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Show Of the .Adua~Cement Of~earnJng. thinke, that I meane fortunes. · are' not ob~ teyned wit~ out aU this ad<?e';For ~know they co~~ twnblinge Into fon1e _n1ens lappes, and a nomber obtaine good fortunes by dilligence,in a plaine way; Litt1e intermedlinge: a~d ~eeping th emfelues fron~ groffe errors. ·' · · .. . · But· as Cicero when· he fetteth down an I de1. of a par .. fit Orator, ·doth n.ot mean that euery pleader ihould be fuch; and fo likewife,wheri a Prince or a Courtitr · bath.been defcri~ed by fuch as haue handled thofe · fttbieds,the m~nlld hath vfed to be made accordinge . to rbe perfeltio of~he Atte,and not accord·ng t<? c6 mon pra&ife :So I vnderfiana it that it ought to be , cone ihthe·d~fcripti<;>n of a Pollitique anan.-l1neane pollitique for his o)vne fot~unel · Rut it m!Uft be remembre!d aJ.this while ; th;lt the pre~ . - eepts wnic~w~ hauefetdown,ar~ oft.hatki~d whi~~ ' m;ty he cou~ed & called Boll~ ~rtes,as for eutll arts; 1f a man would {et down for himfelfe that principle of 7rlttt!fl~tttl:Thal ~ mat~fttk~ Jiot to Attaine vertue it ftl(i: a., e'ht ipparanee lntly fhtreo_hhecauft the credite of 'tlert~ is' h,lpt ,hut 1 he vfe of it is cum!Jer: or that O• thcr afhis P.rinciples~hat /,et>refoppoft, thAt men. art t1ot fitly to lie wrotiihiotllerwife l1111 by (tAre,and therefore tiJ4t hefttkt t11J11tiJ itltlj m4 obnoxim,lowe,& in Jlreight · whi~h the ll~li~ al'(efbi~itrj pi~t ,to (owe tfio_rne,s:?t · I • thatotber prtnctple catelned In the verfe which Ctc~ ~ to cyt-erb cadttnt 411iiti,rl11ttttiJIJ 1wimici intercidat,as the T~illm~b:twhich fot d ry one to, .other tbe Hues of their fniends for th iieatlls of theire·el1emiees: or .~ 1 - that I · · · ·-Theficond hoo~e • . 93 1 ~ ( bf~r proteftation of L. catilit~~t to fet on ·lire & . e ate$, to the end to fifh in droumv waters & nwrappe tE · r J _, • · lelr IOrtunes.Ego (l qteid 111 (orrunis rllet~ . l[4INm fit fi'J~~IIdium,id i10TJ 119114 fed mina rcjlingtMm t~a~ ot~er principle ofLy/ider T h.ttth!ldre .1reto 6; 'llitd Wtth cQ(!tte~, & mtlJ witb otht J·, & the like euil cort~lpt PQfitton s, whereof (as in al things )there mo~e 111 nut!lber then of the good: Certainty vith ·~18'" dlfj>~nfattons from the Iawes of charity & inte .. the_pr .effio~ o£a m1 ns for une,may be more ha [Jiil.fiH 'Q npendtous .But it is in life as it is in ways ort!!_ft way is com only the fowl eft:& furely the way 1s notinuch about. . . (' ~n.:.,l , if thex. bcJn their own power & doe bcare & "'~~~ ... ae III~mfelues ~and bee notcaryed-awaye with ~wtnd~ oc rctnpeft of ambition:oughte ~n . the IIGUtte ofche1r owne fortune,to fet before their eies, :~'""'" t-hat general Map Of the world.T hat althiTJgs Y kr1t vt»AtiO. oj{firit:,but many.other more par Gatds 8f di~ecf.ios, cheefly tbat)That Being, wei be1ngas a cu~fe,& the greater beihg,-the qL r.f~,And that all vertue is. moil: rewarded.,& WtG~eduetfe tnoil punifQedin it felfe:according as 114:11tl· fai.t-b excellently. . . . ~ohts 1!'Je d;gna viri ,pro ldttdihul ijli1 .. .. ~,• • Jib," po!Je r64T fo1Ni?pult-1Jtrrima primulf) tnotesque dabtJnt vef/ri: ~. · ofrhe c on.trary•And fecondly they·oughte to vp-to d1e eterhal prouidence and diuine iudgehichoftenfubue~ te.th the wifdome of c:uyll ~;/) :{ ,· plot |