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man s disposition is never well known till he be crossed n 

 Proteus ever changed shapes till he was straitened and held 

 fast; so the passages and variations of nature cannot appear 

 of art % m y f natUre aS in the trials and veSns 



II. (1) For -civil history, it is of three kinds ; not urfitlv to be 

 compared with the three kinds of pictures or images For of 



audTm? a^TefTced 6 T* T^ 1 ^ e ^Uf 

 are defaced. So of histories we may find three 



(2) Memorials, or preparatory history, are of two sorts 

 whereof the one may be termed commentaries, and The other 

 erS 



othenaket ance 



SL- SIT- e i nts and actlons &amp;gt; without the motives or 



designs the counsels, the speeches, the pretexts, the o?cls?ons 



llk6 d save and &quot;cover somewhat from 



In these kinds of unperfect histories 



r^BffffSS 



ment have confessed, as those that have fretted and 



is of t^ 1St l r7 ^ Which ^^ y be Called J ust and P erfe ^ history 



