promife you he hath ſpoken verie clarkly. Surely he is able to doe vs good ſeruice at all times when we call him. And to conclude my deare Lords, vertue cannot longe bee hidden, albeit for a time by ſome euill accident it be oppreſſed. Flame and fire alſo couered with violence, when it burſteth out againe, ſheweth the greater, and maketh waye where it commeth. Beholde how orderly hee came to me. And though we cannot knowe his inwarde minde, and that it were not that it ſheweth: yet is it fitting for a noble Prince to entertaine him that commeth, not knowing him at all. Although the Needle pricketh, yet a man occupieth it to ſerue his turne, and is as neceſſarie as a Knife. Wee will place euery one in his rowme. The firſt ſeate is for the Elephantes, the other for the Camels; the Apes in their place, and ſo forth, to vſe eche one according to his degree and calling. For the nailes may not be placed where the teeth are, nor the teethe where the eyes ſtande, much leſſe the eyes in place of the heeles: but let euery member doe in his place his office pertayning to him. A man to feede Serpents, were a ſtrange ſight and perillous. For he ſhoulde not only ſtande in danger to haue his hande deuoured of the Serpent, but to be ſlaine foorthwith alſo with his ſpitting poyſon. Our common weale is like vnto a bodie which
