, i8                               OF SUITORS.

portion. To be governed by one is not good, and
to be distracted by many is worse ; but to take
advice of friends is ever honourable ; for lookers on

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many times see more than gamesters, and the vale
best discovereth the hill. There is little friendship
in the world, and least of all between equals ; that
whjch is, is between superior and inferior, whose
.fortunes may comprehend the one the other. A
 

V.
 

OF SUITORS,
 

Many ill matters are undertaken, and many good
matters with ill minds ; some embrace suits which
never mean to deal effectually in them, but if they
see there may be life in the matter by some other
mean, they will be content to win a thank, or take a
second reward. Some take hold of suits only for an
occasion to cross some others, or to make an infor¬
mation, whereof they could not otherwise have apt
pretext,  without care  of what become of the suit