If it be true, fays he, as is univerfally agreed, that the moft ex-
traordinary inftance of Power or Greatnefs imaginable in a Prince, is to be
able, cafily and without the leaft danger, to make his Captain-General quit
his Command and quietly obey, even when he knows he's recalPd by a Prince
incens'd againft him, and of his Loyalty ; then to me it feems a
Miracle,excecding all that have ) et been mention'd concerning the Republick
of Venice, that (lie not only with the greareft eafe difarms her Captain-
Generals at Sea ; but even when the Principal Minifters know the Senate to
be exafpcrated againft them, and that they muft certainly expert to be fevere-
ly punKh'd, yet, tho they happened to be abfent, well-arm'd, and in Im-
ployments of great Command, if the Republick is pleas'd to recal 'em,
they inftantlv lay down their Arms and Authority, and haften to Ve-
nice with ail pofTible fpeed, to be try'd by their Friends and Relations,
tho it coft 'em their Lives.
traordinary inftance of Power or Greatnefs imaginable in a Prince, is to be
able, cafily and without the leaft danger, to make his Captain-General quit
his Command and quietly obey, even when he knows he's recalPd by a Prince
incens'd againft him, and of his Loyalty ; then to me it feems a
Miracle,excecding all that have ) et been mention'd concerning the Republick
of Venice, that (lie not only with the greareft eafe difarms her Captain-
Generals at Sea ; but even when the Principal Minifters know the Senate to
be exafpcrated againft them, and that they muft certainly expert to be fevere-
ly punKh'd, yet, tho they happened to be abfent, well-arm'd, and in Im-
ployments of great Command, if the Republick is pleas'd to recal 'em,
they inftantlv lay down their Arms and Authority, and haften to Ve-
nice with ail pofTible fpeed, to be try'd by their Friends and Relations,
tho it coft 'em their Lives.
Boccalini - 1611 - Advices from Parnassus, in two centuries, with the Political touchstone
