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Though you may a while with vain conceits sooth up your selves, or suffer your selves to be deluded by others; yet ^cyou cannot beguile God, ^dyou cannot deceive death. But as Alexander's ^eblood issuing from his wounded body, and the very ^fgrief of the wound, controlled too too plainly the gross flatteries of his Pagan Priests and base Parasites, that vainly styled him a God: So death at least shall at last evidently and unanswerably, prove even to Princes and enforce them to confess, that though they be Gods by office and by divine deputation, yet they remain mortal men still; and therefore cannot, nor ^gshall not live for ever, but shall one day go the same way that all other men go, and that all their forefathers before them have gone.

Though you may a while with vaine conceits sooth vp your selues, or suffer your selues to be deluded by others; yet ^cyou cannot beguile God, ^dyou cannot deceiue death. But as Alexanders ^ebloud issuing from his wounded bodie, and the very ^fgriefe of the wound, controlled too too plainely the grosse flatteries of his Pagane Priests and base Parasites, that vainely stiled him a God: So death at least shall at last euidently and vnanswerably, proue euen to Princes and enforce them to confesse, that though they be Gods by office and by diuine deputation, yet they remaine mortall men still; and therefore cannot, nor ^gshall not liue for euer, but shall one day go the same way that all other men go, and that all their forefathers before them haue gone.