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Show -A...££...oe TbepirSh Bookerof the fri part Caar.g.§.i, ke the times:feemio\differing anddifpleafing : efpécially.che quality Of mang natine bei e if {uch asit adoréthandextollethithe paflayes.ofthe former, and condemmeth Tacit.in Dial. Snakien fata how itt foenet Fit humane on A.me wbfe6re,az aoe4 : sh de Orat. prsfentiain foflidiosfint , Icomes.tepaffe(faith 7Acttws) epithe 2 ive of ‘ " ig % A wealwaies extoliehe tind pefijand heldtheprefent fafidiorss é Ber ikisine . Ecck/i7. cichrours of wayward Age sQradyinr bandatores temporina DiysTbabs one eee of forsee times, forgetting this aduice!l df Salomon Say norshen, Why is it t ate r Pere wei better than thefesfor thon'doc wor inquirewifely of this thing «to wabichnpur pole: Sened Maiores wvoftri quefli ant, cmos: querimar,poflers quercatur, uers ff mores if agave oA Guitiams,in detériusres homigam Orin onne wefuslabid Onn Avctflers bane comp ae a i dos. complaine; ourchildrem will complainesthatgood manners aregone; What wicke secs lt reigne, and all thingserowworfe and warfesandfall intoal euile: Thefearethe nae dif: arobte2, courfesofAgeand misfortune. But hereofwhat can werndde to this of Arnobiist Noi res qnandeyvetnsfiel, cr. vetas temporibussquibas capit nana fuit & repentina ones 4 neve,im tintfall be made old:and sheancientest things whenthey tookebecinuing were new andfodaine. Wherefore not to ftand in much admiration ofthefe firfetimes,which the difcontentmentsofprefenttimes hauemade Golden;this weimayfet downfor cet taine; That as it was the vertue ofthe fir{t Kings,which (after God) gaue them: Crowns: fotheloue oftheir people thereby_purchafed} heldthe fame Crowines on their heads -And as God gabethe obedience of Subiedts to Princes::fo (relatitiely.) he gaue thecare Wifdeb.7. andiuftice ofKings to theSubietts, hauing refpedjnot onelytothe Kings themfelues, but cuentothe meaneftofhis Creatures » Nunquam particulari bond feruit omne bonum; The infinitegoodne/fe of God doth not attend any one onely : for hethat made the{miall and great,careth forall alike : and it is the care which Kings haue ofall theirs, which makes them beloued ofall theirs; and by a generall loue it is,that Princes holda gencrallobe- dience i For,Potestas humana radicatar in voluntatibus bominum «All humane power is roa ted in the will or dipofitions ofmen. «1 A V, Ofthe beginning ofNobility : and sfihe vaitee vannt thereof without vertue: Nd withthis Supreme Rule and Kingly authority begamalfo otherdegrees and (A siterencessnong Subiects. For Princes made! cleétion of others bythe fame Rule, by whichthemfelues were chofen 3 vnto: whom they -gaueplace, and power. From which imploymentsand Offices fpriing thofe Titles , and thofetit, deeo gices of Hononr,which havecontinued from Ageto:Age to thefe dayes, But this Nofed fit bility, or difference from the Vulgar, was notin the beginning ginen tothe Succefios of Bloud,buttoSuccéffioti of Vertue,as hereafter may be proued, Though at length was fufficient for thofe whofe Parents were aduanced; fuch Fathers sand fothereneeded then no endeuotir tobe knowne for the Sonneso! of well-doing'at all; or any col tention forthem to excell;vpon whom gloryor worldly Nobility neceffarily defce ded. Yethcreofhad Nobility denomination inthe beginning, That fiuch as excel led-othersin vertue, were fo called: Hine aittas Nobilis, quali virtte pre alijs rnotabi ltn | Butafterfuch time as the defei ned urofthe Father was giuen in reward to Pofterity, Saint Hicromeiudged ofthHono his e Succeffion ih this ‘manner : wébil aling video Nobilitate appetendum, nifi quod Nobilesquadams necefs itate conftringantur , weal antique rum probitate:degencrent; Ifee no other thing to bee affeiled in Nobility, than Nt ecie are bys kinde ofwece/sity bound, uot to degenerate from the veriue oftheithat r Ame fers. Borif Nobilitybe Virtus Gantique divitix; Vertue and ancien riches , thet to & ceedein all thofe things which are extra homi vem, as riches, power;glory, and chelike,» doenootherwifedefine Nobility, chanthe word (awimal) alone nablé¢ inane: Orif honour (according te:Z. "ines) Pe doth define area beea witnefle of vertue aud reli-dor well a ‘ ing: and Nobility (after Plutarch) the continu ance of vertue in a Race or Linage then arethofe in whom Vertue IS extingnifH ed, butlik pers, which ignorant men worthipin ftead of Christ e vnto painted and: printed Par , our Lady, andother saints: me in whom there remaine butthe dregs and vices ofancient Vertue: Flowers;and Herbes; which by change of foile'and want of manu found praife-worthy in thofe Waters,whichh ring are turned to Weedes. For what 7 a0€! ad their beginning out ofpure Fountail, Cuario.§.t.) ofthe Eiftorie ofthe World, ifin all the reft oftheir courfe they run foule;filthy ;and defile d 2 Ex terra fertile produ.Pintin Execs citer aliguandoCicnta Venehofa,c ex terraflerili pretiolam autumn; Out of fruitful é round arifet hfoyctimes poyfoning Henbare, and ont ofbarrenfoi le precious Gold.Forasall things confift of matterand forme,fo doth Charron(inhi sC and Linage but the matter of Nobilitie : the forme hapter of Nobilitie)call the Race (which giues lifeand perfed being ) hemaketh to be Vertue,and Qualitie} profitable to the Common-weale. For he is true- ly and entirely Noble, who maketh a fingul ar profef Prince and Countrie,andbeing defcendedof.Par fion of publike Vertue, feruing his ents and Ancefters thathaue done the like.Andalthoughthat Nobilitie,which the fame Authourcalleth perfonall(the fame ro whichourfelues acquire by our Vertue and well deferuingsJcannotbe ‘balanced with that whichis both naturall,by Defcent,andalfo perfonall , yetif Vertue bee Wanting tothe naturall,chenis the perfonall and acquired Nobilitie by many degrees to be preferred,; For ( faith Charroz ) this Honour { towit)by Defcent, may, light vponfuch @one,as.in his oWwne nature is.atrae Villaine. There isalfo a third Nobilitie which hee calleth Nobilitiein Parchment,bought withSi luer orFauour:and thefe be indéede but Honoursofaffection,which Kings with the chang e oftheir fancies with they: knew wel howto wipe offagaine.Butfarely,ifwe hadas much, thinefle, as we haue of vanitiein deriving ourfelues fenfe ofour degenerating in worrather knowfuch'Nobilitie¢ without Vertue)'to offach and {uch Paren ts,wedhould 20neflesand glory to-vaunt thereof.what calansitic be fhame and difhonout than Noble: ss borne infinne,ofa Pot{bare bodyand barren minde wanting faith Bernard). to him that. ss. ? For ( according to the-fame Father ):c0 Delefucumfugacis honoris huius,ewale corona te mtorem gloriescocWive awaythepainting =" of this fleeting hononrce theglittering of theill-cyo vned aborrgthat then thow soaielt ronfider thyfelfe nakedly:for thou cameft naked out ofthy Atothers wombe, Cameft thou. thence with thy Mytresor gliftering with lewels,er.garnilbed with silkes,on adarned with-Featherssorfuf Sed with Gold? ifthoufeatter and blove away all thefeby thy confid eration as tertaine morning cloudes; which doe or will{Cone paffe oxer;thonfoalt meet with a Rakedandp oore,and wretched andmiferable manjand blulbing,becanfe he is nakedand weeping because heisbornesdnd repiming becausehe is borne to labour,and not to honour. 3° For,astouching the matterof all men,there is no difference betweene it and duft: which if thou dof not belecnefaith S.C hryfo ftome)leoke ipta the Sepulchrese» Adonuments chijtbon:st ofthy \Aneeflers andtheyfoall tafily perfwade thee by theiromneexample, that thou art Aufl, deincompofira and dirt fothat if man feeme more Noble and seantifudit haw dufthisproceederh notfr o1me thyesDet Natta. ainer{ithe Of bis Naturesbutfrom the cunni ng of his Creatourenn-\ tg Fortrue Nobilitie tandethin the Trade Of vertuouslife; notin theflefhly Line: For bloud is brute,but Gentricis Diuine. Phat, And howfoeuerthe cuftome ofthe Worl d birth vpon-vnworthyIffuies > yet Salomon as haué madeit'g0 that Honors be caliby wife avahiyKing ) reprehendéth the ftiie in his Fellow-Prinices ! There js aie enill (faith hey thaby bast feenevuderthe S08, AB tour thatproccedeth fy ons thefateofhimtha t ralerhsFofipisfeo im great excdllencie, OF Ecclefre. Cuap, X. Of Nimrod, Belus, and Ninus: and of memo rable things about thofe times. : 5. Ee y View Teat Nimr odamas the the fir} After the , x Sik Floud that LBM ae a Séueraione Lord: and that bisbipinwing feemeth to bane beeye O44authoritie. =He frft*oF all that reigned 2s" Souerdigné Potd after the Floud wag Eq Nimrod, the Sonite ‘ot cpp difti ngdiMied by' Aofes fom the reft faccokdine to! Saint Cw wAe?} in OHA of thiele two rlpegts : either for® his eminenct e and" Bead yak the fitft of fame, and on hear to "command others $ "oehee lle" th that' hee Was begotten Q by |