imitation was to him, and how closely the latter conformed in point of temperance, affability, humanity and liberality to the accounts given of Cyrus by Xenophon.

A wise prince, then, should act in like manner and should never be idle in times of peace, but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity; so that, when Fortune abandons him, he may be prepared to resist her blows.