17.] "Habita fides ipsam plerumque fidem obligat." ["Trust often obliges fidelity."-- Livy, xxii.

22.] In a life of ambition and glory, it is necessary to hold a stiff rein upon suspicion: fear and distrust invite and draw on offence.

The most mistrustful of our kings--[ Louis XI.]--established his affairs principally by voluntarily committing his life and liberty into his enemies' hands, by that action manifesting that he had absolute confidence in them, to the end they might repose as great an assurance in him.

Caesar only opposed the authority of his countenance and the haughty sharpness of his rebukes to his mutinous legions in arms against him: "Stetit aggere fulti Cespitis, intrepidus vultu: meruitque timeri, Nil metuens." ["He stood on a mound, his countenance intrepid, and merited to be feared, he fearing nothing."-- Lucan, v.

316.] But it is true, withal, that this undaunted assurance is not to be represented in its simple and entire form, but by such whom the apprehension of death, and the worst that can happen, does not terrify and affright; for to represent a pretended resolution with a pale and doubtful countenance and trembling limbs, for the service of an important reconciliation, will effect nothing to purpose.