Effæminacy

"Neither the one nor the other may be founde ſo happy and permanent, but at the laſt, with the apple in his fulripenes, they fall with their owne weight and poyſe to the ground; the one by diſcord and mutinies of the ſoldiours, for that their citizens are rendred bold by the continual vſe and trayning in military diſcipline; the other by effeminacie, eaſe, reſt, and ſecurity, haſteneth in like maner vnto mutinies and diſcords, as to his laſt ruine; ſo as either by a fatall deſtinie (as it were) imbraceth there owne confuſion: but not after one manner; for the one like vnto a flowre, or the pride of youth, in the height of his glory, vaniſheth, away, and leaveth the image of true glory, as a lively picture, to inveſt a perpetuall memory of a worthy and excellent Inſtitution. But the common-weale which in his firſt Inſtitution aymeth only at peace and permanency, with effæminacy, diſcorde, and mutinies, bredde by long eaſe, reſt, and ſecurity, embraceth with the other his final & laſt deſtruction, but leaveth not the like memory of his Inſtitution."