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It may further bee demanded, wherefore all credit, countenance, honors, and authority in Court, are for the most part slippery, and not to be trusted vnto?
HAppeneth it thus by reason of the Fates vn∣certainty (as it pleaseth the r Historian to set
downe) who auerreth, that Court-fauours, euen by decree of the destinies, are not alwaies lasting? Or might this rather be the reason, for that s Cour∣tiers credites are (commonly) vpheld by others, and not by their owne strengths? Or not so nei∣ther, but for that these things thus fall out through the fault of the Princes, their Maisters, whom they serue, whose wils and pleasures as they are t vehement for the time, so they are very changeable, and oftentimes contrary to them∣selues?
Tacit. 3. An∣nalium.
Tacit. 17. An∣nalium.
Salust. Iu∣gurth.