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lee, overcometh by this lawrd-branch ; thus, we 
cannowaies better feje£l, and conquer flanderers 
and back-biters, than by an innocent and vertuous 
life : it hath been the conftant care of godly men 
to live a godly and religious life j the only way to 
confute the reproaches that are call upon them, 
and to Hop the mouths of gainfayers. The Chame- 
//o», when he is dead,, groweth pale and white; 
which Arjfl. Lib. i. Eth. cap. lo. doth apply to 
the life of a man ; and faith, that thofe who de- 
pend on fortune, do as often changejand alter theic 
conditions, as the Chamelion doth his colour ; fome- 
times rich, fometimes poor, now happy, anon 
miferable,&:c. 
2. It may be alfo not unfitly applyed to Ty~ 
rants : the Chamelion goeth very flowly j the like, 
is reported of Nero : Tyrants at firft do feign and 
dilfemble piety, but when once they have got the 
power into their own hands, they then fhew what 
before they did but dilfemble, then committing all 
manner of wickednefs. The can imitate 
all manner of colours, like Tyrants^ who imitate 
all mens manners. The Chamelion^ when he is a- 
fraid, feemeth to be very gentle, and mild ; like as 
^tTyrmt islometimes fain to dilfemble bimfelf 
mild, but cannot imitate white and red • i. e. true 
innocency and modefty ; and therefore NazJian- 
telleth us, in his 4^ th. Oration, of the objefti- 
on that he made againft Julian ; JVho^ with the 
Chamelion ani Proteus couU do all things - hut 
yet he could not he mild towards the Chriftians : it 
may alfo refemble thofe men who lludy feveral 
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