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3 z o Of the vanitieoftbor ldZpotxerandotuthoritie. esi plus tiret alto will to do more then is lawful!; becaufe they imagine quam par eñ, that their pow r is moll magnified, when as it extendeth it pin, wilt Tram fclfe beyond all bounds and limits ofeither law or reafon. titer. And chus the Author ofthe booke of Wifdome bringeth in mighty men incouraging one another to commit all outrage Wifdome 2..9. and cruelty : Let vs (fay they) leaue fome token of our pleafure 10.11. ineueryplace, for that u our portion, and thin is our lot. Lee vs oppreffe thepoore that is rghteotu,let vs not (pare the widow, nor reverence the whitehaires of the aged that haue lined many 'eeres: let ourfirrengnh be the !au of vnrtghteoufne('e, for the -thing that is feeble is reproved as vnorofitable. In which cruel! courfes, when as they are long flefhed, they follow them, as bruit bears their prey, when their bellies are full; not for hunger, but forwantonnes, affcóing wrongs and opprellì- ons, not for any plea fine or profit they haue in the thing co/it hit reges done, but only for the delight they take in doing it; and taut vtornnes, chiefly glorying in their power and authority, becaufe they perdanj aliquos are inabled thereby to do mifchiefe; as though there were uuUumg leuet, no muuicke fo Tweet to their cares, as the outcries of the tantumvtno. wronged, and roancsofthe o rcfled. Neither is this ecat cupit efe g g PP potens.Senec. any rare fault ofthe mighty, Peeing (as one complaineth) in- in Oftauia. feriours in all places are Cubic& to the couetoufnes and op- Am) rof. Hexa- preflion ofthofc who are flronger then they,and the weaker mer.lib.5.ca.5. a man is, the more fit he is thought to be made a prey : for it is amongfi them as among deuouring fifhes, the leffe be- commeth the food ofthe greater; and he againe being af- faulted with afironger then he, becommeth his prey, who before deuouredanother, and one belly now holdeth them both,giuing an example to the mightie ofrcuenged iniurie: whereby it appeareth that thispower and authoritie being vfually feuered from iufiice, becommethhurtfull and perni- Plutarch. cious: for asthofeliignes , Call or and Pa/l.sx,appearingboth riffifera vis efi together vnto lea fairing men, comfort them with the hope value adno. offaire weather,and aprofperous voyage ; but being feue- eendara. red and appearing alone portend a tempeli : fo when power and authoritie are ioyned with Wifdome and iufiice, they bring with them much profit both to private men, and to whole focietics : but when thispower is fettered and diuided from