wherein the people, but for their dependence upon their lords,
had no concernment, as in the feud of the Red and White. The like
has been frequent in Spain, France, Germany, and other monarchies
of this kind; wherefore monarchy by a nobility is no perfect
government.

For the proof of the third assertion: Leviathan yields it to
me, that there is no other commonwealth but monarchical or
popular; wherefore if no monarchy be a perfect government, then
either there is no perfect government, or it must be popular, for
which kind of constitution I have something more to say than
Leviathan has said or ever will be able to say for monarchy. As,

First, that it is the government that was never conquered by
any monarch, from the beginning of the world to this day, for if
the commonwealths of Greece came under the yoke of the Kings of
Macedon, they were first broken by themselves.

Secondly, that it is the government that has frequently led
mighty monarchs in triumph.

Thirdly, that it is the government, which, if it has been
seditious, it has not been so from any imperfection in the kind,
but in the particular constitution; which, wherever the like has
happened, must have been unequal.

Fourthly, that it is the government, which, if it has been
anything near equal, was never seditious; or let him show me what
sedition has happened in Lacedaemon or Venice.