¶ what maner counsaylours a prynce sholde take. Ca. xix.
••Owe we must aduyse / amonge what people the prynce sholde chose his counsayloures / for to be well counsayled / shall it not be amonge the yon∣ge men / Nay / for they counsayled somtyme euyl the kynge Ieroboam / and so haue they done ma ny another prynce •• But he shall chose them amonge the olde wyse men / whiche ben good men / and well experte in coūsayle for they ben more redy to gyue good counsayle than the yonge And of necessyte it longeth to a good counsayloure / that he be well aduysed of the matter that he comeneth of•• or he gyue coū sayle therin / and that he gyue not to hasty credence thoughe a matter appere fayre before hym / vnto the tyme that he haue wel proued the trouthe therin / for at y• fyrst apparens a matter maye shewe otherwyse than it is in effecte ••nd Arystotle spe∣keth of the maners of the olde auncyentes in the booke of Re∣thoryke▪ and saythe that they were not lyght of byleue / for by cause that they had ben often tymes defrauded / wherfore they wyll not lyghtly determyne a thynge in haste that is doubte∣full▪ But they wyll often tymes construe it to the worste / For