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and mutiny, as if he had said, Away with the law, 

 and try it out with force : If these and other like 

 particulars be true, which I have but by rumour, 

 and cannot affirm ; it is to be lamented that they 

 should labour amongst us with so little comfort. I 

 know restrained governments are better than remiss; 

 and I am of his mind that said, Better is it to live 

 where nothing is lawful, than where all things are 

 lawful. I dislike that laws should not be continued, 

 or disturbers be unpunished : but laws are likened 

 to the grape, that being too much pressed yields an 

 hard and unwholesome wine. Of these things I 

 must say; &quot; Ira viri non operatur justitiam Dei;&quot; 

 the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of 

 God. 



As for the injuries of the other part, they be 

 &quot; ictus inermes ;&quot; as it were headless arrows ; they 

 be fiery and eager invectives, and, in some fond men, 

 uncivil and irreverent behaviour towards their supe 

 riors. This last invention also, which exposeth them 

 to derision and obloquy by libels, chargeth not, as I 

 arn persuaded, the whole side: neither doth that 

 other, which is yet more odious, practised by the 

 worst sort of them ; which is, to call in, as it were to 

 their aids, certain mercenary bands, which impugn 

 bishops, and other ecclesiastical dignities, to have the 

 spoil of their endowments and livings : of these I 

 cannot speak too hardly. It is an intelligence be 

 tween incendiaries and robbers, the one to fire the 

 house, the other to rifle it. 



The fourth point wholly pertaineth to them 



