WHERE the rain bow toucheth the tree, no caterpillars will hang
on the leaves; where the gloworme creepeth in the night, no adder
will goe in the day: wee hope in the eares where our travailes be
lodged, no carping shall harbour in those tongues. Our exercises
must be as your judgment is, resembling water, which is alwayes of 5
the same colour into what it runneth. In the Troyan horse lay
couched souldiers with children;[982] and in heapes of many words
we feare divers unfit among some allowable. But, as Demosthenes
with often breathing up the hill, amended his stammering, so wee
hope with sundrie labours against the haire[983] to correct our
studies. If the tree be blasted that blossomes, the fault is in 10
the winde and not in the root; and if our pastimes bee misliked
that have beene allowed, you must impute it to the malice of others
and not our endevour. And so we rest in good case, if you rest well
content.