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Of Nobili ty in General.
frary, (as Plutarch writes, comparing them together)
Lycurgus of a King, for Justice sake, made himself a
private man ; for, A goodly thing (saith Plutarch) it is}
by doing jnftly to obtain a Kingdom}and as glorious to
preser Jujhce besore a Kingdom : sor thevertue os the one
(Numa) made him so esteemed and honoured, that he yeas
os all thought worthy os it3 os the other >so great, that he
scorned it.
In like manner, for their good Laws and doing |u-
stjce,were advanced to their Thrones and goodly Tri-
bunals, Minosy Rhadamantus (chough subjeftsof Poets
fables,) Aratus, Solon^Scc. And how fairly (beyond
their Lawrels) the name of Just became AristidesftTra.-
) anus, Agesilaus?with many others, I leave to History to
report.
For magnificence, and obliging the places wherein
Maehiavel. they lived,by great benefits,were ennobled Tarquinim
Hst.Flo mm, Prifcus, a stranger, and a banished naan : and of later
7. times .Cosmo dime diet in Florence ^u^on whose verts es,
as upon a fair prospeft, or some princely Palace, give
me leave a little, as a traveller,to breathe my self, and
shew you a farreoff the fair Turrets of his more than
Royal Magnificence,being but a private man,,as I sind
it recorded in his History by Machiavd. This Cosmo
(saith he) was the moft eftemedy and moft samous Citizen
(being no man os war) that ever had been in the memory
os manyeither in Florence, or any other City because he
did not onely excel all others (os his time) in Authority and
Riches, but also in Liberality and Wisdom. For among
ether qualities which advanced him to be chies os his Coun-
ty eyfte was more than other men liberal and magnisicent;
which liberality appeared much wore aster h» death than
before.For hn son Piero sound by hisFather's Recordsythat
there was not any Citizen os efthnation, to whom Cosmo
had not lent great summes os Money : and many times al-
so he did lendto those Gentlemeny whom he kjtew to have
need. His magnisicence appeared by divers hit buildings:
sor within the City os Florence he built the Abbeyes and
Temples
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Of Nobili ty in General.
frary, (as Plutarch writes, comparing them together)
Lycurgus of a King, for Justice sake, made himself a
private man ; for, A goodly thing (saith Plutarch) it is}
by doing jnftly to obtain a Kingdom}and as glorious to
preser Jujhce besore a Kingdom : sor thevertue os the one
(Numa) made him so esteemed and honoured, that he yeas
os all thought worthy os it3 os the other >so great, that he
scorned it.
In like manner, for their good Laws and doing |u-
stjce,were advanced to their Thrones and goodly Tri-
bunals, Minosy Rhadamantus (chough subjeftsof Poets
fables,) Aratus, Solon^Scc. And how fairly (beyond
their Lawrels) the name of Just became AristidesftTra.-
) anus, Agesilaus?with many others, I leave to History to
report.
For magnificence, and obliging the places wherein
Maehiavel. they lived,by great benefits,were ennobled Tarquinim
Hst.Flo mm, Prifcus, a stranger, and a banished naan : and of later
7. times .Cosmo dime diet in Florence ^u^on whose verts es,
as upon a fair prospeft, or some princely Palace, give
me leave a little, as a traveller,to breathe my self, and
shew you a farreoff the fair Turrets of his more than
Royal Magnificence,being but a private man,,as I sind
it recorded in his History by Machiavd. This Cosmo
(saith he) was the moft eftemedy and moft samous Citizen
(being no man os war) that ever had been in the memory
os manyeither in Florence, or any other City because he
did not onely excel all others (os his time) in Authority and
Riches, but also in Liberality and Wisdom. For among
ether qualities which advanced him to be chies os his Coun-
ty eyfte was more than other men liberal and magnisicent;
which liberality appeared much wore aster h» death than
before.For hn son Piero sound by hisFather's Recordsythat
there was not any Citizen os efthnation, to whom Cosmo
had not lent great summes os Money : and many times al-
so he did lendto those Gentlemeny whom he kjtew to have
need. His magnisicence appeared by divers hit buildings:
sor within the City os Florence he built the Abbeyes and
Temples
\