L I B. VL Of the Advancement of Learning. i o i 



it is a common faying, and not without good fence. The fecotid hlotv is 

 thatwhicbfftdkesthe fraji : forthefirft, it may be, v/ould have vaniftit 

 without farther harm : and therefore Pnus Malo PrincipittM dedit^ fed 

 fo^erins modum ab^ulit. Secondly this colour deceives in refpe& of 'the 

 dignity of Verfeverance^ which co»Ji(is in the Progrejfion^ and not in the 

 Jggrejfion. For chance, or inftinft of Nature, may caufe inception 5 

 but fetled affeftion and judgement makes the continuance. Thirdly^ 

 this Colour deceives in fuch things which have a natural courfe and inclina- 

 tion contrary to an Inception^ fo that the fir ^ Inception is perpetually eva' 

 cuated, unlef the force and faculty be continued. As in thofe common 

 forms it is faid Non progredi eji Regredi j and ^i non proficit deficit^ as 

 in running againft the hilU rowing againft the (Iream 5 forifitbewith 

 the hill or with the Itreara , then the degree of Inception is more than 

 all the reft. Again this Colour is not only extended to the Degree of In- 

 ception^ which is from Power to A6f, compared with the Degree, which it 

 from Ad to increment 5 but alfo is to be under & 00 d of the degree which is 

 from Impotency to power, compared with the Degree which is from power to 

 A3 : for the Degree.from Impotency to Totency, feems greater, than from 

 Tower to A&. 



The Colour. 



10 That which is referred to Truth, is more than that which is referred to 

 opinion. The manner and Proof of that which pertains to Opinion, is 

 this j that a man would never have done it ^ if he thought it Jljonld befe^ 

 pulchred in fecrecy and oblivion. 



So the Epicures fay to the Stoicks,Felicityplaced in virtue, that it is 

 like the Fe/ia/fj' of a Player, who ifhewere left of his Auditors, and 

 their applaufe, he would ftreight be out of heart and countenance 5 

 therefore they call virtue, out of a fpiteful emulation, Bonum Theatrah. 

 Bat it is otherwife of Riches, whereof the Poet (aith 



.Populus mefibilat : at mihiplaudo 



Likewife ofPleafure 5 



Grata fnb imo 



Otudia Corde premens, vultufimilante pudorem. 



The Reprehenfion. 



THe Fallax of this Colour is foraewhat fubtil 5 though the anfwer 

 to the exemple alledged be ready; for neither is virtue cholea 

 propter Auram Popular em , feeing that alio is given in Precept, That a 

 man Jhould above all things, andperfons, revere himfelf'-, fo that zGood 

 man is the fame mfolitude which he is in the Theatre ; though perchance 

 virtue will be more ftrongby glory and fame, as heat is encrcafcd by 

 refleftion : But this denyes the fuppofition, but doth not redargue the 

 Fal/ax. The Reprehenfion is this , be it granted that virtue ( efpeci- 

 ally fuch as is joyned with labour and conflid) would not be cholen 

 but for her concomitants. Fame and Opinion^ yet it follows not that 

 an appetite and chief Motive to virtue, fhould not be real, and for it 



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