A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande vvherin by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the. ii. gouernements of kingdomes: whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and polityque administration conioyned. written in latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knight ... And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster.

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A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande vvherin by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the. ii. gouernements of kingdomes: whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and polityque administration conioyned. written in latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knight ... And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster.
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Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394?-1476?
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[Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete within Temple Barre, at the signe of the hand and starre, by Rychard Tottill,
1567]
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Law -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"A learned commendation of the politique lawes of Englande vvherin by moste pitthy reasons & euident demonstrations they are plainelye proued farre to excell aswell the ciuile lawes of the Empiere, as also all other lawes of the world, with a large discourse of the difference betwene the. ii. gouernements of kingdomes: whereof the one is onely regall, and the other consisteth of regall and polityque administration conioyned. written in latine aboue an hundred yeares past, by the learned and right honorable maister Fortescue knight ... And newly translated into Englishe by Robert Mulcaster." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01080.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.

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NOnne tunc Princeps se renissime, hec te satis concitant, ad legis rudimenta: cū per ea, iustitiā induere valeas: quo et appellabe∣ris iustus, igno∣rantiae quo{que} legis euitare poteris ig¦nominiam: ac per legem felicitate fruens, beatus esse poteris in hac vi∣ta, et demum fili∣ali timore indu∣tus, qui dei sapien¦tia est, charitatem quae amor in deū est imperturbatus consequeris, qua deo adherens, per Apostoli senten∣tiam, fies vnus spi¦ritus cum eo.

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Sed quia ista, sine gratia lex opera∣ri nequit, tibi il∣lam super omnia implorare necesse est, legis quoque diuinae et sancta∣rum scripturarum indagare scienti∣am. Cum dicat scriptura sacra: quod vani sunt omnes in quibus non subest scien∣tia dei. Sapienciae cap. xiij. His igitur princeps, dum a∣dolescens es, et a∣nima tua velut tabula rasa, de∣pinge eam, ne in futurum, ipsa fi∣guris minoris fru∣gi delectabilius depingatur.

Quia etiam (vt sa¦piens quidam ait)

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quod noua testa capit, inueterata sapit. Quis artifex tam negligēs pro∣fectus suae prolis est, vt nō eā dum pubescit artibus instruat, quibus postea vitae solatia nanciscatur? Sic li¦gnarius faber se∣care dolabro, fer∣rarius ferire mal∣leo, filiū instruit: et quē in spiritua∣libus ministrar’ cu¦pit, literis imbui fa¦cit. Sic et principi filium suum qui post eum populū regulabit, legibus instrui dū minor est conuenit,

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qualiter si fecerīt rectores orbis, mundus iste am∣pliori quam iam est iustitia regere∣tur, quibus si tu vt iam hortor fa∣cias, exemplum non minimum mi¦nistrabis.

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