Excerpt from The Field of Bloud, or Rebellion Blazoned in All Its Colours: In a Lively Representation (Grounded Upon Fact) Of the Fatal Consequences of Inability in a Prince, Exorbitant Ambition in the Nobility, and Licentious Insolence in the Commons Not but with their lives; declaring that those their Swords which had set the Crown upon their Sovereign's Head when neither Law nor Majesty could, should now secure those Acquests to their Masters, when Majesty or Law would not. Thus we see how dan gerous are too great Benefits of Subjects to their Princes as rendring the Mind incapable of any other sense than that of Merit. This Blast being over, the Government felt no other aflliction than the Common and Invidious Malevolence to Authority Good and Great Men may preserve themselves from Guilt, but not from Envy being still shot at, by the Aspiring of those that look upon themselves as less in Employ ment than they are in Desert. These Vapours, however, did ever vanish, without much trouble, so long as the Helm was steered by Temperate Spirits, and the King squar' d his Actions by the Rule of Good Counsel, and not of Young, Passionate, or single. 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.