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Jesting decides great things Stronglier, and better oft than earnest can.
IBID.i.10.

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'Tis you that say it, not I: you do the deeds And your ungodly deeds find me the words.
SOPHOCLES, Elec.

624.
[From Areopagitica, 1644.] This is true Liberty, when free-born Men, Having to advise the Public, may speak free, Which he who can, and will, deserv's high praise; Who neither can nor will, may hold his peace, What can be juster in a state then this?
EURIPIDES, Supp.

438 [From Tetrachordon, 1645.] Whom do we count a good man, whom but he Who keeps the laws and statutes of the Senate, Who judges in great suits and controversies, Whose witness and opinion wins the cause?
But his own house, and the whole neighbourhood See his foul inside through his whited skin.
HORACE, Ep.i.16.

40.
[From The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, 1649.] There can be slaine No sacrifice to God more acceptable Than an unjust and wicked king.
SENECA, Herc.Fur.


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