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Show ~8 ~ A Fragment, of an Effay, of Fame. r-- \ roeff. -To fpeak now, in a fad, and fedous m:.1nner :There is 1 not, in 11 the Politiques, a rlace, leffe handled, and more worthy to be and led, then this ofF ame. We will, thereforelpeak ofthefepoints. What arefalfeFames; And whataretnieFnm~s; · And how tbt:y may be oefl: difcerned; How Famu=>may be {own, and raifed; How they may be fpread 7 and multiplyed; And how . they may be checked,and layed dead. And other Things:> concerning the Natmc of Fame. Fame, is of that force, as there is, fcarcely, any great Atl:ion wherein, it hath not, a great part; EfpeciJlly,in the War. Muci.-mus undid Vitelli1ts by a Fame, that he fc~tttered; That flitelli1ts had in purpofe, to remove the Legions of syritt:J into Germany; And the Legions of Germany, into SJ: ria: whereupon the Legions of Syria were infinitely inflamed. Ju /ius c~Jar, took Pompey un~rovided, andlayed aileep his indufl:ry~ and preparations, by a Fame that he cunningly gave out; How Ctefars own Souldiers loved him not ; And being ·wearied with the Wars, and Liiden with the fpoyles of Gaul, would fo rfake ' him ~s foon as he carne into Italy~ Livia, fetled all things. for ~he Succeffion, of her Son 1 ilcrius, by continuall giving on t,that her husband .Attg1iflus, was u.pon Recovery, andamendmc.1 t. And it is an ufuall thing, with the Baflbawes, to conceale the Death ofthegreatTurk_. from the )annizaries, and men of War, to [ave he Sacking of Co,tjlantinople, and other Tow1u, as their Manner i~ . 1 hemiflocles, made Zerxu, King of Perjia poaft a pace out of Gr£cia, by giv!ng out, that the Grtecians, had a pu rpofe, to break his Bridge, of Ships, which he had made athwart Hellefpont. There be a thoufand fuch like Examples; And the more they are, the Idle they need to be repeated ; Becau!e a Man, meeteth with them, every where: Therefore_, let all Wife Governers, have as great a watch, and care, over FanteJ, as they have, of the .Aflions, and Ddignes themfel vcs. The refl was not Finifbecl. LE "fTERS ' · F aultJ Efc4pecl in the Printiltg. PAg. I 6./inea. 4· forGulcis, lege, Dulcis: Pag. j ·.lin. 34· mufi, tege, mofi : p. 37. z. 30• fit,!.fi~tt:p,f4.l.J8 .ve/.I.D_uel.p.;;. J.ult. Thnnaus . I.TI)I{anus: p. II8. 1. 10• deen. /. been: Eadem. I. 23. Ordmary. /.more then Ordinary. p. q::~. l. H· peafure 1 pteaf~r~. p. 137· l. 38. ferraine,./. forrai~e '.Ead. t.~p· Mene./. Meane: l'· 1 3!./. 46. th~r: I. the1r • 1'·'44· l. n!t· be . . t. he·. ~a~./m.lmht, l. hght: p. I47·'· 37· Lord: 1. Lordthi . P· I 64./. 3 2. Non ts repettt Condztzouzbus Dij]idiis I. Non repetitis Conditionibus Diffidii: ~. J.o8. J. 43· Mefiy. l. MaJefiy : p, 2 u./. r4. rue. l. rrue: p: 2 18. l. 9. Mad. J. Man : Ead. 1. 14. how. to l. to how : p. :41. /. I 6._ a_. L. as: p. 24 6. l, 1 o. ifl. of; pag. 266. t. 5, D<:fig. lege Defigne . 27 S· l. aS, Sexvzr. J. Sexvm. Ead. J. 4): Ninos.l. Minos. -----------------~------------~--------~ |