~ RH ~ Raphael Hythloday

~ IIPAO-TII-AAOICTTC-T-ATAAMSBEP ~ It Is Plain And Obvious – That It Is – Absurd And Of Ill Consequence To The Commonwealth – That – A Thief And A Murderer Should Be Equally Punished

~ WTTDO-WSHALH ~ Who Throws The Dice Often – Will Sometimes Have A Lucky Hit

~ IAKSFUSCOETHCNKHSITDBBOAIU-A-BTTPAM-IWCBFHTQHKTTRIBSM ~ If A King Should Fall Under Such Contempt Or Envy That He Could Not Keep His Subjects In Their Duty But By Oppression And Ill Usage – And – By Rendering Them Poor And Miserable – It Were Certainly Better For Him To Quit His Kingdom Than To Retain It By Such Methods

~ [S]H-IAUP-TCCOD-WCHPIA ~ [S]He – Is An Unskillful Physician That Cannot Cure One Disease Without Casting His[Her] Patient Into Another

~ TNSWM ~ They Never Sup Without Music

~ WTAATSBPASAFOASW ~ While They Are At Table Some Burn Perfumes And Sprinkle About Fragrant Ointments And Sweet Waters

~ TOASPOATGTBFGTTPOTCTWTST ~ They Order A Seventh Part Of All These Goods To Be Freely Given To The Poor Of The Countries To Which They Send Them

~ TEADOOVO-EOG-WTMTCPAC-SO-G&S-OTSMTLM-CAFFTS ~ They Eat And Drink Out Of Vessels Of – Earth Or Glass – While They Make Their Chamber Pots And Close-Stools Of – Gold And Silver – Of The Same Metals They Likewise Make – Chains And Fetters For Their Slaves

~ P/D/C-NBCUSB ~ Pearls / Diamonds / Carbuncles – None But Children Use Such Baubles

~ SID-AGIABOI ~ Silk Is Despised – And Gold Is A Badge Of Infamy

~ TATDVTBLATN-STITNPAPOTSAPATEOATD ~ Thus As They Define Virtue To Be Living According To Nature – So They Imagine That Nature Prompts All People On To Seek After Pleasure As The End Of All They Do

~ TAOTIOTOSTPOL-NIUTEI-S ~ They Also Observe That In Order To Our Supporting The Pleasures Of Life – Nature Inclines Us To Enter Into – Society

~ OCIBT-TTWHUAUMOW-NFAUTIITBT-BMTPTWTCOI-EATPII?-TDTFIOAFSOJ ~ Or Can It Be Thought – That They Who Heap Up A Useless Mass Of Wealth – Not For Any Use That It Is To Bring Them – But Merely To Please Themselves With The Contemplation Of It – Enjoy Any True Pleasure In It? – The Delighted They Find Is Only A False Shadow Of Joy

~ TAHTCPTBTTB;FTTT-TPOEAD-AATODOS-AOSFDATGOMH ~ They Account Health The Chief Pleasure That Belongs To The Body; For They Think That – The Pleasure Of Eating And Drinking – And All The Other Delights Of Sense – Are Only So Far Desirable As They Give Or Maintain Health

~ Y-IAPW-TTCT-ALJDNHAG-A-TPMNBP-WTTAFDP ~ Yet – In All Pleasures Whatsoever – They Take Care That – A Lesser Joy Does Not Hinder A Greater – And – That – Pleasure May Never Breed Pain – Which They Think Always Follows Dishonest Pleasures

~ IASTWMBSOTN-TINITWWEABPOAHG ~ I Am Sure That Whatever May Be Said Of Their Notions – There Is Not In The Whole World Either A Better People Or A Happier Government

~ IHTCAGMBWT-IGTAMB ~ I Happened To Carry A Great Many Books With Me – I Gave Them All My Books

~ TA ~ Thricius Apinatus

~ TSATAOSAACTTSOL-FCOSC-O-WIMC-SATMFCTDITPTWTT-WTSRALR-AIOPHTFN ~ The Slaves Among Them Are Only Such As Are Condemned To That State Of Life – For The Commission Of Some Crime – Or – Which Is More Common – Such As Their Merchants Find Condemned To Die In Those Parts To Which They Trade – Whom They Sometimes Redeem At Low Rates – And In Other Places Have Them For Nothing

~ TTGPIF-AAIITABBAUTTUTI-STDNTIAFPTDTWTF-TRBAFS ~ They Take Great Pleasure In Fools – And As It Is Thought A Base And Unbecoming Thing To Use Them Ill – So They Do Not Think It Amiss For People To Divert Themselves With Their Folly – Their Ridiculous Behaviour And Foolish Sayings

~ IA-SRAF-BMOII-B-IWBASIHTHUAWW[S]HDCNH ~ If Any – Should Reproach Another For – Being Misshaped Or Imperfect In – Body – It Would Be Accounted Scandalous In Him[/Her] That Had Upbraided Another With What [S]He Could Not Help

~ THNLAT-EOTISITL-IIAVSS-TPMOWWACIATSOTL ~ They Have No Lawyers Among Them – Everyone Of Them Is Skilled In Their Law – It Is A Very Short Study – The Plainest Meaning Of Which Words Are Capable Is Always The Sense Of Their Laws

~ IICT-WPJAS-EBAOPA-TMFADO-J-TCSOS ~ It Is Certain That – When Public Judicatories Are Swayed – Either By Avarice Or Partial Affections – There Must Follow A Dissolution Of – Justice – The Chief Sinew Of Society

~ TDWAAVBT-AW-T-IOTTSOAAON-TTTINMITTGTIGBW ~ They Detest War As A Very Brutal Thing – And Which – They – In Opposition To The Sentiments Of Almost All Other Nations – Think That There Is Nothing More Inglorious Than That Glory That Is Gained By War

~ TDALAA-ATOVASWOD ~ They Despise And Laugh At Auguries – And The Other Vain And Superstitious Ways Of Divination

~ ICHNONOATOGTISOK-TTTAACOTR-W-OPOMTP-OPTPE ~ I Can Have No Other Notion Of All The Other Governments That I See Or Know – Than That They Are A Conspiracy Of The Rich – Who – On Pretence Of Managing The Public – Only Pursue Their Private Ends