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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78609	The charge upon Sr. Hamon l'Estrange together with his vindication and recharge.	L'Estrange, Hamon, 1583-1654.	1649 (1649)	Wing C2062A; ESTC R173671	8,666	31

others though that speaks most reason where followed a totall after defection or falling off or such an one did most and therein Sir Hamon L'Estrange hath not whereof to boast or to make comparative altercations or impeaching one another as schooleboyes when they goe to whipping but actum est the match is made and al concurred in the common action and hee that did least meant to take the benefit of him that did most rather the argument lies most against them that did least because like lazy droanes they meant to eate the hony of others labours and taste what they never toyld for but the Imperiall and Civill law which ought to Judge in all questions of Warre Armes tells us In societate pactum de lucro intelligitur etiam de damno In Partnership the match is made whether we gaine or lose and every one to beare his proportion and aequum est ut communia habeantur damna quae societatis causa contingunt It is just that damages should be repaired in common which ●n community were committed And to weigh it yet more exactly by ●he best royall Standard David sayes 1 Sam. 30 24. As his part is that goes downe to the Battle so shall his part be that stayes by the stuffe they shall all part alike nay hee goes further and makes it a perpetuall act And it was so that from that day forward he made it a statute and ordinance unto this day 25. But pessimum venenum sua cuique vtilitas self-seeking and private ends and profit does often so befogg and darken Judgement that what is equitable and generous cannot be discerned Had the Gentlemen either at the first resented the violation of the Articles as the common concernment and every one said to himselfe nunc mea res agitur when the neighbours house was on fire Or hearkned to my modest desires according to the justum decorum of our confaederation and shouldred together for the maintenance of the partnership society begun at Lynne and pleaded togethe● our Charter of the Articles for our defence and indemnity I had not been singled out and made the sole or chief anvile of the highest displeasure fo● that action which to our sence was a● clearly abolished by those Articles a● the Sun ever shined Nor had there bi●● place lest for these jealousies and contumelies of the Gentlemen nor for thi● mine Apologie and vindication In th● meane time I must tell them they are all in my debt and some of them have paid me the wrong way and though the respect to my numerous family and issue may move me to say unto them with the Epigramatist Ignoscas petimus Vacerre tanti Non est ut placeam tibi perire Yet when my few and short arguments for the law of Society shall be answered wherein some of them who are forward enough projicere ampull as sesquipedalia verba shall do well to appeare I shall then most willingly acquiesce to have paid most of all the score and give a discharge and till then 〈◊〉 charge most of the gentlemen either never at all or too little to have learned or too much and too soone to have forgotten those just excellent rules and dutyes of humanity entercourse civilityes and deportment in all actions and affaires of life taught us by our old Tutour Tully in his Offices of which booke as we say the Quartane Ague is opprobrium medicorum the shame of Physitians because it poseth them to cure it so I say of that booke of the Offices in cujus nomine animitus semper recreor to borrow a few of his own words though by an heathen is so divinely written pardon the exuberance as may bee called opprobrium Christianorum the shame of all christians to be so posed in the practise I have here spread plaine and smooth to open viewe the charge and imputation upon mee and my defence and answer thereunto And after I indict the Gentlemen at the common barre of universall opinion and Iudgement wherein neverthelesse I except a● absolve some of them Queis meliore luto finxit praecordia Titan And who have opened and offer● themselves in all generosity and ju●● reason to me upon Apostacy and r●volt from the solemne principles society and confaederation if th●● confesse the Indictment I leave the● to the fortune of a fine and censure 〈◊〉 their reputation If they traverse 〈◊〉 am ever prepared and ready with fu●ther evidence for the triall FINIS