CHAP. XX REYNARD THE FOX 161

without interruption because I talk not beyond
mine experience.

‘It is Sexeca’s opinion, that princes are
bound to do justice to all men, nor may the
law waver or halt with any partiality. I do
not think but if every man which standeth
here should call to account all the actions of

 

his life, he could not choose but pity much the
state of my poor kinsman Reynard, and there-
fore I wish every one to know himself, for
none so sure but they may fall, and for him
that never erred, he is so good that he needeth
no amendment. ‘To do amiss and mend it by
counsel is humane and manly; but to trespass
and still gallop forward in iniquity is insuffer-
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