¶The Prince breaketh the Chauncellour of his tale. Cha. 38 (Book 38)
BEare with mee I be∣seche you good Chan∣cellour quod the Prince,
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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"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 June 6, 2024.
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in that with my questiōs I haue drawē you so farr from youre purpose. For the thynges whiche by this occasion you haue discussed are to me righte profitable, thoughe they haue soomewhate staied you, and pulled you back from the ende of your in¦tent. Whereunto I pray you now make haste: and first as you promised, and as you haue begonne, o∣pen vnto mee some other cases wherin the senten∣ces of the lawes of En∣glande and of the Ciuile lawes do disagree.
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TVnc prīceps Parce obse∣cro Cancellarie,
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quod te ad tan∣tam a proposito tuo digressionem compuli questio∣nibus meis, michi nanque perutilia sunt quae hac occa¦sion̄ exarasti, licet te parumper re∣tardauerint a me∣ta intentionis tuae, ad quam vt tu iā celerius properes flagito, et primo vt aliquos alios ca¦sus, in quibus le∣gum Angliae et Ci¦uilium discrepant sentenciae, vt pro∣misisti et cepisti, mihi enarres.