Texts: MS, 1612, 1625

1.Worthless.

2. Appearances resembling virtues.

3. A good name is like a fragrant ointment (see Ecclesiastes 7.1).

4. Have to hand.

5. Epithets.

6. Ashamed of himself.

7. That quality the flatterer will inevitably attribute to him, scorning his victim’s consciousness of imperfection (literally, ‘disdaining conscience’).

8. To teach by praising (derived from Pliny, Letters, III.18.1–3).