a divitum,
Quantos intus sublimis agit
Fortuna metus? Brutia Coro
Pulsante fretum mitior unda est."

"O that their breasts were but conspicuous,
How full of fear within, how furious?
The narrow seas are not so boisterous."

Yea, but he hath the world at will that is rich, the good things of the
earth: _suave est de magno tollere acervo_, (it is sweet to draw from a
great heap) he is a happy man, [3691]adored like a god, a prince, every man
seeks to him, applauds, honours, admires him. He hath honours indeed,
abundance of all things; but (as I said) withal [3692]"pride, lust, anger,
faction, emulation, fears, cares, suspicion enter with his wealth;" for his
intemperance he hath aches, crudities, gouts, and as fruits of his
idleness, and fullness, lust, surfeiting and drunkenness, all manner of
diseases: _pecuniis augetur improbitas_, the wealthier, the more dishonest.
[3693]"He is exposed to hatred, envy, peril and treason, fear of death,
degradation," &c. 'tis _lubrica statio et proxima praecipitio_, and the
higher he climbs, the greater is his fall.

[3694] ------"celsae graviore casu
Decidunt turres, feriuntque summos"

_Fulgura montes_, the lightning commonly sets on fire the highest towers;
[3695]in the more eminent place he is, the more subject to fall.

"Rumpitur innumeris arbos uberrima pomis,
Et subito nimiae praecipitantur opes."

As a tree that is heavy laden with fruit breaks her own boughs, with their
own greatness they ruin themselves: which Joachimus Camerarius hath
elegantly expressed in his _13 Emblem cent. 1._ _Inopem se copia fecit_.
Their means is their misery, though they do apply themselves to the times,
to lie, dissemble, collogue and flatter their lieges, obey, second his will
and commands as much as may be, yet too frequently they miscarry, they fat
themselves like so many hogs, as [3696]Aeneas Sylvius observes, that when
they are full fed, they may be devoured by their princes, as Seneca by Nero
was served, Sejanus by Tiberius, and Haman by Ahasuerus: I resolve with
Gregory, _potestas culminis, est tempestas mentis; et quo dignitas altior,
casus gravior_, honour is a tempest, the higher they are elevated, the more
grievously depressed. For the rest of his prerogatives which wealth
affords, as he hath more his expenses are the greater. "When goods
increase, they are increased that eat them; and what good cometh to the