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CLeanthes dealeth yet more rigorously. Al∣though (sayeth he) it bée no benefite, whiche he receiueth: yet is he vnthankfull, bycause he would not haue requited, though it had bin one. So also is a man a Murtherer, before he haue steyned his handes: bycause he is alredie armed, and fully purposed too rob and flea. The verie déede doeth put his naughtines in exe∣cution,
and discloze it, but not begin it. The thing that he re∣ceiued, was not a good turne, but was so termed. Churchtray∣tors are punished though none of them can laie hand vpon the Goddes.
But how (sayeth he) can any body bée vnthankfull towardes an euill man, seeing that a benefite cannot bee fastened vppon an euill man? Uerely in this respect, that he hath receiued of him, somme of the thinges that goe for good among the v••∣skilfull: and therfore euill though he bee, yet must he bee thank∣full towardes him with somme like thing: and seeing he tooke them for good, he must requite them for good, whatsoeuer they bee. They are sayed too haue borrowed monnye, bothe he that oweth gold, and also he that oweth Lether coyned with the co∣mon stampe, suche as was among the Lacedemonians, bycause it serueth the turne of currant monnye. Looke in what kynde of thing thou art bounde, in the same kinde discharge thou thy credit.