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The whole spirit and aim of his great reform is summed up in the following fine passage: "Facility to believe, impatience to doubt, temerity to assever, glory to know, doubt to contradict, end to gain, sloth to search, seeking things in words, resting in a part of nature these and the like have been the things which have forbidden the happy match between the mind of man and the nature of things, and in place thereof have married it to vain notions and blind experiments.... Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge; wherein many things are reserved which kings with their treasures cannot buy nor with their force command; their spials and intelligencers can give no news of them; their seamen and discoverers cannot sail where they grow.
The whelpes of a Beare neuer grow but sleeping, and these bearewards hauing big limmes shall bee preferd though they doe nothing. Vlysses, Nestor, Diomed, went as spies together in the night into the tentes of Rhosus and intercepted Dolon the spie of the Troians: neuer anie discredited the trade of intelligencers but Iudas, & he hanged himselfe. Danger will put wit into anie man.
"Earl, knights, and gentlemen, do you not think it wiser that we should lay our wits together once and for all, and cut off his." "But who will catch the Wake sleeping?" said Ivo, laughing. "That will I. I have my plans, and my intelligencers." And so those wicked men took counsel together to slay Hereward. In those days a messenger came riding post to Bourne.
They know how to teach both boys and women to play the intelligencers." "That is false, if it be spoken of me," said Roland; "no man in Scotland should teach me such a foul part!" "I believe thee, boy," said Lord Seyton, "for thy strokes were too fair to be dealt upon an understanding with those that were to receive them.
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