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Show ' . . . · Of the .AdU4nCementofLeArnini. Bul:this precept touchiOg the politickc know ledge of our felues hai:ll many odi9r branch~~ ':Vhereupon ~c cannot infifi: . · · , · · Next to·the wellvnderfianding ana difcerning of (. ·2 mans !elfe, · there followeth the well opening and reuealinga mansfelfe,wherein wefee·nothing more vfitaU then for the more able man· to·1nake the lelfe ~fuewe. 'For there is a greate aduantage ·in the well ~ . fetting fo~~~~ of a mans. ve:,tues ,· ·r~rtunes, me ... "rftes, and aga1n~ 1n the. ar~~fi~tall co~ertng of a mans· weakeneffes,defeetes;difgra~es,ftaytng vpon the one 1lfdiiigifiorii tile other, cheriflling th~. one by ~il.'l: ct1mftaunces, gracing the other by ·expofition,and · the like; wherein we lee what TAcitm faythof c.MII-'4 ~ t1Anll4 , who was the greateft politique of his time, OmnilimqMte_·di~eftdfottfatqlie,drte '}MAdam ()Jientilto;: ~ . . which·~uire~h 1rideed r~me' ane, leaa. it turne tedi .. r' . ous ano arrog~lt)DUt yc 'fo;~ ·ofi:entation(t:hougb. it be to tne firft degr~e of vanity) feemeth to me ra= · · ' tliera vice in Manners, t~en~ in Policye; for as it·is · fayd).AtldAl/tr; tAINf!ITJil#i,fowiPI~AJiljtiidh~trtt ·~ ·SO Ci,j t cept ir DC in a ridictilOtts ;>~ of defoflrtity' \.%11.:· dA&ter te venditAfomptr 11,/tqulti·h:tret~ For it will fitcke · with the more ignoraunt and inferiour fort of tnen, tho~1gh men of wifed~me· ·and ranke doe fmiJe ·~t ft~nd defpife'it , · in'd' y,-et tlie aUrhority wonne with· many,doth ·counter.uaile tlie tdifdaine of a few. But if!t be carried with dec~ij _ aild gouernement, as ', - Wit~ a saturall pleafaune andiitgenious fafhion, or ' . att~mes when it is 'Jn.ixt~ with fotne p·erill·and.yn ... .;r ~ · ~ · ' · - · fafet.' 7 , · ". ~ T~eficfJiu/ boole~ nA ~~ ~f.t ( • M.l.- ~ - .;11',. I Ia'"~ Y~, as ln t tt~ perfons) or at tynies when ::: . t bc rs are ";...l. "vf~l.. ~nui.e d? o r. wn. h ealie and carelel0f c ~lfage to It :md from 1r) wuhout dvrelling too Io r being too ferious : or with an equallfreedotnengf, caxJ• ng a mans 1r e,h t:e , a1r:w eI I as gract.. ng hi1nfelfe oor by occafion of repelling or putting downe others iniu~e or infolencie : It doth greateiy adderorr~ putatton; an~ Jurelye net a fewc folide natures, . ~t. wante tlus venrofirye, and cannot failt: ;" th~ hei~ht~ of the ~indes , are not without ~fo;;;; pretud1cc and difaduantage by theyre modCra. r . • 'i.1~1: .. urw-. for thefe fl0UJ:iill.es andiqhanfements ofvcr- · ·••~~as.~ tbey· ai'e not percbauncevnneceifary : So it .. ,;··~ Jeafic, nece1fary that venue be not difualewed :imbafed vnder the iuft price : which is doon ...... ,-~manners;By offcringaqd obtruding a mans wherein men thinkc he is rewarded when he ....."'~""" ..... By 4oing too much, which · wilnot giuc wn1cn 1swell done 1eaue to fettle, and in the end ........ faciety:and: By finding to foone the fruit cf """"·'·"'.'-"'"'·.·& .. commendation, applaule, honour) ........... wherein if a man. be pleafed with a little, let IJbC~are what is truly faid,CANe ne infottUI rebus ma- iliJtAril, ji k.ec ie res pariiA jic11tj mdg11a delec.;:. thccou~ringof dcfed:s is ofnolelfe impor .. -.alen ,thevalewingof good parts• whichma1 likewife in three manners, by CAutio", by lrallld· by qonjdefJ&t• ~aution is, when 1ncn doe - Ccc2 in.- |