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348 LOGOPANDECTEISION.
propter qus that then, for being taken up with other more publick businesses they could not accept
"oTterum '" °^ m y P T0 ^ eT > Dut wishing I might have the fortune to deal with those would give the
doliturus greatest prices, expected I should not fail to let them have the money for defalcation
of some of their accounts.
De damno 45. By which their subdolous and crafty tergiversation from what in a time of
mohicru 6 " P eace tne y wou ld nave so eagerly embraced, they have made it too evidently apparent,
spectet. that in prosecuting of their own ease, they have aimed at my utter destruction, both
lentafueit tne * r res °l ut ions concentring in this, that they thought it more expedient, by a little
damna re- forbearance, to suffer their unhallowed sums to increase for the better obtaining after-
Non habet wart ' s °f m y whole estate to themselves, then by any ways medling with my rents in
eyemussor- a tumultuous time, to bring me the sooner in a capacity of enjoying my own, through
bonos. Nam tne diminution of my father's debts by their receivings. This pit they digged for me,
qua male which that they should fall into themselves were both just and equitable.
parta domi ' J i
accumulan-
tur nihil sa-
lutishabent.
IN FLAGITATORES. Ep. I.
Tros quondam ./Eneas Harpyias, virginis ora,
Atque ungues volucrum vidit habere truces.
Namque fame rabidus dum littore prandia sumit,
Omnia foedarunt vel rapuere viro.
Creditor his similis, perturbans omnia, pacem
Nullam vicini qui sinit etse sui.
Harpyiae proprios certant defendere fines,
Ille tamen pejor, namque aliena rapit.
ALTERUM.
Non satis apparet cur nomina creditor omnis
Accipit a credo ; res ratione vacat.
Debuerat potius vocitari incredulus, et sic
Sortiri merito nomina digna suo :
Efse avidus nullum nam credit in sethere numen,
Nee quenquam fidum Creditor efse virum.