TO
THE
MOST
exquisite
Epitome
of
Nature
,
and
compleatest
Compendium
of
a
Courtier
,
the
Lord
MINIMVS
;
the
Lady
PARVULA
wisheth
health
and
happines
.
SIR
,
MAY
it
please
your
diminutive
eminence
,
permit
a
devoted
lover
of
your
concise
dimensions
,
to
present
very
lowly
,
as
most
fitting
to
your
person
,
(
in
remembrance
of
this
New-yeare
)
a
small
Token
of
my
unparralleld
affection
.
Confesse
I
must
Compendious
SIR
my
gift
is
fomewha●
of
the
least
,
but
my
hope
is
,
being
there
in
so
like
your selfe
it
will
not
displease
you
.
And
if
,
whatsoever
is
received
,
is
received
according
to
the
measure
or
size
of
the
receiver
,
be
a
true
rule
in
Phylosophy
;
then
,
bootlesse
had
it
beene
for
your
Obsequious
Hand-maid
,
to
have
meditated
any
Present
for
size
Greater
;
since
how
great
soever
,
it
would
have
beene
but
as
very
little
,
your selfe
so
very
little
,
being
the
receiver
:
Nor
is
your
littlenesse
(
mistake
me
not
)
mentioned
as
any
derogation
to
worth
:
Diamonds
of
most
precious
value
,
are
but
little
in
substance
:
And
if
it
might
not
appeare
in
me
presumption
to
trouble
you
with
further
Discourse
,
I
could
with
easie
,
or
no
labour
,
prove
things
little
to
bee
farre
better
then
things
that
are
Great
.
Is
not
a
Microcosme
better
then
a
Macrocosme
,
the
little-world
,
Man
,
then
the
Great
world
,
Earth
?
nay
Man
the
lesser
world
is
,
Lord
of
the
Greater
;
and
in
the
Greater
world
,
which
is
the
Creators
Library
,
(
the
severall
Creatures
being
as
so
many
Bookes
in
it
)
have
wee
not
rarer
Documents
from
the
little
decimo-sexto's
,
the
Ant
and
Dove
,
then
from
the
Great
Folio's
,
the
Elephant
and
Whale
?
Recollect
your
memory
of
the
ancient
times
,
who
was
it
presently
after
the
Flood
of
Ducalion
and
Pyrrha
violated
the
Golden
Age
,
vitiated
those
most
candid
manners
of
men
,
but
the
Great
Gyants
,
cloud
aspiring
Enceladus
,
hundred-handed
Gyges
,
big-bon'd
Porphyrion
,
and
massie
Tytius
?
perceive
you
not
the
fruites
of
Greatnesse
?
how
it
swelled
them
with
pride
,
and
puffed
them
up
so
high
,
as
to
dare
wage
warre
even
with
Heaven
?
On
the
contrary
,
who
sees
not
the
sweete
effects
of
littlenesse●
how
humble
and
lowly
it
makes
you
,
how
farre
from
pride
,
for
the
World
cannot
but
testify
,
you
have
ever
seemed
little
in
your
owne
eyes
:
I
passe
over
(
for
brevities
sake
)
the
innumerous
impieties
&
immense
cruelties
of
those
Great
ones
,
Saul
and
Goliah
,
onely
adding
for
observation
,
this
latter
was
vanquished
by
little
David
.
Turne
from
sacred
to
prophane
Histories
,
little
Vlysses
stood
the
Grecians
at
the
expugnation
of
Troy
in
more
steede
then
Great
Aiax
with
all
his
might
.
Many
others
famous
in
their
times
,
as
Lycurgus
and
Solon
for
Law
,
this
of
Athens
;
the
other
of
Sparta
:
Demosthenes
and
Hortensius
for
eloquence
;
this
of
Rome
,
the
other
of
Greece
;
Miltiades
and
Themistocles
for
Valour
,
both
of
Greece
?
Virgil
and
Horace
for
Poetry
both
of
Rome
,
with
that
excellent
Historian
Salust
,
whom
antiquity
hath
delivered
to
bee
men
of
very
little
stature
.
And
that
men
of
little
stature
should
bee
both
more
valiant
and
wiser
then
men
of
Great
,
sufficient
reasons
may
be
fetched
,
even
from
Nature
:
For
seeing
that
those
which
are
little
have
all
their
members
contracted
,
and
as
it
were
closer
knitted
and
ioyned
together
,
but
those
which
are
Great
have
theirs
more
spread
abroad
and
severed
;
it
is
necessary
,
that
in
them
forces
united
,
and
neerer
gathered
,
render
the
structure
of
their
bodies
,
more
vigorous
and
agile
;
and
in
these
,
being
scattered
,
make
their
bodies
lesse
valid
,
a●
also
ponderous
and
burthensome
:
and
whereas
the
two
mansions
of
Wisedome
are
the
heart
,
and
the
braine
,
which
in
short
and
little
bodies
are
not
so
farre
distant
from
each
other
as
in
Long
and
Great
;
by
consequence
it
is
undeniably
evident
,
that
the
littler
sort
must
be
wiser
then
the
Great
:
and
indeed
the
Greater
sort
of
people
in
the
World
generally
,
what
are
they
?
but
vaine
and
idle
,
and
therefore
in
ordinary
discourse
,
we
ever
distinguish
them
from
the
better
sort
,
which
by
consequence
will
fall
out
to
bee
those
which
are
the
lesser
.
And
as
men
that
are
little
are
very
excellent
:
So
likewise
that
which
is
excellent
in
or
about
men
is
very
little
:
Wit
,
the
thing
so
admired
,
is
not
that
in
men
very
little
?
Money
,
the
thing
so
desired
,
though
a
man
have
much
,
yet
he
esteemes
it
as
little
;
and
things
ever
are
to
be
iudged
as
they
are
valued
:
Is
not
honesty
in
men
very
little
?
when
Sophistry
hath
fled
the
schooles
,
and
is
become
a
shop-keeper
,
and
Tradesmen
think
if
they
lose
their
lying
,
they
lose
their
living
:
Looke
for
obedience
,
of
things
the
best
,
is
it
not
little
?
when
Princes
commands
are
rather
questioned
then
obeyed
.
Looke
for
Malice
,
of
things
the
worst
,
is
it
not
very
Great
?
when
Fooles
had
rather
spend
much
in
Law
,
then
forgive
somewhat
in
charity
.
Whose
desires
more
rectified
then
the
desires
of
a
moderate
man
?
and
he
desires
but
little
.
Is
there
any
thing
more
sought
,
and
lesse
found
then
content
?
yet
Nature
(
the
Mother
of
us
all
)
is
content
with
a
little
.
Little
is
the
rule
of
iudgement
,
for
wee
commonly
use
to
say
,
(
Ex
pede
Herculem
)
you
may
iudge
by
a
little
of
the
whole
:
Little
is
the
onely
discourse
of
wise
men
,
they
talke
but
little
:
the
best
remedy
for
sicke
men
,
for
they
eate
but
little
:
and
to
speak
truth
little
is
the
delight
of
most
men
,
for
what
do
men
take
more
pleasure
in
,
then
the
reall
courtesies
of
a
friend
,
and
are
not
the
reall
courtesies
of
friends
,
now
a
dayes
very
little
:
On
the
other
side
,
how
many
hopeful
yong
Heires
have
Great
Estates
undone
?
(
but
if
not
through
the
possessing
of
a
Great
estate
,
yet
I
am
sure
,
through
the
wanting
of
a
little
wit
.
)
How
odious
doth
Covetousnesse
render
a
man
in
the
eye
of
the
wise
.
and
what
is
Covetousnesse
bu●
a
Great
desire
and
Longing
after
Much
?
you
have
seene
,
Sir
,
the
commodity
of
little
,
and
discommodity
of
Great
at
Large
in
others
;
in
briefe
,
take
notice
of
them
in
your selfe
:
Had
you
beene
Bigge
and
Great
ten
to
one
you
never
had
prooved
a
Courtier
;
't
was
onely
your
littlenesse
preferr'd
you
.
According
to
these
rules
I
cannot
conceive
how
any
iudicious
indifferent
man
can
deny
little
to
bee
better
then
Great
:
Neverthelesse
(
such
are
the
high-flowne
times
)
this
modest
opinion
is
peremtorily
opposed
by
those
whose
high
towring
and
ambitious
thoughts
vainely
aime
at
Greatnesse
;
who
crush
the
little
ones
that
are
under
them
,
crouch
to
all
Great
ones
above
them
;
are
your
friend
in
a
complement
,
but
not
in
a
businesse
;
familiarly
give
you
the
hand
without
the
heart
,
skuller-like
rowing
towards
Westminster
looke
towards
the
Bridge
,
pretend
one
thing
,
intend
another
;
who
if
but
once
in
an
age
,
and
that
too
by
chance
;
they
do
you
a
trifling
courtesie
,
no
gratuity
will
satisfie
,
if
not
Great
;
for
if
little
,
they
disdaine
it
,
though
seemingly
accept
it
their
mad
humour
being
,
to
account
all
Great
things
amiable
,
little
things
despicable
.
But
to
convince
those
men
(
for
your
little
sake
)
of
their
errour
,
which
is
no
little
one
,
but
like
themselves
,
very
Great
;
what
Gassendus
in
his
Booke
of
Paradoxes
against
Aristotelians
,
saith
of
Court
male-contents
:
Improbant
aulam
in
qua
tamen
consenescunt
,
They
speake
ill
of
the
Court
,
and
yet
are
so
troublesome
,
as
to
live
and
dye
there
:
So
may
bee
said
of
these
;
how
happens
it
,
Great
Estates
which
(
as
all
things
Great
else
)
belike
they
so
love
,
they
so
oft
part
with
,
and
exclaime
against
little
,
when
as
they
keep
little
?
or
what
is
it
that
feeds
or
clothes
them
their
future
hopes
,
which
are
so
Great
,
or
their
present
revenues
which
are
little
?
&
then
too
,
is
not
one
bird
in
the
hand
worth
two
in
the
bush
,
their
little
possessions
more
confortable
then
their
Great
expectations
of
I
know
not
what
which
because
they
looke
after
I
know
not
why
,
they
may
obtaine
I
know
not
when
.
In
the
fancy
of
a
man
not
acquainted
through
observation
with
the
absurdities
of
the
World
,
it
would
raise
a
combustion
to
immagine
there
were
beeing
such
a
crue
of
Heritiques
:
for
is
it
not
very
plaine
and
evident
,
performances
are
better
then
promises
,
and
are
not
promises
Great
,
performances
but
little
?
Why
,
every
ordinary
Gallant
almost
you
meete
with
wil
rise
up
an
argument
in
this
,
for
in
his
easie
ambling
Discourse
you
shall
find
though
he
cannot
speak
much
to
the
purpose
,
yet
he
can
speake
little
to
the
purpose
,
and
is
not
that
which
is
to
the
purpose
better
then
that
which
is
not
?
'T
is
true
,
the
Vulgar
people
of
the
World
,
are
likewise
of
opinion
with
the
former
.
But
wrong
not
your selfe
(
most
perfect
abridgment
of
Nature
)
so
as
to
bee
led
by
the
inconstant
opinions
of
the
vulgar
,
who
account
this
a
Paradox
,
which
is
most
Orthodox
;
little
better
then
Great
:
the
vulgar
,
that
Hydra-headed
multitude
whose
very
reasons
(
not
much
unlike
those
in
their
shops
,
fraile
ones
)
because
of
their
rarity
wi●h
them
are
to
bee
suspected
,
but
as
for
their
obstinat
tenents
of
all
wisedomes
followers
to
be
detested
&
abhorred
.
I
wil
not
deny
but
that
there
may
be
some
oblique
,
seeming-faire
,
colourable
reasons
pittifully
forced
by
them
for
the
inveagling
of
men
to
bestow
credit
on
their
poore
assertion
,
yet
it
can
never
bee
beaten
into
my
braine
but
that
they
may
bee
gently
confuted
in
it
by
their
owne
home-spun
Proverbs
.
A
Great
Head
is
signe
of
a
little
wit
;
that
's
one
of
them
;
then
I
demand
,
which
is
better
,
a
Great
Head
without
a
little
wit
,
or
a
little
wit
without
a
Great
Head
?
for
any
Head
will
serve
with
a
little
wit
,
better
then
a
Great
Head
without
any
Wit
:
Another
of
them
is
this
:
A
little
head
is
signe
of
a
Great
Wit
:
Which
(
but
by
granting
their
assertion
,
Great
is
better
then
little
)
confutes
their
assertion
,
and
proveth
little
better
then
Great
:
For
if
a
Great
Wit
bee
found
in
a
little
head
,
then
a
little
head
must
be
better
then
a
Great
Head
,
because
it
containes
the
better
,
that
is
,
the
Greater
Wit
;
and
if
a
little
wit
bee
found
in
a
Great
Head
,
then
a
little
wit
must
needes
be
better
then
a
Great
Wit
,
because
it
groweth
in
a
better
soyle
,
the
Greater
Head
:
I
hope
therefore
that
as
they
will
not
deny
to
turne
upon
them
their
owne
proverbiall
weapon
,
Too
much
of
one
thing
is
good
for
nothing
:
so
beeing
thus
convict
,
they
cannot
but
confesse
,
A
little
of
every
thing
is
excellent
in
all
things
.
I
,
but
they
never
thought
(
because
it
was
generally
received
)
there
were
any
reasons
to
the
contrary
;
there
would
bee
a
great
scarsity
of
reasons
sure
in
the
World
,
if
there
were
no
other
then
those
they
could
think
of
;
and
though
they
doe
not
perceive
a
reason
why
little
should
be
better
then
Great
;
there
may
bee
a
reason
which
they
doe
not
perceive
;
well
though
they
have
lived
in
ignorance
,
it
were
to
bee
wished
they
would
give
us
some
hope
,
they
meant
not
to
dye
so
,
by
recanting
their
errour
.
What
though
little
better
then
Great
,
seeme
to
the
vulgar
a
Paradoxe
?
may
it
be
ever
the
lesse
Orthodoxe
,
considering
all
things
are
not
as
they
seeme
?
as
for
example
,
some
men
want
not
onely
that
which
they
have
not
,
but
also
that
which
they
have
:
This
seems
to
be
an
incongruous
speech
,
and
yet
though
seeming
so
,
it
is
not
so
,
for
it
is
verified
of
the
Covetous
.
One
would
thinke
this
to
bee
an
absurd
saying
:
If
hee
bee
a
foole
hee
is
a
wise
man
;
if
hee
bee
a
wise
man
hee
is
a
foole
,
yet
though
seeming
so
,
it
is
not
so
,
for
it
is
verified
(
as
a
Philosopher
avouch'd
it
)
of
a
man
that
is
silent
.
How
confident
are
men
in
beleeving
the
world
is
very
bigge
,
and
that
the
Sea
is
of
an
unk●owne
profund●●y
,
when
as
the
World
is
but
a
d●yes
walke
〈◊〉
the
Sunne
goes
about
it
in
24
houres
,
and
the
Sea
which
men
thinke
so
deepe
is
but
shallow
,
for
't
is
but
a
stones
cast
to
the
bottome
.
The
Impuritans
of
the
time
who
set
their
Sermons
on
the
tenters
,
and
use
most
prolixe
and
long
winded
sentences
,
casting
their
auditory
into
a
holy
nap
,
through
the
ilnesse
of
their
matter
,
and
waking
them
againe
by
the
shrilnesse
of
their
clamour
,
may
be
(
happily
)
by
wise
men
censured
to
do
it
out
of
tedious
ignorance
,
&
't
is
a
grave
coniecture
:
yet
(
under
favour
)
wise
men
are
but
men
,
and
may
mistake
,
for
it
is
out
of
conscience
to
allow
long
measure
to
their
course
ware
:
If
then
speeches
which
seeme
improper
,
yet
may
bee
nothing
lesse
,
and
many
men
,
even
wisemen
,
have
beene
,
are
dayly
,
and
to
the
worlds
end
more
or
lesse
will
be
mistaken
in
their
opinions
;
why
may
not
little
bee
better
then
Great
,
although
it
seeme
not
so
,
or
though
some
men
(
reputed
in
other
things
very
Wise
)
have
thought
to
the
contrary
.
And
if
a
man
but
seriously
observe
,
hee
shall
finde
very
few
things
such
as
they
seeme
:
and
by
reason
wise
men
also
have
their
weake
times
,
their
verdict
to
bee
no
sufficient
argument
to
command
universall
beliefe
,
especially
where
reason
is
pregnant
with
probable
proofes
on
the
adverse
side
,
add
to
this
,
diffidence
being
so
necessary
a
part
of
wisedome
.
Besides
,
admit
this
position
little
better
then
Great
,
seeme
very
strange
,
yet
stranger
then
this
have
bin
admitted
,
after
a
rationall
examination
,
and
therefore
why
not
this
upon
the
like
consideration
?
When
I
had
one
servant
,
I
had
a
servant
;
when
I
had
two
servants
,
I
had
halfe
a
servant
;
when
I
had
three
,
I
had
never
a
one
:
this
speech
I
presume
may
be
beleeved
to
be
a
very
mad
one
,
and
yet
it
is
a
most
wise
one
;
for
't
is
resolved
thus
:
A
Master
having
but
one
servant
,
thought
him
over-burthened
with
work
,
and
therfore
tooke
another
to
helpe
him
,
(
now
hee
had
two
)
but
each
so
trusted
to
the
others
observance
,
that
they
were
often
missing
,
and
the
worke
not
done
;
he
chose
another
,
(
so
he
had
three
)
and
was
then
worse
served
then
before
:
All
things
at
Sea
are
mad
:
This
saying
likewise
I
presume
would
bee
reputed
a
very
mad
one
(
especially
by
Sea-faring
men
,
they
would
storme
at
it
)
and
yet
why
may
not
it
bee
a
most
true
one
?
The
Ship
is
mad
,
for
it
never
stands
still
:
The
Mariners
are
mad
to
expose
themselves
to
such
imminent
dangers
:
The
Waters
are
raging
mad
in
perpetuall
motion
;
and
the
Windes
are
as
mad
as
the
rest
,
they
know
not
whence
they
come
,
nor
whither
they
would
goe
.
Was
not
the
quadrature
of
the
circle
maintained
by
men
of
approved
iudgement
Hippocrates
Chius
among
the
ancient
,
and
by
Orontius
Finaeus
among
the
moderne
?
Did
not
that
excellent
Philosopher
Copernicus
affirme
the
earth
wee
stand
on
did
not
stand
still
,
but
move
circularly
?
the
good
old
man
was
to
bee
commended
in
that
he
dealt
roundly
with
the
world
,
and
told
them
the
truth
of
his
opinion
,
which
(
happily
)
was
the
opinion
of
truth
:
for
why
may
not
the
Earth
moove
,
we
departing
from
the
Heavens
,
and
they
stand
still
,
as
well
as
the
Earth
bee
thought
to
stand
still
,
and
the
heavens
moving
,
seeme
to
depart
us
?
Did
not
Pythagoras
avouch
the
Spheares
to
be
musicall
?
but
our
soules
locked
up
in
our
bodies
,
for
the
present
can
not
heare
the
Harmony
?
such
Musick
certainely
there
is
,
the
like
was
never
heard
of
.
And
Lucian
,
that
splendid
wit
,
did
in
his
Iudgement
beleeve
,
that
the
soules
of
griping
Vsurers
(
if
they
had
any
)
at
their
Deaths
,
for
certaine
thousands
of
Yeeres
transmigrated
into
the
bodies
of
Asses
,
and
why
should
not
others
beleeve
it
?
it
were
but
fitting
,
that
poore
men
with
whip
and
cudgell
might
take
their
penny-worths
out
of
them
.
And
not
onely
mens
Opinions
,
but
likewise
many
of
their
Actions
demonstrate
All
things
are
not
as
they
seeme
:
For
what
think
you
of
him
who
made
diligent
search
at
all
the
Innes
of
the
Towne
to
finde
his
yong
chesnut
colour'd
Gelding
,
with
a
Starre
in
his
fore-head
,
and
a
white
foote
,
when
as
the
knave
had
none
,
but
came
thither
a
foote
:
of
another
,
who
going
to
the
Faire
,
after
hee
stately
stalked
thorow
the
chiefe
Streets
,
cheapning
Orient
Iewels
,
choise
pictures
,
new-fashion'd
plate
,
rich
hangings
,
and
the
dearest
imbroideries
,
departed
home
with
the
buying
only
of
a
woodden
dish
:
or
of
a
third
,
who
going
to
their
shops
that
sell
costly
apparrell
,
calls
confidently
to
see
a
suit
of
an
hundred
pounds
,
and
when
they
were
agreed
of
the
price
,
quarrels
with
his
boy
for
following
him
without
his
purse
.
Nor
is
this
verified
onely
in
such
Peripateticall
mad-caps
,
but
in
contemplating
Philosophers
,
in
conquering
Commanders
:
Did
not
Diogenes
,
seeing
a
company
of
unskilful
Archers
shooting
(
that
he
might
save
himselfe
from
the
Arrowes
)
runne
and
stand
at
the
marke
,
that
in
his
knowledge
being
,
and
in
successe
proving
,
though
not
so
to
standers
by
at
first
seeming
,
the
onely
place
of
safety
.
Did
not
Bessus
a
Captaine
,
who
thought
for
feare
with
his
company
to
have
fled
;
mistaking
his
way
,
runne
headlong
with
them
upon
his
enemies
,
&
so
gave
them
a
famous
overthrow
,
his
side
by
that
means
getting
the
day
:
If
errours
in
wars
bee
the
way
to
get
Conquests
,
and
shooting-markes
be
places
for
men
to
stand
at
for
safety
,
the
former
proved
in
the
happy
successe
of
a
Commander
,
the
latter
ratified
in
the
wise
choyse
of
a
Phylosopher
,
&
such
a
one
as
Alexander
vouchsafed
to
say
;
If
I
were
not
Alexander
,
I
would
bee
Diogenes
:
doubtlesse
then
the
World
is
in
credit
ingaged
to
recant
many
of
its
credulous
customes
;
(
custome
without
verity
being
but
an
old
heresie
)
that
so
men
being
disburthened
of
those
Great
errours
wherewith
their
opinions
have
beene
loaded
so
long
,
they
may
prove
more
capable
of
the
entertainment
of
truth
and
her
propositions
,
of
which
one
of
the
most
refinedst
is
this
now
treated
of
,
little
better
then
Great
:
which
now
for
any
to
deny
as
impossible
,
could
be
reputed
no
lesse
then
presumptuous
obstinacy
,
since
so
really
hath
been
demonstrated
,
All
things
are
not
as
they
seeme
,
by
various
Arguments
,
fetched
from
the
speeches
,
opinions
,
and
actions
of
the
better
sort
of
men
.
And
not
only
some
particular
persons
in
their
speeches
,
opinions
,
and
actions
,
but
whole
professions
,
nay
flourishing
Nations
by
their
apparant
customes
demonstrate
this
assertion
:
First
,
for
Professions
;
who
seeme
more
devout
then
Clergy-men
?
or
who
seeme
to
take
more
delight
in
Law
then
Lawyers
?
or
in
medicines
then
Physitians
?
and
yet
(
according
to
the
saying
of
a
learned
Arch-bishop
of
Florence
)
Lawyers
goe
not
to
Law
,
Physitians
take
no
physick
,
and
some
Divines
are
scarce
good
Christians
.
Secondly
for
Nations
,
it
is
the
fashion
of
the
women
of
Muscovy
,
to
love
that
Husband
best
which
beateth
them
most
,
and
to
thinke
themselves
never
loved
or
regarded
,
unlesse
they
be
two
or
three
times
a
day
wel
favouredly
swadled
.
In
Tartaria
a
man
sees
not
her
he
intends
to
wed
,
till
they
be
married
,
but
hearing
a
good
report
of
the
young
woman
,
sollicits
her
father
for
her
;
If
he
be
willing
they
meete
at
the
Chancell
of
the
Church
in
which
there
is
a
partition
,
through
a
hole
whereof
hee
puts
his
hand
,
and
taketh
his
wife
by
hers
;
then
her
mother
with
a
sharpe
instrument
all
to
bee
pricketh
his
hand
,
if
he
let
her
goe
they
deeme
it
a
refusall
,
but
if
hee
hold
her
fast
and
wring
her
by
the
hand
till
shee
squeake
,
then
is
he
accounted
a
most
loving
husband
,
and
her
friends
reioyce
for
her
happy
match
.
In
generall
to
conclude
,
have
you
not
heard
of
men
that
stumble
at
strawes
,
and
leap
over
blocks
:
Of
Democritus
a
Phylosopher
,
who
having
put
his
eyes
out
,
that
hee
might
the
better
contemplate
,
yet
saw
more
then
all
Greece
:
and
in
that
Greece
that
there
was
never
lesse
wisedome
then
in
the
time
of
the
seven
Wise
men
,
of
Brutus
when
hee
seemed
maddest
was
the
wisest
of
the
Tarquines
;
and
of
one
Supputius
who
to
converse
but
with
one
Wise
man
,
travelled
all
over
Europe
,
which
men
thought
so
full
of
them
,
and
yet
returned
without
his
errand
,
and
could
find
none
.
Omne
meum
,
&
nihil
meum
,
that
saying
of
Macrobius
is
not
so
knowne
as
true
.
Is
it
not
true
,
that
when
Princes
(
prompted
by
Heaven
)
confer
dignity
on
excelling
men
,
though
the
Greater
sort
thinke
the
Honor
onely
doth
accrue
to
the
receivers
,
yet
the
wiser
few
in
their
hearts
confesse
,
and
then
in
their
tongues
to
the
world
expresse
it
chiefly
to
bee
in
the
givers
.
A
man
may
see
much
,
and
yet
perceive
little
;
a
strange
position
,
and
yet
verified
of
a
weake
Traveller
.
A
man
may
be
seene
abroad
,
and
yet
walke
invisible
;
and
unusuall
speech
,
and
yet
verified
of
an
able
reserved
man
.
One
may
have
bad
policy
in
him
,
&
yet
be
a
good
man
;
a
suspected
sentence
,
and
yet
verified
of
a
faithful
profound
Statist
,
(
that
hath
by
Art
his
Engines
to
fore-see
forraigne
mischiefes
,
and
prevent
them
,
to
the
advantage
of
his
Masters
honour
,
not
onely
dexterity
,
when
they
are
fallen
,
to
shift
them
,
to
his
Masters
content
)
for
bad
policy
may
bee
in
the
knowledge
of
good
men
,
but
in
the
practice
of
wicked
.
Some
man
payes
not
so
much
for
any
thing
,
as
for
that
which
is
given
him
;
an
unlikely
,
yet
a
certaine
truth
:
for
it
is
knowne
of
the
generous
,
who
by
taking
a
courtesie
,
parts
with
that
hee
accounts
most
deare
,
his
liberty
:
I
could
bee
yet
infinite
in
instances
,
(
most
Honour'd
Sir
)
but
that
I
study
brevity
,
that
I
may
like
you
in
all
things
:
I
presume
any
cleare
iudgement
may
have
satisfaction
by
these
,
so
as
not
any
way
to
offer
to
deny
,
since
so
many
things
are
not
as
they
seeme
(
especially
adding
to
consideration
things
more
unlikely
are
true
,
as
for
a
creature
to
eate
iron
,
as
the
Estridge
;
or
to
live
in
fire
,
as
the
Salamander
)
but
that
it
is
in
it selfe
possible
,
little
may
be
,
and
upon
reasons
alleadged
probable
,
little
is
,
better
then
Great
.
When
the
Lapidaries
digge
in
the
earth
,
what
is
al
their
pains
for
,
but
to
finde
parvum
in
Magno
,
a
little
of
gold
in
a
Great
deale
of
Ground
;
and
if
Great
were
so
excellent
as
men
doe
fancie
it
,
yet
you
may
finde
Magnum
in
parvo
that
Great
excellency
in
sundry
little
things
.
We
know
there
are
foure
parts
of
the
World
,
and
among
them
Europe
the
least
;
yet
in
fertility
of
grounds
,
variety
of
people
and
kingdomes
,
and
in
the
flourishing
wits
of
most
learned
men
,
it
surpasses
the
Greatest
,
nay
them
all
:
In
Europe
how
little
was
Rome
,
yet
shee
hath
visited
Europe
,
Asia
,
and
Africke
with
wars
and
victories
,
and
to
the
whole
world
given
Lawes
&
command
.
Among
beasts
what
more
valiant
then
the
Lyon
?
who
compared
with
a
Bull
,
Horse
or
Elephant
is
but
little
;
or
if
it
be
obiected
,
a
Lyon
is
somewhat
Great
,
it
must
be
confessed
a
Cocke
is
wondrous
little
,
at
whose
crowing
the
Lyon
for
all
his
Great
valour
will
tremble
.
Quid
solertius
prudentia
apum
?
parvae
sunt
.
Quid
laboriosius
diligentia
formicarum
?
parvae
sunt
.
Quid
subtilius
ingenio
aranearum
?
parvae
sunt
.
(
as
the
Orator
aptly
.
Among
the
chirping
Quiristers
of
the
Aire
,
those
which
sing
sweetest
or
flie
swiftest
,
are
of
birds
the
least
.
What
excellent
soule-ravishing
notes
heare
we
from
a
little
Nightingall
?
And
as
on
things
little
,
Nature
hath
bestowed
a
kind
of
excellency
,
for
which
they
become
so
admired
:
so
with
that
excellency
,
potency
,
least
they
should
be
despised
,
and
utility
that
they
might
be
desired
of
all
.
The
potency
of
little
appeares
,
in
that
life
it selfe
dependeth
but
on
a
small
thread
,
and
the
least
gnat
in
the
aire
can
choake
one
,
as
it
did
a
Pope
of
Rome
;
a
little
haire
in
Milke
strangle
one
,
as
it
did
a
Councellor
in
Rome
;
a
little
stone
of
a
Raisin
stop
ones
breath
,
as
it
did
the
Poeticall
pipe
of
Anacreon
:
and
well
knowne
it
is
by
men
experienced
in
Histories
,
how
Themistocles
little
army
overcame
Xerxes
Great
Hoast
.
And
can
any
thing
bee
more
commodious
for
Schollers
and
Travellers
,
then
little
maps
in
which
are
perfectly
delineated
the
Greatest
Kingdomes
?
But
why
call
we
any
kingdome
Great
,
when
as
all
things
in
the
World
,
as
it selfe
,
are
very
little
?
Alcibiades
braggeth
of
his
lands
,
Socrates
reacheth
him
a
Mappe
,
bids
him
demonstrate
where
they
lye
;
alas
hee
could
not
finde
them
,
nor
scarce
discerne
Athens
it selfe
,
it
was
so
small
a
poynt
in
respect
of
the
World
,
&
the
World
is
but
as
a
point
in
respect
of
Heaven
,
&
Heaven
being
finite
,
is
but
as
a
little
point
compared
to
its
maker
,
which
is
infinite
.
The
Sunne
how
Bigge
in
compasse
soever
it
bee
in
it selfe
,
it
is
the
pleasure
of
Heaven
to
shew
it
to
us
according
to
the
smalnesse
of
a
peck
:
and
those
coelestiall
Glowormes
the
Starres
,
we
●ee
but
as
little
pibbles
.
What
so
vexes
the
Sea
,
and
makes
it
roare
,
but
its
Greatnesse
?
how
angry
and
furious
grows
it
,
even
to
the
losse
of
many
mens
lives
,
when
the
Winde
presumes
to
puffe
it
into
Bigge-swelling
waves
;
whereas
let
it
have
but
its
owne
liberty
in
a
vent
,
how
swiftly
runs
it
,
as
eager
of
lessening
it selfe
,
and
though
imprisoned
,
y●t
through
naturall
pollicy
it
secretly
undermines
by
degrees
those
bankes
which
violently
keep
it
in
its
full
Greatnesse
,
as
endeavouring
ever
to
bee
little
.
What
though
Rivers
so
commodious
to
common-wealths
be
very
Great
,
yet
the
Spring-head
from
whence
they
flow
are
but
little
.
Flumina
Magna
vides
parvis
de
fontibus
orta
,
Ovid.
The
Cloudes
weepe
not
downe
their
gratefull
teares
in
Great
Floods
,
but
by
droppes
.
Great
and
High
Mountaines
,
natures
Bulwarkes
,
cast
up
(
as
the
Spaniard
saies
)
at
God
Almighties
owne
charges
;
what
are
they
but
heaps
of
rubbish
,
and
offals
left
of
the
creation
of
the
World
,
as
so
many
warts
or
pimples
,
disfiguring
the
smooth
face
of
the
earth
?
the
difficulty
of
their
ascent
,
the
horridnesse
of
their
crags
,
the
wildnesse
of
their
inhabitants
(
beasts
or
people
)
the
chilnesse
of
their
frosty
toppes
;
with
the
inhospitable
barrennesse
of
their
rugged
sides
leave
often
an
imputation
of
poverty
&
barbarousnes
to
that
Country
that
hath
most
of
them
:
Whereas
the
low
vallies
are
most
pleasant
,
most
fruitfull
,
most
hospitable
,
enriching
the
inhabitants
,
refreshed
with
wholesome
springs
,
beautified
with
curious
structures
;
among
which
likewise
the
Cedarbuilt
Pallace
is
oft
strucke
with
thunder
,
when
the
shrubby
cottage
is
secure
.
Would
a
man
live
happily
and
well
?
let
him
ever
be
getting
a
little
,
for
Horace
saith
:
Vivitur
parvo
bene
.
Is
he
not
yet
content
,
but
would
live
better
?
let
him
still
continue
his
endeavours
of
getting
,
though
never
so
little
,
for
Claudian
saith
:
Vivitur
exiguo
melius
:
Nay
,
little
is
so
lovely
,
that
wee
should
not
onely
endeavour
for
it
,
as
a
thing
necessary
(
for
is
it
not
most
necessary
every
one
should
have
a
little
?
)
but
reioyce
in
it
as
a
thing
pleasant
;
and
Great
is
so
cumbersome
,
that
we
should
not
onely
not
desire
it
,
but
flie
from
it
,
and
both
these
prooved
out
of
Catullus
.
Quod
nimium
est
fugito
,
parvo
gaudere
memento
.
But
you
perhaps
(
Sir
)
may
demand
,
is
a
little
wit
better
then
a
Great
Wit
?
or
a
little
estate
,
better
then
a
Great
Estate
?
or
little
honesty
,
better
then
Great
Honesty
?
or
little
knowledge
,
better
then
Great
Knowledge
?
I
will
not
presume
,
being
of
the
weaker
Sexe
(
admired
Sir
)
herein
to
decide
any
thing
;
onely
bee
your selfe
the
iudge
:
The
Philosopher
saith
,
There
is
no
Great
Wit
without
a
mixture
of
madnesse
;
then
probably
(
by
the
rule
of
contraries
)
no
little
wit
without
a
mixture
of
prudence
;
now
iudge
you
which
is
better
,
to
bee
with
a
Great
Wit
madde
,
or
with
a
little
wit
wise
?
As
for
Estates
,
the
practice
of
the
World
(
contrary
to
their
opinions
)
in
effect
maintaines
the
affirmative
;
for
every
man
possessing
a
Great
Estate
accounts
money
but
as
durt
,
but
when
once
by
any
casualtie
it
becōes
little
,
then
he
makes
much
of
it
:
Yet
howsoever
,
grant
a
Great
Estate
were
better
,
yet
all
know
it
is
commonly
gained
but
by
degrees
,
that
is
,
by
little
and
little
.
A
Lord
who
hath
Great
Revenues
,
is
oft
found
melancholy
,
sighing
;
when
his
hired
Groome
(
who
has
little
or
nothing
)
is
blithe
,
whistling
.
As
for
honesty
,
wheresoever
it
is
found
,
it
is
(
I
confesse
)
very
excellent
;
yet
more
excellent
(
likely
)
where
it
causeth
,
besides
love
,
admiration
;
then
where
it
barely
moves
affection
:
We
love
it
in
good
men
,
we
both
love
and
wonder
to
discover
it
in
knaves
;
now
is
not
good
mens
honesty
very
Great
?
and
finde
wee
not
it
in
knaves
very
little
?
Lastly
,
how
little
knowledge
is
better
then
Great
,
may
bee
thus
demonstrated
,
the
Greatest-Clerkes
are
not
the
wisest
men
.
Little
children
(
as
most
innocent
)
best
for
imitation
;
little
women
(
as
most
nimble-spirited
)
best
for
generation
;
little
men
(
as
most
witty
)
best
for
negotiation
.
Aske
every
Schoole-boy
,
and
he
can
tell
you
,
parvi
penditur
honestas
,
honesty
it selfe
is
but
of
little
account
:
Aske
the
tradesman
,
and
he
will
tell
you
,
that
a
short
terme
is
better
then
a
Long
Vacation
:
Aske
the
Scholler
,
and
hee
will
tell
you
,
nothing
is
better
then
Wisedome
,
and
then
aske
any
Courtier
,
whether
little
be
not
better
then
nothing
.
Goe
on
,
goe
on
therefore
,
(
diminutive
Sir
)
with
the
guide
of
Honour
,
and
service
of
Fortune
,
your
lovelinesse
being
such
,
as
no
man
can
disdaine
to
serve
you
,
your
littlenesse
such
,
as
no
man
needes
to
feare
you
,
the
first
having
put
you
without
hatred
,
the
latter
below
envy
:
Your
little
low
person
(
me
thinkes
)
is
natures
humble
pulpit
,
out
of
which
shee
reads
graces
diviner
lectures
to
High-aspiring
Mortals
:
and
whereas
some
in
the
world
(
wedded
to
errour
)
may
fondly
imagine
your
residence
at
Court
,
to
bee
rather
for
wonder
and
merriment
,
then
for
any
use
or
service
;
you
may
require
from
them
no
lesse
satisfaction
then
a
publique
recantation
:
For
as
it
hath
beene
the
custome
of
famous
Princes
to
use
(
at
chiefe
times
)
some
ceremony
which
represented
some
hidden
Morall
:
as
at
the
Court
of
Bel-gian
David
,
or
Prester
Iohn
,
the
powerfullest
Potentate
in
all
Africke
,
the
first
Dish
served
in
at
their
Festivalls
is
a
Deaths-head
;
and
it
hath
beene
in
use
,
that
the
Coronation
of
Kings
was
celebrated
at
the
Sepulcher
of
their
Fathers
;
and
the
Pope
at
his
Inaugura●ion
hath
4.
Marble
stones
presented
unto
out
of
which
he
chooseth
his
toombe-stone
:
So
(
at
all
times
)
the
residence
of
dwarfes
in
Courts
hath
a
twofold
Representment
,
Theologicall
,
and
Politicall
,
the
first
to
the
Soveraigne
,
the
second
,
to
the
Subiect
:
For
the
first
,
as
Philip
King
of
Macedon
betimes
every
morning
had
a
little
boy
came
unto
him
,
and
cryed
,
Philippe
,
memento
te
esse
mortalem
,
O
Philip
,
remember
how
thou
art
mortall
:
So
little
dwarfes
(
boyes
in
proportion
,
though
perchance
men
in
discretion
)
being
about
a
Monarch
,
though
silent
,
yet
their
very
persons
(
being
with
Princes
of
the
same
naturall
extraction
)
are
as
a
voice
crying
,
Rex
,
memento
te
esse
minimum
:
O
King
remember
how
thou
art
little
,
borne
like
others
little
,
to
teach
thee
to
Heaven
,
humility
,
to
Earth
,
humanity
:
For
the
second
,
the
civill
regard
in
relation
to
the
subiect
:
the
residence
of
dwarfes
about
Monarchs
hath
beene
by
those
who
are
grounded
Politicians
accounted
emblemattically
necessary
,
to
denote
those
who
desire
to
approach
neere
Princes
ought
not
to
bee
ambitious
of
any
Greatnesse
in
themselves
,
but
to
acknowledge
all
their
Court-lustre
is
but
a
beame
of
the
Royall
Sunne
their
Master
,
which
when
,
and
to
whom
,
he
please
hee
can
send
forth
or
withdraw
.
Minde
not
,
minde
not
therefore
(
most
perfect
abridgement
of
Nature
)
the
Great
neglect
which
the
ignorant
vulgar
cast
upon
littlenesse
,
considering
it
hath
made
you
an
attendant
of
Princes
,
&
is
in
it selfe
so
full
of
worth
,
that
for
it
onely
you
were
thus
preferred
.
And
though
it
seemes
a
meere
riddle
to
say
,
You
are
alwaies
at
Court
,
and
yet
are
very
little
there
;
yet
your
person
makes
it
so
famous
a
one
,
that
were
Homer
alive
,
and
had
his
eyes
againe
,
again
he
would
by
this
loose
them
,
or
else
weepe
them
out
,
that
he
lost
them
before
by
that
lowsy
one
of
Fishermen
(
Quod
capimus
perdimus
,
Quod
non
capimus
tenemus
:
What
wee
take
wee
loose
,
what
wee
take
not
wee
keepe
)
and
missed
the
happy
aenigma
of
your
admired
corpusculum
.
And
since
little
is
prooved
better
then
Great
,
little
Schoole-boyes
(
I
doubt
not
)
will
wisely
relinquish
their
old
theame-exordium
:
Vt
olim
Alexander
ille
Magnus
Macedonum
Rex
:
and
learning
out
by
enquiry
some
of
your
splendid
deeds
,
will
learnedly
front
their
exercises
thus
,
Ut
nuper
Galfredus
ille
parvus
Britanniae
pumilio
.
Certainely
if
there
be
any
thing
in
the
World
worth
the
relying
on
,
it
is
very
little
;
no
Great
or
Long
happinesse
here
to
bee
expected
,
but
very
little
and
short
.
When
one's
undone
by
fire
or
shipwrack
,
or
goods
taken
by
Pyrats
,
what
sets
him
up
but
the
Kings
little
prince
is
a
better
man
then
the
Kings
Greatest
Subiect
?
Nay
,
the
King
himselfe
,
who
is
Gods
Epilogue
,
and
mans
Prologue
,
take
him
in
the
better
consideration
,
with
God
,
he
is
minor
;
take
him
in
the
other
,
with
man
,
he
is
Maior
;
for
so
Tertullian
,
Imperator
est
Maior
omnibus
,
solo
Deo
minor
:
A
King
is
Greater
then
all
others
,
lesse
onely
then
God
.
And
I
will
for
ever
heartily
pray
Heaven
blesse
our
Queene
,
because
she
hath
made
the
Kingdome
happy
by
bringing
his
Maiesty
so
many
little
ones
.
In
short
,
who
desireth
not
in
debt
to
be
as
little
as
may
bee
?
and
what
a
rare
temper
is
it
in
men
of
desart
not
to
bee
ambitious
of
Greatnes
?
&
even
in
the
Highest
matters
which
men
attempt
,
how
commonly
the
most
doe
come
short
,
and
in
their
Greatest
businesse
effect
but
little
.
And
therefore
as
it
was
said
of
Scipio
that
he
was
nunquam
minus
solus
,
quam
cum
solus
,
never
lesse
alone
,
then
when
alone
:
so
it
may
be
said
of
you
(
excellent
abstract
of
Greatnesse
)
that
you
are
nunquam
minus
parvus
,
quam
cum
parvus
,
never
lesse
little
,
then
when
little
.
I
hope
you
will
pardon
me
,
if
in
my
stile
I
have
used
a
little
boldnesse
,
and
familiarity
,
you
knowing
it
to
bee
so
commendable
,
and
that
it
is
Nimia
Familiaritas
,
Great
Boldnes
onely
which
breedeth
contempt
;
especially
since
you
are
no
stranger
,
but
of
my
owne
Countrie
,
an
Englishman
,
though
some
(
iudging
by
your
stature
)
have
taken
you
to
bee
a
Low-country-man
.
Many
merry
New-yeares
are
wished
unto
you
,
by
The
sworne
servant
of
your
Honours
perfections
,
PARVULA
.
Postscript
.
If
the
Great
Length
of
my
Letter
hath
molested
your
more
serious
Affaires
,
you
may
thence
gather
the
convenience
of
little
;
and
yet
that
it
might
not
displease
,
I
appointed
it
(
by
my
servant
Microphilus
)
to
be
written
in
your
owne
hand
.
FINIS
.