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INiustice is neuer without some pretence to pal∣liate her actions: and rather then faile, she mas∣keth vnder the vizard of Religion, which makes her more vgly. Euen as ill-fauoured complexions, the more they are painted, the fouler they appeare: and mishapen bodies, by putting on rich apparell, seeme more deformed.
The Cardinall S. Malò hath the Kings commission, to draw from the Florentines the seuentie thousand Duckats due by the treatie; and meane while to entertaine them in hope, that he will restore them their priuiledges, and settle them in the quiet possession of Pisa: he receiueh the mony; promiseth a present redresse of their wrongs, and redintegration to their former right. He goeth to Pisa, with a shew to effect it: doth iust no∣thing in the businesse, and returnes. He answereth the Floren∣tines expostulation, with this cautelous and coloured excuse, that he had no authoritie to commaund them, and he would not vse the King (his masters) power to compell them, because it was a matter could not be done without blowes: which was vnfit for him, being a Priest, and a pillar of the Christian com∣mon-wealth, to be the cause of shedding much Christan bloud: and so left them, cheated of their money, and frustrate of their hope.
Per speciem sacrificandi obtruncare.
Semper aliguam fraudi speciem iuris imponunt.
Ne specie Religionis, in ambitionem delabantur.
Gl' huomini sogliono ricuoprir la loco ambizione, col velo della pietà Chri∣stiana.
Priuatae causae pietatis aguntur obtentu, & cupiditatum qulsque suarum, reli∣gionem veluti pedissequam habent.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. Ne ditescas iniustè, sed ex iustè partis viue.
Ambitio, Religionis praetextu velata.
Vox in choro, mens in foro. Virtutem non colere, sed colorare.
Pudor impudentem celat, audacemquies,
Pietas nefandum, vera fallaces probant.
Religio peperit scelerosa, atque impia facta.
Nihil in specie fallacius, quàm praua religio est: vbi Deorum numen praescin∣ditur sceleribus.
L' iniustice cherche des pretextes, à fin de cacher son insatiable conuoi∣tise.
Tacit. hist. 5. Li. pol. l. 3. Tac. An. l. 3. Por. in Guic
Leo. ep. 23.
Phocylid.
Melanct. Adag. Sen. Hippol.
Lucret.
Liui. l. 39.
Am. Plu. Ant
Senec.