costly follower be not to be like lest while a man make his train long he make  his wing short I reckon to be costly not they alone which charge the purse but  which be wearisome and importune in suit ordinary follower ought to challenge  no high condition than countenance recommendation and protection from wrong  factious follower be worse to be like which follow not upon affection to he  with who they range themselves but upon discontentment conceive against some  other whereupon common ensue that ill intelligence that we many time see  between great personage likewise glorious follower who make themselves as  trumpet of the commendation of those they follow be full of inconvenience for  they taint business through want of secrecy and they export honour from a man  and make he a return in envy there be a kind of follower likewise which be  dangerous be indeed espial which inquire the secret of the house and bear tale  of they to other yet such man many time be in great favour for they be  officious and common exchange tale the follow by certain estate of man  answerable to that which a great person himself profess as of soldier to he  that have be employ in the war and the like have ever be a thing civil and  well take even in monarchy so it be without too much pomp or popularity but  the most honourable kind of follow be to be follow as one that apprehend to  advance virtue and desert in all sort of person and yet where there be no  eminent odds in sufficiency it be better to take with the more passable than  with the more able and beside to speak truth in base time active man be of  more use than virtuous it be true that in government it be good to use man of  one rank equal for to countenance some extraordinary be to make they insolent  and the rest discontent because they may claim a due but contrariwise in  favour to use man with much difference and election be good for it make the  person prefer more thankful and the rest more officious because all be of  favour it be good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first  because one can hold out that proportion to be govern as we call it by one be  not safe for it show softness and give a freedom to scandal and disreputation  for those that will not censure or speak ill of a man immediate will talk more  bold of those that be so great with they and thereby wound their honour yet to  be distract with many be worse for it make man to be of the last impression  and full of change to take advice of some few friend be ever honourable for  looker-on many time see more than gamester and the vale best discover the hill  there be little friendship in the world and least of all between equal which  be wont to be magnify that that be be between superior and inferior who  fortune may comprehend the one the other