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in law that have orderly been brought before him : 

 and for his own example, may say that which few 

 men can say ; but was sometimes said by Cephalus, 

 the Athenian so much renowned in Plato s works ; 

 who having lived near to the age of an hundred 

 years, and in continual affairs and business, was wont 

 to say of himself; &quot; That he never sued any, neither 

 had been sued by any :&quot; who by reason of his office 

 hath preserved many great houses from overthrow, 

 by relieving sundry extremities towards such as in 

 their minority have been circumvented ; and towards 

 all such as his lordship might advise, did ever per 

 suade sober and limited expence. Nay, to make 

 proof farther of his contented manner of life, free 

 from suits and covetousness ; as he never sued any 

 man, so did he never raise any rent, or put out any 

 tenant of his own : nor ever gave consent to have 

 the like done to any of the queen s tenants ; matters 

 singularly to be noted in this age. 



But however, by this fellow, as in a false artificial 

 glass, which is able to make the best face deformed, 

 his lordship s doings being set forth ; yet let his pro 

 ceedings, which be indeed his own, be indifferently 

 weighed and considered ; and let men call to mind, 

 that his lordship was never a violent and transported 

 man in matters of state, but ever respective and 

 moderate ; that he was never man in his particular 

 a breaker of necks ; no heavy enemy, but ever pla 

 cable and mild ; that he was never a brewer of holy 

 water in court ; no dallier, no abuser, but ever real 

 and certain ; that he was never a bearing man, nor 



