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to deal with the tables of men s hearts, wherein it is 

 in vain to think you can enter the willing acceptance 

 of our laws and customs, except you first put forth 

 all notes either of hostility or foreign condition : and 

 these are to be put out &quot; simul et semel,&quot; at once 

 without gradations ; whereas the other points are to 

 be imprinted and engraven distinctly and by de 

 grees. 



Thirdly, Whereas it is conceived by some, that 

 the communication of our benefits and privileges is a 

 good hold that we have over them to draw them to 

 submit themselves to our laws, it is an argument of 

 some probability, but yet to be answered many 

 ways. For first, the intent is mistaken, which is not, 

 as I conceive it, to draw them wholly to a subjection 

 to our laws, but to draw both nations to one unifor 

 mity of law. Again, to think that there should be a 

 kind of articulate and indented contract, that they 

 should receive our laws to obtain our privileges, it is 

 a matter in reason of estate not to be expected, being 

 that which scarcely a private man will acknowledge, 

 if it come to that whereof Seneca speaketh &quot; Benefi- 

 &quot; cium accipere est libertatem veridere.&quot; No, but 

 courses of estate do describe and delineate another 

 way, which is, to win them either by benefit or 

 by custom : for we see in all creatures that men do 

 feed them first, and reclaim them after. And so in 

 the first institution of kingdoms, kings did first win 

 people by many benefits and protections, before they 

 pressed any yoke. And for custom, which the poet 

 calls &quot; imponere morem ;&quot; who doubts but that the 



