OF SUITORS.                               263

was wont to be magnified. That that Is, is between
superior and inferior, whose fortunes may com¬
prehend the one the other.
 

XLIX.
 

OF SUITORS.
 

Many ill matters and projects are undertaken ; and
private suits do putrefy the public good. Many
good matters are undertaken with bad minds; I
mean not only corrupt minds, but crafty minds, that
intend not performance. 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, or at least to make use, in
the meantime, of the suitor's hopes. Some take hold
of suits only for an occasion to cross some other ; or
to 'make an Information, Avhcreof they could not
otherwise   have   apt   pretext ;   without   care,   what