ll be a clown, he will likely savour of the stock
whence he came, and that innate rusticity can hardly be shaken off.

[3672] "Licet superbus ambulet pecunia,
Fortuna non mutat genus."

And though by their education such men may be better qualified, and more
refined; yet there be many symptoms by which they may likely be descried,
an affected fantastical carriage, a tailor-like spruceness, a peculiar garb
in all their proceedings; choicer than ordinary in his diet, and as [3673]
Hierome well describes such a one to his Nepotian; "An upstart born in a
base cottage, that scarce at first had coarse bread to fill his hungry
guts, must now feed on kickshaws and made dishes, will have all variety of
flesh and fish, the best oysters," &c. A beggar's brat will be commonly
more scornful, imperious, insulting, insolent, than another man of his
rank: "Nothing so intolerable as a fortunate fool," as [3674]Tully found
out long since out of his experience; _Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit
in altum_, set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop, a gallop,
&c.

[3675] ------"desaevit in omnes
Dum se posse putat, nec bellua saevior ulla est,
Quam servi rabies in libera colla furentis;"

he forgets what he was, domineers, &c., and many such other symptoms he
hath, by which you may know him from a true gentleman. Many errors and
obliquities are on both sides, noble, ignoble, _factis, natis_; yet still
in all callings, as some degenerate, some are well deserving, and most
worthy of their honours. And as Busbequius said of Suleiman the
Magnificent, he was _tanto dignus imperio_, worthy of that great empire.
Many meanly descended are most worthy of their honour, _politice nobiles_,
and well deserve it. Many of our nobility so born (which one said of
Hephaestion, Ptolemeus, Seleucus, Antigonus, &c., and the rest of
Alexander's followers, they were all worthy to be monarchs and generals of
armies) deserve to be princes. And I am so far forth of [3676]Sesellius's
mind, that they ought to be preferred (if capable) before others, "as being
nobly born, ingenuously brought up, and from their infancy trained to all
manner of civility." For learning and virtue in a nobleman is more eminent,
and, as a jewel set in gold is more precious, and much to be respected,
such a man deserves better than others, and is as great an honour to his
family as his noble family to him. In a word, many noblemen are an ornament
t