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Thou onely vauntest of thy gentry: truely thou wast made a gentleman before thou knewest what honesty meant, and no more hast thou to boast of thy stocke, than he, who being left rich by his father, dyeth a beggar by his folly. Nobilitie began in thine auncestors and endeth in thee, and the generositie that they gayned by vertue, thou hast blotted with vice.
Thus Pearce says of the author of the 'Glory of Generositie' "He was one of the advocates for excluding from the Inns of Court all who were not 'a gentleman by blood, according to the ancient rule mentioned by Fortescue, which seems to have been disregarded in Elizabeth's time."
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