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And on the contrary, the more eminent you are in Honours, and in Greatness, if your examples be evil, they do the more mischief:¹ Sin dressed up with a diamond, or covered with a scarlet robe, carries a brave show with it: Desinunt esse probri loco purpurata flagitia: If your ways be never so base and unworthy, the general course of people will follow after you; as Christ said, if the son of man be lifted up, all men will follow him: so if the most base wickedness in the world be lifted up in the ⟨p. 90⟩examples of great ones, all men will follow after it; that way that they see to be a way of preferment, and to get the countenance of those that are great men, generally they will choose; yea how do we see many, that they may be like great ones in their way, and get a little petty preferment by them, they will subject themselves to most sordid things, that otherwise common humanity would loath and abhor. There is a notable example for this in a relation that Contzen hath in his book that he entitles Aulae speculum, in the 156. page,² of one Eutropius, an Eunuch, he was the governor of the Court, and had in exceeding honour, but favoured and preferred only such which either were already, or were willing to make themselves Eunuchs like himself; whereupon, says my Author, multitudes of men made themselves and their children Eunuchs, that they might obtain the favour ⟨p. 91⟩of Eutropius, and be raised to preferment by him, and many of them dyed of the wounds that were made in their body. Thus you see what the power of the countenance and favour of great ones is, which men seek, by being like them in any base ways. And have we not many still that would be content to prostitute themselves, their souls, and their bodies, in the most shameful ways that can be, to obtain the favour of those who are great, to get preferment by them, willing to let humanity, Religion, God, conscience, souls and all go, so they may be countenanced in the World.

And on the contrarie, the more eminent you are in Honours, and in Greatnesse, if your examples be evill, they doe the more mischiefe:¹