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3002 2| triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; 3003 45| square, but without fish, or slime, or mud. For the first, 3004 11| dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either 3005 45| bank, not steep, but gently slope, of some six foot, set all 3006 49| much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for 3007 28| body in health; for in a slothful peace, both courages will 3008 31| of interlocution, shows slowness: and a good reply or second 3009 40| if it were not for this slug. The last, that it is the 3010 45| are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by 3011 55| pressed, are a shower of snares upon the people. Therefore 3012 32| but yield great profit. Soap–ashes likewise, and other 3013 33| thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, 3014 14| grown desperate; and what soever, in offending people, joineth 3015 54| not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign, and harmless 3016 33| certainly great riches, have sold more men, than they have 3017 18| contrariae. For it is the solecism of power, to think to command 3018 28| any prince or state think solely of his forces, except his 3019 5| lively work, upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark 3020 25| do nothing or little very solemnly: magno conatu nugas. It 3021 26| little: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town 3022 11| but of Vespasian he saith, Solus imperantium, Vespasianus 3023 3| natural body, a wound, or solution of continuity, is worse 3024 14| the dissolving thereof; Solvam cingula regum.~So when any 3025 9| bring in ever upon the stage somebody upon whom to derive the 3026 34| barren; but Aristander the soothsayer, told him his wife was with 3027 42| Alcibiades of Athens, Ismael the Sophy of Persia, were all high 3028 12| dogs, that licked Lazarus’ sores; but like Ries, that are 3029 14| perhibent) Coeo Enceladoque sororem~Progenuit.–~ ~As if fames 3030 30| true. The Italian says, Sospetto licentia fede; as if suspicion, 3031 56| out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn bees;~... 3032 56| exhorteth us to possess our souls in patience. Whosoever is 3033 3| two cross clauses thereof, soundly and plainly expounded: He 3034 21| tricks upon them, than upon soundness of their own proceedings. 3035 38| pliant to all expressions and sounds, the joints are more supple, 3036 55| bitter, and delays make it sour. The principal duty of a 3037 55| certain persons that are sowers of suits; which make the 3038 9| called, the envious man, that soweth tares amongst the wheat 3039 45| would also have the alleys, spacious and fair. You may have closer 3040 24| dispatch; Mi venga la muerte de Spagna; Let my death come from 3041 Glo| subservient, liable~Oes: round spangles~Pair: impair~Pardon: allowance~ 3042 36| water–green; and oes, or spangs, as they are of no great 3043 6| good shrewd proverb of the Spaniard, Tell a lie and find a troth. 3044 26| will appear, that it was a sparing speech of the ancients, 3045 52| perceiving at an. But shows, and species virtutibus similes, serve 3046 28| upon some, at the least specious, grounds and quarrels. The 3047 21| imperatoris simpliciter spectare.~Some have in readiness 3048 52| more good, than their high speculations. St. Paul, when he boasts 3049 32| first years. It is true, speedy profit is not to be neglected, 3050 Glo| hinder~Loose: shot~Lot: spell~Lurch: intercept~Make: profit, 3051 10| others, which if it be not spent upon some one or a few, 3052 21| Burrhus, Se non diversas spes, sed incolumitatem imperatoris 3053 55| suits, which ought to be spewed out, as the surfeit of courts. 3054 16| that ravisheth all the spheres of government. The master 3055 Glo| mischievous~Sort: associate~Spial: spy~Staddle: sapling~Steal: 3056 43| hath rather been as to good spials, and good whisperers, than 3057 45| of arching water without spilling, and making it rise in several 3058 26| liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for 3059 29| that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, 3060 28| out of all questions, the splendor and magnificence, and great 3061 34| upon a course at tilt, the splinters of the staff of Montgomery 3062 6| which in any business, doth spoil the feathers, of round flying 3063 Glo| able~Votary: vowed~Wanton: spoiled~Wood: maze~Work: manage, 3064 32| and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they 3065 28| the treasury out of the spoils; and donatives to the army. 3066 44| at some near distance for sports of hunting, hawking, and 3067 32| proportion; besides some spots of ground, that any particular 3068 45| the one that sprinkleth or spouteth water; the other a fair 3069 45| delivered into it by fair spouts, and then discharged away 3070 9| infection. For as infection spreadeth upon that which is sound, 3071 34| belief; for otherwise, the spreading, or publishing, of them, 3072 52| entitle him to perforce, spreta conscientia. Some praises 3073 14| wealth will flow as in a spring tide. And it cometh many 3074 45| two natures: the one that sprinkleth or spouteth water; the other 3075 36| wild–men, antics, beasts, sprites, witches, Ethiops, pigmies, 3076 34| years, was,~When hempe is spun~England’s done:~ ~whereby 3077 43| contempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself, to rescue and 3078 14| reasonable; who do often spurn at their own good: nor yet 3079 35| ambition, is to pull off his spurs. There is also great use 3080 19| pronounced, that in counsel is stability. Things will have their 3081 27| hall, to be saving in the stable; and the like. For he that 3082 33| if he be not the better stablished in years and judgment. Likewise 3083 Glo| Sort: associate~Spial: spy~Staddle: sapling~Steal: do secretly~ 3084 28| woods; if you leave your staddles too thick, you shall never 3085 34| tilt, the splinters of the staff of Montgomery going in at 3086 55| memory, or of want of a staid and equal attention. It 3087 44| corners of that court, fair staircases, cast into turrets, on the 3088 12| stand at a stay; like a stale at chess, where it is no 3089 28| houses of husbandry of a standard; that is, maintained with 3090 13| much higher; and he that standeth at a stay, when others rise, 3091 11| great place is by a winding star; and if there be factions, 3092 46| another upon conditions, the start or first performance is 3093 14| have a great stock, and yet starve. And money is like muck, 3094 28| taken of counsellors and statesmen, there may be found (though 3095 26| better relate himself to a statua, or picture, than to suffer 3096 28| saith) add a cubit to his stature, in this little model of 3097 17| but not long; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let 3098 35| counsellors, to keep things steady; for without that ballast, 3099 26| sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers 3100 45| day by the hand. Also some steps up to it, and some fine 3101 Glo| Proper: personal~Prospective: steroscope~Proyne: prune~Purprise: 3102 50| seen, that a few that are stiff, do tire out a greater number, 3103 31| be bridled:~Parce, puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris.~ ~ 3104 Glo| cheat, deceive~Aculeate: stinging~Adamant: loadstone~Adust: 3105 30| whisperings of others, have stings. Certainly, the best mean, 3106 Glo| sapling~Steal: do secretly~Stirp: family~Stond: stop, stand~ 3107 13| sedition, than where there are stirps of nobles. For men’s eyes 3108 43| a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially 3109 49| gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and 3110 39| them; when there be not stonds nor restiveness in a man’ 3111 12| Constantinople, had like to have been stoned, for gagging in a waggishness 3112 33| prices, are set upon little stones and rarities? and what works 3113 2| a jest, sitting upon the stool; Ut puto deus fio. Galba 3114 26| induce. We know diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the 3115 14| nevertheless true, that storms, though they blow over divers 3116 30| for they take place in the stoutest natures; as in the example 3117 Glo| family~Stond: stop, stand~Stove: hot–housed~Style: title~ 3118 45| and myrtles, if they be stoved; and sweet marjoram, warm 3119 41| such, as take too high a strain at the first, and are magnanimous, 3120 55| hard constructions, and strained inferences; for there is 3121 36| down; for it draws the eye strangely, and makes it, with great 3122 42| beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man 3123 28| sufficient proportion to the stranger subjects, that they govern. 3124 16| but load the church; the stratagems of prelates, for their own 3125 45| the musk–rose. Then the strawberry–leaves dying, which yield 3126 9| passion, and walketh the streets, and doth not keep home: 3127 15| and would be glad to be strengthened, by the consent of others. 3128 26| nature. For in bodies, union strengtheneth and cherisheth any natural 3129 11| example; and examine thyself strictly, whether thou didst not 3130 24| races it is not the large stride or high lift that makes 3131 3| not worth the heat and strife about it, kindled only by 3132 44| off; for that which would strike almost through the room, 3133 44| court not be paved, for that striketh up a great heat in summer, 3134 9| that the times when the stroke or percussion of an envious 3135 Glo| guarded against~Froward: stubborn~Futile: babbling~Globe: 3136 50| it; for when matters have stuck long in balancing, the winning 3137 49| able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay, there is 3138 21| constitution of one that hath studied men, more than books. Such 3139 4| certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds 3140 33| of Rabirius Posthumus, In studio rei amplificandae apparebat, 3141 45| juniper or other garden stuff; they be for children. Little 3142 21| advertit ad gressus suos; stultus divertit ad dolos.~ ~ 3143 55| est justus cadens in causa sua coram adversario. The office 3144 3| exclaimed: Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum.~What would he have 3145 8| said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. 3146 7| is good, optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo. 3147 50| and Octavianus brake and subdivided. These examples are of wars, 3148 37| custom only doth alter and subdue nature. He that seeketh 3149 25| Respondes, altero ad frontem sublato, altero ad mentum depresso 3150 33| yet worse; by how much men submit themselves to meaner persons, 3151 Glo| Nerve: sinew~Obnoxious: subservient, liable~Oes: round spangles~ 3152 28| in some degree, in the subsidies of England. For you must 3153 3| thing rather ingenious, than substantial. A man that is of judgment 3154 49| poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; 3155 9| pass, that envy worketh subtilly, and in the dark, and to 3156 15| take part, with the very subtlest philosophers. The contemplative 3157 23| more worthy than most that succeed, so the first precedent ( 3158 54| and by attributing a man’s successes, rather to divine Providence 3159 28| and ready to give aids and succors, to their confederates; 3160 6| discovery; as the more close air sucketh in the more open; and as 3161 55| the causes or parties that sue. There be (saith the Scripture) 3162 9| do sacrifice to envy, in suffering themselves sometimes of 3163 9| redemption of their own sufferings.~They that desire to excel 3164 51| To attain them, it almost sufficeth not to despise them; for 3165 26| diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most dangerous 3166 28| haereditatis; but also jus suffragii, and jus honorum. And this 3167 33| with the with the first sugar man, in the Canaries. Therefore 3168 9| readily into imaginations and suggestions; and they come easily into 3169 22| Cicero says of Pompey) are sui amantes, sine rivali, are 3170 26| open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum 3171 18| of that renowned prince, Sultan Mustapha, and otherwise 3172 19| their motto, plenus rimarum sum: one futile person, that 3173 10| magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus; as if man, made for the 3174 9| fortune; and envy is as the sunbeams, that beat hotter upon a 3175 40| because his plough goeth every Sunday. That the usurer is the 3176 33| besides, doth plough upon Sundays. But yet certain though 3177 44| a fair and large cellar, sunk under ground; and likewise 3178 44| upon the floor, no whit sunken under ground, to avoid all 3179 18| to will contradictories, Sunt plerumque regum voluntates 3180 14| times to pass, that materiam superabit opus; that the work and 3181 15| omnes gentes nationesque superavimus.~ ~ 3182 25| altero ad mentum depresso supercilio, crudelitatem tibi non placere. 3183 12| an orator, which is but superficial and rather the virtue of 3184 25| what prospectives to make superficies to seem body, that hath 3185 43| to repay. Again, in their superiors, it quencheth jealousy towards 3186 18| their latter years to be superstitious, and melancholy; as did 3187 38| sounds, the joints are more supple, to all feats of activity 3188 26| cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of 3189 32| how they waste, and send supplies proportionably; but so, 3190 26| yet all these could not supply the comfort of friendship.~ 3191 55| that Solomon’s throne was supported by lions on both sides: 3192 18| Second, was thought to be suppositious. The destruction of Crispus, 3193 Glo| in moderation~Insmoother: suppressed~Indifferent: impartial~Intend: 3194 55| Twelve Tables; Salus populi suprema lex; and to know that laws, 3195 14| to be considered; for the surest way to prevent seditions ( 3196 32| with some few apothecaries, surgeons, cooks, and bakers. In a 3197 34| that the king of Spain’s surname, as they say, is Norway. 3198 26| Rome, raised Pompey (after surnamed the Great) to that height, 3199 9| of those things, should surpass them. Which was the character 3200 21| procure themselves, to be surprised, at such times as it is 3201 28| of estate. For if a true survey be taken of counsellors 3202 53| libros scribunt, nomen, suuminscribunt. Socrates, Aristotle, Galen, 3203 28| to be a peasant and base swain, driven out of heart, and 3204 40| them, bad markets would swallow them quite up. As for mortgaging 3205 34| number, of all that ever swam upon the sea. As for Cleon’ 3206 6| and to be secret, without swaying the balance on either side. 3207 34| sun made his body run with sweat, and the rain washed it. 3208 45| gooseberries; rosemary; bays; sweetbriar; and such like. But these 3209 7| utter the other. Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes 3210 45| breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes 3211 55| suits; which make the court swell, and the country pine. The 3212 1| with pity, and not with swelling, or pride. Certainly, it 3213 14| every of them, is carried swiftly by the highest motion, and 3214 37| practise with helps, as swimmers do with bladders or rushes; 3215 32| and multiply fastest; as swine, goats, cocks, hens, turkeys, 3216 13| and pedigree. We see the Switzers last well, notwithstanding 3217 52| beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty 3218 3| human society. There be two swords amongst Christians, the 3219 51| like a verse, wherein every syllable is measured; how can a man 3220 55| conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables; Salus populi suprema lex; 3221 28| behalf of a kind of party, or tacit conformity of estate, I 3222 47| inconvenience; for they taint business through want of 3223 9| that which is sound, and tainteth it; so when envy is gotten 3224 23| others; and he that holpen, takes it for a fortune, and thanks 3225 21| they can wrap it into a tale; which serveth both to keep 3226 6| altogether open. As for talkers and futile persons, they 3227 6| credulous withal. For he that talketh what he knoweth, will also 3228 15| that atheists will ever be talking of that their opinion, as 3229 15| fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that 3230 9| eunuch, and Agesilaus and Tamberlanes, that were lame men.~The 3231 33| Seneca, testamenta et orbos tamquam indagine capi), it is yet 3232 50| sovereignty, and make the king tanquam unus ex nobis; as was to 3233 12| have an ungracious proverb, Tanto buon che val niente: so 3234 32| likely commodity. Pitch and tar, where store of firs and 3235 9| envious man, that soweth tares amongst the wheat by night; 3236 45| good sights, many times, in tarts. The garden is best to be 3237 35| amongst able men, hath a great task; but that is ever good for 3238 37| too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make 3239 49| consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, 3240 55| yields a harsh wine, that tastes of the grape–stone. Judges 3241 29| nature be cherished, and yet taught masteries. Physicians are, 3242 11| ought to be grave, and not taunting. As for facility: it is 3243 40| usurers should have orange–tawny bonnets, because they do 3244 28| although the same tribute and tax, laid by consent or by imposing, 3245 11| not to set off thyself, by taxing their memory, but to direct 3246 22| of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. 3247 56| Consalvo was wont to say, telam honoris crassiorem. But 3248 52| upon one’s tongue, that tells a lie. Certainly moderate 3249 34| laxet, et ingens~Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos~Detegat 3250 5| virtue of prosperity, is temperance; the virtue of adversity, 3251 6| The best composition and temperature, is to have openness in 3252 55| officium est, ut res, ita tempora rerum, etc. In causes of 3253 14| usura vorax, rapidumque in tempore foenus,~Hinc concussa fides, 3254 15| Wherein they say he did temporize; though in secret, he thought 3255 37| revive, upon the occasion or temptation. Like as it was with AEsop’ 3256 11| business, they have no time to tend their health, either of 3257 2| himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked 3258 8| inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. 3259 36| and manly (a base and a tenor; no treble); and the ditty 3260 34| appeared to M. Brutus, in his tent, said to him, Philippis 3261 26| height, as they two were termed, and reckoned, as a pair 3262 44| wall, but enclosed with terraces, leaded aloft, and fairly 3263 15| hoc ipso hujus gentis et terrae domestico nativoque sensu 3264 19| non inveniet fidem super terram is meant, of the nature 3265 2| said, Pompa mortis magis terret, quam mors ipsa. Groans, 3266 34| novos~Detegat orbes; nec sit terris~Ultima Thule:~ ~a prophecy 3267 54| honorable wars enlarge their territories, or make noble defence against 3268 55| that that was meant for terror, be not turned into rigor; 3269 33| Tacitus saith of Seneca, testamenta et orbos tamquam indagine 3270 48| will be content to win a thank, or take a second reward, 3271 11| can be partaker of God’s theatre, he shall likewise be partaker 3272 10| Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus; as if man, made for 3273 16| minds of men. Therefore theism did never perturb states; 3274 31| certain common places, and themes, wherein they are good, 3275 28| Consilium Pompeii plane Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari 3276 54| Vespasianus, Aurelianus, Theodoricus, King Henry the Seventh 3277 52| cardinals of Rome, which are theologues, and friars, and Schoolmen, 3278 16| and intricate axioms, and theorems, to save the practice of 3279 26| Sylla did a little resent thereat, and began to speak great, 3280 | thereupon 3281 45| have none in it, but some thickets made only of sweet–briar 3282 45| set with fine flowers, but thin and sparingly, lest they 3283 34| which coveteth divination, thinks it no peril to foretell 3284 55| be gathered of thorns or thistles; either can justice yield 3285 18| the times of Anselmus, and Thomas Becket, Archbishops of Canterbury; 3286 55| will not be gathered of thorns or thistles; either can 3287 44| a double house, without thorough lights on the sides, that 3288 14| princes are girt from God; who threateneth the dissolving thereof; 3289 11| PLACE~Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the 3290 39| cannot do amiss, they will throw in, into his other conditions, 3291 22| wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged 3292 34| orbes; nec sit terris~Ultima Thule:~ ~a prophecy of the discovery 3293 2| Tacitus saith of him, Jam Tiberium vires et corpus, non dissimulatio, 3294 25| supercilio, crudelitatem tibi non placere. Some think 3295 14| there be other bands, that tie faster than the band of 3296 26| curarum; for it is that which tieth the knot. And we see plainly 3297 21| to say, This I do not; as Tigellinus did towards Burrhus, Se 3298 28| the defeat was easy. When Tigranes the Armenian, being encamped 3299 28| within those three kinds,–tillers of the ground; free servants; 3300 34| was slain upon a course at tilt, the splinters of the staff 3301 34| the tradition in Plato’s Timaeus, and his Atlanticus, it 3302 14| feeling. Dolendi modus, timendi non item. Besides, in great 3303 39| poets; as Plutarch saith of Timoleon’s fortune, in respect of 3304 12| purpose in their gardens, as Timon had. Such dispositions, 3305 27| often; for new are more timorous and less subtle. He that 3306 39| infortunate. It is written that Timotheus the Athenian, after he had, 3307 26| pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no 3308 34| et ingens~Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos~Detegat orbes; nec 3309 28| without doubt, Pompey had tired out Caesar, if upon vain 3310 40| God’s part, which is the tithe. That the usurer is the 3311 32| as it hath fared with tobacco in Virginia. Wood commonly 3312 3| the iron and clay, in the toes of Nebuchadnezzar’s image; 3313 3| hear you speak with several tongues, will he not say that you 3314 44| upon. In the upper gallery tool I wish that there may be, 3315 40| reconciled. The one, that the tooth of usury be grinded, that 3316 35| of any subject that over–tops; as Tiberius used Marco, 3317 26| closeness was indeed his tormentor. The parable of Pythagoras 3318 2| finger’s end pressed, or tortured, and thereby imagine, what 3319 26| discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; 3320 18| being increased, but the total bulk of trading, rather 3321 36| and neat.~For justs, and tourneys, and barriers; the glories 3322 18| a young prince of rare towardness, by Constantinus the Great, 3323 44| buildings themselves. But those towers, are not to be of the height 3324 11| require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting 3325 6| of a man’s self, by the tracts of his countenance, is a 3326 18| increased, but the total bulk of trading, rather decreased.~For their 3327 34| and adding thereto the tradition in Plato’s Timaeus, and 3328 9| gotten once into a state, it traduceth even the best actions thereof, 3329 34| Roman empire. Seneca the tragedian hath these verses:~—Venient 3330 36| and the ditty high and tragical; not nice or dainty. Several 3331 17| of horsemanship, fencing, training of soldiers, and the like; 3332 18| pretorian bands of Rome; but trainings of men, and arming them 3333 Glo| Tendering: nursing~Tract: line, trait~Travel: travail, labor~Treaties: 3334 50| for a new purchase. The traitor in faction, lightly goeth 3335 26| these princes had been as a Trajan, or a Marcus Aurelius, a 3336 5| done better in poesy, where transcendences are more allowed. And the 3337 11| good; for such a man will transgress for a piece of bread. It 3338 8| which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges. Some 3339 21| have secret hearts, and transparent countenances. Yet this would 3340 10| not one, that hath been transported to the mad degree of love: 3341 12| men’s minds, and not their trash. But above all if he have 3342 17| countries, where he hath travelled, altogether behind him; 3343 17| their own quarrels. When a traveller returneth home, let him 3344 17| of ambassadors: for so in travelling in one country, he shall 3345 9| joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less 3346 45| pleasure when you walk or tread.~For gardens (speaking of 3347 3| in France, or the powder treason of England? He would have 3348 22| the case of bad officers, treasurers, ambassadors, generals, 3349 17| sort of persons do resort; treasuries of jewels and robes; cabinets 3350 28| the general; riches to the treasury out of the spoils; and donatives 3351 Glo| travail, labor~Treaties: treatises~Trench to: touch~Trivial: 3352 36| a base and a tenor; no treble); and the ditty high and 3353 16| prelates in the Council of Trent, where the doctrine of the 3354 14| there useth to be more trepidation in court upon the first 3355 19| come in multitudes, or in a tribunitious manner; for that is to clamor 3356 4| come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves, that labor 3357 42| Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one, would 3358 32| only entertain them, with trifles and gingles, but use them 3359 28| achieved by subjects, some triumphal garments and ensigns to 3360 9| either by outward pomp, or by triumphing over all opposition or competition; 3361 18| to hinder it. During that triumvirate of kings, King Henry the 3362 28| sinews of war (as it is trivially said), where the sinews 3363 45| by as the rest, but being trodden upon and crushed, are three; 3364 28| But in ancient times, the trophies erected upon the place of 3365 6| Spaniard, Tell a lie and find a troth. As if there were no way 3366 10| check once with business, it troubleth men’s fortunes, and maketh 3367 14| sort, do but wait for the troubling of the waters amongst the 3368 44| the wind gathereth as in troughs; so as you shall have, and 3369 50| of moderation, but of a trueness to a man’s self, with end 3370 30| have their own ends, and be truer to themselves, than to them? 3371 2| their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers. Nay, 3372 53| greatness, these men are good trumpeters. Again, as Titus Livius 3373 47| who make themselves as trumpets of the commendation of those 3374 28| to be procured, that the trunk of Nebuchadnezzar’s tree 3375 33| be well chosen, that are trusted. Usury is the certainest 3376 38| favored instance), there is no trusting to the force of nature, 3377 19| and especially true and trusty to the king’s ends; as it 3378 34| Tiberius said to Galba, Tu quoque, Galba, degustabis 3379 45| fruit–trees; and some pretty tufts of fruit–trees; and arbors 3380 40| which was, in sudore vultus tui comedes panem tuum; not, 3381 41| youth well, but not age: so Tully saith of Hortensius, Idem 3382 33| and the like), they come tumbling upon a man. But it mought 3383 14| it right, that seditious tumults, and seditious fames, differ 3384 14| Ille etiam caecos instare tumultus~Saepe monet, fraudesque 3385 55| overspeaking judge is no well–tuned cymbal. It is no grace to 3386 14| monet, fraudesque et operta tunescere bella.~ ~Libels and licentious 3387 44| it, will come up as in a tunnel. And so much for the front. 3388 55| fountain. So with Solomon, Fons turbatus, et vena corrupta, est justus 3389 23| retention of custom, is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; 3390 45| largeness as they may be turfed, and have living plants 3391 36| examples of known attires; Turke, soldiers, mariners, and 3392 32| swine, goats, cocks, hens, turkeys, geese, house–doves, and 3393 Glo| Trivial: common~Turquet: Turkish dwarf~Under foot: below 3394 32| year; as parsnips, carrots, turnips, onions, radish, artichokes 3395 31| to leave other men, their turns to speak. Nay, if there 3396 Glo| to: touch~Trivial: common~Turquet: Turkish dwarf~Under foot: 3397 36| witches, Ethiops, pigmies, turquets, nymphs, rustics, Cupids, 3398 45| over every arch, a little turret, with a belly, enough to 3399 17| go. After all which, the tutors, or servants, ought to make 3400 45| double violet, which comes twice a year; about the middle 3401 30| birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are to be 3402 26| Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really, in 3403 12| in prey to those that are tyrannical and unjust. Which he spake, 3404 54| servitude of strangers or tyrants; as Augustus Caesar, Vespasianus, 3405 28| Terra potens armis atque ubere glebae.~ ~Neither is that 3406 43| ventureth in the other. Ubi peccat in uno, periclitatur 3407 14| inwards, endangereth malign ulcers, and pernicious imposthumations.~ 3408 8| husbands, as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit 3409 15| ad religione, atque hac una sapientia, quod deorum immortalium 3410 26| you complain of, but is unacquainted with your body; and therefore 3411 51| which is to be natural and unaffected. Some men’s behavior is 3412 46| in trust, in passion, at unawares, and of necessity, when 3413 16| unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; 3414 5| Hercules, when he went to unbind Prometheus (by whom human 3415 32| further. It is a shameful and unblessed thing, to take the scum 3416 32| the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters 3417 40| certainties, and others at uncertainties, at the end of the game, 3418 7| sometimes resembleth an uncle, or a kinsman, more than 3419 6| say truth) nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body; 3420 55| and ministers of justice underneath them, and to the sovereign 3421 32| too many counsellors, and undertakers, in the country that planteth, 3422 9| some persons of violent and undertaking natures, who, so they may 3423 38| nature, or his resolute undertakings; but take such an one, as 3424 39| prospered in anything, he undertook afterwards. Certainly there 3425 54| show of it; so as they be undervalued in opinion. If a man perform 3426 28| nor on the other side, by undervaluing them, they descend to fearful 3427 28| you shall never have clean underwood, but shrubs and bushes. 3428 14| his dictatorship. Galba undid himself by that speech, 3429 14| boat, that is overthrown by uneven weight on the one side; 3430 21| use.~A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times 3431 19| Thirdly, the danger of being unfaithfully counselled, and more for 3432 24| fomentation to make the unguent enter.~Above all things, 3433 52| saith) nomen bonum instar unguenti fragrantis. It filleth all 3434 44| of the front; and to be uniform without, though severally 3435 3| also two false peaces, or unities: the one, when the peace 3436 15| Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. 3437 | unless 3438 23| otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlooked for; and ever it mends some, 3439 9| increaseth envy more, than an unnecessary and ambitious engrossing 3440 43| the other. Ubi peccat in uno, periclitatur in altero. 3441 4| as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) 3442 15| small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced this 3443 Glo| miniature~Absurd: stupid, unpolished~Abuse: cheat, deceive~Aculeate: 3444 19| neither are those counsels unprosperous; for, besides the secrecy, 3445 20| extreme. The ripeness, or unripeness, of the occasion (as we 3446 26| counsel given, hurtful and unsafe (though with good meaning), 3447 24| is to save time; and an unseasonable motion, is but beating the 3448 19| princes beware, that the unsecreting of their affairs, comes 3449 33| scriveners and brokers do value unsound men, to serve their own 3450 24| backward and forward in an unsteady manner. I knew a wise man 3451 | until 3452 Glo| foot: below value~Unready: untrained~Usury: interest~Value: certify~ 3453 26| have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than 3454 50| and make the king tanquam unus ex nobis; as was to be seen 3455 9| are raised. For it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, 3456 55| obtaineth not; for that upholds in the client, the reputation 3457 38| upon human nature, resteth uponsocieties well ordained and disciplined. 3458 44| use (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of 3459 32| yet build still rather upwards from the streams, than along. 3460 23| except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; 3461 28| though they have not had that usage, to naturalize liberally, 3462 40| few have spoken of usury usefully. It is good to set before 3463 9| more, as it is likewise usual in infections; which if 3464 14| before the Civil War,~Hinc usura vorax, rapidumque in tempore 3465 40| sudore vultus alieni. That usurers should have orange–tawny 3466 55| lex bona est, modo quis ea utatur legitime.~ ~ 3467 31| puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris.~ ~And generally, 3468 Glo| Wood: maze~Work: manage, utilize~ 3469 40| opinion must be sent to Utopia.~To speak now of the reformation, 3470 12| proverb, Tanto buon che val niente: so good, that he 3471 55| prepare his way, by raising valleys and taking down hills: so 3472 28| to error, than the right valuation and true judgment concerning 3473 1| flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, 3474 14| as it is true, that every vapor or fume doth not turn into 3475 3| whereupon he saith, In veste varietas sit, scissura non sit; they 3476 45| come gilliflowers of all varieties; musk–roses; the lime–tree 3477 53| in themselves; like unto varnish, that makes ceilings not 3478 44| such huge buildings as the Vatican and Escurial and some others 3479 26| that height, that Pompey vaunted himself for Sylla’s overmatch. 3480 14| the manufacture; and the vecture, or carriage. So that if 3481 9| and envy. They both have vehement wishes; they frame themselves 3482 18| plerumque regum voluntates vehementes, et inter se contrariae. 3483 16| Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for, 3484 6| degrees of this hiding and veiling of a man’s self. The first, 3485 11| qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere. Nay, retire men 3486 2| quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis aut miser, 3487 14| facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur. But let 3488 14| regulating of prices of things vendible; the moderating of taxes 3489 26| Philippics, calleth him venefica, witch; as if he had enchanted 3490 18| times; and which have much veneration, but no rest. All precepts 3491 24| be of small dispatch; Mi venga la muerte de Spagna; Let 3492 34| tragedian hath these verses:~—Venient annis~Saecula seris, quibus 3493 35| and thereby malign and venomous. So ambitious men, if they 3494 40| because many will rather venture in that kind, than take 3495 48| for he, that would have ventured at first to have lost the 3496 43| nature erreth in the one, she ventureth in the other. Ubi peccat 3497 45| perceived, that you may have ver perpetuum, as the place 3498 6| a name of certainty and veracity; but then they were like 3499 26| letter which is recited verbatim in one of Cicero’s Philippics, 3500 25| saith, Hominem delirum, qui verborum minutiis rerum frangit pondera. 3501 5| and the security of a God. Vere magnum habere fragilitatem