Essaies
POLITICKE
,
and
MORALL
.
By
D.
T.
Gent.
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Printed
By
H.
L.
for
Mathew
Lownes
,
dwelling
in
Paules
Churchyard
.
1608.
The
chiefe
Heads
,
handled
in
this
Booke
.
-
Of
Perswasion
:
wherin
is
discoursed
-
Of
Opinion
.
-
Of
Affection
.
-
Of
The
force
of
Reason
.
-
Of
Prayses
.
-
Of
Paines
,
and
Industrie
.
-
Of
cautions
in
Friendship
.
-
Of
three
thinges
prejudiciall
to
Secrecie
.
-
Of
Reputation
.
-
Of
Accusation
.
To
the
Right
Honorable
,
and
vertuous
LADIE
,
the
Ladie
Anne
Harington
.
MAdam
,
The
desire
I
had
to
manifest
my
seruiceable
affection
towards
your
Honour
in
outwarde
Complement
,
hath
on
such
idle
houres
,
as
remained
free
to
mee
from
your
imployments
,
begot
this
young
and
tender
Infant
;
whom
I
presum'd
,
vpon
his
birth
(
beeing
yet
an
Embrio
in
his
fathers
braine
)
to
devote
,
&
consecrate
wholly
to
your
honourable
Selfe
,
as
to
the
chiefe
,
and
finall
end
of
his
beeing
.
His
capacitie
is
not
of
the
weakest
:
and
therefore
,
howsoeuer
hee
may
now
seeme
altogether
vnfashion'd
,
I
make
no
doubt
,
but
by
conversing
with
your
Ladiship
(
whose
bosome
the
hand
of
heauen
hath
so
richlie
furnisht
with
all
exemplary
vertues
,
that
from
among
so
many
,
Wisdome
selected
you
,
to
be
the
Governesse
,
from
whom
the
Princely
issue
of
a
royall
bed
might
receiue
instruction
)
his
ruder
ignorance
may
be
reduced
to
a
better
forme
.
Essaies
are
the
things
hee
vttereth
.
His
yeeres
deny
him
that
length
of
breath
,
which
should
enable
him
to
holde
out
in
a
continued
,
and
long
discourse
.
My selfe
haue
imparted
vnto
him
,
part
of
that
beauty
and
Perfection
,
which
Art
,
&
Nature
hath
bestowed
on
me
.
Such
therfore
as
he
is
,
I
present
him
to
your
Honours
view
;
who
,
I
hope
,
will
affoorde
him
such
worthy
entertainement
,
as
may
hold
some
euen
correspondencie
,
with
his
desires
,
as
well
as
his
deserts
.
And
so
in
the
humblest
degree
of
service
,
that
either
loue
,
or
dutifull
observance
can
imagine
,
I
kisse
your
Honourable
handes
;
desirous
of
nothing
more
,
then
alwaies
to
be
reputed
,
Madam
,
Your
Honors
most
affectionate
seruant
,
D.
T.
Of
Perswasion
.
TO
ground
a
perswasion
of
what
nature
soeuer
,
in
the
hearts
of
a
publique
Audience
,
there
are
three
things
necessarily
required
:
The
one
consists
in
the
opinion
had
of
the
partie
perswading
:
The
other
,
in
the
affection
of
the
parties
to
be
perswaded
:
and
the
last
,
in
the
perspicuitie
,
and
soundnesse
of
the
reason
it selfe
,
by
which
hee
labours
to
perswade
them
.
As
concerning
the
first
,
it
was
thought
by
the
Magistrates
of
Sparta
,
to
be
a
matter
of
so
great
importance
,
that
when
they
perceiued
one
of
loose
,
&
dissolute
behauior
,
ready
to
propounde
vnto
the
people
,
an
aduertisement
,
the
approbation
whereof
,
they
knew
,
would
be
no
smal
enlargement
to
the
good
,
&
quietnes
of
their
State
,
&
Common-wealth
,
they
did
immediatly
command
him
silence
(
fearing
,
it
shold
seeme
,
least
his
known
manners
might
haue
preiudic't
the
excellency
of
the
thing
)
and
intreated
one
,
who
for
his
graue
&
vertuous
carriage
,
was
of
some
honor
and
reputation
amongst
them
,
to
take
vpon
him
the
invention
,
&
to
deliuer
it
vnto
them
,
as
if
it
had
proceeded
meerly
from
himselfe
.
And
it
hath
bin
alwaies
the
practice
of
wiser
States-men
,
for
the
better
composing
of
exasperated
minds
,
whither
it
were
in
the
blodie
factions
of
the
greater
,
or
in
the
tumultuous
broyles
of
the
meaner
,
to
chuse
som
one
whose
graue
representation
,
accompanied
with
a
remarquable
,
honest
,
and
vertuous
disposition
,
might
vpon
his
very
first
approch
,
work
an
awful
respect
towards
his
person
,
&
withal
a
reuerend
attention
towards
his
words
,
in
the
hearts
and
mindes
of
such
as
should
behold
him
.
For
there
are
not
any
so
mutinous
&
turbulent
assemblies
,
howsoeuer
they
may
seem
to
consist
of
those
actiue
&
working
spirites
,
quibus
quieta
movere
,
as
Salus
said
of
some
of
his
time
,
magna
merces
videtur
:
that
thinke
the
very
disturbance
of
things
established
,
a
sufficient
hyre
to
set
them
on
worke
,
but
will
some-what
(
though
incensed
Passions
arme
them
with
neuer
so
desperate
a
resolution
,
to
effect
their
mischieuous
projects
and
designes
)
honour
the
sight
&
presence
of
such
a
one
:
especially
,
when
they
think
he
is
not
interested
in
the
cause
,
or
induced
by
any
priuate
obligation
,
to
seek
the
good
of
the
one
partie
,
with
any
hurt
,
or
disaduantage
to
the
other
:
but
that
his
loue
and
affection
,
doth
equallie
border
vpon
both
,
&
that
the
reducing
of
them
to
a
peaceable
agreement
of
their
differences
for
the
publique
good
,
and
welfare
of
the
State
,
is
the
chiefest
,
and
onelie
marke
he
aymes
at
:
and
this
was
excellentlie
described
by
the
Poet
,
when
he
said
,
—
Magno
in
populo
cùm
saepè
coorta
est
Seditio
,
saeuitque
animis
ignobile
vulgus
:
Cumque
faces
,
et
saxa
volant
:
furor
arma
ministrat
.
Tūpietate
grauen
,
ac
meritis
,
si
fortè
virum
quem
Conspexêre
,
silent
:
arrectisque
auribus
adstant
.
And
for
this
cause
it
hath
been
a
custom
among
the
Spanyards
,
to
make
choice
of
Church-men
for
the
better
managing
of
such
businesses
:
yea
,
they
haue
beene
often-times
imploy'd
by
him
in
matters
of
treaty
,
with
an
intent
and
purpose
,
to
lende
a
greater
Maiestie
to
his
negotiations
,
and
more
feinedly
to
colour
his
subtil
fetches
&
deuices
:
as
when
for
the
assurance
of
his
new-got
conquest
of
Nauarre
,
he
sent
2.
Cordeliers
into
France
,
to
talke
with
the
Queene
about
a
peace
,
who
by
reason
of
the
credit
their
profession
had
gain'd
them
,
returned
homewards
with
no
ill
successe
.
Whereas
if
they
be
men
of
a
differing
fame
,
that
haue
the
carrying
of
such
affaires
,
their
reasons
,
be
they
neuer
so
apparantly
good
,
doe
lightlie
serue
to
no
better
vse
,
then
to
sharpen
and
stirre
vp
the
ill-affected
humours
of
their
crazie
mindes
the
more
;
whereby
in
the
end
,
themselues
becom
a
subiect
for
their
distemperature
to
worke
vpon
:
especiallie
,
when
that
smal
sparkle
of
Understanding
(
which
is
vsually
the
portion
of
the
vulgar
)
is
dimm'd
,
&
obscur'd
with
any
mist
of
preiudice
,
or
clowde
of
Passionate
affection
.
And
the
reason
hereof
is
,
the
shallow
ignorance
of
a
wauering
and
vnsteadie
multitude
,
which
beeing
for
the
most
part
led
to
iudge
of
matters
onely
by
a
Sensitiue
apprehension
they
haue
of
them
,
&
not
able
of
themselues
to
looke
further
into
the
depth
of
things
,
then
the
superficiall
bark
will
suffer
the
eye
of
their
externall
Sense
to
winde
it selfe
into
them
,
doe
often
times
by
reason
thereof
growe
iealous
euen
of
Vertue
it selfe
;
as
the
manie
exiles
,
and
Ostracismes
practiced
in
those
Democraticall
,
and
Popular
states
of
elder
times
can
sufficientlie
witnesse
:
and
therfore
are
the
more
to
be
excused
,
if
they
suspect
the
ends
and
purposes
of
such
,
as
are
not
knowne
to
them
at
all
,
or
not
knowne
to
them
at
least
for
any
eminent
good
quality
that
is
in
them
,
but
rather
for
the
contrarie
;
it
beeing
an
Axiome
approoued
of
most
men
,
that
Malus
,
Publius
.
vbi
bonum
se
simulat
,
tunc
est
pessimus
.
So
that
howsoeuer
good
Wine
let
not
to
be
good
by
beeing
poured
out
of
an
earthen
vessell
:
yet
to
present
a
wholesome
medicine
,
to
a
weaker
stomack
in
an
vnhandsome
box
,
is
to
the
grieued
Patient
oft-times
a
cause
of
disease
;
and
by
consequence
,
may
fall
out
to
bee
a
meanes
of
vtter
refusall
.
For
indeed
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Good
thinges
loose
the
grace
of
their
goodnesse
,
when
in
good
&
conuenient
maner
they
be
not
performed
:
and
so
likewise
,
when
by
good
and
conuenient
persons
they
bee
not
propounded
.
Eccles.
20.
ver:
19.
Hist.
l.
1.
Invisum
semel
principem
,
saith
Tacitus
,
seu
benè
,
seu
malè
facta
premunt
.
A
Prince
,
after
hee
hath
once
incurr'd
the
hatred
and
ill
opinion
of
his
subiects
,
and
by
some
one
particular
bad
action
or
other
,
alienated
&
estranged
their
affections
from
him
,
shall
find
the
glory
of
whatsoeuer
enterprize
he
shal
vndertake
,
to
be
blasted
euen
in
the
very
blossom
,
by
some
sinister
and
scandalous
interpretation
:
neither
will
the
lawfulnes
,
or
goodnesse
of
his
intention
,
be
a
sufficient
plea
,
to
preuent
it
from
being
burthensome
vnto
him
.
For
the
illustration
whereof
,
I
need
produce
no
other
instance
then
that
of
Vitellius
,
who
as
Tacitus
reports
,
after
his
entrance
into
Rome
,
Omnem
infimae
plebis
rumorem
affectabat
,
endeuord
,
all
he
could
,
to
mark
&
fashion
out
his
actions
,
by
the
square
and
rule
of
Popular
approbation
,
doing
many
things
,
which
had
they
proceeded
from
a
vertuous
ground
,
would
haue
been
receiued
as
pleasing
,
&
acceptable
;
but
in
him
,
memoriâ
vitae
prioris
,
indecora
et
vilia
accipiebantur
,
by
the
memory
of
his
fore-spent
life
,
they
were
of
most
men
accounted
as
dishonorable
,
&
base
.
Tiberius
,
when
Spanish
Adulation
wold
haue
erected
a
temple
to
the
perpetual
honor
of
his
name
,
did
most
earnestly
oppose
himselfe
against
their
determination
,
euen
in
open
Senat
:
Ego
me
P.
C.
saith
hee
,
mortalem
esse
,
et
hominum
officia
fungi
satisque
habere
,
si
locum
principem
impleam
,
et
vos
testor
,
et
meminisse
posteros
volo
:
qui
satis
,
superque
memoriae
meae
tribuent
,
vt
maioribus
meis
dignum
,
rerum
vestrarum
providum
,
constantem
in
periculis
,
offensionum
pro
vtilitate
publicâ
non
pavidum
credant
:
haec
mihi
in
animis
vestris
templa
,
hae
pulcherrimae
effigies
,
et
mansurae
:
That
I
am
mortall
,
and
that
I
vndergoe
the
offices
of
humane
frailtie
,
and
that
it
sufficeth
me
,
if
I
can
performe
the
place
wherevnto
I
am
called
,
I
take
you
to
witnesse
,
O
chosen
Senators
,
and
I
would
posteritie
should
bee
mindfull
of
it
,
who
shall
sufficiently
honour
my
remembrance
,
when
they
are
perswaded
,
that
I
am
woorthie
my
Ancestors
,
provident
in
your
affaires
,
constant
in
dangers
,
and
carelesse
of
offences
,
where
question
is
of
the
publique
good
.
These
shall
be
to
me
those
honorable
temples
,
and
those
excellent
statues
,
which
once
grounded
in
your
mindes
,
shall
remaine
for
euer
:
whereof
one
saith
,
they
were
praeclara
verba
,
sed
non
pro
Tiberio
:
they
were
excellent
words
,
had
they
beene
vttered
by
an
excellent
man
:
but
proceeding
from
him
,
they
serued
but
to
aggrauate
,
&
make
worse
,
the
fore-conceiued
suspicion
they
had
of
his
dissembling
carriage
.
So
likewise
,
Legi
à
se
militem
,
non
emi
,
said
Galba
:
whereof
Tacitus
speaking
,
saith
it
was
Vox
pro
Repub.
honesta
,
sed
ipsi
anceps
,
an
honest
,
and
well-beseeming
voyce
in
regard
of
the
common
wealth
,
but
doubtfull
in
respect
of
himselfe
.
Nec
enim
ad
hanc
formam
caetera
erant
:
for
the
rest
of
his
life
was
not
agreeable
heerevnto
.
And
hence
it
is
,
that
the
Oracle
of
heauen
,
speaking
by
the
mouth
of
Timothie
,
2.
Epis.
2.
ver.
19.
warneth
euery
one
that
calleth
vpon
the
name
of
Christ
,
to
depart
from
iniquitie
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Non
est
enim
,
saith
Theophilact
,
speciosalaus
in
ore
peccatoris
.
And
this
is
the
reason
why
Christ
himselfe
in
Mark
1.
v.
25.
rebuked
the
vncleane
spirit
,
and
commaunded
him
to
hold
his
peace
,
euen
then
,
when
hee
proclaimed
him
to
bee
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
holy
one
of
God
:
&
why
Paul
likewise
,
Act.
16.
ver.
18.
beeing
vexed
with
the
praises
,
and
commendations
of
the
Pythonist
,
who
folowing
him
,
and
his
company
,
continually
cryed
out
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
these
men
are
the
seruants
of
the
most
high
God
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
who
make
knowne
vnto
vs
the
way
of
saluation
,
commanded
the
spirit
to
come
forth
of
her
,
quasi
nolens
sanctus
ab
immundo
ore
commendari
.
Neither
was
it
without
reason
,
that
a
graue
&
wise
Philosopher
of
former
times
,
suspected
the
vprightnes
of
his
owne
carriage
,
when
hee
heard
himselfe
commended
by
one
,
whose
life
and
conversation
was
of
a
differing
strayne
.
How
then
can
those
impious
,
those
irreligious
and
Pharisaicall
Levites
of
this
corrupted
and
depraued
age
,
free
themselues
from
those
aspersions
and
imputations
,
which
euen
by
the
least
discerning
iudgments
(
such
is
the
palpablenesse
of
their
irregular
enormities
)
may
bee
iustlie
cast
vpon
them
;
for
that
notwithstanding
the
spirit
of
Truth
&
Knowledge
hath
enobled
them
so
farre
,
as
to
entitle
them
the
Salt
of
the
earth
(
where-with
whatsoeuer
is
not
seasoned
,
is
fatuous
&
vnsauourie
)
and
graced
them
with
so
high
a
vocation
,
as
is
the
dispensation
of
his
heauenly
mysteries
,
doe
runne
themselues
breathlesse
in
a
course
of
life
,
which
is
altogether
disproportionable
to
the
grounds
and
principles
of
Vertue
,
derogating
therby
not
a
little
from
the
excellencie
and
maiestie
of
his
celestiall
and
eternall
Word
?
For
whence
is
it
,
that
prophane
Atheisme
hath
taken
such
sure
footing
in
the
hearts
of
ignorant
,
and
simple
men
;
who
for
the
most
part
beeing
vnable
to
iudge
,
or
conceiue
of
vniuersalities
,
suffer
themselues
(
as
I
said
before
)
to
be
wholly
guided
by
their
externall
sense
,
but
onlie
from
the
boundlesse
dissolutions
of
some
Church-men
,
Rom.
2.
v.
24.
who
practise
not
themselues
,
that
which
they
propound
to
others
.
Wherefore
I
cannot
choose
but
commend
his
policie
,
who
hauing
converted
a
Iew
a
friend
of
his
,
to
Christianitie
,
&
perceiuing
him
presentlie
after
desirous
for
his
better
satisfaction
to
goe
to
Rome
,
laboured
by
all
meanes
to
disswade
him
from
it
;
fearing
,
least
the
corrupt
,
&
disordered
manners
of
the
Clergie
there
,
might
haue
wrought
in
him
some
dislike
of
the
Religion
,
&
so
by
consequence
haue
mooued
him
to
turne
Jew
againe
.
So
that
whosoeuer
would
effectually
work
vpon
the
minds
of
men
,
with
aduantage
to
himselfe
,
hee
must
not
onely
say
well
,
but
doe
well
also
.
Facta
mea
,
non
dicta
vos
milites
sequi
volo
,
nec
disciplinam
modo
,
sed
exemplum
etiam
à
me
petere
,
qui
hâc
dextrâ
mihi
tres
Consulatus
,
summamque
laudem
peperi
;
saide
Valerius
Corvinus
to
his
souldiors
,
when
they
were
to
march
against
the
Samnites
.
The
very
ayre
and
Eccho
of
which
wordes
,
according
to
the
apprehension
my selfe
haue
of
them
,
was
sufficient
to
haue
breath'd
a
warlike
motion
,
and
resolution
,
into
the
very
steele
where-with
their
hands
were
armed
,
and
made
the
palest-liuerd
wretch
amongst
them
,
suddainly
Conquerour
.
Wherfore
,
he
that
thinks
much
the
wordes
of
his
mouth
should
be
neglected
,
hee
must
so
carrie
himselfe
,
that
his
deedes
may
be
alwaies
readie
to
giue
authoritie
,
and
countenance
to
his
words
:
yea
there
must
not
be
any
thing
in
him
,
or
about
him
,
but
what
may
work
a
wondrous
admiration
of
him
in
the
hearers
eye
,
and
a
zealous
imitation
of
him
in
his
heart
:
finallie
,
he
must
haue
in
him
those
three
tongues
whereof
the
Scripture
maketh
mention
;
and
which
are
founde
in
euery
well-disposed
naturall
man
.
The
first
is
the
tongue
of
the
heart
:
Qui
loquitur
veritatem
in
Corde
suo
.
Psalm.
15.
v.
2.
The
other
is
the
tongue
of
the
mouth
;
Qui
non
egit
dolum
in
linguâ
suâ
.
v.
3.
The
third
and
last
,
is
the
tongue
of
our
workes
;
whereof
Christ
saith
,
Ioh.
10.
v.
25.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Opera
quae
ego
facio
,
testimonium
perhibent
de
me
:
and
whereat
Saint
John
the
Baptist
aym'd
,
when
after
the
Iewes
had
sent
their
deputies
to
enquire
of
him
what
hee
was
,
his
aunswere
to
them
first
was
altogether
negatiue
,
to
wit
,
that
hee
was
not
Christ
,
that
hee
was
not
Elias
,
that
he
was
not
a
Prophet
;
till
constrained
by
their
importunacie
,
to
tell
them
positiuelie
what
he
was
,
he
said
vnto
them
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
I
am
the
voyce
of
him
that
cryeth
in
the
desert
.
Shewing
thereby
,
that
his
whole
course
of
life
,
was
but
a
tongue
;
the
particular
actions
whereof
were
so
many
seuerall
voyces
,
which
with
a
silent
Rhetorick
,
did
most
apparantly
make
knowne
the
soundnesse
,
and
sincerenesse
of
that
infallible
truth
which
he
was
sent
to
teach
.
So
that
without
the
helpe
and
assistance
of
this
last
,
all
the
exhortations
,
perswasions
,
encouragements
and
instructions
,
that
can
possibly
be
produc't
by
any
man
,
be
they
neuer
so
good
,
can
little
or
nothing
preuaile
.
And
therefore
was
it
,
that
God
himself
being
about
to
send
Jsaias
abroad
to
preach
,
hee
did
first
of
all
,
to
purifie
his
lips
,
touch
them
with
a
coale
from
the
Altar
:
and
that
to
encourage
Jeremie
,
hee
saide
vnto
him
;
Antequam
exires
de
vuluâ
,
sanctificaui
te
.
Spiritu
principali
confirma
me
Deus
:
establish
me
,
O
God
,
saith
the
kingly
prophet
,
by
thy
free
spirit
,
and
then
docebo
iniquos
vias
tuas
;
I
wil
instruct
the
wicked
in
thy
waies
:
et
impij
convertentur
ad
te
:
and
sinners
shall
bee
converted
vnto
thee
.
Wherefore
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
thou
that
takest
vppon
thee
to
reforme
the
manners
of
others
,
redresse
thine
owne
,
that
thou
mayst
free
both
thy selfe
,
and
that
which
thou
vtterest
,
from
the
traducements
and
detractions
of
a
vulgar
ignorance
;
and
that
it
may
not
be
said
of
thee
:
Clodius
accusat
moechos
,
Catilina
Cethegum
.
For
then
shalt
thou
be
able
to
graft
a
perswasion
of
whatsoeuer
thou
shalt
deliuer
,
in
the
mindes
of
thy
Auditors
.
It
is
an
excellent
harmony
,
and
I
knowe
not
if
vnparallell'd
by
that
concent
of
Spheares
;
to
see
the
words
of
men
accompanied
with
their
thoughts
,
&
followed
by
their
deedes
:
and
besides
,
there
is
a
naturall
inclination
in
all
men
,
to
learne
the
Theorie
,
of
such
as
they
know
to
haue
beene
excellent
in
the
Practike
.
Hannibal
will
but
scorne
the
Philosopher
that
takes
vpon
him
in
his
presence
to
discourse
of
War
:
&
Cleomenes
will
account
that
Orator
but
a
chattering
Swallowe
,
that
shall
presume
(
he
beeing
by
)
to
describe
the
office
and
dutie
of
a
Generall
:
the
like
happens
to
those
depraued
and
exulcerated
mindes
,
—
qui
de
virtute
locuti
clunem
agitant
—
For
who
can
with
patience
endure
to
heare
Vitellius
preach
against
intemperancie
:
or
Gracchus
complaine
of
seditious
and
mutinous
assemblies
?
Manus
,
quae
sordes
abluit
,
munda
esse
debet
;
saith
S.
Gregorie
:
and
therefore
,
Quis
coelum
terris
non
misceat
,
et
mare
coelo
,
Si
fur
displiceat
Verri
,
aut
homicida
Miloni
?
Wherefore
let
euery
man
(
as
Saint
Paul
saith
)
so
runne
,
1.
Cor.
9.
v.
27.
that
he
may
obtaine
;
so
fight
,
that
hee
may
not
beate
the
ayre
:
but
as
in
other
things
,
so
likewise
in
this
,
bee
followers
of
his
example
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
&c.
I
beate
downe
my
bodie
,
and
bring
it
into
subiection
;
least
after
I
haue
preached
to
others
,
my selfe
should
bee
reprooued
.
It
is
said
of
Vespasian
,
that
being
himselfe
antiquo
cultu
,
victuque
,
he
was
to
the
Romans
praecipuus
adstricti
moris
author
,
euen
then
when
riot
and
excesse
were
the
onely
Stewards
that
attended
them
in
publique
&
priuate
meetings
.
Obsequium
enim
inde
in
Principem
,
et
aemulandi
amor
validior
quàm
poena
ex
legibus
,
et
metus
,
saith
Tacitus
.
And
hence
it
came
,
that
Theodoric
King
of
the
Goths
writ
vnto
the
Romane
Senate
in
this
manner
:
Facilius
est
errare
naturam
,
it
is
easier
for
Nature
to
erre
,
qùam
dissimilem
sui
Princeps
possit
Remp
:
formare
,
then
that
a
Prince
should
frame
a
Common-wealth
vnlike
vnto
himselfe
:
so
much
availeable
with
inferiours
,
is
the
force
of
an
example
in
any
person
of
authority
.
But
if
I
may
lawfully
,
&
without
offence
oppose
my
weaknes
against
Maiestie
,
I
will
briefly
showe
him
,
that
his
opinion
doth
in
som
sort
merit
contradiction
.
For
,
Sylla
being
a
disordered
liuer
,
made
his
Citizens
reformed
:
and
Lysander
on
the
contrarie
,
polluted
his
with
vices
,
where-with
himselfe
was
no
way
blemished
.
Of
Affection
.
A
Second
thing
to
help
and
further
Perswasion
,
is
Affection
:
which
being
once
thoroughly
wrought
and
setled
in
the
hearts
and
mindes
of
a
Multitude
,
&
that
specially
through
a
good
opinion
conceiued
of
the
Partie
perswading
,
is
sufficient
of
it selfe
,
though
the
matter
which
is
propounded
be
neuer
so
weak
,
&
the
reasons
that
should
vsher
it
neuer
so
lame
,
to
make
an
easie
&
speedie
passage
for
it
through
all
the
oppositions
,
and
contradictions
of
any
deeper
discerning
Spirit
whatsoeuer
.
Witnes
Pisistratus
,
who
beeing
brought
(
according
to
his
own
appointment
)
in
a
Chariot
to
the
Market-place
,
and
there
hauing
in
the
sight
of
all
men
,
charged
others
with
those
woundes
which
his
own
hands
had
wrought
:
Solon
could
come
and
tel
him
,
that
he
did
not
rightly
counterfet
the
person
of
Vlysses
;
for
the
Ithacans
intent
was
,
onely
to
beguile
his
foes
:
whereas
what
hee
did
,
was
to
deceiue
his
friends
:
but
he
could
not
preuent
him
for
all
this
,
from
beeing
followed
by
the
people
;
so
great
a
commiseration
towards
himselfe
,
&
so
wrathful
an
indignation
towards
his
enemies
,
had
the
viewe
of
those
selfe-made
hurts
effected
in
the
hearts
of
the
vulgar
:
who
,
not
discouering
the
depth
of
his
dessignes
(
nor
yet
considering
with
themselues
,
that
the
desire
of
Soueraignty
and
rule
,
is
so
great
in
the
mindes
of
ambitious
men
,
that
they
will
not
sticke
to
purchase
it
at
the
highest
rate
the
Heauens
can
holde
it
at
)
gaue
sentence
in
his
behalfe
,
according
to
the
apprehension
they
had
of
that
bloodie
obiect
,
which
was
before
their
eyes
.
And
the
reason
heereof
is
not
farre
from
hand
.
For
Passions
are
certaine
internall
acts
,
and
operations
of
our
soule
,
which
beeing
ioyned
and
linked
in
a
most
inviolable
,
and
long-continued
league
of
friendship
with
the
sensitiue
power
,
and
facultie
thereof
,
doe
conspire
together
like
disobedient
and
rebellious
Subiects
,
to
shake
off
the
yoake
of
Reason
,
and
exempt
themselues
from
her
commaund
&
controlement
,
that
they
may
still
exercise
those
disordered
motions
,
in
this
contract
world
of
our
frayle
and
humaine
bodies
,
which
during
her
nonage
or
minoritie
,
they
were
accustomed
to
doe
.
And
for
the
better
effecting
heereof
,
they
doe
first
of
all
(
through
the
helpe
of
a
corrupt
imagination
)
set
vppon
the
Wit
,
and
afterwardes
vpon
the
Will
,
which
harbouring
in
it selfe
two
diuers
inclinations
:
the
one
to
follow
Reason
as
her
Soueraigne
;
the
other
to
content
the
Senses
as
her
friends
,
is
easilie
brought
(
being
by
them
corrupted
,
&
bribed
with
pleasure
)
intirely
to
loue
the
one
,
&
vtterly
to
leaue
and
forsake
the
other
:
or
at
least
,
like
a
carelesse
Magistrat
(
who
,
for
the
auoiding
of
som
particular
mens
displeasure
,
neglects
the
good
and
profit
of
the
Common-weale
)
to
omit
that
care
,
which
as
Gouernesse
of
the
Soule
,
she
is
bound
in
dutie
to
haue
ouer
it
:
loathing
to
see
the
quietnes
of
her
owne
estate
interrupted
by
the
diuided
factions
,
and
tumultuous
partialities
of
inferior
ministers
;
especially
when
shee
perceiues
the
soule
to
be
partaker
likewise
of
those
benefits
wherwith
herselfe
is
fee'd
,
and
vndermined
,
by
the
Passions
.
So
that
when
our
harts
are
once
possest
with
any
vehement
affection
,
the
Wit
on
the
one
side
labours
to
find
out
reasons
presently
,
that
may
countenance
&
grace
it
:
and
the
Imagination
on
the
other
side
,
like
a
deceitfull
Counsellor
,
seeking
to
blinde
the
eyes
of
the
Iudge
,
represents
them
to
the
Vnderstanding
in
a
most
intensiue
maner
;
and
with
more
showe
and
appearance
then
they
are
indeede
.
Neither
can
the
Soule
(
which
by
reason
of
her
limitted
influence
,
cannot
possibly
at
one
&
the
same
instant
,
impart
sufficient
actiuity
to
2.
differing
operations
)
exactly
then
consider
the
soundnesse
of
such
arguments
,
as
might
stay
the
violence
of
her
course
in
folowing
the
affections
:
but
like
a
weaker
Prince
,
suffers
herselfe
(
for
quietnes
sake
)
to
be
led
away
by
the
suggestions
of
such
her
followers
.
And
hence
it
was
that
a
certain
Orator
,
with
no
smal
aduantage
to
himself
,
as
often
as
he
was
to
pleade
,
would
most
earnestly
entreate
the
Iudges
,
that
he
might
be
first
heard
,
but
specially
when
himself
distrusted
the
soundnes
of
his
cause
.
For
he
knew
ful
well
,
that
when
he
had
ended
,
their
mindes
would
be
so
busied
in
examining
the
weight
and
firmnesse
of
his
reasons
,
that
they
could
not
possibly
giue
any
diligent
attention
to
the
allegations
of
his
aduersary
.
Wherfore
who-so-euer
perceiueth
those
proofes
and
inducements
that
should
maintaine
his
cause
,
to
be
wanting
,
let
him
settle
himself
to
worke
vpon
the
affections
of
such
as
are
to
further
it
.
For
,
if
he
gain
neuer
so
little
footing
heere
,
hee
need
not
despair
of
any
thing
.
It
was
a
saying
of
a
prince
of
Sparta
,
that
for
a
man
to
keep
himself
strictly
to
the
rule
of
Justice
,
in
matters
which
concern'd
his
friends
,
was
but
a
colour
,
wherewith
such
as
were
vnwilling
to
doe
for
them
,
were
content
to
shadowe
their
inhumanitie
:
and
therefore
writing
to
Idrien
,
Prince
of
Caria
,
for
the
deliuerance
of
a
certaine
friend
of
his
;
If
Nicias
,
saith
he
,
haue
not
offended
,
deliuer
him
;
if
hee
haue
offended
,
deliuer
him
for
my
sake
:
but
howsoeuer
the
matter
goe
,
deliuer
him
.
Brutus
&
Cassius
contending
one
against
the
other
for
the
Vrbane
Praetorship
,
Caesar
hauing
heard
their
allegations
,
said
vnto
his
friends
;
It
is
true
,
that
the
reasons
which
are
alledged
by
Cassius
are
most
iust
:
but
Brutus
neuerthelesse
must
be
preferd
.
So
Brutus
had
the
first
place
,
and
Cassius
the
second
.
Out
of
which
examples
we
may
easilie
discerne
,
that
Reason
may
giue
out
precepts
,
which
Passion
will
not
sticke
to
countermaund
.
For
,
Reason
teacheth
vs
,
that
it
is
a
poynt
of
ciuilitie
,
to
continue
alwaies
stedfast
,
and
faithfull
to
our
friends
;
but
with
this
caution
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
not
beyond
the
Altar
,
that
is
,
no
further
then
the
rules
of
pietie
and
equitie
will
giue
vs
leaue
:
which
,
blinder
Passion
dooth
not
a
whit
regard
.
And
this
,
Agesilaus
knew
ful
wel
,
when
beeing
constrained
one
day
to
vnlodge
somwhat
in
hast
,
&
to
leaue
a
certaine
sick
friend
of
his
,
who
as
hee
was
readie
to
depart
,
besought
him
that
hee
would
not
abandon
and
forsake
him
:
O
,
quoth
hee
,
returning
back
,
how
difficult
a
thing
is
it
,
to
loue
,
&
to
be
wise
,
&
both
at
once
!
Besides
,
it
is
the
nature
,
and
propertie
of
Passions
,
euen
to
make
those
thinges
make
with
them
,
which
(
were
not
the
eye
of
our
Vnderstanding
dimm'd
,
&
obscured
,
with
such
mistie
humors
as
distill
from
them
)
would
otherwise
peraduenture
proue
to
be
as
rubs
and
lets
,
which
would
turne
the
by
as
of
mens
consent
a
cleane
contrary
way
from
our
desires
:
and
therfore
they
are
not
much
amisse
compared
to
a
green
glasse
,
which
makes
euery
thing
seeme
of
the
same
colour
,
that
is
seene
thorough
it
.
That
fore-alledged
Spartam
being
very
much
importun'd
by
his
wife
,
to
make
her
brother
Lysander
,
his
Admirall
for
the
seas
,
considered
with
himself
,
that
he
had
many
Nobles
of
far
more
yeres
,
&
greater
experience
then
he
;
and
that
to
invest
him
(
beeing
but
a
youth
)
with
a
charge
so
farre
surmounting
his
sufficiencie
,
was
to
hazard
at
one
cast
,
the
flourishing
estate
of
his
whole
kingdom
:
but
in
the
end
,
after
many
long
suspensions
,
and
irresolute
determinations
,
the
vehement
affection
which
he
bore
his
Queene
,
commanded
him
to
throw
the
dice
,
and
to
abide
the
chance
.
It
is
saide
of
Agrippina
,
that
shee
did
so
worke
vpon
the
loue
which
Claudius
bore
her
,
that
nondum
vxor
potentiâ
vxoriâ
vtebatur
,
beeing
as
yet
but
onely
affianced
vnto
him
,
she
tooke
vpon
her
the
state
and
power
of
an
Emperesse
:
but
afterwards
,
when
she
was
thoroughlie
assured
of
her
marriage
,
and
that
her
thoughts
had
got
a
stronger
wing
to
soare
withall
,
then
did
shee
dare
to
motion
a
match
between
Octauia
,
Caesars
daughter
,
and
her
owne
sonne
Domitius
,
which
(
because
her
father
had
betroathed
her
to
Silanus
not
long
before
)
coulde
not
bee
brought
to
passe
without
impietie
:
but
that
did
nothing
discourage
her
.
For
,
nihil
arduum
videbatur
(
saith
Tacitus
)
in
animo
principis
,
Lib.
12.
240.
et
267.
cui
non
iudicium
,
non
odium
inerat
,
nisi
indita
,
et
iussa
:
no
difficultie
could
hinder
her
from
obtaining
any
thing
at
the
hands
of
a
Prince
,
that
had
neyther
life
,
nor
soule
,
but
what
was
breathed
into
him
by
her
and
hers
.
And
hence
it
was
,
that
Vitellius
,
vayling
his
seruile
flatteries
vnder
the
name
of
Censor
,
was
embold'ned
to
fasten
vpon
Silanus
,
labouring
by
forged
accusations
to
obscure
his
merit
,
and
procure
his
ouerthrowe
,
which
shortly
after
hee
effected
:
Caesar
beeing
(
as
our
Author
saith
)
accipiendis
aduersum
generum
suspicionibus
caritate
filiae
promptior
;
somwhat
prone
to
entertain
suspicions
against
his
sonne
in
law
,
by
reason
of
the
charitable
affection
which
he
bore
his
daughter
.
And
indeede
the
malignant
aspect
of
any
person
in
authority
towards
his
inferiour
,
is
thought
a
sufficient
warrant
for
euery
man
to
wrong
him
.
And
this
is
the
reason
,
that
in
the
courts
of
princes
,
few
or
none
,
after
they
once
begin
to
slide
,
can
recouer
their
footing
,
&
keep
themselues
from
falling
finally
.
For
,
those
Court-Parasites
,
that
haue
their
eyes
continually
fixed
vppon
the
sky
of
their
Soueraignes
inclination
,
&
make
the
sundry
revolutions
of
his
affections
,
the
only
heauen
of
their
contemplation
,
do
labor
vpon
the
least
distast
that
is
offred
,
to
procure
an
vtter
dislike
;
that
so
they
may
come
to
be
sharers
in
those
offices
&
places
of
dignitie
,
which
while
they
were
gracious
in
the
sight
of
their
Master
,
were
appropriated
to
none
but
them
:
verifying
heerby
that
excellent
saying
of
the
Greekes
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
when
the
tree
begins
once
to
fal
,
euery
one
hastens
to
gather
sticks
.
Wherfore
let
no
man
feare
to
be
ouer-bold
in
this
case
,
but
rest
vndoutedly
assured
,
that
where
Reason
cannot
preuaile
,
Affection
wil.
And
therefore
it
is
not
without
cause
,
that
such
as
aspire
to
a
crown
,
&
scepter
,
do
first
of
al
(
considering
their
want
of
right
,
that
should
authorize
,
and
make
lawful
such
a
claime
)
endeuour
(
as
the
onelie
meanes
to
winde
themselues
into
the
hearts
of
the
people
)
to
seem
religious
,
and
vertuous
;
as
Pepin
did
,
who
stryuing
to
put
the
house
of
Merouée
from
the
throne
of
France
,
and
to
appropriate
it
wholly
to
him
and
his
,
did
most
infinitely
honour
,
and
most
affectionatly
imbrace
,
such
as
had
any
charge
or
office
in
the
Church
;
knowing
wel
,
that
those
which
haue
rule
ouer
the
conscience
,
are
of
great
authoritie
,
and
estimation
among
the
rest
.
Secondly
,
they
doe
labor
to
performe
all
offices
of
Loue
,
that
may
serue
to
shaddowe
foorth
in
some
apparant
manner
,
a
desire
in
them
to
further
the
publique
good
of
the
State
and
Common-weale
.
And
thus
did
Absalom
,
when
to
euery
one
that
came
towards
him
,
he
put
out
his
hand
,
and
tooke
him
&
kissed
him
:
wishing
withall
,
that
he
were
once
made
Iudge
in
the
Land
,
that
such
as
had
any
suits
,
or
controversies
,
might
come
to
him
,
that
he
might
doe
them
Iustice
.
And
thus
likewise
did
those
ancient
Romane
Captaines
,
who
powred
out
the
wealthy
treasures
of
whole
kingdoms
in
excessiue
donatiues
,
and
prodigalities
towards
their
Souldiors
;
and
that
with
no
better
intent
,
then
to
make
sure
such
hopes
&
expectations
,
as
Ambition
long
before
had
nourished
in
their
breastes
,
by
the
so-wonne
ayde
,
and
assistance
of
their
militarie
&
warlike
Legions
.
For
indeede
these
two
actions
are
the
only
harbingers
that
must
lodge
Perswasion
in
the
bosome
of
a
multitude
.
And
therefore
haue
they
alwaies
been
put
in
practise
by
the
chiefe
patron
of
wicked
Policies
,
Sathan
,
the
common
and
professed
enemy
of
mankind
.
For
,
as
concerning
the
first
,
the
Scripture
doth
assure
vs
,
that
he
doth
often
times
,
the
better
to
deceiue
,
transforme
himselfe
into
the
glorious
similitude
of
an
Angel
of
light
:
&
hence
was
it
,
that
not
without
good
advice
,
and
iudgement
of
the
Paynter
,
in
some
ancient
impressions
of
the
Testament
,
hee
was
pictur'd
out
in
the
religious
garment
of
a
Monke
;
not
to
signifie
that
the
life
and
conversation
of
such
Monasticall
persons
,
was
diabolicall
;
but
to
shewe
,
that
this
beeing
the
habit
of
holinesse
and
pietie
,
there
was
not
a
more
easie
and
certaine
way
for
him
to
surpryze
the
consciences
of
wel-meaning
men
,
then
it
.
And
as
concerning
the
second
,
experience
hath
taught
vs
,
that
al
he
aymes
at
,
is
to
work
an
impression
in
our
weaker
minds
,
that
whatsoeuer
he
seeketh
to
induce
vs
to
,
is
for
the
good
,
and
benefit
of
mankinde
:
&
therfore
in
his
very
first
assault
,
wherein
was
successiuely
included
the
vtter
ruine
and
ouerthrow
of
vs
all
,
he
told
our
first
parents
,
that
Gods
forbidding
them
to
eate
of
the
tree
of
good
&
euil
,
proceeded
not
from
any
other
ground
,
than
from
an
enuious
fear
he
had
of
that
happinesse
and
prosperity
,
which
was
like
to
redound
to
them
thereby
:
and
withall
,
hauing
considered
with
himselfe
,
that
all
thinges
in
the
world
,
are
said
in
som
sort
to
seeke
the
highest
,
&
to
couet
more
or
lesse
the
participation
of
GOD
himselfe
;
but
especially
man
,
whom
hee
knew
did
foster
in
his
breast
these
three
desires
;
the
one
to
liue
alwaies
,
as
GOD
is
eternall
:
the
other
,
to
rule
all
,
as
GOD
is
Lorde
ouer
all
:
the
third
,
to
knowe
all
,
as
GOD
is
wise
aboue
all
:
hee
came
like
a
cunning
Rhetorician
,
whom
practice
,
and
long
experience
,
hath
taught
how
to
aduantage
himselfe
,
by
working
vpon
the
knowne
inclinations
,
and
affections
of
his
Auditory
,
&
layes
before
them
a
ful
and
perfect
satisfaction
in
euery
one
.
For
,
saith
he
,
if
once
yee
but
taste
of
this
forbidden
fruit
,
nequaquam
moriemini
,
ye
shal
neuer
die
;
heere
was
a
continued
beeing
:
sed
eritis
sicut
Dij
,
but
yee
shall
be
like
Gods
;
heer
was
an
absolute
commaund
:
scientes
bonum
,
et
malum
,
vnderstanding
both
good
and
euill
;
and
heerein
was
comprehended
a
vniuersall
,
and
boundlesse
knowledge
.
Wherefore
,
he
that
can
handle
men
aright
in
their
affections
,
&
knowes
at
what
times
,
in
what
manner
,
and
by
what
meanes
they
may
best
be
stirred
vp
,
may
rest
assured
,
that
before
his
mind
be
thoroughly
knowne
,
he
is
alreadie
Maister
of
what
his
heart
desireth
.
Of
the
force
of
Reason
.
THE
third
,
and
last
meanes
to
ground
beliefe
in
the
minds
of
men
,
is
out
of
probable
coniectures
to
gather
sufficient
reasons
,
by
force
wherof
,
we
may
demonstrat
the
thing
which
wee
propound
,
to
be
eyther
actually
,
or
at
least
apparantly
necessary
,
&
convenient
,
and
no
waies
repugnant
to
the
rules
and
principles
of
iustice
,
or
honestie
.
And
these
are
so
much
availeable
,
that
where
there
is
neyther
opinion
,
nor
affection
,
but
rather
an
obstinate
,
and
selfe-will'd
resolution
in
the
hearer
,
to
put
backe
all
perswasions
,
they
will
enforce
him
notwithstanding
to
alter
his
so-decreed
determination
,
and
to
giue
credit
&
approbation
to
what
he
heares
.
Witnes
Caesar
,
who
when
he
vnderstood
that
Cicero
had
taken
vpon
him
to
defende
Ligarius
,
whom
the
vnhappinesse
of
the
times
had
accus'd
to
haue
borne
armes
against
him
,
and
hauing
not
heard
him
of
a
long
time
before
;
What
will
it
now
annoy
vs
,
said
hee
(
by
way
of
iesting
)
to
certaine
of
his
friends
,
if
we
goe
and
listen
awhile
to
Cicero
;
for
,
as
for
Ligarius
,
he
is
by
me
already
irrevocably
condemn'd
?
But
the
pregnant
reasons
,
and
forcible
allegations
of
the
Orator
,
did
so
wonderfully
mooue
him
,
that
before
he
departed
,
mauger
that
prejudicat
opinion
where-with
he
came
,
hee
was
constrained
to
absolue
him
.
And
for
a
further
confirmation
heereof
,
I
will
produce
that
memorable
apothegme
of
Thucydides
,
who
when
Archidamus
demaunded
of
him
,
which
was
the
better
wrastler
of
him
,
or
Pericles
,
his
aunswere
was
,
that
when
he
had
cast
him
,
he
had
so
excellent
a
tongue
to
deny
it
,
that
he
made
the
standers
by
belieue
he
was
not
foyl'd
,
and
perswaded
them
the
contrary
of
what
their
eyes
had
seene
.
So
that
heere
we
may
discouer
an
incongruitie
committed
by
M.
Brutus
,
in
the
managing
of
State
affaires
;
when
not
considering
the
force
of
Eloquence
,
but
presuming
vpon
the
good
opinion
his
Citizens
had
of
him
,
&
the
great
affection
they
bore
towards
him
,
he
permitted
Anthony
to
performe
the
exequies
of
Caesar
in
such
solemn
maner
as
he
would
himself
.
For
,
by
this
meanes
,
the
hearts
of
such
as
were
so
desperatlie
bent
,
&
inclyn'd
to
embrace
his
faction
,
that
they
would
not
at
the
first
so
much
as
lende
an
eare
,
no
not
vpon
his
entreaties
,
to
the
speeches
of
the
other
;
vpon
the
hearing
of
his
sunerall
Oration
,
were
on
a
suddaine
violently
carried
a
cleane
contrary
way
.
Such
is
the
force
of
these
Rhetoricall
Enthymems
,
and
Inductions
;
especially
,
when
they
be
seconded
by
a
liuely
and
decent
action
:
to
which
,
Demosthenes
did
attribute
so
much
,
that
in
desyning
an
Oration
,
hee
sayd
,
the
first
&
principall
part
therof
,
was
action
;
the
second
,
the
same
;
and
the
third
,
no
other
.
For
,
in
an
Orator
,
there
is
both
an
eloquence
of
speech
,
and
a
decencie
of
action
necessarily
required
.
He
must
not
onely
ornatè
dicere
,
sed
etiam
concinnè
agere
:
the
one
consists
in
the
fitnes
of
his
words
,
and
soundnes
of
his
reasons
;
the
other
,
in
the
variation
of
his
voyce
,
and
qualification
of
his
gestures
.
So
that
when
I
consider
in
how
eminent
a
degree
these
two
things
did
appeare
in
Cicero
,
I
cannot
so
much
admire
(
as
otherwise
I
should
)
that
notable
speech
of
his
,
when
beeing
vehemently
displeased
with
Munatius
(
whom
once
his
eloquence
had
patroniz'd
in
a
most
dangerous
cause
)
for
that
he
did
egerlie
follow
the
extreamitie
of
law
against
a
certaine
friende
of
his
,
hee
could
not
refraine
from
telling
him
,
that
it
was
not
long
of
his
innocencie
that
he
was
last
absolv'd
,
but
of
the
dust
,
which
hee
had
cast
into
the
eyes
of
his
Iudges
,
which
hind'red
them
from
discerning
aright
the
qualitie
of
his
misdeede
.
Aeschines
after
his
banishment
beeing
arryu'd
at
Rhodes
,
in
an
Oration
composed
for
the
purpose
,
laid
open
to
the
people
the
cause
of
his
exile
:
who
wondering
thervpon
at
the
Athenians
,
that
had
banisht
him
so
vndeseruedly
;
O
(
quoth
hee
)
ye
did
not
hear
the
forcible
reasons
by
which
Demosthenes
countermanded
mine
:
ascribing
whollie
the
cause
of
his
misfortune
,
to
the
eloquence
of
his
aduersary
.
Wherfore
,
he
did
not
greatly
erre
,
that
compared
Rhetorick
in
an
ill
cause
,
to
a
dangerous
weapon
in
a
mad
mans
hand
.
It
is
an
instrument
which
was
at
first
invented
for
the
easier
managing
of
an
vnruly
populace
,
&
which
is
neuer
imploid
in
his
right
kind
,
but
in
the
weake
&
crazie
languishment
of
Estates
.
And
indeed
,
if
we
do
well
consider
,
we
shal
find
that
it
hath
most
flourished
,
where
quietnes
of
gouernment
hath
been
most
impoverished
,
as
in
those
Common-wealthes
,
where
eyther
the
people
,
or
the
ignorant
,
or
all
,
haue
borne
all
the
sway
;
as
namelie
,
that
of
Athens
,
of
Rhodes
,
of
Rome
,
where
al
things
did
continuallie
labour
of
a
dangerous
Epilepsie
.
For
,
in
better
established
Gouernments
,
as
those
of
Sparta
,
and
of
Crete
,
it
was
neuer
had
in
any
great
account
,
or
estimation
.
Nay
,
they
would
haue
whipt
him
out
of
their
dominions
,
that
shold
haue
made
profession
of
such
a
lying
and
deceitfull
Art
.
But
it
is
not
my
purpose
,
for
the
abuse
of
any
thing
,
to
condemne
the
vse
of
it
:
I
will
onely
heerevpon
aduertise
him
,
that
goeth
about
by
Reasons
to
induce
Perswasion
,
to
imitate
heerin
the
practice
of
wise
Physicians
,
who
apply
the
same
Medicines
to
the
same
Maladies
;
but
with
particular
respect
,
&
consideration
of
the
constitution
of
the
Patient
.
For
,
the
learned
,
and
the
ignorant
,
are
not
to
be
handled
both
alike
.
Popular
allegations
they
pryze
not
,
and
deeper
demonstrations
these
pearce
not
.
Wherefore
,
hee
must
labour
to
finde
out
a
meane
,
by
which
hee
may
deliuer
deepe
reasons
perspicuously
,
and
plausible
perswasions
sharply
;
that
by
the
plainnesse
of
the
one
,
&
the
acuteness
of
the
other
,
he
may
yeeld
a
full
and
perfect
satisfaction
to
them
both
.
And
for
the
better
performance
heerof
,
I
will
refer
him
to
a
diligent
survey
of
such
Topicall
heads
,
and
Common-places
,
as
are
by
Orators
accounted
to
be
the
arcenalls
,
&
store-houses
of
perswasiue
prouision
;
from
whence
,
as
neede
requires
,
they
draw
those
solide
amplifications
,
which
lend
a
maiestical
,
and
glorious
luster
to
their
reasons
:
for
,
beeing
nakedly
deliuer'd
,
the
motion
they
produce
is
eyther
weake
,
or
none
at
all
.
So
that
where
there
is
neyther
opinion
,
nor
affection
to
purchase
credit
,
wee
must
seriouslie
endeuour
to
find
out
reasons
,
&
inductions
that
may
serue
the
turne
,
and
know
,
that
it
will
bee
no
small
furtherance
to
our
intention
,
if
either
by
the
representation
of
any
visible
obiect
,
or
by
some
preceding
extraordinarie
action
,
that
carrieth
engrauen
in
the
very
front
of
it
,
the
honourd
characters
of
loue
&
loyalty
:
we
can
strengthen
our
own
perswasion
,
and
worke
an
alteration
in
the
hearers
passion
.
An
example
of
the
former
wee
haue
in
Cato
:
who
perceiuing
that
the
Rom
did
neglect
,
&
contemne
the
forces
of
the
Carthaginians
,
because
they
were
somwhat
remote
,
and
far
distant
from
them
,
whervpon
som
inconvenience
might
happily
haue
redounded
to
the
Commonwelth
,
shewed
them
presently
green
figges
,
which
at
that
instant
were
brought
from
thence
,
wherby
they
conceived
,
that
the
country
was
not
so
far
as
they
imagin'd
:
for
otherwise
the
figs
would
haue
bin
dried
,
or
corrupted
;
&
thervpon
altered
their
opinion
,
&
became
more
respectiue
.
Of
the
latter
,
in
Seianus
:
who
hauing
very
prodigally
ventur'd
his
owne
safety
for
the
preseruing
of
Caesars
,
and
that
in
a
most
dangerous
,
and
disastrous
accident
,
where
sad
Destruction
seem'd
to
haue
enlarged
her
throat
,
for
the
speedier
deuouring
of
them
,
got
this
aduantage
thereby
,
that
as
Tacitus
saith
,
quanquam
exitiosa
suaderet
,
vt
non
sui
anxius
,
cum
side
audiebatur
:
when
his
so-dooing
,
peradventure
was
grounded
vpon
no
better
consideration
,
then
the
minoritie
of
his
ambitious
purposes
.
But
(
for
a
finall
conclusion
of
this
discourse
)
let
Delphidius
assure
himselfe
,
that
if
reasons
,
&
arguments
bee
altogether
wanting
,
it
wil
little
availe
him
to
accuse
Numerius
;
and
afterwards
,
feeling
himselfe
sorely
trauailed
for
want
of
proofes
,
&
witnesses
to
convince
him
,
to
cry
out
in
the
vehemencie
of
his
distemper'd
passion
,
Ecquis
erit
nocens
,
florentissime
Caesar
,
si
negare
sufficiet
?
will
any
man
bee
found
guiltie
,
when
to
deny
the
fault
,
may
be
sufficient
to
absolue
him
?
For
,
Julian
,
out
of
the
serener
calmnes
of
his
more
setled
iudgement
,
will
presently
reply
:
Ecquis
erit
innocens
,
si
accusare
sufficiet
?
will
any
man
bee
founde
guiltlesse
,
when
to
accuse
him
,
may
be
sufficient
to
condemne
him
?
Of
Prayses
.
THE
loue
of
Prayse
,
though
it
be
a
vice
,
yet
because
that
by
meanes
of
it
,
far
greater
vices
are
suppressed
,
hath
alwaies
(
of
the
better
sort
of
iudgements
)
been
honoured
,
and
respected
as
a
Vertue
:
the
contempt
whereof
,
was
made
an
argument
to
convince
Tiberius
,
of
contemning
likewise
those
heroical
and
princely
actions
,
whereby
men
are
ledde
through
many
difficult
&
dangerous
passages
,
in
a
most
eager
and
violent
pursuit
thereof
.
Contemptu
famae
contemni
virtutes
,
saith
Tacit.
Optimi
.
n.
quique
mortalium
altissima
cupiunt
.
And
indeed
,
if
we
but
cast
an
eye
a
little
on
the
Romans
,
we
shall
find
that
the
onely
thing
which
made
men
thinke
,
that
some
extraordinarie
Genius
did
continually
wait
,
&
attend
vpon
al
their
attempts
,
raysing
the
valour
of
euery
particular
,
and
individuall
person
amongst
them
,
to
a
farre
higher
pitch
,
then
humane
weaknes
was
euer
thought
possible
to
attaine
vnto
,
was
only
an
vnsatiable
desire
,
to
leaue
behind
them
a
prosperous
remembrance
of
their
name
,
from
the
effecting
wherof
,
not
death
it selfe
(
had
hee
neuer
so
fearfully
disguis'd
his
countenance
)
could
euer
haue
deterr'd
them
.
Witnesse
that
vndaunted
Curtius
:
who
when
the
Oracle
had
commaunded
some
one
to
be
cast
head-long
into
that
open
pit
,
which
seem'd
to
threaten
ruine
,
and
desolation
to
them
all
,
as
an
attonement
,
that
might
alay
the
incensed
fury
of
the
Gods
towards
the
people
;
arm'd
himself
presently
,
&
with
such
a
fearlesse
and
constant
resolution
,
hied
him
to
the
place
,
as
if
vpon
his
very
first
approach
he
had
intended
to
tryumph
ouer
Death
,
&
giue
Destruction
the
ouerthrow
.
So
Brutus
,
when
for
the
good
and
preseruation
of
his
Country
(
against
the
liberty
whereof
,
his
sons
,
as
men
wholly
possest
with
dislike
,
and
discontentment
at
thinges
present
,
did
vnderhand
oppose
themselues
)
hee
was
to
be
not
only
a
Spectator
,
but
an
Actor
likewise
in
their
tragicke
fall
,
could
not
choose
but
feele
himselfe
sorely
shaken
,
with
the
furious
&
violent
incounters
of
divided
Passions
:
Popular
applause
distracting
him
on
the
one
side
,
and
Fatherly
affection
on
the
other
.
But
this
in
the
end
(
like
too
weake
an
enemy
to
confront
so
great
an
adversary
)
was
constrained
to
forsake
the
fielde
,
and
to
resigne
the
honour
and
glorie
of
the
victorie
to
vs
.
Vicit
amor
patriae
,
laudísque
immensa
cupido
.
But
,
not
to
stand
vpon
particulars
,
the
whole
Nation
in
generall
was
so
transported
with
this
appetite
of
Praise
,
that
all
other
irregularities
whatsoeuer
,
did
as
it
were
lie
buried
in
this
one
.
Wherefore
,
(
I
thinke
)
there
is
no
readier
way
to
breede
a
willingnesse
in
the
minds
of
vnriper
youth
,
whereby
to
make
them
seriouslie
addicted
to
embrace
the
harsher
rudiments
of
Vertue
,
that
afterwards
they
may
attaine
to
a
more
essentiall
knowledge
in
the
managing
,
&
performance
of
honorable
imploiments
,
then
to
enflame
their
tender
bosoms
with
a
desire
of
Commendation
;
which
is
in
euery
generous
,
and
ingenious
disposition
,
the
onely
spurre
to
any
vertuous
action
.
Compertum
ego
habeo
(
saide
Catiline
to
his
souldiors
)
verba
virtutem
non
addere
,
neque
ex
ignauo
strenuum
,
neque
fortem
ex
timido
exercitum
oratione
Imperatoris
fieri
.
No
,
no
(
saith
hee
)
quemneque
gloria
,
neque
pericula
excitant
,
nequicquam
hortere
.
By
vertue
of
which
words
,
hee
did
inspire
them
with
such
a
valiant
resolution
,
that
after
the
vnfortunate
euent
of
warre
had
bereft
them
of
their
General
,
it
was
wonderful
to
see
the
invincible
courage
,
which
had
spred
it selfe
through
euerie
particular
branch
of
his
whole
Armie
.
For
,
as
Sallust
wrytes
,
quem
quisque
vivus
pugnando
locum
ceperat
,
eum
amissâ
animâ
corpore
tegebat
:
looke
what
place
euerie
one
had
taken
to
fight
in
whilst
he
was
aliue
,
the
same
did
he
cover
with
his
body
after
hee
was
dead
:
leauing
behinde
them
an
example
,
wherevpon
posteritie
might
ground
the
memorable
saying
of
that
woorthy
Martialist
Consalvo
,
who
when
his
Captaines
advised
him
(
by
reason
of
the
weaknes
of
his
forces
)
to
turne
back
to
Capua
,
did
vtterly
repell
their
counsaile
,
as
preiudiciall
to
the
honour
and
reputation
of
a
Souldior
;
telling
them
,
if
the
true
spirit
of
Magnanimitie
had
harbour'd
in
their
bosoms
,
they
wold
haue
desired
rather
to
haue
had
their
graues
digged
presentlie
a
foote
further
,
then
by
retyring
,
to
haue
prolongd
their
liues
a
hundred
yeeres
.
The
fore-alledged
Historian
,
speaking
of
the
ancient
flourishing
estate
of
Rome
,
before
such
time
as
the
dissolute
excesse
,
and
effeminate
nycenesse
of
corrupter
age
,
had
(
like
a
Canker
)
eaten
into
the
very
marrow
of
her
,
and
through
a
vicious
in-bred
habit
and
disposition
,
alt'red
the
sweete
complexion
of
her
countenaunce
,
ranks
this
desire
of
prayse
amongst
the
chiefest
causes
of
her
transcendent
happinesse
.
Her
Children
(
saith
hee
)
were
laudis
auidi
,
full
of
thrift
in
husbanding
their
honor
;
but
pecuniae
liberales
,
very
prodigall
in
spending
of
their
wealth
:
gloriae
maximum
certamen
inter
ipsos
erat
;
Glory
was
the
onelie
subiect
of
all
their
differences
&
contentions
.
Laudatas
oftendit
avu
Iunonia
pennas
:
Si
tacitus
spectes
,
illa
recondit
opes
.
Sic
se
quisque
hostem
ferire
,
murum
ascendere
,
conspici
,
dum
tale
facinus
faceret
,
properabat
:
which
I
cannot
thinke
proceeded
so
much
from
vanitie
,
as
from
a
desire
to
publish
&
make
known
their
sufficiencie
,
that
afterwards
for
the
good
of
their
Country
,
they
might
be
call'd
to
offices
of
a
higher
nature
.
A
certaine
Laconien
at
the
feast
of
Olympike-games
,
beeing
offred
a
great
sum
of
mony
,
not
to
present
himselfe
to
combat
,
would
by
no
meanes
be
perswaded
to
accept
it
.
And
in
the
end
,
beeing
demaunded
of
one
,
what
the
praise
which
with
such
labor
,
and
sweat
he
had
purchast
,
could
auaile
him
;
his
aunswere
was
in
smyling
manner
,
that
he
should
fight
for
it
in
battaile
before
the
King
.
Eò
labor
,
et
periculum
à
plerisque
impenditur
,
vnde
bonos
,
et
emolumentum
speratur
,
saith
Liuie
.
And
indeede
,
if
wee
suffer
our
Senses
to
be
guided
a
little
by
Obseruation
,
we
shall
easilie
perceiue
,
that
in
those
Camps
,
where
Prayse
and
Honour
haue
been
ioyn'd
patent
with
Exercise
,
for
the
training
vp
of
youth
in
arms
,
there
hath
not
been
a
priuat
soldier
,
but
when
occasion
hath
brought
him
on
the
scene
to
bide
some
tryall
of
his
proficiencie
,
hath
beene
thought
woorthy
,
by
reason
of
his
Martiall
carriage
and
aspect
,
to
haue
the
leading
,
&
conducting
of
an
army
.
Witnes
the
Ottomans
:
who
by
taking
notice
of
euery
extraordinarie
action
,
performed
by
the
least
,
&
meanest
in
their
troopes
,
haue
so
enflamed
the
courage
of
their
Musulmans
,
that
now
the
soundding
of
a
Trumpet
amongst
them
,
is
but
to
foretell
the
erecting
of
a
Trophie
;
&
the
striking
vp
of
a
Drumme
,
is
as
a
passing-bell
to
giue
warning
,
of
the
approching
ruine
and
subversion
of
a
Kingdome
.
And
,
by
this
meanes
haue
they
marcht
(
like
tryumphant
Conquerors
)
ouer
the
bellies
of
the
most
victorious
Nations
;
making
(
as
they
passe
along
)
the
wretched
carkases
of
slaughtered
Christians
,
litter
for
their
ambitious
and
aspyring
pride
to
trample
on
.
Peuertie
,
with
them
is
not
made
an
argument
of
basenesse
and
pusillanimitie
,
nor
thought
a
let
or
impediment
,
to
hinder
Desert
from
any
place
of
eminencie
.
It
is
no
principle
in
their
Philosophie
,
to
measure
Vertue
by
the
ell
of
Fortune
,
or
to
respect
her
the
lesse
,
for
hauing
bin
trayn'd
vp
in
a
homelie
cottage
.
No
,
the
greatest
among
them
,
will
think
it
no
detraction
from
their
reputation
,
to
com
,
when
,
or
whersoeuer
,
the
starre
of
merit
shal
appear
within
the
compasse
of
their
Hemisphere
,
&
offer
presents
of
great
value
to
her
deerdeere
Infants
,
lay
they
in
a
Manger
.
And
heerein
may
their
practice
serue
like
a
seuerer
Censor
,
to
condemne
vs
of
high
treason
against
her
glorious
and
imperiall
Maiestie
;
and
summoning
the
blood
into
our
faces
,
make
vs
ashamed
of
our
erroneous
,
and
senselesse
follie
,
qui
omnia
prae
diuitijs
humana
spernimus
,
nec
honori
magno
locum
,
nec
virtuti
putamus
esse
,
nisi
effusae
affluant
opes
:
that
iudge
of
her
greatnes
by
outward
circumstances
;
thinking
it
a
thing
impossible
,
that
such
a
puissant
,
&
mighty
Princesse
,
should
abase
herselfe
so
farre
,
as
to
vouchsafe
to
lodge
within
the
inclosure
of
a
smokie
roofe
,
or
vaile
her
glory
vnder
the
thred-bare
habit
of
miserable
,
and
wretched
Want
.
But
for
all
this
,
the
goodnes
of
such
proceedings
,
makes
me
not
so
farre
delighted
with
those
barbarous
,
and
hellish
infidels
,
as
that
I
shold
erect
a
Tabernacle
,
with
an
intent
to
dwell
in
a
continuall
meditation
of
their
vertuous
disposition
in
this
kind
:
and
therefore
I
will
now
passe
them
ouer
,
and
come
to
other
Considerations
of
more
weight
,
and
moment
in
this
discourse
.
The
first
whereof
is
,
whom
we
prayse
;
the
second
,
to
whom
;
the
third
,
for
what
;
the
fourth
and
last
,
is
the
end
Why.
In
the
first
,
men
are
very
likely
to
erre
,
by
too
easily
granting
out
their
commendatory
Letters
;
making
them
the
escorte
and
guide
,
to
bring
a
man
vpon
some
future
hopes
,
into
the
loue
,
and
fauour
of
a
third
.
Heerin
therfore
ought
euery
one
to
be
very
circumspect
:
for
,
if
the
merit
of
the
party
,
doe
not
in
some
sort
answer
the
relation
that
is
made
of
him
,
it
is
alwaies
so
much
out
of
the
Wryters
reputation
.
Qualem
commendes
,
etiam
,
atque
etiam
aspice
;
ne
mox
Incutiant
aliena
tibipeccata
pudorem
.
Polyperchon
,
hauing
entertaind
a
fellow
for
the
report
Xenocrates
gaue
of
him
,
and
finding
afterwards
by
his
actions
,
that
hee
did
no
way
deserue
it
,
writ
to
him
,
that
thence-forwarde
hee
should
be
more
diligent
in
examining
the
worth
and
value
of
a
man
,
before
hee
did
commend
him
.
But
,
because
the
hearts
of
men
are
to
him
onely
knowne
,
who
is
the
searcher
of
all
hearts
,
and
who
alone
could
testifie
of
Nathanael
with
such
certainty
as
he
did
,
that
hee
was
an
Jsraelite
,
in
whom
there
was
no
guile
,
and
that
the
rules
of
pietie
commaunde
vs
to
conceiue
of
their
inward
disposition
,
by
their
outward
conversation
,
that
is
,
by
coniectures
of
charity
,
and
not
by
demonstrations
of
knowledge
;
our
iudgements
may
be
easily
mistaken
in
them
:
Fallimur
,
et
quondam
non
dignum
tradimus
.
—
And
therefore
the
verse
following
may
serue
heere
for
a
precept
:
Quem
sua
culpa
premet
,
deceptus
omitte
tueri
.
For
he
that
takes
vpon
him
the
patronage
of
any
man
in
this
case
,
hee
makes
himselfe
an
accessary
to
the
cryme
.
But
for
the
better
auoyding
of
all
these
inconveniences
,
it
is
good
in
matters
of
this
nature
,
to
make
vse
of
that
restraint
of
Plato
,
who
writing
to
Dionysius
the
Tyrant
,
in
the
behalfe
of
Helicon
the
Cizicenien
;
&
fearing
least
he
shold
attribute
too
much
to
his
words
,
limited
his
beliefe
with
this
caution
,
that
what
he
writ
,
hee
writ
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
of
a
creature
,
who
by
nature
was
the
very
obiect
of
change
.
And
indeede
man
is
a
Tree
,
the
fruite
whereof
is
neuer
rype
but
in
the
latter
season
:
his
nature
cannot
easily
be
discerned
while
it
is
in
greene
:
we
must
see
the
floure
,
&
the
fruit
of
it
.
His
first
actions
lightly
neuer
issue
forth
,
but
shadowed
with
the
beautious
mask
of
formall
dissimulation
:
&
such
a
one
enters
into
the
Popedom
,
as
common
rumor
did
report
of
Boniface
,
like
a
Fox
,
that
raignes
in
it
like
a
Lyon
,
and
goes
out
of
it
like
a
Dogge
.
Il
dì
loda
la
sera
,
saith
the
Italian
;
It
is
the
euening
must
commend
the
day
:
&
the
life
of
man
must
be
censured
by
his
end
.
There
are
som
which
now
resolue
with
themselues
to
put
on
the
grauitie
of
Cato
;
but
presently
show
themselues
in
publick
,
apparelled
with
the
dissolute
lightnesse
of
Vatinius
.
One
while
Curius
is
not
austere
enough
for
them
,
Fabricius
not
poore
inough
,
Tubero
not
sparing
and
thrifty
enough
:
yet
by
&
by
they
wil
not
stick
to
prouoke
Licinius
with
their
riches
,
Apicius
with
their
riots
,
Mecaenas
with
their
dainties
:
so
great
and
difficult
a
thing
is
it
,
vnum
hominem
agere
,
to
measure
out
this
earthlie
course
of
ours
,
with
one
,
and
the
same
pase
.
No
:
there
are
fewe
in
this
corrupted
age
,
that
are
not
somwhat
tainted
with
the
humor
of
that
fantastical
Musician
,
who
,
as
the
Poet
writes
of
him
,
—
saepè
velut
qui
Currebat
fugiens
hostem
:
saepè
velut
qui
Iunonis
sacra
ferret
:
habebat
saepè
ducentos
,
Saepè
decem
servos
;
modò
,
reges
,
atque
tetrarchas
,
Omnia
magna
loquens
:
modò
,
sit
mihi
mensa
tripes
,
&
Concha
salis
puri
,
et
toga
,
quae
defendere
frigus
Quamvis
crassa
queat
:
—
When
notwithstanding
this
his
outward
profession
of
frugalitie
,
—
decies
cent
ena
dedisses
Huic
parco
,
paucis
contento
,
quinque
diebus
Nilerat
in
loculis
:
noctes
vigilabat
ad
ipsum
Manè
:
diem
totum
stertebat
:
nil
fuit
vnquam
Sic
impar
sibi
.
—
Yea
,
there
is
not
one
,
of
whom
that
may
bee
truly
saide
,
which
the
Spirit
of
all
truth
obserued
to
be
true
in
Helcana
,
Samuels
Father
;
who
,
for
that
hee
suffered
not
himselfe
to
be
carried
away
with
any
such
humorous
fluctuation
,
but
remained
continually
firme
vpon
his
square
,
and
vnshaken
,
was
saide
to
be
vnus
vir
,
one
and
the
selfe
same
man
alwaies
,
what
sinister
accidents
soeuer
did
befall
him
.
And
therfore
let
not
him
that
is
carefull
of
his
credit
,
launch
too
farre
out
into
the
prayses
of
any
man
,
but
keepe
neere
vnto
the
shore
,
&
on
the
lee-side
of
such
vnfortunate
euents
as
may
any
wayes
endanger
it
:
let
him
not
be
too
forward
in
superlatiues
;
but
so
commend
good
men
,
as
hee
may
still
reserue
a
caueat
for
their
errours
.
The
second
consideration
that
wee
are
to
haue
in
matters
of
Praises
,
is
,
to
whom
.
Many
men
(
what
by
reason
of
the
weaknes
of
their
iudgements
,
somewhat
tainted
with
Selfe-conceit
,
or
the
greatnesse
of
their
Spirits
,
not
principled
peradventure
with
such
sounde
instructions
as
they
ought
to
be
)
are
so
tender
,
and
iealous
of
their
own
reputation
,
that
whatsoeuer
they
hear
attributed
to
the
worth
,
and
merit
of
another
,
is
presently
taken
by
them
,
as
derogated
from
their
owne
.
And
hence
it
is
,
that
to
commend
a
man
for
any
speciall
vertue
,
or
eminencie
that
is
in
him
,
either
to
his
superior
,
or
his
equall
,
is
to
make
him
oftentimes
suspected
of
the
one
,
enuyed
of
the
other
,
and
himselfe
that
doth
it
,
hated
of
both
.
Solyman
the
great
,
hauing
heard
the
acclamations
,
and
cryes
of
ioy
,
which
by
a
generall
consent
of
the
whole
Campe
,
were
giuen
to
Mustapha
his
sonne
,
at
his
return
from
Persia
,
grew
so
enrag'd
thereat
,
that
after
hee
had
most
sauagely
strangled
him
in
his
inner
chamber
,
he
caused
his
dead
bodie
to
bee
cast
out
to
the
view
of
his
whole
Army
:
proclaiming
withall
,
that
as
there
was
but
one
God
in
heauen
;
so
was
there
but
one
Sultan
vpon
earth
.
Nor
was
the
massacre
of
this
his
warlike
sonne
the
period
of
his
furie
.
He
likewise
exercised
this
his
inhumane
and
beastlie
crueltie
vpon
Sultan
Gobé
,
his
second
Sonne
,
for
bewayling
onely
the
fatall
and
vntimely
miscarriage
of
his
brother
:
and
vpon
Sultan
Mehemet
,
his
third
,
because
he
fled
for
feare
;
construing
these
their
actions
,
by
no
better
rules
,
then
his
owne
disordinate
and
criminall
affections
,
to
be
most
sensible
reproouers
of
that
his
barbarous
,
and
vnnaturall
inhumanitie
:
So
little
could
he
brooke
a
sharer
with
him-selfe
,
in
the
glorie
of
his
so
great
an
Empyre
.
But
(
alas
!
)
he
is
not
the
only
man
,
that
hath
bin
subiect
to
the
commaunde
of
such
irregular
,
&
confused
Passions
.
Many
haue
deserued
to
bee
parallell'd
with
him
in
the
like
kinde
.
For
,
how-so-euer
they
made
not
so
open
a
profession
of
tyrannie
as
hee
,
but
like
cunning
Paynters
,
could
so
shadow
their
malicious
proceedings
,
as
that
they
neuer
came
abroad
in
their
owne
likenes
,
but
apparrell'd
with
the
outward
habit
of
Law
&
Justice
;
yet
can
they
not
be
altogether
freed
from
the
deepe-wounding
stroke
of
such
deserued
imputations
.
I
coulde
instance
the
truth
of
this
assertion
vpon
many
:
but
,
for
breuitie
sake
,
I
purpose
to
omit
them
,
&
come
to
Tiberius
;
who
,
vnderstanding
that
the
Senate
was
minded
to
grace
the
remembrance
of
his
Mother
,
with
fresh
additions
of
honourable
titles
,
endeuors
by
wise
pretexts
to
alter
their
so
decree'd
determination
:
tells
them
they
must
obserue
a
moderation
,
in
graunting
any
speciall
preheminences
,
or
prerogatiues
to
women
:
himselfe
wold
expresse
the
like
temperancie
,
in
qualifying
those
that
should
be
attributed
to
him
.
But
,
what-soeuer
hee
pretended
in
words
,
it
is
manifest
,
that
this
his
outwardly
professed
modestie
,
proceeded
from
no
better
grounde
,
then
from
an
enuious
distaste
he
had
of
her
aduauncement
.
And
therefore
(
as
Tacitus
reports
)
he
would
not
so
much
as
assigne
her
one
lictor
,
Muliebre
fastigium
in
diminutionem
sui
accipiens
:
thinking
with
himselfe
,
that
vnlesse
hee
topt
the
spredding
branches
of
her
glory
,
they
could
not
choose
but
fall
out
to
be
very
hurtfull
and
preiudiciall
,
by
their
ouershaddowing
greatnesse
,
to
the
prosperous
&
flourishing
vprising
of
his
owne
.
Alexander
will
at
no
hand
admit
of
any
more
then
one
onely
Sunne
:
and
whosoeuer
shall
presume
to
parallel
his
atchiuements
(
were
it
with
the
valorous
attempts
of
his
Father
)
shall
hardly
free
himself
from
being
made
the
tragick
subiect
of
his
incensed
furie
.
Princes
cannot
brooke
,
that
eyther
their
Vertues
,
or
their
Fortunes
,
should
admit
comparison
.
As
they
haue
the
start
of
all
men
in
the
one
:
so
loue
they
not
to
bee
out-stript
by
any
in
the
other
.
Such
as
are
beneath
than
in
estate
,
and
bounde
by
reason
of
their
birth
to
acknowledge
(
as
inferiour
homagers
)
a
dependencie
vpon
their
greatnesse
,
must
(
in
their
presence
)
esteeme
of
themselues
,
how
qualified
soeuer
,
but
euen
as
bare
and
naked
Cyphers
.
Thenselues
alone
will
be
thought
the
Numbers
,
that
giue
a
substantiall
existence
to
the
being
of
them
all
.
Dionysius
,
because
hee
coulde
not
equall
Philoxenus
in
Poetrie
,
nor
Plato
in
discourse
,
condemned
the
one
to
the
Gallyes
,
and
sent
the
other
to
bee
solde
for
a
slaue
in
the
Island
of
Aegina
.
And
hence
was
it
,
that
Brisson
,
running
a
match
with
Alexander
,
was
willing
(
instructed
peradventure
by
the
like
examples
)
somewhat
to
conceale
,
and
obscure
his
owne
abilitie
in
the
course
:
knowing
(
as
it
is
indeed
)
that
as
to
be
permitted
to
contende
in
any
thing
with
a
Prince
,
is
glorious
;
so
to
doe
it
with
that
obstinacie
,
as
not
to
giue
ouer
without
victorie
,
is
verie
dangerous
.
Favorinus
therefore
,
the
Philosopher
,
had
reason
,
when
his
friends
vpbraided
him
,
for
yielding
himselfe
vanquisht
by
Adrian
the
Emperor
,
in
a
controversie
which
was
betwixt
them
,
about
the
interpretation
of
a
worde
,
to
fashion
them
this
reply
:
What
,
said
he
,
would
you
that
I
should
seeme
to
bee
more
learned
then
hee
who
is
Commaunder
ouer
thirtie
legions
?
Augustus
writ
verses
against
Asinius
Pollio
,
&
I
,
saith
Pollio
,
hold
my
peace
.
It
is
no
wisedom
for
a
man
to
show
himselfe
a
Scribe
against
him
,
who
(
if
he
once
be
nere
so
little
mooued
)
can
easily
proscribe
.
And
from
this
consideration
,
grew
that
witty
saying
of
Carneades
,
that
the
children
of
Princes
,
neuer
learnt
any
thing
so
well
,
as
the
managing
of
horses
.
For
,
in
all
other
exercises
they
tooke
in
hand
,
euery
man
was
content
to
disable
himself
to
hearten
them
:
but
a
horse
,
that
was
neither
Courtier
,
nor
flatterer
,
threw
the
heyre
apparant
of
a
kingdome
,
with
as
little
respect
as
he
would
the
sonne
of
a
Cobler
.
Wherefore
euery
man
(
as
well
for
his
owne
securitie
,
as
his
friends
safetie
)
must
bee
very
nyce
in
commenting
vppon
his
woorthinesse
,
in
the
hearing
of
any
soueraigne
authoritie
.
Regibus
(
saith
Sallust
)
boni
,
quàm
mali
suspectiores
sunt
;
semperque
his
aliena
virtus
formidolosa
est
.
The
goodnesse
of
a
subiect
,
giues
Princes
oftentimes
occasion
to
suspect
;
and
his
vertue
doth
but
furnish
them
with
matter
of
feare
.
Yea
,
the
like
respect
must
not
be
altogether
neglected
,
in
relating
it
,
though
but
before
their
equalls
,
and
such
,
as
in
the
neerest
degrees
of
consanguinity
,
may
seeme
allyed
vnto
him
.
For
,
oftentimes
there
is
danger
euen
in
those
:
for
proofe
whereof
,
I
wil
produce
one
onely
accident
,
which
not
long
since
happened
betweene
two
brethren
of
Ferrara
.
The
one
was
the
Cardinall
Hippolitus
da
Este
,
who
fell
extreamely
in
loue
with
a
neere
kinswoman
of
his
owne
:
and
perceiuing
that
shee
with
no
lesse
affection
doted
likewise
on
Don
Giulio
,
his
naturall
brother
,
whom
very
often
,
euen
vnto
him
,
out
of
the
vehemencie
of
her
Passion
,
shee
would
commende
for
the
best-deseruing
gentleman
that
Italie
then
affoorded
,
extolling
(
among
many
other
extraordinary
parts
wherwith
Nature
had
sufficiently
inricht
him
both
in
body
and
mind
)
the
beautie
,
and
fairenesse
of
his
eyes
,
which
shee
protested
to
the
Cardinall
,
were
the
principall
,
and
chiefe
Solicitors
of
her
affections
towards
him
:
Heereat
he
grew
presently
so
much
enraged
,
that
hauing
waited
his
time
,
and
opportunitie
,
one
day
as
Giulio
was
a-hunting
,
most
inhumanelie
he
depriued
him
of
them
both
;
glutting
the
violence
of
his
beastlie
furie
,
with
the
ruinous
defacing
of
those
parts
,
which
were
the
main
disturbers
of
his
hopes
:
A
tragedie
fit
to
be
recorded
,
as
well
in
regarde
of
the
person
by
whom
it
was
acted
,
as
in
regarde
of
the
thing
that
occasioned
the
action
.
Which
may
serue
vs
likewise
,
for
a
precedent
whereon
to
grounde
this
Caution
;
that
it
is
not
good
to
commend
any
man
,
so
,
as
that
the
hearer
may
thinke
himselfe
any
kinde
of
way
disabled
therby
.
And
therfore
,
it
will
not
be
amisse
for
wiser
men
,
so
to
qualifie
the
approbation
of
their
friends
deserts
,
as
that
they
may
not
seem
,
either
by
their
inward
passion
,
or
their
outward
words
,
to
insinuate
an
impossibilitie
to
the
standers-by
,
of
euer
matching
their
so
eminent
perfections
,
or
to
vpbraid
them
with
a
defectiue
want
of
such
good
parts
,
as
they
confidently
giue
out
to
bee
so
excellent
in
them
:
for
this
is
but
to
expose
himselfe
to
danger
,
&
his
friend
to
envie
.
L.
Quintius
,
surnamed
Cincinnatus
,
when
he
tooke
vpon
him
to
plead
for
his
sonne
Cęso
(
who
by
carrying
himselfe
as
a
professed
enemy
to
popular
proceedings
,
had
incurr'd
the
hatred
,
and
displeasure
of
the
Tribunes
,
and
thereby
so
endangered
his
life
,
as
that
nothing
was
left
him
but
the
very
bare
chance
of
the
dyce
to
saue
it
)
knew
that
to
alleage
his
worthinesse
,
&
knowne
deseruing
,
as
other
his
friends
had
done
,
was
not
the
way
to
secure
him
from
their
malice
;
but
a
meanes
rather
to
set
an
edge
vpon
that
envious
dislike
,
which
so
apparantly
threatned
his
vtter
ouerthrowe
.
And
therefore
,
directed
(
as
it
were
)
by
a
better
discerning
wisdom
then
the
rest
,
hee
chooseth
out
a
path
(
for
the
safetie
of
his
Sonne
)
directlie
contrarie
to
that
which
they
had
trode
:
omits
the
recitall
of
his
merites
,
as
thinges
not
fitting
to
bee
seene
of
a
distempered
sight
;
acknowledgeth
a
faulte
;
and
in
that
regarde
,
with
great
instancie
,
desires
the
people
(
in
humble
and
submissiue
tearmes
)
to
beare
with
the
weakenesse
of
his
yeeres
,
and
not
to
vrge
the
forfeiture
of
his
vnadvised
errour
.
And
indeede
,
it
is
farre
better
some-times
to
confesse
our selues
tainted
with
such
imputations
,
as
(
beeing
vndeseruedlie
cast
vppon
vs
)
cannot
greatlie
blemish
our
reputation
,
then
(
by
standing
obstinatelie
vppon
tearmes
of
innocencie
)
to
contende
with
Greatnesse
;
who
would
willingly
enough
(
perhaps
)
in
colder
bloode
,
admit
a
reconcilement
,
so
it
might
not
seeme
to
proceede
from
any
diversitie
or
alteration
of
opinion
in
themselues
.
The
third
consideration
is
,
for
what
.
Non
omnis
fert
omnia
tellus
:
euery
ground
is
not
fit
for
euery
seede
;
no
more
is
euery
man
for
euery
action
.
The
powerfull
hand
of
irreprooueable
wisdom
,
hath
divided
our
sufficiencie
into
little
portions
;
so
that
he
who
is
excellent
in
the
leading
of
a
Company
,
may
happely
prooue
vnsufficient
in
the
guiding
and
conducting
of
an
Armie
:
which
Saturninus
did
not
sticke
to
instance
on
himselfe
,
when
those
which
were
his
equalls
in
the
warres
,
were
minded
to
invest
him
with
that
absolute
command
.
Wherfore
,
whosoeuer
he
be
,
that
out
of
desert
(
as
it
were
)
shall
seeme
to
challenge
a
speciall
approbation
of
his
own
dexterity
beyond
all
men
,
in
the
right
performance
of
all
things
,
hee
doth
but
manifest
his
ouerweening
weaknesse
in
presumptuous
arrogancie
;
and
what-ere
hee
be
,
that
shall
yeeld
to
him
heerin
,
his
vnwoorthy
basenesse
in
seruile
flatterie
.
The
heathen
thought
it
a
thing
impossible
,
that
any
one
Deitie
should
be
of
power
so
infinite
,
as
to
be
able
of
it selfe
,
to
swaye
the
rule
,
and
gouernment
of
this
whole
Vniuerse
:
and
therefore
did
they
seeke
out
Gods
of
an
inferiour
nature
,
on
whom
(
as
vppon
ministring
Spirits
)
Jupiter
,
the
Superiour
of
the
Covent
,
might
in
some
sort
vnburthen
him-selfe
of
so
great
a
care
;
allotting
to
euery
one
of
them
(
according
to
their
seuerall
endowments
)
a
speciall
charge
.
And
heer-hence
it
came
,
that
one
was
surnamed
ENYALIOS
;
another
,
MANTOOS
;
a
third
,
KERDOOS
;
and
that
Venus
had
her
soueraignty
allotted
her
in
Nuptiall-chambers
,
rather
then
in
Martiall-tents
:
as
beeing
a
thing
altogether
vndecent
,
that
one
of
her
composition
,
should
any
way
intermeddle
with
Armes
.
But
,
that
wee
may
descend
againe
a
little
lower
,
to
creatures
of
our
owne
moulde
;
doe
wee
not
plainlie
see
,
that
in
the
dispensation
of
spirituall
gifts
,
there
is
so
great
a
difference
,
and
varietie
,
that
hee
who
hath
the
spirit
of
wisedom
,
may
want
the
vtterance
of
knowledge
?
he
that
hath
fayth
,
may
be
altogether
destitute
of
the
power
to
worke
miracles
?
and
hee
that
is
endued
with
diuers
tongues
,
may
bee
thoroughlie
vnfurnisht
of
the
meanes
to
interpret
them
?
The
reason
wherof
,
is
deliuered
by
the
mouth
of
Truth
,
in
the
12.
of
the
first
to
the
Corinthians
,
to
be
only
this
,
viz.
that
there
might
bee
amongst
vs
a
necessary
vse
one
of
another
;
and
that
like
so
many
seuerall
members
,
wee
might
serue
for
the
comforting
,
and
building
vp
of
one
and
the
same
bodie
.
Moses
,
howsoeuer
he
excelled
in
all
the
learning
of
the
Egyptians
,
yet
because
himselfe
was
not
an
Aaron
,
that
could
vtter
things
;
nor
a
Iethro
,
that
could
order
them
in
such
manner
as
was
requisite
;
hee
was
faine
to
craue
the
assistance
of
the
one
,
and
willingly
follow
the
directions
of
the
other
.
There
is
the
like
diuersitie
in
the
distribution
of
such
gifts
as
are
vsuallie
tearmed
naturall
:
so
that
he
who
is
swiftest
in
running
,
is
not
alwaies
the
nimblest
in
wrestling
.
Castor
gaudet
equis
;
ovo
prognatus
eodem
,
pugnis
.
Euery
man
hath
his
speciall
talent
giuen
him
from
aboue
;
and
ought
therefore
to
endeuor
,
as
much
as
in
him
lyes
,
to
beautifie
,
&
adorne
that
Sparta
which
is
befalne
him
.
For
,
whosoeuer
shal
attempt
further
,
hee
shall
but
manifest
his
weakenesse
,
and
reape
deserued
laughter
for
his
recompence
.
Antony
,
angling
one
day
in
the
presence
of
Cleopatra
,
grewe
discontent
because
hee
caught
not
any
thing
:
but
she
,
perceiuing
it
,
willed
him
(
in
smyling
manner
)
to
lay-by
the
lyne
,
as
fitter
for
the
Egyptians
to
handle
,
then
for
him
,
whose
handes
were
better
taught
how
to
subdue
whole
Countries
,
and
conquer
Kingdoms
,
then
how
to
manage
so
mean
an
instrument
.
Hence
is
it
,
that
to
giue
out
confidently
of
any
man
,
&
without
exception
,
that
he
is
skilfull
in
many
things
,
is
but
secretly
to
insinuate
,
that
hee
is
eminent
in
none
.
Mans
iudgement
and
capacitie
,
is
bounded
with
verie
strict
limits
.
And
it
is
a
prouerbe
no
lesse
true
then
ancient
,
that
he
which
grypes
at
most
,
doth
alwaies
lightly
fasten
vppon
least
.
Wherfore
,
what-ere
hee
be
,
that
desires
to
advantage
his
friende
by
any
commendations
,
let
him
instance
his
speeches
alwaies
on
particulars
:
besides
,
let
him
haue
regard
to
the
qualitie
of
his
person
.
Philip
,
hearing
his
sonne
Alexander
sing
wonderfull
well
at
a
certaine
banquet
,
wherevnto
himselfe
was
invited
,
did
not
stick
to
vpbraid
him
with
his
excellencie
therein
;
asking
him
,
if
hee
were
not
ashamed
to
be
so
skilfull
in
a
facultie
,
which
was
so
farre
belowe
him
:
thinking
,
it
should
seeme
,
that
the
following
of
such
things
,
as
were
no
lesse
ful
of
vanity
,
then
voyde
of
profit
,
might
argue
a
neglect
of
honourable
enterprizes
;
and
so
fal
out
to
be
preiudiciall
to
his
thēgrowing
reputation
,
rather
then
otherwise
.
And
indeede
Prayses
are
no
way
gracefull
,
vnlesse
they
be
presented
with
the
troupe
,
and
in
the
traine
of
such
as
are
proper
vnto
vs
.
It
is
a
kinde
of
scorne
and
indignitie
,
to
pryze
a
man
by
such
abilities
,
as
holde
not
some
decent
correspondencie
with
his
ranke
;
as
likewise
by
such
as
ought
not
to
be
the
chiefe
and
principall
in
him
.
And
this
,
Demosthenes
knew
full
well
:
who
hauing
alwaies
been
a
professed
enemie
to
the
fore-saide
Philip
,
King
of
Macedon
,
&
hearing
that
Aeschines
and
Philocrates
highlie
commended
him
for
that
he
was
well-spoken
,
faire
of
countenaunce
,
&
could
with
ease
swallow
downe
the
largest
cups
,
did
not
sticke
to
retort
their
speeches
backe
,
to
his
disgrace
;
telling
them
,
that
none
of
all
those
qualities
,
were
any
way
beseeming
the
person
of
a
prince
.
For
,
the
one
was
rather
the
propertie
of
an
Advocate
;
the
other
,
of
a
Woman
;
&
the
third
,
of
a
Sponge
.
So
that
prayses
,
vnlesse
they
be
somwhat
sutable
to
the
estate
,
&
condition
of
the
partie
whom
wee
praise
,
they
may
prooue
to
be
burthensome
vnto
him
,
rather
then
otherwise
;
and
therefore
,
due
consideration
must
be
had
of
those
things
,
for
which
we
goe
about
to
commend
such
as
wee
affect
,
before
we
doe
apply
them
;
though
of
themselues
,
and
without
extrinsecall
relation
,
they
be
neuer
so
laudable
.
For
,
that
which
is
a
beautie
in
one
face
,
(
the
right
proportion
of
lineaments
well
considered
)
may
be
a
blemish
in
another
.
The
fourth
and
last
consideration
,
is
the
end
Why.
Mens
actions
can
not
well
be
construed
by
a
better
rule
,
then
by
the
scope
whereat
they
ayme
.
The
first
apparances
of
thinges
are
very
dangerous
,
and
deceitfull
:
and
therefore
,
out
of
them
it
is
impossible
to
extract
a
setled
iudgment
of
their
sequel
.
The
end
alone
is
that
,
which
must
intitle
them
by
the
attribute
of
good
,
or
euill
.
Wherefore
,
howsoeuer
wee
are
bounde
to
giue
our
neighbours
proceedings
a
charitable
interpretation
;
yet
in
those
thinges
,
which
may
somewhat
neerelie
concerne
our selues
,
and
wherein
wee
discouer
not
the
drift
of
their
dessignes
,
a
wise
distrust
,
and
slowenesse
of
beliefe
,
is
not
prohibited
.
They
are
the
sinewes
of
wisdome
:
and
whosoeuer
is
so
nyce
and
scrupulous
,
as
to
refuse
the
benefit
of
them
in
this
case
,
is
no
way
to
be
pittied
,
if
at
length
he
reape
the
fruite
of
his
supersticious
follie
.
Many
there
are
,
that
haue
hony
in
their
mouthes
,
but
wormwood
in
their
hearts
;
and
like
vnto
our
Ower-men
,
looke
one
way
,
and
row
another
:
which
,
Alfonso
king
of
Naples
,
very
wisely
discouered
in
a
certaine
Gentleman
,
that
was
a
follower
of
his
Court.
For
,
hauing
one
day
(
with
no
better
intent
,
than
to
make
the
smoother
passage
for
his
calumnious
detractions
)
exceedingly
commended
vnto
him
the
worth
,
&
good
deseruing
of
one
,
whom
he
hated
euen
vnto
death
;
Surelie
,
said
the
King
to
those
that
were
about
him
,
this
fellow
goes
about
to
lay
some
snare
wherein
to
entrap
his
enemy
.
And
heerin
was
hee
nothing
deceiued
:
for
,
shortly
after
(
when
by
reason
of
his
former
commendations
,
hee
thought
his
speeches
might
pass
without
suspicion
either
of
enuie
or
malice
)
he
came
vnto
him
with
a
contrary
note
.
Wherefore
,
it
behooues
euerie
man
to
stande
warily
vpon
his
guarde
;
as
well
for
other
mens
good
,
as
for
his
owne
.
Fronti
nulla
fides
.
Harpies
haue
Virgins
faces
,
but
Vultures
talents
:
and
the
Hyaena
,
though
it
looke
like
a
friend
,
deuoures
like
a
foe
.
This
world
is
a
Theater
,
wherein
nothing
is
represented
vnto
vs
,
but
in
a
personated
fashion
.
Looke
into
Epeus
horse
;
and
whatsoeuer
the
outside
promise
,
you
shall
find
in
the
bowels
of
it
,
the
destruction
of
Troy
.
It
may
well
argue
a
generous
spirit
,
but
with
all
,
a
want
of
iudgement
in
anie
man
,
that
on
the
suddaine
shall
repose
much
trust
,
&
confidence
in
a
reconciled
friendship
.
The
Lyon
is
a
Lyon
,
though
he
shrink
vp
his
clawes
:
&
there
be
many
,
who
(
notwithstanding
they
pretend
a
sincerenesse
of
loue
,
Eccle.
13.
and
affection
,
in
all
their
dooings
)
want
not
a
wil
to
conceiue
a
mischiefe
,
if
they
had
means
,
&
opportunitie
to
effect
it
.
Tacitus
,
making
a
briefe
recapitulation
of
those
causes
,
which
brought
Agricola
into
disgrace
with
Domitian
,
among
others
,
rankes
these
kind
of
persons
,
as
the
chiefe
.
Causa
periculi
,
saith
he
,
non
crimen
vllum
,
aut
querela
laesi
cuiusquam
:
sed
gloria
viri
;
ac
pessimum
inimicorum
genus
,
laudantes
.
That
which
endangered
him
,
was
not
any
crime
in
himselfe
,
or
complaint
in
others
:
but
the
greatnesse
of
his
worth
;
and
(
the
most
dangerous
kinde
of
enemies
)
those
that
commended
him
.
And
indeed
,
in
the
courts
of
Tyrants
(
where
,
as
Tacitus
reports
,
honores
pro
crimine
,
honorable
atchiuements
are
accounted
capitall
offences
;
et
ob
virtutes
certissimum
exitium
,
and
Vertue
is
rewarded
but
with
sure
destruction
)
there
needeth
nothing
to
procure
the
downefall
of
a
hated
enemy
,
but
a
cunning
applauding
of
his
once
suspected
merits
.
In
vita
Agric.
Sinistra
illic
erga
eminentes
interpretatio
;
nec
minus
periculum
ex
magnâ
famâ
,
quàm
ex
malâ
.
It
is
the
nature
of
those
inhumane
Caniballs
,
to
growe
iealous
of
such
abilities
as
are
reported
to
be
so
excellent
in
others
;
and
wherof
they
find
so
great
a
want
,
and
defect
in
themselues
.
Their
owne
vicious
disposition
,
makes
them
apt
,
and
prone
enough
to
interpret
the
nature
,
and
qualitie
of
mens
desires
,
by
the
greatnes
of
their
deserts
.
Hence
was
it
that
Tigellinus
,
a
man
renowmed
vnder
the
gouernment
of
Nero
for
diuelish
practices
,
Annal.
lib.
14.
that
hee
might
with
more
ease
,
and
lesse
suspicion
,
effect
the
ouerthrow
both
of
Plautus
and
Sylla
,
began
(
as
our
historian
saith
)
metum
principis
rimari
,
to
search
the
feares
,
&
iealousies
of
his
Soueraigne
:
which
after
hee
had
once
found
out
,
he
did
so
cunningly
worke
vppon
them
,
that
with
commending
vnto
him
their
Nobilitie
,
together
with
their
sufficiency
,
he
brought
him
shortly
after
,
to
be
the
bloodie
actor
of
that
vnhappy
Tragedie
,
whereof
himselfe
had
bin
the
accursed
author
.
But
Princes
are
not
alwaies
to
be
burthened
with
the
disastrous
euents
of
such
proceedings
.
They
doe
but
as
weaker
Patients
,
who
by
the
counsaile
,
and
advise
of
their
Physician
,
doe
swallowe
oftentimes
a
deadly
poyson
,
in
stead
of
a
wholsome
drug
:
themselues
beeing
altogether
vnable
to
discouer
the
deceit
,
when
arte
and
skill
hath
cunninglie
disguised
it
.
In
fenny
regions
,
saith
Varro
,
1.
Dere
Rust.
15.
there
are
certain
creatures
bred
,
of
quantitie
so
small
,
that
no
eye
can
possibly
discerne
them
;
which
beeing
drawn
with
the
very
ayre
thorough
the
nostrils
,
into
the
braine
,
and
through
the
mouth
,
into
the
body
,
are
afterwards
the
cause
of
many
dangerous
diseases
.
Thus
,
in
the
head
of
an
Italian
(
as
Holerius
writes
)
was
engendred
a
Scorpion
,
Cap.
1.
Praxis
Medic
:
&
that
by
his
often
smelling
to
the
herbe
Basile
.
For
euen
so
likewise
may
those
little
Atomies
be
snuft
vp
with
the
ayre
.
No
maruaile
then
if
,
with
the
prayses
of
an
ill-affected
minde
,
there
steale
into
the
eares
of
Princes
,
that
which
may
poyson
,
and
corrupt
their
iudgement
,
mouing
their
fancies
to
a
causelesse
iealousie
of
the
partie
praysed
.
All
men
are
prone
to
belieue
those
things
,
that
cary
any
showe
with
them
of
securing
,
either
themselues
,
or
their
estates
;
as
likewise
to
distrust
the
contrary
.
And
howsoeuer
a
Caesar
,
or
a
Guisard
,
who
neuer
vnderstoode
the
meaning
of
that
worde
Feare
(
out
of
the
height
of
their
vndaunted
courage
)
might
in
a
carelesse
maner
seeme
to
neglect
the
true
relations
of
intended
treacheries
,
or
(
scorning
as
it
were
a
strict
enquirie
)
confront
them
only
with
an
invincible
spirit
,
&
say
,
On
n'oseroit
,
they
dare
not
attempt
it
:
yet
where
wisdome
is
vs'd
as
an
ingredient
to
qualify
that
,
which
exceedes
in
eyther
,
they
may
be
taken
as
soueraine
preseruatiues
,
and
that
without
feare
of
prejudice
to
a
generous
and
vertuous
mind
.
But
,
that
wee
may
not
leese
our selfes
in
things
extrauagant
,
let
vs
draw
some-what
neerer
to
our
home
.
There
are
another
kinde
of
cunning
vndermyners
,
who
,
when
they
see
their
aduersaries
,
or
such
as
they
affect
not
,
advanced
to
any
place
of
dignitie
,
the
discharge
whereof
,
requires
an
extraordinarie
sufficiencie
,
will
not
let
,
as
often
as
occasion
is
giuen
,
highly
to
commend
their
worth
:
but
,
if
we
obserue
them
,
it
is
neuer
lightlie
,
but
with
disabling
them
in
the
maine
.
Thus
hath
Subtiltie
been
oftentimes
the
supplanter
of
true
Desert
,
and
craftie
Ignorance
the
deposer
and
dispossesser
of
an
able
Vertue
.
Thus
was
Taurion
wrought
out
of
the
gouernment
of
Peloponnesus
by
Apelles
,
whilst
hee
perswaded
the
King
that
hee
should
doe
well
,
to
employ
such
worthy
men
as
he
,
about
his
person
:
which
consideration
,
serv'd
but
as
a
colour
to
shadow
his
sinister
aimes
;
for
,
his
direct
and
principall
end
,
was
to
invest
a
creature
of
his
owne
with
that
charge
and
dignitie
.
Wherfore
,
it
behooueth
Princes
,
not
to
giue
too
much
credit
to
the
informations
that
are
giuen
them
by
others
,
of
such
as
they
imploy
in
any
charges
of
importance
;
but
for
their
owne
safety
,
and
theirs
,
to
haue
a
certaine
experimental
knowledge
,
of
themselues
.
The
Fencer
some-times
cunningly
takes
his
ayme
at
the
foote
,
when
his
intent
is
to
reach
the
head
:
and
many
men
,
by
blaming
the
seruaunt
,
haue
sought
the
ouerthrowe
of
the
Maister
.
Francis
Sforza
,
being
very
desirous
to
remoue
both
Troilus
&
Peter
Brunorus
,
two
Leaders
of
no
small
account
,
from
the
service
of
Alfonso
,
king
of
Naples
,
framed
a
Letter
,
in
the
end
wherof
hee
willed
,
that
without
delay
they
should
put
in
execution
the
consultations
that
had
past
betwixt
them
;
which
he
conueyed
in
such
manner
,
as
it
fell
into
the
handes
of
the
king
:
who
,
vnderstanding
the
contents
,
sent
them
therevpon
as
prisoners
into
Catalogne
;
and
by
that
meanes
,
depriued
himselfe
of
the
benefit
,
&
vse
of
two
experienced
Commanders
,
and
gaue
his
enemy
that
contentment
which
hee
looked
for
.
I
could
instance
the
truth
of
this
assertion
on
many
more
examples
:
but
I
am
call'd
away
by
another
kinde
of
sinister
praysers
,
who
are
not
absolutely
led
with
any
malicious
intent
to
offende
others
,
but
onely
with
a
desire
to
benefit
themselues
;
&
these
are
vsually
termed
flatterers
.
Their
end
is
altogether
different
from
the
former
:
and
howsoeuer
they
prooue
to
be
no
lesse
hurtfull
than
any
of
the
rest
,
yet
is
it
but
by
accident
,
and
as
the
Ivie
,
corrupts
the
wall
which
it
embraceth
.
But
because
they
are
easily
discerned
by
purer
iudgements
,
and
such
as
are
not
tainted
with
anie
humorous
Selfe-conceit
,
I
will
heare
leaue
both
them
&
this
discourse
.
Of
Paines
&
Industrie
.
THere
is
no
better
marke
of
a
true
generous
disposition
,
them
to
attempt
those
things
,
which
are
hard
to
bee
atchiued
.
The
easinesse
of
dooing
,
worketh
oftentimes
in
some
,
an
vtter
distaste
of
what
is
to
bee
done
.
Ingrata
quae
tuta
:
Vertue
admits
not
facilitie
for
her
companion
;
the
path
shee
treads
,
it
must
be
rough
and
thorny
.
No
accidents
haue
power
to
make
her
turne
her
backe
.
Labour
and
paines
,
are
the
onely
foode
wherwith
she
fats
herselfe
.
The
threats
of
Tyrants
,
tortures
,
and
torturers
,
are
so
farre
from
dismaying
her
,
that
they
serue
rather
to
breathe
a
second
life
into
her
.
Duris
vt
ilex
tonsa
bipennibus
Nigrae
feraci
frondis
in
Algido
,
Per
damna
,
per
caedes
,
ab
ipso
Ducit
opes
,
animumque
ferro
.
Like
a
topt
Elme
,
whom
harder
Axe
bereaues
In
Algid's
fruitfull
soyle
of
his
blacke
leaues
,
Through
loss
,
through
slaughter
,
and
excessiue
paine
,
Euen
from
her
wounds
she
gathers
strength
againe
.
It
is
no
part
of
hers
,
to
go
creeping
into
a
hollow
Caue
,
or
bee
beholding
to
a
massy
toombe
for
freeing
her
from
the
strokes
of
an
incensed
fortune
.
She
breaks
not
off
her
intended
purposes
,
neither
dooth
she
alter
her
propounded
courses
,
what-soeuer
storm
,
or
tempest
is
like
to
happen
.
Si
fractus
illabatur
orbis
,
Impavidam
ferient
ruinae
.
Though
the
wide
world
,
being
broke
,
should
chance
to
fall
,
Her
may
the
ruines
hurt
,
but
not
appall
.
No
:
't
is
in
vulgar
,
and
adulterate
spirits
,
that
the
soule
of
Motion
is
whollie
deriued
from
the
likelihood
of
Action
.
Avida
est
periculi
Virtus
:
true
noble
dispositions
,
cannot
relish
any
enterprize
,
further
then
it
is
seasoned
with
difficulties
&
dangers
.
Edward
the
third
of
England
,
vnderstanding
on
what
nice
tearms
the
life
of
the
Blacke-Prince
,
his
sonne
,
did
stande
,
when
at
the
towne
of
Crecy
(
by
reason
of
the
great
advantage
the
French
had
of
him
,
both
in
multitude
of
men
,
and
commodiousnesse
of
place
)
he
was
(
in
all
mens
iudgements
)
accounted
but
as
matter
,
out
of
whose
ruines
his
enemies
might
frame
vnto
themselues
a
glorious
victorie
:
and
fearing
least
by
sending
fresh
supplies
,
he
might
hap
to
derogate
from
his
transcending
reputation
,
returnes
him
no
better
comfort
,
then
this
short
answere
could
affoorde
him
;
That
eyther
hee
must
win
the
fielde
,
or
lose
his
life
:
himselfe
would
remaine
a
witnesse
of
his
valour
,
ready
to
second
what
he
had
begun
,
when
need
required
.
This
vnexpected
message
,
in
so
great
a
necessitie
,
from
a
father
,
was
so
far
from
dismaying
him
,
as
that
it
rather
added
vigour
to
his
strength
:
so
that
,
considering
with
himselfe
if
he
ouercame
,
his
glory
would
be
the
more
;
if
hee
were
ouercome
,
it
could
not
be
much
lesse
;
hee
hastens
to
the
fielde
,
giues
the
onset
,
&
ennobles
both
the
day
,
and
place
by
the
fall
of
thirtie
thousand
of
his
adversaries
,
1500.
of
them
beeing
Earles
,
Barons
,
and
Gentlemen
of
note
:
which
,
like
a
dangerous
feauer
,
did
so
shake
euerie
particular
member
of
the
Realme
of
France
,
as
that
long
time
after
,
it
lay
bed-rid
of
that
ouerthrow
.
And
indeed
,
the
despaire
of
conquering
,
yea
,
and
some-times
the
feare
of
beeing
conquer'd
,
hath
to
many
Armies
been
the
onely
meanes
,
by
which
they
haue
obtained
what
they
little
sought
for
.
Witnes
the
first
iust
battaile
,
which
the
Romans
fought
against
Hannibal
,
vnder
the
conduct
of
Sempronius
the
Consull
:
in
which
,
a
troupe
of
well
nigh
tenne
thousand
footemen
were
seised
on
the
suddaine
with
such
an
affright
,
that
not
seeing
which
way
els
they
might
make
passage
for
their
fainting
baseness
,
they
cast
themselues
athwart
one
of
the
thickest
ranks
of
their
opposites
,
which
they
pearced
with
a
wonderfull
furie
,
to
the
great
amazement
,
&
discomfiture
of
the
Carthaginians
:
but
(
alasse
!
)
't
was
but
a
shamefull
and
dishonourable
flight
,
bought
at
the
same
pryce
they
might
haue
done
a
glorious
and
renowmed
victorie
.
Julius
Caesar
made
knowne
vnto
the
worlde
the
singular
proofe
of
his
valour
,
when
beeing
(
with
his
Cohorts
)
to
passe
the
Riuer
Rubicon
(
which
was
the
vtmost
bound
&
limit
of
his
Prouince
)
and
hauing
weighed
with
himselfe
,
the
danger
that
attended
so
high
an
enterprize
(
wheras
Peace
and
Safetie
offred
to
kisse
his
feete
vpon
the
alteration
of
his
proceedings
)
he
sets
vp
his
rest
,
throwes
the
dyce
,
and
in
a
desperate
resolution
,
cryes
Haue
at
all
:
intending
,
it
should
seeme
(
rather
then
hee
would
misse
the
purchase
of
his
aymes
)
to
polish
and
fashion
out
his
then
rough-hewen
fortune
,
with
the
edge
of
his
subduing
sword
;
and
to
make
way
for
his
ambitious
hopes
,
through
fieldes
of
Iron
,
and
streames
of
blood
,
to
that
imperiall
dignitie
,
where-with
in
the
end
,
hee
saw
himselfe
most
honourably
possest
.
That
Vertue
is
but
weake
,
and
ill
deserues
the
grace
and
credit
of
so
high
a
style
(
being
of
it selfe
vnable
to
giue
life
to
any
heroicall
dessigne
)
that
cannot
with
a
fixed
countenance
out-stare
the
threatning
eye
of
Danger
,
and
make
day
for
them
,
through
all
opposed
discouragements
whatsoeuer
.
Pelopidas
,
beeing
advertised
that
Alexander
came
against
him
,
with
a
farre
greater
Armie
then
his
,
was
nothing
mooued
ther-with
,
but
aunswers
presentlie
:
So
much
the
better
;
wee
shall
subdue
the
more
.
The
Lacedemonians
were
neuer
wont
to
aske
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
how
many
are
our
enemies
,
but
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
where
be
they
:
knowing
their
valour
to
be
of
so
sounde
,
and
strong
a
temper
,
as
could
not
any
way
bee
daunted
with
advantages
.
And
this
same
warlike
humour
,
which
was
naturally
bred
in
them
,
hath
vpon
vrgent
necessitie
beene
found
in
many
.
It
is
an
errour
therefore
,
and
an
ouer-sight
(
which
in
a
skilfull
Commander
merits
no
excuse
)
To
depriue
his
enemies
of
all
meanes
&
opportunity
of
flight
;
enforcing
them
to
exercise
the
strength
of
their
hands
,
when
their
owne
basenes
would
willinglie
(
perhaps
)
haue
embraced
any
occasion
,
that
might
haue
put
in
vse
the
swiftnes
of
their
heeles
.
It
was
Scipios
opinion
;
Viam
hostibus
,
quâ
fugiant
,
muniendam
.
For
indeede
,
there
is
nothing
so
hard
to
bee
withstoode
as
armed
Feare
.
Those
of
Gaunt
,
perceiuing
Lewis
,
Earle
of
Flaunders
,
vnwilling
at
all
hands
to
receiue
them
againe
into
his
fauour
,
vnlesse
with
halters
about
their
necks
,
they
would
aske
pardon
of
him
for
their
past
offence
;
assembled
themselues
together
to
the
number
of
5.
thousand
;
went
and
confronted
his
Army
of
fortie
thousand
;
ouercame
it
,
and
free'd
themselues
whollie
from
that
Despotical
kind
of
gouernment
,
to
which
before
(
vpon
indifferent
tearms
)
they
offred
to
submit
both
themselues
&
theirs
.
The
Earle
of
Fois
,
who
in
lesse
than
three
months
(
shewing
himselfe
a
Captaine
,
when
hee
was
scarce
a
Souldier
)
had
with
such
valour
,
and
celeritie
,
ennobled
his
name
,
by
so
many
victories
obtain'd
in
Italie
,
against
the
Spanyards
,
in
the
yeere
1512.
was
slaine
by
a
troope
of
their
Infantrie
,
whilst
hee
stroue
to
perfect
his
victorie
;
beeing
not
able
to
endure
,
that
(
all
the
rest
beeing
scattered
and
discomfited
)
it
alone
should
depart
the
fielde
as
tryumphant
,
with
her
ranks
vnbroken
,
and
vnsever'd
.
It
is
not
good
therefore
for
any
man
to
presume
too
much
vpon
his
fortune
.
Vitrea
est
:
tune
cùm
splendet
,
frangitur
.
And
,
as
the
French
prouerbe
dooth
testifie
,
Par
trop
presser
l'anguille
,
on
la
perd
:
he
that
grypes
an
Eele
too
hard
,
is
in
danger
to
lose
it
.
Many
haue
had
the
victory
snatcht
(
as
it
were
)
out
of
their
jawes
,
&
themselues
become
the
dishonourable
pryze
of
whome
they
had
earst
most
honourably
surpryz'd
,
for
not
making
a
golden
bridge
for
the
retyring
forces
of
their
enemy
to
passe
ouer
:
So
great
a
power
hath
necessitie
,
to
rowze
vp
the
drowsie
courages
of
men
,
and
to
enflame
their
paler
livers
,
with
a
resolution
to
sel
their
liues
at
as
high
a
rate
as
possibly
they
can
,
rather
then
offer
themselues
gratìs
,
and
vnrevenged
,
to
be
like
sheep
slaughtered
by
the
furie
of
their
adversarie
.
Vna
salus
victis
,
nullam
sperare
salutem
.
What
greater
motiues
or
encouragements
could
haue
been
vsed
,
to
support
the
weaknesse
of
a
yielding
Armie
,
then
those
which
Vectius
applyed
to
his
soldiers
,
when
hee
perceiued
them
to
faint
vnder
the
furious
encounter
of
the
Romans
?
What
(
saith
hee
)
are
you
desirous
to
see
your
houses
,
your
wiues
,
your
parents
&
your
children
?
follow
me
.
There
are
no
walls
,
nor
ramparts
,
to
interrupt
your
passage
:
Armes
only
are
oppos'd
to
armes
:
your
valour
doth
altogether
equall
theirs
:
but
now
necessitie
giues
you
the
vpper
hand
of
them
.
And
indeed
,
where
haue
we
seen
greater
valiancie
,
then
in
those
desperate
troopes
,
that
like
Catilines
sedicious
followers
,
divitias
,
decus
,
gloriam
,
libertatem
,
atque
patriam
,
in
dextris
portarunt
;
carried
their
wealth
,
their
honor
,
their
freedom
,
and
their
country
in
their
hands
.
Witnes
those
severall
inundations
of
warlike
legions
,
which
the
populous
fruitfulnes
of
Scythia
,
and
the
rest
of
those
colder
clymats
in
former
times
haue
afforded
;
who
wanting
place
to
inhabit
in
at
home
,
haue
sought
abroad
,
&
by
vertue
of
their
swords
,
entitled
themselues
in
most
of
the
chiefest
parts
of
Christendom
,
disseising
the
right
owners
,
and
making
themselues
Franc-tenāts
of
their
kingdoms
,
&
possessions
,
both
in
law
,
and
deed
.
The
proofe
heereof
wee
may
see
in
the
Longobards
:
who
beeing
driven
(
by
want
)
to
forsake
their
natiue
soyle
(
which
was
an
Island
in
the
Alman-sea
,
called
Scandinavia
)
entred
into
Italie
,
made
themselues
absolute
Lordes
of
Gallia
Cisalpina
,
and
styl'd
it
afterwards
(
in
remembrance
of
their
so
wonne
conquest
)
by
the
name
of
Lombardie
:
as
likewise
in
the
Huns
,
and
Garians
,
who
vnder
the
ensignes
of
that
victorious
,
and
so
renowmed
Attila
,
their
king
,
after
his
expulsion
out
of
the
territories
of
France
,
possessed
themselues
with
the
whole
Country
of
Panonia
,
and
by
a
compound
name
,
called
it
Hungaria
.
And
,
that
we
may
draw
a
little
neerer
to
our
owne
home
;
the
Normans
(
a
people
gathered
together
not
onely
from
Denmarke
,
but
from
Suedland
,
and
other
Septentrionall
Countries
there
adioyning
)
tooke
such
sure
footing
in
Neustria
(
by
them
now
Normandie
)
during
the
time
that
Charles
,
surnamed
the
Grosse
,
commaunded
it
,
that
hee
was
faine
,
considering
hee
could
not
doe
otherwise
,
to
graunt
it
them
,
conditionally
they
would
acknowledge
themselues
euer
after
,
liegehomagers
for
it
to
the
Crowne
of
France
.
Vertue
is
neuer
in
her
proper
element
,
but
when
death
&
danger
seeme
to
haue
hemm'd
her
in
on
euerie
side
:
shee
scornes
the
pryze
,
whose
purchase
requires
not
the
vse
of
all
her
nerues
.
Imperia
dura
tolle
,
quid
virtus
erit
?
saith
the
Tragick
.
Inveniet
viam
,
aut
faciet
:
Wheresoeuer
shee
become
,
she
will
either
find
a
way
,
or
make
one
.
No
calamitie
is
of
power
sufficient
to
bring
her
vnder
.
This
Maiesty
alone
,
knowes
not
what
it
is
to
suffer
checke
:
it
can
neither
be
elevated
,
nor
dejected
.
Her
greatnesse
(
like
the
highest
heauens
)
is
alwaies
firme
and
without
clowdes
.
Are
you
desirous
to
see
her
?
you
shall
finde
her
in
the
Temple
,
in
the
market
,
in
the
Court
:
you
shall
finde
her
standing
at
a
breache
,
or
scaling
of
a
wall
;
her
garments
dustie
,
her
countenaunce
all
tann'd
,
and
her
hands
as
hard
as
Iron
.
Wherefore
,
whosoeuer
is
possest
with
her
,
let
him
prepare
himselfe
for
dangerous
assaults
.
The
Gladiator
thinkes
it
a
disgrace
,
to
see
himselfe
compos'd
with
one
,
eyther
in
strength
,
or
skil
,
inferiour
to
himselfe
;
knowing
(
as
it
is
indeede
)
the
victory
cannot
be
glorious
,
which
is
not
dangerous
.
Bellum
cum
captivis
,
&
foeminis
,
gerere
non
possum
:
Armatus
sit
oportet
,
quem
oderim
,
said
Alexander
.
And
at
the
games
of
Olympus
,
hee
would
not
runne
,
vnlesse
hee
might
haue
Kings
for
his
competitors
in
the
pursuit
of
the
victorie
.
Paul
.
Aemylius
,
by
reason
of
the
base
,
and
fearefull
speeches
,
that
issued
out
of
the
mouth
of
Perseus
after
his
captiuitie
,
thought
himselfe
nothing
honour'd
by
the
ouerthrowe
of
so
faint
,
and
cowardlie
a
foe
.
In
Tauros
ruunt
Lybici
Leones
:
Non
sunt
Papilionibus
molesti
.
Against
stout
Bulls
the
Lybian
Lyons
hie
:
And
ne're
molest
the
weaker
Butterflie
.
The
like
doth
Fortune
;
Fortissimos
sibi
pares
quaerit
,
shee
lookes
out
the
strongest
for
hir
Antagonists
:
the
rest
shee
passeth
ouer
with
disdaine
.
Transit
tutos
Fortuna
sinus
:
Medioque
rates
quaerit
in
alto
,
Quarum
feriunt
suppara
nubes
.
Wherefore
,
whosoeuer
hee
bee
,
whose
happinesse
was
neuer
shaken
with
any
rough
encounter
,
may
rest
assur'd
,
that
she
sees
nothing
in
him
able
to
sustaine
it
;
so
that
he
need
neuer
feare
her
.
His
own
basenes
doth
sufficientlie
secure
him
.
Servantur
magnis
isticervicibus
vngues
;
Nec
gaudet
tenui
sanguine
tanta
sitis
.
Shee
seekes
a
Mutius
,
when
she
is
arm'd
with
fire
:
and
glories
in
his
vertue
,
that
(
like
Fabricius
)
can
shewe
himselfe
an
Atlas
against
her
vnder
the
heauy
burthen
of
Pouerty
:
or
that
can
with
Rutilius
,
confront
her
in
the
force
of
banishment
:
or
with
Regulus
outstare
her
in
the
horrible
aspect
of
hell-bred
tortures
.
Giue
her
a
Socrates
for
her
adversarie
,
that
can
swallow
poyson
with
as
vnchang'd
a
countenaunce
,
as
hee
would
a
delightfull
potion
:
or
a
Cato
,
that
dares
challenge
the
field
of
Death
,
and
hold
him
at
hard
play
with
his
owne
weapons
,
and
then
she
is
pleasd
.
An
easie
yielding
spirit
,
she
esteems
a
subiect
too
vnwoorthy
for
her
ambition
to
worke
vpon
.
Wherfore
,
whosoeuer
shall
at
all
times
haue
beene
so
pamperd
with
prosperitie
,
as
that
hee
neuer
felt
the
heauie
hand
of
Affliction
,
let
him
not
glorie
in
the
mildnesse
of
his
starres
,
attributing
that
peaceable
,
and
calme
tranquillitie
to
the
goodness
of
God
towardes
him
;
for
this
were
but
to
flatter
himselfe
in
an
erroneous
opinion
.
Let
him
rather
take
notice
of
his
owne
defects
,
and
be
assur'd
,
that
hee
is
altogether
destitute
of
that
heroicall
,
and
generous
heat
,
that
should
enable
him
to
make
head
against
Adversitie
,
and
is
therefore
purposelie
past
ouer
.
Had
he
beene
a
Samson
,
many
thousand
Philistins
should
haue
bent
the
force
of
their
malicious
minds
against
him
:
or
had
hee
beene
a
Dauid
,
a
Lyon
should
haue
beene
sent
to
try
him
,
and
a
Giant
to
provoke
him
.
Did
the
all-seeing
Eye
of
heauen
discerne
but
the
least
sparke
of
vertue
in
any
,
he
would
not
suffer
it
to
lie
buried
vnder
the
embers
of
a
secure
,
&
vncontroll'd
estate
:
some
stormy
accident
,
or
other
,
should
haue
serv'd
for
winde
to
kindle
it
,
and
make
it
blaze
foorth
to
the
sight
of
the
whole
world
.
Had
not
Rutilius
bin
wrongd
,
his
innocencie
had
nere
bin
knowne
.
Illustrat
fortuna
aliquos
,
dum
vexat
.
Crosse
accidents
are
often-times
the
publishers
of
a
concealed
vertue
.
Zeno
knew
himselfe
fitter
for
a
Philosopher
,
then
a
Merchant
;
yet
seeing
the
life
hee
led
was
both
pleasant
,
and
profitable
,
he
was
loth
to
giue
it
ouer
,
to
imbrace
the
other
:
but
hauing
vnderstoode
that
the
ships
hee
had
at
sea
,
beeing
very
richly
laden
and
vppon
returne
,
were
cast
away
,
he
did
then
acknowledge
a
superior
prouidence
;
and
out
of
a
carelesse
apprehension
(
it
shold
seeme
)
of
so
great
a
losse
,
tells
Fortune
shee
did
well
to
range
him
to
the
gowne
,
and
to
the
studie
of
Philosophie
.
Languet
per
inertiam
saginata
virtus
.
The
edge
of
Industrie
is
cleane
abated
by
the
force
of
pleasure
,
and
securitie
.
It
is
neuer
busied
but
when
some
vrgent
inconvenience
doth
find
it
worke
.
After
that
man
had
forfeited
those
faire
possessions
,
in
which
his
Lord
,
and
Maker
(
out
of
the
abundance
of
his
fatherly
loue
)
had
placed
him
,
&
was
enforc't
thereby
with
his
posteritie
to
shift
for
himselfe
in
so
vast
,
and
desolate
a
wildernesse
,
as
the
world
was
then
;
how
quicklie
sundry
arts
Mechanicall
,
which
otherwise
perhaps
had
nere
bin
heard
of
,
were
found
out
,
who
can
be
ignorant
?
Want
was
their
mother
,
howsoeuer
Plenty
afterwards
fell
out
to
be
their
Nurse
.
Yea
,
the
like
may
bee
likewise
seene
in
creatures
of
an
inferior
nature
:
and
hence
is
that
of
the
Satyrist
;
Quis
expedivit
Psittaco
suum
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Picasque
docuit
nostra
verba
conari
?
Where
did
the
Parot
learne
Good
morrow
Sir
to
cry
,
Or
who
the
chattering
Pyes
did
teach
,
our
words
to
proue
&
try
?
The
reason
whereof
,
is
by
himselfe
set
downe
in
the
verses
following
.
Magister
artis
,
ingenîque
largitor
,
Venter
,
negatas
artifex
sequi
voces
.
That
which
doth
art
impart
,
and
wit
bestow
,
The
belly
,
skill'd
voyces
deny'd
to
know
.
This
was
it
,
that
brought
them
to
it
,
saith
hee
.
But
there
are
many
other
respects
sufficient
of
themselues
,
without
the
ayde
of
this
,
to
worke
the
like
effect
in
man
:
as
,
hope
of
gaine
,
feare
of
danger
,
&
such
like
.
Yet
there
be
many
of
so
effeminate
,
and
soft
a
disposition
,
that
they
are
readie
to
swoune
at
the
very
first
allarum
of
any
sinister
,
and
disastrous
accident
:
and
whereas
they
should
employ
themselues
in
seeking
to
redresse
what
they
cannot
avoid
,
stande
gazing
one
at
another
in
the
greatest
dangers
,
expecting
ayde
from
the
immortall
Gods
but
not
remembring
,
that
(
as
the
Grecian
prouerb
saith
)
they
must
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
adde
their
owne
industrie
to
th'
invocation
of
divine
assistance
;
and
not
be
followers
of
that
Rustick
in
the
Apologue
,
who
,
when
his
cart
was
layd
fast
vp
in
the
mire
,
stood
still
,
and
lookt
vpon
it
,
desiring
Hercules
,
by
his
celestiall
power
,
to
helpe
him
out
with
it
:
who
beeing
present
,
bad
him
put
his
own
hand
to
the
wheele
,
prick
forward
his
Oxen
,
and
so
cal
vppon
GOD
.
For
,
as
Cato
saide
in
his
aunswere
to
Julius
Caesar
,
Non
votis
,
nec
supplicijs
muliebribus
,
deorum
auxilia
parantur
.
Gods
helpe
is
not
gotten
onelie
by
wishes
,
prayers
,
and
womanish
supplications
.
It
is
by
watching
,
by
labouring
,
&
taking
good
advise
,
that
matters
gaine
a
prosperous
and
true
successe
.
Vbi
socordiae
,
atque
,
ignaviae
te
tradideris
,
nequicquam
Deos
implores
:
irati
,
infestique
sunt
.
If
thou
giue
thy self
ouer
to
sluggishnes
and
sloth
,
in
vaine
dooest
thou
call
vpon
him
:
hee
is
displeased
,
and
offended
with
thee
.
The
clay
,
vnlesse
it
be
thoroughlie
wrought
,
cannot
possibly
receiue
the
forme
or
fashion
of
a
pot
.
Ceres
,
when
shee
shewed
Triptolemus
the
vse
of
Corne
,
shee
gaue
him
this
aviso
withall
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
vnlesse
thou
cleanse
,
and
grind
it
,
thou
canst
neuer
eate
it
.
Insinuating
as
it
were
thereby
,
that
no
man
could
possibly
attaine
any
thing
,
to
the
purchase
whereof
he
added
not
his
owne
industrie
.
Charles
the
Emperour
bore
for
an
Impresa
the
signe
Capricorne
,
the
constellation
vnder
which
he
was
borne
:
and
the
word
that
gaue
it
life
,
was
Fidem
fati
virtute
sequemur
:
Our
vertue
shall
pursue
that
,
which
our
fate
hath
promised
;
A
Motto
fitting
the
person
of
so
noble
and
victorious
a
Prince
.
For
,
in
euery
action
,
it
is
GOD
that
giues
the
matter
:
but
wee
are
they
that
must
second
him
in
the
giuing
of
it
forme
.
Hee
dooth
nothing
that
concernes
vs
,
without
vs
;
no
,
not
so
much
as
saue
vs
.
Dij
laboribus
omnia
vendunt
.
Without
pains
&
industry
nothing
can
be
got
;
&
with
it
,
most
things
may
:
Et
labor
ingenium
miseris
dedit
.
—
Demosthenes
had
many
imperfections
,
which
in
an
Orator
were
much
vnseemely
:
to
redresse
them
therefore
(
saith
Valerius
)
praeliatus
est
contra
rerum
naturam
,
hee
made
open
warre
against
Nature
,
and
went
his
way
at
length
with
triumphant
conquest
;
hauing
by
the
obstinacie
of
his
owne
minde
,
maister'd
the
malignitie
of
hers
:
wherevppon
it
was
rumour'd
,
that
his
Mother
had
brought
forth
one
Demosthenes
,
&
Industrie
another
.
Wherfore
,
though
it
be
somwhat
troublesome
to
take
paines
,
yet
once
learne
of
a
Mimik
,
Feras
quod
laedit
,
vt
quodprodest
,
perferas
.
Beare
that
,
which
dooth
a
little
displease
thee
,
that
thou
maist
beare
away
that
,
which
wil
much
profit
thee
.
Fortiter
malum
qui
patitur
,
saith
the
Comike
,
post
potitur
bonum
.
Sowre
accidents
are
seasoned
with
sweet
events
;
and
stormie
tempests
,
are
often
followed
with
quiet
calmes
.
And
this
was
,
though
obscurely
,
yet
most
elegantly
set
out
by
Homer
in
that
herbe
Moly
,
to
which
he
attributes
a
blacke
roote
,
and
a
white
flower
;
signifying
the
troublesomnesse
of
labor
by
the
one
,
by
which
that
tranquillitie
of
mind
is
obteyned
,
which
is
the
reward
of
an
absolute
vertue
,
expressed
in
the
other
.
Cautions
in
Friendship
.
IT
was
not
without
reason
,
that
Anacharsis
when
he
slept
,
was
alwayes
wont
to
hold
his
right
hand
on
his
mouth
,
and
his
left
hand
on
his
naturall
parts
;
as
if
the
one
had
needed
a
farre
stronger
restraint
then
the
other
.
For
there
are
many
men
of
such
a
temper
,
that
they
can
with
greater
patience
endure
to
carry
burning
coales
in
their
breasts
,
then
secrets
:
and
hence
is
it
,
that
those
thinges
oftentimes
,
which
are
whispered
in
the
eare
,
are
presently
after
publisht
in
the
Market
.
There
are
few
,
that
can
say
,
&
say
truly
,
as
that
Graecian
of
former
times
did
,
who
beeing
told
that
his
breath
did
smell
,
answered
,
that
it
was
by
reason
of
the
many
secrets
,
which
had
a
long
time
layne
rotting
,
and
putrifying
within
him
.
Nay
,
many
are
neuer
quiet
,
till
they
haue
vnburthened
their
bosomes
of
what
they
goe
with
(
and
that
often-times
without
anie
respect
,
or
choyce
)
vppon
the
first
they
happelie
encounter
,
thogh
the
matter
concerne
either
themselues
,
or
their
friends
neuer
so
neerely
:
but
(
alas
!
)
in
the
end
,
they
reape
the
fruit
of
their
vnadvised
folly
.
It
is
an
ancient
saying
,
but
very
true
;
The
good
,
or
ill
hap
in
all
a
mans
life
,
Is
the
good
,
or
ill
choyce
of
a
friend
,
or
a
wife
.
Wherein
,
the
cleerest
,
&
best
discerning
iudgements
,
may
easilie
be
deceiued
.
Many
haue
hony
in
their
mouthes
,
but
a
Razor
at
their
girdle
:
and
few
doe
vse
to
carry
a
map
of
their
mindes
ingraven
in
their
forheads
.
Multis
simulationum
involucris
,
saith
the
Orator
,
tegitur
,
et
quasivelis
quibusdam
obtenditur
vniuscuiusque
natura
.
Frons
,
oculi
,
vultus
persaepe
mentiuntur
;
oratio
saepissimè
.
Dissimulation
hath
set
her
foote
vpon
the
throat
of
Simplicitie
:
and
how-soeuer
it
be
good
,
yet
is
it
dangerous
to
measure
others
by
our
owne
innocencie
.
The
Marquess
of
Pescara
,
was
wont
(
as
Guicciardine
reports
)
to
draw
men
into
dangerous
practices
,
and
afterwards
,
by
his
duplicitie
,
and
double
dealing
,
to
discouer
them
himselfe
;
making
other
mens
offences
,
the
first
step
to
his
owne
greatnesse
.
It
was
not
mine
enemie
,
saith
the
kinglie
Prophet
,
that
disgraced
mee
,
for
then
I
could
haue
borne
it
:
neither
did
he
that
hated
mee
,
extoll
himselfe
against
mee
;
for
then
would
I
haue
hid
me
from
him
:
but
thou
;
a
man
,
whom
I
pryz'd
as
deerely
as
my selfe
,
my
guide
,
and
my
familiar
:
who
sweetned
our
secrets
by
imparting
them
together
,
and
went
in
each
others
companie
to
the
house
of
the
Lord
.
As
who
should
say
,
't
was
not
my
open
enemy
,
nor
my
known
adversarie
,
that
wronged
me
:
but
hee
whose
friendship
I
esteem'd
,
not
onely
for
worldly
respects
,
but
likewise
for
the
zealous
,
and
religious
affection
,
which
hee
seem'd
to
nourish
in
his
bowels
towards
the
house
of
the
Lord
,
't
was
he
,
't
was
he
that
deceiued
me
.
Hence
was
it
that
Antigonus
in
his
prayers
,
was
wont
to
desire
the
Gods
they
would
defende
him
against
his
friends
.
And
being
demaunded
,
why
not
rather
against
his
enemies
:
from
them
,
saith
he
,
that
openly
professe
hostilitie
,
I
can
easily
beware
;
but
from
those
that
vaile
a
wrinkled
hart
,
vnder
a
smiling
countenaunce
,
I
stand
in
need
of
divine
protection
.
And
indeed
,
feareful
diftrust
secures
vs
from
the
malice
of
the
one
:
but
fearlesse
confidence
betraies
vs
to
the
treacheries
of
the
other
.
Who
but
our
Sauior
Christ
could
haue
discouered
the
secret
practices
of
Judas
?
considering
how
forward
he
was
to
kisse
him
,
&
likewise
to
performe
all
other
ceremonious
offices
of
loue
that
wer
required
.
Ave
is
vttered
often-times
by
some
,
who
if
their
tongues
shold
not
belye
their
harts
,
Cave
wold
sound
the
truest
in
their
mouths
.
Joab
takes
Amasa
by
the
bearde
to
kisse
him
,
when
he
intends
to
kill
him
:
and
indeed
,
as
the
Poet
witnesseth
;
Tuta
,
frequensque
via
est
,
Ouid.
li.
1
de
arte
.
per
amici
fallere
nomen
.
It
is
a
safe
,
and
common
way
,
by
friendship
to
deceiue
.
And
Socrates
therevpon
exclaimeth
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
Friendes
,
there
is
not
any
man
a
friende
;
meaning
such
a
one
as
the
Comick
speaketh
of
,
Cui
tuam
rem
cùm
credideris
,
sine
omni
curâ
dormias
:
to
whom
,
when
thou
hast
committed
any
businesse
that
concernes
thy selfe
,
thou
need'st
not
interrupt
thy
owne
sleepe
,
with
careful
thinking
on
't
.
Some
such
there
are
,
but
not
in
euery
soyle
:
they
must
be
sought
for
amongst
liberall
Arts
;
amongst
honest
,
&
vertuous
offices
;
amongst
painfull
,
and
industrious
exercises
:
thy
sumptuous
entertainement
affoordes
then
not
.
Quae
inter
pocula
contrahitur
amicitia
,
saith
Seneca
,
vitrea
est
,
&
fragilis
.
Cup-friendship
,
is
of
too
brittle
and
glassie
a
substance
to
continue
long
.
Hunc
quem
coena
tibi
,
quem
mēsaparavit
amicum
,
non
te
;
Martial
.
lib.
9.
Epigr.
15.
Esse
putas
fidae
pectus
amicitiae
?
Aprum
amat
,
&
mullos
,
&
sumen
,
&
ostrea
,
Tam
benè
si
coenem
,
noster
amicus
eris
.
Whom
plentious
meales
,
and
tables
make
thy
friend
,
Think'st
thou
,
his
loue
can
haue
a
trusty
end
?
He
likes
thy
daintie
cates
;
hee
likes
not
thee
:
Make
mee
such
cheere
,
and
thou
my
friend
shalt
bee
.
These
are
like
the
Swallow
,
that
changeth
her
habitation
with
the
season
;
and
when
comfort
faileth
her
in
one
place
,
repaireth
presently
to
another
:
&
such
a
one
was
Crottos
mouse
;
for
while
he
was
in
prosperitie
,
it
fed
continuallie
with
him
:
but
his
house
beeing
set
on
fire
,
it
fled
immediatlie
from
him
.
Wherevpon
he
tooke
occasion
to
frame
this
distich
,
not
so
much
to
denote
the
vngratefulnesse
of
so
imperfect
and
base
a
creature
,
as
the
mutabilitie
,
and
fleeting
disposition
of
trencher-amitie
:
Vixistimecum
,
Fortunâ
matre
;
novercâ
,
Me
fugis
:
at
poteras
aequa
,
et
iniqua
pati
.
Thou
wast
content
to
liue
with
me
while
Fortune
was
a
Mother
:
When
she
a
cruel
stepdame
grew
,
thou
left'st
me
for
another
:
But
if
so
thou
a
creature
vile
,
and
thanklesse
hadst
not
bin
,
Thou
wold'st
not
haue
deny'd
to
share
the
troubles
I
was
in
.
Hee
therefore
(
saith
Seneca
)
dooth
mainly
erre
,
qui
amicum
in
atrio
quaerit
,
in
convivio
probat
;
that
seekes
a
friend
in
the
Court
,
and
without
further
tryall
,
confirmes
him
in
the
Cup.
It
is
a
preposterous
order
,
first
to
trust
,
and
afterwards
to
iudge
:
a
methodicall
proceeding
,
would
require
an
inverted
course
.
We
are
to
deliberate
of
all
thinges
,
with
our
friend
;
but
first
,
of
our
friend
himselfe
.
There
is
no
man
so
simple
,
but
,
before
he
intend
to
make
vse
of
a
new
vessell
,
tryeth
by
the
infusion
of
water
,
whither
it
be
well
bound
,
and
fit
to
containe
more
pretious
liquour
,
or
no.
Alcibiades
conveighed
the
image
of
a
man
into
the
darkest
part
of
his
house
,
and
thither
having
brought
his
friends
,
one
by
one
,
tolde
them
hee
had
slaine
a
man
,
and
withall
defired
,
that
by
their
ayde
,
&
counsell
,
he
might
be
so
assisted
,
as
that
the
murther
might
be
concealed
:
All
of
them
deny
to
be
partakers
with
him
in
so
great
a
fact
.
Onely
Callias
willingly
condescends
to
satisfie
his
demaunds
,
by
dooing
him
the
best
offices
,
which
in
that
case
he
possibly
could
,
beeing
as
yet
altogether
ignorant
of
the
veritie
of
the
thing
:
whervpon
hee
made
no
difficultie
to
embrace
him
euer
after
as
his
bosome-friend
,
and
confidently
to
impart
,
vnto
him
,
the
vtmost
,
and
inmost
of
his
secrets
:
yet
,
in
those
thinges
by
which
his
life
might
become
questionable
,
he
would
not
trust
his
Mother
,
for
feare
she
might
mistake
the
black
beane
,
for
the
white
.
Wherfore
,
euery
man
ought
to
be
somwhat
nyce
and
scrupulous
in
this
kind
;
and
not
impart
any
thing
,
that
may
import
eyther
himselfe
,
or
his
friend
,
but
with
sufficient
caution
.
For
,
as
the
Italian
prouerb
witnesseth
:
Servo
d'altrui
si
fà
,
Chi
dice
il
suo
secreto
,
à
chi
no'l
sà
.
Hee
makes
himselfe
a
seruile
wretch
to
others
euermore
,
That
tells
his
secrets
vnto
such
,
as
knew
them
not
before
.
Vnitie
neuer
passeth
his
bounds
;
but
remaineth
in
it selfe
alwaies
one
,
&
is
therefore
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
but
the
binary
number
is
indefinite
,
and
the
beginning
of
divorce
;
because
in
doubling
the
vnitie
,
it
turnes
into
pluralitie
.
A
word
,
whilst
it
remaines
in
him
that
first
knew
it
,
is
secret
:
but
when
it
comes
to
another
,
it
beginnes
to
haue
the
name
of
a
common
report
.
And
howsoeuer
the
Florentine
be
of
opinion
,
that
with
one
,
any
thing
may
bee
spoken
,
because
the
affirmation
of
the
one
,
in
case
of
detection
,
is
no
more
availeable
then
the
negation
of
the
other
(
prouided
alwaies
he
haue
not
suffred
himselfe
to
be
led
by
the
perswasions
of
any
,
as
Plautine
was
by
Saturnine
the
Tribune
,
to
commit
anie
part
of
his
minde
to
wryting
,
whereby
his
owne
hand
,
afterwardes
may
bee
made
the
onely
meanes
to
convince
him
;
yet
would
I
willingly
giue
no
assent
vnto
him
.
For
,
howsoeuer
it
may
seeme
,
for
the
faciliting
of
treacherous
,
and
disloyall
practises
,
a
necessarie
Axiome
,
by
force
whereof
,
the
lewd
Conspirator
being
emboldned
,
dooth
freely
open
himselfe
,
to
such
as
hee
is
perswaded
may
be
easily
drawn
to
second
his
mischieuous
attempts
;
knowing
,
that
if
his
expectation
should
chaunce
to
faile
him
in
any
one
,
hee
keepes
himselfe
notwithstanding
out
of
the
danger
,
and
compasse
of
the
law
;
whose
Equitie
pronounceth
not
the
sentence
of
death
against
any
man
,
without
a
iust
,
and
lawfull
conviction
,
which
in
this
case
(
considering
the
many
disordered
passions
,
wherewith
men
are
led
to
scandalize
each
other
)
can
not
be
had
(
witnesse
those
seuerall
duells
,
and
combats
,
which
heere-to-fore
both
in
this
Kingdome
,
and
diuers
others
,
haue
beene
assign'd
by
Princes
for
the
avoyding
of
such
differences
;
the
staine
of
infamie
and
dishonour
,
resting
alwaies
,
how
iustly
often-times
God
knowes
,
with
the
partie
vanquished
,
whither
Plaintife
,
or
Defendant
)
:
yet
for
the
concealing
of
honest
counsailes
,
it
is
very
hurtful
,
and
dangerous
.
I
call
honest
Counsailes
,
such
as
concerne
the
publike
good
of
my
Prince
,
or
the
private
good
of
my
friende
;
which
indeed
is
so
farre
forth
to
be
accounted
good
,
as
it
stands
with
the
good
,
or
at
least
not
against
the
good
of
my
supreame
Soueraigne
;
to
whom
,
by
a
threefold
law
,
to
wit
,
Diuine
,
Naturall
,
&
Ciuill
,
I
am
bounde
to
purchase
(
with
my
best
endeuours
)
all
the
good
,
and
safetie
,
that
I
can
.
I
owe
all
fayth
,
&
loyaltie
to
both
;
and
am
as
a
friende
to
satisfie
with
all
alacritie
the
desires
of
the
one
,
so
farre
foorth
as
they
impugne
not
the
alleageance
,
which
,
as
a
subiect
,
I
am
to
render
to
the
other
.
But
,
as
I
would
not
willinglie
nourish
a
Serpent
in
my
bosom
,
which
in
the
end
should
deuoure
me
:
so
on
the
other
side
,
I
would
not
be
too
strict
and
rigorous
a
Censurer
of
his
dessignes
;
least
by
my
rash
,
and
scandalous
delations
,
I
brand
both
my selfe
,
and
him
,
with
an
opprobrious
mark
of
euerlasting
ignominy
,
&
that
that
of
the
Satyrist
may
not
bee
truly
said
of
me
;
Stoïcus
occidit
Baream
delator
amicum
.
Histories
abounde
with
examples
of
this
kinde
:
but
the
powerfull
hande
of
heauen
hath
frustrated
the
ambitious
hopes
of
their
effected
villanie
;
&
,
wheras
they
expected
honour
,
and
promotion
,
hath
iustly
requited
them
with
neuer-dying
shame
,
and
vtter
confusion
.
But
because
a
tragicall
Catastrophe
to
a
friendlie
discourse
,
might
seeme
(
peradventure
)
somwhat
ominous
,
I
will
stretch
the
thred
of
my
subiect
to
a
further
length
.
There
are
some
that
fashion
themselues
to
nothing
more
,
than
how
to
become
speculatiue
into
another
,
to
the
end
to
know
how
to
worke
him
,
or
winde
him
,
or
gouerne
him
:
but
this
proceedeth
from
a
heart
that
is
double
,
and
cloven
;
and
not
entyre
,
and
ingenuous
.
And
as
in
frendship
it
argues
a
great
defect
,
and
want
of
integritie
:
so
likewise
towards
some
persons
,
a
defect
of
dutie
:
and
such
as
please
themselues
in
these
barbarous
speculations
,
are
to
be
no
better
accounted
,
then
the
very
Gangrenes
,
and
Canker-wormes
of
humane
societie
.
Scire
volunt
secreta
domus
,
atque
inde
timeri
.
They
seeke
the
secrets
of
our
house
to
know
,
That
thence
in
vs
some
feare
of
them
might
grow
.
And
indeede
,
if
they
chance
to
come
,
where
Dissolution
is
the
Steward
of
a
disord'red
familie
,
their
hopes
flie
right
to
their
sinister
ayme
;
they
gin
to
be
belov'd
:
but
(
alas
!
)
that
loue
is
but
the
spurious
,
&
adulterate
issue
of
a
conscious
&
guilty
feare
:
Carus
erit
Verri
,
qui
Verrem
tempore
quo
vult
Accusare
potest
—
To
him
no
kindnesse
Verres
will
refuse
,
That
,
when
hee
please
,
can
Verres
life
accuse
.
Hence
was
it
,
that
Tigellinus
(
as
our
Historian
witnesseth
)
to
adde
the
better
strength
to
his
transcending
fortune
,
endeuoured
(
as
much
as
in
him
lay
)
principem
sibi
societate
scelerum
obstringere
,
to
endeare
the
Prince
vnto
himselfe
,
by
making
him
a
partner
in
his
villanies
:
which
according
to
his
brutish
expectation
he
cunningly
accomplisht
.
But
,
those
that
like
Agesilaus
,
who
in
trauailing
tooke
vp
his
lodging
alwaies
in
the
Temples
,
to
the
intent
that
men
,
and
Gods
might
see
into
his
actions
:
or
,
like
Julius
Drusus
,
who
,
when
certaine
Masons
had
offred
him
for
three
thousand
crowns
,
so
to
contriue
his
house
,
as
that
his
neighbours
should
no
longer
enioy
that
open
prospect
into
it
,
which
they
had
:
I
will
giue
you
,
saith
he
,
fixe
thousand
,
and
frame
it
so
,
that
they
may
looke
into
it
on
euery
side
:
those
,
I
say
,
that
like
these
men
,
doe
all
things
,
tanquam
spectet
aliquis
,
as
if
they
had
a
Cato
in
their
bosome
,
that
did
continuallie
behold
them
,
cannot
easily
be
toucht
,
or
tainted
with
the
noysome
corruption
of
such
dangerous
&
hurtfull
flyes
:
nor
likewise
those
that
shall
but
diligentlie
obserue
the
difference
,
betweene
a
starre
,
and
a
Meteor
,
a
true
friende
,
and
a
false
:
The
one
,
is
curious
,
and
inquisitiue
to
learne
more
then
he
should
;
the
other
,
is
afraid
to
know
more
then
he
would
:
following
therein
the
example
of
Philippides
,
who
,
when
Lysimachus
demaunded
of
him
,
what
of
so
many
things
that
were
his
,
hee
should
communicate
vnto
him
;
Whatsoeuer
it
shal
please
you
Sir
,
answered
he
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
so
it
bee
not
of
your
secrets
:
distrusting
it
should
seeme
his
own
imperfection
,
for
the
concealing
them
;
or
knowing
(
as
it
is
indeed
)
arduum
nimis
esse
meruisse
Principis
secretum
,
vbi
si
quid
cognoscitur
,
prodi
velab
alio
formidatur
.
A
prying
eye
,
a
listning
eare
,
&
a
prating
tongue
,
are
all
birds
of
one
wing
;
and
by
reason
thereof
,
seldome
times
found
separated
one
from
an
other
.
For
the
better
avoyding
therefore
of
such
dangerous
inconveniences
,
as
the
commerce
and
societie
of
such
intemperate
persons
might
happelie
bring
with
it
,
it
would
not
be
much
amisse
,
secretlie
to
examine
,
what
his
carriage
hath
beene
towards
others
his
associates
in
former
times
:
and
thereafter
as
we
find
it
,
to
frame
a
setled
resolution
in
our selues
;
if
faultie
,
absolutelie
to
avoyde
him
:
if
otherwise
,
confidently
to
embrace
him
.
For
to
distrust
without
a
cause
,
is
verie
dangerous
:
I
doe
but
teach
another
to
deceiue
,
by
fearing
ouermuch
my selfe
to
bee
deceiued
.
This
was
it
,
which
did
annihilate
the
practices
of
peace
betweene
Charles
the
fift
,
&
Francis
king
of
France
,
in
the
yeere
1528.
For
,
hauing
(
in
a
manner
)
accorded
all
their
differences
,
the
question
onely
was
,
which
of
them
both
did
best
deserue
to
be
trusted
.
Caesar
gaue
out
he
might
not
safely
trust
him
,
that
had
once
deceiued
him
:
wherevnto
,
the
Orators
of
France
did
wittily
reply
;
that
the
more
hee
did
pretende
himselfe
to
haue
been
deceiued
by
the
King
their
maister
,
the
more
might
the
King
their
maister
imagine
he
should
be
deceiued
by
him
.
Hence
was
it
that
Otho
,
after
the
ouerthrow
of
Galba
,
Tacit.
histo.
lib.
1.
hauing
deliuered
Celsus
,
per
speciem
vinculorum
,
vnder
the
colour
of
severer
punishment
,
from
the
furie
of
his
followers
;
non
quasi
ignosceret
,
not
by
way
of
pardon
(
for
hee
would
not
seem
to
taxe
him
of
any
crime
)
but
,
least
being
an
enemie
,
metum
reconciliationis
adhiberet
,
the
sincereness
of
his
reconcilement
might
any
way
prooue
questionable
,
hee
rankt
him
presently
amongst
his
deerest
friends
,
&
made
him
withall
,
a
speciall
Commander
in
his
afterwars
:
in
which
,
hee
behav'd
himselfe
as
loyally
,
as
euer
hee
had
done
in
the
imployments
of
his
formerly
deposed
Soueraigne
.
Vpon
the
good
euent
of
which
example
,
Lew.
12.
did
peraduērure
ground
that
memorable
answer
,
wherewith
he
nipt
the
bloody
instigations
of
those
Parasits
,
that
,
after
hee
was
come
vnto
the
crowne
,
by
the
decease
of
Charles
the
eight
,
did
animate
him
to
vengeance
,
against
Lewis
de
la
Trimouille
,
who
during
the
raign
of
that
aforesaid
Prince
,
had
,
in
the
battaile
of
Saint
Aubin
,
ouerthrowne
his
Armie
,
&
taken
him
.
It
is
not
fit
(
said
hee
)
a
King
of
France
should
marry
the
quarrels
of
a
Duke
of
Orleans
.
If
he
serued
faithfully
the
king
his
Maister
against
me
,
who
then
was
but
Duke
of
Orleans
;
it
is
not
to
bee
feared
,
but
he
will
do
the
like
for
me
henceforward
,
who
now
am
king
of
France
.
But
where
wee
finde
a
defect
of
loyaltie
in
any
towards
others
,
it
is
not
safe
to
hazard
our selues
vpon
the
hope
of
their
amendment
towards
vs
.
—
vetabo
,
qui
Cereris
sacrum
Vulgarit
arcanae
,
sub
ijsdem
Sit
trabibus
,
fragilemque
mecum
Solvat
faselum
.
—
It
is
true
,
that
many
are
content
to
take
the
benefit
,
and
advantage
of
a
treacherous
subiect
against
his
Master
,
in
cases
of
hostility
;
but
neuer
loue
to
put
him
in
trust
with
any
thing
that
concernes
themselues
:
or
if
they
do
,
it
is
with
more
then
Juno's
iealousie
,
or
Argus
obseruation
.
Charles
the
fift
,
during
the
difference
betweene
the
Imperialls
and
the
French
,
was
willing
to
make
what
vse
hee
could
,
of
the
disloyall
seruice
of
the
D.
of
Bourbon
against
his
Lord
&
Maister
,
Francis
the
first
:
but
howsoeuer
he
lov'd
his
actions
,
he
neuer
lik't
his
person
.
His
infidelitie
had
purchast
him
the
hatred
,
and
dislike
of
all
men
:
for
,
after
his
arriuall
to
the
Emperours
Court
,
Caesar
hauing
entertained
him
with
all
the
friendly
demonstrations
,
that
were
possible
,
sent
afterwards
to
desire
the
house
of
one
of
his
Nobles
for
to
lodge
him
in
:
who
answered
the
Messenger
with
a
Castilian
courage
,
That
hee
could
not
but
satisfie
his
Maiesties
demaunde
:
but
let
him
knowe
,
saide
hee
,
that
Bourbon
shall
no
sooner
bee
gone
out
of
it
,
but
I
will
burne
it
;
as
beeing
infected
with
his
infamie
,
and
thereby
made
vnfit
for
men
of
honour
to
inhabit
in
.
Vertue
,
and
Vice
are
vtter
opposites
:
and
how-so-euer
many
seuerall
accidents
,
and
occasions
may
bring
them
to
some
complementall
enterviewe
,
yet
is
it
altogether
impossible
to
establish
a
true
,
and
perfit
league
of
amitie
betwixt
them
.
There
can
bee
no
true
fellowship
betweene
Light
and
Darknes
,
betweene
Christ
and
Belial
,
Saint
Michael
and
the
Serpent
.
Where
there
is
a
difference
therefore
in
Religion
,
there
is
alwaies
lightly
a
discordancie
in
affection
.
And
hence
hath
risen
that
deadlie
hatred
betweene
the
Pagan
,
and
the
Christian
:
and
among
Christians
,
betweene
the
Catholick
&
the
Protestant
,
the
Protestant
and
the
Puritan
,
the
Puritan
and
others
,
whilst
euery
one
contends
to
iustifie
the
soundnesse
,
&
sincerenesse
of
his
owne
:
but
the
Lord
of
heauen
,
the
vnitie
of
trinitie
,
vnite
their
harts
,
&
minds
,
together
in
the
bonds
of
CHARITIE
,
&
grant
that
the
Church
may
not
alwaies
speake
in
a
confounded
Dialect
,
to
the
distraction
of
weaker
Ignorance
,
who
is
not
able
(
among
so
many
divided
cryes
)
to
distinguish
the
voyce
of
her
lawfull
Sheepheard
.
The
Church
of
SARDIE
giues
out
,
that
she
alone
doth
liue
:
and
that
of
LAODICEA
,
that
she
alone
doth
see
,
that
shee
alone
is
clothed
:
whereas
,
the
Holy-one
of
holy
ones
pronounceth
of
the
one
,
that
she
is
dead
;
and
of
the
other
,
that
she
is
both
blind
,
and
naked
.
But
,
that
I
may
not
seem
to
gather
sweetnesse
from
euery
flower
,
wandring
too
far
from
my
propounded
course
;
there
can
be
lightly
no
great
affection
between
those
that
are
of
one
profession
,
whether
it
be
liberall
,
or
mechanicall
.
Figulus
figulo
,
saith
the
Prouerb
.
There
can
bee
nothing
but
Envie
,
and
Emulation
betweene
those
that
run
at
one
,
and
the
same
goale
,
whatsoeuer
(
whither
Gaine
,
or
Honour
)
be
the
proclaimed
pryze
of
their
contention
.
The
one
seeketh
continually
to
supplant
the
other
,
for
his
owne
advantage
.
Hectora
Priamidē
animosum
,
atque
inter
Achillem
Irafuit
capitalis
,
vt
vltima
diuideret
mors
:
Non
aliam
ob
causam
,
nisi
quòd
virtus
in
vtroque
Summa
fuit
.
—
So
likewise
,
where
there
is
a
disproportion
eyther
in
meanes
,
or
mindes
,
there
can
bee
no
other
friendship
,
then
that
Microphilie
,
which
Plato
had
with
Dionysius
the
Tyrant
.
Eccle.
13
Quid
enim
communicabit
olla
ad
cacabum
?
Wherein
can
the
earthen
Pipkin
benefit
the
brasen
Pot
?
Which
considered
,
the
Emperour
had
reason
,
when
worde
was
brought
him
,
that
a
certaine
Cardinall
of
the
court
of
Rome
,
who
before
times
had
much
affected
him
,
was
advanced
newlie
to
the
Popedom
,
to
say
,
that
of
a
trustie
friend
,
being
a
Cardinall
,
he
would
becom
a
deadly
enemie
beeing
a
Pope
:
and
indeede
,
hee
did
prognosticate
aright
;
for
it
fell
out
according
to
his
expectation
.
Wherefore
,
if
thou
would'st
not
be
deceiued
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
take
one
,
whose
greatnesse
may
not
ouer-awe
thee
:
&
so
when
thou
stand'st
in
need
of
his
assistance
,
thou
shalt
not
feare
that
confortlesse
reply
,
which
Abraham
gaue
to
Diues
in
his
torments
;
Nimis
magnus
est
hiatus
interte
,
et
nos
:
ther
is
too
great
a
distance
betweene
vs
and
thee
.
Last
of
all
,
there
can
be
no
safe
or
setled
conversation
with
him
,
who
,
as
the
Poet
saith
;
—
absentem
rodit
amicum
:
Aut
non
defendit
alio
culpante
:
solutos
Qui
captat
risus
hominum
,
famamque
dicacis
:
Fingere
qui
non
visapotest
:
commissa
tacere
Qui
nequit
—
Gnawes
,
like
a
Cur
,
vpon
his
absent
friend
,
Or
from
Detraction
doth
him
not
defend
:
Affects
profused
laughter
at
a
feast
,
And
would
be
famous
for
some
byting
iest
:
Can
faine
the
things
,
which
he
did
neuer
see
;
But
not
conceale
ought
that
he
knowes
,
from
thee
.
Hic
niger
est
—
he
carryes
haye
in
his
horne
;
and
therefore
—
hunc
tu
Romane
caveto
:
avoyde
his
company
,
if
thou
respect
thine
owne
safetie
.
Of
three
things
prejudiciall
to
Secrecie
.
HE
that
hath
made
his
bosome
,
tanquam
secretorum
aerarium
,
as
it
were
the
Storehouse
,
or
Eschequer
of
his
friendes
secrets
,
must
diligently
take
heede
of
three
things
,
not
suffering
himselfe
in
any
case
to
be
vanquisht
by
any
of
them
:
and
those
are
,
Wine
,
Women
,
and
Anger
.
As
for
the
first
,
Momus
hauing
taken
a
generall
survey
of
those
infinite
deceits
,
which
continually
were
bred
,
&
fostered
in
the
hart
of
man
,
did
most
impiouslie
taxe
his
maker
,
&
Creator
,
of
indiscretion
,
in
that
hee
made
not
some
window
open
into
his
bosom
,
by
which
,
the
visual
beames
of
our
externall
Sense
,
not
meeting
with
an
impenetrable
object
,
might
easily
discouer
what
was
done
within
:
but
wee
,
that
know
the
workes
of
God
to
be
euery
way
so
absolute
,
that
,
as
the
Poet
saith
,
—
Non
vllum
carpere
Livor
Possit
opus
Domini
—
will
with
Plutarch
aunswere
him
,
In
Sympos
.
lib.
3.
That
we
neede
not
the
profane
invention
of
his
fantasticall
imagination
,
to
make
knowne
vnto
vs
,
the
darker
minds
,
&
meanings
one
of
another
.
Wine
,
saith
he
,
doth
in
a
most
abundant
manner
disclose
our
inward
thoughts
,
and
vnbare
vs
of
that
disguis'd
,
and
personated
habit
,
vnder
the
which
we
are
accustomed
to
marche
.
The
wiser
sort
of
Princes
therefore
,
according
to
that
verse
of
Horace
,
In
Arte
Poet.
are
reported
,
—
multis
vrgere
culullis
,
Et
torquere
mero
,
quem
perspexisse
laborant
,
An
fit
amicitiâ
dignus
.
—
And
indeed
,
the
nature
and
disposition
of
man
,
dooth
neuer
lightly
(
as
a
certain
Author
wittily
affirmes
)
open
,
and
discouer
it selfe
at
full
,
but
either
in
oculis
,
loculis
,
or
poculis
.
One
of
the
chiefest
causes
of
the
ouerthrowe
of
Claudius
,
was
a
word
,
which
vnaduisedly
slipt
from
him
in
his
drunkennesse
;
to
wit
,
vt
coniugum
flagitia
ferret
,
dein
puniret
:
that
for
a
while
,
he
would
beare
with
the
intemperancies
of
his
wife
,
but
in
the
end
he
would
seuerely
punish
them
:
which
,
Agrippina
fearing
,
as
fatall
to
herselfe
,
went
presently
about
,
for
the
better
preuenting
of
her
owne
end
,
to
hasten
his
.
And
indeed
,
Il
vino
,
non
ha
timone
;
wine
,
saith
the
Italian
,
hath
no
sterne
.
Wherefore
,
hee
that
tastes
of
it
beyond
the
Cup
of
pleasure
,
puts
himselfe
in
exceeding
great
danger
of
suffering
shipwracke
;
considering
how
many
are
the
envious
Rocks
,
and
vnsatiable
Quick-sands
,
that
desire
nothing
more
,
then
to
split
such
vessells
in
sunder
,
that
they
may
see
,
what
Marchandize
the
inward
bulke
containes
.
Yea
,
it
hath
been
the
practice
of
sundry
Nations
(
and
that
in
the
persons
of
Embassadors
)
vnder
a
pretence
of
drinking
healths
to
their
Soueraigne
,
first
to
drowne
their
wisedome
in
their
Graecian
Cups
,
that
afterwards
they
might
draw
,
from
them
,
that
,
which
by
meanes
of
it
,
was
before
kept
secret
to
themselues
.
And
surelie
,
few
or
none
haue
euer
fayled
in
this
their
enterprize
;
vnlesse
it
were
by
ouer-hastilie
striuing
to
effect
that
,
which
they
so
earnestly
desir'd
:
it
hauing
then
befalne
them
,
as
it
did
to
Aesops
Woman
,
who
gaue
her
henne
more
meat
,
to
make
her
lay
more
egs
:
but
it
fell
out
otherwise
;
for
,
through
extreame
fatnesse
,
shee
surceast
from
laying
any
.
And
no
marvaile
the
danger
should
bee
so
eminent
.
For
,
Wit
is
not
then
any
longer
their
Pilote
,
nor
the
light
of
Reason
the
Pole
,
by
which
their
actions
should
be
conducted
to
their
wonted
haven
.
Judgement
,
and
Discretion
are
both
away
;
which
,
like
two
firme
anchors
,
should
secure
them
in
the
greatest
tempests
,
from
the
mercilesse
and
furious
violence
both
of
Wind
,
and
Waue
.
Quid
non
ebrietas
designat
?
saith
the
Poet
;
—
operta
recludit
.
And
indeede
,
That
which
is
in
the
heart
of
the
sober
,
is
in
the
tongue
of
the
drunkeard
.
How
many
can
with
right
apply
that
answer
of
Bias
to
themselues
?
who
,
beeing
carpt
at
for
his
silence
in
a
certaine
banket
by
a
fellowe
,
whose
Wit
had
beene
alwaies
Traine-bearer
to
his
Tongue
,
answered
onelie
this
,
that
silence
in
Wine
,
was
no
argument
,
or
signe
of
follie
:
to
showe
that
his
taciturnitie
proceeded
not
from
any
defect
,
as
hee
had
falsely
,
and
foolishly
surmyzed
.
Surely
,
there
are
fewe
,
that
are
possest
with
so
great
,
&
marvailous
a
moderation
,
&
that
haue
so
absolute
,
and
powerfull
a
commaund
ouer
themselues
,
as
this
.
Wherefore
,
let
him
that
is
wise
,
keep
himselfe
from
being
ouertaken
with
the
envenomed
cups
of
this
enchaunting
,
and
sense-bereaving
Circes
;
vnlesse
he
make
light
account
of
ruinating
both
himselfe
,
and
others
.
The
second
thing
,
are
Women
:
who
with
an
artificiall
disposing
of
those
seuerall
beauties
,
wherwith
Nature
,
desirous
(
as
it
were
)
to
stall
foorth
her
treasures
,
hath
prodigally
adorn'd
them
,
haue
made
the
spoyles
of
the
greatest
Conquerors
,
trophies
of
their
victories
,
and
led
in
triumph
the
harts
,
and
mindes
of
the
wisest
;
and
that
in
such
manner
,
as
hee
that
hath
once
suffred
himselfe
to
be
captivated
by
the
powerfull
attraction
of
their
starry
looks
,
thinkes
nothing
to
bee
done
amiss
,
that
is
done
to
purchase
,
of
them
,
euen
the
least
fauourable
aspect
that
may
be
:
deeming
in
his
fond
conceit
,
that
libertie
is
no
where
to
be
found
,
but
in
the
inclosure
of
his
Mistresse
armes
.
And
because
hee
thinks
his
tongue
too
weake
an
instrument
to
expresse
the
strength
,
&
vigor
of
his
affection
towards
her
,
hee
makes
his
heart
ascend
vp
into
his
eyes
,
thorough
which
,
as
thorough
transparent
glasses
,
hee
discouers
vnto
her
,
yet
stil
thinks
hee
discouers
not
enough
,
the
very
secret
bed-chamber
of
his
most
retyred
cogitations
;
Not
remembring
(
silly
wretch
as
hee
is
)
that
such
kinde
of
creatures
,
haue
often-times
beene
made
the
instruments
,
to
effect
the
downefall
,
and
confusion
of
manie
:
nor
yet
weighing
with
himselfe
,
the
weakenesse
and
imbecillitie
of
the
sex
:
which
,
as
it
harbours
in
it selfe
a
certaine
curious
desire
to
knowe
all
thinges
,
so
is
it
accompanied
with
a
kinde
of
carelesse
respect
to
conceale
any
.
They
are
for
the
most
part
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
leaking
vessels
:
and
like
that
Comike
seruaunt
,
plenae
rimarum
,
huc
atque
illuc
effluentes
.
And
therefore
hath
the
Spirit
of
the
Highest
(
the
better
to
expresse
the
nature
,
and
propertie
of
such
a
one
)
allotted
her
,
in
the
sacred
volumes
of
his
diuinest
Oracles
,
the
name
of
Nachabah
,
from
the
word
Nacab
,
which
signifies
perforare
;
showing
vs
,
as
't
were
,
that
she
is
no
fitter
a
vessell
,
then
either
a
Siue
,
or
a
Colander
,
to
haue
that
infus'd
into
her
,
the
losse
whereof
wee
any
thing
regarde
.
A
Romane
Ladie
was
verie
importunate
with
her
husband
to
knowe
of
him
,
what
secret
matter
had
that
day
been
handled
in
the
Senate
,
with
great
oathes
,
and
protestations
neuer
to
reueale
it
:
he
desirous
to
try
her
,
made
vse
of
his
invention
;
tolde
her
that
the
Priests
had
seene
a
Larke
flying
in
the
ayre
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
hauing
a
golden
helmet
,
and
a
launce
:
and
how
they
had
consulted
together
,
to
know
whether
this
prodigy
might
portend
either
good
,
or
euill
to
the
Common-wealth
.
Scarce
had
shee
heard
it
,
but
presently
shee
disclosed
it
to
one
of
her
maydes
;
the
mayde
to
another
of
her
fellowes
:
so
that
the
report
was
spred
,
&
known
throughout
the
whole
Palace
,
before
hee
came
thither
himselfe
:
but
all
of
them
are
not
made
in
the
same
mould
.
There
is
,
sometimes
,
plus
virtutis
in
stolâ
,
quàm
in
armis
.
Nero
,
after
the
detection
of
Piso's
conspiracie
,
remembring
that
Epicharis
was
likewise
of
the
Faction
,
commaunded
shee
should
presently
be
set
vppon
the
racke
;
imagining
,
saith
Tacitus
,
muliebre
corpus
impar
dolori
,
that
beeing
a
Woman
,
shee
would
neuer
bee
able
to
ouercome
the
paine
.
But
all
the
tortures
that
either
he
,
or
his
could
possibly
deuise
,
were
not
sufficient
to
draw
from
her
,
the
least
confession
of
any
thing
,
that
was
then
obiected
against
her
.
The
first
dayes
quaestion
she
so
vtterlie
contemn'd
,
that
the
very
chayre
,
in
which
they
conveighed
her
from
the
place
,
did
seeme
as
a
Chariot
,
whereon
shee
rid
triumphing
ouer
the
barbarous
assaults
of
their
inhumane
crueltie
.
The
morrow
following
,
beeing
brought
thither
againe
,
to
play
her
Maister-pryze
with
impious
Tyrannie
,
her
courage
(
after
many
rough
encounters
)
remained
so
vnshaken
,
that
Wrath
it selfe
grew
mad
,
to
see
the
stroaks
of
an
obstinate
,
and
vnrelenting
furie
,
fall
so
in
vaine
vppon
the
softer
temper
of
a
Woman
;
and
therevpon
,
did
adde
new
vigor
to
the
hands
of
her
tormentors
:
which
shee
perceiuing
,
tooke
a
scarfe
from
about
her
neck
,
and
with
it
(
to
manifest
their
weakenesse
in
her
fall
)
knits
vp
within
her
bosome
the
knowledge
shee
had
of
the
fact
,
together
with
that
little
remainder
of
Spirit
,
whereof
by
force
and
violence
they
laboured
to
depriue
her
.
Clariore
exemplo
(
saith
our
Historian
)
in
tanta
necessitate
alienos
,
ac
propè
ignotos
,
protegendo
,
cùm
viri
,
Senatores
,
&
equites
Romani
,
intacti
tormentis
,
clarissima
quaeque
suorum
pignorum
proderent
.
Former
ages
haue
likewise
produced
a
Portia
,
and
a
Leaena
;
the
remembrance
of
whose
vertue
,
shal
remain
for
euer
,
as
an
exemplary
precedent
to
all
Posteritie
.
For
,
after
her
2.
louers
,
Armodius
and
Aristogiton
,
hauing
fayled
in
the
execution
of
their
enterprize
,
had
been
put
to
death
,
she
was
brought
to
the
torture
,
to
be
made
declare
,
what
other
Complices
there
were
of
the
Conspiracie
:
but
she
continued
so
constant
,
that
she
neuer
detected
any
one
.
In
remembrance
of
which
fact
,
the
Athenians
caused
a
Lyon
of
brasse
to
be
erected
,
which
had
no
tongue
,
and
placed
it
at
the
entrance
of
a
Castle
:
shewing
her
invincible
courage
by
the
generositie
of
the
beast
;
and
her
perseuerance
in
secrecie
,
in
that
they
made
it
without
a
tongue
.
Sed
non
omne
mare
generosae
est
fertile
testae
.
Euery
soyle
aboundes
not
with
golden
oare
;
nor
euery
channell
with
precious
pearles
:
wherfore
,
it
behooues
a
man
to
be
very
circumspect
,
and
wary
in
opening
himselfe
to
any
of
them
,
till
sufficient
triall
shall
haue
manifested
the
soundnesse
of
their
disposition
.
But
(
alas
!
)
—
quid
deceat
,
non
videt
vllus
amans
.
Awake
Samson
,
the
Philistins
are
vppon
thee
,
so
often
repeated
,
was
a
sufficient
aviso
of
intended
treachery
;
had
not
the
Eye
of
Reason
,
with
the
ravishing
sound
of
Dalilah's
voyce
,
as
was
Argus
with
the
delightful
tunes
of
Mercuries
pipe
,
been
lull'd
asleepe
in
the
lap
of
heedlesse
Sensualitie
.
He
must
needs
tel
her
(
so
far
had
the
force
of
her
enticing
tongue
prevailed
with
him
)
wherein
it
was
that
his
strength
consisted
,
though
the
hazard
of
his
life
(
by
revealing
it
)
were
neuer
so
eminent
.
Antonie
cannot
choose
,
but
yeelde
himselfe
a
prisoner
in
the
height
of
his
conquest
,
to
the
imperious
lookes
of
Cleopatra
,
though
the
shamefull
eclypse
of
his
glory
,
be
the
sequele
of
his
follie
.
Curius
,
to
make
himselfe
gratious
in
the
eyes
of
his
Fulvia
,
will
,
who-so-euer
saith
nay
,
disclose
vnto
her
,
the
secret
plots
and
practices
of
Catiline
,
though
himselfe
haue
as
deepe
a
hand
in
them
as
he
.
The
Prior
of
Capua
,
can
no
sooner
purpose
any
thing
against
the
state
of
the
Venetians
,
but
his
loue-sick
souldiour
wil
presentlie
giue
notice
of
it
to
his
Curtizan
,
&
she
to
the
Senate
.
It
is
the
nature
of
high-aspiring
spirits
,
alwaies
to
affect
that
company
,
where
they
may
bee
most
eminent
:
and
therefore
vsuallie
,
they
make
choice
of
Women
to
frequent
withall
;
imagining
that
whatsoeuer
they
doe
,
or
say
,
will
be
esteem'd
,
and
wondred
at
by
them
:
wherevpon
,
to
make
their
admiration
more
extreame
,
they
wil
not
let
to
acquaint
them
euen
with
their
highest
thoughts
:
and
then
,
the
opinion
that
they
are
belov'd
,
begets
a
fearelesse
confidence
of
secrecie
;
wherby
,
whatsoeuer
they
intende
to
doe
,
shall
be
disclosed
vnto
them
.
They
must
of
necessity
,
now
&
then
,
out
of
the
humour
of
their
jollities
,
giue
vent
vnto
the
smoake
of
their
Ambition
:
and
then
,
out
comes
that
,
which
racks
nor
tortures
could
euer
haue
revealed
.
Yea
,
these
are
the
creatures
their
wisdoms
deeme
most
fit
to
impart
their
high-built
purposes
vnto
;
who
,
either
for
loue
,
or
want
of
wit
,
wil
willingly
(
they
thinke
)
conceale
,
what
euer
they
heare
.
But
(
alas
!
)
wofull
experience
hath
taught
many
,
that
they
levell'd
(
in
so
conceiting
of
them
)
at
a
wrong
marke
.
Wherfore
,
let
vs
,
with
Dauid
,
make
a
couenant
with
our
eyes
;
and
,
like
Alexander
,
not
vouchsafe
so
much
as
to
glance
a
look
vpon
the
daughters
of
Darius
,
least
we
be
made
the
spoyle
of
their
beautie
.
For
indeed
,
the
pregnant
force
of
wisdome
,
is
hardly
to
bee
presum'd
vpon
in
this
case
.
Nescio
quid
latentis
veneni
,
saith
an
ancient
father
,
habet
caro
foeminea
,
vt
prudentiores
citiùs
corrumpat
.
And
hence
proceeded
that
pleasant
Motto
of
the
Graecian
Courtizan
,
in
derision
of
those
bearded
Stoïks
,
Qui
curios
simulant
,
et
Bacchanalia
vivunt
;
that
in
publick
places
seem
to
be
as
graue
as
Saturne
,
but
in
private
corners
are
as
waggish
as
Jupiter
:
I
know
not
,
J
,
said
she
,
what
bookes
,
what
wisdome
,
what
Philosophie
;
but
sure
I
am
,
such
manner
of
men
knock
at
my
gates
as
oft
as
any
other
.
They
are
Angels
in
complexion
:
but
if
they
be
not
the
like
in
condition
,
let
him
esteeme
of
them
no
better
then
of
whited
Sepulchers
;
for
all
this
while
they
bee
but
Semipulchrae
.
They
haue
a
face
to
beguile
the
Eye
,
and
an
Eye
to
bewitch
the
Heart
:
yea
,
there
is
not
any
one
thing
in
them
,
or
about
them
,
but
is
(
though
a
silent
,
yet
)
a
forcible
Sollicitor
of
mans
Will
.
The
Creator
of
all
things
,
did
frame
her
exquisitlie
beautifull
,
to
please
man
;
and
the
Deuill
made
vse
of
her
perfection
,
to
deceiue
him
.
They
haue
caused
many
to
fall
downe
wounded
.
Prov.
7.
ver.
26.
and
the
strong
men
are
all
slaine
by
them
.
Their
lips
drop
as
an
hony-combe
,
and
their
mouth
is
more
soft
then
Oyle
:
but
the
end
of
them
is
bitter
as
Wormwood
,
&
sharp
as
a
two-edged
sword
:
their
feet
go
down
to
death
,
&
their
steps
take
hold
on
hel
.
Yea
,
GOD
himselfe
(
the
searcher
of
all
hearts
,
and
who
alone
intuitiuelie
knowes
all
thinges
)
hath
euen
from
heauen
assured
vs
,
by
that
mirror
of
true
wisedom
,
Salomon
,
Prov.
6.
v.
26.
that
the
pretious
life
of
man
,
is
the
only
thing
,
which
like
blood-thirsty
Tigers
,
they
most
eagerly
hunt
for
:
and
therfore
,
not
without
iust
cause
,
did
hee
adde
to
their
stile
,
in
regarde
of
their
proceedings
,
the
attribute
of
strange
.
Prov.
5.3
.
The
Hebrew
word
,
Zonah
,
signifies
not
onely
Meretrix
,
but
withall
,
Caupona
,
and
Arma
:
from
whence
we
may
gather
the
craft
,
and
subtiltie
of
her
practices
,
as
shee
is
Meretrix
,
in
affecting
the
downefall
,
and
ouerthrowe
,
of
such
as
are
earnest
,
and
deuoted
followers
of
her
sect
.
First
,
she
is
Caupona
,
and
then
Arma.
First
she
feedes
,
and
satisfies
their
desires
,
with
the
daintiest
dishes
that
possibly
shee
can
;
giuing
them
the
best
entertainment
,
that
an
affected
countenance
&
gesture
can
affoord
:
but
when
they
once
draw
neere
the
Lees
,
then
begin
they
to
be
minus
grati
,
lesse
welcome
vnto
her
;
and
that
for
no
other
reason
,
quàm
quòd
inopiâ
minus
largire
possunt
,
then
that
Povertie
hath
cut
the
wings
of
their
former
Bountie
:
then
are
her
sweete
wordes
converted
into
sharpe
swords
;
so
that
look
whatsoeuer
shee
knowes
by
thee
,
or
hath
at
any
time
known
from
thee
,
that
she
thinks
may
procure
thy
ouerthrow
,
shall
now
be
revealed
.
She
is
become
Arma
,
shee
is
become
a
weapon
to
destroy
thee
.
I
speake
not
,
all
this
while
,
of
such
as
heauen
hath
allotted
men
for
companions
,
to
beguile
the
tediousnesse
of
this
their
earthly
pilgrimage
,
linking
them
together
in
loue
,
and
vnitie
,
by
the
bond
of
an
honorable
&
lawfull
Hymen
:
Though
euen
in
those
,
considering
them
as
one
,
and
the
selfe-same
body
,
it
is
not
alwaies
requisite
,
that
the
left
hand
shold
know
,
what
the
right
hand
doth
.
Seianus
had
no
better
meanes
to
worke
the
tragick
ouerthrow
of
Drusus
,
who
,
like
a
dangerous
rub
,
hind'red
the
smoother
running
of
his
ambitious
thoughts
,
then
by
assaulting
hir
,
whose
bosom
he
had
made
,
as
't
were
,
the
Cabinet
of
his
inmost
purposes
.
For
,
after
hee
had
try'd
many
things
,
promptissimum
visum
,
saith
Tacitus
,
ad
vxorem
eius
Liviam
convertere
;
the
readiest
way
he
found
,
was
to
set
vpon
his
wife
:
wherein
he
sped
so
well
,
that
,
corruptâ
illâ
,
secreta
eius
prodebantur
;
from
her
he
had
intelligence
of
all
his
secrets
.
The
night
it selfe
could
not
secure
him
;
for
,
euen
then
did
she
obserue
his
vp-sitting
,
and
his
down-lying
,
leauing
not
so
much
as
his
sighes
vnregistred
,
vigilias
,
somnos
,
suspiria
patefecit
:
shee
betray'd
him
wholly
to
his
enemy
.
It
was
Esops
lesson
therfore
,
Commit
no
secrets
to
the
concealement
of
a
Woman
;
which
the
Poet
secondeth
in
this
manner
:
Crede
ratem
ventis
;
animum
ne
crede
puellis
:
Namque
est
foemineâ
tutior
vnda
fide
.
Octavius
Caesar
,
found
a
want
of
this
principle
in
his
friende
Mecaenas
;
who
,
being
somwhat
more
vxorious
then
was
meete
,
and
one
who
(
as
Seneca
saide
of
him
in
his
Epistles
)
hauing
but
one
wife
,
was
married
yet
a
thousand
times
,
revealed
to
his
Terentia
a
secret
,
that
Caesar
had
imparted
to
him
,
concerning
the
detection
of
Muraena's
conspiracie
;
by
which
meanes
it
was
suddainlie
vented
,
and
became
of
no
importance
.
And
Augustus
imputed
this
Eccho-like
disposition
of
reiterating
what-so-euer
is
heard
,
to
Fulvius
,
as
the
true
Symptome
of
a
distempred
,
&
vnsetled
iudgement
.
For
,
hauing
disclos'd
vnto
him
the
griefe
,
which
he
conceiued
,
concerning
the
succession
of
his
Livia's
children
in
the
Empire
,
for
want
of
issue
of
his
owne
;
Fulvius
went
and
related
it
to
his
wife
,
and
she
againe
to
Livia
,
who
sharply
reprehended
the
Emperour
her
husband
for
it
:
wherevpon
,
the
morrowe
after
,
comming
to
salute
him
with
Salvus
sis
Caesar
,
he
was
requited
with
Sanus
sis
Fulvi
.
But
,
least
I
seeme
an
vnciuill
,
and
snarling
Satyrist
,
in
taxing
(
without
exception
)
a
Sex
in
generall
,
I
will
adde
(
in
praise
of
some
particulars
)
that
saying
of
Menander
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
Penu
virtutis
,
generosa
mulier
.
And
though
neither
Cato
,
nor
Euripides
were
so
fortunate
,
as
euer
to
be
partakers
of
so
great
a
happinesse
,
which
indeed
incited
them
to
fasten
those
vndeserued
imputations
vpon
them
,
that
they
did
;
yet
Rubius
Celer
is
able
to
avouch
it
,
against
the
strongest
opposer
of
them
all
:
who
,
as
him selfe
commaunded
to
be
engraven
vppon
his
Monument
,
liv'd
with
Caia
Ennia
his
wife
,
43.
yeres
8.
monthes
;
and
that
,
Sine
querelâ
:
without
any
difference
,
complaint
,
or
jarre
.
The
third
,
and
last
thing
,
which
is
to
be
refrain'd
,
is
Anger
.
Seianus
heartned
Drusus
against
his
brother
Nero
,
and
made
him
an
instrument
,
to
hinder
him
from
succeeding
Tiberius
in
the
Empire
:
yet
in
such
maner
,
as
he
did
not
forget
to
lay
the
ground-work
likewise
of
his
future
ouerthrow
:
but
hee
did
not
seeme
to
hasten
it
at
all
;
gnarus
,
saith
Tacitus
,
praeferocem
et
insiaijs
magis
opportunum
:
knowing
,
as
experience
teacheth
,
that
the
fiercest
courage
doth
alwaies
lye
most
open
to
treacherous
attempts
.
Fabius
therfore
,
notwithstanding
the
provocations
of
his
enemies
,
&
the
exprobrations
of
his
friends
,
who
,
not
sounding
aright
the
depth
of
his
proceedings
,
challeng'd
him
(
by
reason
of
his
protractions
and
delayes
)
of
base
&
servile
cowardize
,
wold
neuer
be
diverted
from
that
course
,
which
in
his
owne
reason
and
iudgement
,
hee
thought
surest
,
and
fittest
to
recreate
the
ill-affected
forces
of
the
Empire
:
and
indeede
,
si
tantum
ausus
esset
,
quantum
ira
suadebat
,
it
had
vtterly
been
subverted
.
For
,
Anger
is
prone
to
rashnesse
;
and
,
so
it
endanger
others
,
cares
not
for
securing
it selfe
.
Wherefore
,
it
were
not
amisse
for
any
man
,
to
imitate
those
antient
Champions
,
whose
policie
like
to
Fabius
,
was
onely
to
warde
the
blowes
of
their
adverse
parties
,
till
such
time
as
they
perceiued
their
strength
in
assaulting
to
be
well-nigh
spent
;
neuer
vsing
to
strike
,
themselues
,
when
wrath
perswaded
them
,
but
when
Occasion
.
The
wakefull
Eye
of
Reason
must
continually
keepe
Centinel
ouer
his
Passions
:
and
setled
Patience
must
be
the
Fort
,
that
must
protect
him
from
the
furious
battry
of
all
incensing
,
and
blooddisturbing
speeches
whatsoeuer
.
They
are
charmes
of
a
cunning
Charmer
:
against
which
,
if
(
like
the
wiser
Adder
)
he
stop
not
his
eare
,
his
vtter
ruine
cannot
chuse
but
instantly
follow
.
For
they
are
vsed
,
either
to
avert
him
from
some
course
hee
hath
alreadie
vndertaken
,
which
in
the
end
,
beeing
thoroughly
followed
,
would
proue
prejudiciall
to
them
,
as
by
the
fore-alledged
example
of
Fabius
,
may
bee
easily
discerned
;
or
to
vrge-him
thereby
,
to
manifest
som
part
of
his
most
inward
,
&
private
thoughts
:
wherof
the
Poet
being
nothing
ignorant
,
dooth
most
elegantly
call
Passions
,
tortures
;
whereby
men
are
vrged
,
and
enforced
to
confesse
their
secrets
:
Hor.
Epistl
.
lib.
1
Epist.
18.
—
Et
vino
tortus
,
et
irâ
.
Tiberius
,
Annal.
4.
who
,
as
Tacitus
reports
,
nullam
aequè
ex
virtutibus
suis
,
quàm
dissimulationem
diligebat
,
feeling
him-selfe
stung
with
a
sharpe
invectiue
of
Agrippina
,
concerning
the
accusation
of
Claudia
Pulchra
,
her
Cosen
germane
,
came
a
step
foorth
of
his
dissimulation
,
when
he
said
,
You
are
hurt
,
because
you
do
not
raigne
.
Of
which
,
our
Historian
saith
:
Audita
haec
raram
occulti
pectoris
vocem
elicuêre
,
correptamque
Graeco
versu
admonuit
,
ideo
laedi
,
quia
non
regnaret
.
And
Catiline
,
qui
ad
omnia
dissimulanda
paratus
,
did
likewise
erre
in
this
.
For
,
had
he
prosecuted
his
first
dessigne
(
which
was
,
with
an
outward
and
forced
apparance
of
true
humilitie
,
expressed
by
the
liueliest
characters
hee
could
,
both
in
his
gesture
,
countenance
,
and
wordes
,
to
dash
the
accusations
of
his
Adversaries
,
and
to
insinuate
him-selfe
into
the
loue
,
and
fauour
of
the
Senate
)
hee
might
peradventure
(
hauing
freed
him-selfe
by
this
meanes
from
all
sinister
conceite
of
theirs
)
easilie
haue
effected
his
purpose
.
But
,
when
hee
heard
those
odious
titles
of
Enemie
,
and
Paricide
,
cast
vppon
him
by
the
full-mouth'd
multitude
,
then
Quia
circumventus
ab
inimicis
praeceps
agor
,
incendium
meum
ruinâ
extinguam
must
needes
discouer
the
marke
of
his
disordinate
Ambition
,
and
make
knowne
vnto
the
world
,
what
massacrous
,
and
impious
thoughts
,
had
(
notwithstanding
his
smooth
external
carriage
)
anchred
in
his
bosom
.
Wherefore
,
let
euery
man
endevour
,
by
all
meanes
possible
,
to
calme
,
and
allay
,
those
suddaine
,
and
tempestuous
motions
of
the
mind
;
&
to
be
that
which
few
are
,
so
true
to
himselfe
,
and
so
setled
,
that
at
no
time
,
either
vpon
heat
,
or
vpon
braverie
,
or
vpon
kindnesse
(
as
I
shew'd
before
)
or
vpon
trouble
of
minde
,
and
weakenesse
,
hee
open
himselfe
,
or
suffer
his
tongue
to
eliminate
any
part
of
his
thoughts
:
no
,
not
though
he
should
be
put
to
it
by
a
Counter-dissimulation
;
which
is
a
fashion
of
enquiry
,
verie
currant
with
many
,
who
will
not
stick
,
according
to
the
Spanish
Adage
,
Dezir
mentira
,
para
sacar
verdad
;
to
tell
a
lye
,
for
to
extort
a
truth
.
Of
Reputation
.
THere
is
nothing
more
hard
,
and
difficult
to
com
by
,
then
a
true
&
certaine
knowledge
of
the
inward
disposition
,
and
abilities
of
man
.
His
mind
is
subiect
to
many
secret
inclinations
:
't
is
like
a
Labyrinth
,
full
of
crooked
windings
,
&
turnings
.
His
deedes
,
wordes
,
&
gestures
,
are
neuer
lightlie
beautified
,
but
with
some
outward
imposture
:
they
are
fraught
with
vanitie
,
and
deceite
:
and
,
like
that
specious
Figge-tree
in
the
Gospel
,
doe
make
a
glorious
florish
,
but
affoord
no
fruite
.
The
sillie
Sheepe
(
saide
Archidamas
)
can
neuer
change
his
naturall
voyce
:
but
man
can
alter
,
and
fashion
his
,
to
as
many
seuerall
,
and
sundry
Dialects
,
as
he
please
,
till
such
time
as
his
Ambition
haue
attain'd
to
that
,
which
it
desired
.
Some
haue
beene
thought
woorthie
of
advauncement
,
saue
when
they
had
it
:
and
some
againe
,
haue
purchast
to
them-selues
good
reputation
,
and
been
well
esteemed
in
place
of
Greatnesse
,
which
before
were
otherwise
.
It
hath
beene
often
seene
,
that
such
as
became
a
meaner
part
well
,
haue
failed
in
a
greater
,
and
disgraced
it
.
Hence
was
it
that
Galba
,
maior
privato
visus
,
dum
privatus
fuit
,
et
omnium
consensu
capax
imperij
,
nisi
imperasset
:
when
hee
was
a
private
subject
,
did
seeme
to
out-runne
the
meanenesse
of
his
fortune
;
and
,
by
a
generall
consent
of
all
men
,
was
thought
worthy
to
rule
,
if
he
had
neuer
ruled
:
whereas
,
the
contrary
was
bruted
of
Vespasian
,
to
wit
,
that
,
omnium
ante
se
principum
in
melius
mutatus
,
of
all
the
Princes
that
euer
did
precede
him
,
he
alone
was
changed
to
the
better
:
which
may
bee
likewise
instanced
vpon
the
Son
of
Bullingbrooke
,
entitled
after
the
decease
of
his
Father
,
Henry
the
fift
of
England
.
Ignorance
,
therfore
,
is
of
too
dull
an
apprehension
to
censure
aright
the
nature
of
mens
actions
.
Shee
depriueth
Reason
of
her
discursiue
facultie
,
and
frames
her
iudgement
,
according
to
the
illiterate
verdict
,
that
ouward
Sense
giues
of
them
.
And
hence
commeth
it
oftentimes
,
that
many
are
reputed
wise
,
and
valiant
,
who
,
were
the
ground
of
their
so
conceited
merit
well
examined
,
would
seeme
the
contrary
.
True
Valour
consists
not
in
being
desperatly
ventrous
.
It
is
not
the
loue
of
vertue
,
but
the
hate
of
life
,
that
makes
men
so
.
Antigonus
had
a
Souldiour
,
whose
forwardnes
vpon
any
dangerous
seruice
he
much
admired
;
and
therfore
hauing
vnderstoode
,
that
hee
was
troubled
with
an
Impostume
in
his
bodie
,
gaue
his
Chirurgians
expresse
commaund
to
see
him
diligentlie
cured
:
which
done
,
Antigonus
perceiued
,
that
hee
shewed
not
himselfe
so
valiant
as
he
was
wont
,
&
therevpon
rebuk't
him
for
it
:
but
the
Souldiour
answered
him
,
that
hee
might
blame
himselfe
;
for
it
was
hee
,
that
had
made
him
lesse
hardie
then
hee
was
before
,
in
causing
him
to
bee
cured
of
those
ills
,
which
had
made
him
altogether
carelesse
of
his
life
.
And
hither
may
that
speech
of
the
Sibaritans
,
concerning
the
Lacedaemonians
austerer
kind
of
living
,
be
well
referred
:
That
it
was
no
maruell
,
they
sought
for
death
so
furiously
in
the
warres
,
considering
how
laboursome
,
and
strict
a
life
,
they
did
endure
at
home
:
Rebus
in
angustis
facile
est
contemnere
vitam
.
And
therefore
,
that
Reputation
which
is
purchast
this
way
,
cannot
possibly
be
of
any
long
continuance
.
It
is
a
vapour
,
drawne
out
of
the
earthy
bosome
of
Popular
admiration
,
which
,
where
the
rayes
of
cleerer
Apprehension
do
shine
out
,
is
suddenly
dispersed
.
True
Vertue
is
alwaies
like
herselfe
,
she
squares
with
euery
accident
,
and
keeps
a
iust
proportion
in
all
her
actions
.
Shee
will
not
feare
to
die
,
as
Cato
did
,
though
Caesar
were
her
deerest
friend
.
Such
therefore
,
as
beeing
in
the
prime
,
and
flower
of
their
youth
,
doe
seeme
content
with
euery
breath
of
honor
;
and
,
after
they
haue
gain'd
some
little
reputation
in
the
world
,
betake
themselues
immediatly
vpon
it
,
to
a
retyred
life
,
confining
their
so
begunne
fortune
,
within
the
bounds
of
some
solitary
Mansion
:
it
is
to
bee
suspected
,
they
were
generous
but
onely
in
appearance
,
and
that
the
consciousnesse
,
and
distrust
of
their
owne
weakenesse
,
made
them
withdraw
themselues
from
action
,
least
by
their
vnsufficient
managing
of
matters
,
they
might
happelie
lose
that
accidentall
glory
,
which
vpon
no
certaine
principles
they
had
formerlie
got
.
For
,
honour
serues
but
as
a
sawee
,
to
whet
the
appetite
of
those
,
whose
hearts
are
firme
,
&
of
a
noble
,
and
vnyeelding
temper
.
It
is
a
gale
,
which
beares
them
speedilie
to
the
vndertaking
of
euery
haughtie
enterprize
.
The
prayse
of
hauing
well
conducted
the
course
of
one
,
is
a
bayte
,
which
drawes
them
on
to
the
vnder-going
of
another
.
Hercules
,
in
his
trauailes
,
wil
not
leaue
so
much
as
Hell
vnvisited
:
but
euen
vppon
the
gates
thereof
,
will
striue
to
erect
a
trophy
to
his
triumphant
merit
.
Yea
,
in
military
matters
,
the
report
of
any
one
thing
valorously
executed
,
especially
vpon
the
beginning
of
an
imployment
,
is
that
,
which
makes
a
smooth
,
and
easie
passage
for
future
attempts
.
It
is
a
meanes
to
driue
the
wauering
affection
of
ambiguous
friendes
to
a
certaine
stand
,
and
to
bring
forth
an
encrease
of
loue
in
the
harts
,
and
mindes
of
such
,
as
are
firme
,
and
loyall
.
It
works
a
willing
Obedience
in
thy
whole
Armie
,
and
procures
thee
meanes
,
and
munition
,
with
store
of
all
other
warlike
necessaries
from
thy
friendes
and
allyes
,
&
that
without
paine
&
trouble
to
thy selfe
;
For
,
whil'st
euery
one
contends
to
bee
thought
a
meanes
in
the
raysing
of
thy
transcending
fortune
,
thy
worth
cannot
possibly
want
ladders
by
which
to
climbe
.
And
therefore
Domitius
Corbulo
,
at
his
first
comming
to
the
gouernment
of
Armenia
,
endeuoured
to
doe
somewhat
,
as
Tacitus
reports
,
vt
famae
inserviret
,
that
in
those
parts
might
purchase
him
the
credit
,
and
reputation
of
sufficiencie
;
which
in
newe
businesses
is
most
availeable
.
And
Iulius
Agricola
,
at
his
first
arriuall
into
Brittaine
,
carried
himselfe
in
the
like
manner
,
non
ignarus
instandum
famae
,
ac
provt
prima
cessissent
,
fore
vniversa
;
that
fame
was
to
bee
followed
,
and
as
he
sped
in
the
first
,
such
it
was
likely
would
his
successe
be
in
the
rest
.
But
it
is
heer
,
as
it
is
in
meates
:
if
taken
immoderatly
(
though
they
be
neuer
so
nourishing
)
they
proue
a
burthen
to
the
body
,
rather
then
otherwise
.
It
is
requisite
therefore
,
that
wee
sometimes
clip
the
wings
of
our
Reputation
,
and
not
suffer
them
to
growe
beyond
the
compasse
of
our
neast
.
Insani
sapiens
nomen
ferat
,
aequus
iniqui
,
Vltra
quam
satis
est
,
virtutem
si
petat
ipsam
.
The
wiser
sort
will
of
their
owne
accord
,
a
little
now
and
then
,
degrade
the
opinion
of
their
worth
,
by
stripping
themselues
awhile
of
all
imployments
.
They
know
there
is
nothing
lost
,
by
making
themselues
(
for
a
time
)
lesse
then
they
are
.
Ouermuch
Estimation
hath
bin
the
bane
of
many
.
Alcibiades
,
by
reason
of
the
sundry
great
exploytes
he
had
atchiued
in
the
behalfe
of
his
Country
,
had
got
so
great
an
opinion
of
Sufficiencie
,
that
when
hee
fayled
in
the
due
performance
of
anie
thing
,
hee
was
presently
suspected
:
euery
one
was
apt
to
iudge
,
that
it
was
not
,
bicause
he
could
not
doe
it
,
but
because
he
would
not
;
and
that
where-soeuer
hee
was
minded
to
imploy
himselfe
,
nothing
could
possibly
escape
him
.
Hence
likewise
was
it
,
that
Iohn
Guicciardine
was
accused
to
haue
beene
corrupted
by
those
of
Lucca
,
because
hee
fayled
in
the
expugnation
of
their
Cittie
.
The
safest
way
therefore
to
secure
our selues
from
danger
,
is
to
attire
our
worthinesse
in
such
manner
,
as
it
may
still
bee
the
same
it
was
in
inward
substance
;
onely
altred
,
and
disguis'd
a
little
in
outward
showe
.
It
is
reported
of
Poppaeus
Sabinus
,
Tac.
Annal.
lib.
6.
that
for
the
space
of
24.
yeeres
,
and
that
in
the
dayes
of
tyrannie
,
he
was
still
made
Ruler
ouer
the
greatest
Prouinces
belonging
to
the
Empire
,
nullam
ob
eximiam
artem
,
not
for
any
excellent
ability
that
was
in
him
;
Sed
quòd
par
negotijs
,
neque
suprà
erat
;
but
that
his
sufficiencie
did
no
more
then
equall
the
charge
,
which
was
imposed
vppon
him
.
And
to
speak
plainelie
,
Wisemen
,
in
the
choyce
of
instruments
,
are
sildome
willing
to
make
vse
of
such
,
in
matters
of
importance
,
whose
cunning
iudgement
,
they
thinke
can
sounde
the
depth
of
their
intent
,
or
,
out
of
their
imployments
,
contriue
any
thing
whereby
to
grace
themselues
.
Agricola
(
saith
Tacitus
)
notwithstanding
his
many
seruices
done
to
the
Empire
,
Nunquam
in
suam
famam
gestis
exsultavit
,
did
neuer
boast
of
any
action
to
his
owne
fame
;
but
(
as
an
inferiour
Planet
)
did
modestly
acknowledge
the
light
he
had
,
to
be
wholly
deriued
from
a
higher
Sunne
:
thus
did
hee
steale
from
Envie
,
and
not
defraude
himselfe
of
his
deserued
glory
.
Germanicus
likewise
,
hauing
calmed
&
alayed
the
tumultuous
broyles
,
&
insurrections
of
the
Germans
,
caused
a
pyle
of
weapons
to
be
raised
,
with
this
stately
title
;
DEBELLATIS
,
INTER
RHENVM
ALBIMQVE
NATIONIBVS
,
EXERCITVM
TIBERII
CAESARIS
EA
MONIMENTA
MARTI
,
ET
IOVI
,
ET
AVGVSTO
SACRAVISSE
.
That
the
Nations
betweene
Rhene
,
and
Albis
beeing
ouercome
,
Tiberius
Caesars
Armie
had
consecrated
those
Moniments
to
Mars
,
Jupiter
,
and
Augustus
:
but
added
nothing
of
himselfe
,
metu
invidiae
,
for
fear
that
either
Envie
or
Detraction
,
might
find
a
subiect
in
him
,
for
their
malicious
,
and
envenom'd
teeth
to
gnawe
vppon
:
or
thinking
(
as
it
is
)
the
conscience
of
a
well-done
deed
,
to
be
a
sufficient
recompence
for
the
dooing
it
.
And
this
it
was
that
kept
them
vpright
,
amidst
the
ruines
of
so
many
Woorthies
,
in
those
vnworthy
times
.
But
(
alas
!
)
the
high-erected
thoughts
of
an
ambitious
heart
,
cannot
possibly
bee
brought
to
conceiue
the
meaning
of
this
principle
.
They
will
alwaies
saile
by
the
Carde
and
Compasse
of
their
own
mind
;
and
rather
then
yeelde
in
their
popular
dependencies
,
their
entertainments
,
gifts
,
or
publike
grace
,
most
wilfully
hazarde
the
distaste
of
all
men
.
Caesar
careth
for
nothing
,
but
the
execution
of
his
dessignes
;
his
spirit
is
beyond
the
reach
of
feare
.
If
the
Sea
swell
in
waues
to
let
his
passage
to
Brundusium
:
hee
swells
againe
in
wordes
,
and
bids
the
Mariner
,
Saile
on
,
Thou
carriest
Caesar
,
and
his
Fortunes
with
thee
.
And
indeed
,
his
Fortune
was
the
onely
thing
,
that
kept
both
him
,
&
his
estate
from
beeing
shaken
,
and
disjoynted
,
by
the
violent
events
of
such
resolved
courses
.
Of
Accusation
.
IT
is
no
golden
age
in
which
we
liue
;
but
an
age
so
corrupted
,
&
depraved
,
that
in
comparison
of
others
,
many
are
esteemed
vertuous
,
at
a
reasonable
rate
.
Yea
,
hee
is
thought
to
doe
good
enough
,
who
,
when
he
is
in
place
of
authoritie
,
doth
but
little
ill
.
Iampridem
equidem
rerum
vocabula
amisimus
;
Sallust
:
bello
Catil
.
quia
bona
aliena
largire
,
liberalitas
;
malarum
rerum
audacia
,
fortitudo
vocatur
.
All
thinges
haue
vndergone
an
alteration
,
both
in
name
and
nature
.
Simplicitie
hath
principled
her selfe
with
stronger
Axiomes
then
heeretofore
,
&
hath
learn'd
to
square
and
order
the
whole
course
of
her
conversation
by
an
other
kinde
of
Methode
,
then
that
shee
practiced
during
the
harmlesse
infancie
of
the
World
.
The
silly
Dove
hath
beene
constrained
,
for
her
owne
securitie
,
to
ioyne
in
friendship
with
the
Serpent
:
and
the
Lyon
thinks
it
no
disparagement
,
to
case
his
valour
(
if
neede
require
)
vnder
the
out-side
of
the
subtile
Fox
.
For
,
Pietie
now
is
counted
but
a
fantasticke
fiction
:
and
Vpright-dealing
,
but
an
aierie
apparition
.
True
vertuous
actions
,
are
neuer
seene
vpon
the
Scene
,
but
when
by
the
necessitie
of
Lawes
,
they
are
enforced
to
show
themselues
.
For
,
where
election
abounds
,
and
that
all
libertie
may
be
vs'd
,
euery
thing
is
presently
brought
to
a
most
irregular
,
and
confused
motion
.
The
Will
of
man
is
so
perverted
,
that
Goodnesse
is
sildome
made
the
scope
of
his
dessignes
.
It
is
said
of
Catiline
,
that
when
he
wanted
present
matter
for
his
mischieuous
mind
to
worke
vppon
,
hee
was
no
way
scrupulous
to
circumvent
,
and
kill
,
insontes
,
sicuti
sontes
,
those
that
had
neuer
purchast
his
hatefull
fury
by
offending
him
,
as
well
as
others
:
and
least
either
his
hart
,
or
hand
,
might
happely
wex
numme
,
for
want
of
imployment
,
gratuitò
potiùs
malus
,
atque
crudelis
erat
,
hee
would
be
voluntarily
cruell
,
and
without
expectance
of
reward
.
And
what
was
saide
of
him
,
I
feare
mee
,
may
be
too
truly
iustified
in
many
.
For
(
alas
!
)
the
conscience
of
a
vertuous
deede
,
is
too
weak
a
motiue
to
incite
our
dull
affections
to
the
dooing
of
it
.
T
is
eyther
hope
of
Reward
,
or
feare
of
Punishment
,
that
in
the
attempt
of
thinges
,
orders
,
and
directs
our
choyce
.
Giue
way
but
to
Impunitie
,
and
yee
shall
see
how
Vncivilitie
,
like
a
ravening
Deluge
,
will
(
on
the
suddaine
)
wash
away
the
print
,
and
forme
of
all
Mortalitie
.
Non
sum
moechus
—
I
am
not
an
Adulterer
,
saith
one
;
—
neque
ego
hercule
fur
,
vbi
vasa
Praetereo
sapiens
argentea
.
—
But
,
as
the
Satyrist
affirmes
in
the
verses
following
,
—
tolle
perîclum
,
Iam
vaga
prosiliet
fraenis
natura
remotis
.
So
that
,
for
the
better
ordering
,
and
preseruing
of
a
Common-wealth
,
't
is
very
requisite
,
there
should
be
such
Ministers
appointed
in
it
,
as
may
without
respect
,
or
partialitie
,
giue
Justice
information
of
the
particular
proceedings
of
private
men
.
For
,
by
this
meanes
,
eyther
the
feare
of
beeing
accused
,
will
curbe
their
ambitious
purposes
,
and
keepe
them
from
attempting
any
thing
against
the
libertie
of
that
State
,
in
which
they
liue
:
or
,
hauing
attempted
,
the
accusation
it selfe
will
presently
suppresse
them
.
Besides
,
it
will
giue
ayre
enough
for
the
venting
foorth
of
those
pestiferous
tumours
&
inflammations
,
which
thorough
hatred
,
or
emulation
,
are
bred
in
the
crazie
mindes
of
ill-affected
persons
.
Yea
,
there
is
nothing
,
that
can
more
firmelie
settle
and
establish
a
Common-wealth
,
then
to
order
it
in
such
manner
,
that
the
alteration
of
those
humors
,
which
do
trauaile
and
molest
it
,
may
find
a
Recipe
at
home
,
for
her
recouerie
,
prescribed
by
the
Lawe
.
Wherefore
,
if
at
any
time
wee
see
,
that
in
the
divisions
,
and
distractions
of
an
vnsetled
Populace
,
either
partie
shal
haue
neede
to
ranke
themselues
with
forraine
correspondencie
,
the
cause
heerof
may
lawfully
be
suspected
to
proceed
from
some
manifest
defect
in
the
institution
of
that
government
.
But
,
if
with
vs
(
as
heere-to-fore
in
Rome
,
and
such
like
Popular
and
Democraticall
Polities
of
elder
times
,
Envy
and
Malice
were
authorised
,
either
by
Ostracisme
,
or
any
other
such
specious
kinde
of
proceedings
,
to
top
the
branches
of
a
spreading
Vertue
,
there
should
not
an
Aristides
breathe
amongst
vs
,
but
euery
base
,
and
illiterate
groome
,
wold
striue
(
not
knowing
why
perhaps
)
to
procure
his
banishment
.
Nothing
can
scape
the
forked
tongue
of
Detraction
.
Slaunder
,
we
see
,
did
fasten
her
envenom'd
teeth
vpon
the
pretious
body
of
our
Sauior
Christ
himself
,
&
gaue
him
not
ouer
vntil
death
;
yet
was
his
nature
no
way
so
imperfect
,
as
to
offend
.
It
was
the
advertisement
of
Medius
,
a
damnable
Promoter
,
in
the
court
of
Alex.
That
a
man
shold
not
spare
to
bite
the
reputation
of
any
one
,
with
vntruths
&
forged
accusations
:
for
,
howsoeuer
(
said
he
)
the
hurt
may
happely
be
cur'd
,
the
scar
yet
wil
stil
remain
.
And
what
successe
did
followe
vpon
the
practice
of
this
his
diabolical
position
,
may
easily
be
discouer'd
in
the
fall
of
Callisthenes
,
Parmenio
,
&
Philotas
.
Wisdome
therefore
&
moderation
,
should
continually
sit
in
the
eares
of
Greatnes
,
&
there
most
carefully
distinguish
betweene
Truth
and
Falshood
,
between
a
lawful
accusation
,
and
that
which
is
fained
.
It
was
an
easie
matter
(
considering
the
suspicious
nature
of
Tiberius
)
for
Caepio
Crispinus
,
who
(
as
Tacitus
reports
)
by
humouring
his
bloody
mind
,
with
close
,
and
scandalous
delations
,
had
set
a
golden
outside
vppon
his
formerlie
dejected
and
ragged
fortunes
,
to
call
the
life
of
Innocencie
it selfe
in
question
.
Hee
ouerthrewe
Marcellus
,
by
accusing
him
to
haue
spoken
somewhat
sinisterly
of
Caesar
,
which
then
(
saith
our
Historian
)
was
accounted
an
inevitable
crime
;
by
reason
that
the
Accuser
did
(
by
continuall
obseruing
)
gather
out
of
the
vicious
carriage
,
and
disposition
of
the
Prince
,
whatsoeuer
was
most
vile
,
&
apt
to
be
reproch't
,
and
vpon
that
did
frame
and
fashion
his
Inditements
,
Nam
quia
vera
erant
,
etiam
dicta
credebantur
.
For
,
euery
thing
was
prone
to
bee
belieued
,
because
't
was
knowne
to
be
deserued
.
But
,
howsoeuer
barbarous
and
inhumane
Tyrants
,
may
thinke
by
countenauncing
such
Sycophants
,
to
secure
themselues
,
and
their
estates
;
yet
milder
Princes
will
warily
avoyd
them
.
Ambitious
Vsurpation
,
hath
bin
seene
to
cut
the
throat
of
lawfull
Soueraigntie
,
and
(
afterwards
)
to
seate
it selfe
by
this
meanes
,
in
the
chayre
of
Maiestie
.
K.
Richards
banishing
of
Mowbray
,
vpon
the
difference
betweene
him
&
Bullingbrooke
,
was
his
owne
deposing
.
The
Emperour
Valentinian
II.
hauing
caused
Aetius
to
be
executed
,
demanded
afterwards
of
Proximus
,
how
he
approov'd
the
fact
:
who
answered
,
that
he
knew
not
whither
hee
had
lawfully
put
him
to
death
,
or
no
;
but
sure
hee
was
,
that
by
so
dooing
,
with
his
owne
left
hand
,
he
had
cut
off
his
right
.
Which
happ'ned
shortly
after
to
be
very
true
;
for
he
was
slaine
by
Maximus
,
a
Romane
Patrician
,
whose
treacherous
attempts
,
during
the
life
of
Aetius
,
were
so
over-aw'd
,
that
they
durst
neuer
offer
so
much
as
once
to
showe
themselues
.
Alexander
had
deprived
himselfe
of
a
true
&
faithfull
Physician
,
if
he
had
suffered
himselfe
to
be
led
away
with
the
reports
,
and
iealousies
of
others
.
T
is
therefore
requisite
,
some
exemplarie
punishments
should
be
inflicted
vppon
those
,
that
spightfully
endevour
to
soyle
,
and
blacke
,
the
reputation
of
any
man
,
with
the
filthy
slime
of
their
malicious
and
viperous
iawes
.
For
,
otherwise
,
the
sillie
Lambe
shall
neuer
drinke
at
the
fountaine
,
but
the
greedy
Wolfe
will
accuse
him
without
cause
,
and
deuoure
him
without
lawe
.
Let
Haman
hang
vpon
the
gallowes
,
which
by
his
command
was
erected
for
the
death
of
Innocencie
:
let
those
ranke
and
Goatish-eyed
Elders
,
vnder-goe
that
cruell
sentence
,
which
their
vnsatisfied
Lust
,
had
wickedly
contriv'd
against
a
spotlesse
Chastitie
.
Finally
,
let
the
Prophet
Daniel
be
quit
;
&
those
,
which
falsely
did
accuse
him
,
be
condemned
by
Darius
to
the
Lyons
den
.
—
Neque
n.
Lex
iustior
vlla
est
,
Quam
necis
artifices
arte
perire
suâ
.
FINIS
.