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muſty Authors, while the difpatchful Fool ſhall rufh bluntly on, and have done the Bufinefs; while the other is thinking of it. For the ‘Two greateft Letts and Impediments to the Iffue of any Performance are Modefty, which cafts a Mift before Mens Eyes, and Fear, which makes them fhrink back, and recede from an Propofal: Both thefeare Banifh’d and Cafhier’d by Folly, and in their ſtead fuch a Habit of fool-hardine{s introduc’d, as mightily contributes to the Succefs of all Enterprizes. FARTHER, if. you will have Wiſdom taken im the other Senfe, of being 4 right Fudement of Things, you ſhall ſee how ſhort Wiſe Men fall of it in this Acceptation. First then, it is certain that all Things, like fo many Fanus’s, carry a double Face, or rather bear a falſe Aſpect, moſt Things being really in themfelves far different from what they are in Appearance to others: So as that which at firft Blufh proves Alive, is in truth Dead; and that again which appears as Dead, at a nearer Review proves to be Alive: Beautiful feems Ugly, Wealthy, Poor, Scandalous is thought Creditable, Profperous bpadies for Unlucky, Friendly for what is moft Oppofite, and Innocent for what is Hurtful and Pernicious. In fhort, if we change the Tables, all Things are found placed in a quite different Pofture from what juft before they appear’d to ſtand in. fina Ir this feem too darkly and unintelligibly exprefs d, l’1l explain it by the Spie Inance
