and for his own part, si appetitum explere non potest, furore corripitur; if he cannot satisfie his desire (as Bodine writes) he runs mad. So that both wayes, hit or miss, he is distracted so long as his Ambition lasts, he can look for no other but anxiety and care, discontent and grief in the mean time, madness it self, or violent death in the end.

The event of this is common to be seen in populous Cities, or in Princes Courts, for a Courtiers life (as Budæus describes it) is a Gallimaufry of ambition, lust, fraud, imposture, dissimulation, detraction, envy, pride; the Court, a common conventicle of flatterers, time-servers, politicians, &c. or as Anthony Perez will, the suburbs of hell it self. If you will see such discontented persons, there you shall likely finde them.

And which he observed of the markets of old Rome, Qui perjurum convenire vult hominem, mitto in Comitium; Qui mendacem & gloriosum, apud Cluasinæ sacrum; Dites, damnosos maritos, sub basilica quærito, &c.

Perjur’d knaves, Knights of the Post, liers, crackers, bad husbands, &c. keep their severall stations; they do still, and alwayes did in every commonwealth.