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Again further, another evil that comes from this ¹reviling, is this, you show a vile, base spirit, as if you had no other means to deliver you from an ill name, but an ill tongue; those that know any excellency that they have in themselves, will know that there are a great many other ways to deliver themselves from an ill name, rather then an evil tongue. But you are put to your shifts, you have evil cast upon ²you, and you have no way to deliver your selves from this evil but by your reviling tongue. It is a sign there is no excellency in you, nothing but baseness in you. Seneca says of those that are disorderly affected with reproaches that are cast upon them, They show that there is no wisdom, nor no confidence of any excellency in themselves to oppose that evil.

Again further, another evil that comes from this ¹reviling, is this, you shew a vile, base spirit, as if you had no other means to deliver you from an ill name, but an ill tongue; those that know any excellency that they have in themselves, will know that there are a great many other ways to deliver themselves from an ill name, rather then an evil tongue. But you are put to your shifts, you have evil cast upon ²you, and you have no way to deliver your selves from this evil but by your reviling tongue. It is a sign there is no excellency in you, nothing but baseness in you. Seneca says of those that are disorderly affected with reproaches that are cast upon them, They shew that there is no wisdom, nor no confidence of any excellency in themselves to oppose that evil.

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2. 2Neque prudentiae quicquam in se esse, nec fiduciae obstendit, qui contumclia afficitur. Sen. in Sap. non cad. injur.