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Rh Affairs; and sue out their Pardons of those very Persons, whom the Laws of the Land deny all Pardon to, and afterwards trust and employ them; as if Sale Faith were not, like all Things else that are made for Sale, slight and adulterate.

They are never useful but to the best Princes, who best know how to manage them; nor necessary to the People, but in the Government of the weakest. For when all Things are brought into Disorder, they usually restore them with greater, as Agues are cured by being turned into Fevers: for no Physic will work upon the Body Politic, but only such as is fit for Beasts to take, and Mountebanks or Farriers to give. And yet for all this they are so necessary an Evil, that the Nation does as little know how to subsist without them; as to endure the Inconveniences, which they suffer by them.