2 yo Of the Advancement of Learning, L i b . VIII 



to deal 5 as alfo of their natures, their defires, their ends, their cu- 

 ftoms, their Helps and Advantages, whereby they are chiefly fupport- 

 ed and are powerful ; and again, of their weaknelTes and difadvan- 

 tages, and where they lie moft open and are obnoxious 5 of their 

 Friends, Faftions, Patrons and Dependancies 5 and again of their 

 Oppofites, Enviers, Competitors 3 as alfo their Modes, Times, and 

 Critical feafons of eafie Accefs. 



*i»g.t/£n. IV. 



Sola "viri moUes Aditns, d^ tempera norh. 



L^/y the Principles and Rules which they have fet downtothem- 

 felves ; and the like. And this information muft be taken not only 

 ofPerfons, but of Particular Aftions alfo which are on Foot, from time 

 to time, and as it were hot upon the Anvil 3 how they are condufted 

 and fucceed ; by whofe furtherances they are favour'd, by whom op- 

 pos'd, of what weight and moment they are, and what confequence 

 they infer , and the like. For the knowledge ofprefent A&ions is not 

 only material in it felf, but hath this advantage alfo, as without it the 

 knowledge of Perfom will be very deceitful and erroneous ; for Men 

 change with the A&ions 3 and while they are implicated in Aftions,en- 

 gaged and and environed with bufinefs, they are one 5 when they re- 

 turn to their Nature, they are another. Thefe Informations touch* 

 ing particulars, refpefting as well Perfons as Anions, are as the Minor 

 Vropofitions in every A&ive Syllogifm : for no verity or excellency of 

 Ohfervations or Axioms (whereof the Major Vropofitions Politick^ are 

 made) can fuffice to ground a conclufion, if there be error and mifta- 

 king in the Minor Propojttion. And that fuch knowledge may be com- 

 prov.xx. Y'^ffed^Solomon is our (urety, who faith — Counjel in the Heart of a Man 

 is like a deep water ^bnt a wife man will draw it out. — And although the 

 knowledge it felf fall not under Precept, becaufe it is of Individuals, 

 yet inftrudions for the deducing of it may with profit be fet down. 

 (j The k"o^l^dge of Men fix ways may be difclofed and drawn out j 

 by their Faces and Countenances^ by IVords^ by Deeds^ by their Na- ' 

 turcj by their Ends, and by the Relations of others. As for the Fifage 

 and Countenance, let not the ancient Adage move us, 



Front i nulla fides 



Juv.Sat.n. 



For though this faying may not amils be meant of the outward and ge- 

 neral compofure ofthe Countenance and Gejiure, yet there are ccrtaia 

 fubtil motions and labours of the Ejes, Face, Look/, ^nd GeHurCy 

 whereby, as ^ Cicero elegantly faith, is unlockt andopen'd — lanua. 

 qn^dam animi the gate of the mind. Who more clofe thatiTiberius 



i)i Pet. Conr. C£far^ ButTac7/«j,noting the Charadler and different manner of fpeak- 

 ing,which Tiberius us'd in commending in the Senate the great (ervices 

 done byGermanicus andOrw/z/j^of the commendations given ofGerma- 

 tjicushe faith thus — -Mdgis infpeciemverbisadornata^quamut penituf 

 fentire crederetHr^ofthe commendations given ofDrufus thus, — Paucio- 



/tosaLiv. ribus j Jed intentior, ^ fi'da or at i one. Again Tacitus noting the fame 

 Tiberius at other times fomewhat more clear and legible Saith — ^in 



ipft 



Anmli. 



