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2 Os Nobility in General.
acknowledge a Nobility in Man os greater peifeftion,
of Nobler forms and Prince of these ?
Can we be curious in discerning a counterfeit from
the tiue Pearl 5 to choose our siens of the best fruit;
buy our Flowers at twenty pounds the root or slip i
and not regard or make difference of lineage, nor be
caresul into what Stock we match our selves,or of what
Parents we choose a Servant ?
Surely, to believe that Nature (rather the God of
Nature) produceth not the same among our selves, b
to question the rarest Work-mistresTe, of ignorance or
Partiality, and to abuse our selves beneath the Beast.
Nobility de- Nobility then (taken in the general sense) is nothing
* else but a certain eminencypr notice taken of someone
above the rest, for sorae notable aft performed, be it
good or ill; and in that' sense are Nobilis and Ignobilis,
usually among the Latine Poets taken. More particu-
larly,and in the genuine sense. Nobility is the honour
of blood in Race or Lineage,conserred formerly upon
some one or more of that Family,either by the Prince,
the Laws, Customs of that Land or Place, whereby
-either out of knowledge, culture of the mind, or
some glorious Astion performed,they have been useful
and beneficial to the Common-wealths and places
where they lived. For sinceall Virtueconsists in Asti-
on,and no man is born for himself, we add,[beneficial
and usesul to his Country ;] sor, hardly are they to
be admitted for Noble, who (though of never so
excellent parts) consume their light, as in a dark
Lanthorn, in contemplation, and a Stoical retired;-
nesfe.
And since Honor is the reward of Virtue and glo-
rious Astionsonely, Vice and Basenesfe mu st not ex-
pest her favours: as the people of Rome created C,
Flavius t\rom a-Tribune,. Senator and JEdilis for deal-
ing a book of Records: Euthicrates) Euphorbas, and
Ehylagrus, were ennobled for treason ; and Cottier by
Lswit the eleventh, the French King, unworthily ad-
vanced;
2 Os Nobility in General.
acknowledge a Nobility in Man os greater peifeftion,
of Nobler forms and Prince of these ?
Can we be curious in discerning a counterfeit from
the tiue Pearl 5 to choose our siens of the best fruit;
buy our Flowers at twenty pounds the root or slip i
and not regard or make difference of lineage, nor be
caresul into what Stock we match our selves,or of what
Parents we choose a Servant ?
Surely, to believe that Nature (rather the God of
Nature) produceth not the same among our selves, b
to question the rarest Work-mistresTe, of ignorance or
Partiality, and to abuse our selves beneath the Beast.
Nobility de- Nobility then (taken in the general sense) is nothing
* else but a certain eminencypr notice taken of someone
above the rest, for sorae notable aft performed, be it
good or ill; and in that' sense are Nobilis and Ignobilis,
usually among the Latine Poets taken. More particu-
larly,and in the genuine sense. Nobility is the honour
of blood in Race or Lineage,conserred formerly upon
some one or more of that Family,either by the Prince,
the Laws, Customs of that Land or Place, whereby
-either out of knowledge, culture of the mind, or
some glorious Astion performed,they have been useful
and beneficial to the Common-wealths and places
where they lived. For sinceall Virtueconsists in Asti-
on,and no man is born for himself, we add,[beneficial
and usesul to his Country ;] sor, hardly are they to
be admitted for Noble, who (though of never so
excellent parts) consume their light, as in a dark
Lanthorn, in contemplation, and a Stoical retired;-
nesfe.
And since Honor is the reward of Virtue and glo-
rious Astionsonely, Vice and Basenesfe mu st not ex-
pest her favours: as the people of Rome created C,
Flavius t\rom a-Tribune,. Senator and JEdilis for deal-
ing a book of Records: Euthicrates) Euphorbas, and
Ehylagrus, were ennobled for treason ; and Cottier by
Lswit the eleventh, the French King, unworthily ad-
vanced;