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2. He is great in and of himself. Other Princes ⟨p. 56⟩and great personages are not great of themselves. They are not to other men, as a Giant to a Dwarf, or as Cedars to shrubs. A Cedar is a tall tree, though there stand ne'er a shrub near it, and though it grow below in a bottom: and the shrub is but a shrub, though it stand aloft by it self on an high hill, or on the top of a stone wall. ^lA Giant is a Giant, though he lye along on the ground: and a Dwarf is but a Dwarf still, though ^mhe get him up to the top of a turret.

2. He is great in and of himselfe. Other Princes ⟨p. 56⟩and great personages are not great of themselues. They are not to other men, as a Giant to a Dwarfe, or as Cedars to shrubs. A Cedar is a tall tree, though there stand ne're a shrub neere it, and though it grow below in a botome: and the shrub is but a shrub, though it stand aloaft by it selfe on an high hill, or on the top of a stone wall. ^lA Giant is a Giant, though he lye along on the ground: and a Dwarfe is but a Dwarfe still, though ^mhe get him vp to the top of a turret.

1. lNon est magnus pumili•, licet in monte constiterit. Coloss• magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si st•terit in put•. Sen. epist. 76.
2. mPygmaei in turribus. Diverbium e• Vulg. version tractum