224                                 OF USJRY.

Ccesarem portas, et fortunam ejus. So Sylla chose the
name of Felix, and not of Magnus. And it hath
been noted, that those that ascribe openly too much
to their own wisdom and policy, end unfortunate.
It is written, that Timotheus the Athenian, after he
had, in the account he gave to the State of his
government, often interlaced this speech ; and in this
fortune had no part; never prospered in anything he
undertook afterwards. Certainly, there be whose
fortunes are like Homer's verses, that have a slide
and easiness more than the verses of other poets ;
as Plutarch saith of Timoleon's fortune, in respect
of that of Agesilaus, or Epaminondas; and that
this should be, no doubt it is much in a man's self.
 

XLL
 

OF USURY.
 

Many have made  witty invectives   against usury.
They say that it is pity the devil  should have God's