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But matters ranged and set in order appear more confined, 

 and prove that nothing is omitted; while such as are rep 

 resented in confusion not only appear more in number, but 

 leave a suspicion of many more behind. 



This color deceives 1. If the mind entertain too great 

 an opinion of anything; for then the breaking of it will 

 destroy that false notion, and show the thing really as it is, 

 without amplification. Thus if a man be sick or in pain, 

 the time seems longer without a clock than with one; for 

 though the irksomeness of pain makes the time seem longer 

 than it is, yet the measuring it corrects the error, and shows 

 it shorter than that false opinion had conceived it. And so 

 in a naked plain, contrary to what was just before observed, 

 though the way to the eye may seem shorter when undi 

 vided, yet the frustration of that false expectation will after 

 ward cause it to appear longer than the truth. Therefore, 

 if a man design to encourage the false opinion of another as 

 to the greatness of a thing, let him not divide and split it, 

 but extol it in the general. This color deceives 2. If the 

 matter be so far divided and dispersed as not all to appear 

 at one view. So flowers growing in separate beds show 

 more than if they grow in one bed, provided all the beds 

 are in the same plot, so as to be viewed at once; otherwise 

 they appear more numerous when brought nearer than when 

 scattered wider; and hence landed estates that lie contiguous 

 are usually accounted greater than they are; for if they lie 

 in different counties, they could not so well fall within 

 notice. 3. This sophism deceives through the excellence 

 of unity above multitude; for all composition is an infal 

 lible sign of deficiency in particulars 



&quot;Bt quas non prosunt singula, multa juvant. &quot; 32 



For if one would serve the turn, it were best; but defects 

 and imperfections require to be pieced and helped out. So 

 Martha, employed about many things, was told that one was 

 sufficient. 33 And upon this foundation jEsop invented the 



32 Ovid, Remedia Amoris, 429. 33 Luke x. 41. 



