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Show ' _ Ofthe .llJuan ement of learning · jnfirn1·ty,wbfTe n o I n0te<f tbofe,that write in the · 0\V.n pro~ffions tO C fr Di c_l, which is, that they CJ( ·. alt it aboue n~afirre.For Y?ur Mai~fl:y .hath truly dei cribcd,not a ktng of Affyrta,or Perfia, tn their extern gtory:but a rM ljes,ot~ a mtNid,Pallors of their people. Neither can I euer leefe out f my remembraunce what I heard your ~aie~, in t~e fatne (acred fpjrit; of Gouernmenr,dehuer,ln a great caufe ofiudicaturc which was:Thal Kings r1lltd hy theyr IAwts,tM God did~ the lawts Oj'N 4tll1'~,411 llltht 114 ra'!ly to put in vfo thryr foprtme Pr.trog•ttllt,ll4 God doth hts pon er of working Mi. rAtlts.Aud yet notwithftandiug,in your bookofafree Monarchy,you do well giue men to vnderfiand)tbat you know the plenitude or the power and right of a King~ as ell ~stile Circle ofhis office and dury.Thus haue I prefitmed .to alledge this excellent writing of your Maicfry~as a prime or eminent exan1ple ofTractates, concerntng fpcci &relpcCl:iue ducyes:wherin 1 ffiould haue fai as mucH)ifit had beene written a t oufand yeares fince: either am I mooued with cer tain Courtly deccncyes, which efteeme it flattery to prayfe in p~efence. No, it is flattery. to prayfe in ab- ·fence:d1at ts, wben cyther the vertue is abfent,or'the • o~eafion is abfent:and fo the prayfe is not Naturall, but forced,either in truth,or in tilne. But let Cicero be . read it li at ion PI'.' tM rcelto, which is nothing but' an excellent Table of C~rsvertue, and madetohij .foce,b~des th~ example of nany other excellent pet' {ons,wt!er a great deale hen fuch obferuers: andw~ will neuer doLJbt , vpon a full occafton, to giue ~un · · pratfes . li lt 1 .. |
