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The last years of his reign were distinguished by the number of plots which were pretended to be discovered, and proved the truth of a remark of Mary de Medicis, "That a false report believed during three days, tended to secure the crown on the head of an usurper." But neither his guards, nor his police, could insure him a moment of repose. "Volvilur Ixion, et se sequiturque fugitque."
Valerius Maximus, in his anecdotes, mentions him slightingly, as an evil man is spoken of who has forced himself into notice. Virgil has stamped his name with everlasting ignominy. "Sequiturque nefas Egyptia conjux." I can think of no Roman writer who has named him with honor. He was a Roman of the day what Rome had made him brave, greedy, treacherous, and unpatriotic.
Such a sort of reputation is my aim, though in a far inferior degree, according to my motto in the title-page sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis and therefore I appeal to the highest court of judicature, like that of the peers, of which your lordship is so great an ornament.
By which examples we are wont to conclude, and with some reason, that events, especially in war, for the most part depend upon fortune, who will not be governed by nor submit unto human reasons and prudence, according to the poet: "Et male consultis pretium est: prudentia fallit Nec fortune probat causas, sequiturque merentes, Sed vaga per cunctos nullo discrimine fertur.
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