154 THE LIFE OF 



CHAP. &quot; what to be pardoned, considering the grief that, like a 



&quot; good member of that bodie which then suffered, he felt, 



&quot; to his great sorrow and trouble. For lyke as the eye 



&quot; being full of tears is the more unable to see, so is the 



&quot; mind full of sorrow much the less hable to judge. 



Eurip. in &quot; As ye see in Euripides, Polymnestor, being for his 

 &quot; mordring of Polydorus extremeli punished of Hecuba 

 &quot; and other women, (who pricked out his eyes with pins,) 

 &quot; cryeth out not only agaynst them that hurt hym, but 



Idem in &quot; agaynst the whole sexe that never came nere him. And 

 &quot; in Hippolitus, who for the faut of his stepdame Phedra, 

 &quot; curseth the whole kind : so this author seyng the tor- 

 &quot; ments of martyres, the murdring of good men, thimpri- 

 &quot; sonment of innocents, the racking of the giltless, the ba- 

 &quot; nishing of Christ, the receivyng of Antichrist, the spoyl- 

 &quot; ing of subjects, the maintenance of strangers, the moving 

 &quot; of warrs, the losse of Englandes honour, the purchasing 

 &quot; of hatred where we had love, the procuring of trouble 

 &quot; where we had peax, the spending of treasure where it was 

 &quot; nedlese ; and to be short, all out of joynt ; he could not 

 &quot; but mislike that regiment from whence such fruits did 

 &quot; spring. Only in this he was not to be excused, (unless 

 &quot; he all edge ignorance,) that he swarved from the viro9e&amp;lt;ri$ 

 &quot; to the 0gVi$, that is, from the particular question to the 

 &quot; general ; as though all the goverment of the whole sexe 

 &quot; were against nature, reason, right, and lawes, because 

 &quot; that the present State then, through the faulte of the per- 

 &quot; sone, and not of the sexe, was unnatural, unreasonable, 

 &quot; unjust, and unlawful. If he had kept him in that parti- 

 &quot; cular person, he could have said nothing to much, nor in 

 &quot; such wise, as could have offended any indifferent man. 



&quot; And this again would have been considered, that if the 

 &quot; queston were to be hanled, yet was it not mete to bring 

 &quot; it into doubt at that time, when it could not, nor yet can 

 &quot; be, redressed (were it never so evil) without manifest and 

 &quot; violent wrong of them that be in place. For if it were 

 &quot; unlawful (as he will have it) that the sexe should go- 

 &quot; verne, yet is it not unlawful that they should inherit, as 



