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You, Sharp, go seek after Bellmour, watch his Motions, and give us notice. Flaunt. SCENE II. Lord Plotwell's House. Enter Lord Plotwell, Charles, Trusty, and two Servants. Lord. In a Baudy-house, with Whores, Hectors, and Dice! Oh, that I should be so deceiv'd in Mankind, he whom I thought all Virtue and Sobriety!
We can also from hence behold How seeming friends appear But hypocrites, as we are told In Scripture every where. When we did walk at liberty, We were deceiv'd by them, Who we from hence do clearly see Are vile deceitful men. These politicians that profest For base and worldly ends, Do now appear to us at best But Machiavellian friends.
Agreeable to the list mention'd Opinion, some Naturalists will have it, that an Hermaphrodite, which is very vigorous as to both Sexes, may Engender within himself, without the Company of another Person, having Matter to form a Child, a Place to conceive it, and proper Liquid for Nourishment: In the same manner as Jack Hares engender once in their Lives, and that Stags do the same, which is maintain'd by the learned Langius: But these Generations are both impossible and ridiculous, the Naturalists must certainly be deceiv'd, in taking some Parts of the Female for the Testicles of the Male; and what probability is there that the Seed should come out of one Part and into the other, without losing its Spirits, and altering considerably in changing of Place?
I am a Gentleman. Fal. Ha, Labree, what means he now? By Jove, I do not question it, Cleontius: What need this odd Punctilio? I call thee to no account. Cle. That's more than I can say to you, Sir. Fal. I'll excuse you for that. Cle. But shall not need, Sir; stay, I have a Sister. Fal. Oh, the Devil, now he begins. Cle. A handsome Sister too, or you deceiv'd her. Lab. Fal. Cle.
And if thou be overcome by the violence of their Torments, or frightened by their Threats, or deceiv'd by their Promise, and consent to their Demands, thou shalt be destroy'd both Body and Soul.
The wretch that often has deceiv'd, Though truth he speaks, is ne'er believ'd. WHEN Aristotle was once asked, what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods? he replied, "Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth."
Yes, base Alcippus, I have still that Courage, Th'effects of which thou hast beheld with wonder; And now being fortified by Innocence, Thou't find sufficient to chastise thy boldness: Restore my Sword, and prove the truth of this. Alcip. I've hardly so much Calmness left to answer thee, And tell thee, Prince, thou art deceiv'd in me.
Nay, I will forget it; I do not merit so much peace of mind, As the relation of that Dream will give me: Oh, 'twas so perfect, too, I hardly can persuade my self I slept! Dost thou believe there may be Apparitions? Pis. Doubtless, my Lord, there be. Alcip. I never could believe it till this hour, By Heavens, I think I saw them too, Pisaro. Pis. 'Tis very possible you're not deceiv'd. Alcip.
Sir, give me leave to make this Digression: 'Tis my Opinion, even in Matters of Religion, the preaching up the Fathers so much has been of fatal Consequence. If we run out of our selves to search for Truth, we are expos'd to be deceiv'd; and relying too much upon another's Judgment, may be the occasion of an Errour in our own.
And let no man think to overthrow this my opinion with that common proverb, that He who relyes upon the people, layes his foundation in the dirt; for that is true where a private Citizen grounds upon them, making his account that the people shall free him, when either his enemyes or the Magistrates oppresse him: In this case he should find himself often deceiv'd, as it befell the Gracchyes in Rome, and in Florence George Scali: but he being a Prince that grounds thereupon, who can command, and is a man of courage, who hath his wits about him in his adversityes, and wants not other preparations, and holds together the whole multitude animated with his valour and orders, shall not prove deceiv'd by them, and shall find he hath layd good foundations.
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