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A table-booke for princes Containing short remembrances for the gouernment of themselues and their empire. Wherein also respectiuely the seuerall members of state, and all sorts of subiects, may finde matter worthy their obseruation. By Patricke Scot, Esquire.
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Scot, Patrick.
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1621
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STC 21860; ESTC S116871
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good_a prince_n as_o be_v secondary_a pattern_n of_o clemency_n and_o mercy_n epimanundas_fw-la cum_fw-la alius_fw-la hilari_fw-la vultu_fw-la solitus_fw-la est_fw-la in_o publicum_fw-la prodire_fw-la ep._n basil_n in_o epist_n ambr._n ad_fw-la vercel_n ep._n postridie_fw-la eius_fw-la diei_fw-la quo_fw-la feliciter_fw-la pugnatum_fw-la est_fw-la in_o leuctris_n processit_fw-la squalidus_fw-la &_o submissus_fw-la amiciss_fw-la causam_fw-la sciscitantibus_fw-la nihil_fw-la inquit_fw-la sed_fw-la heri_fw-la 5._o hier._n in_o glos_n sup_v math._n 5._o sensi_fw-la i_o plus_fw-la aequo_fw-la mihi_fw-la placuisse_fw-la eius_fw-la gaudij_fw-la intemperantiam_fw-la hodie_fw-la castigo_fw-la second_o if_o the_o victory_n incline_v to_o the_o enemy_n wise_a and_o courageous_a prince_n be_v neither_o to_o contemn_v matter_n of_o such_o importance_n stob._n eurip._n in_o phaenis_fw-la demost_a ex_fw-la arg_n lib._n plato_n apud_fw-la stob._n neither_o to_o be_v cowardlike_a deject_a 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