A07402:30
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.
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.
¶ To take the sword.
¶ To take the sworde.
TO take the sword do the signify to take the sword not given of the laws and magistrates, that is to be seditious and not to obey to the present magistrates, & not only examples proponed in holy letters, but also the histories of all times do witness that from above be retracted in this life to pains for the most part homicides, thieves, perjured persons unjust judges seditious, and tyrants, I speak this because God requireth that with the fear of pains, ⟨image 14⟩men should be coerced, & this fear 1doth nourish reverence to laws & maketh in our minds a virtue, & maketh it accustomed to obedience, gods law doth not deceive, which saith honour thy father & mother if y• wilt be long living upon the earth. This sentence of the dictes of magistrates 2ought wisely to be understood as who saith of those edicts ye con maundth not to do against gods commandments, it is therefore profitable both to discipline & to y• tranquillity of the commonweal, so to a custom our minds that also in small thin ges we make much of the authority of laws, further also we must know that we do not live to our selves but to the commonweal, we ought therefore take heed & beware that our exam ples do not hurt in cummin, y• same 3