many ill matter and project be undertake and private suit do putrefy the  public good many good matter be undertake with bid mind I mean not only  corrupt mind but crafty mind that intend not performance some embrace suit  which never mean to deal effectual in they but if they see there may be life  in the matter by some other mean they will be content to win a thank or take a  second reward or at least to make use in the meantime of the suitor hope some  take hold of suit only for a occasion to cross some other or to make a  information whereof they can not otherwise have apt pretext without care what  become of the suit when that turn be serve or general to make other man  business a kind of entertainment to bring in their own nay some undertake suit  with a full purpose to let they fall to the end to gratify the adverse party  or competitor sure there be in some sort a right in every suit either a right  of equity if it be a suit of controversy or a right of desert if it be a suit  of petition if affection lead a man to favour the wrong side in justice let he  rather use his countenance to compound the matter than to carry it if  affection lead a man to favour the less worthy in desert let he do it without  deprave or disable the better deserver in suit which a man do not well  understand it be good to refer they to some friend of trust and judgement that  may report whether he may deal in they with honour but let he choose well his  referendaries for else he may be lead by the nose suitor be so distaste with  delay and abuse that plain deal in deny to deal in suit at first and report  the success bear and in challenge no more thank than one have deserve be grow  not only honourable but also gracious in suit of favour the first come ought  to take little place so far forth consideration may be have of his trust that  if intelligence of the matter can not otherwise have be have but by he  advantage be not take of the note but the party leave to his other mean and in  some sort recompense for his discovery to be ignorant of the valve of a suit  be simplicity as well as to be ignorant of the right thereof be want of  conscience secrecy in suit be a great mean of obtain for voice they to be in  forwardness may discourage some kind of suitor but do quicken and awake other  but time of the suit be the principal time I say not only in respect of the  person that shall grant it but in respect of those which be like to cross it  let a man in the choice of his mean rather choose the fit mean than the great  mean and rather they that deal in certain thing than those that be general the  reparation of a denial be sometime equal to the first grant if a man show  himself neither deject nor discontent uneven hat ut level ground wild beast be  a good rule where a man have strength of favour but otherwise a man be better  rise in his suit for he that will have venture at first to have lose the  suitor will not in the conclusion lose both the suitor and his own former  favour nothing be think so easy a request to a great person as his letter and  yet if it be not in a good cause it be so much out of his reputation there be  no worse instrument than these general contriver of suit for they be but a  kind of poison and infection to public proceed