3945. Et omnes fama per urbes garrula laudet.
3946. Sen. Her. fur.
3947. Hor. “I live like a king without any of these acquisitions.”
3948. “But all my labour was unprofitable;
for while death took off some of
my friends, to
others I remain unknown, or little liked, and these
deceive me with
false promises. Whilst I am canvassing one party,
captivating another,
making myself known to a third, my age
increases, years
glide away, I am put off, and now tired of the
world, and surfeited
with human worthlessness. I rest content.”
3949. The right honourable Lady Francis Countess
Dowager of Exeter. The
Lord Berkley.
3950. Distichon ejus in militem Christianum e
Graeco. Engraven on the tomb
of Fr. Puccius
the Florentine in Rome. Chytreus in deliciis.
3951. Paederatus in 300 Lacedaemoniorum numerum
non electus risit,
gratulari se dicens
civitatem habere 300 cives se meliores.
3952. Kissing goes by favour.
3953. Aeneas Syl. de miser. curial. Dantur
honores in curiis non secundum
honores et virtutes,
sed ut quisque ditior est atque potentior, eo
magis honoratur.
3954. Sesellius lib. 2. de repub. Gallorum.
Favore apud nos et gratia
plerumque res
agitur; et qui commodum aliquem nacti sunt
intercessorem,
aditum fere habent ad omnes praefecturas.
3955. “Slaves govern; asses are decked
with trappings; horses are deprived
of them.”
3956. Imperitus periti munus occupat, et sic
apud vulgus habetur. Ille
profitetur mille
coronatus, cum nec decem mercatur; alius e diverso
mille dignus,
vix decem consequi potest.
3957. Epist. dedict. disput. Zeubbeo Bondemontio, et Cosmo Rucelaio.
3958. Quum is qui regnat, et regnandi sit imperitus.
3959. Lib. 22. hist.
3960. Ministri locupletiores sunt iis quibus ministratur.
3961. Hor. lib. 2. Sat. 5. “Learn how to grow rich.”
3962. Solomon Eccles. ix. 11.
3963. Sat. Menip.
3964. “O wretched virtue! you are therefore
nothing but words, and I have
all this time
been looking upon you as a reality, while you are
yourself the slave
of fortune.”
3965. Tale quid est apud Valent. Andream Apolog. manip. 5. apol. 39.
3966. Stella Fomahant immortalitatem dabit.
3967. Lib. de lib. propiis.
3968. Hor. “The muse forbids the praiseworthy man to die.”
3969. Qui induit thoracem aut galeam, &c.
3970. Lib. 4. de guber. Dei. Quid est
dignitas indigno nisi circulus aureus
in naribus suis.
3971. In Lysandro.
3972. Ovid. Met.
3973. Magistratus virum indicat.
3974. Ideo boni viri aliquando gratiam non accipiunt,
ne in superbiam
eleventur venositate
jactantiae, ne altitudo muneris neglentiores
efficiat.


