Essay

 1       13|                                 OF NOBILITY~We will speak of nobility,
 2       13|          NOBILITY~We will speak of nobility, first as a portion of an
 3       13|        monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and
 4       13|          as that of the Turks. For nobility attempers sovereignty, and
 5       13|       cheerful. A great and potent nobility, addeth majesty to a monarch,
 6       13|       majesty of kings. A numerous nobility causeth poverty, and inconvenience
 7       13|        necessity, that many of the nobility fall, in time, to be weak
 8       13|            honor and means.~As for nobility in particular persons; it
 9       13|          weathers of time! For new nobility is but the act of power,
10       13|          act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time. Those
11       13|           that are first raised to nobility, are commonly more virtuous,
12       13|        faults die with themselves. Nobility of birth commonly abateth
13       13|           envy. On the other side, nobility extinguisheth the passive
14       13|        that have able men of their nobility, shall find ease in employing
15       14|       Therefore the multiplying of nobility, and other degrees of quality,
16       15|          deny a God, destroy man’s nobility; for certainly man is of
17       18|         England, who depressed his nobility; whereupon it came to pass,
18       18| difficidties and troubles; for the nobility, though they continued loyal
19       18|         counterpoise to the higher nobility, that they grow not too
20       28|     greatness, take heed how their nobility and gentlemen do multiply