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 1 4|         likewise analogous to the preamble of a discourse. For I imagine
 2 4|          rightly described as the preamble than as the matter of the
 3 4|        legislator should prefix a preamble; he should remember how
 4 4|        law should have a suitable preamble at the beginning; for that
 5 4|         thought of regarding as a preamble before, but of which we
 6 4|           which we may now make a preamble, and not merely consider
 7 4| acknowledge, then, that we have a preamble. About the honour of the
 8 4|          next in order, until the preamble is deemed by you to be complete;
 9 4|         we have made a sufficient preamble about Gods and demi–gods,
10 5|           opposite.~Enough of the preamble; and now the laws should