论作伪与掩饰（2）

    there be three degrees of this hiding and veiling of a man’s self. the first, closeness, reservation, and secrecy; ative; ns and arguments that he is not that he is. and the third, simulation in the affirmative; ns and pretends to be that he is not.

    for the first of these, secrecy; it is indeed the virtue of a confessor. and assuredly the secret man heareth many confessions. for ht secret, it inviteth discovery; as the more close air sucketh in the more open; and as in confession the revealing is not for e of many things in that kind; e their minds than impart their minds. in feether open. as for talkers and futile persons, they are commonly vain and credulous ood that a man’s face give his tongue leave to speak. for the discovery of a man’s self by the tracts of his countenance is a great ; by horee. for men are too cunning to suffer a man to keep an indifferent carriage bet the balance on either side. they ather as much by his silence as by his speech. as for equivocations, or oraculous speeches, they cannot hold out long. so that no man can be secret, except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation; ree, reat and rare matters. and therefore a general custom of simulation (ree) is a vice, rising either of a natural falseness of fearfulness, or of a mind that hath some main faults, uise, it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure.

    the great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. first, to lay asleep opposition, and to surprise. for ainst them. the second is, to reserve to a man’s self a fair retreat. for if a man engage himself by a manifest declaration, he must go through or take a fall. the third is, the better to discover the mind of another. for to him that opens himself men o on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought. and therefore it is a good shrees, to set it even. the first, that simulation and dissimulation commonly calty  up to the mark. the second, that it puzzleth and perplexeth the conceits of many, that perhaps reatest is, that it depriveth a man of one of the most principal instruments for action; n, if there be no remedy.</p>

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