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Occasional Issues of Unique Or Very Rare Books
Occasional Issues of Unique Or Very Rare Books Author:Alexander Balloch Grosart Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: And thefe fhaddowes, and faigned refemblances, wherewith fhee is fet out vnto vs, will not permit vs to penetrate into the naughtinefle, that fhee conceales with... more »in her, nor fuffer vs to fee the poyfon that lyes hidden vnder her, through which that chaunceth oftentimes, which is fpoken of the Marmaides, that (alluring with their fweete, but de- ceaueable voyces) men fee not the great euill that lurketh vnder them, and is prepared for them. On the other fide, pouertie prefenteth her felfe vnto vs with a filthy and horrible countenaunce, in fuch fort, that none would euer furmife, that any good thing were contained within her ; neuertheleffe, vnder il fauoured counterfeites, moft bewti- full figures, and wonderfull workes, both of arte and nature are oftentimes comprehended. But (as I fayd) thefe meafures are not iuft, neyther can the truth bee boul- ted out by them. It is not fufficient of one thing to open onely the good, concealing the euill; and of another, to lay forth onely the e- uill, not reuealing the good : and troth cannot poffible bee de- fcerned from a doubtful matter, if a diuifion of the good and theeuill that refteth in ey ther of them, bee not firft made and fifted out, and the fubftaunce of the thing after confidered of accordingly. It being a mof t true and vnfallible principle, that all things vnder the Sunne, arc (I know not in what forte) entermixed with good and euill, fo that nothing is neither wholly good, nor wholly euill: and now it may well bee fayde, that riches bringes with her much euill, and pouertie containeth in her not a little good. Neyther is it conuenient that they, whofe pouertie is great, fhould bee left without an aduocate, as wee often fee they are : but good and iuft Princes fhould fee their right graunted them without any expence. Behold...« less