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Mel. ‘Do you think then, that there is no assurance in that which we propounded?
For here again (since driving us from the plea of equity you persuade us to submit to your profit), when we have shewed you what is good for us, we must endeavour to draw you to the same, as far forth as it shall be good for you also.
As many therefore as now are neutral, what do you but make them your enemies, when, beholding these your proceedings, they look that hereafter you will also turn your arms upon them?
And what is this, but to make greater the enemies you have already, and to make others your enemies, each against their wills, that would not else have been so?’
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury. Thucydides. Thomas Hobbes. translator. London. Bohn. 1843.
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