Where I affirmed,
that the people might by other meanes be trayned with an equall
largesse to semblable workes of charitie, he suspected lest I did
not enter into a through consideration of their nature and qualitie,
which he had obserued to be this: that they would sooner depart with
12. pennyworth of ware, then sixepence in coyne, and this shilling
they would willingly double, so they might share but some pittance
thereof againe. Now in such indifferent matters, to serue their
humours, for working them to a good purpose, could breed no maner
of scandall. As for the argument of abuse, which I so largely
dilated, that should rather conclude a reformation of the fault,
then an abrogation of the fact.
For to prosecute your owne Metaphore (quoth hee) surely I holde him
for a sory Surgeon, that cannot skill to salue a sore, but by taking
away the lymme, and little better then the Phisicion, who, to helpe
the disease, will reaue the life of his Patient from him. Abuses,
doubtlesse, great and many [71] haue, by successe of time, crept
hereinto, as into what other almost, diuine, or ciuill, doe they not?
and yet in these publike meetings, they are so presented to euery
mans sight, as shame somewhat restrayneth the excesse, and they may
much the sooner bee both espied and redressed.
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