The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times.

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The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times.
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London :: Printed for Edward Brewster ...,
1656.
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POLICIE LVII. A Sheepe in Wolves cloathing.

IF you would not have any to presume or grow insolent up∣on your favours, bestow them without taking much notice, in a kinde of neglect and inadver∣tency, or else in pretence of in∣dignation, which thing a witty dissembling will much helpe, and this is to bee a friend in the per∣son of an adversary, and to bee a Sheepe in Wolves cloathing.

Thus,

Joseph spoke roughly to his Bre∣thren and kept them in Prison, and they interpreted it harshnesse, which

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was his love to detaine them. And he puts their money in their sackes, yet so as they wonder how it came, Gen. 42. 17, 19. 24, 25.

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