man in great place be thrice servant servant of the sovereign or state servant  of fame and servant of business so as they have no freedom neither in their  person nor in their action nor in their time it be a strange desire to seek  power and to lose liberty or to seek power over other and to lose power over a  man self the rise unto place be laborious and by pain man come to great pain  and it be sometime base and by indignity man come to dignity the stand be  slippery and the regress be either a downfall or at least a eclipse which be a  melancholy thing come non sis who to be non be cur sail live nay retire man  can when they will neither will they when it be reason but be impatient of  privateness even in age and sickness which require the shadow like old  townsman that will be still sit at their street door though thereby they offer  age to scom certain great person have needs to borrow other man opinion to  think themselves happy for if they judge by their own feel they can find it  but if they think with themselves what other man think of they and that other  man will fain be as they be then they be happy as it be by report when perhaps  they find the contrary within for they be the first that find their own grief  though they be the last that find their own fault certain man in great fortune  be stranger to themselves and while they be in the puzzle of business they  have no time to tend their health either of body or mind Illi mors heavy brood  who notus very much omnibus to pardon become void  Himself in place there be  licence to do good and evil whereof the latter be a curse for in evil the best  condition be not to win the second not to can but power to do good be the true  and lawful end of aspire for good think though God accept they yet towards man  be little better than good dream except they be put in act and that can be  without power and place as the vantage and command ground merit and good work  be the end of man motion and conscience of the same be the accomplishment of  man rest for if a man can be partaker of God theatre he shall likewise be  partaker of God rest et turning Deus ut to look at need who to make manus  of oneself to see quoth all make real good very much and then the sabbath in  the discharge of thy place set before thou the best example for imitation be a  globe of precept and after a time set before thou thou own example and examine  thyself strict whether thou do not best at first neglect not also the example  of those that have carry themselves ill in the same place not to set off  thyself by tax their memory but to direct thyself what to avoid reform  therefore without bravery or scandal of former time and person but yet set it  down to thyself as well to create good precedent as to follow they reduce  thing to the first institution and observe wherein and how they have  degenerate but yet ask counsel of both time of the ancient time what be best  and of the latter time what be fit seek to make thy course regular that man  may know beforehand what they may expect but be not too positive and  peremptory and express thyself well when thou digress from thy rule preserve  the right of thy place but stir not question of jurisdiction and rather assume  thy right in silence and de facto than voice it with claim and challenge  preserve likewise the right of inferior place and think it more honour to  direct in chief than to be busy in all embrace and invite help and advice  touch the execution of thy place and do not drive away such as bring thou  information as meddler but accept of they in good part the vice of authority  be chief four delay corruption roughness and facility for delay give easy  access keep time appoint go through with that which be in hand and interlace  not business but of necessity for corruption do not only bind thou own hand or  thy servant hand from take but bind the hand of suitor also from offer for  integrity use do the one but integrity profess and with a manifest detestation  of bribery do the other and avoid not only the fault but the suspicion  whosoever be find variable and change manifest without manifest cause give  suspicion of corruption therefore always when thou change thou opinion or  course profess it plain and declare it together with the reason that move thou  to change and do not think to steal it a servant or a favourite if he be  inward and no other apparent cause of esteem be common think but a byway to  close corruption for roughness it be a needless cause of discontent severity  breed fear but roughness breed hate Even reproof from authority ought to be  grave and not taunt as for facility it be worse than bribery for bribe come  but now and then but if importunity or idle respect lead a man he shall never  be without as Solomon say to respect person be not good for such a man will  transgress for a piece of breed it be most true that be ancient speak a place  show the man and it show some to the better and some to the worse all  general consensus capax command nisi to command say Tacitus of Galba but of  Vespasian he say solus to command Vespasianus different in well though the one  be mean of sufficiency the other of manner and affection it be a assure sign  of a worthy and generous spirit who honour amends for honour be or shall be  the place of virtue and as in nature thing move violent to their place and  calm in their place so virtue in ambition be violent in authority settle and  calm all rise to great place be by a wind star and if there be faction it be  good to side a man self while he be in the rise and to balance himself when he  be place use the memory of thy predecessor fair and tender for if thou do not  it be a debt will sure be pay when thou be go if thou have colleague respect  they and rather call they when they look not for it than exclude they when  they have reason to look to be call be not too sensible or too remember of thy  place in conversation and private answer to suitor but let it rather be say  when he sit in place he be another man