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one truth ; but when a question is &quot; de bono,&quot; it is 

 for the most part comparative ; for there be differing 

 degrees of good and evil, and the best of the good is 

 to be preferred and chosen, and the worst of the evil 

 is to be declined and avoided ; and therefore in a 

 question of this nature you may not look for answer 

 proper to every inconvenience alleged ; for some 

 what that cannot be especially answered may, never 

 theless, be encountered and over weighed by matter 

 of greater moment, and therefore the matter which 

 I shall set forth unto you will naturally receive the 

 distribution of three parts. 



First an answer to those inconveniences which 

 have been alleged to ensue, if we should give way 

 to this naturalization ; which, I suppose, you will not 

 find to be so great as they have been made ; but that 

 much dross is put into the balance to help to make 

 weight. 



Secondly, an encounter against the remainder of 

 these inconveniences which cannot properly be an 

 swered, by much greater inconveniences, which we 

 shall incur if we do not proceed to this naturaliza 

 tion. 



Thirdly, an encounter likewise, but of another 

 nature, that is, by the gain and benefit which we 

 shall draw and purchase to ourselves by proceeding 

 to this naturalization. And yet, to avoid confusion, 

 which evermore followeth upon too much generality, 

 it is necessary for me, before I proceed to persuasion, 

 to use some distribution of the points or parts of nar- 

 turalization, which certainly can be no better, or none 

 other, than the ancient distinction of &quot;jus civitatis, 



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