Sycophanta is such a dissembler, traitor, and backbiter that would
earn a grey coat. This sin is nearer allied to the devil than to
mankind. Gnatho acts his part in the comedies, but Sycophanta in
the tragedies. Phormio, in Terence, is a very honest person,
nothing, or very little, stained with the other two vices.

Cacoethes is a wicked villain, that wittingly and wilfully prepareth
mischief.


Of the Wealth and Treasure of the World.

The Fuggars {2} of Augsburg, on a sudden, said Luther, are able to
levy one hundred tons of gold (one ton of gold is one hundred
thousand rix dollars, making, in English money, two-and-twenty
thousand pounds sterling, and more), which neither the Emperor nor
King of Spain is able to perform. One of the Fuggars, after his
death, left eighty tons of gold. The Fuggars and the money-changers
in Augsburg lent the Emperor at one time eight-and-twenty tons of
gold for the maintaining of his wars before Padua.

The Cardinal of Brixen, who died at Rome very rich, left no great
sum of ready money behind him, but only there was found in his
sleeve a little note of a finger's length. This note was brought to
Pope Julius, who presently imagined it was a note of money, and
therefore sent for the Fuggars' factor that was then at Rome, and
asked him if he knew that writing. The factor said, "Yea, it was
the debt which the Fuggars did owe to that Cardinal, which was the
sum of forty hundred thousand rix dollars." The Pope asked him how