THE OBSERVATION.
IT nowe plainelie appeareth, by this negligent and ill ordered march, and the vnlooked for incounter which the Galles gaue thē, that feare had ratified in the iudgment of Sabinus the smooth suggestion of Ambiorix, with an approbation of a certaine truth; and laied that for a principle, which a discourse free from pas∣sion would haue discerned to be but weake, and of no probabilitie: which so much the more amazed Titurius, by howe much his apprehension had erred from the truth, and betraied good counsell to a course full of danger; which as Caesar noteth, must needes fall vpon such, as are then to seeke for direction when the businesse requireth execution. I haue handled alreadie the inconue∣niences of disappointment; and therfore at this time wil but bring it only into remembrance, that wee may take the greater care to preuent an accident of that nature: wherein, as the best remedie for an euill is to foresee it, according to the saying, praeuisa pereunt mala; so the greatest mischiefe in an euill, is when it commeth vnthought of, and besides our expectation; for then it fal∣leth vpon vs with a supernaturall waight, and affrighteth the minde with a su∣perstitious astonishment, as though the diuine powers had preuented our des∣signements, with an irremediable calamitie, and cut off our appointment with a contrarie decree: although peraduenture the thing it selfe carie no such im∣portance, but might be remedied, if wee were but prepared with an opinion, that such a thing might happen. It were no ill counsell therefore, what reso∣lution soeuer bee taken, to make as full account of that which may fall out to crosse our intentions, as that which is likelie to happen from the directi∣on of our chiefest proiects; and so we shall be sure to haue a present mind in the middest of our occasions, and feele no further danger, then that which the nature of the thing inforceth.