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Defi. Suspition is a certaine doubtfull feare of the minde, detayning the hart timerouslie, with sundry affections, and vncertaine pro∣ceedings.
IT is hard to blind suspition with a false co∣lour, especially, vvhen conceit standeth at the doore of an enemy. Mar. Aurelius.
Suspitious heads want no sophistry to sup∣ply theyr mistrust.
Let not thy hart suspect, what neyther thine eye sees by proofe, nor thine eares heare by report.
The man that is feared of many, hath cause
likewise to suspect many. Socrates.
Mistrust no man without cause, neyther be thou credulous without proofe.
Suspition is a vertue, where a man holds his enemy in his bosome.
It is hard to harbour beliefe in the bosome of mistrust.
VVhere the party is knowne for a professed foe, there suspicious hate ensueth of course.
It is hard to procure credite where truth is suspected.
The safest iourney, sayth Socrates, is full of suspition.
Suspition is the poyson of true friendship. Augustine.
It is better to suspect too soone, then mislike too late.
Fire cannot be hidden in flax without some flame, musk in the bosome without smel, nor loue in the breast without suspition.
Small acquaintance breedes mistrust, and mistrust hinders loue.
Suspition may enter a false action, but profe shall neuer bring in his plea.
VVhere Vertue keepeth the Fort, Report and suspition may assaile, but neuer sack.
Suspition engendreth curiositie, backby∣ting, vnquietnes, factions, iealousies, & many
other mischiefes. Anaximenes.
VVhere hatefull suspition breedeth enmi∣tie, there it is hard wyth painted shadowes to procure amity.
He that feareth nothing suspecteth nothing.
Fooles suspect wise-men, & wisemen know fooles.
After a rainy euening may wel follow a faire morning, and after suspition preuention of ensuing danger.
VVhen wee suspect our selues to bee most miserable, then is the grace of God most fa∣uourable. Bern.
Beauty is the true glasse of diuine vertue, & suspition the mirror in which we see our own noted dangers.
Suspect the meaning, and regarde not the speeches. Socrates.
Banish from thy hart vnworthy suspect, for it polluteth the excellencie of the soule.
To suspect where there is cause, is suffera∣ble, but to suspect without cause, is intollera∣ble.
He that lyues without offence, neuer neede to suspect reproofe.
Causelesse suspition, is the next way to make him do euill, which alwayes before did carry a constant meaning.
Octauius Augustus, domū suam non solum cri∣mine, sed suspitione criminis vacare voluit.
Sicut difficilé aliquem suspicatur malū qui bo∣nus est: sic difficilé aliquem suspicatur, bonum qui ipse malus est.
Cic.