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the wise Venetian hath built its long-lived 

 republic : so that it is not improbable the 

 maiden queen borrowed her motto of Semper 

 eadem from this maiden commonwealth. 



It is true, something is to be conceded to the 

 place, and time, and person ; and I grant that 

 there are many innocent compliances. Virgil's 

 Obliquare sinus, is observable, there may be a 

 bending without a crookedness : we may cir- 

 cumire, and yet not aberrare ; Paul became a 

 Jew, that he might gain the Jews, but he did 

 not become a sinner, that he might gain sin- 

 ners ; he was made all things to all men, but he 

 was not made sin to any : that is, his conde- 

 scensions were such, as did well consist with 

 his Christian integrity. 



Greatness, and honours, and riches, and 

 sceptres, those glorious temptations that so 

 much enamour the doting world, are too poor 

 shrines for such a sacrifice as conscience, which 

 the politician hath so much abused by an inve- 

 terate neglect, that it is become menstruous, 

 ephemeral. 



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