TIMBER;
OR,
DISCOVERIES MADE UPON MEN AND MATTER,
AS THEY HAVE FLOWED OUT OF HIS DAILY READINGS,
OR HAD THEIR REFLUX TO HIS PECULIAR
NOTION OF THE TIMES.

Tecum habita, ut noris quam sit tibi curta supellex {11}
PERS. Sat. 4.



Fortuna.--Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune
deceived not. I therefore have counselled my friends never to trust
to her fairer side, though she seemed to make peace with them; but
to place all things she gave them, so as she might ask them again
without their trouble, she might take them from them, not pull them:
to keep always a distance between her and themselves. He knows not
his own strength that hath not met adversity. Heaven prepares good
men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man. Contraries
are not mixed. Yet that which happens to any man may to every man.
But it is in his reason, what he accounts it and will make it.

Casus.--Change into extremity is very frequent and easy. As when a
beggar suddenly grows rich, he commonly becomes a prodigal; for, to
obscure his former obscurity, he puts on riot and excess.