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Os Reputation^ and Carriage
«ttr minds are subjeft unto : for we learn not, to beg
to our selves admiration from ocher, or boastingly to
lay to view so rich and precious furniture ofour minds;
* fouc that we may be usefuil to others, but hid to our
sel es; least (as some pretious receit) while we keep
that in a box which can cure another, our selves lye
lame and diseased.
The fit st use then hereof ( I mean your learning, )
as an Antidote against the Common plague os our
times, let it confirm and perswade you, that as your
understanding is by it ennobled with the richest dow-
ry in the world, so hereby learn to know your own
worth and value, and in choice of your companions,
to entertain those who are Religious and learned : for
as I said heretofore, converse of old was the mother os
skill and all virtuous endeavours; so say I now, of all
vice and baseness, if regard be not had. Therefore
hold sriend (hip and acquaintance with few, and those
I could vvish your betters, at the 1 east of your own rank;
but endear your self to none; gattdebu winks
iolebis. The belt Natues I know delight in populari-
ty, and are pliable to company-keeping; but many
times buy their acquaintance at over dear a rate, by
being drawn either into base a&ions and Places, of
which they areashamed for ever after; or to needless
expence, by laying out or lending to importunate base
and fliameless companions, gaining loss of their mo-
nies, time, sorrow, and grief of friends; thedisrepute
©s the better sort; and lastiy contempt of the vilest a-
mong the Common vulgar.
Antiochus Epiphanes,King of Asia} for his populafi- AihenwsBb
ty and delight in company, was sir-named the Mad: <*P 4-
and likewise for the same, Appius Claudius was d epri- Diodorus lib,
vedoshis Office; and fearing, be side (ham e, the ha-
tred of the Senate, counterfeiting blindnefe, for ever
after kept himself ac home. We read also of a certain
Sing os the Getbes}v/ ho making his Souldiers his drink-
M m ins
«ttr minds are subjeft unto : for we learn not, to beg
to our selves admiration from ocher, or boastingly to
lay to view so rich and precious furniture ofour minds;
* fouc that we may be usefuil to others, but hid to our
sel es; least (as some pretious receit) while we keep
that in a box which can cure another, our selves lye
lame and diseased.
The fit st use then hereof ( I mean your learning, )
as an Antidote against the Common plague os our
times, let it confirm and perswade you, that as your
understanding is by it ennobled with the richest dow-
ry in the world, so hereby learn to know your own
worth and value, and in choice of your companions,
to entertain those who are Religious and learned : for
as I said heretofore, converse of old was the mother os
skill and all virtuous endeavours; so say I now, of all
vice and baseness, if regard be not had. Therefore
hold sriend (hip and acquaintance with few, and those
I could vvish your betters, at the 1 east of your own rank;
but endear your self to none; gattdebu winks
iolebis. The belt Natues I know delight in populari-
ty, and are pliable to company-keeping; but many
times buy their acquaintance at over dear a rate, by
being drawn either into base a&ions and Places, of
which they areashamed for ever after; or to needless
expence, by laying out or lending to importunate base
and fliameless companions, gaining loss of their mo-
nies, time, sorrow, and grief of friends; thedisrepute
©s the better sort; and lastiy contempt of the vilest a-
mong the Common vulgar.
Antiochus Epiphanes,King of Asia} for his populafi- AihenwsBb
ty and delight in company, was sir-named the Mad: <*P 4-
and likewise for the same, Appius Claudius was d epri- Diodorus lib,
vedoshis Office; and fearing, be side (ham e, the ha-
tred of the Senate, counterfeiting blindnefe, for ever
after kept himself ac home. We read also of a certain
Sing os the Getbes}v/ ho making his Souldiers his drink-
M m ins