"The Duke of Guise ought to have represented a great prince, that
had inserved to some most detestable villany, to please the rage, or
lust, of a tyrant.
"Such great courtiers have been often sacrificed, to appease the
furies of the tyrant's guilty conscience, to expiate for his sin,
and to atone the people.
"Besides, that a tyrant naturally stands in fear of ministers of
mighty wickedness; he is always obnoxious to them, he is a slave to
them, as long as they live they remember him of his guilt, and awe
him. These wicked slaves become most imperious masters: they drag
him to greater evils for their own impunity, than they first
perpetrated for his pleasure, and their own ambition.
"But such are best given up to public justice, but by no means to be
assassinated. Until this age, never before was an assassination
invited, commended, and encouraged upon a public theatre.
"It is no wonder that _Trimmers_ (so they call men of some
moderation of that party) displease them; for they seem to have
designs for which it behoves them to know their men; they must be
perfectly wicked, or perfectly deceived; of the Catiline make; bold,
and without understanding; that can adhere to men that publicly
profess murders, and applaud the design.
"Caius Caesar (to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's) was in
the Catiline conspiracy; and then the word was, _he that is not for
us is against us;_ for the instruments of wickedness must be men
that are resolute and forward, and without consideration; or they
will deceive the design, and relent when they enterprize.
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