commaund dispose ceÌ„sure determine States Actions kingdoms warres ouerthrowes and all the Actes and Actours busied vpon our humane Theater To this mind to this cesterne of preciousnesse let vs attribute al not suffer the weight of our affections to disorder this goodly frame this clocke of Time and Reason O quam contemptares est Homo nisi supra humana se erexerit These licourous Humours and Affections are the out-offices of our mansion the respect ought to be giuen to the Director whose high erected scituatioÌ„ witnesseth his prerogatiue from the Rayes of this sun proceed all blessings Aduise is the medium transporting them our braines like a sense able to performe good offices if imployed Let vs receiue and vtter be capable and returne increase of this fruite What a precious sight is it to see a temperate young man how he shines Glory and admiration attends all his actions It is good in age because the contrary were abhominable but it is common their night being almost come they cannot but looke grauely and liue temperately as well to preserue them from paine as to eschue shame and reproch I thanke not Alexander for conquering the world but for performing it before thirtie yeare old Augustus commaunds admiration of mee for nothing so much as his beginning enterprises of high moment very young and yet with that youth reducing the whole world vnder his subiection I often heare olde men wish themselues young which though I allow not as being wishes of impossibilitie yet hoping their intent is to trace their course moderately to vnite the blessings of youth and iudgement I thinke it tollerable but we that are yet young need not wish youth for we possesse it but iudgement that may make vs worthy to possesse it then begin with Hearing next with following Aduise and Counsaile let vs beginne with our selues and marshall and dispose our owne course let vs determine it leaue nothing to vncertainties but drawing out our intents regularly follow that delineated and wayed maner Here liues Happinesse for here liues wisedome this musicke of two strings is the most delightful harmony for the world affords not a more admirable excellency then youth and iudgement included in one substance both partes showe their richest Treasure the Soule iudgment the Body youth let vs then infranchize Aduise and perswade our eares to become good common-wealths men to respect the generall profit Counsell and Aduise are the parents of Gouernment what can I reckon theÌ„ more worthy more safe more excellent in institutioÌ„ then Counsell and Aduise Essay 3. Of Patience ABout nothing doo I suffer greater conflict in my selfe then about induring wrongs for other duties though perhaps I seldom performe them yet I am resolued they should be done and it is not the fault of my meditation but of my negligent flesh but heere is set vp Reputation as the Garland appointed and he that reuengeth not is not capable of this glory Heere hath crueltie borrowed the apparel of wanton vanitie and makes foolish youth her Agent I know what Diuinitie what Philosophy perswades I knowe these wrong-doers to be wretched creatures rather in truth to bee pittied then maliced and yet for all this I dare not yeelde the cause there is too much safetie in following this Aduise the body by this preuents an aduenture therefore that respect makes mee obstinate I knowe againe this idle breath should not diuert mee from Vertue but hauing no present occasion wherein I may exercise valour manifest my worth I dare not take day in any thing so nearly concerning me But all this time I finde not my selfe angry but in truth somewhat subiect to vaine-glory which is a worse disease because lesse violent and therefore of more continuance I haue not yet any outward witnesse of my valour but this is my determination not to refuse the first good quarrell and to performe it as wel as I can after which I will serue Vertue beare and forbeare and this I will do in humilitie to please the world and to showe them I scorne not altogether their customes Now ariseth another question behold how subtil Vice is shee stealeth often to the bed of Vertue and puts in a changeling and makes Credulitie belieue because Vertue is a mother therfore this is her child vpon the receit of a wrong and an honest determination to forgiue I am whispered in the eare that this lenitie is iniustice that I nourish sinne with not cutting it vp when I see it growe that though I effect reuenge and reuenge could do no more yet it is not reuenge it is iustice pittifull abuse Anger is the â—other of Iniustice and yet Iuâ—tice must lackey on her Errandes â—ight battailes and giue her the victory I cannot reconcile these â—ogether but euen in the behalfe â—f Truth and mercy I wil combat â—gainst a receiued traditioÌ„ I think nothing but murther should bee â—unished for these pettie matters of theft and such trespasses they â—re the effect of need or wantonnesse venial faults Age commonâ—y reclaimeth the one and the other is punished by the setter Poâ—ertie for any thing lesse offensiue a coole reproofe no cholleâ—icke reuenge I haue seene some fall out vpon wrong vnderstanding presently â—ce hath chafed sworne stricken played the Bedlam and in the end iâ— hath bene proued no offence Was not his case lamentable Yes hee is bound more stricktly to Restitution then the sonne of an Vsurer It is an excellent temperate Vertue this Patience and punisheth more with noâ— punishing then the hastiest Executioner Though Enemye would be loth to bee hurt yet iâ— hurteth them to meete with a cold aduersary the reuenge not performed they liue in feare the terrour of which is without bloodie hands and yet most terrible If it were possible to play Fury to the life and yet not haue her effects inwardly I would be content vpon some great occasioÌ„ not to hurt but to scarre the iniurious but it is daungerous and that iesting often will discouer the intent and it is to be feared will weaken the braine as ill as drunkennesse The greatest vse that I see olde souldiers make of this conuersing with danger is an abilitie to suffer and in truth it is one of the best collections of Experience Patience is the mother of Opportunitie she prostituteth her self to them that nourish this her childe carefully when before Anger she goeth inuisible and hindereth them from what they most thirst after When in my reading I meete with a fellow that hath deserued much of his Countrey and hath bene paid with vngratefulnes and yet endures without alteration I honour him and in my estimation I preferre him before the mightiest Conquerors or most powerfull Princes ô he is wise hee knowes the passages of the world wel he serued his country for his countries sake and I thinke they haue rewarded him against their willes better then they could with their willes for in his other deserts hee was
shortnesse and the others eternitie life being but like a Prentises holy-day but more neere when we thinke of our knowledges which are here impotent and defectiue but are there complete and full all things appearing there vnmasked and the borrowed coulours and vaine apparitions of Affection beeing withdrawne those vnlimmtied and rich lights of the minde beholde euerie thing in the right proportion all the deformities and misdemeanors of the world are the children of affection which bindes vp our sight in darkenesse and leads vs blindfolded from hence Opinion which is the destinated censure of Affection as Iudgement is the Soules from hence proceedes the irresolution of our thoughts and our wauerings and changings from one thing to another for Affection likes his present satisfaction and iudgeth that best which if in Opinion bettered he changeth his sentence and so not able to penetrate into the depth of things is euery day ready for a new impression All that I haue heard all that I haue read all that by any meanes hath come to my knowledge performed well hath beene where Reason hath made Affection his seruant contrariwise destructions dishonours dangers haue beene inforced by the tyrannie of Pride Disdaine Hate Selfe-loue or some other of those Affections vnrestrained so can I fetch Calamitie from none other originall but this not happinesse but from the depriuation of this frailtie Euen that honest harmlesse Affection which possesseth Parents towards their children me thinkes whiles they are yet but lumpes of flesh and things without all merit should not be so ardent and vehement pitty and commiseration fits them better then Loue of which they are no way worthy for howsoeuer we abuse loue with casting it away vpon trifles yet it is the pretiousnesse of Loue appointed onely to attend deserts and to ioyne no peeces together that are not of this kinde but it is well that Nature hath cast the extremitie of this disease vpon mothers it becomes them not so ill to be fond as men besides these little ones being their charges Affection makes them more carefull and so it is for those first yeares neuer the worse for the childe whatsoeuer it is for the mother Iustice being for example and no more destroying a common-wealth then the husbandman the trees with executing the water boughes which he dooth as well in respect of their vnprofitablenesse as also to shew malefactors in a glasse their owne state while they beholde the guiltie vnder-going the seueritie of the lawe but yet the creatures bound to profit others with their owne destruction should bee picked out monsters whose natures might be seene incorrigible and those of whom mercy may coniecture amendment to be spared thus in the ambiguitie of things which doubt will not haue resolued mercy may haue a hand Thus commiseration and a charitable eye to the distrested all which though they leaue more to affection then to the strictnesse of iustice yet must we so farre tolerate them for so God lookes vpon vs and so should we vpon our bretheren being all borne lame which fault of ours if it were punished with death none should liue yet I go not with Montangnia who in his Essay of Crueltie bribes wit to take part with commiseration so extreamly and so womanish as not to indure the death of Birdes and Beasts alas this gentlenesse of nature is a plaine weaknesse wee may safely see the deaths of these yea of men without motion it belongs to vs to looke into the cause of their deaths not into the manner onely but fetching it from the desert wee shall see plainely it is not the Iudge nor the executionner that committes this abhorred spectacle but them-selues them-selues doe execution vppon them-selues Might there bee that vnspeakable blessing giuen to the imprisoned soule that she might here view things in sincere trueth how would vice and sinne flie light when vnmasked light might discouer their deformities how profoundly should we be able to censure things how would we scorne lawes and compulsion when the most ragged-vnderstanding should flye farre aboue them Lastly all the enemies of wealth and pouerty should be banished for we should not know want and so should want them and the laborious life of Studye should end whose trauels ayme at no other end but an ability to knowe euery thing in his propper kinde this is not because Affection is who dayly ouercomes reason not by strength but flattery and sometimes makes the weapons of Reason treacherously turne head vpon Reason with corrupting his taste and making him fortifie pleasure with arguments I would be glad to looke vpon my brother with the same eye that I behould a stranger and may the strangers worthe excell his I would preferre him He is deceiued that thinkes vertue respects bloud and aliaunces she is not so bodely hauing commerce with vs whiles we haue bodyes not because we hauing bodyes should loue our bodyes but because we should with the ordering and subiecting them win her It is Affection that hath skil of colours and hath set vp the estimation of White and Red. I verely beleeue Vertue was neuer Paynter nor Armorist all those choyses and allowances that come from tall and fatte or slender and well bodied are all Affections choise the minde sees the minde and giues the body leaue to looke how it will for she loues the abilities and graces of the mind whose neuer fading beauties makes their imbracements blessed Here is the choise of all things made sure thus friends are to bee entertained whose perfection may be better discoursed of then it is possible to finde it actually the reason because Affection beares so great sway our causes of combination being commonly more beholding to Affection then Reason which makes vs so often complaine of the vnstablenesse of friends friendships incōstancie No other are those leauges which looke into the fortune rather then vertue of friends that cunningly make Loue the broker to supply their wants how can these hould since the hould of their hould blinde Dame Fortune is brittle and flitting But amongst all I finde no body hath so iust cause to complaine of this as Iustice which being the very soule and life of gouernment is oft time compelled to help the lightest scoale with her finger whiles Partialities burden makes the other heauie I can pittie the distresse of no vertue so much as this since no vertue carryes with her a greater maiestie and in that maiestie knowledge the life of life the ioy of man his surest euidence of participating with the deuine nature Surely were it not for the orderly working of this vertue we should make the world in a worse state thē the Chaos where was a confusion but it was innocent though deformed but now it would be turned into a guilty deformity the picture of which though not fully are those sick states that are continually letting blood where the sweet wisdom of laws are turned into those doubtful arbitrators blowes and where Iustice
daungerous by knowledge thou knowest it is dangerous and knowledge will teache thee to intertaine it with resistance or patience how so euer she giueth thee the victorie for patience is inuincible conquering when resistance is conquered he is not ouercome whose discourse resolution can say with Vlisses Hoc quoque câ—r perfer namque hoc grauiora tulistâ— As in this so in all things knowledge like the sunne kills feare and darkenesse makes the foundation where she is the sement not to be shaken nor stirred by the stormes of the worlde As his sight is cleere so are his steppes right no apparition nor colour distractes him neither with ioye nor sorrowe that childe of the Phancie appetite in beasts it is called appetite but in maÌ„ it is termed his wil a word of command which authoritie is giuen him for knowledges sake who knowes what to will for otherwise did he appetite without knowledges couÌ„sell it should be appetite in men as wel as in beasts What should man will theÌ„ but knowledge by this wil is made pretious when he goeth from this he goeth to beasts it is appetite from whom pull but the paintings of the worlde and it is like a tyrants pompe Detrahit is qui superbis Vani tegmina cultus I am videbit intus arctas Dominos ferre catenas How admirable is this vertue which gouernes here so wisely as no shot nor tempest of the world can batter her how lasting is this vertue so embalming our actions as time cannot ruine them sloath sensualitie are drownd in a few yeares but knowledge her effects are immortall In historie and other relations euery head can determine of vertue and vice let our heads make vs do this for our selues let vs impartially see how often times we haue stumbled for want of this light if we come to this sight we shall come to more for this examination is the way of light without this Homo homini dominus non est sed mors vita voluptas dolor but with this with Socrates Me quidem Anitus Melitus occidere possunt laedere non possunt Fortune the world or all that is in the world with this armour is vanquished for knowledge saith of Fortune Fortuna vitrea est quae cum splendet frangitur of the world Homines perturbantur non rebus sedijs quas de rebus habent opinionibus It is not opinion that is in knowledge but iudgemeÌ„t who waieth euery thing with the ballance of Iustice and discretion what more caÌ„ be said but that she is so pretious as hauing her thou wantest nothing in a body thou liuest but in a minde thou ioyest and death doth no more to thee but make thy alreadie obtained sight more cleare with seperating of mortalitie froÌ„ eternitie The world is sweetned by thy example fame makes thy memory resouÌ„d ouer the whole worlde and thy name liues in spight of time or detraction Essay 37. Of Iudgement AMongst the rest of the fruitefull children of Knowledge Iudgement me thinks is her deerest issue for they are inseperable they resemble one another so neerly as hardly can a distinction get betweene them if betweene them it is onely in their place for knowledge goeth before iudgement The perfection or blessednesse of knowledge is this her childe it is the rewarde of her trauailes it is the triumphe of her victories she saith Et summa sequar fastigia rerum And iudgement answers her thou shalt determine rightly of euery thing The most resplendent ornament of man is Iudgement here is the perfection of his innate reason here is the vttermost power of reason ioynde with knowledge here is experiences haruest for the excelleÌ„t vnion of reason of knowledge experiences ends his knitting vp with the excellentest perfection of man Iudgement what giue we wisedome what giue we the scarres and battailes of age but Iudgement what hath the most excellent men to prooue their excellencie but the title of Iudiciall what is wisdomes other name but Iudgement for Iudgement is wisdome who able with the wings of reason to mouÌ„t his soule into the pitch of this meditation and is not couetous of his time and repines not that nature hath made him so weake as to satisfie her weakenesse he must often be carryed from his quest but who alienates his minde with the houlding other things more precious how doth hee drowne himselfe in perils and dangers If the very name inamours thee not what wouldest thou haue that she yeeldes not honour wealth happinesse dominion why all these are in her what can merite honour but iudgement wealth thou desirest but for neede but hauing iudgement thou needest not wealth happinesse is iudgements for she neuer knewe misfortune hauing her thou hast dominion ouer the worlde for Kings commaund but bodyes but the minds of all that are not iudiciall shall be thy subiects and lic prostraite before thee but these with Iudgement are but like the puppets of children or pictures liuelesse for they are broken with the least blast of the world if not by time but no time ouerthrowes iudgement she meditates of eternitie and hath already put her possessor in possession of eternitie Though she meddles with the world as being of the world yet so safely as she cleaues not to it nor is not astonished to leaue it Good Archimedes me thinkes I see thy calmenesse and contentment in the middest of the ruines and bloud of Syracuse so busie about knowledge as not hearing the clamours and noyses not labouring for feare but for knowledge and iudgment and when he was interrupted by his murtherers he asked not life of them but a little time to finish his intendment what a tranquillitie of minde was heere how gloriously did he looke through danger and death It is not pompe nor shining roabes that giues grace to the body no it is the minde that is in the body who houlds the preciousnesse of iudgement and whose preciousnesse tels him death tortures and the enmitie of Fortune are not blemishes but graces to him Who will haue to do with the world must take as well the stormes as sunne shines of the world Quid tibi formosa si non nisi casta placebaâ— She is vnchast and inconstant and in the end of all thy labours thou shalt be forgotten and despised it is dangerous to be too skilfull in the matters of the world witnesse the Athenian Ostrocisme where to be higher then the rest in vertue was expulsion witnesse all times all states where the noblest haue begun with praises and ended which disgrace banishment comest thou to the toppe of promotion and dyest thou there what is thy gaine the ages after takes no knowledge of thy ritches and magnificence but of thy vertues not of thy rewardes but deserts Vbi nunc fidelis ossa Eabritii manent he attaind to places hie his fame was great yet his temperance in refusing Pyrrhus gift is his best and most lasting sute had
not Cato dyed in the defence of his country and common wealth his fame had dyed with his body thus are the actions of the worlde full of dangers without iudgement of destruction But come to the managing of a state with iudgement thou canst not be throwne what though thou seest examples of ingratitude of dangers of death these in iudgement thou seest rather terrours then dangers thy end is to doe good and these letter resisted innobles thy intendement my country gaue me life it is my duety to giue it her againe but what is life in respect of vertue alas too meane a purchase I haue a soule whose perfection rests in resisting the childish opinions of the body and that soule knowes it is ignominious to deny a publike good for a priuate perill no vertue comes to vs pleasingly but after come pleaseth it is vices baite to seeme sweet at the first tast the coÌ„tinuance is the vertue which shews her the child of eternity safenes entertaining pleasure demonstrates mortality dust It is not danger with iudgement what the world calles danger the losse of vertue not of life is vnhappines then for our country all our endeuours should bend not because honor and promotion goeth that way but because it is one of the lessons of vertue we must not looke after danger and corruption but after the purity of vertue had Caesar died when his conquestes and gouernement of the Gaules made his Countrye hould him a true seruant how much more cleere and shining had he left his memory then it is now with his perpetuall dictatorship what might haue beene vertue is now polluted with ambition and all those vertues that without this might haue beene called fortitude temperance liberallity and pacience are now not these but counterfaites of this he was not but seemed vertuous for vnspotted uertue calles none vertuous that haue any other end but her selfe howsoeuer the grosnesse of our sight vsed rather to colours then truth would perswade vertue to put one a more mixt body yet thus is vertue and thus she may be brought acquainted with our soules though our vile bodily composition cannot comprehend her none can tell but they that haue felt the many conflicts the soule indures with the body whose impurity not tasting the purities of vertue drawes the naturall well inclined parts of the minde into the vnnaturall naturall affections of the body In this Caesar questionlesse were more many graces had they not beene disgraced with conuerting the sweete abilities of his soule to the bodies gaine Bâ—â— thus a young experience may produce many examples where the abouÌ„dance of vertues reward ouerwaying men hath sunck them for the eyes tonge of the worst haue this inforced instinct though they do not well yet must they praise well doers and in the middest of thereill exalt vertue I thinke Caesar meant well to his common wealth so long as his common wealth was his maister but declined when their power declined to his will thus betweene too much and too little wauers the life of man no reward makes him desperate too much ambitious but iudgement swimmes betweene these and neuer touches any of these extremities she labours for vertue noâ— power she runnes without the stopâ— eyther of feare or couetousnes I wonder at this infection of greatnes that it can so blind vertue thinkes no further then death the reasons to ouerthrow tâ—is theft will shew them reasonlesse that affect it neither in number proportion nor quality can one equall thousands what reason is there then hee should be preferred before them there is iustice against it one cannot withstand thousands there is safety against it and could hee wante danger yet he that wantes not guiltinesse is neuer without the torments of feare and suspition Ne vitima quidem sortis homiâ—um conspiratione periculo caruit as hee is a man he wantes them not but beeing an ill man are they not increased and fame the roabe of greatnesse is it not ouer-throwne by this Yes who seeth not that the best priuate performance answeres not a meane publike a greate deale of petill and paines of a priuate souldier ranckes not in mens mouthes with a generalls but comming within shotte the least mannaged Duello carries not the grace of the hauing but beene at a skirmishe of small moment hee that dooth but for himselfe though hee doe well yet it is no woonder it may bee mentioned perhaps in a ballad neuer in an historie Fame is not so light as to saile with a small gale it must be a winde of force that mooues her sayles which neuer is so forcible as when a good action is good for all But Caesar robde the worlde brought all the proffits of his common-wealth to be his onely of which that it was in-iustice all sees that it was daungerous he felte and for fame the spirite of his actions are commended the disposing of them because not hurtfull vnto vs not exclaymde agaynst but aske Iudgement and surelye hee will condemne him for killing vertue which ambition if after death we behold them impartially who would not choose to be Camillus the sauer of his countrey rather then Caesar the destroyer of his countrie how warme and cherishing to the soule are actions like Camillus is what a sweetenesse comes from the ayre of such a meditation when the other feeles as much cruelty inwardly as he effects outwardly and byes a beautifull out side with the tortures of his hart That corrupt speach of Caesars vpon Scilla Scillam nesciuisse literas qui Dictaturam deposuerit Had Scilla out liued Caesar how well might he haue mocked his greedy body when in spite of it greatnesse it lay intangled and liuelesse in the Senate Scilla saw this and eschewed it Caesar marked his iudgement and found to late there was wisedome in moderating power But all this saues not greatnesse all are tempted many yeeld few hould out wee vse power commonly as meate not nourishing ourselues but surfetting to please our tast we ouerlaye our stomackes thus we abuse the preciousnesse of things that it needes no wonder though there be a frailty and weaknesse in what we are and haue for we pull it vpon them and vs with abusing all this is the oddes and preciousnesse of greatnesse ouer meaner fortunes that by their greatnesse they may doe more good vertue in lowe states lies buryed in high it standes a lost poore men may thinke well but ritch men both thinke and doe well here is all greatnesse hath no other circuit no other ought be his end for power is giuen him by the incomprehensible greatnesse compared to whome his is leste then nothing to no other ende that he hath then to support the weaknesse of mens fortunes and vnderstanding head to dispatch it not that he hath a body to consume is his desert power is not to do wrong but to punish doâ—ers of wrong and wealth I should holde a burthensome companion were
so excellent in some things which she hates either because they are not hers but fortunes and her wisdome and nature is to hie and excellent to mother that pedlers brattes or else they are rebells that in dispite of her authority and skill will breake out into the worlde and disgrace her cunning the same reasons ought to make states no lesse abhorre the monsters of states practizers of innouation which whether it comes from the humor of fame or from the more dangerous of surprising his countrye is to be with all diligence suppressed bad if they be not too bad customes beeing more then remedies producing innouations For in this troubles the honest minde stands amazed the seditions that haue long waited for such an opportunitie embrace it wounding the state in many places whiles her gouernors are either feeble through distraction or their forces bent another way by the commaundement of passion Oft time was the Romaine coâ—mon wealth sicke of these diseases fildom cured of any if salued of one with such a disauantage as the curious eye of sedition found by that how to molest her more dangerously euen as a-troubled title of land oft times brings forth more with pleading for the right and shewing the title So apprehensiue and so percing is the witte of man that spurred by his wil there is nothing too difficult that he dares not attempt and perhaps vanquish such a fury mooues his will with such subtiltie his reason wherefore since the will backes ill causes sometimes and that the reason is corrupted by the violence of the will there is no safetie through this intricate many turnings but the thred of vertue whose light is the onelye meanes to laye open these iuglers and workers by stealth To follow natures progressions a little further by this time hauing laide the foundation of her goodly building it is time to illustrate the effects of her excellence to arriue at some good end of her trauailes nay what is there but is the creature of her hand An excellent happinesse to equall which though it were a groundlesse ambition for vs to aspire to yet as like it as we come is a worthy desire we are well pleased in the attempting things but things of this rancke effected to haue preserued our countrie to haue giuen her good lawes to haue left her good examples are such things to behold possesseth vs with so ample and eternall ioyes as not the imagination the neerest neighbour to mortalitie to immortall state cannot thinke of more diuine ioyes then is here â—elte I wonder not at Licurgus wilfull exile respecting the occasion it was an vncertaine and dangerous state that he left his nephew compared with the fruition of those thoughts that accompanyed his banishment his constitutions and ordinances of the Laconian kingdome in my account farre ouer-valuing the possession Of the rest of natures workmanship though there be none but full of precious liquor and that there is yet more then a mortall imagination can graspe with that multitude I am confounded and dare goe no farther then to shut vp what hath passed my pen there rests but of her this then that I dare venture vpon the first how liberally she dealeth with the worlde in her effect how sparingly in laying open her causes well knoweth she the disposition of man who spurneth and dispiseth all those benifits that he vnderstands the reason of an excelleÌ„t lesson for souerainty to learne whose knowledge fetched from his gouernment rather then person nourisheth and vphouldes maiesty they beeing drawne into more beautifull colours that the eye seeing not the imagination performeth for her then those things that are the ordinary obiects of the eye and familiar to our sences The vphoulding this miraculous frame resteth in the hands of loue and neede which doe preserue all her creatures which two are the maine pillers vphoulding her building by loue her stocke is renewed Omnibus incuâ—iens blandum per pectora amorem Efficis vt cupidè generâ—ti By neede things disagreeing in nature are yet kept from proclayming wars against one another this need loue though by the effects they maye be parted by a distinction yet is all our loue needy and none that is not interested in our particular care how a state ought to apply this is euident by the whole world it is determined people cannot liue without gouernours there is their neede from his iustice and true execution of his place proceedes their loue thus from loue and neede proceedes the preseruation of societies It is all our states to neede and a mutuall supplying each others wants that makes vs compleat and full being otherwise lame defectiue this must perswade subiects willingly to contribute to the charge of the Prince and not looke only vpon their own charge but vpon his expences to defend them from innouations and troubles this doth nature more plainly teach in the sunnes drawing vp moisture from the earth which it doth not as needing them but to giue it againe to the earth more warme and more fatte then she receiued it in the same nature must we esteeme Princes impositions which returne vs them with a great increase and more riche in substance then they receiued them thus dooth Nature excellently vphold her world thus excellently shall these states stand that proceede so impartially and wiselie as to imitate her for Ratio est naturae imiratio Essay 39. Of Conceipt To the Lady Withipoll EVer your commaundements honourable Lady are conceited for by your commaundement I haue inquired of conceit which I finde so like yourselfe as to resemble it to your selfe were a true and quicke description but it is in you mixed with iudgment without which it often goes though it often goe with it That it goe without it makes it differ from you for you cannot go without iudgement but I must speake no more of you I must then speake of perfections whose want in the world makes imperfect iudgements determined commendations and due praises Poetrye or Flattery But either conceite is two sundry things or conceite is abused for to tuck to be stuffed with apish tricks to weare greene cut vpon Yellow and to be a very meriment to the eyes I haue heard termed conceite when they are no other but Tailour-like friskes of the sences which they haue seene allowed without asking eouncell euen of the common sence the ware-house common to beasts and to men But the worthies Conceite leaues postes betweene the sences and the fancie which speedily conuey inttelligence are as speedily answered It is a fruitfull land sowed reaped at an instant it is a quick workman which sendeth receiueth whatsoeuer is presented in a time It is in a word a fancie well disposed not onely to her owne faculty but to the abilities of both neighbors the coÌ„mon sence the memory Her power is doubly set a worke in words in deeds In these she differeth from Iudgement not in successe but ready