CHAP. 17. Of the Manners of the Nobility.
OF Manners that proceede from the severall Ages wee have already spoken.
Wee are next to speake of those that rise from severall For∣tunes.
The Manners of the Nobili∣ty are
A briefe of the art of rhetorique Containing in substance all that Aristotle hath written in his three bookes of that subject, except onely what is not applicable to the Engligh tongue.
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- To be Ambitious.
- To undervalue their Ancestors Equalls. For the goods of For∣tune seeme the more precious for their Antiquity.
- Nobility is the Vertue of a Stock.
- And Generosity, is not to dege∣nerate from the vertue of his Stock.
For as in Plants; so in the Ra∣ces of Men, there is a certaine progresse; and they grow better and better to a certaine point; then change, viz. ••ubtle wits in∣to Madnesse; and stayed wits into Stupidity and Blockishnesse.