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POLICIE LXXX. How to behave ones selfe in a strange Country.
WHen you are to make use of any thing, where an∣other hath property, seeke to contract faire quarter, for your present advantage, and let your arguments for persuasion bee pertinent, and materiall, and in∣ducing; hee that rides other cir∣cuits for execution of his designe, is out of his way, or else goes a farther way about.
Thus,
Moses being to passe by the king of Edom, sent to him, saying, God hath heard our voice and brought us from Egypt, let us passe through thy country, wee will not drinke of thy water, nor turne to the right▪ hand nor left,
Numb. 20. 16, 17.