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The Paraphrase.
THe chaunces that are wonderfull, are those that doe seldome happen, which though a man hath seene with his own eies, yet will not the common people (who neuer beleeue more then is subiect to their grosse senses) giue credite to him that shall report them, but shall bee counted a liar and vaine prater for telling of them. And therefore if a man be not driuen by necessitie to tell it, it is much better for him to keepe his tongue. For as Isocrates sayeth, I haue manie time repented for woordes that I haue spo∣ken, but for keeping silence, neuer. And eue∣rie mans perfection doeth rather stande in the proofe of his workes, then in his words, according as Saint Luke writeth in the beginning of the Actes of the Apostles, touching our Sauiour, where he sayeth, that our Lorde Iesus Christ beganne to do and to teach: where he placeth his workes before his woordes, which is the meaning of the Prouerbe, And manie woordes to vse doeth shewe no great perfection, tis better, &c.