The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times.

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The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times.
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London :: Printed for Edward Brewster ...,
1656.
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"The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34173.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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POLICIE LIII. An adversary may rend a skirt of advantage.

WHen you thinke you lie open to occasion and ex∣ceptions, bee cautelous and fru∣gall of your selfe, least your ad∣versary rend a skirt of advantage from you.

Thus,

Joseph with being in opprtunity of place with his Mistris scatters a piece of his Garment to her curte∣sie, and she shewes it for her owne purpose, He left his Garment with me and fled, Gen. 39. 18.

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