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He, at least, would never repose confidence in him, having been deceived too often. The King cherished the maxim, 'hereticis non est servanda fides; as for himself he was 'calbo y calbanista, and meant to die so. The formal interchange of documents soon afterwards took place. The conversation thus held between the different parties shows, however, the exact position of, affairs.
Fides in his native town, supply him with a further argument: would the good Dukes of Swabia have lavished so much money, the substance of their fathers, upon Gallic soil, to pour it out among the French? With such arguments he convinced himself and others.
This over-circumspect and wary prudence is a mortal enemy to all high and generous exploits. "Habita fides ipsam plerumque fidem obligat." In a life of ambition and glory, it is necessary to hold a stiff rein upon suspicion: fear and distrust invite and draw on offence.
Certe potius martyres mundi, quam Dei sunt, qui ex utraque parte sub titulo conscientiae sanguinem frustra fundunt: quasi vero fides et religio Romana, et fides ac religio protestantium sunt duae fides et duae religiones, &c.
The position of a go-between is always more or less perilous; his task, however well performed, is generally a thankless one; nor in such matters can the adeptest diplomacy, joined to the most thorough bona fides, always ensure the conduct of the common agent against misapprehension and sore feelings. Of this the particular negotiation of which we are now speaking is a typical instance.
Barneveld, with his "nil scire tutissima fides," was denounced as a disguised Catholic or an infidel, and as for Paul Buys, he was a "bolsterer of Papists, an atheist, a devil," as it has long since been made manifest. Nevertheless these men believed that they understood the spirit of their country and of the age.
And all this only shows what every man who has ruralised a little in his lifetime knows, more than in theory, that the golden age lingers in no corner of the earth, but is really quite gone and over everywhere, and that peace and prisca fides have not fled to the nooks and shadows of deep valleys and bowery brooks, but flown once, and away to heaven again, and left the round world to its general curse.
The Middle Ages had differentiated between fides informis, a formless faith, and fides formata or informata, a formed or ornate faith.
I want you to take the new 'A. C. and get to the Clifton Suspension Bridge by two o'clock to-morrow morning. There, in the center of the bridge, you will await a stranger an elderly hunchback whose name is Morley Tarrant. He'll give you, as bonâ fides, the word 'Mask. When you meet him act upon his instructions. He is to be trusted."
No doubt Anne , Nan , Katy and Maude would have made me happy if they would have consented to have me and I had happened to love them, but I fancied Fides.
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