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take Cunning for a Sinister or Crooked Wisedome. And certainly, there is great difference between a Cunning Man and a Wise Man, Not onely in Point of Honesty, but in point of Ability. There be that can packe the Cards, and yet cannot play well; So there are some that are good in Canvasses, and Factions, that are otherwise Weake Men. Againe, it is one thing to understand Persons, and another thing to understand Matters; For many are perfect in Men's Humours that are not greatly Capable of the Reall Part of Businesse; Which is the Constitution of one that hath studied Men more then Bookes. Such Men are fitter for Practise then for Counsell, And they are good but in their own Alley: Turne them to New Men and they have lost their Ayme; So as the old Rule, to know a Foole from a Wise Man, Mitte ambos nudos ad ignotos et videbis, doth scarce hold for them. And because these Cunning Men are like Haberdashers of Small Wares, it is not amisse to set forth their Shop.

It is a point of Cunning, to wait upon him with whom you speake, with your eye. As the lesuites give it in precept; For there be many Wise Men that have Secret Hearts and Transparant Countenances. Yet this would be done with a demure Abasing of your Eye sometimes, as the lesuites also doe use. Another is, that when you have any thing to obtaine of present dispatch, you entertaine and amuse the party with

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