78                           OF ORE A T PLA CE.

table, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love
maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but
wanton love corrupteth and embasoth it.
 

XI.

OF GREAT PLACE.

Men in great place are thrice servants : sen^ants of
the sovereign or State, servants of fame, and servants
of business. So as they have no freedom, neither
in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their
times. It is a strange desire, to seek power and to
lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to
lose power over a man's self The rising unto place
is laborious ; and by pains men come to greater
pains, and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities
men come to dignities. The standing is slippery,
and the regress is either a downfall or at least an
eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : Citm non sis
qui fIter is, non esse cur velis vivere.    Nay, retire men