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Scotland, went currant : who defiring entertainment The ingenuous
of him, told him; My Lord his Father,and such Knights c°'°'
and Gentle-men,his Couzens and Kinsmen, were in ne mHsi u
good health.Quoth Colonei Edmunds^Gentle-men (to
his friends by)believe not one word he saies; My Fa-
ther is but a poor Baker os Edenburgh, and works
hard for his living, whom this knave would make a
Lord, to currie favour with me, and make you be-
lieve 1 am a great man born. See.
So that the valiant Souidier you see,measures out os
the whole cloath,his honour,wu h his sword;and hence
in ancient times came Rome, Athens, Carthage, and os
late the Ottoman Empire to their greatness.Honourbe*
ing then highly prized, every one aimed at Nobility,
and none refuted the raost desperate attempts for the
good os his Country. Thus the Vecii^CatOiMarcelhtS)
with infinite others, became ennobled, and had their
Altars,Statues,ColumneSj8tc. and were well nigh ado-
red with as great resped^as their Gods themselves.
From nolesse meanessof birth and beginning,we find
many great and famous Bi/hops, Civilians, Orators,
Poets, &c. to have attained to thegreatesl dignities,
both os Church and Common wealth, and to have
checked with their Fortunes,even Glory her self.Fope
John che two and twentieth,was a poor Shoo-makers
son i Nicholas the fifth was son of a Poultrer 5 Sixtus the
fifth, of a Hog-herd : Alshenm but a Taylors Appren-
tice, who running from his Master,wentto Rome, and
there studied the Civil Law,and so profited,that for his
learning and wisdom he was after created Consul. VI-
pan butmeanly born,y et Tutor to Alexander the Em-
perour. Cicero was born and brought up at Arpnum} tr
poor and obseure Village : Virgil^tht son of a Potter :
Horace^ os a Trumpeter: Theofkraftus of a Botcher,
with infinite others 1 might alleage as well os ancieht,.
as modern times.
For doing justice, the Romansos a private man and a Plutarch, in
granger, chose Numa sor their King: and ©n the con- Lycurgi &
B 3 trary, m
Scotland, went currant : who defiring entertainment The ingenuous
of him, told him; My Lord his Father,and such Knights c°'°'
and Gentle-men,his Couzens and Kinsmen, were in ne mHsi u
good health.Quoth Colonei Edmunds^Gentle-men (to
his friends by)believe not one word he saies; My Fa-
ther is but a poor Baker os Edenburgh, and works
hard for his living, whom this knave would make a
Lord, to currie favour with me, and make you be-
lieve 1 am a great man born. See.
So that the valiant Souidier you see,measures out os
the whole cloath,his honour,wu h his sword;and hence
in ancient times came Rome, Athens, Carthage, and os
late the Ottoman Empire to their greatness.Honourbe*
ing then highly prized, every one aimed at Nobility,
and none refuted the raost desperate attempts for the
good os his Country. Thus the Vecii^CatOiMarcelhtS)
with infinite others, became ennobled, and had their
Altars,Statues,ColumneSj8tc. and were well nigh ado-
red with as great resped^as their Gods themselves.
From nolesse meanessof birth and beginning,we find
many great and famous Bi/hops, Civilians, Orators,
Poets, &c. to have attained to thegreatesl dignities,
both os Church and Common wealth, and to have
checked with their Fortunes,even Glory her self.Fope
John che two and twentieth,was a poor Shoo-makers
son i Nicholas the fifth was son of a Poultrer 5 Sixtus the
fifth, of a Hog-herd : Alshenm but a Taylors Appren-
tice, who running from his Master,wentto Rome, and
there studied the Civil Law,and so profited,that for his
learning and wisdom he was after created Consul. VI-
pan butmeanly born,y et Tutor to Alexander the Em-
perour. Cicero was born and brought up at Arpnum} tr
poor and obseure Village : Virgil^tht son of a Potter :
Horace^ os a Trumpeter: Theofkraftus of a Botcher,
with infinite others 1 might alleage as well os ancieht,.
as modern times.
For doing justice, the Romansos a private man and a Plutarch, in
granger, chose Numa sor their King: and ©n the con- Lycurgi &
B 3 trary, m