Momenta desultoria

Centur. IV.

VI.

SI publicum munus cupis, tibi excide:
Si publicum munus capis, tibi dic vale.
Quicunque privum lumen ad Rempublicam
Affert, inepto sublevat lumen vitro.
Doemsticum & morale publico nocet:
Qui publicam sumit togam, suam exuat.

VI.

IF thou desire Magistracy, learn to forget thy self; If thou undertake it, bid thy selfe farewell; Hee that looks upon a common cause with private eyes, looks through false Glasses. In the exercise of thy Politique Office, thou must forget both Ethicks and Oeconomicks. He that puts on a publicke Gown, must put of a private Person.

FINIS.