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Show 4‘ Cirque, Of MJN. ma: quVifibie mark upon the Creft of their Helmets. And diis- orna- 05411.11. 0f MA N'. rm 1; Well till-charging of it; and Worthiefi of Riches, that-hasthe qua- ment both of the Armes, and Crefl, defcended _b inheritance to their Children 5 tothe eldeft pure, and to the reit Wit 1 fome note of diverfity, fuch as the Old matter, that is. to fay in Dutch, the Here-alt 'thoughtfit. But when many fuch Families, )0de together,madea greater Monarchy , this duty of the Herealt, t0_dlfllngu1[il ‘bcutchr ons, was made a priVate Office a pm. And the iffiie of theie Lords, lities moflt requifite for the well ufing of them; any of when quali‘ tiesbeing abfent, one may neverthelefl'e be a Worthy mat-1, andvaluw is the great and antient Gentry, which for the molt part bear livmg creatures, noted for courage, and rapine; or Caitles, Battlements, Belts, Weapons, BarsgPalifadocs, and other nores of War ,nothing beingthen in honour, but vertue military. Afterwards, not onely Kings, but opular Common-wealths, gave divers manners of Scutchions, to (Sch as went forth to the War, or returned from it, for encouragement, or recompence to their fervice. All which, by an obu i able foi' tome thing elfe. Again, a man mfiy be Worth of Ridies, Office, and Empl' ment, that neverthele e, canplea no right to have it before anociiier, and therefore cannot be faid to‘ merit or de» fave it. For Merit, praefuppofeth a right, and that the thing defcrved is due by promife : Of which I ihall fay more hereafter, when I 111211! {peak of Contracts. CHARXL _ , ofzbe diflermce of M A N N a R 5. ferving Reader3 may be found in fuch antient Hiftories, Great: and i i Latine,asmake mention of the German Nation, and Manners, in their times. Tale: offlo-V kmr. l l 9 i i i i l f. Titles of Honour, fuch as are Duke, Count, Marquis, and Baron, are Honourable 3 as fignifying the value fet upon them by the Sove- concern their living together in Peace,-and Unity. To which end we 'mezmb} time titles ofOffice, and Command, derived fome from the Romans, fome from the Germans, and French. Dukes, in Latine nuces, being Generalls in War : Counts, Comites, fuch as bare the .Generall com‘ are to cenfider, that the Felicity of this life, conhfieth nor in the re" Mamcm pofe of a mind fatisfied. For there is no fuch Fina"; "Wm-m, (utmofli 1 l. H 'm‘ihmefl}. Fimrjfr. Books of the old Morall Philofophers. Nor can a man any more conquered, and paci ed: Marquifes, Marcbionet, were Counts that live, whofe Defires are at an end, than he, whofe Senfes and Imagiv overned the Marches, or bounds of the Empire. Which titles of uke, Count, and Marquis, came into the Empire, about the time of. nations are at a hand. Felicity is a continuall progreffe ofthe defire Honour,may find it, as I have done this,in MLSe/defls molt excellent Treatife of that fubjee‘t. In proceife of time thefe offices ofHonour by occafion of trouble, and for reafons of good and peaceable vernment, were turned into meer Titles, ferving for the moft 00-3 to diitinguifh the precedence, place, and order of fubjeéts inpia'rt. the Common-wealth : and men were made Dukes, Counts Mar uifes and Barons of Places, wherein the had neither poffeifidn no:1com3 mass: and other Titles alfo, were d>evifed to the fame end 3 I oar u IN E s s E , is a thing different from the wort I ‘ i a man -, and alfo from his merit, or defert :, and confii‘tetfh, r if: :aiiziittcif culai power, or ability for that, whereof he is faid to be worthy: Whléd‘ particular ability, is ufually named F; r N a s s is , or Aptitudg. an sac-monhiefi‘to be a Commander, to law Judge,or to have y i ge,thatisbeit fitted, wrththe qualities required to thc well i t ayme,) nor Summum Banum.( greatefl Good,) as is fpoken of in the pany out of friendflii ,and were left to govern and defend places ‘ But he that would know more particularly the originall of Titles of .l f f f points of the Small Moral/r -,_But thofe qualities of man-kind, that Mm, hm raigne Power of the Common-wealth:Which Titles, were in old Can/famine the Great, from the cuflomes of the German Militia. But Baron, feems to have been a Title of the Gaules, and fi nifies a Great man -, fuch as were the Kings, or Princes men, Whom t ey empJOyed in war about their erfons 3 and feems to be derived from Vir to Berg and Bagthat figniiied the fame in the Language ofthe Gaules: that Vir in Latine ; and thence to Bern, and Barn : fo that fuch men were called Spams, and after Barones; and (in Spanifli) Varaner. l Y MANN ERS, I mean not here, Decency of behaviour; as B how one man ihould falute another, or how a man fhould w'afli his mouth, or pick his teeth before Company, and fuch other from one objetft toanother ; the attaining of the former, being {til but the way torhe later. The caufe whereof is, That the object of mans defire, is not to enjoy once onely, and for one infiant of time -, but to affure for ever. the way of his future defire. And therefore the voluntary aetions and inclinations of allmethend, not onely to the procuring, but alfo to the affuring of a contented life; and differ one- lyin the way : which arifeth partly from the diverfity of paflions, int ivers men -, and partly from the difference of the knowledge, or opinion each one has of the caufes, which produce the effect defired. So that in the firft place, I put for a generall inclination of all man- A "jib/f: kind, a perpetuall and refilefle dtfire of Power after power, that. defirc of ceafeth onely in Death. And the caufe of this, is nor alwayes that a P"1"", i" man ho es for a more intenfive delight, than he has already attained ""W'" to -, 0r t rat he cannor be content wit a moderate power: but becaufe he cannot allure the power and means to live well, which he hath pre~ fent, without the acquifltion of more. And from hence it is that Kinos, whofe power is greateit, turn their endeavours to the aflzuring‘ it at iome by Lawes, or abroad b Wars: and when that is done, there iiicceedcth a new defire -, in ome, of Fame from new Conquefi, inorhcrs, of cafe and fenfuall p-leafure ; in others, of admiration, or ‘ being flattered for excellence in fome art, or other ability of the min7. . Law flip/1m. . r , . Competition at Riches, Honour,Command, or other power, an rcnrianfrm; diner!) [ilmpermam |