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80, and that thou cant not hunne it) I will yet hewe thee what fauour and helpe I can: but by the waye take this leon. For the firt thing thou halt flie ignorance, which euer fitteth till and doth nothing, and hath two great eares as thoe of mine thou eet, but hir feete take part after the Griffin, and part after the Ae. One part ignifieth that the ignorant are familier Aes, & the other that they are greedie of honor, and of the profit of good deeruing beates. Thoe long eares ignifie the ignorant, which will heare all others doings, and beleeve they knowe all thinges. Thou mut alo be true to thy maiter, and when thou art once retained in eruice, thou mut not betraye thy Lorde for any golde or corruption in the world. For many times thoe that are in fauour with Princes, and neare about them, are fought vnto to practie to poyon them, to kill them, to doe them ome michiefe, or alo to robbe them of their treaure, and to ubvert their whole tate. For no repect in the world, whilet thou art in eruice, (nor after) ee thou deceive him not of a mite. I do aduie thee alo to be pacient. For thee Lordes and States I tell thee for the mot part are fantaticall, and I marueile not at it at all: for in deede the Princes matters and affaires