The defendant, discontent with the conditions of the agreement including substantially lower prices of the goods compared to the price applied to other buyers, suspended the delivery for a short time.

And weighing well the reasons for this in those examples which can be taken from ancient and modern affairs, we shall find that it is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.