They may have
some edging or trimming of a scholar, a welt or so; but it is no
more.
Impostorum fucus.--Imposture is a specious thing, yet never worse
than when it feigns to be best, and to none discovered sooner than
the simplest. For truth and goodness are plain and open; but
imposture is ever ashamed of the light.
Icunculorum motio.--A puppet-play must be shadowed and seen in the
dark; for draw the curtain, et sordet gesticulatio. {24b}
Principes et administri.--There is a great difference in the
understanding of some princes, as in the quality of their ministers
about them. Some would dress their masters in gold, pearl, and all
true jewels of majesty; others furnish them with feathers, bells,
and ribands, and are therefore esteemed the fitter servants. But
they are ever good men that must make good the times; if the men be
naught, the times will be such. Finis exspectandus est in unoquoque
hominum; animali ad mutationem promptissmo. {25a}
Scitum Hispanicum.--It is a quick saying with the Spaniards, Artes
inter haeredes non dividi. {25b} Yet these have inherited their
fathers' lying, and they brag of it.
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