2 1 o Of the Advancement of Learning. L i b . VI. 



The fear of TrivAte revenge is a 

 profitable rejiraiKt, for laws are too 

 often ajleep. 



He that is inclinable to retribute 

 avprong^ is behind-hand perchance 

 in tinte^ but net in will. 



INNOVATION. XL: 



Pro. 



"Every medicine is 'an innovati- 

 on. 



He.thatvpill not apply neto rente- 

 dies, mufl expect new difeafes. 



Time is the greateji innovator 3 

 tfhy then may we noi imitate time. 



Ancient prefidents are inconfor- 

 mable, recent, corrupt, anddegene^ 

 rate. 



Let ftmple and contentious per- 

 fons, fquare their anions , accor- 

 ding to examples. 



As thofe that fir!i bring honour 

 into their Family , are commonly 

 more worthy than mojl that fucceed: 

 So the Innovation of things for the 

 wofi part excells thofe things which 

 are done out of Imitation. 



Afroward retention of Cujloms, 

 is as turbulent a thing as Innovati- 

 on, 



Seeing that things of their own 

 courfe alter to the worfe, if they be 

 not by counfel altered to the better, 

 zohat/hallbc the end of Evil. 



The feri^ants of cuflom, are the 

 fcorn of Time, 



Contra. 



l^ew Births are deformed things, 



1^0 author is accepted, until time 

 have authorized him. 



All novelty is with injury, for it 

 defaceth the prefentjiate of things. 



Thofe things which ciijlom hath 

 confirmed, ij they be not profitable^ 

 yet they are conformable and piece 

 well together. 



IVhat Novator follows the exam- 

 ple of time, which infinuates inno- 

 vations fo quietly, as is fcarce per- 

 ceptible tojenje. 



Whatjoever comes unloosed for^ 

 is the Icf acceptable to him whom it 

 helps if and the more troublefometa 

 him whom it hurts. 



DELAY, XLI. 



Pra 



Fortune felleth many things to the 

 hajiy-) which fi)e gives to the flow and 

 deliberate. 



IVhilJi we make to» much hafi to 

 furprize the beginnings andonfets of 

 things, we clafpfijadows. 



WhilB things are at a doubtful 

 Jiand, we muji weigh them ; when 

 they incline we may fall aworl^. 



It is good to commit the beginning 

 of Anions to Argus, with his hun- 

 dred eyesi, the ends to Brureus,w J/^ 

 his hundred bands. 



Contra. 



Occafion turns the handle of the 

 Bottle fir(i, to be received j and af- 

 ter th belly. 



Occafion, like Sybilla, diminifi- 

 eth the commodity,bHt enhancethth4 

 Trice. 



Celerity is the helmet of Plato, 



Thojc things which arefeafonablj 



undertaken, are performed with 



judgement ; but what are put ojf too 



long, arc compafs'dwith trouble and 



hy ambages. 



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