settled in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding,
there to obtain the tincture of reason. We labour with it more than
truth. There is much more holds us than presseth us. An ill fact
is one thing, an ill fortune is another; yet both oftentimes sway us
alike, by the error of our thinking.

Impostura.--Many men believe not themselves what they would persuade
others; and less do the things which they would impose on others;
but least of all know what they themselves most confidently boast.
Only they set the sign of the cross over their outer doors, and
sacrifice to their gut and their groin in their inner closets.

Jactura vitae.--What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the
better part of life in! in scattering compliments, tendering visits,
gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a
little winter-love in a dark corner.

Hypocrita.--Puritanus Hypocrita est Haereticus, quem opinio propriae
perspicaciae, qua sibi videtur, cum paucis in Ecclesia dogmatibus
errores quosdam animadvertisse, de statu mentis deturbavit: unde
sacro furore percitus, phrenetice pugnat contra magistratus, sic
ratus obedientiam praestare Deo. {14}

Mutua auxilia.--Learning needs rest: sovereignty gives it.
Sovereignty needs counsel: learning affords it. There is such a
consociation of offices between the prince and whom his favour
breeds, that they may help to sustain his power as he their
knowledge. It is the greatest part of his liberality, his favour;
and from whom doth he hear discipline more willingly, or the arts
discoursed more gladly, than from those whom his own bounty and