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❝ part. I think this country can bear no merchant " to have more land than one hundred pounds;

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no husbandman or farmer worth above one "hundred or two hundred pounds; no artificer "above one hundred marks; no labourer much "more than he spendeth. I fpeak now gene"rally, and in fuch cases may fail in one parti "cular; but this is fure, this Commonwealth 66 may not bear one man to have more than two "farms, than one benefice, than two thousand "fheep, and one kind of art to live by."

"For idle perfons, there were never, I think, more than be now. The wars men think is "the cause thereof. Such perfons can do nothing but rob and steal. But flack execution "of the laws hath been the chiefeft fore of all; "the laws have been manifeftly broken, the "offenders banished, and either by bribery or "foolish pity escape punishment."

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"These fores must be cured with medicines. "First, by good education; for Horace sayeth wifely,

Quo femel eft imbuta recens, fervabit odorem
Tefta diu.

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"With whatsoever thing the new vessel is im“bued, it will long keep its favour, faith Ho"race; meaning, that for the most part men be "as they are brought up, and men keep longeft the favour of their first bringing up; "therefore, feeing that it be fo neceffary a thing, "we will give our device thereupon. Youth "must be brought up, fome to husbandry, fome "in working, graving, gilding, joining, painting, "making of cloaths, even from their tendereft

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age, to the intent they may not, when they 66 come to man's estate, loiter as they do now"a-days in neglect, but think their travail sweet "and honeft. This fhall well ease and remedy "the deceitful workings of things, difobedience "of the lowest fort, cafting of feditious bills, "and will clearly take away the idleness of the people."

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* By a law of Solon, the Legislator of Athens, a child who, by the careleffnefs or the over-tenderness of his parents, was brought up to no trade or profeffion, was not obliged to fupport his parents when they were old or in want; the Legiflator wifely confidering habitual idleness not only in itself to be criminal, but to be the caufe of the greatest crimes that are committed, and that thofe perfons should be completely put out of the protection of the laws, who have been the occafion of that deteftable and dangerous vice in the rifing generation.

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"Secondly, By devifing of good laws. I "have fhewed my opinion heretofore what sta"tutes I think most neceffary to be enacted this "feffions; nevertheless I could wifh, that befide "them, hereafter (when time fhall ferve) the

fuperfluous and tedious statutes were brought "into one fum together, and made more plain, "Nevertheless, when all these laws be made, ❝ established, and enacted, they serve to no pur"pose, except they be fully and duly executed. "By whom? By thofe that have authority to "execute; that is to fay, the Noblemen and "the Juftices of Peace; therefore I would wish, "that after this Parliament were ended, thofe "Noblemen (except a few that should be with "me) went to their countries, and there fhould "fee the ftatutes fully and duly executed; and "that thofe men fhould be put from being Juf"tices of Peace that be touched or blotted with "those vices that be against these new laws to "be established: for no man that is in fault "himself can punish another for the fame of "fence:

Turpe eft doctori, cum culpa redarguit ipfum.
Shameless the teacher, who himself is faulty.

"And these Juftices being put out, there is no doubt of the execution of the laws."

Defunt Cætera.

"King EDWARD's Remains."

Hooker

Hooker fays of this Prince," that though " he died young he lived long, for life is in "action."

MARY.

[1553-1558.]

THE English seem early in their history to have made pretty free with the defects and fail❤ ings of their Sovereigns. M. de Noailles, in his "Embaffades," tells us, that when Mary gave out that the was pregnant, the following paper was stuck up at her palace-gate:

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"Serons nous fi bêtes, O nobles Anglois, que de croyre notre Reyne enceinte, & de "quoi le feroit elle, finon d'un Marmot ou ❝ d'un Dogue?"

Mary, till her marriage with that cold and in, human tyrant Philip the Second, appears to have been merciful and humane; for Holinfhead tells us, that when the appointed Sir Richard Morgan Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, she told him, "that notwithstanding the old error, which did "not admit any witnefs to fpeak, or any other "matter to be heard, (Her Majesty being party,)

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"her pleasure was, that whatsoever could be "brought in favour of the subject should be ad"mitted to be heard; and moreover, that the "Justices fhould not perfuade themselves to put "in judgment otherwife for Her Highness than " for her fubject."

The turn of the English nation for humorous Political Prints firft fhewed itself in this reign. An engraving was published, representing this Queen extremely thin, with many Spaniards hanging to her and fucking her to the bone.

LADY JANE GREY.

ROGER ASCHAM, who was Queen Elizabeth's schoolmaster, thus describes this pattern of every female excellence, in a letter of his to a friend.

"Ariftotle's praise of women is perfected in "her. She poffeffes good-manners, prudence, " and a love of labour: fhe poffeffes every talent "without the leaft weakness of her fex: fhe

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speaks French and Italian as well as fhe does English: the writes feadily and with propriety fhe has more than once, if you will "believe me, fpoken Greek to me."

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