And this maketh the greater shew if it be done without order, for confusion maketh things muster more, and besides what is set downe by order and division, doth demonstrate that nothing is left out or omitted, but all is there; whereas if it be without order, both the minde comprehendeth lesse that which is set downe, and besides it leaveth a suspition, as if more might be sayde then is expressed.

This couler deceyveth, if the minde of him that is to be perswaded, do of it selfe over-conceive or preiudge of the greatnesse of any thing, for then the breaking of it will make it seeme lesse, because it maketh it appeare more according to the truth, and therefore if a man be in sicknes or payne, the time will seeme longer without a clocke or howre-glasse then with it, for the minde doth value every moment, and then the howre doth rather summe up the moments then devide the day. So in a dead playne, the way seemeth the longer, because the eye hath preconceyved it shorter then the truth: and the frustrating of that maketh it seeme longer then the truth. Therefore if any man have an overgreat opinion of any thing, then if an other thinke by breaking it into severall considerations, he shall make it seeme greater to him, he will be deceyved, and therefore in such cases it is not safe to devide, but to extoll the entire still in generall.

An other case wherein this couler deceyveth, is, when the matter broken or devided is not comprehended by the sence or minde at once in respect of the distracting or scattering of it, and

being intire and not devided, is comprehended, as a hundred pounds in heapes of five poundes will shewe more, then in one grosse heape, so as the heapes be all uppon one table to be seene at once, otherwise not, or flowers growing scattered in divers beds will shewe, more then if they did grow in one bed, so as all those beds be within a plot that they be obiect to view at once, otherwise not; and therefore men whose living lieth together in one Shire, are commonly counted greater landed then those whose livings are dispersed though it be more, because of the notice and comprehension.

A third case wherein this couler deceyveth, and it is not so properly a case or reprehension as it is a counter couler being in effect as large as the couler it selfe, and that is, Omnis compositio indigentiæ cuiusdam videtur esse particeps, because if one thing would serve the turne it were ever best, but the defect and imperfections of things hath brought in that help to piece them up as it is sayd, Martha Martha attendis ad plurima, unum sufficit. So likewise hereupon Aesope framed the Fable of the Fox and the Cat, whereas the Fox bragged what a number of shifts and devises he had to get from the houndes, and the Catte saide she had but one, which was to clime a tree, which in proofe was better worth then all the rest, whereof the proverbe grew,

Multa novit Vulpes sed Felis unum magnum.

And in the morall of this fable it comes likewise to passe: That a good sure friend is a better

helpe at a pinch, then all the stratagems and pollicies of a mans owne wit. So it falleth out to bee a common errour in negociating, whereas men have many reasons to induce or perswade, they strive commonly to utter and use them all at once, which weakeneth them. For it argueth as was said, a needines in every of the reasons by it selfe, as if one did not trust to any of them, but fled from one to another, helping himselfe onely with that.

Et quæ non prosunt singula, multa iuvant.

Indeed in a set speech in an assemblie it is expected a man shoulde use all his reasons in the case hee handleth, but in private perswasions it is alwayes a great errour.

A fourth case wherein this colour may bee reprehended is in respecte of that same vis unita fortior, according to the tale of the French King, that when the Emperours Amb. had recited his maysters stile at large which consisteth of many countries and dominions: the French King willed his Chauncellor or other minister to repeate and say over Fraunce as many times as the other had recited the severall dominions, intending it was equivalent with them all, & beside more compacted and united.

There is also appertayning to this couler an other point, why breaking of a thing doth helpe it, not by way of adding a shew of magnitude unto it, but a note of excellency and raritie; whereof the fourmes are, Where shall you finde such a concurrence? Great but not compleat, for it seemes a lesse worke of nature or fortune to

make any thing in his kinde greater then ordinarie, then to make a straunge composition.

Yet if it bee narrowly considered, this colour will bee reprehended or incountred by imputing to all excellencies in compositions a kind of povertie or at least a casualty or ieopardy, for from that which is excellent in greatnes somwhat may be taken, or there may be decay; and yet sufficiencie left, but from that which hath his price in composition if you take away any thing, or any part doe fayle all is disgraced.

6. Cuius privatio bona, malum, cuius privatio mala,

bonum.

HE formes to make it conceyved that that

are, He that is in hell thinkes there is no other heaven. Satis quercus, Acornes were good till bread was found, &c. And of the other side the formes to make it conceyved that that was good which was chaunged for the worse are, Bona magis carendo quàm fruendo sentimus, Bona à tergo formosissima, Good things never appear in their full beautie, till they turne their backe and be going away, &c. The reprehension of this colour is, that the good or evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively and not positively or simply. So that if the privation bee good, it follows not the former condition was evil, but lesse good, for the flower or blossome is a positive good, although the remove of it to give place to the fruite be a comparative good. So in the tale of sope;

when the olde fainting man in the heat of the day cast downe his burthen & called for death, & when death came to know his will with him, said it was for nothing but to helpe him uppe with his burthen agayne: it doth not follow that because death which was the privation of the burthen was ill, therefore the burthen was good. And in this parte the ordinarie forme of Malum necessarium aptly reprehendeth this colour, for Privatio mali necessarij est mala, and yet that doth not convert the nature of the necessarie evil, but it is evill.

Againe it commeth sometimes to passe, that there is an equalitie in the chaunge or privation, and as it were a Dilemma boni or a Dilemma mali, so that the corruption of the one good is a generation of the other,

Sorti pater æquus utrique est:

And contrarie the remedy of the one evill is the occasion and commencement of an other, as in Scilla and Charibdis.

7. Quod bono vicinum, bonum: quod a bono remotum malum.

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