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never condescends without design.* The ex- 

 treme kindness of fawning of great persons is 

 always suspicious, because often fraudulent; 

 remember the Sileni, that used to kill with hugs 

 and embraces. 



Secondly. Know it is very usual for men to 

 personate goodness, till they have accomplished 

 their ends ; it is observed of Appius, when he 

 had his wish,^ he left wearing of another man s 

 person. It is an old note.:[: 



Before the man 



Had got his end 

 He was all Puritan : 



What he would have 



He thus obtained. 

 And then resumed Knave. 



Athenseus tells a pretty story of one Athe- 

 nion, born obscurely, who, as long as he was 

 private and poor, excelled in a soft and tract- 

 able disposition, but when by juggling he had 

 obtained the Athenian government, there was 

 none more odious for a cruel, covetous and 



* Credebant baud gratuitam in tantd superbia comitatem fore, 

 f Finem fecit gerendae alienae personae. 

 I Maxima pars morem bunc homines babent j quod sibi volunt, 

 Dum id impetrant, boni sunt, sed id ubi jam penes sese 



habent. 

 Ex bonis pessimi, et fraudulentissimi sunt. 



