praise be the reflection of virtue but it be as the glass or body which give  the reflection if it be from the common people it be common false and nought  and rather follow vain person than virtuous for the common people understand  not many excellent virtue the low virtue draw praise from they the middle  virtue work in they astonishment or admiration but of the high virtue they  have no sense of perceive at all but show and species army simile serve best  with they certain fame be like a river that bear up thing light and swell and  drown thing weighty and solid but if person of quality and judgement concur  then it be as the scripture say nomen good instar oil to emit a smell it fire  all round about and will not easy away for the odour of ointment be more  durable than those of flower there be so many false point of praise that a man  may just hold it a suspect some praise proceed mere of flattery and if he be a  ordinary flatterer he will have certain common attribute which may serve every  man if he be a cunning flatterer he will follow the archflatterer which be a  man self and wherein a man think best of himself therein the flatterer will  uphold he most but if he be a impudent flatterer look wherein a man be  conscious to himself that he be most defective and be most out of countenance  in himself that will the flatterer entitle he to perforce to separate   knowledge some praise come of good wish and respect which be a from due in  civility to king and great person to praise to take beforehand when by tell  man what they be they represent to they what they shall be some man be praise  malicious to their hurt thereby to stir envy and jealousy towards they  pessimum genus unfriendly to praise insomuch as it be a proverb among the  grease that he that be praise to his hurt shall have a push rise upon his nose  as we say that a blister will rise upon one tongue that tell a lie certain  moderate praise use with opportunity and not vulgar be that which do the good  Solomon say he that praise his friend aloud rise early it shall be to he no  better than a curse too much magnify of man or matter do irritate  contradiction and procure envy and scorn to praise a man self can be decent  except it be in rare case but to praise a man office or profession he may do  it with good grace and with a kind of magnanimity the cardinal of Rome which  be theologue and friar and schoolman have a phrase of notable contempt and  scorn towards civil business for they call all temporal business of war  embassages judicature and other employment sbirrerie which be under  sheriffries as if they be but matter for under sheriff and catchpole though  many time those under sheriffries do more good than their high speculation  saint Paul when he boast of himself he do oft interlace I speak like a fool  but speak of his call he say to make much of apostlate meum