ability to
raise and
amplify an
estate in
power,
means, and
fortune.
But be the
workmen
what they
may be,
let us
speak of
the work;
that is,
the true
greatness
of
kingdoms
and
estates,
and the
means
thereof.
An
argument
fit for
great and
mighty
princes to
have in
their
hand; to
the end
that
neither by
over-measuring
their
forces
they leese
themselves
in vain
enterprises;
nor, on
the other
side, by
undervaluing
them they
descend to
fearful
