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dates
are e}ltU.
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VVehave but two things to prefent to
Tour
e5Vf
ajefl:ie.
~hey
are the
per[on
to
Tour
memory;
an~
this
hi~
work,
to
Tour
eye.
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add_enochmgtohtm..
To~ame
him isenoughto·allthatknew htm ; and toreadhtm,wtll
b~
eno~gh
to .them'thatkne'Y. himnot. And though
Yer~ue
have but 'tts due, when
t
ts commended, yetwe concetve
not how praife
~;Day mak~ virtu~
better than it is, efpecially
when
thepeifon
mwhom tt was,1s dead
to
all encouragement
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or corn foi·t by it. And yet though
'Vertue
cannot thus be
.
bettered; it may be righted thus. For,
Yivorum ut magna
aJ..
PA!,:;tp;
~
miratio, ita
cwfura
dijficilU..
Tis eafie to admire the living,
Hift~
andwe doe it,
but
'its hard to cenfure themany way. Both
becaufe there will be no preferring one before another
without offence
:
And becaufe,
as
w~
know not whatmay
come·upon them before death, fo the cenfure may befo
good,as theywill ner'edeferve; or fo bad, as though they do .·
deferve,theywillnotbeare. Twas7)ihultu,hiscafe.
The . . ,.
admiration
of
m~n b~~
carried
hin:
up
to hea}len?
no lower
pl~ce ~=~r~.si
would ferve hurt, Yet when lt came to a
wifemans
cenfure,
!if:.!..
.:t
he
pr~fe~ed, hee_~nm ~o
ground
for that admiratton, andlejfe
~!d~~en~
ltlorthtn htmfor
fucb
ahetght.
But
'\vhen men have payd
al19~e~
their rights of
na~ur~
toCleath,and ate gone i?to their
fil~hce•
then where
admm~tton
ceafeth,
cenfltre
begtns. Now tfthe
cenfure be heavie (asitistqo oft upon the bell:) yet then it
fhould be fparing for humanitie fake. For that humaQitie,.
which forbids the ritling ofagrave . bids forheare him that
is !hut up irt it, and cannot an!were: But if the cenfure be
go~d,
you may _be boldwith the grave : And you cannot
pralfe any fo fafehe as the dead; for you cannot hmrtor them
tnto danger, nor melt away your
felf~
it)to flatterie.
.
. The
Ptrfon
therefore, whofew_opl£s thefe are,was ttdm
h1s
youth,aman ofextraotdinarie worth and note. A man,
as ifhe had
~een
tnade up of
Learning
arid
rertue.
Both of
them
f~
emtnel)t in
him~
as 'tis hard
to
judg~,
which had
.
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