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Show .. c:rhe frfl boo~. 40 with the·y we·re fo furprifed, croffed, and confi1fed, as they would not fuffer him· to goe·on in liis fpeech, but rC!IinquHhed their demaunds, and maoe it their fuit,to be againe called be the name of Militts. · Thefecond fpeech was thus: Ctt.for did.extream ·tyaffeB:thenameofKing; and fomewerefetonas . he paffed oy) in popular acclamation to falute him king; whereupon finding the crieweake and poorei _ he put it offthusJ in a kind of left, as if they had mif.. . taken his furname; Non Rex.fitm,fed C4 for, a fpeech, that if it be fearched, the life apd fulnelfe o.f u, can fcarce be expre[e~ : For firft it was a refu!all of the · name, but yet not ferious: againe it did fignifie an: infiniteconfidence and magnanimitie, as if he pre .. , fumedC£forwas thegreatertitle ·; as by his wor~ hinelfe, it is .co1ne to pa[e till this day: but chiefe1y, It wasafpeech of greatallurementtowardhisowne purpofe: as if the State did firiue with him, but for a name; whereof lneane families were vefted: for /lex· was a furname with the, RfJmanes afwcll as .King is With vs. . . . . - . . . The Iaft fpeecb, which I will mention,, was vfed t<! J.lfe-teU11s : whenctefor,afi:er warre declared, did ~[elfe hitn(elfe of the Citie of · Rome, at which time entring into the inner treafurie, to take the t~e. mon~ey th~re accumulate , Me.te/lm being ~tibun~ forbad him: whereto C£ftr fayd, rhat ifhee dtd not defifJ, he~ woultllaye him dead in the Rl4~e : And prefently. taking himfelfe vp s bee . ~dd~~ ~ !fJHng ma11 it is hartfer for me to tpeake it, · L than |