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IN all affaires (Liberalis) that which importeth most, is the maner and fashion of speaking or doing any thing. Celeritie hath done much, Delay hath defrauded more. Euen as in weapons of all sorts, the edge and point both of the one and of the other, are of the same force and keenen••sse as the rest are; but there is a great
difference in them, if they be inforced by a brawnie and forcible arme, or ma∣naged by a faint and feeble arme. It is one and the same sword, that sleightly raceth and rudely pierceth thorow: that which most importeth, is the strength of the arme that gouerneth it. The like may be said of that which a man gi∣ueth; the onely difference is, in the manner of giuing. O how precious, and how sweete a thing is it, to encounter with a Benefactor, that consenteth not to be clawed with acclamations and thankes-giuings! and that as soone as hee bestoweth a beneuolence, forgetteth the same! for to reproue him to whome thou arte most beneficiall, and to intermix iniuries and outrages with curtesies and good turnes, is no lesse than madnesse. Benefits therefore are not to be ex∣asperated or intermedled with any distaste or misliking. Though happily thou hast something that thou hast reason to reprehend him in, reserue it till an o∣ther time more proper and conuenient.
•• fit similitude.
The maner of giuing maketh the gift ei••her plausible or di∣st••••••efull.