Magistrates not to be guilty of that which they do forbid in others. [ 1538]
ALexander the great Conquerour took one Dyonides a Pyrate upon the Sea, and asked him,* 1.1 Quid sibi videretur, ut Mare infestum faceret? What he
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ALexander the great Conquerour took one Dyonides a Pyrate upon the Sea, and asked him,* 1.1 Quid sibi videretur, ut Mare infestum faceret? What he
meant in that manner to trouble the Sea?* 1.2 The Pyrate answered him boldly and truly; Yea, What do you rather mean to trouble the World? but because I rob and steal in a small Cock-boat, which you do in a great and Roya•••• Navy, I go for a Pyrate, a••d you for an Emperour: And when it is thus with the Magistrates in a Na∣tion or Common-weal,* 1.3 when they punish that Sin in others, whereof themselves are notoriously guilty; though no Man dare speak, yet every Man will matter; And Socrates will laugh, because he sees Magnos latrones ducentes parvos ad sus∣pendium, the great Thieves leading the little ones to the Gallows.
Plutarch.
Sermon at S. Iames's before P. Charls, 1622.
Turpe est doctori, &c.