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words rather to sudden passages and surprised words 

 than to set and purposed words. Neither let that be 

 feared which is said, Fronti 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 A mm 

 janua, the gale of the mind. None more close than 

 Tiberius, and yet Tacitus saith of Callus, Etenim 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 speciem adornatis verbis, quam ut penitus sentire 

 credereiur : but of Drusus thus ; Paucioribus 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, solutim 

 loquelatur quando subveniret. So that there is no such 

 artificer of dissimulation, nor no such commanded coun 

 tenance (pultus 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 : Fraus sibi in parvis fidem 

 prastruit ut majore emolumento fallal; 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 



