'But, to return, there belongeth farther to the handling of this part, touching the _Duties_ of Professions and Vocations, a relative, or _opposite_, touching the _frauds, impostures and vices of every profession_, which hath been likewise handled. But how? Rather in _a satire_ and _cynically_, than _seriously_ and _wisely_; for men have rather sought by _wit_ to deride and traduce _much of that which is good in_ PROFESSIONS, than _with judgment to discover and sever that which is corrupt_. For, as Solomon saith, he that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction. But _the managing of this argument_ with _integrity_ and _truth_, _which I note as deficient_, seemeth to me to be _one of the best fortifications for honesty and virtue that can be planted_. _For_, as the fable goeth of the _basilisk_, that if _he see you first_, you die for it, but if YOU SEE HIM FIRST--HE DIETH; _so_ it is with deceits and _evil arts_, which if they be first ESPIED _lose their life_, but if they _prevent_, endanger.' [If they see you first, you die for it; and not you only, but your science. Yet were there but this single plot to lose, This _mould_ of Marcius, they to dust should grind it, And throw it against the wind.] 'So that we are much beholden' he continues, 'to Machiavel _and others_ that write _what men do_, and not what they ought to do, [perhaps he refers here to that writer before quoted, who writes, "others _form_ men,--_I_ report him"]; for it is not possible,' continues the proposer of the science of special duties of _place_, and _vocation_, and _profession_, 'the _critic_ of this department, too,--it is not possible to join the serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent,--that is, _all forms_ and _natures of evil_, for without this, _virtue_ lieth open and un-fenced. Nay, an honest man can do no good upon those that are wicked, to reclaim them, without the help of the knowledge of evil: for men of corrupted minds pre-suppose that honesty groweth out of simplicity of manners, and believing of preachers, schoolmasters, and _men's exterior language_; so as, except you can make them perceive that you know the utmost reaches of their own corrupt opinions, they despise all morality.' A book composed for the express purpose of meeting the difficulty here alluded to, has been already noticed in the preceding pages, on account of its being one of the most striking samples of that peculiar style of _tradition_, which the advancement of Learning prescribes, and here is another, in which the same invention and discovery appears to be indicated:--'Why I can teach you'--says a somewhat doubtful claimant to supernatural gifts: