264. Doctor Johnson said that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient and if any two of these joined, then they have the victory; for," Ne Her"cules quidem contra duos." If the physician and the patient join, then down goes the disease; for the patient recovers: if the physician and the disease join, then down goes the patient, that is where the physician mistakes the case; if the patient and the disease join, then down goes the physician, for he is discredited.

265. Alexander visited Diogenes in his tub, and when he asked him, what he would desire of him? Diogenes answered, "That you would stand a little aside, that the sun may come to me."

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266. Diogenes said of a young man that danced daintily, and was much commended, "The better, "the worse."

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267. Diogenes called

an ill musician, Cock. Why?" saith he. Diogenes answered; "Because when you crow, men use to rise."

268. Heraclitus the obscure said; "The dry light was the best soul: meaning, when the faculties intellectual are in vigour, not wet, nor, as it were, blooded by the affections.

269. There was in Oxford a cowardly fellow that was a very good archer; he was abused grossly by another, and moaned himself to Walter Raleigh, then a scholar, and asked his advice what he should do to repair the wrong had been offered him; Raleigh answered, "Why, challenge him at a match of "shooting."

270. Whitehead, a grave divine, was much esteemed by queen Elizabeth, but not preferred, because he was against the government of bishops; he was of a blunt stoical nature: he came one day to the queen, and the queen happened to say to him, "I like thee the better, Whitehead, because thou "livest unmarried." He answered again, " In troth, Madam, I like you the worse for the same cause."

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271. There was a nobleman that was lean of visage, but immediately after his marriage he grew pretty plump and fat. One said to him, "Your lordship doth contrary to other married men; for they at the first wax lean, and you wax fat." Sir Walter Raleigh stood by and said, "Why, there is "no beast, that if you take him from the common, and put him into the several, but he will wax fat.”

272. Diogenes seeing one, that was a bastard, casting stones among the people, bad him take heed he hit not his father.

273 Dr. Laud said, "that some hypocrites and "seeming mortified men, that held down their heads "like bulrushes, were like the little images that they

place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, "that look as if they held up the church, but are "but puppets."

274. It was said among some of the grave prelates of the council of Trent, in which the schooldivines bore the sway; that the school-men were like the astronomers, who to save the phænomena framed to their conceit eccentrics and epicycles, and a wonderful engine of orbs, though no such things

were so they, to save the practice of the church, had devised a number of strange positions.

275. It was also said by many concerning the canons of that council, "That we are beholden to "Aristotle for many articles of our faith."

276. The Lo. Henry Howard being lord privy seal, was asked by the king openly at the table, where commonly he entertained the king, upon the sudden, " My lord, have you not a desire to see "Rome?" My lord privy seal answered, “Yes indeed, "Sir." The king said," And why?" My lord answered, "Because, and it please your majesty, it was once "the seat of the greatest monarchy, and the seminary "of the bravest men of the world, amongst the "heathen and then, again, because after it was the "see of so many holy bishops in the primitive church, most of them martyrs." The king would not give it over, but said, "And for nothing else?" My lord answered, "Yes, and it please your majesty, "for two things especially: the one, to see him, who,

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they say, hath so great a power to forgive other men "their sins, to confess his own sins upon his knees "before a chaplain or priest; and the other to hear "Antichrist say his creed."

277. There was a nobleman said of a great counsellor," that he would have made the worst farrier "in the world; for he never shod horse but he "cloyed him so he never commended any man to "the king for service, or upon occasion of suit, or

otherwise, but that he would come in, in the

"end with a but, and drive in a nail to his dis

" advantage."

278. There was a lady of the west country, that gave great entertainment at her house to most of the gallant gentlemen thereabout, and amongst others Sir Walter Raleigh was one. This lady, though otherwise a stately dame, was a notable good housewife; and in the morning betimes she called to one of her maids that looked to the swine, and asked, "Is the piggy served ?" Sir Walter Raleigh's chamber was fast by the lady's, so as he heard her: a little before dinner, the lady came down in great state into the great chamber, which was full of gentlemen and as soon as Sir Walter Raleigh set eye upon her, "Madam," saith he," Is the piggy serv'd?' The lady answered, "You know best whether you "have had your breakfast.”

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279. There was a gentleman fell very sick, and a friend of his said to him, "Surely, you are in danger; I pray send for a physician." But the sick man answered, "It is no matter, for if I die, I will "die at leisure?"

280. There was an Epicurean vaunted, that divers of other sects of philosophers did after turn Epicureans; but there was never any Epicureans that turned to any other sect. Whereupon a philosopher that was of another sect, said, "The reason was plain, for that cocks may be made capons, but capons could never be made cocks."

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1. PLUTARCH said well, "It is otherwise in a "commonwealth of men than of bees: the hive of

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a city or kingdom is in best condition when there "is least of noise or buz in it."

2. The same Plutarch said of men of weak abilities set in great place, "That they were like "little statues set on great bases, made to appear "the less by their advancement."

3. He said again, "Good fame is like fire. "When you have kindled it, you may easily pre"serve it; but if once you extinguish it, you will "not easily kindle it again; at least, not make it "burn as bright as it did.”

4. The answer of Apollonius to Vespasian is full of excellent instruction: Vespasian asked him, "What was Nero's overthrow ?" He answered, Nero could touch and tune the harp well; but in

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government sometimes he used to wind the pins "too high, sometimes to let them down too low." And certain it is, that nothing destroyeth authority

This apophthegme is also found in his Essay of Empire.