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He that striues to please the intoxicated multi∣tude, labours as much in vaine, as he that sought to put the winds in a bagge. And the reason is, because
Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English.
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- Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English.
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"Meditations, and resolutions, moral, divine, politicall century I : written for the instruction and bettering of youth, but, especially, of the better and more noble / by Antony Stafford ... ; there is also annexed an oration of Iustus Lipsius, against calumnie, translated out of Latine, into English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12819.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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it is impossible to please the godly and vngodly, the judicial and the vnju∣diciall, the sensible & the senselesse, both at once. Neyther Christ, nor his fore-runner could please them. For, Iohn came neyther eating nor drin∣king; and they said, He had a diuell. The Sonne of Man came eating and drinking; and they said, Behold a glutton, and a drinker of wine, a friend to Publicans and sinners. I will therefore take my Sauiours counsel, & seeke to iustifie my iudgement to the children of VVise∣dome,