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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 con¬
tributes 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, Scan¬
dalous is thought Creditable, Profperous bpadies
for Unlucky, Friendly for what is moft Op¬
pofite, and Innocent for what is Hurtful and
Pernicious. In fhort, if we change the Ta¬
bles, 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 In¬
ance