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 je&.s for jufiice. To ranbrain thls trifling bur.,. be it i'etnhmbred, that Crowns have been often bazarder,-  lmetimes lo. lt. Wtever ihtteries may have !g'/n Fid to �uch kings, while living, poferit does ti.Of remembe them either as great princes, or honeff When I read of a minltier, (whether of' a rap- dous, or n negligent, unknowing b#mour) whet' unm�onabl� piJ'um'd upo n his prince's 'flyour.- which, in the progre of the it%ry: appears to be too weak, or too fickle to pmte htm.; roethinks I attend the noble Lord to his �mffold with as much fvel]ing fitisfitc'tion as the injur'd Commons who i6c!i'a him. There have been parliaments. too, or parties in them, who for meer gratificauon of the popu humor, have inveteratdy_ pufh'd the ruin a fa- becaufe he was fo, and wathout vourite roeeft _ hopes of a better to �ucceed hm) as far as an abfo- lute rupture with the prince, and the mi�eries of' a civil var, Caprice and burnour has;e been fatal in the fubje& as well as the cro.wn, an.d have, from. both, di&ated fuch violences in polittcks, as have often overthrown the profperity of this nation, and entail'd r real misfortune upon it. ! re! te lndmauon of redafling rome of my hiftorical literature to my readers, which would b matte of fireat fitisfa&ion to my fell, however it might fare-with them. But the profeffion of quill hath lately dealt fo much in this fort ot ware, that I fhall for once conquer my' humour, and conclude, that if reafon be the belt gift from heaven to man, 'tis bale and ungrateful for him. to reign himfell to an), other conduct. Reafon. is the teft of humour; and that humour which is unrealamble, ought to be fcandalous. He that is guided' by reafon, ho, wever imperfe&, will pail a .-: Y$ ' is

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