Mofes hìs Sefe-dexiaEfl. 91 c hilrcnofmen : it is ahard thing, and fe !dome bath fucceffe, togive rules for theorderingoflife,to r en who are in great profperitie in this world. Hence Laertiuu reports of Plata, who being defired by the Cyrenians, that he would write down force Lawes for them, and that hee would fet the cífate of their Common- wealth in forme order, he re. fufed, fayinga It was a very hard thing, tomake Lawes to bind men,who were in great profperirie. But themore hard any duty is, the more honourable is it toyeeld to it 5 as Saint licro,ym, wri- ting toPamachiuî, bath thisexpreí ion : It is not a little thing for a Nobleman, for a rich man, to withdraw himfelfe from the company of great ones, to joyne with thofe that are meane and pore, and to beernadeasa common: man: but the more low,themoremean he is in doing this, he is the more fub- l.rne, ío much the higher in the eí eeme ofGcd and his pcEaple. There are Ionic whohave been in as faire a way ofhonours and worldlyde- lights, as any, yet they have denyed rhenifëlvesó and they rejoycein it, and blef e Perdifucile effe condere leges tana felicibus. Noneft pa- rum virum nobilem, vi- rum locuple tenpotenti_ um in pl;'teis vitate comi- tatum, mi- [cere le tur adb erere pauperibus, ruaiczs cold - lare,deprima cite vslgu m fieri, led quanto hu= iuílior,tanto /isilrrnior ett.
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