THAT which we term a foolish sedulity or officiousness, is a counterfeiting of our words and actions with a shew or ostentation of love. The manners of such men are these. He vainly undertaketh what he is not able to perform. A matter generally confest to be just, he will with many words, insisting upon some one particular, maintain that it cannot be argued. He causeth the boy or waiter, to mingle more wine by much then all the guests can drink. He urgeth those further, who are already together by the ears. He will lead you the way he knowes not himself: losing himself, and him whom he undertaketh to conduct. And coming to a General, or a man of great name in Armes, demandeth when he will set a battail; and what service he will command him the next day after to-morrow. And coming to his father, he telleth him that now his mother is asleep in her chamber. And that the Physician hath forbidden his Patient the use of wine: this fellow perswades him not so much to inthrall himself to his Physician's directions; but to put his constitution to it a little. If his wife chance to die, he will write upon her tomb the name of Husband, Father, Mother, and her Country: adding this Inscription, All these people were of very honest life and reputation. And if he be urged to take his oath, turning himself to the circumstant multitude: what need I swear now, having sworn oftentimes heretofore?