"As to the late wars in Germany, it has been affirmed to me
there, that the princes could never make the people to take arms
while they had bread, and have therefore suffered countries now
and then to be wasted that they might get soldiers. This you will
find to be the certain pulse and temper of the people; and if
they have been already proved to be the most wise and constant
order of a government, why should we think (when no man can
produce one example of the common soldiery in an army mutinying
because they had not captains' pay) that the prerogative should
jolt the heads of the Senate together because these have the
better salaries, when it must be as evident to the people in a
nation, as to the soldiery in an army, that it is no more
possible their emoluments of this kind should be afforded by any
commonwealth in the world to be made equal with those of the
Senate, than that the common soldiers should be equal with the
captains? It is enough for the common soldier that his virtue may
bring him to be a captain, and more to the prerogative, that each
of them is nearer to be a senator.
"If my lord thinks our salaries too great, and that the
commonwealth is not housewife enough, whether is it better
housewifery that she should keep her family from the snow, or
suffer them to burn her house that they may warm themselves? for
one of these must be.
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