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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...but such as was excellent in some one good qualitie or other, whereby if occasion so serued, he might get his owne liuing? Then was euerie noble mas house a Commonweale in it selfe: but since the reteining of these Caterpillers, the credite of noble men hath decaied, they are thought to be couetous by permitting their seruants, which cannot Hue of them selues, and piiien bold whome for neerenes they wil not maintaine, to liue at the deuotion or %l ' almes of other men, passing from countrie to countrie, from one Gentlemans house to another, offering their seruice, which is a kind of Traiane the Emperor. Temples prophaned with plaies. Why the Emp. Traiane ordain ed but 22 holicdaies throughout the yeere. Cod worst serued on the Sabboth da'es. beggerie. Who in deede, to speake more trulie, are become beggers for their seruants. For comonlie the goodwil men beare to their lordes, makes them drawe the stringes of their purses to extend their liberalitie to them; where otherwise they would not. By such infamous persons much time is lost; and manie daies of honest trauel are turned into vaine exercises. Wherein is learned nothing but abuse; poore men liuing by their handie labor, are by them trained vnto vnthriftines; scholers by their gaudes are allured from their studies. Thus the people are robbed; youth corrupted; the Sabboth prophaned; and of al these euils, who are counted the vpholders but the Noble, who of right should establish the lawe of the Roman Traiane, who commanded that no plaier, iester, nor iugler should be admitted in his Common-weale to pick the purses of his subiects, but that they should either learne some occupation to mainteine themselues in their owne houses, or otherwise be banished out of Rome. But now such like men, vnder the titl...

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