you infinit examples. The Pecocke though his faire tayle couer his fowle feete, yet it is not ſaide that he ſcrapeth in dunghill at all, but he is reputed the faireſt Fowle of two feete. The fleſhe of the Tortoiſe that is ſo good and holeſome for man is not readily ſolde, but rather lotheth many becauſe of his vglye light. If I doe but looke well into Princes Courtes, none go great thither, and thoſe that come to greatneſſe clime by diuers degrees. Who for vertue, another for ſtrength, and ſome (be it ſpoken with reuerence of thoſe beaſtes that haue vnderſlandinge) for malice: others by continuall ſeruice, and numbers by other meanes. He that riſeth thus in greatneſſe, and is noble and vertuous, it ſeemeth he goth into his proper naturall houſe: but he that commeth to that greatneſſe with malice, and fayned appearance, he may make iuſt account I ſay that they are but lent him.
¶ Yea marie nowe thou commeſt to vnderſtande me, therefore and thou be wiſe go not to the Court how ſoeuer thou doeſt. For if Fortune ſhould make thee great, whether it were by Arte, ſubtiltie, or deceit: the Lordes and Peeres that are fine and cunning, and knowe all the points of malice, would doe to thee, as a Judge of the beaſtes did to the Woolfe. And hearken howe.
