POLICIE XLIX. Innocency without prudence is hurtfull.
WHen you are to present your selfe to a party or faction, where you are envied and
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WHen you are to present your selfe to a party or faction, where you are envied and
maligned, forecast and thinke, what may bee plotted and con∣trived against you, and how farre it may injure you, and what you have that lies naked and exposed to the danger, this is to consider and thinke your selfe into secu∣rity.
Thus,
Joseph might have prevented his present misery, had hee thought be∣fore of his brethrens envy, and the danger in his single approach,
Gen. 37. 18.