wise Prince to receive, when Peace commeth to deliver his Subjects from those miseries into which War had precipitated them, to restore them the free use of their own Goods, to give them the means of exercising their own Professions with quiet, to drive away necessity from them, to open the Ports of Trade from one Coast to another about their affairs, then to see them remain idle, and without exercise, in the want of the greatest part of necessaries, not daring to go out of their Gates, besieged by War in their Towns, and slaughtered in their own houses by sickness and famine.