they will beat over, to come near it. It is a thing of great patience, but yet of much use.
A sudden, bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man, and lay him open. Like to him that, having changed his name and walking in Paul's, another suddenly came behind him and called him by his true name, whereat straightways he looked back.
But these small wares and petty points of cunning are infinite; and it were a good deed to make a list of them; for that nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
But certainly some there are that know the resorts[1] and falls[2] of business, that cannot sink into the main of it; like a house that hath convenient stairs and entries, but never a fair room. Therefore you shall see them find out pretty[3] looses[4] in the conclusion,[5] but are no ways able to examine or debate matters. And yet commonly they take advantage of their inability, and would be thought wits of direction. Some build rather upon the
- ↑ Resort. Spring; active power or movement. A Gallicism.
- ↑ Fall. What befalls or happens; chance.
"Black be your fa'!"
Burns. Address to the Deil. xvi. - ↑ Pretty. Suitable; fit; convenient.
"Armado. Pretty and apt."
"Moth. How mean you, sir? I pretty and my saying apt, or I
apt, and my saying pretty?"
Shakspere. Love's Labour's Lost. i. 2. - ↑ Loose. Issue, way of escape. In archery, a loose is the discharge of the arrow or dart from the bow.
"The extreme dart of time extremely forms
All causes to the purpose of his speed;
And often, at his very loose, decides
That which long process could not arbitrate."
Shakspere. Love's Labour's Lost. v. ii. - ↑ Conclusion. Final determination, decision, resolution.
