ABSTRACT
EVERY man that is of judgment, and hath a reasonable disposition to the atteining of anie vertue, together with a discretion to use the benefites of nature, will confesse, that we are by as great reason bounde to encourage and commend the industrie of the diligent, as to dispraise and punish the slouth or abuse of the negligent: For if princes doe not aswell rewarde and cherish the well deserving subjecte, as their Judges and Magistrates are readie to correct the offendour, the Common Wealth might then quickly be deprived both of the
one and the other: I meane that as fast as the sword of Justice should weede out the one, so fast the -scourg of ingratitude woulde chase out the other. And so thereby their dominions might (in the end) become naked and altogether unfurnished.
