Chapter VIII: Book I

THE ELIZABETHAN ART OF DELIVERY AND TRADITION.

PART I.

MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE'S 'PRIVATE AND RETIRED ARTS.'

And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlaces and with _assays_ of _bias_,
By _indirections_, find _directions out_;
So by my former lecture and advice,
Shall you, my son.--_Hamlet_.