Ebrietas Vulpina.
OThers are said to bee drunke as Foxes, and those are they who Insidiate men in their Cups, and urge others, qua•…•…ing and healthing for no other purpose then to intrap them in their spee∣ches, and bring them into trouble, or to catch some advantage at their words, thereby to supplant them in their estates, and such may bee call'd Pollitick Drunkards; of whom Cicero speakes. The craftier and subtiller a man is (saith hee) the more hee ought to bee hated, as one who hath forfited repu∣tation, and opinion of goodnesse, the serpent hid in the the grasse, stingeth the foote, and these En∣gineers under the pretence of honesty, deceive the simple.
Sic avidis fallax Indulget piscibus hamus, Calida sic stultus, decepit esca feras.