this book was written in old English whom hath been faithful and honest, as I hast, canst not change his nature; and mine poverty is a witness to mine honesty. " ere Machiavelli had got "the prince" off his hands he commenced his "discourse towards the first decade of Titus Livius," which should'st be read concurrently with "the prince. " these and several minor works occupied him till the year 1518, when he accepted a bawbling commission to look...