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The
Fpifile
2?edicatorie.
The
firm
Humour
did
fo
farre
tranfport
Ibme
Ancients,that
they
placed
very
F
e-
licitie
in
Honour,
and
made.-
trange
and
unnatural) Adventures
for
the
fame.
i
he
fecoud,
as
an
Evill,
made
them
to make
that
to
be
Honour,which
i,,
not
;
and
de-
nie
that
to
be
Honour, which
is
Honour
indeed.
It
is
no
Honour, to
be
wicked
.
nor
yet
a
way
to
Honour
,
with
God,
or
good
men,
:
and
yet
fome men doe
glory
in
their
flame,
accounting
Bafeneffe
it
ielfe'
to
be
their
Honour.
It
is
the
high&
Honour
(and
indeed,
nothing
fo
truly ennobled])
to
be
truly
gracious,
and
godly
;
and
yet,
with
mul-
titudes
of
men,
Religion
and
Godlineffe
are
thought
Baines
and
blernifhes
of
Ho-
nour,
ignobling
Grea[nefie
it
felfe,*hich
they
tho
,
as
the
greatJl harne. The
Scriptures
make Codlinefle.
the
formal)
and
intrinfecall
Caufe, and
Root of
Ho-
nour
Nay,
it
is
and
was
the
opinion
of
the moff
moderate
Philofophers
That
Vertue
is
the
proper
Bads
of
Honour
and
that
it
doth
belong
to
Vertue,
as
a
Debt;
and fo
much
as
vertuous,
fo
much
laonou-