But let it be that these commodities be somewhat, such as they be.
Yet then consider whether any incommodities be so joined with them
that a man might almost as well lack both as have both. Goeth
everything evermore as every one of them would have it? That would
be as hard as to please all the people at once with one weather,
since in one house the husband would have fair weather for his corn
and his wife would have rain for her leeks! So those who are in
authority are not all evermore of one mind, but sometimes there is
variance among them, either for the respect of profit or the
contention of rule, or for maintenance of causes, sundry parts for
their sundry friends, and it cannot be that both the parties can
have their own way. Nor often are they content who see their
conclusions fail, but they take the missing of their intent ten
times more displeasantly than poor men do. And this goeth not only
for men of mean authority, but unto the very greatest. The princes
themselves cannot have, you know, all their will. For how would it
be possible, since almost every one of them would, if he could, be
lord over all the rest? Then many men, under their princes in
authority, are in such a position that many bear them privy malice
and envy in heart. And many falsely speak them full fair and praise
them with their mouth, who when there happeth any great fall unto
them, bark and bite upon them like dogs.
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