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piece and continent with us ; and the truth is, 

 we are participant both of their virtues and vices. 

 For if they have heen noted to he a people not so 

 tractable in government, we cannot, without flatter 

 ing ourselves, free ourselves altogether from that 

 fault, being a thing indeed incident to all martial 

 people ; as \\e see it evident by the example of the 

 Romans and others ; even like unto fierce horses, 

 that though they be of better service than others, 

 yet are they harder to guide and manage. 



But for this objection, Mr. Speaker, I purpose to 

 answer it, not by the authority of Scriptures, which 

 saith, &quot; Beatius est dare quam accipere,&quot; but by an 

 authority framed and derived from the judgment of 

 ourselves and our ancestors in the same case as to 

 this point. For, Mr. Speaker, in all the line of our 

 kings none useth to carry greater commendation 

 than his majesty s noble progenitor king Edward the 

 first of that name ; and amongst his other commen 

 dations, both of war and policy, none is -more 

 celebrated than his purpose and enterprise for the 

 conquest of Scotland, as not bending his designs 

 to glorious acquests abroad, but to solid strength at 

 home ; which, nevertheless, if it had succeeded well, 

 could not but have brought in all those incon 

 veniences of the commixture of a more opulent king 

 dom with a less, that are now alleged. For it 

 is not the yoke, either of our laws or arms, that can 

 alter the nature of the climate or the nature of the 

 soil ; neither is it the manner of the commixture 

 that can alter the matter of the commixture : and 



