Palladis tamia Wits treasury being the second part of Wits common wealth. By Francis Meres Maister of Artes of both vniuersities.

Vice.

A Pilot that hath dashed his ship against a rocke, will not onely afterwardes be wary of it, but of all other rockes: so hee that detesteth the vglinesse of one vice, wil also warily flie from other vices. Plut.

As he is miserable that serues a cruell & dogged master, from whom hee may flie: so is he much more miserable that is a ser∣uant and a slaue vnto vices, from which he cannot flie. idem.

As a spot or a blemish, that hath long beene letten alone, is hardly taken away: so inueterate vices are hardelie corrected. Idem.

In war a court of guard, & watching is continually to be helde: so we must neuer cease to striue against vices. idem.

As hee that despaireth euer to bee rich, maketh hauocke of that hee hath, but hee that is in good hope to bee wealthy, will make spare of little matters: so he that ful∣ly purposeth to be a good man, doth ende∣uour to correct and amend the least vices, and neglecteth not any thing, that may a∣ny waies further him to the attainement of vertue. Idem.

They that through vnskilfulnes cannot

tell how to make a peece of wood straight, do wrest and bend it to the contrary part: so some in flying from one vice, do fal into a greater. idem.

As those wounds of the body are more greeuous, which make an Vlcer: so those vices of the mind are much more grieuous which more vehemently doe disturbe and distract▪ idem.

The water called Lyncestis or Acidula, doth make drunke as well as wine: so po∣uerty and lacke of knowledge doth make some vicious and wicked; for the same vi∣ces do spring from diuers causes, as arro∣gancy springeth both from knowledge & vnskilfulnes. Plin. lib. 31. cap. 2.

It is easie to slip into a weele-net, but to come out is vety difficult: so it is easie to fal into vices, but to returne vnto vertue is not so easie.

For the biting of an Aspe there is no re∣medy, but the cutting of the infected parts: so some vices are onely cured by death. Plin. lib. 8. cap 23.

Scorpions doe bring forth each other, and do kill each other, for it is said that the Scorpion doth bring forth eleuen young ones, all which the damme killeth sauing one, but that one killeth his damme, and auengeth his brothers bloud, and this doth

God, that that pestiferous brood should not too much increase: so of one capitall vice, many vices are bred, as of couetousnesse are ingendred treachery, fraud, cousenage, periury, vnquietnesse, violence, and hard∣nesse of heart, but oftentimes one of these daughters doth kill their mother Auarice, vnquietnesse of minde doth many times so wearie the couetous, that they striue by all meanes to cast off the burden of this vice, and quite to leaue the world. And so it is in other capitall vices. Geminianus lib. 5. de animalibus terrestribus. cap. 120.

As one poison expelleth another, as the fatnesse of the snake preuaileth against the biting of the Crocodile, & the head of a Vi¦per healeth the wound of a Dragō: so one vice expelleth another, as couetousnes re∣straineth gluttony, & ambition & vainglo∣ry bridleth luxury, for feare of infamy. ibid.