Texts: MS, 1612, 1625

1. Opportunity meeting with talent.

2. Every man is the architect of his own fortune (from Plautus, Three Bob Day, II.2.87. See Works, III.454).

3. A serpent must have eaten another serpent before it can become a dragon.

4. Manifest.

5. Ways of disclosing.

6. Assured facility in speaking.

7. Hindrances.

8. In this man there was such strength of body and mind that wherever he had been born it seems certain he would have made fortune his own (from Livy, History, XXXIX.40).

9. A versatile nature.

10. A little of the fool (or madman).