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totius; which is, that it disposeth the constitution oTthe \ 

 mind not to be fixed or settled in the detects thereof, but 

 still to be capable and susceptible of growth and reform- 

 a tjon 1 for the unlearned man knows not what it is to 

 descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor 

 trie pleasure ot that suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri 

 meliorem. The good parts he hath hewill learn to show 

 to the full, and use them dexteroUsTy, bujjjotjnuch_to 

 increase them. &quot;The^faultslie hath he wiUleanT how to 

 hide and colour them, but not much to amend them ; 4ike 

 an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his 

 scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise, 

 that he doth ever intermix the correction and amend 

 ment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. 

 Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that 

 Veritas and Boniias differ but as the seal and the print : 

 for Truth prints Goodness, and they be the clouds of 

 error which descend in the storms of passions and per 

 turbations. 



3. From moral virtue let us pass on to matter of power_ 

 and commandment, and consider whether in right reason 

 there be any comparable with that wherewith know 

 ledge investeth and crowneth man s nature. We see the 

 dignity of the commandment is according to the dignity 

 of the commanded : to have commandment over beasts, 

 as herdmen have, is a thing contemptible : to have com 

 mandment over children, as schoolmasters have, is a 

 matter of small honour: to have commandment over 

 galley-slaves is a disparagement rather than an honour. 

 Neither is the commandment of tyrants much better, over 

 people which have put off the generosity of their minds : 

 and therefore it was ever holden that honours in free 

 monarchies and commonwealths had a sweetness more 



