Excerpt from The Interest of the Three Kingdoms With Respect to the Business of the Black Box, and All the Other Pretentions of His Grace the Duke of Monmouth, Discuss'd and Asserted: In a Letter to a Friend So that with thefe thoughts about me I {hall readily ac' knowledge (you may imagine) that even Monnrtb] it fielf is but as Edrtben Ware, (though of the fine]? And irongefl Sort) and liable to fundry Contingenres not/ring under fire Homens oeing completely Perfett. In the Confiitutionof Governments, 'tis Childilh to think upon erecting of Bone/r againlt a Delnge, but the Defign mull be to emorznle againft Floodr, and enclo/e the belt that may be againfi Trefpnflen'. This being premifed, llhall proceed to handle the Mat 'ter in quefiion, not zl/ etnpbyjim/l in votionr abflrafled from their Snojetts (a Pallime which our Platonic much delight in) but Morn/fix and Renfonnoly and enforce fuch Argument: only as are plain, fenfiole, and appropriate to our own Connirey leaving the Notional to our Boole-men, whole Volnines, calculated for all Clinznter, fwell big a gainfi the Evil: of the Enle of M A N Y, or Democracy. Neither {hall Iprefum'e to infif't upon any fuch infuperable difiiculties, as are of a quality too high for a private Pen to meddle with, mull neceflarily obviate the eftablilhing of a popular Platform amonglt us; but lay before you in the Firfl place, the prefent State of the Nationfo Far forth only as may carry any immediate Relation to the Snojet't and then draw all to an Application. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.