20                           OF EXPENSE.

note; to be ignorant of the value of a suit is
simplicity, as well as to be ignorant of the right
thereof is want of conscience; secrecy in suits is a
great mean of obtaining ; for voicing them to be in
forwardness may discourage some kind of suitors,
but doth quicken and awake others ; but timing of
suits IS the principal; timing, I say, not only in
respect of the person that should grant it, but in
respect of those which are like to cfoss it; nothing
is thought so easy a request to a great man as his
letter, and yet not in an ill cause, it is so much out of
his reputation.
 

VI.
 

OF EXPENSE.
 

Riches are for spending, and spending for honour
and good actions ; therefore, extraordinary expense
must be limited by the worth of the occasion ; for
voluntary undoing may be as well for a man's
country as for the kingdom of heaven; but ordinary