A Multitude of Counsellors; Being a Collection of Codes, Precepts And Rules of Life From the Wise of All Ages;
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. If thou beest cast into bad company, like Hercules, thou must sleep with thy club in thine hand, and stand on thy guard. I mean, if against thy wiU the tempest of an unexpected occasion drives thee amongst such rocks ; then be thou like the river Dee in Merionethshire in Wales, which running through Pimble meer remains en- tire, and mingles not her streams with the waters of the lake. Though with them, be not of them; keep civil 306 A MULTITUDE OF COUNSELLORS communion with them, but separate... from their sins. And if against thy will thou f allest amongst wicked men, know to thy comfort thou art still in thy calling, and therefore in God's keeping, who, on thy prayers, wiU preserve thee. The company he keeps is the comment, by help whereof men expound the most close and mystical man; under- standing him for one of the same religion, life, and man- ners with his associates. And though perchance he be not such a one, 't is just he should be counted so for convers- ing with them. . . . To affect always to be the best of the company, argues a base disposition.
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