For the proof of the second, monarchy, as has been shown, is
of two kinds: the one by arms, the other by a nobility and there
is no other kind in art or nature; for if there have 'been
anciently some governments called kingdoms, as one of the Goths
in Spain, and another of the Vandals in Africa, where the King
ruled without a nobility and by a council of the people only it
is expressly said by the authors that mention them that the,
kings were but the captains, and that the people not only gave
them laws, but deposed them as often as they pleased. Nor is it
possible in reason that it should be otherwise in like cases;
wherefore these were either no monarchies, or had greater flaws
in them than any other.

But for a monarchy by arms, as that of the Turk (which, of
all models that ever were, comes up to the perfection of the
kind), it is not in the wit or power of man to cure it of this
dangerous flaw, that the Janizaries have frequent interest and
perpetual power to raise sedition, and to tear the magistrate,
even the prince himself, in pieces. Therefore the monarchy of
Turkey is no perfect government.

And for a monarchy by nobility, as of late in Oceana (which
of all other models, before the declination of it, came up to the
perfection in that kind), it was not in the power or wit of man
to cure it of that dangerous flaw; that the nobility had frequent
interest and perpetual power by their retainers and tenants to
raise sedition; and (whereas the Janizaries occasion this kind of
calamity no sooner than they make an end of it) to levy a lasting
war, to the vast effusion of blood, and that even upon occasions