what be truth say jest Pilate and will not stay for a answer certain there be  that delight in giddiness and count it a bondage to fix a belief affect free  will in think as well as in act and though the sect of philosopher of that  kind be go yet there remain certain discourse wit which be of the same vein  though there be not so much blood in they as be in those of the ancient but it  be not only the difficulty and labour which man take in find out of truth nor  again that when it be find it impose upon man think that do bring lie in  favour but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself one of the late  school of the grease examine the matter and be at a stand to think what shall  be in it that man shall love lie where neither they make for pleasure as with  poet nor for advantage as with the merchant but for the lie sake but I can  tell this same truth be a naked and open daylight that do not show the mask  and mummery and triumph of the world half so stately and dainty as candle  light truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that show best by day but  it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that show best in vary  light a mixture of a lie do ever add pleasure do any man doubt that if there  be take out of man mind vain opinion flatter hope false valuation imagination  as one will and the like but it will leave the mind of a number of man poor  shrink thing full of melancholy and indisposition and unpleasing to themselves  one of the father in great severity call poesy vinum spirit because it fire  the imagination and yet it be but with the shadow of a lie but it be not the  lie that pass through the mind but the lie that sink in and settle in it that  do the hurt such as we speak of before but howsoever these thing be thus in  man deprave judgement and affection yet truth which only do judge itself teach  that the inquiry of truth which be the love make or woo of it the knowledge of  truth which be the presence of it and the belief of truth which be the enjoy  of it be the sovereign good of human nature the first creature of God in the  work of the day be the light of the sense the last be the light of reason and  his sabbath work ever since be the illumination of his spirit first he breathe  light upon the face of the matter or chaos then he breathe light into the face  of man and still he breathe and inspire light into the face of his choose the  poet that beautify the sect that be otherwise inferior to the rest say yet  excellent well it be a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ship toss  upon the sea a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle  and the adventure thereof below but no pleasure be comparable to the stand  upon the vantage ground of truth a hill not to be command and where the air be  always clear and serene and to see the error and wander and miss and tempest  in the vale below so always that this prospect be with pity and not with swell  or pride certain it be heaven upon earth to have a man mind move in charity  rest in providence and turn upon the pole of truth to pass from theological  and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business it will be acknowledge  even by those that practice it not that clear and round deal be the honour of  man nature and that mixture of falsehood be like alloy in coin of gold and  silver which may make the metal work the better but it embases it for these  wind and crooked course be the go of the serpent which go base upon the belly  and not upon the foot there be no vice that do so cover a man with shame as to  be find false and perfidious and therefore montaigne say pretty when he  inquire the reason why the word of the lie shall be such a disgrace and such a  odious charge say he if it be well weigh to say that a man lie be as much to  say as that he be brave towards God and a coward towards man for a lie face  God and shrink from man sure the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith  can possible be so high express as in that it shall be the last peal to call  the judgement of God upon the generation of man it be foretell that when  Christ come he shall not find faith upon the earth