part. I think this country can bear no merchant "to have more land than one hundred pounds; "no hufbandman or farmer worth above one "hundred or two hundred pounds; no artificer "above one hundred marks; no labourer much "more than he fpendeth. I fpeak now gene"rally, and in fuch cafes may fail in one parti"cular; but this is fure, this Commonwealth 66 may not bear one man to have more than two "farms, than one benefice, than two thousand "sheep, and one kind of art to live by.”

"For idle perfons, there were never, I think, ઃઃ more than be now. The wars men think is "the cause thereof. Such perfons can do noCC thing but rob and steal. But flack execution " of the laws hath been the chiefest fore of all ; "the laws have been manifeftly broken, the "offenders banished, and either by bribery or "foolish pity escape punishment."

"Thefe fores must be cured with medicines. "First, by good education; for Horace fayeth wifely,

Quo femel eft imbuta recens, fervabit odorem
Tefta diu..

"With whatfoever thing the new vessel is im"bued, it will long keep its favour, faith Ho"race; meaning, that for the most part men be "as they are brought up*, and men keep "longest the favour of their first bringing up; "therefore, feeing that it be fo necessary a thing,

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we will give our device thereupon. Youth "must be brought up, fome to husbandry, fome "in working, graving, gilding, joining, painting, "making of cloaths, even from their tenderest

' age, to the intent they may not, when they "come to man's eftate, loiter as they do now"a-days in neglect, but think their travail sweet

and honeft. This fhall well eafe and remedy "the deceitful workings of things, disobedience "of the lowest fort, cafting of feditious bills, "and will clearly take away the idleness of the "people."

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*By a law of Solon, the Legiflator of Athens, a child who, by the careleffness or the over-tenderness of his parents, was brought up to no trade or profeffion, was not obliged to fupport his parents when they were old or in want; the Legiflator wifely confidering habitual idlenefs not only in itfelf to be criminal, but to be the cause of the greatest crimes that are committed, and that those persons should be completely put out of the protection of the laws, who have been the occafion of that deteftable and dangerous vice in the rifing generation,

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"Secondly, By devifing of good laws. I "have fhewed my opinion heretofore what sta "tutes I think most neceffary to be enacted this "feffions; nevertheless I could wish, that befide "them, hereafter (when time shall serve) the "fuperfluous and tedious statutes were brought "into one fum together, and made more plain. "Nevertheless, when all these laws be made, "established, and enacted, they serve to no pur"pose, except they be fully and duly executed.

By whom? By thofe that have authority to "execute; that is to fay, the Noblemen and "the Justices of Peace; therefore I would wish, "that after this Parliament were ended, those "Noblemen (except a few that should be with "me) went to their countries, and there should "see the statutes fully and duly executed; and "that those men fhould be put from being Juf"tices of Peace that be touched or blotted with "those vices that be against these new laws to "be established: for no man that is in fault "himself can punish another for the fame of fence:

Turpe eft doctori, cum culpa redarguit ipfum,
Shameless the teacher, who himself is faulty.

"And these Justices being put out, there is no doubt of the execution of the laws."

Defunt Cætera.

"King EDWARD's Remains."

Hooker

Hooker fays of this Prince," that though " he died young he lived long, for life is in " action."

MAR r.

[1553-1558.]

THE English feem early in their history to have made pretty free with the defects and failings of their Sovereigns. M. de Noailles, in his "Embaffades," tells us, that when Mary gave out that she was pregnant, the following paper was stuck up at her palace-gate:

"Serons nous fi bêtes, O nobles Anglois, que de croyre notre Reyne enceinte, & de "quoi le feroit elle, finon d'un Marmot ou " d'un Dogue?"

Mary, till her marriage with that cold and inhuman tyrant Philip the Second, appears to have been merciful and humane; for Holinfhead tells us, that when she appointed Sir Richard Morgan Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, fhe told him, "that notwithstanding the old error, which did << not admit any witness to speak, or any other << matter to be heard, (Her Majesty being party,)

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"her pleasure was, that whatsoever could be 66 brought in favour of the fubject should be ad"mitted to be heard; and moreover, that the "Justices should not perfuade themselves to put "in judgment otherwife for Her Highnefs than " for her fubject."

The turn of the English nation for humorous Political Prints first shewed itself in this reign. An engraving was publifhed, reprefenting this Queen extremely thin, with many Spaniards hanging to her and fucking her to the bone.

LADY JANE GREY.

ROGER ASCHAM, who was Queen Elizabeth's schoolmafter, thus describes this pattern of female excellence, in a letter of his to a friend.

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"Ariftotle's praise of women is perfected in "her. She poffeffes good-manners, prudence, " and a love of labour: fhe poffeffes every talent "without the leaft weaknefs of her fex: fhe "speaks French and Italian as well as fhe does "English: the writes readily and with pro"priety she has more than once, if you "believe me, spoken Greek to me."

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