... _Subtilitas sine acrimonia_....
No power with the judge.... He will alter a thing but not mend....
He puts into patents and deeds words not of law but of common sense
and discourse.... Sociable save in profit.... He doth depopulate
mine office; otherwise called inclose.... I never knew any one of
so good a speech with a worse pen." ...
Then in a marginal note--"Solemn goose. Stately, leastwise nodd (?)
crafty. They have made him believe that he is wondrous wise." And,
finally, he draws up a paper of counsels and rules for his own
conduct--"_Custumae aptae ad Individuum_"--which might supply an outline
for an essay on the arts of behaviour proper for a rising official, a
sequel to the biting irony of the essays on _Cunning_ and _Wisdom for a
Man's Self_.
"To furnish my L. of S. with ornaments for public speeches. To make
him think how he should be reverenced by a Lord Chancellor, if I
were; Princelike.
"To prepare him for matters to be handled in Council or before the
King aforehand, and to show him and yield him the fruits of my
care.
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