94              OF SEDITIONS AND TROUBLES.
 

XV.

OF SEDITIONS AND  TROUBLES.

Shepherds of people had need know the calendars
of tempests in State, which are com^monly greatest
when things grow to equality ; as natural tempests
are greatest   about the csquinoctia.    And as there

are certain hollow blasts of wind, and secret swell-
angs of seas before a tempest, so are there in
States:—

" Ille etiam cascos instare tumultus
Saspe monet, fraudesque et operta tumescere bella."

Libels and licentious discourses against the State,
when they are frequent and open ; and in like sort,
false news often running up and down, to the dis¬
advantage of the State, and hastily embraced, are
amongst the signs of troubles. Virgil, giving the
pedigree of Fame, saith, she was sister to the giants:

" Illam Terra parens, ira irritata Deorum,
Extremam (ut perhibent) Caeo Enceladoque sororern
Progenuit------"

Asif famesvv^ere the relics of seditionspast; but they are