6&amp;lt;2 OF THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. [VII. 17. 



Persian pride, in use of purple, but kept the ancient habit 

 of Macedon, of black; True (saith Alexander), but Anti- 

 pater is all purple within. Or that other, when Parmenio 

 came to him in the plain of Arbela, and showed him the 

 innumerable multitude of his enemies, specially as they 

 appeared by the infinite number of lights, as it had been 

 a new firmament of stars, and thereupon advised him to 

 assail them by night : whereupon he answered, That he 

 would not steal the victory. 



1 8. For matter of policy, weigh that significant dis 

 tinction, so much in all ages embraced, that he made 

 between his two friends Hephaestion and Craterus, when 

 he said, That the one loved Alexander -, and the other loved 

 the king : describing the principal difference of princes 

 best servants, that some in affection love their person, 

 and other in duty love their crown. 



19. Weigh also that excellent taxation of an error, 

 ordinary with counsellors of princes, that they counsel 

 their masters according to the model of their own mind 

 and fortune, and not of their masters ; when upon 

 Darius great offers Parmenio had said, Surely / would 

 accept these offers, were las Alexander ; saith Alexander, 

 So would I were I as Parmenio. 



20. Lastly, weigh that quick and acute reply, which he 

 made when he gave so large gifts to his friends and 

 servants, and was asked what he did reserve for himself, 

 and he answered, Hope: weigh, I say, whether he had 

 not cast up his account aright, because hope must be the 

 portion of all that resolve upon great enterprises. For 

 this was Csesar s portion when he went first into Gaul, 

 his estate being then utterly overthrown with largesses. 

 And this was likewise the portion of that noble prince, 

 howsoever transported with ambition, Henry Duke of 



