[250] "Mal est cache a qui l'on void le dos."--Leigh's _Select French
Proverbs_, 1664.
[251] Good fortune.
[252] Casting of lots.
+ _Howe the cite of Lamsac was saued from destruction._ lxviii.
+ As great Alexander on a tyme was fully purposed to haue vtterly
distroyed a great cite, called Lamsac,[253] he sawe his mayster
Anaximenes[254] come towarde him withoute the walles: and bicause the
kynge perceyued manifestlye, that he came to entreate hym for the cite,
he sware a great othe, that he wolde nat do that that he came to desyre
hym fore. Than Anaximenes sayde: sir, I desyre your grace, that this
same cite Lampsac may be vtterly distroyed. Through which sage and
subtile sayeng the noble auncient citie was saued from ruyne and
destruction.