When  we  come  down  to  modern  times  and  reach  Jeremy  Taylor  we  find  he
had  the  sentiment  clearly  in  view  in  the  following  sentence :  "  There  is  in
mankind  an  universal  contract  implied  in  all  their  intercourses  ;  and  words
beine  instituted  to  declare  the  mind,  and  for  no  other  end,  he  that  hears  me
speak  hath  a  risht  in  justice  to  be  done  him,  that,  as  far  as  I  can,  what  I
speak  be  true  ;  Vox  else  he,  by  words,  does  not  know  your  mind,  and  then  as

food  and  better  not  speak  at  all."  Still  we  have  no  epigram,  no  paradox.
)avid  Lloyd,  in  his  **  State  Worthies,"  comes  near  to  the  modern  phrase,
but  misses  it  through  his  stupidly  downright  honesty  of  statement :  **  Speech
was  made  to  open  man  to  man,  and  not  to  hide  him  ;  to  promote  commerce,
and  not  betray  it."  He  comes  so  close  that  we  hold  our  oreath  :  just  a  twist
of  the  hand,  and  the  thing  would  be  done.  That  twist  is  supplied  by  Lloyd's
contemporary,  the  wise  and  witty  Dr.  South  :  *'  In  short,  this  seems  to  be  the
true  inward  judgment  of  all  our  politick  sages,  that  speech  was  given  to  the
ordinary  sort  of  men  whereby  to  communicate  their  mind,  but  to  wise  men
whereby  to  conceal  it"  Butler  echoes  South  in  his  essay  on  "  The  Modem
Politician."  The  politician,  according  to  Butler,  thinks  that  "  he  who  does
not  make  his  words  rather  serve  to  conceal  than  discover  the  sense  of  his
heart  deserves  to  have  it  pulled  out  like  a  traitor's  and  shown  publicly  to
the  rabble."  Here  we  have  the  idea,  but  not  the  meet  and  (quotable  wording.
