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¹Behold the Romans common weal, how the Consuls always, and the Emperors afterward still repealed their Predecessors Acts, disdaining things present and past, and looking on things to come. Why therefore doest thou take such care, as though thy posterity would like or allow that thou dost. It will not be. For that men have, they reject as unprofitable. &c. Therefore it is impossible, that things should remain in the same estimation with posterity, that they were in before.

¹Beholde the Romaines cōmon weale, how the Consulles alwayes, and the Emperours afterwarde still repealed their Predecessours Actes, disdayning thinges present and past, and lookyng on thinges to come. Why therefore doest thou take such care, as though thy posteritie would like or allow that thou doost. It will not be. For that men haue, they reiecte as vnprofitable. &c. Therfore it is impossible, that thinges should remaine in the same estimation wyth posteritie, that they were in before.

1. 1Nothing is of continuance in this world.Nothyng is of continuaunce in this world.

¹Lycurgus thought he had given such laws to the Lacedaemonians, as they would have kept till he had come back again, that is, for ever. According to ⟨p. 43⟩the which devise, he went his ways, minding to return back no more, hoping by this means, that his laws should be always observed, but he nothing prevailed.

¹Lycurgus thought he had geuen such lawes to the Lacedemonians, as they would haue kept till he had come backe agayne, that is, for euer. According to