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Magistrates, Rulers, &c. the great comfort of good ones. [ 1560]

THe People of Rome were very jocund,* 1.1 when they had made Galba their Emperour; but he had not been long in, till they began to change their note: For, they found by woful experience, that they had met with a care∣lesse and cruel Gover••our. A sad thing, when it is either with Magistrates or Ministers, as Pope Urban writ to a Prelate in his time very scoffingly; Monacho fervido, Abbatic calido, Episcopo verò tepido, et Archiepiscopo ••rigido, still the higher in means,* 1.2 the worse in manners. But, there is then good hope, when Men in power and authority can say, Non nobis sed populo, that they aym at the publique good: And happy is that People, that place, that Common-wealth, whose Rulers think no time too long, no pains too great, nor no patience too much, whereby they may glorifie God, and seek the publique good in the appointed places of their dignity.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Corn. Nepos in vita Galbae. Suetonius.
• * 1.2

  J. Gray a Serm. at Assizes Newcastle, 1636.