[1] This act that he promised to doo, was not for anie grudge or malice that he bare vnto the erle of Rich|mond: for (as you haue heard before) he deliuered him from the perill of death at saint Malos, when he was in great doubt of life, and ieopardie.Sée page. 701. But as cause ariseth we euer offend, and that curssed hun|ger of gold, and execrable thirst of lucre, and inward feare of losse of authoritie, driueth the blind minds of couetous men, & ambitious persons to euils and mis|chéefs innumerable, not remembring losse of good name, obloquie of the people, nor in conclusion the punishment of God for their merits and deserts. [Which vengeance of God for such falshood was more to be feared, Abr. Fl. than the gaie offers of the king to be desired; for the one was sure to fall, the other was likelie to faile. Wherefore it is wisedome to make choise of a fréend, by the rule of the wiseman to be ob|serued in wine, which is drunke with pleasure when it is old. Neither dooth it stand with a mans safetie to trust a freend too farre: for occasions maie fall out wherby he shall become an enimie, as the poet saith:

Hostis erit forsan qui tuns hospes erat.]