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He abounds in that which Varro calls* a 

 voluble wit, like the changeling derived by 

 Plautus, as more turning than a potter's wheel. 



He hath this advantage of the camelion, that 

 he can assume whiteness ; for I find him often 

 wearing the vest of innocency, to conceal the 

 ugliness and blackness of his attempts. 



Finally, he is the heliotrope to the sun of 

 honour, and hath long since abjured his God, 

 religion, conscience, and all that shall interpose, 

 and screen him from those beams, that may 

 ripen his wishes and aims into enjoyments. 



COLASTERION. 



But the true statesman is inviolably constant 

 to his principles of virtue and religious pru- 

 dence ; his ends are noble, and the means he 

 uses, innocent: he hath a single eye on the 

 public good ; and, if the ship of the state mis- 

 carry, he had rather perish in the wreck, than 

 preserve himself upon the plank of an inglorious 

 subterfuge. His worth hath led him to the 

 helm ; the rudder he uses is an honest and vi- 

 gorous wisdom; the star he looks to for direc- 

 tion is in Heaven ; and the port he aims at is the 

 joint welfare of prince and people. 



This constancy is that solid rock upon which 



" Versatile ingeiiium ; rota figulari versatilior. 



