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There has been a tendency to describe Civile Conversation as an elitist text which mystifies the source of nobility. Indeed, in book 2, which explores the appropriate forms of interaction between a variety of different men, there is also a much stronger emphasis on social difference. For example, when Anniball declares that ‘wee are so much the more esteemed of, by howe muche our Civilitie differeth from the nature and fashions of the vulgar sorte’. Even so, Anniball is challenged by William, who notes that his friend has contradicted himself.
28 Any standard modern English dictionary will explain the term ‘honest’ as ‘sincere, truthful, candid’, not lying or stealing, and trustworthy. 29 Recent social historians have emphasised the importance of this sense of honesty to the creation of successful social relationships. In A Social History of Truth (1994) Steven Shapin explains how a ‘worldknown-in-common is built up through acts of trust, and its properties are decided through the civil conversations of trusting individuals’. 30 However, it is easy to forget, as William Empson so painstakingly demonstrated in The Structure of Complex Words half a century ago, that ‘honest’ is also one of the most muddled of words.
By the same token, ‘civile conversation is an honest commendable and vertuous kinde of living’ because it requires a man to ‘submit’ himself ‘to the common opinion of al men’ (2. 115), and to refrain from mocking others less fortunate than himself (2. 160). ‘Honesty’ also encompasses the governing trope of civil conversation, the feigned ignorance (sprezzatura) which Anniball employs to draw William into a conversation. This pretence is honest because it prompts William to be ‘true’ to himself, realising his talent for sociability.