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So that 'tis well if a perfect man can be made out of many men, and to the perfect eye of God, even out of mankind. Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others.
Notice the imperfects esset ... haberet ... posset accommodated to the tense of persuasi above, although the other subjunctives in the sentence are not; cf. n. on 42 efficeret. NEQUE ... DISSIMILE: in modern phraseology the whole of this clause would be briefly expressed thus, 'and was homogeneous'. POSSET: quod si ='whereas if', the subject of posset being animus, and dividi being understood.
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