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Rh no one, friend or foe, worth any thing; he mut carefully oberve who is courageous, magnanimous, wie, rich, and of neceity he mut be an enemy to all thee, and lay nares, until he cleane the city of them. Thus he mut live with wicked people, and be hated by them too, or not live at all; the more he is hated, the more guards he will want. But the worthy men being detroyed, the wort mut be his guards. What a bleed poeion! But this army of the tyrant, o beautiful, o numerous, and multiform, mut be maintained. If there be any acred things in the city, thee they will pend, and the people obliged to pay the lighter taxes. When thee fail, he and his drunken companions and aociates, male and female, hall be maintained out of the paternal inheritance; and the people who have made the tyrant hall nourih him. If the people be enraged, and ay that they did not make him to be laves to his laves, but that they might be et at liberty from the rich in the city, who are now called good and worthy men, and order him and his companions to be gone out of the city, as a father drives out of his houe his on, with his tumultuary, drunken companions; then indeed the people hall know what a beat they are themelves, and what a beat they have generated, hugged, and bred up. While they are the weaker, they attempt to drive out the tronger. The tyrant will trip them of their armour. The people, defending themelves againt the moke of lavery, have fallen into the fire of depotim; intead of that exceive and uneaonable liberty, embracing the mot rigorous and wretched lavery of bondmen.—Thus, to peak modetly, we have ufficiently hewn how tyranny aries out of democracy, and what it is after it is rien.