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such a storm is his seed-time. It is the boast 

 of a Dutchman, that he can sail with all winds : 

 the aspiring man observes the quarter whence 

 the fairest gales of preferment blow, and spreads 

 the sails of his ambition to entertain them ; nor 

 can the compass breathe more varieties, than 

 his dexterous soul has changes, and garbs, and 

 suitable compliances. 



What the orator calls his top and perfection, 

 to make happy application to the several hu- 

 mours and genius of all sorts of men, qualifying 

 his address with what he knows will most 

 charm the person he treats ; that the politician 

 does not only with his lip, but life : you may 

 find all those figures and tropes digested into 

 his actions, and made practical, that are in the 

 other only vocal. 



He remembers that of an English marquis 

 (Pawlet of Winchester*) who having success- 

 fully served four princes, and still in the same 

 room of favour, unshaken with the vicissitudes 

 he had run through ; being asked by one, by 

 what means he preserved his fortune ? he re- 

 plies that he was made | of the pliant willow, 

 not stubborn oak, always of the prevailing re- 

 ligion, and a zealous professor. This easiness 

 and bending is of absolute necessity ; for if the 

 same temper, which insinuated in violent times, 



* Nanton's Regalia. f Ex salice, iioii ex quercu. 



