ing of Constantinople, and other Towns, as their Manner is. Themistocles, made Zerxes, king of Persia poast apace out of Græcia, by giving out, that the Græcians, had a purpose, to break his Bridge, of Ships, which he had made athwart Hellespont. There be a thousand such like Examples; And the more they are, the lesse, they need to be repeated; Because a Man, meeteth with them, every where: Therefore, let all Wise Governers, have as great a watch, and care, over Fames, as they have, of the Actions, and Designes themselves, The rest was not Finished. R I. Cui ceteræ partes vel secta secundas unanimiter deferunt, cum singulæ principatum sibi vindicent melior reliquis videtur. Nam primas quæque ex zelo videtur sumere; secundas autem ex vero tribuere. Cuius excellentia vel exuperantia melior id toto genere melius. 2. 3. Quod ad veritatem refertur maius est quàm quod ad opinionem. Modus autem, & probatio eius quod ad opinionem pertinet hæc est. Quod quis si clam putaret fore facturus non esset. 4. Quod rem integram servat bonum quod sine receptu est malum. Nam se recipere non posse impotentiæ genus est, potentia autem bonum. 5. Quod ex pluribus constat, & divisibilius est maius quàm quod ex paucioribus & magis unum: nam omnia per partes considerata maiora videntur; quare & pluralitas partium magnitudinem præ se fert, fortius autem operatur pluralitas partium si ordo absit, nam inducit similitudinem infiniti, & impedit comprehensionem. 6. Cuius privatio bona, malum, cuius privatio mala bonum. 7. Quod bono vicinum, bonum, quod a bono remotum malum. 8. Quod quis culpa sua contraxit, maius malum, quod ab externis imponitur minus malum. 9. Quod opera, & virtute nostra partum est, maius bonum, quod ab alieno beneficio, vel ab indulgentia fortunæ delatum est, minus bonum. 10. Gradus privationis maior videtur quàm gradus diminutionis, & rursus gradus inceptionis maior videtur quàm gradus incrementi. Ν IN deliberatives the point is what is good and what is evill, and of good what is greater, and of evill what is the lesse. So that the perswaders labor is to make things appeare good or evill, and that in higher or lower degree, which as it may be perfourmed by true and solide reasons, so it may be represented also by coulers, popularities and circumstances, which are of such force, as they sway the ordinarie iudgement either of a weake man, or of a wise man, not fully and considerately attending and pondering the matter. Besides their power to alter the nature of the subiect in appearance, and so to leade to error, they are of no lesse use to quicken and strengthen the opinions and perswasions which are true: for reasons plainely delivered, and alwaies after one manner especi ally with fine and fastidious mindes, enter but heavily and dully; whereas if they be varyed and have more life and vigor put into them by these |