[Disposition and] Manners. Yet are we not therefore so to lay the whole [Stress] on Vertue, as [utterly] to neglect [all] Grace∣fulness and Efficacy of Speech, but esteeming Rhetorick, though not the Worker, yet a Coadjutor [and Forwarder] of Perswasion, should correct that Saying of Menander,
The Speakers Manners, not his Speech, perswade.
For both Life and Language [ought to con∣cur,] unless any one forsooth shall say, that, as it is the Pilot, who steers the Ship, and not the Rudder, and the Rider, that turns the Horse, and not the Bridle: so Political Ver∣tue, using not Eloquence, but Manners, as an Helm and Bridle, perswades and guides a City, which is (to speak with
Plato) an Ani∣mal, most easy to be turn'd, managing and directing it, as it were from the Poop. For since those great, and as
Homer calls them,
Jove-begotten Kings, setting themselves out with their Purple, Scepters, Guards, and the very Oracles of the Gods, and subjecting to them by their Majesty the Multitude, as [if they were of a] better [Nature, and more excellent Mould than other Men,] desir'd also to be eloquent Orators, and neglected neither the Gracefulness of Speech,
Nor publick Meetings, that more perfect they
Might be for Feats of War:—
not only venerating
Jupiter the Counsellor,
Mars the Slaughterer, and
Pallas the Warri∣or, but invocating also
Calliope,