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Of'Nobility in General. p
base'son to the black Prince,his father’s three feathers,
on a bend Sable,the field Or. I willingly produce these
examples, to confirm our custom of ennobling them ;
and though the Law leaneth noton their side,yet stand
they in the head of thetroopes, with the moll deser-
ving.j yea, and many -times ( according to Euripides)
prove better than the legitimate. Who are more fa- r>turi&yap t-
mous thanE.ew?yj and jK.ow«/wr,who laid the first st one of An*
Lome ? morecouragious and truly valiant,than Hercu- dromzthe.
les,Alenander,our King Arthur of Britan, and tVilliam
the first ? more critically learned, than Chrijlopher Lov
golius, lacobtis Faber? moremodelt, and of better life,
than Ccelin; Calgaguinus^the delight of h\sF err ar a,w\t\\
infinite others? and,where Decretals and Schoolemen
may bear the bell, thole two Grandees, Gratian and
Lombard ? But among all these, none more eminent,
than Defiderius Erasntus: who though not much be-
holding tonature,for his first entrance into the world;
yet hath so well deser ved of it, partly by his own ex-
cellent labours; and partly by setting out (with inde-
fatigable pains) the labours of divers Ancients of best
note,to light; as that he hath got a name among the
ehiefest Restorers of Learning, But of the case and
title of Bajiards in general,who will may read more in
sontns Hnnterus^ de libera hominis uativitate: whom
neverrhelesse we alledge not as approving every thing
that he writes in that book ; butonelyfor the curio*
sity of the argument and cause he there maintaia-
eth,
A second questionariseth,Whetherhethatis Nobly Concerm'n
descended, may by his vice and basenestc lose his No- rice and bile*'
bility. It is answcred,that if he that is ignoble and in- nesse.
glorious may acquire Nobi ity by Vertue : the other
may very well lose it by his Vice. But such are the mi-
serabie corruptions of our times, that Vices go for
prime Vertues: and to be drunk,swear,wench,folIow
fastiions,and to do just nothing,are the attributes and
niarkes now adayes of a great part oRour Gentry.
C Hence
base'son to the black Prince,his father’s three feathers,
on a bend Sable,the field Or. I willingly produce these
examples, to confirm our custom of ennobling them ;
and though the Law leaneth noton their side,yet stand
they in the head of thetroopes, with the moll deser-
ving.j yea, and many -times ( according to Euripides)
prove better than the legitimate. Who are more fa- r>turi&yap t-
mous thanE.ew?yj and jK.ow«/wr,who laid the first st one of An*
Lome ? morecouragious and truly valiant,than Hercu- dromzthe.
les,Alenander,our King Arthur of Britan, and tVilliam
the first ? more critically learned, than Chrijlopher Lov
golius, lacobtis Faber? moremodelt, and of better life,
than Ccelin; Calgaguinus^the delight of h\sF err ar a,w\t\\
infinite others? and,where Decretals and Schoolemen
may bear the bell, thole two Grandees, Gratian and
Lombard ? But among all these, none more eminent,
than Defiderius Erasntus: who though not much be-
holding tonature,for his first entrance into the world;
yet hath so well deser ved of it, partly by his own ex-
cellent labours; and partly by setting out (with inde-
fatigable pains) the labours of divers Ancients of best
note,to light; as that he hath got a name among the
ehiefest Restorers of Learning, But of the case and
title of Bajiards in general,who will may read more in
sontns Hnnterus^ de libera hominis uativitate: whom
neverrhelesse we alledge not as approving every thing
that he writes in that book ; butonelyfor the curio*
sity of the argument and cause he there maintaia-
eth,
A second questionariseth,Whetherhethatis Nobly Concerm'n
descended, may by his vice and basenestc lose his No- rice and bile*'
bility. It is answcred,that if he that is ignoble and in- nesse.
glorious may acquire Nobi ity by Vertue : the other
may very well lose it by his Vice. But such are the mi-
serabie corruptions of our times, that Vices go for
prime Vertues: and to be drunk,swear,wench,folIow
fastiions,and to do just nothing,are the attributes and
niarkes now adayes of a great part oRour Gentry.
C Hence