If thou liue long, and art growne fatte, ſome blaſt of diſpleaſure may call thee to Coram. So art thou chopt vp, the lawe proceedeth on thee, and ſhortly all the fatte and greaſe thou haſt gotten before melteth into the Princes Cofers. Howbeit, I may tell it to thee (be it ſpoken without offence of beaſtes of vnderſtanding) there is good prouiſion made to the contrarie now adayes. For what ſo euer becometh of themſelues they make all ſure that they can: let the carkas go where it will, the fatte and greaſe they haue gathered is betimes diſpoſed to others for feare of that they looked for. And thus all thinges are preuented by polycie. I ſay no more. This is the worlde, and ſo it goeth. Keepe this in minde and harcken further.
If fortune fauour thee ſo that thy Maiſter make ſuch account of thee, as he commeth to aſke thy counſell in anye thing: doe not as many Counſellors doe, and thoſe that are in eſtimation with Princes: which thinking to pleaſe them, giueth them counſell according to the profite they finde for them, and according to the Princes paſſion, I maye not ſaye, will, and right. But bee thou bolde to ſay truely and vprightly, not looking in any bodies face. If thy Maiſter ſhoulde happen to frowne upon thee, and that he were angrie, in
