taken. Which shews, that the only decay or hurt of the best men's
reputation with the people is, their wits have out-lived the
people's palates. They have been too much or too long a feast.

Claritas patriae.--Greatness of name in the father oft-times helps
not forth, but overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another.
The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild
come more and oftener to be heir of the first, than doth the second:
he dies between; the possession is the third's.

Eloquentia.--Eloquence is a great and diverse thing: nor did she
yet ever favour any man so much as to become wholly his. He is
happy that can arrive to any degree of her grace. Yet there are who
prove themselves masters of her, and absolute lords; but I believe
they may mistake their evidence: for it is one thing to be eloquent
in the schools, or in the hall; another at the bar, or in the
pulpit. There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between
fencing and fighting. To make arguments in my study, and confute
them, is easy; where I answer myself, not an adversary. So I can
see whole volumes dispatched by the umbratical doctors on all sides:
but draw these forth into the just lists: let them appear sub dio,
and they are changed with the place, like bodies bred in the shade;
they cannot suffer the sun or a shower, nor bear the open air; they
scarce can find themselves, that they were wont to domineer so among
their auditors: but indeed I would no more choose a rhetorician for
reigning in a school, than I would a pilot for rowing in a pond.

Amor et odium.--Love that is ignorant, and hatred, have almost the
same ends: many foolish lovers wish the same to their friends,
which their enemies would: as to wish a friend banished, that they