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The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems (1700)

Saavedra Fajardo, Diego de, 1584-1648, Astry, James, Sir · London Printed for M. Gylliflower and L. Meredith · leaf 174

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o maintain his Crown bythe fame means his Anceftors did. It feems to be thiswhich úod would admoniih Princes of, (though in a-nother Sence) by Ezekiel the Prophet (19), when hefaid, bind the tire of thine Head to thee ,• if any on©ihall wear it toó lóofe, twill be very apt to fall off.- ^ f (18)… … JUftice is the Center from which the Circumferenceof a Crown is drawn. If we could live withoutone, there would be no need of tother. In former times all Princes Judges were,And to fee Jttfiice done, was all their Care. In the firft Age there was no need of Puniihment, forthere were no Crimes; nor…

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