THE
Golden
Meane
.
MEN
,
as
they
are
all
the
sons
of
their
Mothers
,
are
all
the
subiects
of
misery
;
borne
to
liue
few
dayes
in
many
dangers
whose
glory
(
if
they
were
Monarches
of
their
owne
desires
)
may
be
well
compared
to
their
shadowes
in
the
Sunne
;
For
,
as
the
bodies
shadow
is
at
Morning
before
vs
,
at
Noone
beside
vs
,
and
at
Night
behinde
vs
;
so
is
earthly
glory
,
at
Morning
or
in
the
prime
before
vs
,
in
a
goodly
lustre
;
at
Noone
or
in
the
full
,
besides
vs
,
in
a
violent
heat
;
at
Night
or
in
the
wane
,
behinde
vs
,
in
a
neglected
pitty
.
The
difference
is
amongst
some
,
that
at
Noone
,
or
in
the
Meridian
of
their
greatnes
,
in
stead
of
hauing
their
glory
beside
them
,
they
are
beside
their
glory
.
But
such
vndoubtedly
,
are
rather
strangers
to
the
bloud
of
Vertue
,
then
any
way
indued
with
the
spirit
of
perfect
Noblenes
.
But
so
vnsetled
are
the
grounds
of
frailties
courses
,
as
here
is
yet
not
the
totall
sum
of
being
miserable
.
If
men
could
as
well
frame
their
mindes
to
their
change
of
fortunes
,
as
their
change
of
misfortunes
doth
corrupt
their
mindes
,
greatnesse
would
as
truely
welcome
calamitie
,
as
the
base
doe
reioyce
in
being
great
.
Heereunto
not
the
outward
actions
of
the
body
,
but
the
inward
remper
of
the
minde
must
be
framed
,
since
the
first
are
but
hand-maides
to
the
latter
.
Euen
as
one
lying
in
the
bed
of
visitation
&
death
,
doth
not
therefore
die
because
hee
is
sicke
,
but
because
he
liues
(
for
the
depriuation
of
life
is
death
,
not
sicknesse
)
so
the
minde
of
man
diuided
by
the
consumption
and
disease
of
humor
,
being
touched
with
affliction
,
is
not
therefore
miserable
because
it
suffers
misery
,
but
because
it
hath
once
tasted
(
and
bin
lifted
vp
to
)
happinesse
.
The
Golden
Meane
,
so
aunciently
commended
,
is
onely
there
perfectly
obserued
,
where
true
Wisedome
and
true
Nobilitie
are
the
speciall
ornaments
of
a
prepared
minde
:
In
which
,
if
those
two
meet
,
is
figuratiuely
included
an
allusion
to
the
Sea
:
which
,
though
clouds
raine
downe
into
it
waters
from
aboue
,
and
waters
send
flouds
here
beneath
,
yet
doth
it
retayne
all
,
either
without
Iosse
of
saltnesse
,
or
any
shew
of
ouerflowing
:
The
minde
of
a
Wise
and
Noble
man
is
such
,
that
what
or
how
many
gusts
and
tides
of
aduersity
assault
him
,
they
may
at
all
times
rather
arme
,
then
at
any
time
oppresse
him
,
since
his
resolution
cannot
ouerflow
with
the
rudenesse
of
passion
;
for
that
his
excellent
and
refyned
temperature
will
euer
retaine
the
salt
of
iudgement
and
moderation
;
the
one
prouing
a
Wise
,
the
other
a
Noble
man
.
In
sorrowes
or
aduersities
nothing
is
so
fearefull
as
feare
it selfe
;
which
pashion
of
weakenesse
is
so
below
the
heart
of
vertue
,
that
a
minde
trained
vp
in
the
exercises
of
honour
,
cannot
as
much
as
let
fall
one
looke
to
behold
it
.
If
it
be
inquired
what
it
is
,
or
to
what
vsefull
ende
,
either
of
ease
or
pollicy
,
it
may
be
imployed
?
in
the
first
will
be
found
little
lesse
then
a
desperate
basenesse
;
in
the
latter
nothing
more
then
an
vngrounded
desperatenesse
.
A
man
in
the
float
of
prosperitie
to
feare
that
he
may
fall
,
argues
both
the
distrust
of
his
owne
merite
,
or
the
danger
of
his
disposition
.
A
man
in
the
ebbe
of
his
plenty
,
to
feare
a
worse
mischiefe
then
that
of
being
poore
or
despised
,
argues
both
his
vnworthinesse
in
procuring
,
&
his
impatiencie
in
bearing
his
fortune
.
Feare
with
hope
,
is
the
readie
witnesse
of
basenesse
:
Feare
without
hope
,
the
proclaimer
of
folly
.
And
if
there
can
be
any
miserie
superlatiue
,
or
if
it
were
possible
that
there
could
be
an
extreame
in
measure
,
it
is
in
the
feare
of
those
twaine
;
yet
doubtlesse
the
heauiest
of
the
two
torments
is
to
feare
without
hope
.
Either
of
which
,
to
a
minde
Noble
&
vertuous
,
are
so
much
a
stranger
,
as
there
cannot
be
found
an
interpretor
,
who
to
an
honourable
resolution
can
inforce
either
the
construction
or
vnderstanding
thereof
For
it
is
as
meerely
impossible
for
a
great
and
excellent
spirit
to
conceiue
thoughts
tending
to
basenesse
,
as
for
the
base
to
apprehend
the
singular
designes
belonging
to
the
Noble
minded
.
Soone
then
it
is
to
be
obserued
;
that
the
distinction
betweene
a
worthy
and
a
seruile
person
,
must
be
rather
sound
out
in
the
qualitie
of
their
mindes
,
then
the
command
of
authority
and
complement
.
In
which
it
is
also
further
to
be
obserued
,
that
in
the
composition
of
their
mindes
,
there
is
as
great
and
exquisite
choise
to
be
made
,
aswel
how
as
wherein
the
excellency
of
such
a
composition
must
bee
remarked
.
The
seruile
weakenes
of
such
,
whose
education
,
nature
,
experience
,
and
wisedome
cannot
claime
any
prioritie
in
desert
,
is
so
great
,
as
it
onely
shewes
that
it
distasteth
not
calamitie
,
so
long
as
it
is
full
fed
with
the
happinesse
of
plenty
and
ease
.
In
the
worthy
and
desertful
it
is
nothing
s●…
:
for
they
truely
considering
the
custome
and
necessitie
(
as
they
are
men
)
of
feeling
change
of
states
,
doe
euer
arme
their
resolution
before
it
come
for
calamitie
,
as
when
it
comes
,
in
it
,
against
calamitie
;
wherein
if
the
great
and
vertuous
accidentally
(
not
to
speake
of
diuine
prouidence
)
fall
,
they
therein
chiefly
shewe
the
vertue
of
their
greatnes
,
and
the
greatnes
of
their
vertue
,
in
that
they
know
they
then
feele
no
more
then
at
all
times
they
were
ordained
to
beare
.
Such
referre
all
accidents
of
infelicitie
,
to
the
incidence
of
their
frailtie
;
measuring
that
being
Men
,
they
are
but
the
miseries
of
men
that
befall
them
.
It
was
(
not
to
be
tedious
in
examples
)
a
wonderfull
noblenesse
and
constancy
in
●…socacius
,
a
chiefe
man
of
Antioch
,
who
standing
at
the
Barre
of
iudgement
,
was
spoken
too
by
Posaeus
the
Soueraigne
,
who
said
;
Seest
thou
not
Isocacius
in
what
plight
thou
art
?
ISOCACIVS
answered
him
,
I
see
it
(
qd.
he
)
and
maruell
not
;
for
since
I
am
my selfe
humane
,
I
am
come
into
an
humane
miserie
.
Rare
and
wonderfullwas
the
courage
and
temperance
of
this
vnimited
Nobleman
:
and
surely
,
where
the
minde
is
conformable
to
remember
it
is
carryed
in
a
body
of
Flesh
,
Discretion
is
the
plotter
,
and
moderation
the
actor
of
a
notable
worke
.
This
worke
,
as
it
is
to
be
continued
with
singular
fortitude
,
so
must
there
a
foundation
be
layde
of
an
especiall
wisedome
;
for
he
who
will
climbe
to
the
full
height
of
deserued
glory
,
must
ascend
by
the
degrees
of
deseruing
fore-cast
:
which
fore-cast
,
is
euen
the
ground-worke
or
basis
of
perfect
Vertue
in
extremitie
.
It
behoueth
then
a
Noble
and
wiseman
so
to
order
the
frame
of
his
minde
,
that
in
what
Sun-shine
of
greatnessoeuer
he
be
,
he
may
euer
expect
a
storme
to
onercloude
his
eminence
.
And
this
is
to
be
done
by
iudicially
examining
,
what
the
greatest
temporal
blessings
a
pproued
by
the
vulgar
opinion
,
in
their
owne
properties
are
,
and
how
subiect
to
monthly
,
daily
,
hourely
alteration
:
As
what
riches
are
they
(
as
wealth
is
vnderstood
)
whom
pouertie
and
famine
may
not
suddenly
follow
?
what
honour
is
that
(
as
pollitique
dignitie
is
vnderstood
)
whose
power
,
whose
largenesse
,
whose
dependences
may
not
be
followed
by
blemish
,
by
enuy
,
or
by
extreame
contempt
?
what
Kingdome
is
that
(
as
commaund
and
worldly
gouernement
is
vnderstood
)
to
which
may
not
ruine
be
ordained
,
depopulation
,
and
mischiefe
?
Prosperitie
and
aduersitie
are
not
by
long
times
often
sundred
;
for
sometimes
is
scant
an
houres
difference
betweene
a
Ihrone
and
a
Cottage
:
whereby
all
men
may
know
that
the
condition
of
euery
man
is
changeable
;
and
the
wise
may
know
that
whatsocuer
may
happen
to
another
,
may
happen
to
himselfe
.
In
auncient
Records
Pompey
for
wealth
,
Seianus
for
honour
,
Ptolomy
for
Kingdomes
,
are
memorable
:
yet
was
Pompey
for
all
his
wealth
poore
,
&
begd
.
Seianus
for
all
his
honour
disgraced
and
executed
:
Ptolomy
for
all
his
Kingdoms
forgotten
&
extinguisht
.
If
we
would
inquire
into
our
owne
moderne
Chronicles
;
we
may
read
of
Woolsey
the
Cardinall
,
abounding
in
riches
and
abounding
in
miserie
:
ROBERT
,
Earle
of
ESSEX
,
propt
vp
in
honours
,
and
cast
downe
by
enuie
.
Many
of
the
Henries
,
Kings
of
much
power
and
small
fortune
:
other
our
Histories
mention
,
who
might
as
fitly
be
heere
induced
,
but
that
those
beeing
freshest
in
memorie
,
and
all
within
the
compasse
of
one
age
,
will
sooner
stirre
vp
our
hearts
,
and
worke
an
impression
in
our
beliefes
,
then
others
who
are
with
vs
of
lesse
credite
,
because
of
more
antiquitie
.
Another
effectuall
consideration
to
the
building
of
this
excellent
worke
of
a
resolued
and
prepared
minde
,
is
euen
in
the
foundation
to
be
thought
on
.
For
if
there
be
no
certaintie
in
Wealth
,
in
Honour
,
in
Soueraignty
(
in
the
fruition
of
whom
,
chiefely
,
if
not
onely
,
resteth
the
Paradice
of
an
earthly
Heauen
)
much
lesse
assurance
may
be
dream't
of
in
any
inferiour
pleasures
:
for
which
a
wiseman
(
who
is
the
true
Nobleman
)
ought
thus
to
resolue
,
that
he
is
not
lord
of
his
owne
mind
who
is
vndaunted
,
as
long
as
his
fortunes
are
ministers
to
his
will
:
but
when
he
is
cast
downe
,
or
rather
cast
away
in
his
hopes
,
vndone
in
his
expectation
,
set
below
his
owne
heart
,
vnfriended
,
and
the
subiect
of
vncomforting
pittie
:
Hee
then
who
now
witnesseth
by
his
moderation
in
those
sadnesses
,
the
courage
of
his
Noblenesse
,
by
the
Noblenesse
of
his
Wisedome
,
is
both
perfectly
wise
in
being
so
couragious
,
and
as
perfectly
couragious
in
beeing
so
noble
.
It
was
well
said
of
one
,
that
A
calme
Sea
and
a
faire
Winde
proues
not
a
Sailers
skill
.
A
sure
Pilot
is
proued
in
a
doubtfull
storme
,
and
a
wise
noble
minde
is
truely
tried
in
the
storme
of
aduersitie
,
not
in
the
calme
of
felicitie
.
Fortune
enuies
nothing
more
then
a
setled
and
well
gouerned
resolution
;
and
such
a
Marriner
deserues
remembrance
to
posteritie
,
who
in
Shipwracke
dies
,
imbracing
the
Maste
,
rather
then
hee
who
faintly
for
feare
of
drowning
leapes
into
the
Sea
.
Lastly
,
if
neither
the
respect
of
the
instabilitie
of
humane
endowments
,
neither
the
regard
of
honor
,
being
prone
to
fall
,
nor
the
vnstaidnesse
of
Kingdomes
(
the
Scepter
beeing
the
highest
flight
of
Ambition
)
cannot
imprint
in
the
minde
an
abandoning
of
itselfe
,
by
reputing
earthly
delights
and
acquisitions
to
be
in
their
owne
nature
,
as
in
their
owne
nature
they
are
,
passable
and
vncertaine
;
yet
may
the
surenesse
of
paying
a
debt
(
which
cannot
be
excused
)
to
death
,
be
a
mayne
and
singular
motiue
to
a
noble
and
wise
man
,
for
sufferance
of
all
changes
of
conditions
and
estates
,
with
the
sweetely-vnited
blessings
,
Iudgement
and
content
.
He
that
remembers
that
hee
liues
a
life
,
cannot
but
forethinke
that
hee
must
dye
a
death
:
If
hee
looke
into
what
life
it selfe
is
,
hee
shall
finde
(
by
experience
of
the
past
,
and
proofe
of
the
present
age
)
that
it
is
none
other
but
a
iourney
to
death
.
If
a
man
examine
the
scope
of
his
owne
desires
,
they
will
fall
out
to
be
a
desiring
to
hasten
to
his
graue
Death
and
the
graue
(
two
tortures
to
the
memory
of
worldly
foolish
men
)
are
the
onely
principa●…l
ends
to
which
the
vanitie
of
pleasures
runne
at
:
For
men
in
wealth
,
in
honour
,
in
gouernment
,
desire
the
time
to
come
;
the
one
in
hope
of
increase
of
his
gaine
,
the
other
of
his
greatnesse
,
the
third●…
of
Empyre
.
So
what
else
doe
they
but
couet
by
growing
elder
in
dayes
,
to
flye
to
the
full
race
of
their
liuing
,
which
is
death
?
Of
this
a
〈◊〉
Noble-man
should-not
;
and
a
true
wise
man
cannot
feare
.
It
was
an
answer
(
worthy
the
fpeker
,
)
of
the
Philosopher
,
who
hearing
of
his
Sonnes
death
said
:
When
I
had
begotten
him
I
well
knew
hee
should
dye
:
and
who
would
be
so
ignorant
as
not
to
confesse
that
whosoeuer
is
brought
out
of
the
wombe
is
destined
also
to
the
sepulchre
of
the
earth
?
To
a
man
prepared
by
the
light
of
the
minds
vertue
,
this
is
euer
seeming
necessarie
,
as
well
willingly
to
restore
that
when
it
is
required
of
him
,
though
it
were
by
death
,
as
to
enioy
that
which
is
giuen
him
if
it
were
his
life
,
since
one
being
borne
into
the
one
,
cannot
escape
the
other
.
The
Minde
should
euer
keepe
measure
,
what
of
necessitie
it
must
suffer
let
it
not
feare
:
what
is
doubtfull
that
it
may
suffer
,
let
it
alwayes
looke
for
:
So
shall
it
not
be
afflicted
before
afflictions
doe
come
;
nor
vnprouided
when
they
are
come
.
All
men
,
yea
all
things
,
must
be
freed
by
an
end
,
though
the
end
bee
not
a
like
to
all
,
neither
in
manner
or
time
;
some
forgoe
their
liues
in
the
middle
of
their
time
,
some
in
the
dawning
of
their
life
,
some
liue
till
they
are
euen
weary
of
liuing
,
some
dying
naturally
,
some
violently
,
others
enforcedly
,
many
(
in
respect
of
men
)
casually
,
but
all
at
some
time
dying
.
In
this
kinde
then
it
is
questionable
,
whether
it
bee
more
foolish
not
to
know
,
or
more
shamefull
not
to
imbrace
nature
:
Hee
that
liues
well
needeth
not
to
feare
the
vglines
of
death
appearing
in
any
forme
,
or
in
any
disguise
;
if
he
first
resolue
,
that
whensoeuer
or
howsoeuer
hee
comes
,
yet
it
is
but
death
,
and
it
must
come
.
Some
one
that
is
to
trauaile
of
necessitie
vpon
the
hazard
of
his
life
,
vnto
Constantinople
by
land
,
being
vnexperienc't
in
the
dangers
,
and
the
many
miseries
of
his
ioumey
,
for
his
better
instructions
,
seekes
comfort
in
the
councel
of
another
,
who
hath
bought
knowledge
of
the
way
with
the
price
of
many
weary
and
distressed
paces
,
and
being
come
,
learnes
this
for
an
app●…ued
certainty
,
that
first
the
iourney
it selfe
is
long
and
tedious
,
the
way
troublesome
and
vneuen
,
the
change
of
ayres
infectious
and
vnhealthy
,
the
desarts
wast
and
vncomfortable
,
directions
chargeable
and
vncertaine
,
here
theeues
prepared
to
spoyle
,
there
beasts
set
all
on
rauine
,
surety
no where
,
danger
on
all
hands
,
and
what
is
the
worst
of
these
aduentures
;
if
hee
obtaine
the
scope
of
his
desires
,
and
arriue
euen
to
the
furthest
of
his
iourney
,
yet
shall
he
there
finde
a
Turke
that
is
Emperour
,
cruell
in
nature
,
boundlesse
in
command
,
faithlesse
of
truth
,
treacherous
and
full
of
the
bloud
of
Christians
:
what
comfort
resteth
to
bee
hoped
for
from
this
afflicted
trauailler
,
or
what
should
he
doe
?
To
goe
is
the
hazard
of
life
,
to
stay
the
certainty
of
death
:
now
the
Noblenes
of
Wisedome
must
direct
,
&
the
Vertue
of
Noblenesse
incourage
his
resolution
,
to
resolue
a
steaddines
of
minde
to
countermaund
the
heauinesse
of
both
fortunes
:
And
it
behoues
such
a
man
,
so
trauailing
,
to
be
prepared
,
aswell
to
beare
danger
when
he
mee●…es
with
it
,
as
to
be
instructed
before
,
that
there
is
danger
to
be
met
with
.
In
like
manner
is
euery
man
borne
to
greatnesse
,
so
likewise
borne
to
iourney
to
death
.
To
which
ere
he
come
,
(
death
being
the
furthest
home
of
all
our
trauailes
)
wee
must
know
that
wee
are
to
passe
through
the
miseries
of
mortallity
,
and
particularly
informe
our selues
that
life
it selfe
(
how
short
soeuer
)
in
respect
of
it's
frailty
,
is
long
and
tedious
,
the
manner
of
liuing
troublesome
and
vneuen
,
the
change
of
estates
infectious
to
the
minde
,
vnhealthy
to
the
soule
,
the
wildernesse
of
opinion
and
iudgement
wasted
by
the
cause
,
and
comfortlesse
in
the
effects
of
folly
:
directions
to
reformation
chargeable
,
if
wee
respect
our
ignorance
,
vncertaine
if
wee
remember
our
wilfulnesse
:
Here
on
the
one
side
are
theeues
,
euen
our
affections
to
spoile
vs
of
vertue
;
there
on
the
other
side
Beasts
,
which
are
defects
of
reason
,
set
on
to
deuoure
vs
;
euen
our
manner
of
liuing
is
a
baite
to
allure
vs
from
the
surety
of
life
,
and
when
wee
are
come
to
the
deadly
sickenesse
that
must
finish
our
course
,
the
worst
of
euill
is
,
that
hauing
past
all
the
quicksands
and
perils
of
life
,
wee
haue
within
vs
death
it selfe
in
our
owne
consciences
to
bring
vs
to
death
.
Nothing
is
left
therefore
to
a
man
borne
to
liue
,
but
a
stayed
and
a
sure
resolution
to
be
armed
to
die
.
In
which
hee
is
to
care
,
not
where
hee
shall
die
,
or
in
what
manner
,
or
in
what
estate
,
but
that
hee
must
die
,
and
in
what
minde
,
and
in
what
memorable
vertues
.
Heere
,
the
foundation
to
the
erecting
the
Master-piece
of
the
Golden
Meane
being
layd
now
vpon
these
or
some
other
considerations
,
not
much
differing
from
these
;
a
Noble
wise
man
is
then
to
know
his
owne
worth
,
wherby
calamity
may
not
cast
him
so
downe
,
as
that
hee
cannot
call
to
minde
that
hee
hath
beene
once
happy
;
as
greatnes
might
not
so
lift
him
vp
as
that
hee
should
be
secure
that
he
could
neuer
be
vnhappie
.
It
is
much
needfull
that
worthy
personages
hauing
merit
to
commend
their
bloud
,
and
birth
to
make
goodly
their
merit
,
should
in
such
sort
be
both
knowers
and
directors
of
their
own
vertues
,
as
neither
honorable
estimation
should
so
purchase
the
opinion
of
vanitie
,
to
be
blowne
vp
with
the
simplicitie
of
pride
;
neither
a
too
low
discent
to
the
weakenesse
of
seruilitie
,
that
they
are
become
the
miracles
of
pittie
.
He
that
knowes
himselfe
,
not
that
he
is
so
much
a
great
man
as
a
good
man
;
knowes
likewise
it
is
a
labour
of
as
rare
desert
to
preserue
Goodnesse
,
as
to
finde
it
;
as
on
the
other
part
,
the
meerely
ambitious
rather
studie
to
finde
greatnesse
,
then
being
found
and
enioyed
to
preserue
it
.
Such
principles
ingenerall
,
being
by
a
discerning
iudgement
cont●…iued
,
the
contriuer
cannot
be
far
from
the
parts
that
leade
to
this
Golden
Meane
.
It
is
many
times
seene
that
those
who
leade
their
liues
according
to
the
measure
of
their
will
and
power
,
doe
not
measure
their
will
and
power
according
to
the
frailtie
of
their
liues
;
yet
certainely
they
lead
an
euill
life
who
are
still
beginning
to
liue
,
for
that
life
is
euer
vnperfect
which
hath
learned
but
the
first
onely
rule
to
goodnesse
:
certaine
other
,
then
chiefly
begin
to
liue
when
they
are
certaine
to
end
the
race
of
so
liuing
by
death
;
and
some
also
there
are
,
who
end
their
liues
before
they
can
well
be
said
to
haue
begunne
to
liue
.
Most
men
subiect
to
those
vnhappinesses
,
like
things
floating
on
the
water
,
doe
not
goe
,
but
are
carried
;
not
the
counsell
of
prouidence
directs
their
steps
to
goe
by
the
staffe
of
discretion
,
but
they
are
wholly
rather
carried
by
the
violent
streame
of
opinion
and
conceit
,
precisely
termed
Humour
.
To
vnmaske
the
vizour
that
hides
the
deformitie
of
this
customarie
vilenesse
,
much
guilt
is
to
be
laid
on
the
change
of
the
times
,
or
indeed
on
the
change
of
men
in
the
times
.
For
,
whiles
the
World
was
yet
in
her
infancie
,
neither
was
such
plenty
of
temptation
to
inuite
,
neither
was
vanity
so
plentifull
to
tempt
the
happinesse
of
that
age
to
the
miseries
of
this
:
But
as
dayes
grow
more
numberles
in
number
,
so
men
in
those
dayes
waxed
more
irregular
in
manners
:
which
irregularitie
of
manners
,
increased
by
the
deprauation
of
reason
in
men
of
all
conditions
;
in
fooles
euer
,
in
the
wise
often
;
for
euen
the
wise
do
themselues
,
not
seldom
suffer
an
eclipse
of
reason
.
The
difference
that
is
,
is
for
that
such
a
defect
proceeds
rather
out
of
the
firmitie
of
Nature
,
then
out
of
any
subiection
of
the
minde
:
for
,
where
the
minde
is
subiected
to
the
grossenes
of
errour
,
there
doth
the
man
so
for
the
time
(
so
subiected
)
forsake
the
course
of
Wisedome
,
which
like
a
fixed
Starre
should
(
how
soeuer
the
heauens
moue
)
be
vnmoueable
,
and
vnmoued
in
the
Center
of
his
place
;
and
such
as
so
is
,
is
truely
said
to
be
true
Noblenesse
,
true
Vertue
,
true
Wisedome
.
Euen
as
one
that
is
to
frame
a
goodly
building
on
a
delightfull
plot
of
ground
,
doth
first
prouidently
forecast
aswell
of
the
hazards
and
hinderances
that
may
come
,
as
the
charge
which
daily
must
come
.
Amongst
which
must
principally
be
considered
,
the
title
of
the
right
,
and
what
claime
may
belayd
thereto
,
and
what
meanes
may
be
vsed
to
remoue
that
claime
.
Then
the
necessitie
of
prouision
,
the
casuall
change
of
weather
,
the
wearinesse
of
working
;
for
all
which
,
if
interaccidents
of
extremity
should
happen
remedies
for
the
same
must
be
thought
on
.
So
a
man
in
his
minde
wisely
resolued
to
the
building
of
this
excellent
frame
of
the
Golden
Meane
,
on
the
plot
of
a
prepared
resolution
,
must
endeuour
to
prouide
cures
against
the
fates
of
extremitie
.
A
few
of
which
extremities
that
doe
many
times
assault
the
temper
of
a
Noble
vertue
,
it
shall
not
much
differ
from
the
purpose
and
present
to
point
at
.
With
men
of
Honour
and
Nobilitie
,
the
chiefe
misfortunes
that
can
,
or
doe
vsually
,
happen
,
are
either
Disfauour
,
Neglect
,
Estate
,
Banishment
,
Imprisonment
,
or
Death
.
The
remedies
against
all
which
,
shall
easily
in
perticular
bee
subserted
.
Disfauour
,
often
times
Priuie
malice
,
selfe-vnworthynesse
,
Enuie
,
or
sometimes
through
the
variablenesse
of
an
vnguided
Prince
inclination
:
To
each
〈◊〉
those
,
a
wise
man
may
,
and
a
good
man
will
soone
apply
a
medicine
,
and
in
tha●…
a
recouery
.
To
deser●…
the
grace
of
a
Prince
is
an●…
honorable
happines
;
yo●…
is
not
the
losse
of
it
(
being
once
deserued
)
a
misery
;
especially
to
wise
men
,
since
wise
men
may
bee
made
subiect
,
but
neuer
subiects
to
misery
:
calamity
may
exercise
,
but
not
ouersway
their
vertues
:
misfortune
may
bee
an
vsurping
tyrant
to
paine
them
,
but
neuer
a
receiued
soueraigne
to
command
them
:
If
the
Prince
his
gracious
fauour
be
lost
through
the
priuie
malice
1.
cause
of
Disfauour
.
of
some
,
who
fill
the
eares
of
Maiestie
with
the
dis●…ord
of
slander
and
vntruth
,
grounded
vpon
the
sandy
foundation
of
vncertaine
discontent
,
or
dishonourable
reuenge
,
then
hath
a
wise
Noble
man
,
out
of
those
very
wrongs
,
strong
arguments
to
perswad
his
reason
,
that
there
is
much
reason
why
hee
should
be
perswaded
to
moderation
:
for
being
innocent
of
any
voluntary
action
or
intent
that
might
make
his
faith
questionable
,
or
his
serui●…
dangerous
,
or
his
merit
〈◊〉
lesse
value
then
a
voy●…
of
generall
commenda●…
,
hath
formerly
〈◊〉
,
his
owne
cleerenes●…
may
euer
rest
vpon
the
vnmoued
pillars
of
his
own●…
Noble
integritie
.
Where
a
man
in
grace
2.
cause
of
Disfauour
.
with
his
Soueraigne
falls
from
it
by
a
selfe-vnworthynesse
,
it
is
far
otherwise
:
&
vndoubtedly
,
whosoeuer
is
so
impoisoned
with
the
diseases
of
his
minde
,
or
the
infirmity
of
his
body
hath
great
&
principal
causes
to
moue
him
to
seeke
for
remedy
against
the
dispertion
of
the
one
,
&
the
asper●…ion
of
the
latter
.
To
this
●…elfe-unworthynes
,
either
in
●…inde
or
body
,
may
be
re●…erred
Ambition
,
the
Mo●…her
of
disloial
plots
&
practises
:
Discontent
,
the
Nurse
〈◊〉
conspiracies
;
Couetous●…es
,
that
kindling
fires
with
the
fuell
of
Monopolies
,
is
inforced
to
quench
them
with
the
teares
of
disgrace
,
and
that
which
soone
followes
thereon
,
Contempt
.
●…aine-glory
,
or
Pride
,
which
whiles
with
Pompeys
minde
it
cannot
brooke
the
title
of
a
superiour
,
is
with
Pompeys
fortunes
cast
down
beneath
the
pittie
of
their
equals
.
Faction
,
which
like
foolish
flye
in
the
cand●…
labours
her
owne
dea●…
with
other
diseases
,
〈◊〉
many
to
be
tediously
rected
:
or
to
this
self
-
〈◊〉
,
through
the
infi●…mitie
of
the
body
,
which
more
especially
consists
in
action
,
may
bee
referred
Ryot
,
in
all
men
a
madnes
,
in
Noble
men
a
blemish
,
and
to
good
Princes
most
displeasant
;
or
Quarrelling
,
which
euer
brings
danger
,
with
too
late
repentance
;
or
Wantonnesse
,
the
ouerthrow
of
many
goodly
kindreds
and
familyes
;
or
Scurrilitie
,
with
other
such
like
.
Since
when
mention
was
made
of
the
unworthi●…esse
of
body
,
it
is
not
any
defect
in
Nature
,
or
naturall
proportion
,
but
in
manners
outwardly
acted
:
For
many
times
it
is
commonly
seene
,
that
where
Nature
hath
fail'd
in
some
parts
of
the
outward
man
,
shee
hath
oftentimes
supplyed
those
wants
with
a
pregnancy
of
minde
.
A
president
whereof
is
(
not
to
borrow
of
auncient
Histories
,
)
euen
in
the
CHRONICLES
of
our
present
memories
,
in
the
person
of
ROBERT
,
the
late
Earle
of
SALISBVRY
,
a
man
whose
vneuenes
〈◊〉
shape
was
perfected
with
the
perfect
furniture
of
〈◊〉
reaching
and
industrio●…
wit
.
So
was
the
crookedness
of
Aesape
made
straight
in
the
sweetnes
〈◊〉
his
inuention
.
And
Scorates
,
that
odde
man
of
Athens
,
is
said
to
haue
said
of
himselfe
,
that
education
&
Art
in
him
,
had
changed
the
course
of
Natures
vnfurnished
workmanship
.
Of
these
,
and
such
imperfections
of
body
,
〈◊〉
is
not
heere
intended
,
but
of
such
as
by
their
owne
selfe-vnworthines
in
body
in
minde
,
&
often
in
both
,
doe
loose
the
intrest
,
their
Blood
,
Birth
,
and
Noblenesse
(
being
noble
indeed
by
those
both
)
hath
in
their
Princes
opinion
.
A
remedy
against
self-unworthinesse
;
must
be
found
out
in
a
selfe-reformation
;
which
being
sincerely
performed
,
the
follyes
of
the
past
times
belong
not
to
the
reformed
.
If
one
should
call
such
a
one
(
as
hath
bin
knowne
for
a
notorious
robber
.
)
Theefe
,
being
certainely
sorrowfull
,
penitent
,
and
accomptable
for
all
his
errours
in
that
kinde
,
doubtlesse
it
were
much
indiscretion
in
the
Agent
to
speake
so
to
him
,
&
more
in
the
Patient
to
esteeme
it
as
spoken
of
him
,
since
wise
and
good
men
as
they
do
not
repute
those
things
theirs
which
they
haue
not
done
,
so
must
they
neither
acknowledge
for
theirs
which
they
now
presently
doe
not
.
Non
vocamus
●…nostra
quae
non
ipsi
fecimus
,
at
quae
non
ipsi
facimus
,
as
the
right
sence
of
the
olde
Verse
contayneth
.
So
then
:
Hath
a
great
PEERE
loft
his
Princes
fauour
,
because
he
deserued
to
loose
it
?
let
not
this
deiect
or
caft
him
downe
in
mind
,
since
as
by
a
change
from
good
to
worser
hee
forewent
his
Princes
loue
,
or
rather
his
Princes
louehim
;
So
yet
by
a
change
from
bad
to
better
,
he
still
is
worthy
of
a
repossession
of
that
loue
,
though
hee
repossesse
it
not
:
And
what
worth
cannot
be
seen
by
the
publique
little
eye
of
the
great
world
,
by
reason
of
his
being
clouded
from
the
Sunne
of
his
life
and
glory
,
his
Prince
;
let
it
bee
so
much
the
more
seene
by
the
priuate
great
eye
of
his
own
little
world
(
euen
himselfe
and
his
owne
comforts
)
and
teach
him
to
know
the
difference
betweene
a
great
and
a
good
man
,
the
one
preferring
vertue
onely
for
greatnesse
,
the
other
preferring
greatnesse
for
the
greatnes
of
vertue
onely
.
Another
cause
,
which
the
3.
cause
of
Disfauour
.
not
seldome
procureth
disfauour
from
the
Prince
,
is
that
old
enimie
to
desert
Enuy
,
who
is
so
auncient
a
Courtier
,
and
so
tryed
in
the
passages
of
all
ages
,
that
such
a
man
as
is
in
fauour
with
his
Soueraigne
,
deseruing
so
to
be
,
and
imagining
himselfe
to
bee
without
the
compasse
of
Enuy
,
is
too
securely
,
&
in
that
security
,
too
simply
armed
against
his
owne
ruine
.
Heere
now
is
a
broad
path
,
leading
,
or
more
truely
teaching
the
ready
course
to
the
excellent
meane
of
Temperance
and
Moderation
.
Euery
man
ought
to
reioyce
and
solace
himselfe
in
his
owne
perfections
:
for
it
is
as
beast-like
not
to
know
his
proper
value
at
all
,
as
it
is
diuellish
to
know
it
too
much
.
Humble-Pride
is
a
proud
humilitie
,
and
such
as
exercise
it
with
innocence
rather
then
curiositie
,
doe
but
shew
the
difference
betweene
a
nobly
and
generous
,
and
a
basely
fantasticall
Nature
.
Whereby
then
should
a
man
be
perswaded
that
he
is
an
imbracer
of
vertue
,
more
then
in
that
hee
is
prosecuted
by
the
restlesse
venome
of
the
enuious
.
Hath
this
secret
mischiefe
displaced
any
desertfull
fauorite
of
the
benefite
of
the
fauour
royall
?
assuredly
hee
hath
little
cause
to
distaste
it
any
thing
,
or
to
be
moued
from
the
commendation
of
a
resolued
minde
,
that
as
hee
shall
by
tempering
his
disgrace
with
sufferance
,
increase
the
honor
of
his
merit
,
so
shall
hee
giue
matter
still
of
more
enuie
to
the
enuious
,
who
are
oftentimes
as
much
afflicted
with
the
patience
,
as
they
are
with
the
prosperitie
of
the
party
enuied
.
It
is
better
to
be
enuied
then
pittied
:
pitty
proceeding
out
of
a
cold
charitie
towards
the
miserable
:
enuie
out
of
a
corruption
of
qualitie
against
the
vertuous
:
If
it
be
obiected
that
the
losse
of
a
Princes
fauour
,
through
the
instigation
of
some
enuious
opposite
,
hath
most
cause
to
afflict
a
noble
minde
,
in
that
his
enemie
hath
preuailed
against
him
;
the
same
reason
may
be
answered
with
the
same
reason
.
That
such
an
enemy
cannot
be
said
to
preuaile
,
who
fights
with
the
weapons
of
a
dishonourable
treachery
;
and
what
greater
triumph
or
conquest
can
a
Wise
or
a
Noble
man
wish
to
enioy
,
then
to
torment
his
aduersary
with
the
perfections
of
his
vertue
?
But
in
the
meane
time
enuy
ouer-rules
?
True
,
and
heere
is
an
inducement
to
a
steady
moderation
,
in
that
it
is
but
enuy
.
But
the
Princes
fauour
is
by
this
meanes
lost
?
So
is
a
Noble
mans
selfe-worthinesse
by
the
same
meanes
found
:
and
it
is
a
greater
blemish
to
the
iudgement
of
a
Prince
so
traduced
,
not
to
examine
the
particulars
why
he
doth
reiect
a
worthy
subiect
,
then
to
the
subiects
worthinesse
,
without
particular
examinations
from
his
Prince
to
be
reiected
.
So
,
neither
then
should
enuy
remoue
,
but
for
that
it
is
enuy
,
confirme
and
strengthen
a
noble
resolution
.
Sometimes
the
variablenesse
of
the
Princes
inclination
,
his
addiction
to
change
from
royall
Vertues
to
horrible
Vices
,
is
the
reason
of
his
disfavour
with
those
who
are
of
the
best
desert
:
Such
and
of
such
conditions
were
ill
England
,
RICHARD
the
second
,
in
Rome
,
NERO
,
in
Sicile
,
DIONISIVS
,
and
such
are
for
the
most
part
all
Tyrants
,
who
if
they
exercise
not
their
〈◊〉
ouer
the
liues
,
yet
certainly
exercise
it
ouer
the
harts
of
their
faithfullest
subiects
.
Such
Princes
are
rather
wanton
in
their
fauours
then
iudicious
,
and
the
weakenesse
of
vertue
is
the
cause
of
that
depriuation
of
iudgement
.
How
happy
is
that
man
who
hath
lost
that
grace
(
with
a
Prince
of
that
condition
)
which
he
may
rest
confident
he
neuer
surely
had
?
And
aboue
many
other
motiues
,
this
is
most
generall
and
most
effectuall
to
rectifie
a
wise
mans
minde
,
for
such
a
one
as
layes
the
foundations
of
his
hopes
on
the
moueable
sandes
of
his
Princes
fauour
,
is
like
a
foolish
Marchant
that
aduentures
all
his
substance
in
a
broken
vessell
:
and
hee
that
relyes
on
the
vnhappinesses
of
such
fauour
,
must
of
necessitie
banish
al
Noble
resolutions
from
his
dissignes
,
for
it
is
a
headlong
folly
,
and
a
wilfull
detraction
that
such
a
one
seekes
,
if
he
doe
not
aswell
resolue
to
endeuour
to
preserue
and
continue
his
Princes
grace
,
as
to
finde
and
enioy
it
.
Now
this
is
a
direct
,
or
indeede
indirect
running
away
from
the
maine
worke
of
goodnesse
:
for
to
as
many
vices
as
the
Nature
&
life
of
a
wicked
man
may
be
inclined
,
to
〈◊〉
many
must
he
addresse
●…imselfe
to
be
a
bawd
,
if
not
an
actor
in
them
;
and
of
all
vnhappines
this
is
the
first
.
Certainly
good
Clarkes
haue
said
,
and
experience
doth
witnesse
,
that
an
exact
Courtier
is
●…eldome
a
good
man
;
for
not
to
speake
of
generall
enormities
in
particular
;
Courtiers
are
most
times
giuen
ouer
to
those
two
wonderful
madnesses
Pride
and
Riot
,
Pride
countenancing
their
Riot
,
and
RIOT
making
glorious
their
Pride
.
What
a
blessing
(
for
it
is
more
then
a
happinesse
)
the
〈◊〉
of
those
common
errors
〈◊〉
the
wiseman
will
acknowledge
,
and
the
fortunate
Noble
may
proue
.
Princes
sometimes
an●…
Of
other
miseries
(
which
And
though
a
man
is
bound
to
pay
the
best
of
his
seruice
either
to
his
KING
or
COVNTRY
,
in
the
safety
of
the
one
,
and
preseruation
of
the
other
,
and
dutie
to
both
,
yet
so
are
both
his
KING
and
Country
interchangeably
bound
to
fauour
,
cherish
,
and
respect
worth
in
a
worthy
deseruer
.
But
if
Neglect
proceede
out
of
a
want
of
iudgment
,
or
a
decerning
Vertue
,
then
hath
the
neglected
much
mo●…
cause
to
beare
that
iniu●…
A
man
is
not
to
expect
thankes
from
a
Oxe
,
or
Horse
,
for
feeding
,
〈◊〉
ring
,
dressing
and
smoothing
of
him
,
because
it
is
an
Oxe
or
a
Horse
〈◊〉
whom
hee
doth
it
.
Truel●…
a
gouernour
of
people
that
can
eate
,
clothe
an●…
feede
another
mans
labours
,
and
cannot
giue
acknowledgement
at
least
to
him
who
by
the
working
of
his
braines
,
expence
of
his
bloud
,
and
consumption
of
his
estate
,
or
such
like
seruices
,
doth
in
peace
feede
and
clothe
his
King
and
Country
,
such
a
ruler
●…ffers
,
in
this
,
little
from
a
●…east
,
that
hath
not
rea●…on
,
or
at
least
the
vse
of
●…eason
.
But
if
Neglect
come
●…om
the
vnsteddinesse
of
●…he
common
people
,
then
〈◊〉
is
nothing
strange
:
for
〈◊〉
they
are
wonne
in
an
●…oure
,
so
are
they
lost
in
a
minunte
;
&
whosoeuer
co●…etech
popular
applause
,
●…or
depends
vpon
the
〈◊〉
of
the
vulgar
,
doth
with
the
dogge
in
Esope
,
〈◊〉
carnes
,
captare
vmbres
;
●…imbrace
clouds
,
and
beget
Centaures
;
and
doth
iustly
deserue
no
commendations
at
all
for
so
seeking
to
be
commended
.
If
yet
it
be
fit
to
inqui●…
further
into
the
maine
construction
,
what
,
or
of
what
value
and
,
moment
this
Neglect
is
,
experience
〈◊〉
others
will
learne
vs
to
be
Schoole-masters
to
our selues
;
for
let
a
man
be
n●…uer
so
iminent
in
authoritie
vnder
his
PRINCE
,
let
him
haue
what
greatnesse
he
can
imagine
,
and
what
adoration
and
reueren●…
the
humilitie
of
the
publique
wonder
can
giuen
Let
his
words
be
obserued
as
Oracles
,
his
commands
as
Lawes
,
his
displeasure
●…s
death
,
yet
with
the
flight
of
a
thought
if
vpon
some
dislike
grounded
or
vngrounded
,
the
King
at
any
time
shorten
his
Royall
fa●…our
,
or
the
Law
in
any
point
take
hold
on
him
,
●…hereby
hee
appeares
to
●…he
iudgement
of
the
world
,
to
bee
entring
into
●…he
way
of
miserie
,
how
●…ensibly
and
how
soone
〈◊〉
all
hefeele
an
alteration
of
those
large
flatteries
which
the
seruilitie
of
the
●…ncertaine
people
promi●…ed
?
A
witnesse
hereof
in
his
time
was
,
and
in
this
time
may
be
,
Iohn
,
that
great
and
last
Duke
of
No
〈◊〉
THVMBERLAN
〈◊〉
whose
pride
and
〈◊〉
were
at
once
hastened
by
the
too
much
confident
he
had
in
the
harts
of
the
Cominaltie
;
with
what
speed
was
hee
disgran●…
of
his
Soueraigne
,
〈◊〉
of
the
Lords
,
and
〈◊〉
of
the
multitude
〈◊〉
who
is
onely
couetous
of
any
〈◊〉
,
though
〈◊〉
be
change
from
the
good
to
the
worst
?
A
iust
man
therefore
(
whose
soundnesse
of
minde
like
〈◊〉
Centre
of
the
earth
〈◊〉
euer
vnmoued
)
by
the
light
of
those
few
〈◊〉
dent
reasons
may
vnderstand
how
easie
it
is
for
the
popular
iudgement
as
●…ell
in
distinctions
of
mi●…eries
as
of
happinesse
to
●…rre
:
for
as
they
account
●…states
and
conditions
miserable
,
which
are
not
〈◊〉
with
the
vanitie
of
outward
glory
,
or
fulnesse
of
substance
;
so
doe
they
likewise
reckon
that
felicity
the
truest
happinesse
,
whose
dignitie
and
migh●…inesse
is
like
the
blazing
Starre
,
for
the
present
,
as
strange
as
fearefull
:
and
for
a
wise
,
a
good
●…noble
spirit
to
be
〈◊〉
with
the
neglect
of
〈◊〉
in
such
creatures
,
would
be
strong
proofe
that
hee
neuer
〈◊〉
the
perfect
relish
eythe●…
of
perfect
wisedome
,
perfect
goodnesse
,
or
perfect
Nobilitie
.
Like
as
hath
before
forfeiture
〈◊〉
Estate
,
that
is
,
of
all
〈◊〉
plenty
or
fulnesse
of
temporall
substance
,
as
with
worldly
men
the
name
and
possession
of
riches
doth
include
.
Of
all
〈◊〉
ther
miseries
this
in
th●…
iudgement
of
such
as
〈◊〉
not
truly
directed
by
true●…
iudgement
of
such
as
are
not
truely
directed
by
truest
iudgement
,
is
reputed
the
most
miserable
:
Insomuch
as
most
men
thinke
,
and
so
thinking
,
so
resolue
,
that
Death
,
in
any
forme
,
is
much
more
tollerable
then
beggary
(
for
so
they
terme
pouerty
)
by
any
casualty
.
One
example
or
president
to
both
Noble
and
vnderstanding
men
,
of
what
commendation
the
abandoning
of
rich
fortunes
,
being
reported
by
Quintus
Curtius
,
may
be
remembred
with
immortall
glory
,
of
Abdo-hominas
,
a
poore
man
;
rich
in
all
plenty
,
except
plenty
of
riches
,
to
whom
Alexander
of
MACEDON
,
profferring
the
Kingdome
of
Sidon
to
him
,
who
was
beefore
but
a
Gardener
,
was
by
him
refused
,
who
replyed
that
hee
would
take
no
care
to
loose
that
which
hee
neuer
cared
to
enioy
.
The
Historie
is
worthy
,
&
the
answere
full
of
obseruation
,
and
will
bee
euer
memorable
.
Of
all
other
things
,
free
spirits
&
wise
men
should
least
respect
the
losse
of
temporall
wealth
,
which
is
no
part
of
a
man
.
Riches
were
fitly
by
the
Philosophers
called
bona
Fortunae
,
vncertaine
endowments
;
to
figure
vnto
vs
,
that
as
fortune
is
euer
variable
,
so
should
her
benefits
bee
reputed
but
vnconstant
friends
:
in
regard
whereof
they
were
excluded
from
the
gifts
as
well
of
the
body
as
of
the
minde
,
that
is
,
neither
Health
,
Beautic
or
vertues
of
any
sort
,
did
neede
the
ornament
of
those
gifts
of
Fortune
.
A
good
man
,
if
of
his
owne
industrie
and
merit
,
hee
hath
purchased
vnto
himselfe
wealth
,
hath
little
reason
to
grieue
at
the
losse
of
them
,
since
he
remaines
still
as
perfect
in
the
cunning
of
gayning
as
when
he
first
began
:
but
another
of
more
aboundance
,
whose
possessions
come
to
him
by
inheritance
,
without
any
care
of
his
owne
,
he
hath
no
reason
at
all
to
distaste
the
seizure
of
his
estate
,
since
he
doth
forgo
but
that
which
hee
neuer
laboured
for
.
Truly
in
respect
of
this
it
behoueth
euery
resolued
minde
to
beare
the
courage
of
the
wise
man
of
GREECE
,
that
said
,
he
at
all
times
carried
all
what
was
his
with
him
wheresoeuer
he
went
.
Wisedome
,
Temperance
,
Valour
,
Iustice
,
are
the
substance
and
hereditary
possessions
of
a
perfectly
happy
man
,
and
these
riches
cannot
bee
forfaited
,
except
by
a
decay
of
Vertue
,
they
cannot
be
seized
except
the
owner
cast
them
off
,
they
cannot
suffer
contempt
so
long
as
they
bee
nourished
in
a
noble
minde
.
Indeede
riches
are
to
a
good
man
like
a
light
silken
Cloake
vpon
his
backe
,
who
is
else
prouided
against
the
extreamitie
of
colde
with
warme
furres
:
So
hee
that
hath
his
owne
goodnesse
and
resolution
to
warme
him
in
all
winters
of
aduersitie
,
needes
wealth
but
as
a
thinne
silken
Cloake
vpon
a
furred
Gowne
,
rather
to
shew
the
vanitie
of
his
disposition
,
then
any
vsefull
imployment
to
the
sustenance
of
life
.
If
nature
be
prouided
for
against
hunger
with
meate
;
against
frosts
with
apparell
;
against
contempt
with
comelinesse
,
the
desire
of
money
or
large
Lordships
,
argues
but
the
base
filthinesse
of
an
vnsatisfied
couetousnesse
.
There
may
be
obiected
,
that
ô
my
estate
being
forfeited
,
mine
Heires
are
beggard
,
and
the
antiquitie
of
my
ancestors
house
made
the
spectacle
of
ruine
.
This
being
admitted
,
it
is
soone
answered
,
that
the
houses
of
most
continuance
,
and
personages
of
Noblest
births
account
that
antiquitie
of
best
estimation
which
is
deriued
from
the
longest
discent
,
in
which
they
shall
finde
,
that
the
first
of
their
honors
were
gotten
by
him
,
who
was
in
as
low
an
ebbe
of
fulnesse
,
as
hee
is
now
at
the
present
:
for
all
greatnes
had
a
beginning
,
and
the
beginning
of
that
greatnesse
is
desert
.
Am
I
Noble
,
let
me
know
that
this
noblenesse
is
the
least
part
of
mine
;
for
my
fathers
wonne
it
by
their
vertue
,
they
had
the
glory
,
but
I
enioy
the
Titles
.
Haue
I
robd
mine
Heires
of
those
Titles
,
Honours
,
or
Possessions
?
let
them
striue
to
haue
more
honour
in
deseruing
more
,
that
their
Successors
may
asmuch
remember
their
vertues
,
as
I
haue
remembred
the
vertues
of
my
Ancestors
.
Questionlesse
howsoeuer
the
reputation
of
a
continued
Family
in
ancient
Honours
,
be
preferred
aboue
any
men
of
latter
greatnesse
,
of
some
whose
worth
hath
raised
his
house
to
a
noble
stile
,
yet
is
it
in
the
lawes
of
reason
most
reasonable
;
that
hee
should
deserue
more
respect
,
that
by
his
owne
atchiuements
hath
purchased
dignitie
,
then
others
that
onely
haue
it
by
the
priuiledge
of
bloud
,
since
the
one
weares
but
the
shaddowes
of
his
Predecessors
triumphes
,
the
other
the
substance
of
his
owne
Pouerty
is
no
burthen
to
them
as
can
susteine
it
,
is
no
enemy
to
such
as
will
imbrace
it
:
He
is
only
miserable
that
knowes
not
to
be
content
with
his
Fortune
,
especially
if
his
fall
be
procured
by
his
owne
errours
.
Then
the
surest
,
the
Noblest
,
the
only
meanes
to
redeeme
publike
calamitie
,
is
by
a
publike
(
and
yet
inward
profession
of
sufferance
;
for
in
all
persons
and
personages
,
reformation
of
folly
is
a
worke
of
more
praise
then
the
working
of
folly
is
a
cause
of
disgrace
.
What
misery
can
it
then
be
to
be
eased
of
that
care
,
which
onely
brings
care
in
the
possession
.
Of
all
mischiefes
,
the
greatest
mischiefe
is
to
be
a
rich
man
,
with
a
rich
mans
minde
.
There
is
no
more
reason
why
a
meerely
couetous
man
should
loue
Gold
,
but
for
that
it
is
yellow
or
faire
;
Pastures
,
because
they
are
greene
;
and
so
hath
the
enuious
much
more
reason
to
Co●…uer
abundance
of
wealth
,
because
other
men
should
want
it
.
A
couetous
miser
,
is
rightly
a
malicious
consumer
,
for
in
heaping
for
himselfe
,
he
consumes
the
maintenance
of
the
needy
:
yet
it
is
to
be
noted
,
that
plenty
is
not
alwayes
to
be
dispraised
,
if
the
hauing
of
it
doe
no●…
procure
a
scarcitie
.
But
what
losse
is
so
great
in
a
worldly
estate
(
considering
how
weake
it
is
more
then
in
opinion
)
which
a
wise
man
should
not
beare
with
moderation
?
It
is
a
misery
to
want
,
but
a
greater
misery
to
haue
too
much
:
but
for
a
good
man
to
hugge
the
loue
of
abundance
,
that
he
should
imagine
the
losse
of
it
,
should
make
him
miserable
,
I
must
conclude
this
point
that
he
hath
neither
goodnes
nor
resolution
:
if
goodnesse
,
his
content
should
be
his
best
estate
;
if
resolution
,
his
want
cannot
be
esteemed
the
worst
pouertie
,
since
extremity
is
a
singular
teacher
to
learne
vs
that
we
are
men
,
and
that
there
is
both
a
diuine
power
and
a
prouidence
aboue
vs
;
the
one
consisting
in
being
a
God
,
the
other
in
hauing
a
God-head
.
The
difference
between
It
may
not
be
denied
but
that
such
may
be
the
vnworthinesse
of
the
action
for
which
a
man
is
banished
,
that
his
owne
conscience
will
in
all
places
be
a
tormentor
to
his
memory
,
and
then
the
wound
which
he
beares
with
him
can
neuer
by
change
of
place
or
time
be
wholy
cured
.
Such
a
one
,
another
of
this
latter
times
,
well
compared
to
the
wounded
Doe
in
Virgill
,
In
good
men
,
who
through
diuers
misfortunes
are
sequestred
from
their
natiue
Countries
vpon
wrongfull
or
sleight
occasions
it
is
nothing
so
:
for
to
them
if
they
rightly
(
as
beeing
good
they
will
)
instruct
themselues
in
the
first
rules
of
wisedome
,
all
Countreyes
are
a
home
.
A
noble
and
free
resolution
is
a
stranger
no
where
;
in
which
respect
men
perfectly
wise
,
are
said
to
be
perfectly
valiant
,
since
as
true
wisedome
is
perfect
vallour
,
so
is
true
vallour
perfect
moderation
.
Many
men
haue
abandoned
their
Countries
,
&
made
themselues
voluntary
exiles
vpon
a
desire
and
greedy
hope
of
gaine
,
or
better
prosperitie
:
such
haue
beene
the
Romans
,
Romulus
and
Aeneas
;
of
the
Patauynes
,
Antenor
;
of
the
Britaines
(
if
the
history
bee
of
credite
)
euen
our
owne
Brute
;
yet
truely
the
end
of
those
men
was
no●…
way
glorious
;
for
they
may
more
rightly
be
called
fugitiues
and
〈◊〉
,
then
exiles
or
trauailers
.
He
deserued
well
of
the
Common-wealth
of
Athens
,
who
hauing
instituted
excellent
lawes
for
th●…
state
publique
,
tooke
Oat●…
of
the
Magistrates
tha●…
his
lawes
should
be
day●…
and
duely
practised
,
〈◊〉
his
returne
from
a
iourne●…
which
hee
was
to
vndertake
:
the
oath
being
receiued
,
the
good
man
freely
liued
banished
from
his
Country
,
neuer
returning
,
that
for
the
safety
of
his
Country
,
his
lawes
might
●…ee
kept
inuiolable
:
Yet
●…as
this
wise
man
so
farre
in
this
banishment
from
reproofe
,
that
his
action
and
memory
in
his
action
,
will
neuer
be
forgotten
.
Of
all
accidents
that
can
happen
to
a
prepared
minde
,
this
of
banishment
hath
little
cause
to
trouble
the
quiet
calme
of
a
steady
resolution
.
It
is
often
seene
that
sundry
persons
for
rarities
sake
,
for
morall
instruction
in
complement
or
in
behauiour
,
willingly
some
times
trauaile
into
forraine
lands
,
and
there
spend
their
time
for
three
,
sixe
,
tenne
yeeres
or
more
with
great
delight
,
taking
pleasure
and
content
in
so
growing
old
:
Euen
so
〈◊〉
like
manner
let
a
good
man
resolue
him selfe
tha●…
this
hard
word
of
banishment
is
but
a
iourney
of
pleasure
into
some
outlanding
country
,
not
proposing
or
limitting
to
the
minde
a
time
of
comming
backe
,
but
alwayes
minding
some
fit
imployment
why
hee
should
goe
:
as
if
●…ee
were
but
Ambassador
from
his
owne
to
some
vnknowne
Prince
:
and
with
what
dishonor
can
an
Ambassadour
be
blemished
,
who
in
the
seruice
of
his
Soueraigne
leaues
his
life
as
a
pledge
of
his
dutie
?
It
may
be
in
the
bondes
of
Nature
,
some
man
will
esteeme
it
an
heauy
misfortune
to
forsake
,
or
(
as
in
the
worst
sence
they
terme
it
)
to
be
thrust
from
the
fruition
of
the
comfort
of
his
Friends
,
Children
,
Allyes
,
and
Kinsfolkes
:
such
a
thought
can
no
more
moue
the
temper
of
a
resolued
minde
;
the●…
it
should
doe
if
hee
were
to
leaue
the
world
,
since
in
dying
,
and
in
being
banished
,
heere
is
the
difference
,
that
the
one
necessitie
is
commanded
by
an
vnchangeable
decree
from
Heauen
,
the
other
by
a
seuere
imposition
of
man
;
both
being
a
seueration
of
old
friends
.
What
a
madnesse
were
it
in
any
to
repute
death
(
being
thereto
naturally
called
)
a
misery
?
Euen
so
let
him
thinke
of
banishment
,
and
withall
,
compare
the
great
fortunes
that
some
haue
attained
vnto
in
that
estate
of
〈◊〉
,
with
the
possibilitie
of
his
owne
.
THOMAS
MOV●…RAY
,
Duke
of
Norffolke
,
in
the
Reigne
of
RICHARD
the
second
,
being
by
the
said
King
,
by
reason
of
the
Kings
youth
and
indiscretion
;
and
in
regard
of
some
other
differences
between
Mowbray
and
other
Princes
of
the
bloud
,
vpon
an
appeale
of
Treason
,
banished
;
was
so
far
from
being
heerewith
deiected
,
that
adding
practise
to
the
noblenesse
of
his
courage
,
hee
vndertooke
a
glorious
warre
in
the
land
of
Palestine
,
against
the
common
enemie
of
God
and
Truth
,
the
Turke
,
and
willingly
made
his
bloud
a
sacrifice
to
the
redemption
of
his
Fame
.
Happy
man
,
that
sought
out
death
with
victorie
,
before
that
death
could
make
him
vnhappy
by
finding
him
out
with
ouerthrow
:
Happy
banishment
,
which
hath
beene
the
meanes
of
such
a
memory
,
and
happy
cause
of
banishment
that
was
the
first
occasion
to
such
meanes
of
being
memorable
.
In
like
manner
,
Hem●…
of
Richmond
,
being
for
his
interest
in
the
Crowne
by
that
monster
of
men
and
Kings
,
RICHARD
the
third
,
found
(
by
his
euen
carriage
and
well
tempered
moderation
)
such
fauour
and
loue
in
the
Courts
and
hearts
of
forraine
Princes
,
as
that
being
strengthened
with
their
strengths
,
and
encouraged
by
his
owne
right
and
vertue
,
he
not
onely
returned
to
challenge
but
to
recouer
his
owne
,
and
to
purge
the
Land
of
so
intollerable
mischiefe
as
the
gouernement
of
that
cruell
vsurper
and
bloudy
King
had
made
it
sigh
vnder
.
Happy
banishment
,
in
so
glorifying
that
Prince
:
Happy
Prince
,
in
so
disposing
that
banishment
:
for
it
is
certainely
true
,
that
not
any
accident
of
misfortune
(
as
the
world
accounts
)
but
the
minde
of
the
patient
in
suffering
,
or
not
suffering
,
makes
it
a
misery
.
If
examples
be
of
any
force
(
as
they
must
be
)
by
the
president
of
former
times
to
instruct
the
present
,
then
may
Pompey
for
greatnesse
,
Affricanus
for
Counsell
,
Hanyball
for
courage
,
and
Ouid
for
wit
,
tell
vs
that
banishment
doth
not
alwayes
happen
to
miserable
men
,
except
their
owne
impatiencie
worke
their
owne
calamitie
.
In
short
,
a
Wise
and
Noble
man
,
by
what
hath
beene
said
,
may
consider
what
might
more
haue
beene
said
,
to
the
building
in
this
life
this
structure
of
the
Golden
Meane
against
the
stormes
and
infelicitie
of
being
a
banished
man
,
since
a
wise
man
resolued
in
all
trials
,
is
neuer
confined
within
the
limits
of
place
,
but
vpon
all
necessary
occurrents
doth
repute
himselfe
euen
in
his
birth
to
be
the
worlds
Citizen
.
Heere
yet
followes
Imprisonment
;
which
often
happening
to
men
of
great
place
and
qualitie
,
is
not
thought
the
least
kinde
of
miserie
,
which
men
of
such
mindes
doe
with
their
bodies
restraint
locke
vp
and
imprison
all
the
best
faculties
of
their
reason
,
forcing
Reason
to
be
a
slaue
to
Fortune
,
and
rewarding
the
excellent
dignitie
of
the
soule
,
with
the
corruption
of
Iudgement
and
Nature
.
Such
a
man
as
is
kept
within
the
inforcement
of
restraint
,
must
imitate
that
Daedalus
whom
the
auncient
Poets
faine
to
haue
wings
,
with
which
he
fled
from
that
inaccessible
Castell
where
he
was
detained
with
his
son
Icarus
a
prisoner
.
The
Morall
cannot
but
giue
matter
of
note
and
application
:
lcarus
the
son
betokens
or
may
betoken
the
incapacitie
of
mens
bodies
,
and
Daedalus
the
quickenesse
of
minde
:
both
which
,
being
the
one
with
the
other
imprisoned
;
the
one
,
which
is
the
body
,
personated
in
Icarus
,
for
want
of
moderation
falls
into
the
attempt
of
escape
:
the
other
,
which
is
the
minde
,
pattern'd
in
Dedalus
,
conquers
aduersitie
by
flying
from
it
in
bearing
it
:
The
GOLDEN
MEANE
super
at
ferendo
;
tryumphs
on
the
rigour
of
imprisonment
by
the
freedome
of
a
noble
minde
.
To
a
man
arm'd
in
his
extremities
,
often
trials
are
but
as
many
often
praises
,
and
euery
triall
giues
a
seuerall
crowne
of
commendation
in
bearing
many
troubles
with
one
and
the
selfe-same
resolution
.
If
the
vse
of
imprisonment
be
but
onely
a
little
made
vse
of
,
it
will
be
found
that
there
is
no
means
vnder
the
ordinances
of
Heauen
so
auaileable
for
a
man
to
consider
the
miserie
of
greatnesse
,
as
the
feeling
the
miserie
(
so
mistermed
)
of
imprisonment
.
Men
,
accompanied
with
the
imployment
of
worthy
thoughts
,
are
neuer
lesse
idle
then
when
they
are
alone
,
neuer
more
seriously
busied
then
when
they
are
onely
busied
(
and
haue
time
so
to
be
busied
)
with
remembring
that
they
are
men
:
not
that
such
a
remembrance
should
cast
them
lower
then
the
consideration
of
frailtie
,
but
raise
them
higher
then
the
acting
of
folly
;
not
to
depresse
the
motions
perswading
temperance
,
but
to
rectifie
the
perswasions
mouing
to
vertue
:
Hee
is
stronger
that
conquers
his
owne
passions
,
then
hee
that
after
winning
many
Countries
,
becomes
a
passionate
conquerour
.
The
life
of
instruction
is
reading
,
and
leisure
the
life
of
reading
,
and
a
retired
restraint
the
life
of
leisure
:
which
restraint
is
onely
terrible
in
being
called
imprisonment
.
One
that
for
a
great
some
of
money
would
pledge
himselfe
to
liue
in
a
chamber
a
ye●…re
or
two
,
or
seauen
,
will
not
thinke
such
an
indurance
a
misery
,
because
the
hope
of
gaine
doth
lessen
or
rather
annihillate
the
seuerity
of
that
iniunction
.
Miserable
men
,
and
Miserable
mankinde
that
will
vndertake
such
an
affliction
for
bettering
of
their
temporall
estates
,
which
being
imposed
for
the
bettering
of
the
estate
of
their
reason
and
iudgment
,
they
account
insufferable
.
Basenesse
of
Nature
that
suffers
that
for
greedinesse
,
which
being
had
,
is
not
certaine
one
houre
to
be
possessed
,
and
yet
will
in
the
same
kinde
forgoe
that
which
being
once
possest
is
neuer
lost
;
O
the
furniture
of
the
minde
,
which
being
indeede
the
true
lasting
and
onely
best
Riches
!
variety
of
bookes
are
sweet
companions
,
and
plenty
of
noble
thoughts
happy
recreations
:
If
I
be
a
prisoner
I
will
either
talke
with
my
Library
,
or
sport
with
my
thoughts
,
since
one
being
learned
,
will
proue
sure
instructers
,
the
latter
being
Noble
,
worthy
delights
.
A
man
that
is
restrained
from
liberty
,
hath
the
liberty
of
retaining
his
owne
worthynesse
,
as
worthily
may
be
seene
in
Massinissa
who
being
made
captiue
to
Scipio
,
told
him
,
thou
must
SCIPIO
(
qd.
he
)
enioy
the
benefit
of
thy
fortune
,
by
taking
from
me
my
life
,
or
of
thy
mercy
by
lo●…sing
my
bondes
:
Take
my
life
thou
freest
mee
from
bondes
,
free
mee
from
bondes
,
thou
bindest
mee
in
bondes
of
loue
;
but
if
thou
lettest
me
liue
a
captiue
,
know
Scipio
I
haue
a
heart
that
did
neuer
,
nor
euer
can
seele
seruile
capti●…ty
.
It
is
certaine
that
such
as
see
their
friends
in
bondage
and
in
durance
,
who
haue
Noble
mindes
,
see
them
,
and
see
them
not
:
they
see
them
as
men
,
but
not
as
they
are
more
then
men
.
Imprisonment
is
an
excellent
preparation
to
goodnesse
,
since
euer
after
,
in
all
fortunes
,
a
man
that
hath
beene
a
prisoner
may
know
by
himselfe
how
subiect
a
humane
estate
is
to
the
brittlenesse
of
alteration
;
and
he
that
doth
not
much
amend
his
errors
by
this
kinde
of
triall
,
is
neither
destined
to
be
an
attemptor
of
any
notable
vertue
,
or
a
desire
of
any
vertuous
note
.
It
is
a
milde
Tutor
,
to
teach
as
well
how
to
gouerne
as
how
to
serue
;
for
he
who
can
serue
aduersitie
with
meekenesse
,
can
guide
prosperitie
with
discretion
.
Hee
who
is
a
prisoner
,
hath
herein
great
cause
to
finde
his
friend
,
for
such
as
are
ingaged
in
a
promise
of
loue
,
that
loues
not
the
person
for
his
fortune
,
will
shew
likewise
that
they
feare
not
his
misfortune
,
because
they
loue
his
person
.
The
saying
is
old
,
and
verified
in
this
age
of
the
World
,
that
a
man
may
haue
many
friends
and
yet
little
friendship
:
but
here
a
man
shall
soone
be
taught
to
distinguish
the
difference
betweene
friendship
and
friends
,
although
it
is
not
to
be
vrged
that
therefore
it
is
fit
that
euery
one
who
would
know
truely
his
friends
,
should
make
himselfe
,
or
bee
made
a
prisoner
;
but
that
euery
one
beeing
a
prisoner
should
then
haue
fit
time
to
know
how
hee
is
esteemed
.
Imprisonment
is
not
of
such
vertue
in
it selfe
that
men
should
seeke
to
be
prisoners
,
thereby
to
be
happy
,
but
being
by
casualtie
enforced
vpon
any
,
the
vse
thereof
may
be
so
happy
,
that
hee
who
is
imprisoned
may
not
think
himselfe
miserable
.
Euen
as
hee
who
being
followed
by
the
memory
of
some
euill
act
,
though
he
haue
his
body
at
libertie
,
yet
is
still
imprisoned
in
the
guilt
of
his
〈◊〉
So
hee
that
reformeth
the
crookednesse
of
his
condition
,
by
the
imitation
of
goodness
,
though
his
body
be
imprisoned
,
hath
by
the
selfe-same
reason
the
freedome
of
the
minde
.
Imprisonment
is
a
gentle
sickenesse
,
not
to
kill
,
but
to
chasten
the
patient
:
and
as
men
naturally
proud
may
be
humbled
,
but
will
neuer
be
humble
,
so
men
of
a
meeke
condition
may
be
launced
for
the
recouery
of
health
,
but
not
wounded
to
the
hastening
of
death
:
which
a
Wise
and
Noble
man
,
well
fore-casting
,
may
arme
himselfe
against
reputed
miseries
,
and
amongst
them
all
,
against
this
one
of
imprisonment
,
that
whensoeuer
it
should
come
to
him
,
it
should
come
to
him
rather
to
exercise
then
to
ouerthrow
him
.
Finally
,
amongst
such
Death
to
a
wiseman
cannot
come
vnlooked
for
,
nor
to
a
good
man
vnwisht
for
:
since
the
wise
,
knowing
that
they
must
die
,
know
likewise
that
resolution
is
the
best
comfort
to
welcome
death
,
and
the
good
being
confident
of
their
owne
innocencies
,
desire
the
change
of
a
better
life
.
He
that
will
ouercome
affliction
by
sufferance
,
beare
calamitie
with
courage
,
weary
out
feare
with
hope
,
let
him
be
resolute
,
that
the
worst
of
trials
is
death
;
and
for
that
be
armed
whensoeuer
it
shall
come
,
and
be
ready
to
imbrace
it
.
If
a
Noble
or
a
Wise
man
after
disfauour
of
his
Prince
,
neglect
of
his
Countrey
,
forfeiture
of
his
Estate
,
banishment
from
his
Friends
,
imprisonment
of
his
Person
,
or
any
other
esteemed
extreames
bee
threatned
,
with
the
losse
of
his
head
,
or
execution
in
any
manner
,
certainely
hee
hath
great
cause
to
reioyce
;
for
he
is
not
worthy
to
see
any
end
of
his
sorrowes
,
who
is
not
prepared
to
meet
it
with
a
merry
heart
.
The
end
of
all
sorrowes
is
Death
,
if
the
party
to
die
be
truely
reconciled
to
his
God
and
to
his
conscience
.
The
old
Poets
did
fitly
faine
Death
to
be
the
childe
of
the
Night
,
and
Sleepe
to
be
the
Sister
of
Death
;
wisely
including
,
that
as
Night
and
Sleepe
wrap
vp
all
in
stilnesse
,
so
should
Death
more
perfectly
finish
the
course
of
euils
,
by
burying
them
in
a
graue
,
neuer
to
arise
.
And
no
doubt
,
but
heerein
Death
and
Night
haue
much
affinitie
,
that
as
the
Night
is
fearefull
,
because
darke
;
but
sweet
,
because
giuing
rest
:
So
is
Death
in
his
shaddowe
(
which
is
the
night
of
opinion
)
before
it
,
comes
full
of
horrour
,
but
in
substance
(
which
is
the
quickening
to
a
better
life
)
when
it
comes
,
full
of
ioyes
.
It
may
be
here
obiected
,
that
to
die
for
some
supposed
offence
by
an
enforced
death
,
is
scandalous
,
and
therefore
miserable
.
But
it
may
be
answered
,
that
such
an
obiection
betokens
but
the
feare
of
frailty
.
For
if
it
be
examined
,
we
must
consesse
that
the
houre
of
death
●…uen
to
them
that
most
●…oke
for
and
desire
it
,
is
●…ncertaine
,
and
they
cannot
be
so
prouided
at
an
●…stant
as
others
that
●…now
the
instant
when
they
are
to
suffer
.
Heerein
men
destined
〈◊〉
death
for
some
offence
,
●…re
(
as
it
may
seeme
)
●…ore
happy
in
their
end
,
●…hen
they
are
vnhappy
in
their
disorder
of
liuing
●…hat
hath
brought
them
〈◊〉
that
end
.
Men
,
appointed
to
die
,
knowing
the
time
certain
,
haue
reason
,
and
no
doubt
,
doe
accordingly
fit
themselues
to
forsake
and
cast
off
all
those
parts
and
thoughts
that
might
make
them
mortall
,
then
others
who
onely
dreame
of
a
dying
time
,
but
not
resoluing
that
they
draw
neerer
to
the
time
,
are
many
times
suddenly
taken
in
the
fulnesse
of
their
filthinesse
,
and
in
the
high
tide
of
acting
vnlawfull
pleasures
or
abuses
:
and
here
surely
betweene
the
manner
of
dying
,
the
last
is
most
fearefull
,
since
the
former
,
knowing
the
minute
in
which
they
are
to
depart
from
the
World
,
doe
by
the
stroake
of
Iustice
enioy
that
benefit
which
wise
and
good
men
doe
in
mercy
sigh
and
hope
for
.
Death
is
a
happy
Hauen
,
and
men
shipwrackt
in
the
Sea
of
this
earth
cannot
but
couet
it
:
It
is
a
safe
Inne
,
and
men
poasting
in
the
iourneyes
of
wearinesse
,
cannot
but
seeke
it
:
It
is
a
path
to
blessednesse
,
and
such
as
are
good
will
finde
it
:
It
is
a
banquet
of
all
goodnes
,
and
such
as
be
blessed
haue
found
it
.
Hee
is
vnworthy
to
liue
that
is
not
worthy
inough
to
dye
,
and
hee
is
not
vnworthy
to
dye
that
hath
liued
worthily
.
The
woman
that
demaunded
of
Iupiter
that
hee
would
giue
to
her
two
sonnes
the
greatest
happinesse
that
could
bee
bestowed
from
heauen
on
men
,
had
the
same
night
her
sonnes
both
dead
,
as
if
the
greatest
humane
felicitie
were
to
bee
freed
from
beeing
humane
.
To
conclude
(
for
something
hath
beene
said
of
this
before
)
he
which
will
wisely
and
nobly
practise
the
obseruation
of
the
Golden
Meane
,
and
shew
the
greatnesse
of
Vertue
in
extreames
,
must
keepe
truce
with
his
passions
,
&
prepare
his
courage
with
this
resolution
,
that
Misery
is
no
Misery
;
for
that
is
onely
a
misery
which
is
lasting
,
and
thought
so
:
and
reputed
misery
is
not
lasting
,
because
death
out
weares
it
;
is
not
thought
so
because
death
will
finish
it
:
in
the
resoluing
on
the
one
Wisedome
will
proue
a
Noble
minde
,
in
the
other
Noblenesse
will
patterne
out
a
wiseman
:
for
moderation
in
extreames
make
perfect
both
.
In
the
view
of
what
hath
beene
said
,
vnder
the
titles
of
a
wise
and
a
Noble
man
,
are
comprehended
all
men
,
of
all
degrees
and
fortunes
,
whose
Vertues
doe
make
them
wise
;
as
their
wisedome
doth
make
them
Noble
.
For
wisedome
consisteth
not
onely
in
gray
heads
,
but
in
a
steady
prouidence
how
to
doe
,
and
Noblenesse
consisteth
not
onely
in
an
Honorable
race
;
but
in
a
prudent
resolution
what
to
doe
.
Wisedome
informes
the
minde
,
and
NOBLENESSE
commends
the
actions
;
in
somuch
as
euery
one
who
can
act
wisely
,
and
deliberate
Nobly
,
squaring
his
resolution
to
resolue
steaddinesse
in
both
fortunes
,
may
of
merrit
be
inrolled
amongst
the
memorable
:
and
bee
remembred
by
the
desertfull
to
bee
truely
wise
because
Noble
:
to
bee
perfectly
Noble
because
wise
.
FINIS
.