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A civil nosegayA ciuile nosgay
A civil nosegay wherein is contained not only the office and duty of all magistrates and judges but also of of [sic] all subjects with a preface concerning the liberty of justice in this our time newly collected and gathered out of latin and so translated in to the English tongue by I.G.A ciuile nosgay wherin is contayned not onelye the offyce and dewty of all magestrates and iudges but also of of [sic] all subiectes with a preface concernynge the lyberty of iustice in this our tyme newly collected and gethered out of latyn and so translated in to the Inglyshe tonge by I.G.
printed for John goodale, 1550printed for Ihon goodale, 1550
Title page typeset from the transcription.
¶ The diuysisson, or kinds of Justice be .ij.¶ The diuysisson, or kyndes of Iustyce be .ij.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶ The division, or kinds of Justice be .ij.
¶ The diuysisson, or kyndes of Iustyce be .ij.
The first is universal 1Justice, which Aristotle describeth briefly saying universal Justice is obedience toward all Laws, and complectyth in her all virtues, therefore the name of Justice is transferred generally to the whole query of virtues, because dew obedience is rendered, either be Laws, or else be magistrates Particular Justice is a virtue that 2giveth to every man his own of ⟨image 9⟩which virtue, there be .ij. kinds distributive and commutative which kinds because we may rightfully understand that the whole commonweal and universal sociate of men ought to be looked on in our mind in the universal soc•ate of mans life, there be only .ij. kinds or manners of communication For either we do communicate, or else we do commute things, or else we order persons, as that empires, Magistrates, degrees in cities in companies & in families may be constituted & ordained here ••o man doth not s• that all the sociate of life, be the s• .ij. members be to be governed things be commuted & changed be contracts, and when this communication, which is made for cause of living wandereth infinitely, it is necessary that there be ⟨image 9⟩therein an equality, that is there be rendered or given equal for equal, for if any men should give their things without price, they should perish by hunger, then there should be no daily communication. for if there were not one thing given for another there could be no communication,