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play the diflembler, if we obferve what C/cer<? reports of him ; the 0- 

 Ad Att tib.x. fher (meaning of Cxfar) refufeth tiot^ nay in a fort defiref^ that^ as mat- 

 ^'^' terijiand, he majifobe cal/edTyrant. So we may fee in a letter of Ci- 



cero's to Atticus, how far from a Dijfembkr Augu^ius Cafar was, who 

 in his very entrance intoAffairSj while he was a darling to the Senate, 

 yet in his Harangues and fpeeches to the People was wont to fwear af- 

 Clc.ad Attic, ter this manner, Ita parentis honores confequi liceat^ which was no left 

 than the Tyranny 3 fave that, to help the matter a little, he would 

 withal ftretch forth his hand to a ftatue of /«//«/ C<£fars^ which was e- 

 refted in the Rojlra : and men laught and applauded, and wondred 

 and difcourfed thus amongft themfelves, what means this .<? What a. 

 yoitngman have we here .«" and yet thought he meant no hurt, he did 

 (b candidly and ingenuoufly (peak what he meant. And all thefe^ we 

 ' havenam'd, were profperous : Whereas on the other fide, Pontpeius^ 



who tended to thelame ends, but by more umbragious and oblcure 

 ways (as Tdr/*»j faith of him, Occultor non melior-^ a cenfure whcreia 

 Sal.apud Su- SaluU concurrs, Ore probo^ Animo inverecundo^) made it his defigUjand 

 «ton.iib.de endeavoured by infinite engines, that deeply hiding his boundlefs de- 

 fires and ambition, he might in the mean fpace caft the ftate into an 

 Anarchy and Confufion, whereby the ftate muft neceffarily caft it felf 

 into his arms for proteftion, and fo thefovereign Power be put upon 

 him, and he never feen in it : and when he had brought it, (as he 

 thought,) to that point, when he was chofen Conful alone, as never 

 any was ; yet he could make no great matter of it 5 becaufe thofe,that 

 without queftion would have cooperated with him, underftood him 

 noti fo that he was fain in the end, to go the beaten and common 

 track of getting Arms into his hands, by colour of oppofinghimfelf a- 

 gainft Cxfar ; fo tedious, cafual, and unfortunate are thofe Couq- 

 fels which are cover'd with dee^ DijJifMnlationj whereof it feeras Taci^ 

 ins made the fame judgement, when he makes the Arts of Simulation^ 

 a prudence of an inferior form, in regard of /r«e Policy, attributing 

 the one to Augu^us, the other to Tiberius , for fpeaking o^Livia he 

 faith thus. That JI)efortedwell with the Arts of her husband^ and DiJJi- 

 mulation of her Jon. 



§ As touching the bending and moulding of the Mind ^ it muji indeed 

 hy all pojfible means he endeavoured, that tbe mind be made pliant and 

 obedient to occaftons and opportunities, and that it be not any wayfiijfand 

 xenitent to them : for nothing hinders the effe&ing ofBuftnef, and the 

 making of mens fortunes fo much as this .° Idem manehat neque idem de- 

 cebat, that is, when men arewhere they were, and follow their own bent 

 •when occaftons are turn'd. Therefore Livy, when he brings in Cato Ma-' 

 jor, as the experteft Architect of his fortune, very well ancipxes this, 

 that he had, verfatile ingenium, and thereofit comes, that thefe grave 

 folemn wits, which muft be like themfelves, and cannot makedeA:- 

 ture, have for moft part more dignity than felicity. But in fome wo 

 nature to be vifcuous and inwrapt and not eafie to turn : in others it 

 is curtom, that is almoft a nature, and a conceit, which eafily fteals in- 

 to mens minds, which is, that men can hardly make themfelves be- 

 lieve, thattiiey ought to change fuchcouries, as they have found good 

 and profpe'roii-s by farther experience. For .ituck/avcl nctts wWcly ja 



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