them to go into the next room by themselves, and bring him in their unanimous opinion upon fome of the difputed points. They returned, however, to him very foon, without being able to agree. "Why, Gentlemen," faid he, "how "can you expect that I fhould alter any point "in difpute, when you, who must be more com66 petent, from your fituation, to judge than I 66 can poffibly be, cannot agree among yourselves "in what manner you would have me alter it?”

Lord Burleigh, very differently from many other fuppofed great Ministers, used to say, that "warre is the curfe, and peace the bleffinge of "a countrie."-" A realme," added he, "gain"eth more by one year's peace than by tenne years warre."

With refpect to the education of children, he thought very differently from Lord Chesterfield and the other luminaries of this age; for he used to fay," that the unthrifty loofeness of youth in "this age was the parents' faults, who made "them men seven years too foone, havinge but "children's judgements." He would also add, that "that Nation were happye where the Kinge "would take counfell and followe it."" I

will," faid he, "never trufte anie man not "of founde religion, for he that is falfe to God 66 can never be true to man.'

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Lord Burleigh's conduct as a Judge feems to have been very praife-worthy and exemplary, and might be imitated by fome of our present Courts of Juftice. "He would never," fays his Biographer, "fuffer Lawyers to digreffe or "wrangle in pleadinge; advising Counsellors to "deale truely and wifely with their clients, that "if the matter were naught, to tell them so, and "not to foothe them; and where he found fuch

a Lawyer, he would never thinke him honeste, "nor recommende him to anie prefermente, as "not fit to be a Judge that would give falfe "counfel."

These particulars are extracted from a life of this great man published soon after his death by one of his household. It is to be met with in Mr. Collins's Life of Lord Burleigh.

Dr. Wall, in his tranflation of Cicero's Epiftles, fays, that this great Statefman made them his glaffe, his rule, his oracle, his ordinance, and his pocket-book.

Lord Burleigh wrote fome excellent Advice for his Son, which is here fubjoined, and may ftill be perufed with instruction, in fpite of the alteration of the times, as it contains that fund of general good fenfe and knowledge of the world' which is applicable to all times and to all fituations.

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The perfon to whom it was addreffed applied it fo fuccessfully to his own life and conduct, that he became Lord Treasurer of England, Earl of Salisbury, and one of the greatest Statesmen of his time.

6C SON ROBERT,

The vertuous inclinations of thy matchlefs "mother, by whofe tender and godly care thy. "infancy was governed, together with thy edu. ❝cation under fo zealous and excellent a tutor,

puts me in rather affurance than hope, that "thou art not ignorant of the fummum bonum, "which is only able to make thee happy as well "in thy death as life: I mean, the true know"ledge and worship of thy Creator and Re"deemer, without which all other things are “vaine and miserable. So that thy youth being

guided by fo fufficient a teacher, I make no "doubt but he will furnish thy life with divine " and moral documents. Yet, that I may not "caft off the care befeeming a parent towards "his child, or that thou shouldest have cause to "derive thy whole felicity and welfare rather "from others than from whence thou receivedft "thy breath and being, I think it fitt and "agreeable to the affection I beare thee, to help

thee with fuch rules and advertisements, for "the fquaring of thy life, as are rather gained

"by experience than by much reading, to the "end that entering into this exorbitant age, "thou mayest be the better prepared to fhunne "thofe fcandalous courfes whereunto the world " and the lack of experience may easily draw "thee. And because I will not confound thy "memory, I have reduced them into Ten Pre

cepts; and next unto Mofes' Tables, if thou imprintft them in thy mind, thou fhalt reap the "benefit, and I the content. And they are thefe following:

I.

1. When it shall please God to bring thee "to man's estate, use great providence and cir"cumfpection in chufing thy wife, for from "thence will fpring all thy future good or evil; "and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem "of warre, wherein a man can erre but once. "If thy estate be good, match neere home, and

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at leisure; if weak, far off and quickly. En"quire diligently of her difpofition, and how “her parents have been inclined in their youth. "Let her not be poore, how generous foever, ❝for a man can buy nothing in the markett " with gentility: nor chuse a base and uncomely creature altogether for wealth, for it will caufe contempt in others, and loathing in thee. "Neither make choice of (a) dwarfe, or (a) fool; for by the one thou shalt beget a race of pigmies, the other will be thy continual "difgrace,

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difgrace, and it will yirke thee to hear her "talk; for thou fhalt find it, to thy great grief, "that there is nothing more fulfome than a she "foole.

"And touching the guiding of thy house, let "thy hospitallitie be moderate; and, according "to the meanes of thy eftate, rather plentifull "than fparing, but not coftly. For I never "knewe any man grow poore by keeping an "orderly table, but fome confume themfelves "through fecret vices, and their hospitalitie "bears the blame. But banish fwinish drunkards "out of thine houfe, which is a vice impairing "health, confuming much, and makes no show. "I never heard praise ascribed to the drunkard, "but (for) the well bearing (of) his drink, " which is a better commendation for a brewer's "horse or a drayman than for either a gentle"man or (a) ferving-man. Beware thou spend "not above three or four parts of thy revenewes, "nor above a third part of that in thy house, "for the other two parts will do no more than defray thy extraordinaries, which alwayes furmount the ordinary by much, otherwise thou "fhalt live like a rich beggar in continual want. "And the needy man can never live happily

nor contentedly, for every difafter makes him "ready to mortgage or fell; and that gentle