A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

Another cause of Boldness, is Immunity from¹ Danger, or at least a Versatilousnesse and Dexterity of wit to evade it, or shift through it. And therefore though cunning men dare not always second their contrivances with Execution, nor let their hand go in Equipage with their wit; yet commonly men of vigorous fancies are so far in love ⟨p. 270⟩with their own conceptions, that they will many times venture upon some hazards, to bring them into act, trusting the same […] to bring them² out of Danger, which hath at first made them to adventure on it: as Darius was wont to say of himself, that in a pinch and extremity of peril, he […] ever wisest: and Sulla gave the same judgment³ of himself, that he came off best in those businesses, which he was the most suddenly put upon, which also I find observed in the Character of our Henry the seventh (who hath had the felicity above all his Praedecessor•, to have his •ineamenti drawn by the ablest pen that hath êmployed it self in our Story) that his wit was ever sharpened by Danger, and that he had a greater Dexterity to evade, than Providence to prevent them.

Another cause of Boldnesse, is Immunity from¹ Danger, or at least a Versatilousnesse and Dexterity of wit to evade it, or shift through it. And therefore though cunning men dare not alwaies second their contrivances with Execution, nor let their hand goe in Equipage with their wit; yet commonly men of vigorous fancies are so far in love ⟨p. 270⟩with their owne conceptions, that they will many times venture upon some hazards, to bring them into act, trusting the same 〈…〉 to bring them²