For no King can be rich, nor glorious, nor secure; whose Subjects are either poore, or contemptible, or too weak through want, or dissention, to maintain a war against their enemies: Whereas in a Democracy, or Aristocracy, the publique prosperity conferres not so much to the private fortune of one that is corrupt, or ambitious, as doth many times a perfidious advice, a treacherous action, or a Civill warre.
Zeren ez dago errege aberats, loriatsu eta segururik, haren menekoak pobreak, mesprezagarriak edo, dirurik ezagatik edo euren arteko banaketagatik, etsaien kontra gerra egiteko ahulegiak badira. Demokrazia edo aristokrazia batean, ostera, prosperotasun publikoak ez dio ustela edo handinahia den gizakumeari sarritan ematen, aholku gaizto batek edo saldukeria batek edo gerra zibil batek ematen dion adina.