2.  To know no distinction of men from affection; but to sacrifice all with equal readiness to his interest.

3.  Never to communicate more of an affair than was necessary to the person who was to execute it.

4.  Not to trust him who hath deceived you, nor who knows he hath been deceived by you.

5.  To forgive no enemy; but to be cautious and often dilatory in revenge.

6.  To shun poverty and distress, and to ally himself as close as possible to power and riches.

7.  To maintain a constant gravity in his countenance and behaviour, and to affect wisdom on all occasions.

8.  To foment eternal jealousies in his gang, one of another.

9.  Never to reward any one equal to his merit; but always to insinuate that the reward was above it.

10.  That all men were knaves or fools, and much the greater number a composition of both.

11.  That a good name, like money, must be parted with, or at least greatly risqued, in order to bring the owner any advantage.

12.  That virtues, like precious stones, were easily counterfeited; that the counterfeits in both cases adorned the wearer equally, and that very few had knowledge or discernment sufficient to distinguish the counterfeit jewel from the real.

13.  That many men were undone by not going deep enough in roguery; as in gaming any man may be a loser who doth not play the whole game.

14.  That men proclaim their own virtues, as shopkeepers expose their goods, in order to profit by them.

15.  That the heart was the proper seat of hatred, and the countenance of affection and friendship.

He had many more of the same kind, all equally good with these, and which were after his decease found in his study, as the twelve excellent and celebrated rules were in that of king Charles the first; for he never promulgated them in his lifetime, not having them constantly in his mouth, as some grave persons have the rules of virtue and morality, without paying the least regard to them in their actions:  whereas our hero, by a constant and steady adherence to his rules in conforming everything he did to them, acquired at length a settled habit of walking by them, till at last he was in no danger of inadvertently going out of the way; and by these means he arrived at that degree of greatness, which few have equalled; none, we may say, have exceeded:  for, though it must be allowed that there have been some few heroes, who have done greater mischiefs to mankind, such as those who have betrayed the liberty of their country to others, or have undermined and overpowered it themselves; or conquerors who have impoverished, pillaged, sacked, burnt, and destroyed the countries and cities of their fellow-creatures, from no other provocation than that of glory, i. e., as the tragic poet calls it,

           a privilege to kill,
   A strong temptation to do bravely ill;