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"Man and wife hardly united; scarce ever without children. Computation, if two to one against two, how many against five? If confederacies were easy useless; many oppresses many. If possible only to some, dangerous. Principum amicitias." No. 50. Quincunque turpi fraude semel innotuit, Etiamsi verum dicit, amittit fidem. PHAED. Lib. i. Fab. x. 1.
But, in good earnest, as the arm when it is advanced to strike, if it miss the blow, and goes by the wind, it pains us; and as also, that, to make a pleasant prospect, the sight should not be lost and dilated in vague air, but have some bound and object to limit and circumscribe it at a reasonable distance. "Ventus ut amittit vires, nisi robore densa Occurrant sylvae, spatio diffusus inani."
Latrat et amittit, humilis, vilis, negat, heret: Est celeste Canis sidus, in amne natat. 'Firstly it is a thing that barks': three verses of quotation follow. 'Secondly it loses; canis being the name for the worst throw with the dice': one verse of quotation. 'Thirdly it is something humble: David to Saul, "After whom is the King of Israel come out? after a dead dog? after a flea?"
"Admirable!" he thought to himself, "admirable! We are all there my mother and I three parts of mankind." But on a page of the other book he had marked these lines for the beauty of them: "Beatus qui amat te, et amicum in te, et inimicum propter te. Solus enim nullum eorum amittit, cui omnes in illo cari sunt qui non amittitur." He hung over the fire, pondering the two utterances.
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