,s Mofes his Selfi-dmya!l. Therefationofthis fiory, wasa means to bring downtheJloutneffe and pride ofanother gn.~at Prince :Forwhen~1o~teritim fent r heodortll his Phifidan embaffadqur to chajanut Prince of the Httn1H, who perceiving~he fioutneife and arrogaocyofthe Prince, related unto him the fl:ory of the King of Egypt; c h.cjAnll4being moved by it, his fpirit yeelded, and he was content ro come to condi- - tions ofpeace with the Emperour Mauriti114. All men in \vorldly honours are like an houreglaffe, now this end is uppermoft> by and by this is downe')and the other is up, and this part of it is full~ and by and by it is empty, and theother that was before empty is full, wlut is become ef all the great ones of the earththatJived and ruled in the eJnh but a whileagoc~ their _glory is buried in the dufl:,Pj4t.76 .-1 z. 'T~t Lord &Hts ~If the fpirit gf Princes : the ~ord is,he Jltps 1[, as one lhould flip off a Sower br... tween ones fingers, or as-one !hould flip off'a bunch of grapes fr~m a vine) fo foon is ic done. How great uncertainty h~ve rQany great ones, by t~eir - mlfe. ·' ' /·,
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