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CHAP. VI.
IN all these things which I lately recited, both one and the other are masters of one and the same thing. But how? Because the one is the lord of the thing it selfe, the other of the vse. We say that these bookes are Ciceroes, and Dorus the Booke-seller saith those very same books are his, and both these are true, the one challen∣geth them as the author therof, the other as the buyer, and rightly are they said to appertaine to both; for the right is in both of them, yet not after the same manner. So may Titus Liuius receiue in gift, or buy for money his owne books at Dorus his hands.* 1.1 I can giue that to a wise man, which particularly appertaineth vnto me, although all things be his. For since after a kingly manner he posses∣seth all things freely, and the proprietie of euery thing is distributed to euery particular person, he can receiue a present, he can owe, and buy, and hire. All things are Caesars, yet nothing but that which is his owne patrimonie and parti∣cular demeanes is returned into his Exchequer: all things are subiect to his so∣ueraigne power, but his peculiar heritage is properly his owne. The question is, what is his, and what is not his without diminution of his empire. For euen that which is adiudged to be none of his, is in another sort his owne. So a wise man in mind possesseth all things, but by law and right onely that which is his owne.