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CHAP. XLII.
How easily men may be corrupted.
IT is remarkable also in this matter touching the Decemvirate, how easily men are cor∣rupted, so that they make themselves become of aquite contrary nature, though at first good, and well brought up: considering how that youth, which Appius had taken near to him for guard of his person, began to favor the ty∣ranny, for a very small profit which they made thereof. And how Quintus Fabisu, one of the second ten that were chosen, being an excellent man; blinded with a little ambition, and per∣swaded by the malignity of Appius, chang'd all his good conditions into very bad, and be∣came like him; which being throughly exa∣min'd, shall cause those that institute the lawes of Republiques or Kingdoms to be more exact∣in bridling humane desires, and in taking from them all hope of escaping scot-free when∣soever they offend.