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Show _ 7 ,ml; Chapno. of MA N. flH‘aCy Ofiicc-s, Titles 5 and in {ome places Coats, and Scutchions aim-id : and men Honour fuch as. have them, 35 113mg {0 many gages of favour in the Common-wealth -, which favour 15 Power. Howler/151a. is an argu_ _ DHWwahlc is whatfoever poffeflion, action, or quality, U I, iiigne of Power. megtniiinghemfore To be Honoured, loved, or feared of .many,1s Ho- nourable , as arguments of Power. To be Honoured of few or none, Di,l',70.7zflzli‘.l~ pilgggfion, and Victory is Honourable ; hecaufe acqun‘ed by ~ Power, and Servitude, for need, or feare, 15 Diflionourablc. tavour the of hgne a as ; Honourable laiiing,‘) (if . Good fortune of God: ' Ill fortune, and loifes, Diihonourable. Riches, are Honou- rable ; for they are. Power. Poverty, Drihonourable . Magnanimity, Liberalit ., Hope, Courage,Confidence, are Honourable 3 for they proceed hour the conference of P0,W€1'-- Pufillammfiy, Parfimony, . . Fear, Diffidence, are Billionourable. 0f MAN; Chaim; great and difficult, and Confequently a figne of much power,) be jufl: or unjuft :"for Honour ,confifleth onely in the opinion of Power. Therefore the ancient Heathen did not thinke the .Diihonoured, but greatly Honoured the Gods, when they intro uced them in their Poems, committing Ra es, Thefts; and other great, bur unjufi, or unclean aéts : In ('0 much as nothing is fo much celebrated in jupiter, as his Adulteries -, nor in Mercury, as his Frauds, and Thefts : of whofe praifes, in a hymne of Homer, the greateft is this, that being. . r4510. ' part 1.' Timely Refolution, or determination of what a man 15 to do, is Honourable 5 as being the contempt of fmall difficulties, and dan- ers. And Irrefolution, Dillionourable 5 as a figne of too much va- uing of little impediments, and little advantages : For when a man has weighed things as long as the time permits,‘and refolves not, the difference of weight is but little 5 and therefore if he refolve not, he born in the morning, he had invented Mu ique at noon, and before night, {tolne away the Cattell of Apollo, fronghis Herdfmen. Alfo amongit men, till there were conflituted great Commo'm wealths, it was thought no difhonour to be a Pyrate, or a High-wa Theefe3but ratheralawfull Trade, not onely amongf'c the Greeks, 'but alfo amongfi all other Nations -, asis manifefi by the Hiltories of antier . time. And at this day, in this part ofthe world,private Duels are, and alwaygs will be Honourable, though unlawfull, till fuch time. as the re {hall Honour ordained for them that refufe, and Ignomi- i ny for them that make the Challenge. For Duels alfo are many times etfeds ofCourage , and the ground ofCourage isalwayes Strength or Skill, which are Power, though for the molt part they be efl‘eé‘ts of rafh fpeaking, and of the fear of Difhonour , in one," or both the Combatants 3 who engaged by rafhneife, are driven into the Lifts to . overvalues little things, which is Pufillanimity. All AcStions, and Speeches, that proceed, or feem to proceed from avoyd difgraCe. much Experience, Science, Difcretion,or Wit, are Honourable 5 For all the fe are Powers. Actions, or Words that proceed from Errour, Ignorance, or Folly, Difhonqurable. . Gravity, as farre forth as it feems to proceed from a mind employ‘ eminent Privtledges, are Honourable; otherwife not: for their Pow- Arm". , ed on fome thing elfe, is Honourable ; becaufe emp10yment is a figne of Power. But ifit feem to proceed from a purpofe to appear grave, it is Dilhonourable. For the gravity of the former, is like the fteddi- neife of a Ship laden with Merchandife, but of the later, like the ileddinell'e of a Ship ballafled with Sand, and other traih. To be Confpicuous,that is to fay,to be known, for Wealth, Office, great Aarons, or any eminent Good, is Honourable ,as 2. ii, ne ofthe isower for which he is confpicuous. On the contrary, Ob entity, is ilhonourable. To be defcended from confpicuous Parents, is Honourable; be‘ eaufe they the more eaiil attain the aydes, and friends of their Ancefiors. On the contrarli: to be defcended from obfcure Parentagc, is Diihonourable. Actions proceeding from Equity, joyned with loife, are Honourable», as f1gnes or Magnanirnity: for Magnanimity is a figne ofPower. Ohlthe contrary, Craft, Shifting, neglect of Equity, is Dilhonoue ta e. ' ' Covetoufneife of{great Riches, and ambition of great Honours, are Honourable gas 1 mes of power to obtain them. Covetoufne at, and ambitionpf little games, or prefe rments, is Dilhonourable. Nor does it alterthe cafe of HQHOUF; whether an action ( f0 it be great Scutchions, and Coats of Armes haereditary, where they have any Coat; of er confii‘teth either in fuch Priviledges, or in Riches, or fome fuch thing as is equall' honoured. in other men. This kind of Honour, commbnly calle Gentry, has been derived from the Antient Germans; Forthere never was any fuch thing known, where the German Cuftomes were unknown. Nor is it nowlany where in uf'e, where the Germans have not inhabited. The antien't Greek Com- manders, when they went to war, had their Shields painted with fuch Devifes as they pleafed; infomuch as an unpainted Buckler. was a figne of Poverty, and of acommon Souldier : but they tranfmitted not the Inheritance of them. The Romans tranfmitted the Marks of their Families:but they were the Imaoes, not the Devifes of their Anceltors. Amongftthe people of A m , Afriqm, and Awerim, theft is not, nor was ever, any fuch thing. The Germans onely had that cufiome -, from whom it as been derived into England, France, Spain and Italy, when in great numbers they either ayded the R0- mans, or‘made their own Conquefis in thefe Wefterne parts of the world. . . . . For Germany, being antiently, as all other Countries, in their be: ginnin 5, divided amongfi tn infinite number of little Lords, or Ma{tersof Families,that continually had wars one with another; thofc Mailers, or Lords, principally to the end they might,when they were Covered with Arms, be known by their followers; and partly for ornamengboth painted their Armor,or their Scutchion,or Coat,with the picture of fotne Beafi, or other thing -, and alfo put fome eminent Ga and |