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The boke named the Gouernour by Thomas Elyot The firste Boke. The signification of a publike weale, and why it is called in latin Respublica. A Publike Weale is in sondry wyse defined by philosophers, but knowyng by experience, that the often repetition of any thing of graue or sad importance, wyll be tedious to the reders of this warke, who perchance for the more parte haue nat ben trayned in lerning contaynyng semblable matter: I haue compiled one definition out of many, in as compendious fourme, as my poure witte can deuise: trustyng that in those fewe wordes the trewe signification of a publike weale shall euidently appere, to them whom reason can satisfie. A publike weale is a body lyuyng, compacte or made of sondry astates and degrees of men, whiche is disposed by the ordre of equite, and gouerned by the rule and moderation of reason. In the latin tonge hit is called Respublica, of the which the worde Res, hath diuers significations, & doth nat only betoken that, that is called a . . .
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