L I B. VIII. Of the Advancement of Learning, 262 



Jy fallout, all matters throng in to be difpatched at once; the (er- 

 vants brawl 5 the whole houfe rings, 



THE PARABLE. 



XXIII. He that reffe&f Ferfons in judgement doth Prov.xxvn^. 

 not jpell ; for that man willforfa}^ the truth even 



for a piece of Bread. 



THE EXPLICATION. 



TTHe Parable raoft wifely noteth that in a Judge, Facility of Deport' 

 taent it more pernicious than the corrnptiou of Bribes : for all per- 

 fbns do not give Bribes 5 but there is hardly any caufe wherein 

 fomewhat may not be fou&d, that may incline the mind of the 

 Judge, ifReJpeCf of Perfons lead him. For one (ball be relpeded as 

 a Country-man , another as an ill-tongu'd man ; another as a Rich 

 man j another as a Favourite ; another as commended by a Friend 5 

 and to conclude, all is full of iniquity , where Refpeb of Perfo»s 

 bears rule'-, and for a very flight matter, as it weve^for a piece of 

 Bread, Judgement is perverted. 



THEPARABLE. 



XXIV. A poor man that by extortion ofprejfeth the prov. 

 poor ^ is lil^ a land-fioudtbat caufe r famine. 



THE EXP L ICATION. 



'T'His Parable was by the Ancients expreft and fiiadowed forth, un- 

 der the Fable of the iivo Horfe-leeches^ tlie Full and the Hupgry ; 

 for Opprefjion coming from the Poor and necejjitous perfons, is far more 

 heavy than the OppreJJion caufed by the Full and Rich '■, becaufe it isfuch 

 as feekj out all Arts of Exa^ion, and all Angles for Money. This kind 

 of Opprefiion was wont alio to be reiembled to^«»_ge/,which being 

 dry, luck in ftrongly , not fb, being moift. The Parable compre- 

 hends in it a fruitful Inflruftion, both to Princes, that they commit 

 not the government of Provinces, or offices of charge to indigent 

 and indebted perfons 5 as al(b to people that they fuffer not their 

 Kings to be diftreficd with too much want. 



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