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In like manner ^zis vice or sin nothing so offensive, while it is in its own sea, as when it is in the seat of the contrary virtue. For a man to be cozened by some cheating Companion, some shifting Mate that liveth, as we say, by his wits, we are wont to make no great matter of it; He hath put a trick upon me; and I am well enough served: I had little ⟨p. 23⟩reason to look for other at his hands. But for a man to be over reached by one that he hath trade and traffic with, and professeth to deal honestly and uprightly with him, that we can not so well brook or bear; we look for square dealing at the hands of such, and to have monies-worth for our money.

In like manner ^zis vice or sinne nothing so offensiue, while it is in its owne sea, as when it is in the seate of the contrary virtue. For a man to be coosoned by some cheating Companion, some shifting Mate that liueth, as we say, by his wits, we are wont to make no great matter of it; He hath put a tricke vpon me; and I am well enough serued: I had little ⟨p. 23⟩reason to looke for other at his hands. But for a man to be ouer reached by one that he hath trade and trafficke with, and professeth to deale honestly and vprightly with him, that we can not so well brooke or beare; we looke for square dealing at the hands of such, and to haue monies-worth for our mony.

1. zPsal. 41. 9. & 55. 12, 13, 14, 20.

So here for a man to be robbed by the high-wayside, or to have his pocket or purse picked by a common Diver or Pick-purse, it is nothing so grievous: there is wrong and robbery in his own proper subject. But for the Judge that sitteth in the seat of justice to wring or wrong the party that sueth to him for right: to be as the bush, or the bramble (it is the Prophet