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...unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corrections to t... ...f the Inequalitie that is betweene us XLIII. Of Sumptuarie Lawes, or Lawes for moderating of Expenses XLIV. Of Sleeping XLV. Of the Battell of Dreux X... ...h shee need not recant. Heere-hence to offer it into your service, let me for him but do and say, as he did for his other-selfe, his peerlesse paire... ...dertake what Latine prose; Greeke, Latine, Italian or French Poesie should crosse my way (which as Bugge-beares affrighted my unacquaintance with the... ...cution more hatefull, who being a man of notable and exemplar vertue, both military and politike, and of them so cruelly condemned; after he had hear... ...t flies with her, and cannot part. What causes doe wee not invent, for the crosses that happen unto us? bee it right, or wrong: what take we not hold... ...ot lawfull for them to lay hands on their adversaries, to stay him, or to crosse legges, to make him trip or fall.' And more generously answered Alex... ...strateth them with richer senses and more excellent constructions. As for military enterprises, no man is so blinde but seeth what share fortune hat... ...ercised in well doing; and old men withdraw themselves from all civill and military negotiations, living at their owne discretion, without obligation...

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