230 OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [ XXIII. 16. 
words rather to sudden passages and surprised words 
than to set and purposed words, Neither let that be 
feared which is said, Front nulla fides, which is meant of 
a general outward behaviour, and not of the private and 
subtile motions and labours of the countenance and 
gesture; which, as Q. Cicero elegantly saith, is Amm? 
jJanua, the gate of the mind. None more close than 
Tiberius, and yet Tacitus saith of Gallus, Lienim vultu 
offensionem conjectaverat. So again, noting the differing 
character and manner of his commending Germanicus 
and Drusus in the senate, he saith, touching his fashion 
wherein he carried his speech of Germanicus, thus; 
Magis in spectem adornatis verbis, quam ut penitus sentire 
crederetur: but of Drusus thus; Pauciorzbus sed intentior, 
et fida oratione: and in another place, speaking of his 
character of speech, when he did any thing that was 
gracious and popular, he saith, that in other things he . 
was velut eluctantium verborum; but then again, solutus 
loquebatur quando subveniret.. So that there is no such 
artificer of dissimulation, nor no such commanded coun- 
tenance (vulius jussus), that can sever from a feigned 
tale some of these fashions, either a more slight and 
careless fashion, or more set and formal, or more tedious 
and wandering, or coming from a man more drily and 
hardly. 
17. Neither are deeds such assured pledges, as that 
they may be trusted without a judicious consideration of 
their magnitude and nature: /raus sibi in parvis fidem 
prestruit ut majore emolumento fallat; and the Italian 
thinketh himself upon the point to be bought and sold, 
when he is better used than he was wont to be without 
manifest cause. For small favours, they do but lull men 
asleep, both as to caution and as to industry; and are, as 
