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&quot; gium, sine jure petitioriis,&quot; which was commonly 

 with them the last. 



For those we called &quot; leges/ it is a matter of 

 curiosity and inconveniency, to seek either to extir 

 pate all particular customs, or to draw all subjects to 

 one place or resort of judicature and session. It 

 sufficeth there be an uniformity in the principal and 

 fundamental laws, both ecclesiastical and civil : for 

 in this point the rule holdeth which was pronounced 

 by an ancient father, touching the diversity of rites 

 in the Church ; for finding the vesture of the queen 

 in the psalm, which did prefigure the Church, was of 

 divers colours ; and finding again that Christ s coat 

 was without a seam, he concluded well, &quot; in veste 

 &quot; varietas sit, scissura non sit.&quot; 



For manners : a consent in them is to be sought 

 industriously, but not to be enforced : for nothing 

 amongst people breedeth so much pertinacy in hold 

 ing their customs, as sudden and violent offer to re 

 move them. 



And as for employments, it is no more, but an 



indifferent hand, and execution of that verse : 

 Tros, Tyriusque mihi nullo tliscrimine agetur. 



There remaineth only to remember out of the 

 grounds of nature the two conditions of perfect mix 

 ture ; whereof the former is time : for the natural 

 philosophers say well, that &quot; compositio&quot; is &quot; opus ho- 

 &quot; minis,&quot; and &quot; mistioopus naturae.&quot; For it is the duty 

 of man to make a fit application of bodies together : 

 but the perfect fermentation and incorporation of 

 them must be left to time and nature ; and un- 



