ischarge of his
office, yet, if his behaviour be light or dissolute, in indifferent
actions, the people, who see but the outward part, conceive pre-occupied
conceits of the king's inward intention, which, although with time, the
trier of truth, will evanish by the evidence of the contrarie effect, yet
_interim patitur justus_, and pre-judged conceits will, in the meantime,
breed contempt, the mother of rebellion and disorder. Besides," the king
adds, "the indifferent actions and behaviour of a man have a certain
holding and dependence upon vertue or vice, according as they are used or
ruled."

The prince is not to keep regular hours,

"That any time in the four and twentie hours may be alike to you; thereby
your diet may be accommodated to your affairs, and not your affairs to
your diet."

The prince is to eat in public, "to shew that he loves not to haunt
companie, which is one of the marks of a tyrant, and that he delights not
to eat privatelie, ashamed of his gluttonie." As a curious instance of the
manners of the times, the king advises the prince "to use mostly to eat of
reasonablie-grosse and common-meats; not only for making your bodie strong
for travel, as that ye may be the hartlier received by your meane subiects
in their houses, when their cheere may suffice you, which otherwaies would
be imputed to you for pride, and breed coldness and disdain in them."

I have noticed his counsel against the pedantry or other affectations of
style in speaking.

He adds, "Let it be plaine, natural, comelie, cleane, short, and
sententious."

In his gestures "he is neither to look sillily, like a stupid pedant; nor
unsettledly, with an uncouth morgue, like a new-come-over cavalier; not
over sparing in your courtesies, for that will be imputed to incivilitie
and arrogance; nor yet over prodigal in jowking or nodding at every step,
for that forme of being popular becometh better aspiring Absaloms than
lawful kings; forming ever your gesture according to your present action;
looking gravely, and with a majestie, when ye sit upon judgment, or give
audience to embassadors; homely, when ye are in private with your own
servants; merrily, when ye are at any pastime, or merry discourse; and let
your countenance smell of courage and magnanimity when at the warres. And
remember (I say again) to be plaine and sensible in your language; for
besides, it is the tongue's office to be the messenger of the mind; it may
be thought a point