Excerpt from The Diall of Princes: Being Select Passages, Now Set Forth With an Introduction and a Bibliography Years after its first appearance it was con stantly in the printers' hands. Scarce any book except the Bible, ' wrote Merik Casaubon, has been so much translated or so frequently printed.' But the neglect of the succeeding three centuries has been as complete as was that early triumph. Even at the opening of the eighteenth century we find Bayle writing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.