Ecclef.li. 



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as pleafe themfelves in this one habit only, and feldora afpire to high- 

 er and more folid virtues: whereas on the contrary, thofe that arc 

 confcious to themfelves of a Defeft this way, feek Comeline^hy Repu- 

 tatJoK--, {oTwheve Reputation IS, almoft every thing becometh 5 but 

 where //)4f is not, iimuftbe fupplied by Tuntoes and Compkmeuts. 

 Ai^aiH, there is no greater or more frequent impediment of Aftion 

 than an overcurious obfervance of Decency and of that other ceremo- 

 ny attending on it, which is a toofcrupulous ElcQion of time and op- 

 port unities : for Solomon faith excellently, qui objervat ventttm non 

 feminat^ & qui confiderat ntibes nunquim nietet : We muft make op- 

 portunity oftner than find it. To conclude, this co;aelji grace of 

 Behaviour is, as it were, the Garment of the Mind, and therefore 

 muft have the conditions of a Garment : for firft,it ought to be fuch 

 as is in faOiion ; again, it ought not to be too curious or coftly 5 thea 

 it ought to be fo (haped as to fet forth any good making of the mind, 

 and to fupply and hide any deformity ^ laftly and above all, it ought 

 not to be too ftrait, or fo to reftrain thefpirit, as to reprefs and hin- 

 der the motion thereof in bufinefs. But this part of Civil k^orvledge 

 to\jic\\\ngConverJation, hath been indeed elegantly handled, nor can 

 it any way be reported as Defcient. 



Chap. II. 



I. The Partition of the Do&rine of Negotiation into the knovpledge of 

 difperfed Occafions. II. And into the Knoivledge of the Advance- 

 ment of life. § Examples of the ktiorvledge ofscatter'd Occafions 

 from Jof/fe of Solomon's Parailei. § IPrece^ts touching the Ad- 

 vancement of fortune. 



THe knowledge touching Negotiation, we will divide into a 

 knowledge concerning Scatter d Occajiont 5 and the Knowledge 

 concerning the Advancement of Life-, whereof the one comprehends 

 all the variety of Buftnef, and is, as it were, the Secretary of a Pra- 

 d'ick courfe of life 3 the other only feleds and fuggefts fuch obferva- . 

 tions as appertain to the advancing of a mans proper fortune, w^hich 

 may be to every man as intimate and rcferved Table-Book/, and MC' 

 Tfjorials of their Affairs. 



(} But before we defcend to the Particular kinds, we will fpeak 

 foraething by way ofPreface, in general, touching the knowledge of 

 Negotiation. The knowledge of Negotiation no man hath handled hither- 

 to according to the dignity of the Subject ; to the great derogation 

 of Learning, and the Profeilors of Learning : for from this root Iprin- 

 geththat note of DHlnefs which hath defamed the Learned, which is 5 

 That there is no great concurrence betroeen Learning and rraClicli^irifdom, 

 For, if a man obferve it well, of the three ivifdoms which we have 

 fet down to pertain to Civil life, that of C(?«i'f>yr7//(;« is by learned 

 men for the moft part defpifed as a fervile thing and an enemy to Me- 

 ditation. As for that jg^/yr/r?;;/ concerning Government^ Learned men 



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