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Menipp. May one venture to alk what thou meanefl: 

 by a good king ? 

 /. By a goocl king ! 



Menipp. Yes ; becaufe probably thou meaneft. fome- 

 thing by the combination of thefe two words, which f 

 if I do not miitake, have no particular inherent con- 

 nection. Nothing in nature is good or bad in klelf; 

 and what in a certain relation is good may in another 

 be bad. By the term, a good king, wouldft thou im- 

 ply, a king that is a good man, or a man that is £ 

 good king ? 



L Though I might be a little furprifed at the quef-r 

 tion ; yet I perceive to what it tends. A good king is 

 frequently neeeffitated to be a bad man — 



Menipp. (interrupting,) Or is oftener a bad maa 

 without being neeeffitated thereto. 



/. How fo ? 



Menipp. Becaufe nothing in the world is good, but 

 when it is that for which it is made by nature : now 

 nature makes no kings, but men : ergo — 



/. By your leave, nature made kings as well as 

 porters, hufbandmen, artifts, poets, or philofophers* 

 To what any one is naturally beft fuited, for that he is 

 made by nature. He therefore who is belt, adapted 

 by nature to rule over feveral millions of men, is made 

 by nature to be their king. 



Menipp. I have much to offer to the contrary, but 

 will wave the introduction of it now. Yet fuppofe I 

 grant, that nature fometimes makes a king : I hope 

 thou wilt be fo honourable as to allow in return, that 

 juft this king will not be one of the beft men among 

 the millions over whom he reigns. 



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