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A07554	The misterie of iniquitie Plainely layd open by a lay-Christian, no profest diuine, out of truth in humanity, and rules of naturall reason. Whereby the world may see, read and vnderstand, the proud and vaine comparison of a cardinalles red-hat, and a kings golden crowne. Alwayes prouided, in reading, read all, or read nothing at all.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1611 (1611)	STC 17934; ESTC S114600	61,425	60

and the Hart wants his owne This might helpe vs a little till our Staples bee found by Meum and Tuum to compare and demonstrate betweene Customes and Subsidies both the want of the one and the vse of the other But here wee stand doubtfull and mistrustfull of our selues and seeke rather to be taught For though To doe as to be done to bee a Rule sufficient for Meum and Tuum in equall Commerce seeing ●oue first descendent though reciproke at the last and Charity next it selfe though Subiests liue by Grace we desire to be instructed in Collecting these our Subsidies how to wade vprightly betweene the Soueraigne and the Subiect that Honestum and Vtile night still go together and maintaine Free-Trafficke For whilst our Staples were at home so ioynd to our Portes or so neare together that each controlled other our Loadstones drew in Bullion for our Mints at hand to Coyne and reading by Certificate aswell in quallity as quantity what the Merchants there had bought we could call for all our Customes before they crost the Seas by their owne accounts and price without Fraud or Couin or other Bookes of Rates but in Pondage and Tonnage we know not what to take and therfore seek to learne For Haud Natura potest Iusto secernere Iniquum Nec vincet ratio hoc tantundem vt peccet Idemque Qui teneros caules alieni fregerit horti Et qui nocturnus Diuùm sacra legerit ADSIT REGVLA Peccatis quae poenas irroget oequas Ne scutica dignum horribile sectere flagello It is not in Descretions hand to stay Or hold the Scales of Good or Ill vpright Nor is that Reason good that makst all one by day To crop a Neighbors Garden Leekes rob a Church by night A RVLE must guide the Whole to keep the Parts from swaruing And punnish faults in euery one according to deseruing And not to thinke that euery slip Like deadly sin deserues a whip For if Soueraigue Dignity be that Sacred Obiect which True-Louing Loyalty is apt to admire and still seekes to Honor with her kindest tespects such is all Subsidies either are or shoulde be who can be capable of so great a Glory by personall Right but Kingly Maiesty and who can accept of so great an Affection but the eye of Grace If these our Subsidies of Tonnage and Pondage be of the kind of those naturall respects which Loue is desirous and Loyalty doth offer to honour our Soueraigne by besides his Customes who can impose them but Loues owne Affection who can esteeme them but the hand of Mercy and what can increase them but Cheerefull alacrity in the Giuers Mind Lastly if Tonnage and Pondage be those honorable Effects of Assection Loue and Loyalty which Merchants exceeding their other Duties with Ioy present and Mercy takes who shall dedilate their proportions by Number Waight and Measure for the mutuall behoofe of Loue and Grace Who I say can teach vs this part of our Lesson but the Grauest and Wisest in Highest Authority namely how to deale iustly betweene the Soueraigne and the Subiect For Cheerefulnesse Alacrity being inducements vnto Grace the heart and Essens of all Subsidies and Aydes as coldnesse in Affection makes Presents little worth whilst we sought to further and by often returnes at all hands to encrease to our Patrons Honor Hoc autē de quo nuuc agimus id ipsum est quam VTILE apellatur in quo verbo lapsa consuetude deflexit deuia ●oque sensim deducta est vt Honestatē ab VTILITATE secernens HONESTVM aliqud constituerit quam non sit VTILE VTILE quam non sit HONESTYM qua nulla pernities vita Hominum p●tuit afferri Cicero Offic. Lib. 2. and his Peoples Good that Honestum and Vtile might still go togither by the rules of Right and Reason wee are checkt and Controld by Court-Rowles and Court-Rules taught to beleeue that Honesty in this case hath nought to doo with Profit Discretion commanding the most for the King As if Honor heere were bootlesse and Meum and Tuum needlesse or some idle thing and Publicke Vtilitie were meant by Priuate Gaine We contest in nothing but euery way willing and desirous stil to learne The ground and occasions of Customers Disgrace our milde Disposiitions are scornd and despisd our Truth is held for Error our Vertue Vice and for crying but ADSIT REGVLA Wée are dingd so like Barnes that we dare not gréete Our Adiuncts steed vs nothing but eate vp our victuals and spend at our cost or wrangle out Disorder by a greater Confusion for our Socij by Controlling can teach but Actum agere Our Praedes Ouer-seeing vs saide Halfers were good Fishers Our Mancipes in Searching liue best by pudled Waters and our Hushers at all hands cry the most for the King So that as a Lord of a Mannor that seekes to make his best by Seruants of his owne hauing Grounds most excellent fertil and Good forbids them still the Plough and all meanes besides of manuring their soyles and obserues no seasons whereby their wils wanting freedom to do their endeuors they make none other yeild then as Nature affords At the end of his haruest falling out with his Seruants he farmes the lands vnto Strangers who neerest to themselues first serue their own turnes in raising their Rents by ploughing vp the Dead mould make spoile of the Grounds so fares it at this day with the Ploughmen and Fallowes of the Fields of our Reuennues And no maruell at al. For where things are past ouer without Distinction of Times Persons nor Place whose euer be the fault the Actors next hand still beares all the blame For the Cause at first mistaken the Seruice being vnknown bred Error in the Matter and Confusion in the Forme whereof Ignorance taking hold accuses the Customer as Actor next hand and onely bound for all Necessity for releefe first fitly founde out the vse of a Searcher but his loosenesse and Liberty ne quid apperius made Iealousye and Suspition deuise a Comptrouller His needelesse and bootelesse calling gaue easie way to the foure late Super-viso●s and their Braine-sicke Retinue whose confident Presumption combyned with Ignorance made them vndertake as they knew not what so to go forward they car'd not how by Opinion and Conceit to cure all sents of Leekes and Onions by eating Garlicke the very smell whereof bred Offences Contentions and Complaints of the Persons Clodius accusat Moechum Catilina Cethegum Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes The Mischiefes whereof though Marchants and Customers deuide cheefely betweene them the generall Inconueniences extend to the Soueraigne and all loyall Subiects By the Importance whereof the Graue and Wise onely in Highest Authority may be pleased to consider Quam frustra fit per plura quam fieri debet per pauciora and remember withall That none proue Saints for seeming so to others Since all are but men and