urn:cts:pdlpsci:bodin.livrep.ta-eng1:16 (line)
urn:cts:pdlpsci:bodin.livrep.ta-eng1:16
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But he that should vse such common right towards pirats & robbers, as is to be vsed against just enemies,should open a dangerous gap to all vagabonds, to ioyne themselues vnto robbers and theeues;and assure their capitall actions and confederacie, vnder the vaile of justice.Not for that it is impossible to make a good Prince of a robber, or a good King of a Irouer: yea, such a pirat there hath beene, who hath better deserued to be called a King, than many of them which haue carried the regall scepters and diadems, who haue no true or probable excuse of the robberies and cruelties which they cause their subiects to endure.