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This also serveth for a place of consolation.¹ This is spoken by way of concession or grant: that is, it may come to pass that a slanderer may trouble a ⟨image 118⟩wise man, and destroy the hart of the gift (for so it is in the Hebrew) that is, the bountiful and liberal hart. For where a wise man goeth about by his counsel to provide the best he can for the world, and doth all things very well: yet fools speak the worst they can of him, & he hath nothing but unkindness for his pains. The histories both of the Gentiles and of the Jews declare the same, yea daily experience. Thus Antiochus filthily put to death a man that had done very much for him, having first slain his two children before his face. This verily was the reward that he had for his good deserts. Justinian the Emperor most unjustly slew Bellisarius a very good man and a wise. All writings are full of like histories.

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