HONOVR
AND
VERTUE
,
Triumphing
over
the
Grave
:
Or
the
life
of
the
late
Lord
Stafford
.
NOne
of
Wisdomes
Children
will
either
despaire
,
or
be
confident
of
any
thing
in
this
inferiour
World
,
all
things
are
subject
to
such
a
strange
Revolution
.
Wee
often
see
the
money
destined
to
set
out
a
Triumph
imployed
in
furnishing
a
Funerall
,
and
the
purple
,
together
with
these
great
preparations
turned
into
Balmes
,
Blackes
,
and
Cypresse
.
Pluto
sometimes
snatcheth
Hymens
Torch
out
of
his
hand
,
and
leads
the
new
linked
couple
from
the
Bridall
Bed
into
his
solitary
Vault
.
Nay
,
it
hath
been
recorded
that
an
Execution
hath
bin
chang'd
into
a
Coronation
,
and
a
Scaffold
built
for
a
Delinquency
,
hath
become
a
Throne
of
Glory
.
Wee
have
many
certain
signes
of
Danger
and
Sicknesse
,
none
of
Security
,
there
being
in
one
part
,
or
other
daily
examples
of
men
that
die
,
singing
,
laughing
,
eating
,
and
drinking
.
The
strongest
Humane
Fabricke
Nature
ever
built
,
a
crumme
going
down
awry
destroyes
.
Force
and
Chance
take
away
the
Yong
,
and
Maturity
the
Old
.
Nothing
visible
that
is
not
mortall
,
no
Object
hath
sense
lesse
fading
then
itselfe
.
The
generall
Tide
washeth
all
passengers
to
the
same
shore
,
some
sooner
,
some
later
,
but
all
at
the
last
.
Every
man
must
take
his
course
,
when
it
comes
,
never
fearing
a
thing
so
necessary
,
yet
alwayes
expecting
a
thing
so
uncertaine
.
Our
Intemperancy
prepares
a
Feast
for
Death
,
and
is
therefore
called
the
Mother
of
Physicians
.
This
goodly
Tree
of
Life
is
surcharg'd
with
Fruit
,
some
fall
by
clusters
,
some
single
,
all
once
.
Every
thing
riseth
with
the
Condition
of
a
Fall
,
and
all
Encreases
have
their
Diminutions
.
This
is
the
firme
Bond
that
compasseth
,
and
girdeth
fast
the
Bundle
of
Mortalitie
,
Dust
thou
art
,
and
to
dust
thou
shalt
returne
.
That
all
this
is
true
the
Noble
Subject
of
this
Book
is
a
faire
,
yet
sad
Example
,
much
to
be
lamented
because
much
to
be
admir'd
,
of
whom
somthing
I
must
speak
,
though
it
come
as
short
of
his
inestimable
Worth
,
as
I
doe
of
an
accomplish'd
Oratour
.
And
here
I
must
crave
pardon
of
the
judicious
Reader
,
if
I
draw
not
his
perfections
to
the
life
.
My
Apologie
may
be
a
just
complaint
that
my
stile
is
fetter'd
by
the
idle
Censures
of
Schismaticall
Fools
,
whose
purblinde
souls
cannot
discerne
betweene
a
fawning
Flattery
and
a
due
prayse
,
who
have
hardly
language
good
enough
to
make
themselves
understood
,
much
lesse
to
perswade
others
,
except
it
be
never
to
read
them
againe
.
I
could
without
the
aide
of
any
Rhetoricke
at
all
,
pen
one
of
their
dimme
foggy
Lines
,
wherein
there
is
nothing
considerable
,
that
I
would
not
reduce
into
a
poesie
for
a
Ring
,
so
that
they
might
weare
their
own
story
on
what
finger
they
please
.
But
there
are
more
then
humane
helps
required
to
give
a
Heröe
his
true
Character
,
whose
magnanimous
soule
harbours
not
a
thought
small
enough
to
enter
into
their
narrow
,
passive
brains
.
As
in
the
Ancient
Sacrifices
,
it
was
not
lawfull
to
kindle
the
Altars
of
the
Gods
with
any
materiall
common
Fire
,
but
with
the
pure
Rayes
of
the
glorious
Sun
:
So
a
divine
flame
is
required
to
illuminate
that
Spirit
which
undertakes
to
characterise
the
soules
of
great
and
eminent
Men
.
I
confesse
,
freely
,
the
the
wings
of
my
invention
flag
,
and
are
not
able
to
beare
her
to
the
Summity
of
her
towring
subject
.
It
is
a
received
opinion
,
that
Wit
encreaseth
Griefe
,
and
Griefe
Wit
.
I
finde
the
former
part
of
this
Tenent
true
;
for
that
small
proportion
of
Wit
Nature
hath
given
me
,
turns
to
my
disadvantage
,
in
that
it
makes
mee
to
apprehensive
of
his
worth
,
and
consequently
of
his
losse
;
but
the
later
I
prove
in
my selfe
to
be
false
;
for
now
the
charming
Eloquence
of
Anthony
,
Crassus
,
and
Cicero
is
required
to
limme
this
rare
Piece
,
a
stupifying
Dulnesse
seizeth
on
mee
,
and
the
very
Knowledge
of
what
I
have
to
write
distracts
me
,
so
I
know
not
what
to
write
.
And
yet
this
is
no
wonder
at
all
;
for
my
best
bloud
being
lost
in
him
,
my
worser
remayning
must
needs
chill
,
and
no
man
is
ignorant
,
that
where
there
is
not
Focus
in
Venis
,
there
cannot
be
Subtilitas
in
Intellectu
:
When
Warmth
forsakes
the
Veines
,
Subtilty
must
of
necessity
abandon
the
Head
.
Yet
were
I
master
of
as
great
an
eloquence
as
Demosthenes
himselfe
,
my
best
words
could
not
give
his
Vertues
a
clothing
correspondent
to
their
lustre
.
The
most
skilfull
Painter
cannot
give
a
Picture
all
the
lively
Graces
contained
in
the
Naturall
,
from
which
it
is
drawne
;
Nor
can
the
most
expert
Oratour
fully
,
and
truly
delineate
the
Beautie
of
an
Originall
so
sublime
that
it
transcends
his
Understanding
.
As
it
is
more
easie
to
tell
what
is
not
in
Heaven
then
what
is
:
So
it
is
by
farre
more
facile
to
number
the
Vices
which
hee
had
not
,
then
the
Excellencies
of
which
hee
was
the
happy
possessour
.
But
because
in
great
Designes
,
even
attempts
are
laudable
,
and
that
by
many
,
this
Testimony
of
my
Duty
is
look'd
for
at
my
hands
,
I
am
content
to
take
the
advantage
though
of
a
most
unhappy
,
and
unwelcome
occasion
to
seale
up
my
former
Affection
,
and
publish
to
the
World
the
damage
I
have
received
by
this
fatall
Deprivation
,
nor
I
alone
but
all
his
Stock
,
and
all
the
lovely
Brood
of
Honor
,
and
Pietie
.
And
I
now
opportunely
choose
to
make
this
Oblation
to
his
Memory
.
Quando
nec
laudantē
adulatio
movet
,
nec
laudatū
tentat
elatio
;
When
neither
Flattery
moveth
me
,
nor
vain-glory
assaileth
him
.
My
comfort
is
,
I
have
chosen
a
Theam
where
(
to
some
judgments
)
the
highest
Hyperboles
wil
passe
for
defective
Truths
.
Sure
I
am
,
I
need
not
feare
to
out-speake
his
merit
and
my
love
,
wch
ought
to
be
so
much
that
it
cannot
possibly
appeare
too
much
.
I
dare
tell
Envie
and
Detraction
to
their
Teeth
,
that
prayse
justly
belongs
to
the
pious
deceased
,
&
that
I
may
cal
it
,
with
Pliny
,
the
charitable
Dew
that
makes
Vertue
spring
up
in
the
Living
.
Who
knowes
my
friends
better
then
I
my selfe
?
If
they
are
not
such
as
I
make
them
,
sure
I
am
,
I
believe
them
such
.
No
Crowne
can
give
mee
such
content
as
does
this
comfortable
errour
;
for
such
captious
Criticks
will
tearm
it
,
though
in
my
beliefe
it
be
an
upright
and
impartiall
Veritie
.
Before
I
enter
into
his
commendations
,
I
must
entreat
all
my
Readers
to
consider
that
(
besides
the
fore-mention'd
Obstacle
)
there
is
yet
another
,
which
is
that
my
Pen
is
too
straightly
confin'd
,
the
bounds
afforded
her
not
being
large
enough
to
make
a
Demonstration
of
her
Agillity
,
and
Sufficiencie
;
for
Obstinacie
her selfe
can
not
deny
that
(
mans
Life
being
but
a
Span
)
shee
hath
little
more
then
an
Inch
allotted
her
to
traverse
in
,
he
dying
at
the
Age
of
Fourteen
.
Shee
must
therefore
be
enforced
onely
to
draw
in
a
smal
Card
the
first
Spring
of
his
Youth
newly
deliver'd
of
such
beautifull
Issues
commendable
both
for
their
Ornament
and
Odour
,
as
are
able
to
commit
a
Rape
on
all
knowing
Soules
,
and
to
send
out
a
perfume
as
farre
as
Posteritie
.
Had
he
he
arriv'd
at
the
Autumne
of
his
Age
,
shee
had
then
beene
Mistris
of
a
Field
large
enough
to
exercise
her
Art
in
,
and
shee
would
have
presented
the
Surveighers
of
this
Worke
with
as
Beautifull
Fruit
as
the
large
,
spreading
Tree
of
Honour
ever
bore
.
Wee
might
well
divine
of
him
,
as
Antigonus
did
of
Pyrrhus
,
Magnus
futurus
si
senesceret
,
Hee
would
prove
great
,
if
Aged
.
The
common
Method
in
handling
matters
of
this
nature
commands
me
to
make
the
first
part
of
this
Discourse
the
place
of
his
Birth
,
the
Nobilitie
of
his
Race
,
and
Disposition
,
and
to
continue
and
close
it
up
with
the
Vertues
practised
in
his
Life
,
and
the
Sanctity
expressed
in
his
Death
.
IN
setting
downe
the
place
of
his
Birth
I
shall
follow
the
usuall
course
of
others
who
hold
it
Canaan
,
but
of
Mesopotamia
in
Syria
,
being
more
renown'd
.
I
must
not
thwart
the
Scriptures
,
nor
denie
that
some
countries
are
more
famous
then
others
,
but
I
desire
to
know
whether
,
or
no
the
Braverie
of
their
Inhabitants
have
not
conferr'd
on
them
the
Renowme
they
are
so
big
with
.
What
made
Greece
the
Wonder
of
the
World
,
but
the
Learning
,
and
Valour
of
her
people
?
What
makes
her
now
the
contempt
of
all
men
but
the
Basenesse
,
Dulnesse
,
and
Cowardise
of
the
same
?
What
once
was
Ireland
but
another
Goshen
?
There
was
a
time
when
the
people
of
this
Country
being
asked
how
they
had
dispos'd
of
their
sonnes
,
their
Ordinary
Reply
was
,
Mandati
sunt
ad
Disciplinam
in
Hiberniam
,
They
are
sent
into
Ireland
to
be
instructed
.
Within
the
remembrance
of
many
,
the
Americans
are
not
at
this
day
more
barbarous
,
then
were
the
more
Northerne
Natives
of
that
Iland
,
though
now
(
Heaven
be
praysed
)
they
have
almost
quite
shaken
of
the
cumber
some
shackles
of
that
Cymerian
Ignorance
.
I
infinitely
applaud
the
speech
of
Aristotle
to
a
vain-glorious
Fellow
,
who
boasted
himselfe
a
Citizen
of
a
mighty
Citie
,
Noli
,
inquit
,
hoc
attendere
,
sed
an
dignus
sis
magna
,
&
illustri
Patria
:
Have
not
an
eye
,
said
he
,
to
the
splendour
of
thy
Country
,
but
to
thy
own
Worth
,
and
examine
whether
thou
deservest
to
be
derived
thence
.
So
that
wee
see
there
is
no
Climate
so
obscure
that
is
not
illustrated
by
the
Birth
of
meritorious
men
.
Had
Sir
Philip
Sidney
written
his
Poem
,
or
Sir
Walter
Raleigh
his
History
amongst
the
Savages
of
America
in
Greeke
or
Latine
,
I
am
confident
all
succeeding
Authours
would
have
nam'd
America
as
often
as
now
they
doe
Rome
,
or
Athens
,
and
those
rude
creatures
would
have
received
an
imputative
worth
from
them
,
whereas
now
they
are
in
little
,
or
nothing
to
be
distinguish'd
from
their
Cattell
.
Or
had
they
penn'd
those
their
immortall
Workes
in
the
Indian
Tongue
(
after
once
they
had
come
to
light
)
wee
should
have
studied
that
unpolish'd
Language
as
hard
,
as
now
wee
do
the
Orientall
Dialects
.
Did
not
a
Gaditanian
come
from
the
farthest
part
of
the
World
to
see
the
farre
fam'd
Livie
?
I
will
here
cut
off
this
no
impertinent
Digression
,
with
relating
that
this
hopefull
young
Lord
breath'd
his
first
Aire
at
Stafford
,
which
Towne
and
Country
the
memory
of
him
will
for
ever
commend
,
ennoble
,
and
endeare
to
all
such
as
professe
themselves
friends
to
him
,
or
Goodnesse
.
BEfore
I
begin
to
speake
of
the
Antiquity
of
his
Family
,
I
must
necessarily
insert
somthing
of
noble
Extractions
in
generall
,
because
there
are
some
clownish
Infidels
who
believing
there
is
no
such
thing
as
a
Gentleman
.
That
in
all
Ages
,
and
Nations
the
more
Worthy
have
beene
distinguish'd
from
the
rest
by
Superiour
Jeduim
,
Horim
,
Scalithim
,
Scheliscim
,
Avarim
,
Massegucrim
,
Artsilim
,
Maginim
,
Guevirim
,
Guibborim
,
Nedivim
,
Kervim
,
Ahhaschedappenim
,
by
which
is
signified
in
the
propriety
of
that
Language
,
that
they
are
Illustrious
,
Generous
,
Principall
Men
,
not
much
inferiour
to
Kings
.
But
they
were
most
honour'd
who
were
descended
from
the
greatest
Houses
,
and
these
they
named
Benhorim
,
Children
of
Noblemen
.
Moses
Governour
of
Israel
,
to
the
end
he
might
rule
the
people
well
,
and
worthily
,
selected
seventy
Men
of
Eminent
Condition
,
Hachamim
,
and
Jeduim
,
Wise
,
and
Noble
men
well
vers'd
in
Affaires
of
State
.
And
Iosuah
his
Successour
added
others
of
the
same
qualitie
.
Men
of
Honorable
Bloud
have
ever
been
held
to
be
of
Royall
Condition
,
and
reverenc'd
as
little
Kings
,
because
them
in
severall
Provinces
their
Princes
have
graced
with
great
Titles
,
Priviledges
,
and
Prerogatives
,
and
on
them
have
conferr'd
their
Regall
Authoritie
,
that
by
this
meanes
they
might
be
more
reverenc'd
,
and
obey'd
by
the
people
whom
under
them
they
were
to
govern
.
There
is
no
man
,
saith
Livy
,
so
stupid
,
that
hee
is
not
enflamed
with
a
Desire
of
Domesticall
Glory
.
The
words
of
the
same
Author
in
another
place
are
these
.
Parentage
and
Nobilitie
are
great
Ornaments
,
doubtlesse
,
for
a
man
to
enjoy
here
in
this
life
,
but
farre
greater
to
leave
behinde
him
to
his
Posterity
.
Harken
to
Cicero
,
Omnes
boni
semper
Nobilitati
favemus
,
&
quia
Reipublicae
utile
est
Nobiles
esse
homines
dignos
Majoribus
suis
,
&
quia
valere
debet
apud
nos
senex
clarorum
hominum
de
Republica
meritorum
memoria
,
etiam
mortuorum
:
All
we
who
are
good
ever
favour
Nobility
,
because
it
is
a
thing
profitable
to
the
Common-wealth
to
have
men
worthy
of
their
Ancestors
,
as
also
that
the
aged
Memory
of
famous
Men
deserving
well
of
the
Common-wealth
(
though
dead
)
ought
to
be
in
esteem
with
us
.
Plato
divides
Nobility
into
foure
parts
.
The
first
are
they
who
derive
themselves
from
good
,
and
just
parents
.
The
second
have
Princes
their
Ancestors
.
The
third
are
they
whose
Progenitors
have
been
great
Warriours
,
and
Lawreated
Triumphers
.
The
fourth
and
best
,
are
they
who
excell
in
Magnanimitie
,
and
Greatnesse
of
Merit
.
And
truly
I
am
of
Plato's
minde
;
for
though
I
am
a
never
yielding
Advocate
for
men
of
remarkable
Stocks
,
yet
I
believe
not
that
Honour
is
confined
to
run
in
certain
particular
Channels
,
or
that
the
Rationall
Soule
should
be
bound
to
the
same
Lawes
with
the
Vegetative
,
or
Sensible
.
Where
Nobility
is
onely
Nuda
Relatio
,
a
meare
bare
Relation
,
and
nothing
else
I
esteeme
it
,
not
a
Grace
,
but
a
Disparagement
.
I
shall
never
seeke
for
that
Fruit
in
the
Root
which
I
should
gather
from
the
Branch
.
Vertue
is
the
legitimate
Mother
of
Honour
,
not
Fortune
,
who
,
though
shee
be
a
Queene
,
many
times
imitates
unhappily
some
of
her
owne
Ranke
in
suffering
her selfe
to
be
enjoy'd
by
Groomes
,
and
fixeth
there
her
Admition
where
the
World
placeth
its
Derision
.
Him
Him
whom
Vice
,
and
Ignorance
doth
still
detain
prisoner
in
the
Heard
of
the
Vulgar
,
if
by
his
own
vertuous
actions
hee
cannot
separate
himselfe
from
them
,
my
Vote
,
nor
Judgement
shall
ever
give
him
Freedome
.
In
this
I
am
seconded
by
no
worse
a
man
then
the
most
Eloquent
Demosthenes
.
De
Nobilitate
parùm
laudis
praedicare
possum
,
bonus
enim
Vir
mihi
Nobilis
videtur
,
qui
verò
non
justus
est
licet
Patre
meliore
quam
Jupiter
sit
genus
Ducat
Ignobilis
mihi
videtur
.
Nobility
I
cannot
much
predicate
;
Hee
who
is
a
good
man
appeareth
to
mee
noble
;
Hee
who
is
not
Iust
(
though
hee
derive
himselfe
from
a
better
parent
then
Jupiter
himselfe
)
seemes
to
mee
Ignoble
.
The
French
usually
say
,
Le
Splendeur
de
Vertu
la
Noblesse
de
Race
:
The
Splendour
of
Vertue
is
the
Nobility
of
Race
.
I
am
not
ignorant
that
the
Censure
and
Custome
of
many
Kingdomes
are
against
mee
,
where
all
men
have
respect
,
and
precedencie
given
them
by
their
great
parentage
,
not
their
good
parts
.
But
above
all
other
,
the
Dane
is
the
Een
Herremand
auff
Seisten
Aufner
,
A
Gentleman
of
sixteene
Descents
by
Father
and
Mother
.
At
all
Triumphs
,
and
Tiltings
it
is
proclaim'd
,
that
hee
who
is
not
such
must
not
presume
to
handle
a
Sword
or
Lance
,
or
enter
into
the
Lists
.
Nay
,
it
is
most
certaine
,
that
at
those
great
Solemnities
they
have
excepted
against
some
base
sonnes
of
their
owne
Kings
defective
in
Bloud
by
the
Mothers
side
,
and
would
hardly
be
pacified
by
their
Princes
answer
,
which
was
,
that
what
honour
was
wanting
on
the
Mothers
side
was
superabounding
on
the
Fathers
.
In
the
Raigne
of
Fredericke
the
Second
King
of
Denmarke
,
there
lived
a
most
learned
Man
named
Erasmus
Laetus
,
who
for
his
Science
,
and
pleasing
Discourse
,
was
admitted
into
the
best
Companies
,
and
had
an
eminent
place
at
all
Tables
.
He
proud
of
his
high
vallue
,
and
ambitious
of
higher
,
travell'd
to
Venice
,
and
was
there
created
a
Venetian
Knight
,
and
in
comming
backe
was
,
made
Poet
Laureat
by
Caesars
own
hand
.
The
first
Table
hee
came
to
after
his
return
home
was
the
Chancellour
of
that
Kingdome
who
plac'd
him
lowest
of
all
his
Guests
,
not
sticking
openly
to
tell
him
that
the
Reverence
,
and
Superiority
which
before
was
given
him
as
a
profound
Scholar
,
was
now
denied
him
as
a
Superficiall
Gentleman
.
If
in
that
Kingdome
an
ignoble
man
defloure
a
noble
Maid
,
his
head
is
infallibly
cut
off
,
and
shee
lives
,
and
dies
shut
up
betweene
two
Walls
.
If
any
woman
gently
borne
marry
a
Roturier
.
(
as
the
French
call
him
)
with
us
a
Peasant
,
she
is
deprived
of
her
portion
,
and
never
taken
notice
of
afterward
by
any
of
her
Kinred
.
In
some
places
of
Polanda
a
gentleman
hath
this
priviledge
that
if
hee
kill
a
Burger
,
a
Hind
,
or
any
other
ordinary
man
by
paying
downe
foure
shillings
he
is
quit
.
I
abhorre
this
foolish
strictnesse
,
and
severity
,
yet
could
wish
we
were
not
as
carelesse
this
way
,
as
they
were
punctuall
,
our
Tables
then
would
not
be
so
throng'd
with
Farme
,
and
shop-Gentry
.
The
Ancient
Romans
in
this
case
excluded
omnem
quaestum
,
All
manner
of
gaine
.
If
my
Vote
might
passe
for
good
,
all
originalls
of
great
Families
hereafter
should
issue
out
of
Schooles
and
Campes
,
there
being
no
other
beginning
of
power
to
warrant
them
from
censure
and
laughter
.
A
true
testimony
of
this
I
will
give
you
in
Pallas
Freeman
,
of
Claudius
the
Emperour
,
a
servant
as
Worthy
,
as
his
Master
Wise
.
You
shall
see
an
Emperour
,
and
a
Senate
of
Rome
(
Lords
of
the
World
)
conspire
and
combine
to
eternize
this
Pallas
,
and
to
set
him
up
a
marke
of
greatnesse
,
and
glory
to
all
succeeding
Ages
.
The
Senate
presented
this
abject
fellow
with
the
Praetorian
Dignity
,
and
150
Sesterces
,
the
former
of
which
he
tooke
,
the
later
hee
refused
.
They
assemble
together
on
purpose
,
and
humbly
thanke
this
sottish
Prince
for
this
his
servile
Favourite
,
in
that
he
had
vouchsafed
to
commend
him
to
the
Senate
,
and
by
that
gave
them
occasion
of
shaping
him
a
reward
answerable
to
his
merit
.
Upon
his
rejecting
this
their
pecuniary
offer
,
they
flocke
againe
to
the
Emperour
,
imbrace
his
knees
,
and
submissively
beseech
him
to
perswade
Pallas
to
accept
of
their
gift
,
which
supplication
of
theirs
,
this
foolish
Emperour
presented
to
Pallas
.
Behold
an
Emrour
,
and
a
Senate
,
saith
Pliny
,
contending
for
superiority
in
slavery
.
You
would
have
thought
by
this
their
so
frequent
conventing
before
Caesar
,
that
either
the
Confines
of
the
Empire
had
beene
enlarged
,
or
the
Armies
had
return'd
in
safety
.
Within
the
first
stone
of
the
Tiburtine
way
they
built
him
a
Monument
with
this
Inscription
.
Huic
Senatus
at
fidem
,
pietatemque
erga
Patronos
Ornamenta
Praetoria
decrevit
,
&
Sestertium
centies
Quinquagies
,
cujus
honore
contentus
fuit
.
On
this
man
for
his
Faith
and
Piety
to
his
Patrons
,
the
Senate
conferr'd
the
Praetorian
Ornaments
,
and
presented
him
with
150.
Sesterces
,
but
he
contented
himselfe
with
the
Honour
onely
.
The
excellent
Pliny
repines
so
much
at
the
grace
and
honour
done
this
Furcifer
(
for
so
he
calls
him
)
that
he
breaks
out
into
this
bitternesse
of
Speech
.
This
mancipated
Senate
,
saith
he
,
stiled
that
modesty
in
him
,
which
,
indeed
was
Insolency
.
How
I
applaud
my
fortune
,
that
I
liv'd
not
in
their
Times
,
in
whose
behalfe
I
blush
so
many
yeares
after
their
committing
of
this
base
folly
.
But
why
should
wee
repine
at
this
?
Rather
let
us
laugh
,
that
they
may
not
thinke
they
have
made
any
great
purchase
who
are
come
to
that
degree
of
happinesse
,
as
to
be
laughed
at
.
By
this
one
Example
we
may
clearely
perceive
,
that
it
is
not
in
the
potency
of
Princes
to
create
a
never
fading
That
the
originall
of
true
Nobility
is
not
deriv'd
from
any
accidentall
good
flowing
from
Fortune
,
or
Linage
,
but
receives
its
birth
,
and
growth
from
the
ability
,
and
Harmony
of
a
vertuous
Mind
,
I
will
both
by
reason
and
example
demonstrate
.
By
reason
;
for
if
solid
and
ligitimate
Nobility
Plato
,
and
Seneca
will
here
bee
inserted
opportunely
,
who
affirme
that
if
we
be
inquisitive
after
Pedigrees
we
shall
finde
that
there
is
no
slave
who
is
not
sprung
from
mighty
Kings
;
nor
no
King
that
is
not
descended
from
despicable
slaves
.
By
which
we
may
apparantly
see
that
it
is
not
greatnesse
of
Blood
,
but
of
Merit
,
that
really
dignifies
any
man
.
For
my
owne
part
,
I
seriously
protest
,
I
should
glory
more
in
being
the
happy
Master
of
the
lofty
minde
,
and
low
Extraction
of
undaunted
Maerius
,
than
in
enjoying
all
the
vast
Dominions
of
Tersytha
,
and
Sardanapalus
,
together
with
the
innumerable
splendent
Images
of
their
Ancestors
.
That
Alexander
the
Great
was
truely
Noble
,
no
man
will
deny
,
in
that
he
was
sonne
to
so
puissant
a
Monarch
as
Phillip
King
of
Macedon
:
yet
was
he
so
farre
from
being
puffed
up
with
any
vaine-glorious
conceite
of
his
royall
descent
,
that
Plutarch
upon
his
credit
assures
us
,
he
being
yet
a
Child
,
repined
at
nothing
so
much
as
at
his
Fathers
glorious
Actions
.
To
this
purpose
is
remarkable
that
passage
betweene
him
and
other
Children
,
who
(
alledging
to
him
his
happinesse
in
being
sonne
to
so
brave
a
Prince
,
that
made
such
large
Conquests
,
and
onely
for
him
)
received
from
him
this
magnanimous
answer
.
What
bootes
it
me
to
possesse
much
,
when
I
my selfe
have
done
nothing
memorable
?
So
prosperous
a
successe
attends
all
my
Fathers
Enterprizes
,
that
hee
will
leave
me
nothing
to
Conquer
.
O
generous
speech
proceeding
from
a
high
aspiring
minde
,
deservedly
destin'd
to
Conquer
,
and
governe
this
lower
Hemispheare
.
Me
thinkes
I
heare
him
thus
enlarge
his
reply
.
Hath
my
Father
in
one
night
deflowred
both
Fame
and
victory
,
and
extorted
from
them
a
vow
never
hereafter
to
waite
on
any
but
him
?
shall
I
then
live
like
a
Plant
,
and
onely
grow
to
stand
still
?
Sloth
is
the
common
Nurse
to
all
Vices
,
and
in
learning
nothing
,
we
learne
to
doe
ill
.
I
like
the
Custome
of
that
Nation
who
suffered
not
their
Children
to
be
taught
any
thing
sitting
,
and
alwaies
sacrific'd
to
the
gods
the
last
Commer
to
the
Army
.
Barre
mee
Motion
,
and
action
,
and
conclude
mee
a
Trunke
,
not
a
Man
.
Shall
I
lye
still
imprison'd
within
the
Straights
of
my
owne
Greece
?
No
,
I
am
resolv'd
not
onely
to
trace
my
Sire
,
but
to
out-goe
him
.
I
will
have
this
massie
Globe
measur'd
,
that
I
may
see
how
much
is
left
for
me
to
overcome
.
The
Sunne
shall
not
discover
more
then
I
will
Conquer
,
onely
I
would
not
so
soone
vanquish
as
he
surveighs
,
lest
my
Valour
should
want
employment
.
Of
the
same
thred
with
this
opinion
of
Alexander
,
is
that
of
Lijcus
in
Seneca's
Hercule
furente
.
Nobiles
non
sunt
mihi
Avi
,
nec
altis
inclytum
titulis
Genus
,
Sed
clara
virtus
.
Qui
Genus
jact
at
suum
Aliena
laudat
.
It
resteth
now
,
that
I
confirme
by
Example
If
wee
looke
backe
upon
old
Rome
wee
shall
quickly
perceive
,
that
not
long
after
shee
was
built
,
many
obscure
men
became
her
Rulers
.
Who
knowes
not
that
Tarquinius
Priscus
,
one
of
her
most
famous
Kings
,
had
for
his
Parents
a
banish'd
Merchant
,
and
a
servile
Woman
?
Was
not
Servus
Tullius
the
sonne
of
a
meane
fellow
,
and
a
Maid
servant
?
Was
not
the
birth
of
Tullus
Hostillius
,
who
preceeded
both
these
in
the
Empire
,
very
meane
,
he
having
beene
in
his
Nonage
sometimes
a
Neatheard
,
sometimes
a
Shepheard
?
Now
let
us
come
to
the
Caesars
themselves
,
and
examine
whether
or
no
they
were
of
more
renowned
extraction
than
their
Kings
.
Augustus
himselfe
(
whose
Greatnesse
and
Happinesse
grew
to
a
Proverbe
,
(
Sis
Augusto
Felicior
,
Trajano
melior
)
and
whose
surname
at
this
day
the
German
Emperours
with
pride
usurpe
,
shutting
up
all
their
Titles
with
Semper
Augustus
,
ever
Augustus
)
was
not
his
Grandfather
a
Silver-smith
,
and
his
Father
an
Astipulator
?
Both
which
Cicero
writing
to
his
brother
Quintus
avoucheth
to
have
obtain'd
the
Quaestorship
by
supplication
.
What
other
Founder
of
his
Stocke
had
Vitellius
than
a
Libertine
,
or
Freed
man
,
whom
Cassius
Severus
,
and
many
others
maintaine
to
have
beene
no
better
than
a
Tayler
.
Trajan
,
the
best
of
all
the
Caesars
(
in
whose
Reigne
the
Mappe
of
the
Roman
Empire
was
at
the
fairest
)
swamme
at
first
in
no
Flood
of
Fortune
,
and
that
hee
was
of
no
great
House
.
Nerva
himselfe
inferres
,
who
when
he
design'd
him
Emperour
,
and
commended
him
to
the
Senate
,
bade
them
looke
into
the
mans
merit
,
not
his
parentage
.
Pertinax
none
of
their
worst
Emperours
had
a
slave
to
his
Grandfather
,
and
a
freed
man
to
his
Father
.
Piscenninus
Niger
,
no
bad
Prince
,
had
no
better
a
beginning
.
Opilius
Macrinus
,
was
first
a
Servant
,
then
a
Freed
man
.
Galienus
,
Posthumus
Lolienus
,
and
Martius
,
whose
Reigne
continued
but
three
dayes
,
could
not
glory
much
in
their
Pedigrees
,
the
later
of
which
was
but
a
Smith
.
Galerius
had
poore
Country
parents
,
and
he
himselfe
was
an
Armorour
,
and
from
thence
got
the
sirname
of
Armentarius
.
Of
the
same
poore
condition
were
Maximinus
,
Pupienus
,
and
Balbinus
,
his
co-Regnant
.
The
vertuous
Aurelius
was
born
meanly
.
The
Father
of
the
most
accomplish'd
Probus
was
a
Gardner
,
yet
was
hee
Lord
of
so
many
perfections
,
that
Valerius
the
Emperour
earnestly
by
Letters
exhorted
his
Sonne
Gallenus
to
imitate
him
in
all
things
,
using
often
to
say
by
the
way
of
Allusion
to
his
Name
,
that
if
his
Cognomen
had
not
beene
Probus
his
Praenomen
should
have
beene
such
.
Bonosus
rose
from
a
Schoole-master
to
be
an
Emperour
.
Dioclesian
was
the
Sonne
of
a
Notary
.
Licinius
,
and
Maximinianus
,
Eutropius
,
and
Paulus
Orosius
,
number
amongst
the
Plebeians
.
The
Father
of
the
Emperour
Valentinianus
was
a
Rope-maker
,
whence
he
himselfe
got
the
nickname
of
Funerarius
.
Iustinius
was
but
an
Armorour
.
I
must
not
omit
Basilius
the
Macedonian
,
who
being
brought
Captive
amongst
other
vendible
slaves
to
Constantinople
was
there
created
Emperour
.
I
cannot
passe
over
Abdolominus
,
or
,
as
some
wil
have
him
call'd
Abactonius
,
who
was
brought
by
Alexander
from
drawing
water
,
and
watering
Gardens
,
and
by
him
made
King
of
Sidonia
,
to
the
eternall
dishonour
of
all
the
discontented
Nobility
of
that
Countrey
.
Nor
must
I
conceale
Antipater
,
the
succeeder
of
Alexander
in
the
Kingdome
of
Macedonia
,
who
was
Nephew
to
a
she
Player
,
that
acted
the
Clownes
part
.
Arsaces
,
King
of
the
Parthians
,
is
reported
to
have
beene
the
sonne
of
the
people
.
The
Parents
of
Cambyses
,
King
of
the
Persians
were
of
poor
condition
.
Darius
the
sonne
of
Hystaspes
,
who
bore
no
better
an
Office
under
Cyrus
then
that
of
a
Serjant
,
was
exalted
to
be
King
of
the
Persians
,
and
was
the
first
of
that
Name
.
Here
I
must
introduce
the
Father
of
Eumenes
carrying
of
burthens
,
and
Telephanes
,
who
being
but
a
base
Coachmaker
,
obtained
the
Lydian
Crowne
.
I
cannot
but
insert
Mydas
,
who
by
the
Phrygians
was
called
from
the
Cart
to
be
their
King
,
and
Ptolomaeus
who
made
so
large
a
Step
,
as
from
being
a
common
Souldier
to
be
crowned
King
of
Egypt
.
Tyridates
clome
from
a
servant
to
be
King
of
the
Parthians
.
Livy
informes
us
,
that
Vectius
Messius
King
of
the
Volscians
,
was
more
commendable
for
his
Deeds
then
his
Birth
.
Who
is
ignorant
that
Parrhasius
,
and
Lycastus
(
being
exposed
by
their
Mother
to
the
mercie
of
the
weather
,
and
wilde
beasts
)
were
found
,
and
brought
up
by
Tilliphus
a
Shepherd
,
and
afterwards
governed
Arcadia
.
That
the
Shepherd
and
Hog-heard
Tamberlaine
was
afterward
King
of
the
Scythians
,
is
obvious
to
every
mans
knowledge
.
I
will
here
make
a
holy
conclusion
with
David
,
and
Saul
,
whom
God
himselfe
withdrew
,
the
one
from
following
the
Ews
,
the
other
from
following
the
Asses
,
to
rule
over
the
Hebrews
.
Notwithstanding
all
these
fore-mentioned
If
our
Hodiernall
Nobility
would
spend
some
Trajan
,
(
equally
an
Enemy
to
Vice
,
and
Sloth
)
used
to
say
,
that
it
was
not
decent
to
see
a
young
Gentleman
without
a
Book
in
one
hand
to
teach
him
Wisdome
,
and
a
Sword
in
the
other
to
defend
the
same
against
all
Barbarians
whatsoever
.
So
amiable
was
the
Conjunction
of
both
these
in
his
sight
,
that
he
did
never
eat
without
two
standing
by
him
of
severall
Abilities
,
one
to
discourse
to
him
of
the
secrets
of
Nature
,
the
other
of
Stratagems
of
Warre
.
And
that
this
was
the
Custome
of
the
other
Emperours
,
appeares
by
the
two
Masters
of
Nero
,
Burrhus
,
and
Seneca
,
the
one
a
Martialist
,
the
other
a
Philosopher
.
Charlemaine
,
Lewis
the
Debonaire
,
Saint
Lewis
and
others
had
them
in
such
esteeme
,
that
they
held
the
joyning
of
them
together
as
necessary
,
as
the
linking
of
the
Husband
,
and
the
Wife
.
The
Politickes
dispute
which
of
these
two
should
have
the
Precedencie
,
but
in
the
end
give
it
to
the
Gowne
,
in
that
Good
Letters
can
instructus
in
the
Military
Discipline
,
but
Armes
cannot
impart
the
Knowledge
of
the
Arts
.
I
may
seeme
to
some
to
have
dwelt
too
long
on
this
weighty
,
and
necessary
Argument
of
Honour
in
Generall
,
whose
pardon
I
crave
,
and
so
proceed
in
my
Method
to
treate
of
his
Nobilitie
by
Race
,
who
is
now
my
deplored
Theam
.
I
am
utterly
void
of
all
insight
in
Heraldry
,
and
therefore
can
write
nothing
in
this
kinde
,
save
what
I
have
upon
trust
,
but
that
little
I
shall
deliver
shall
be
back'd
with
great
Authorities
.
That
his
Ancestors
have
been
Dukes
,
I
am
confident
,
every
man
hath
heard
,
but
how
great
in
Authority
,
and
Revenue
it
may
be
all
men
apprehend
not
.
I
am
inform'd
by
a
Knight
skilfull
and
Excellent
not
only
in
our
English
,
but
Forraigne
Heraldry
also
,
that
the
Dukes
of
Buckingham
have
been
so
great
,
that
Earles
have
been
the
Stewards
of
their
Houses
,
and
that
they
have
Buckingham
,
have
beene
so
great
that
Earles
have
bin
Stewards
of
their
Houses
.
disbursed
eight
hundred
pounds
yeerly
old
Rent
in
Pensions
to
Earles
,
Barons
,
Knights
,
and
Gentlemen
.
To
this
worthy
Testatour
of
their
Greatnesse
,
I
shall
yet
adde
a
far
greater
:
namely
,
the
Right
Honorable
Henry
Earle
of
Northampton
,
a
Lord
so
omniscient
that
he
seem'd
to
all
learned
men
living
in
his
time
,
A
walking
Athens
.
In
a
speech
of
his
contain'd
in
a
Booke
entituled
,
The
Arraignment
of
the
Traitours
,
his
formall
words
are
these
.
It
was
a
Monke
of
Henton
,
that
seduc'd
the
late
Duke
of
Buckingham
,
to
the
Ruine
of
as
great
a
Name
as
any
Subject
in
Europe
(
excepting
onely
the
Sirname
of
a
King
)
can
demonstrate
,
by
which
I
receive
a
blemish
,
and
all
those
that
descend
from
him
.
This
is
enough
for
mee
,
in
that
I
cannot
blazon
Coates
,
nor
draw
Pedigrees
,
and
because
I
am
unwilling
to
disparage
some
whose
Names
the
Staffords
bore
in
former
times
,
and
afterwards
forsooke
them
as
somwhat
too
obscure
,
and
low
,
for
their
lofty
deeds
.
Wee
have
all
this
while
dwelt
in
the
Suburbs
,
wee
will
now
enter
the
Citie
,
and
glad
our
eyes
with
the
splendour
of
it
.
Imagine
all
the
premises
to
bee
but
the
Curtain
,
which
now
being
drawne
wee
will
gaze
on
the
Beautifull
Piece
,
his
Life
,
so
pure
and
innocent
to
the
outward
sight
(
in
Gods
eye
who
can
be
justified
?
)
that
what
was
said
of
Scipio
Nassica
,
may
be
applyed
to
him
,
Nihil
in
vita
nisi
laudandum
aut
dixit
,
aut
fecit
;
Through
his
whole
Life
he
never
did
,
or
spake
any
thing
that
was
not
commendable
.
The
first
care
of
his
Excellent
Parents
was
to
And
that
hee
might
judge
of
Religion
and
Ovid
.
—
Didicisse
fideliter
Artes
Emollit
mores
,
nec
sinit
esse
feros
.
There
are
many
forcible
,
convincing
Reasons
,
why
a
learned
man
is
more
apt
to
follow
Vertue
then
an
unlearned
.
Amongst
many
other
I
will
onely
produce
four
.
The
first
is
,
that
by
studying
the
Arts
,
and
Sciences
the
thoughts
of
man
are
averted
from
dwelling
on
corporeall
things
,
the
ordinary
objects
of
his
Affections
,
and
by
that
means
the
occasions
are
cut
off
,
that
usually
allure
him
to
be
enamour'd
on
Vice
.
Secondly
,
he
who
is
a
curious
searcher
into
the
Nature
,
and
causes
of
things
,
judgeth
of
them
aright
,
and
esteemes
them
as
they
are
.
Hence
it
comes
to
passe
,
that
he
magnifies
things
truly
great
,
and
contemnes
those
equally
base
,
and
is
nothing
at
all
moved
with
such
Events
as
in
the
Vulgar
beget
Terror
,
and
Astonishment
.
Thirdly
,
through
the
Knowledge
of
things
Naturall
,
and
Supernaturall
,
hee
discernes
many
causes
why
wee
should
adhere
to
Vertue
,
and
detest
Vice
:
For
hee
who
understands
the
Nature
and
Excellencie
of
God
,
will
desire
to
be
like
him
,
and
hee
who
knows
that
God
hath
created
all
things
under
the
Sunne
for
him
,
will
be
enflam'd
with
a
divine
love
towards
him
,
and
approve
himselfe
gratefull
,
and
serviceable
to
this
his
Heavenly
Benefactour
.
Likewise
hee
who
espies
in
the
bruite
creatures
themselves
Images
of
Vertues
,
in
some
that
of
Fortitude
,
in
others
that
of
Temperancie
,
and
Chastitie
,
in
all
an
Instinct
,
and
Industry
in
undergoing
those
Offices
they
are
made
for
,
and
which
are
proper
to
them
,
will
easily
be
induced
to
thinke
it
a
shame
,
and
dishonour
to
him
,
if
he
(
having
the
use
of
Reason
,
and
having
the
stampe
of
the
Deity
upon
him
)
should
be
found
defective
in
his
Duty
.
Fourthly
,
and
lastly
,
Learning
layes
before
us
the
true
Forme
of
Vertue
,
and
furnisheth
us
with
Examples
of
brave
accomplish'd
men
,
with
the
rewards
,
and
Glory
they
purchas'd
by
their
Perfections
:
and
on
the
contrary
,
the
ignominious
,
and
horrid
ends
of
such
as
have
liv'd
,
and
died
mancipated
to
their
owne
sordid
,
enormous
Imperfections
,
the
Meditation
whereof
will
render
a
knowing
man
an
Admirer
of
Goodnesse
,
and
a
loather
of
Wickednesse
.
They
who
are
so
obstinate
as
to
reject
these
Reasons
in
favour
of
Good
Letters
,
will
surely
be
ore-borne
,
and
have
their
Judgements
rectified
,
and
reform'd
by
the
Authoritie
of
great
Men
,
who
have
declared
themselves
Fautours
of
Erudition
.
This
Example
of
Alexander
,
subjecting
Aristotle
,
shall
bee
the
Leader
.
Before
hee
attempted
the
subduing
of
the
World
,
hee
desired
to
know
what
the
World
was
,
and
it
is
likely
that
the
knowledge
of
it
invited
him
to
the
conquest
thereof
.
How
he
doted
on
Homers
Works
is
notorious
even
to
Dablers
in
Story
.
The
same
Alexander
it
was
,
who
would
have
no
difference
of
Habit
betweene
the
Grecian
and
the
Barbarian
,
saying
,
that
their
knowledge
,
and
their
ignorance
,
were
markes
sufficient
to
distinguish
them
.
That
incomparable
Prince
Alphonsus
King
of
Spain
,
Sicily
,
and
Naples
,
(
Coetanian
with
Charles
the
Seventh
of
France
)
after
he
had
once
read
in
Saint
Augustine
,
that
an
illiterate
King
was
no
other
then
an
Asse
crowned
,
had
ignorance
in
such
detestation
,
that
where
ever
hee
went
,
and
at
all
times
whether
in
Warre
,
or
Peace
,
hee
endevour'd
both
by
Reading
,
and
Conference
,
to
better
his
Understanding
,
and
at
so
high
a
rate
he
valued
Science
that
hee
gave
for
his
Crest
,
A
Book
open
.
It
was
a
frequent
saying
with
him
,
That
his
dead
Counsellours
,
his
Books
,
were
to
him
farre
better
then
the
living
,
since
they
without
flattery
,
Feare
,
or
bashfulnesse
,
presented
to
him
Truth
naked
without
any
disguising
Coverture
.
I
ingeniously
confesse
,
I
never
reade
that
speech
of
Solon
,
without
infinite
delight
,
who
lying
on
his
Death-bed
,
&
over-hearing
some
of
his
learned
Visitants
desputing
and
deciding
some
subtile
question
or
other
,
attentively
listned
to
their
Disputation
,
which
a
stander
by
observing
,
demanded
of
him
why
he
now
ready
to
leave
the
world
,
should
give
eare
to
their
discourse
:
to
whom
he
made
this
answer
,
worthy
to
be
treasured
up
in
all
memories
;
Ut
cum
illud
audiero
moriar
doctior
.
That
when
I
have
heard
that
poynt
discuss'd
,
I
may
dye
the
more
learned
.
Aristippus
being
demanded
by
one
,
in
what
his
sonne
should
bee
better'd
if
he
learnt
the
Arts
,
and
Sciences
;
answer'd
.
Etsi
nulla
alia
in
re
,
nequit
,
certè
vel
in
hoc
,
quod
in
Theatro
non
sedebit
lapis
supra
lapidem
:
If
in
nothing
else
,
saith
he
,
yet
truely
in
this
,
that
hee
shall
not
sit
in
the
Theater
one
stone
upon
another
.
The
same
Philosopher
often
protested
that
hee
had
rather
bee
a
Begger
than
a
Foole
,
in
that
the
former
onely
wants
money
,
the
latter
humanity
.
Antisthenes
confounded
the
studious
,
and
the
noble
,
and
admonish'd
his
Scholars
,
that
learning
was
the
only
Viaticum
,
that
in
stormes
and
shipwracke
when
all
things
else
perish'd
,
would
boy
up
in
spight
of
evill
Fortune
.
Aristotle
was
so
great
a
student
,
that
when
he
went
to
rest
,
he
used
to
hold
in
his
hand
a
Ball
of
Brasse
over
a
large
Bason
of
the
same
Mettall
,
that
when
hee
slept
,
the
noyse
of
the
Ball
falling
into
the
Bason
might
awaken
him
.
To
one
who
asked
him
how
the
Learned
differ'd
from
the
ignorant
,
hee
replyed
,
ut
Viventes
a
Mortuis
:
As
the
Living
from
the
Dead
.
Hee
would
often
repeate
this
his
owne
speech
,
That
Learning
was
an
Ornament
in
prosperity
,
in
adversity
a
Refuge
;
and
that
Tutors
were
farre
to
bee
preferr'd
by
Children
,
before
Naturall
Parents
,
because
they
received
from
the
later
the
benefit
of
living
onely
:
but
from
the
former
the
felicity
of
living
well
,
and
blessedly
.
I
dwell
the
longer
on
this
poynt
that
it
may
serve
as
an
Admonition
to
all
parents
,
especially
the
more
Noble
to
bestow
on
their
Children
a
breeding
answerable
to
their
Birth
.
In
elder
times
,
a
Sonne
was
discharged
in
all
duty
of
obeying
,
comforting
,
and
relieving
his
parents
in
their
Age
,
if
he
could
prove
that
they
had
neglected
to
instruct
him
in
his
Youth
.
The
Ancients
held
,
that
they
who
provided
Lands
,
and
ample
possessions
for
their
posterity
on
whom
to
bestow
a
learned
Education
,
they
would
would
not
be
at
the
charge
,
resembled
a
silly
fellow
,
that
hath
more
care
of
his
shooes
than
his
feete
.
They
thought
that
the
heaping
up
of
Riches
for
a
flat-witted
Coxecombe
,
who
knowes
not
how
to
use
them
,
was
as
if
a
faire
sweete
Lute
should
bee
presented
to
one
who
knowes
not
how
to
make
it
speake
harmoniously
.
They
deemed
ignorance
to
bee
at
best
but
a
dead
Sepulcher
,
in
which
many
were
buried
alive
.
Of
the
same
minde
were
the
tender
parents
of
this
sweet
young
Lord
,
and
therefore
incessantly
exhorted
him
to
be
carefull
rather
of
augmenting
his
Knowledge
than
his
Estate
,
whom
he
readily
obeyed
,
his
ambition
&
their
will
being
like
two
Lines
that
meete
in
one
Center
.
The
first
shew
of
his
inclination
to
vertue
,
was
his
love
to
Science
,
and
her
Favourites
,
which
I
may
properly
call
the
entry
to
that
future
Glory
which
vertue
intended
him
,
and
Time
deprived
him
of
.
Though
he
had
Lands
to
till
,
he
forgot
not
to
manure
his
mind
:
Some
by
necessity
are
constrained
to
study
hard
,
he
by
delight
was
invited
to
his
Book
.
He
was
none
of
those
who
imagine
all
that
time
lost
which
they
lose
not
,
accounting
all
those
Houres
mis-spent
which
they
take
from
their
pleasures
,
&
give
to
their
studies
.
He
would
praise
every
man
that
aspir'd
to
Knowledge
,
whether
hee
were
his
superiour
,
his
inferiour
,
or
his
equall
in
Learning
.
His
Superiour
had
his
best
words
as
his
due
,
because
he
deserved
them
.
His
equall
he
would
not
despise
,
lest
he
should
be
thought
to
undervalue
himselfe
;
and
his
inferiour
hee
would
not
contemne
or
insult
over
:
for
he
held
it
no
glory
to
excell
the
inglorious
.
The
very
desire
of
Learning
he
thought
laudable
in
any
man
,
much
more
the
Acquisition
of
it
.
It
was
an
infallible
Maxime
with
him
,
that
except
those
Eternall
Workes
of
the
soule
,
wee
can
properly
call
nothing
ours
,
in
that
all
other
things
wee
leave
behind
us
find
other
owners
.
He
therefore
labour'd
that
by
a
barbarous
Ignorance
hee
made
not
a
forfeit
of
an
Inheritance
so
inestimable
as
is
a
faire
Fame
,
which
was
able
to
make
all
the
survivours
of
his
name
happy
sharers
in
that
honour
posterity
shall
pay
him
.
But
what
was
the
scope
of
his
study
?
was
it
accutely
to
scold
and
wrangle
,
after
the
manner
of
the
Times
?
No
,
his
thoughts
could
not
but
bee
at
peace
,
whose
spirit
was
composed
of
nothing
but
sweetnesse
and
mildnesse
.
Was
it
to
pry
into
the
unrevealed
Mysteries
of
the
Deity
?
Nothing
lesse
;
for
hee
had
found
that
many
secrets
in
Nature
,
remaine
yet
unexplicable
,
much
more
then
are
those
of
God
inscrutable
,
and
impenitrable
by
any
humane
eye
.
He
had
purus'd
the
Fable
of
the
Poets
,
which
tells
us
that
Minerva
strooke
Tyresias
blind
,
for
beholding
her
naked
.
The
Morall
is
full
,
and
significant
,
implying
that
the
Deity
must
not
be
over-curiously
searcht
into
.
Was
it
for
Vaine-glory
,
and
to
learne
things
more
curious
than
profitable
?
No
,
he
could
not
be
proud
of
Knowledge
,
who
understood
that
man
was
ignorant
,
and
a
stranger
to
himselfe
,
till
God
reveal'd
him
to
himselfe
.
He
learnt
nothing
being
a
Child
,
that
would
not
prove
advantagious
to
him
being
a
Man
.
He
hated
superfluous
Science
,
and
made
choise
of
such
Authors
onely
as
may
instruct
,
not
distract
his
minde
.
He
knew
it
fared
with
the
soule
as
with
the
body
,
which
is
not
nourish'd
by
the
greedy
devouring
of
much
,
but
the
good
digestion
of
a
little
.
He
made
,
according
to
the
Proverbe
,
no
more
haste
than
good
speed
,
finding
,
that
to
come
to
the
end
of
a
long
journey
required
not
to
runne
a
pace
,
but
to
be
ever
going
.
Was
it
language
and
words
he
onely
hunted
after
?
Neither
of
those
,
for
he
loved
the
Kirnell
farre
better
than
the
shell
.
If
none
of
these
,
what
then
was
the
aime
of
his
study
?
surely
nothing
but
vertue
,
which
hee
knew
to
bee
Res
,
non
Verbum
,
as
one
sayes
,
A
Thing
,
not
a
Wordonely
.
And
understanding
that
the
Poets
feigne
her
to
have
short
armes
,
inferring
,
that
he
who
covets
to
be
embrac'd
by
her
,
must
make
a
neare
approach
to
her
before
hee
can
come
within
her
reach
,
and
attaine
to
that
supreame
Happinesse
;
he
came
so
close
up
to
her
,
and
convers'd
so
frequently
with
her
,
that
all
his
actions
ever
after
savour'd
of
her
sweetnesse
.
Her
hee
made
his
supporter
,
knowing
that
ingenious
Antiquity
represented
her
to
us
by
a
Hieroglyphick
γ
,
whose
toppe
parts
two
wayes
,
and
resembles
a
Musket
Rest
,
to
denote
the
aide
and
support
shee
affords
those
that
put
their
trust
in
her
.
And
because
she
divides
her selfe
into
many
branches
,
whereof
some
are
divine
,
some
morrall
,
he
resolved
seriously
,
and
intentively
to
practise
,
first
the
former
then
the
later
.
The
three
Theologicall
hee
first
chose
to
exercise
himselfe
in
,
were
Humility
,
Obedience
,
and
Charity
;
and
that
taske
ended
,
hee
purposed
to
make
a
strong
Essay
to
gaine
a
habit
in
all
the
Cardinall
,
and
lesser
Morall
Vertues
.
In
the
service
of
these
he
made
a
vow
to
spend
the
remainder
of
his
dayes
,
setting
apart
the
vertues
of
Italy
,
where
every
Painter
,
Dancer
,
Tooth-drawer
,
and
Mountebanke
is
cald
a
Vertuoso
.
Here
his
religious
parents
stept
in
againe
to
his
ayde
,
who
did
not
imitate
the
Images
of
Mercury
set
up
in
times
past
in
the
common
Roades
,
with
the
fore-finger
poynting
out
the
way
to
passengers
,
but
standing
still
themselves
,
not
bearing
them
company
.
This
loving
couple
(
as
happy
in
themselves
,
as
in
him
)
were
his
guides
not
onely
by
Advice
,
but
Action
.
The
reason
why
hee
beganne
with
Humility
was
,
that
it
render'd
him
more
apt
and
able
to
Reveale
this
Vision
to
no body
.
His
Disciples
demanding
who
should
be
the
greatest
in
the
Kingdome
of
Heaven
,
he
answered
,
Whosoever
shall
humble
himselfe
like
one
of
these
little
ones
,
shall
bee
greatest
there
.
What
taught
he
but
Humility
,
when
hee
said
,
When
thou
art
invited
to
a
wedding
,
take
not
the
first
place
at
the
Table
.
What
can
perswade
a
man
sooner
to
avoyd
Vaine-glory
,
and
to
enrole
himselfe
amongst
the
servants
of
Humility
,
than
his
moving
example
of
the
Pharisee
,
and
the
Publican
?
He
made
choise
to
bee
conceived
of
a
poore
humble
Mother
,
and
to
bee
borne
not
onely
in
no
remarkable
Country
,
but
in
a
Stable
,
where
beasts
onely
were
witnesses
of
his
Birth
.
Thirty
yeares
hee
lurked
in
the
World
,
in
somuch
that
we
read
little
or
nothing
of
him
in
all
that
time
,
save
that
when
hee
was
twelve
yeares
old
,
hee
was
found
hearing
,
interrogating
,
and
determining
in
the
Temple
.
About
his
thirtieth
yeare
hee
sent
not
for
Saint
Iohn
Baptist
,
but
came
to
him
,
and
demanded
Baptisme
at
his
hands
:
wherein
wee
learne
a
profitable
lesson
for
the
proud
,
who
disdaine
to
visite
their
Inferiours
.
Hee
that
came
from
Heaven
scorn'd
not
to
wait
on
earth
,
on
his
owne
servant
:
and
shall
insolent
men
who
live
on
earth
,
and
are
made
of
earth
,
scorne
or
grudge
to
give
each
other
a
visite
?
He
began
his
preaching
in
the
same
humble
manner
as
John
did
,
Repent
,
&c.
He
intruded
not
into
the
Nuptials
of
the
rich
and
lofty
,
but
of
the
meeke
,
and
penurious
,
where
Wine
was
wanting
.
When
hee
understood
they
meant
to
make
him
a
King
,
hee
flew
into
the
Mountaines
to
conceale
himselfe
.
He
being
Lord
of
all
things
,
paid
Tribute
as
a
servant
.
Hee
travailed
commonly
on
foot
,
and
when
he
was
weary
,
hungry
,
and
dry
,
his
lodging
and
fare
were
little
better
then
that
of
the
irrationall
Creatures
.
This
is
with
ease
proved
,
for
he
complains
himselfe
,
that
hee
hath
not
a
house
to
put
his
head
in
:
and
wee
finde
that
when
hee
was
faint
and
thirsty
,
hee
had
no
other
repose
then
on
the
ground
,
nor
no
other
drinke
then
that
pure
Water
drawne
for
him
,
by
that
purer
Samaritan
.
Hee
elected
humble
Disciples
,
and
preached
to
them
Humility
.
Hee
said
not
to
them
,
Be
Omnipotent
as
I
am
Omnipotent
,
Be
Wise
as
I
am
Wise
;
No
,
no
,
his
Doctrine
flew
a
lower
pitch
,
and
was
delivered
in
a
more
stooping
phrase
,
Be
humble
,
as
I
am
humble
.
He
named
himselfe
the
sonne
of
man
,
oftner
then
the
sonne
of
God
,
and
though
hee
was
truly
both
,
in
that
he
participated
of
both
Natures
,
yet
hee
chose
his
Denomination
oftner
from
the
inferiour
nature
then
from
the
superiour
.
Hee
made
his
Entry
into
Hierusalem
,
not
like
a
Triumpher
in
a
Chariot
,
nor
on
a
proud
Courser
with
rich
Trappings
,
but
on
a
sily
Asse
void
of
rich
Furniture
.
Being
to
depart
out
of
this
World
,
that
he
might
leave
behind
him
an
unequall'd
and
unheard
of
Example
of
Humilitie
,
he
wash'd
his
Disciples
feet
,
and
wip'd
them
with
the
linnen
cloth
wherewith
hee
was
girt
.
Lastly
,
every
circumstance
of
his
Passion
rellisheth
humilitie
.
Did
the
Saints
digresse
a
whit
from
this
path
trod
by
their
Redeemer
?
Surely
no
,
one
proofe
whereof
we
have
in
St.
John
Baptist
,
whose
thoughts
,
deeds
,
and
words
were
all
humble
.
The
Iewes
enquiring
of
him
whether
hee
were
Christ
,
or
a
Prophet
,
he
answered
negatively
to
both
:
whereas
our
Saviour
protesteth
that
the
Humane
Race
could
never
boast
of
a
greater
then
he
.
Hee
assumed
no
higher
a
stile
then
,
I
am
the
voice
in
the
Wildernesse
,
&c.
His
Diet
,
his
Raiment
,
and
his
Lodging
were
all
contemptible
.
How
often
did
that
faire
recover'd
Bankerupt
of
all
Grace
,
Mary
Magdalene
,
fall
at
our
Saviours
feet
,
and
wash
them
with
her
teares
?
After
the
miraculous
cure
of
the
lame
by
Peter
;
his
speech
was
lowly
,
not
attributing
the
fact
to
himselfe
,
but
to
the
divine
Vertue
,
and
the
Invocation
of
the
Name
of
JESUS
.
When
upon
his
entry
into
Caesaria
,
Cornelius
meeting
him
fell
at
his
feet
,
hee
rais'd
him
up
,
saying
,
I
am
a
man
also
as
thou
art
.
Paul
,
and
Barnabas
hearing
that
the
Inhabitants
of
the
City
of
Lystris
,
concluded
they
were
Gods
and
resolved
to
sacrifice
to
them
,
cut
their
garments
in
pieces
,
and
running
into
the
midst
of
the
Throng
,
cried
out
;
What
mean
you
to
do
?
Wee
are
no
other
then
poore
Mortals
,
as
you
are
;
Yet
with
this
their
clamour
could
they
hardly
keep
the
superstitious
people
from
sacrificing
to
them
.
Paul
submitted
himselfe
to
learne
of
Aquila
,
and
Priscilla
,
the
Art
of
Tent-making
,
and
got
his
living
by
it
.
This
last
,
but
most
learned
of
the
Apostles
,
was
a
submissive
petitioner
for
the
prayers
of
others
.
I
beseech
you
Brethren
,
saith
he
,
even
in
the
Name
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
and
the
Charitie
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
to
assist
me
with
your
Prayers
.
In
other
places
hee
termeth
himselfe
the
least
of
the
Apostles
,
and
professeth
that
he
deserveth
not
the
name
of
an
Apostle
.
In
his
Epistle
to
Timothy
,
hee
descendeth
yet
lower
;
Iesus
,
saith
hee
,
came
into
the
world
to
save
Sinners
,
whereof
I
am
the
chiefe
.
Of
the
same
Humility
rellish
these
his
meeke
formes
of
speech
,
Not
aspiring
to
height
of
Knowledge
,
and
thinking
themselves
superiours
to
one
another
onely
in
Humilitie
.
Armatura
tutissima
animi
Modestia
,
saith
Saint
Basil
,
A
modest
humble
minde
is
an
Armour
of
proofe
.
Wittily
Saint
Bernard
,
As
the
morning
Light
is
a
sure
signe
that
the
Sun
is
entring
into
our
Hemispheare
;
so
the
very
dawne
of
Humility
in
any
man
,
is
an
infallible
Token
of
approaching
Grace
.
This
is
the
Vertue
that
sweetens
all
the
rest
,
and
a
good
Frame
,
and
securitie
ever
attend
it
.
By
this
the
holy
Martyrs
have
triumph'd
over
Tyranny
,
and
Death
,
and
by
it
have
obtain'd
the
eternall
Crown
of
Glory
they
now
weare
.
He
who
void
of
Humility
,
seeks
to
engrosse
other
Vertues
,
doe
like
him
who
gathereth
dust
to
throw
it
against
the
winde
.
This
Vertue
never
entred
into
the
Heads
or
Hearts
of
the
Heathen
.
Nulla
tanta
est
Humilitas
,
(
saith
Valerius
Maximus
)
quae
dulcedine
Gloriae
non
tangatur
:
There
is
no
Humilitie
so
great
,
as
to
be
altogether
senselesse
of
the
sweetnesse
of
Glory
.
Humilis
satis
est
(
they
be
the
words
of
Livy
)
qui
aequo
jure
satis
vivit
,
nec
inferendo
injuriam
,
necpatiendo
etiam
:
He
is
humble
enough
,
who
is
a
just
observer
of
this
equall
Law
,
neither
to
act
,
nor
suffer
an
injury
.
To
these
I
may
adde
that
of
Isocrates
;
Legi
,
Principi
,
&
sapientiori
cedere
modestum
est
:
It
is
the
part
of
a
modest
humble
man
to
subject
himselfe
to
the
Law
,
his
Prince
,
and
those
in
wisdome
above
him
.
The
Philosophers
in
the
beginning
were
so
proud
as
to
assume
to
themselves
the
stile
of
Wisemen
,
Pythagoras
being
the
first
,
(
as
witnesseth
Laertius
)
that
modestly
called
himself
a
Philosopher
,
that
is
,
a
Lover
of
Wisdome
.
Socrates
,
indeed
,
seemed
to
look
towards
Humility
,
when
hee
said
,
Hoc
tantum
scio
me
nihil
scire
:
I
onely
know
this
that
I
know
nothing
.
But
this
was
spoken
respectively
,
that
what
hee
knew
,
was
nothing
in
respect
of
that
whereof
he
was
ignorant
.
The
Stoicall
,
Magniloquent
Sect
uttterly
excluded
Humility
,
and
the
Cynick
though
hee
appeared
sordid
and
abject
,
was
thought
by
other
Sects
as
inwardly
haughty
as
hee
was
outwardly
dejected
,
which
was
intimated
by
his
speech
,
who
said
to
one
of
them
,
That
hee
espied
his
pride
through
the
hole
in
his
Cloake
.
The
Poets
went
this
way
altogether
,
as
farre
as
they
,
—
Valet
ima
summis
Mutare
&
insignem
attenuat
Deus
,
Obscura
promens
,
—
As
saith
the
Horace
,
and
Seneca
in
his
Thyeste
;
addeth
,
Laus
vera
humili
sapè
contigit
viro
.
In
this
submissive
Vertue
this
our
sweete
Bud
of
Honour
grew
to
such
a
height
,
that
hee
had
many
noble
Emulatours
who
aspired
to
climbe
to
the
same
degree
.
Hee
made
Mans
miserable
condition
the
Mirrour
wherein
his
Humilitie
beheld
her selfe
.
Hee
rightly
conceived
,
that
as
the
Tree
that
growes
high
must
take
deep
root
:
so
the
Minde
that
ascends
to
God
must
first
prostrate
it selfe
before
him
.
His
sanctified
soule
(
if
her
Creatour
accepted
of
her
poore
endevours
)
was
altogether
carelesse
of
the
applause
of
men
,
like
a
chaste
Spouse
,
who
being
ravish'd
with
the
delight
she
takes
in
the
kisses
and
embraces
of
her
Husband
,
is
nothing
at
all
mindfull
or
carefull
of
the
frownes
,
or
favours
of
others
:
yet
did
she
humbly
comply
with
all
men
as
farre
as
the
Service
,
and
Honour
of
her
Maker
would
give
her
leave
.
This
Vertue
prepar'd
him
to
receive
the
yoke
of
Obedience
,
which
he
readily
put
on
,
and
never
The
Duty
hee
owed
his
Parents
,
Nature
had
Livie
,
and
Valerius
Maximus
.
The
first
is
,
that
Marcus
Lucius
Manlius
of
cruelty
to
Titus
Manlius
his
sonne
,
the
said
Titus
went
to
the
House
of
Pomponius
then
Tribune
,
and
with
his
Sword
drawne
,
threatned
to
kill
him
,
unlesse
hee
would
sweare
to
let
the
Processe
fall
against
his
Father
,
and
forced
him
to
take
that
Oath
.
The
later
in
Valerius
Maximus
,
is
of
a
Woman
condemned
to
die
by
Famine
,
whom
her
Daughter
then
a
Nurse
(
having
leave
daily
to
visit
her
Mother
)
nourished
with
her
milke
,
which
pious
deceit
of
hers
being
detected
,
bred
that
relenting
,
and
astonishment
in
the
hearts
of
the
Judges
,
that
they
not
only
pardoned
the
Mother
,
but
in
memory
of
this
pious
,
dutifull
fact
of
the
Daughter
,
razed
the
Prison
to
the
ground
,
and
erected
in
the
same
place
a
Temple
to
Pietie
.
Diceret
aliquis
,
saith
Valerius
,
hoc
esse
contra
legem
Naturae
,
nisi
Naturae
prima
lex
esset
diligere
parentes
:
A
man
would
say
,
that
for
the
Daughter
to
give
suck
to
the
Mother
were
a
thing
preposterous
,
and
against
Nature
,
were
it
not
that
the
first
Law
of
Nature
is
to
love
our
Parents
.
Aristotle
affirmes
,
that
the
Storks
nourish
their
Dammes
,
in
way
of
a
gratefull
recompensation
of
their
care
,
and
pains
in
breeding
them
.
Quicquid
praestiti
,
saith
Seneca
,
infra
aestimationem
Paterni
Muneris
est
:
What
ever
I
have
perform'd
,
comes
short
of
the
Benefits
for
which
I
stand
a
Debtor
to
my
Father
.
None
but
Monsters
of
Ingratitude
forget
such
blessings
as
these
.
His
Tutours
he
honour'd
and
obey'd
,
not
for
feare
of
punishment
,
but
love
of
Discipline
.
Hee
The
esteeme
of
the
holy
Prophets
,
Apostles
,
and
Fathers
of
the
Church
had
this
Vertue
in
ought
to
advance
it
much
in
our
esteeme
.
God
bound
man
to
obedience
presently
after
his
creation
in
the
state
of
innocencie
,
the
breach
whereof
hee
severely
punish'd
.
Noah
readily
obey'd
all
Gods
commands
when
the
Floud
was
at
hand
.
The
swift
obedience
of
Abraham
was
admirable
,
when
without
any
delay
at
all
,
he
made
haste
to
sacrifice
his
sonne
,
and
with
his
owne
hands
to
let
out
his
own
blood
.
It
is
worthy
our
observation
,
that
when
ever
the
Children
of
Israel
,
or
any
of
Gods
servants
fought
with
,
or
against
his
will
,
they
had
accordingly
good
,
or
bad
successe
.
God
told
that
if
hee
willingly
executed
all
his
precepts
,
hee
would
ever
fixe
the
Throne
of
his
Kingdome
in
Hierusalem
:
but
on
the
contrary
,
if
he
did
not
perform
them
,
he
would
cut
Israel
from
off
the
face
of
the
earth
.
Therefore
,
saith
S.
Gregory
,
is
obedience
better
then
sacrifice
,
because
by
sacrifice
anothers
flesh
,
but
by
obedience
our
own
wils
are
subdued
,
slaine
,
and
offerd
up
to
the
Almightie
.
An
obedient
man
,
saith
Saint
Bernard
,
deferres
not
the
execution
of
a
command
,
but
straight
prepares
his
eares
to
heare
,
his
Tongue
to
speake
,
his
feet
to
walke
,
his
hands
to
worke
,
and
all
his
thoughts
are
fix'd
on
the
will
of
his
Commander
.
And
in
another
place
,
the
same
Father
saith
,
That
there
is
,
no
doubt
,
but
hee
deserves
more
grace
,
and
favour
,
who
prepares
and
makes
himselfe
readie
to
receive
a
command
,
then
hee
who
willingly
executes
the
same
.
To
this
alludes
that
of
Plantus
,
—
Pater
adsum
,
Impera
quid
vis
,
neque
tibi
ero
in
mora
,
Neque
latebrosè
me
abs
tuo
conspectu
occultabo
.
And
that
of
Terence
,
Facis
ut
te
decet
cum
isthoc
quod
postulo
impetro
cum
gratia
.
Wee
will
conclude
this
point
with
that
which
Ovid
speaks
of
Achilles
.
Qui
toties
socios
,
toties
exterruit
hostes
,
Creditur
annosum
pertinuisse
senem
.
The
next
that
presents
it selfe
to
our
view
is
Charity
,
a
Vertue
that
will
usher
any
man
to
In
Charity
,
saith
hee
,
the
poore
are
rich
,
and
without
it
the
rich
are
poor
.
This
sustaines
us
in
adversitie
,
tempers
us
in
prosperity
,
fortifies
us
against
unruly
passions
,
and
makes
us
joyfully
do
good
works
.
This
was
it
made
Abel
delightfull
in
Sacrifice
,
Noah
secure
in
the
Floud
;
Abraham
faithfull
in
his
peregrination
,
Moses
merry
amidst
injuries
,
and
David
meek
in
tribulation
.
This
made
the
fire
a
playfellow
to
the
Children
in
the
Furnace
.
This
caused
Susanna
to
be
chast
above
the
temptations
of
man
.
Anna
after
the
use
of
man
,
and
the
blessed
Virgin
without
the
knowledge
of
man
.
This
animated
Paul
to
be
free
in
arguing
,
Peter
humble
in
obeying
,
the
Christians
gentle
in
their
confessions
,
and
Christ
himselfe
prone
to
pardon
sinners
.
What
shall
I
say
?
should
I
speake
with
the
tongues
of
men
,
and
Angels
,
and
want
Charitie
I
were
nothing
,
it
being
the
soule
of
Divine
Knowledge
,
the
Vertue
of
Prophesie
,
the
salvation
contained
in
the
Sacraments
,
the
fruit
of
Faith
,
the
riches
of
the
poore
,
and
the
life
of
the
dying
.
He
addes
,
A
man
may
have
all
the
Sacraments
and
yet
be
evill
,
but
he
cannot
have
Charitie
and
be
so
.
Againe
,
Science
if
it
be
alone
,
is
puffed
up
with
pride
,
but
because
Charitie
edifies
,
she
suffers
not
Knowledge
to
swell
.
He
calls
it
in
another
place
,
the
cement
of
soules
,
and
the
societie
of
the
Faithfull
.
Saint
Hierome
commends
it
to
us
in
these
words
.
I
do
not
remember
any
one
hath
died
an
ill
death
,
who
willingly
perform'd
the
Works
of
Charity
:
the
reason
is
because
hee
hath
many
Intercessours
,
and
it
is
a
thing
impossible
that
the
prayers
of
many
should
not
penetrate
the
sacred
eares
of
God
.
Sweetly
,
saith
St.
Gregory
.
As
many
boughs
spring
from
one
root
;
so
many
Vertues
are
deriv'd
from
Charitie
alone
,
in
which
not
rooted
,
no
branch
of
goodnesse
can
flourish
.
To
these
Suffrages
,
I
will
adde
that
of
Hugo
,
O
divine
Charitie
,
I
know
not
how
I
should
speake
more
in
thy
prayse
,
then
that
thou
didst
draw
God
from
Heaven
to
Earth
,
and
didst
exalt
Man
from
Earth
to
Heaven
.
Needs
must
thy
force
be
great
,
since
by
thee
God
was
so
humbled
,
and
Man
so
exalted
.
In
so
few
yeares
as
fourteene
,
a
man
can
expect
onely
a
propension
to
this
,
and
all
other
Vertues
:
yet
he
that
looks
for
no
small
progresse
in
this
,
and
most
of
the
other
(
for
the
practice
of
some
are
not
incident
to
that
tender
age
)
shall
not
have
his
expectation
deceiv'd
.
For
his
Charity
,
I
may
truly
averre
,
that
it
was
extensive
not
onely
to
his
friends
,
and
acquaintance
,
but
to
the
poore
,
to
strangers
,
and
enemies
also
.
Some
friends
he
chose
both
for
support
,
and
ornament
,
Arundell
,
Lord
Marshall
of
England
,
for
no
sooner
had
age
ripened
his
judgement
,
but
hee
elected
him
for
the
object
of
his
affections
,
and
the
modell
of
his
actions
.
A
copy
drawne
from
so
faire
an
originall
,
you
will
say
could
not
prove
deform'd
.
Others
hee
chose
for
delight
,
and
all
hee
lov'd
with
a
heart
wherein
Truth
kept
her
Court
.
Some
he
would
to
his
power
so
suddenly
,
secretly
,
and
cunningly
relieve
,
that
they
often
times
found
their
wants
supplyed
,
before
they
knew
from
whence
the
benefit
came
,
resembling
in
this
a
Physician
,
who
cures
his
patient
unawares
,
before
he
dreams
of
a
recovery
.
Hee
approved
that
speech
of
Diogenes
,
Manus
ad
amicos
non
complicatis
digitis
extendi
oportere
:
That
a
closed
hand
is
not
to
bee
reached
out
to
a
Friend
.
Where
he
discovered
a
compleat
worth
,
he
disdained
not
to
be
a
suitor
,
and
first
to
make
an
offer
of
his
service
,
in
imitation
of
a
Husbandman
,
who
first
tilleth
,
and
soweth
the
ground
,
and
then
expects
the
fruit
of
his
labour
.
His
word
,
and
the
effect
of
it
,
were
as
inseparable
as
heat
and
fire
.
This
true
property
of
a
Gentleman
the
Ancients
decipher'd
to
us
,
when
they
painted
a
Tongue
bound
fast
to
a
Heart
.
He
was
no
importunate
,
or
severe
Exactor
of
the
returne
of
a
love
answerable
in
greatnesse
to
his
owne
;
wisely
,
and
nobly
considering
that
hee
is
no
true
friend
who
is
alwayes
no
more
a
friend
then
his
friend
is
.
Marry
(
I
must
confesse
)
hee
was
exceedingly
Amicos
sequere
quos
non
pudeat
elegisse
:
Follow
such
friends
whom
to
have
chosen
you
need
not
be
asham'd
.
Hee
applauded
that
of
Anacharsis
,
Multo
melius
est
amicum
unum
egregium
quam
gregarios
multos
possidere
.
It
is
farre
better
to
enjoy
one
brave
Friend
then
many
meane
and
vulgar
.
Hee
knew
that
they
who
in
haste
,
and
without
mature
advise
contract
friendship
,
suffer
the
same
inconveniencie
as
they
do
,
who
greedily
and
hastily
devoure
sundry
meates
which
they
can
neither
quickly
with
ease
and
safety
cast
up
,
nor
retaine
.
He
discreetly
weighed
,
that
friendship
made
with
the
wicked
,
is
as
unstable
Vice
,
the
Basis
whereon
it
is
built
.
As
the
Ocean
with
great
labour
strives
to
worke
all
dead
bodies
to
the
shore
;
so
a
generous
friendship
expells
all
such
as
are
lost
,
and
dead
in
sinne
.
It
is
not
enough
to
be
wise
and
good
our selves
,
but
we
must
not
keepe
the
foolish
and
the
wicked
company
,
except
we
will
incurre
the
censure
of
the
World
,
and
be
our selves
thought
such
.
Vice
,
and
the
Vitious
he
fought
with
,
after
the
manner
of
the
Parthians
,
flying
.
If
his
dearest
friend
had
solicited
him
to
joyne
with
him
in
any
act
not
warranted
by
Vertue
,
he
would
have
answered
him
with
Pericles
,
who
to
an
intimate
friend
that
woed
him
to
forsware
himselfe
in
his
behalfe
,
replyed
;
I
am
my
friends
friend
as
farre
as
the
Altars
.
As
if
he
should
had
said
,
I
will
passe
for
thee
through
all
miseries
,
dangers
,
and
shipwracks
,
save
that
of
Conscience
,
which
like
a
Maid
of
Honour
,
I
must
preserve
inuiolated
,
and
immaculate
.
As
he
was
extreamly
nice
,
and
carefull
,
not
to
entertaine
debauch't
friends
,
so
was
hee
also
resolv'd
His
affection
to
his
friends
tooke
nothing
I
was
thy
Benefactor
,
now
make
me
thy
Debtour
,
become
my
Vsurer
,
and
thou
shalt
centuply
receive
the
Summe
thou
disbursest
.
In
obedience
to
his
command
he
assisted
,
as
farre
as
in
him
lay
,
all
that
wanted
.
He
that
gives
indifferently
to
all
,
shall
ever
bee
mercifull
,
but
he
who
sits
upon
the
Lifes
of
the
poore
,
and
judgeth
them
according
to
their
faults
,
not
their
necessities
,
shall
seldome
or
never
doe
good
.
We
ought
to
cast
our
eye
on
nature
,
not
on
the
person
,
according
to
that
of
Aristotle
,
who
being
reprehended
for
succouring
a
Lewd
,
but
poore
man
,
replyed
,
De
Humanitati
,
non
Homini
.
I
give
to
Humane
Nature
,
not
to
the
man
.
He
murders
the
poor
,
who
denyes
him
that
whereby
he
subsists
.
Most
accursed
is
he
who
shuts
up
in
his
Coffers
the
Health
and
Life
of
the
distressed
.
In
vain
he
lifts
up
his
hands
to
heaven
,
who
extends
them
not
to
the
succor
of
the
afflicted
.
It
is
a
lovely
ruine
,
and
a
pleasing
spectacle
to
Christ
,
to
see
a
devoute
man
undoe
himself
with
his
own
hands
,
in
freely
and
readily
bestowing
al
that
he
hath
on
the
naked
.
But
oh
!
it
is
deservedly
to
be
lamented
that
the
whilome
downy
open
hands
of
mercy
are
now
shut
,
and
brawny
,
and
that
most
men
either
out
of
a
flinty
Nature
,
or
out
of
a
needlesse
feare
to
be
thought
Vaine-glorious
leave
to
bee
pious
.
To
the
former
hard-hearted
brood
,
whom
no
misery
of
another
can
move
.
I
wil
say
with
Pliny
,
If
they
merit
the
Epithets
of
wise
&
valiant
they
shall
not
be
denyed
them
,
but
we
will
never
grant
they
shall
be
stiled
wise
,
and
valiant
men
Men
,
since
they
have
unman'd
themselves
,
lost
their
bowels
,
and
cast
off
all
Humanity
.
The
later
,
who
make
Vaine-glory
their
scruple
,
I
can
assure
that
the
Benefit
is
not
despicable
before
God
,
which
is
confirm'd
in
the
sight
of
men
,
but
that
which
is
done
to
the
end
men
may
see
it
.
From
his
pronesse
in
giving
,
we
now
come
Duplicat
dolorem
sustinentis
indignitas
Inferentis
.
The
griefe
of
the
sustainer
is
doubled
by
the
indignity
of
the
Afflictor
.
Appositively
to
this
Cicero
;
Qui
se
non
defendit
,
nec
obsistit
injuriae
,
sipotest
,
tam
est
in
vitio
quam
si
parentes
,
aut
amicos
,
aut
patriam
deserat
:
Hee
who
defendeth
not
himselfe
,
and
repelleth
not
an
injury
,
if
he
can
,
commits
as
great
a
crime
as
he
that
forsakes
his
Parents
,
Friends
,
or
Countrey
.
It
is
a
thing
not
very
hard
for
flesh
and
blood
to
rejoyce
in
God
,
and
his
Blessings
,
but
very
difficult
it
is
to
take
pleasure
in
all
Slanders
,
Infamy
,
and
Persecutions
for
his
sake
:
for
that
gentle
submissive
soule
,
into
which
Ambition
,
nor
the
least
thought
of
honour
ever
entered
,
would
yet
most
gladly
avoyd
all
abuses
,
and
dishonours
.
But
our
now
truely
blessed
one
,
the
beloved
Theme
wee
now
handle
,
had
learnt
this
holy
humble
Art
of
him
,
whose
life
was
nothing
but
a
continued
passion
.
All
injuries
intended
,
or
acted
against
himselfe
he
could
freely
pardon
:
but
those
which
were
directed
against
the
Majesty
and
dignity
of
his
Maker
,
he
could
not
endure
.
In
such
a
case
a
holy
Fury
becomes
the
Child
of
God
.
It
favour'd
in
his
opinion
of
more
piety
and
wisedome
,
to
overcome
a
slight
injury
,
that
reached
not
to
his
Parentage
,
or
Religion
,
with
silence
,
than
with
a
tart
replye
;
having
found
in
Story
,
that
small
words
have
overthrowne
great
Cities
.
No
wrong
being
equall
to
that
which
is
done
with
reproach
,
and
contumely
,
in
that
to
an
Heroicke
Spirit
the
losse
of
blood
is
not
so
grievous
as
that
of
Reputation
.
We
will
now
descend
from
the
Divine
to
the
Thrace
,
because
the
people
of
that
Country
are
hardy
,
and
couragious
.
This
was
to
denote
that
Fortitude
usuall
resides
amongst
men
of
a
generous
,
and
lofty
straine
,
whose
Education
leads
them
to
knowledge
in
good
Letters
,
which
at
once
informes
them
of
the
Renown
of
their
Ancestors
;
and
that
the
image
of
Fame
was
ever
placed
before
the
Temple
of
Mars
,
to
intimate
,
that
the
great
exploits
of
daring
,
and
undaunted
men
,
are
by
her
carried
into
every
corner
of
the
earth
.
It
will
not
bee
amisse
here
to
insert
the
judgements
of
the
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
passed
on
this
vertue
.
St.
Austin
shall
be
the
Chorus
:
Qui
vera
virtuta
fortis
est
nec
temerè
audet
,
nec
in
inconsultè
timet
.
He
who
is
truely
valorous
neither
dares
rashly
,
nor
feares
unadvisedly
.
That
of
St.
Hierome
deserves
our
observation
.
Fortitudo
via
Regia
est
,
aqua
declinat
ad
dextram
qui
temerarius
est
,
&
pertinax
,
ad
sinistram
qui
formodolosus
est
,
&
pavidus
:
Fortitude
is
the
Kings
high
way
,
from
which
he
swarves
on
the
right
hand
,
who
is
foole
hardy
,
and
obstinate
:
He
on
the
left
hand
who
is
cowardly
,
and
fearefull
.
Wisely
and
pertinently
Cassiodorus
.
Vir
vocatus
,
a
viribus
,
qui
nescit
in
adversis
tolerādo
deficere
,
aut
in
prosperis
aliqua
elatione
se
jactare
,
sed
animo
stabili
defixus
,
et
Coelestium
rerum
contemplatione
firmatur
manet
semper
in
pavibus
.
Man
is
so
called
from
his
strong
and
manly
mind
,
which
knowes
not
how
to
faint
in
suffering
adversity
,
nor
to
boast
&
insult
in
prosperity
,
but
fixed
in
a
stable
resolution
,
and
confirmed
by
the
contemplation
of
heavenly
things
remayns
evermore
fearelesse
.
The
Heathens
themselves
differd
not
in
opinion
from
these
holy
men
,
as
Cicero
testifies
in
his
Rhetoricks
:
Sicut
scientia
remota
justitia
caliditas
potius
quàm
sapientia
appellanda
est
:
sic
animus
ad
periculum
paratus
si
sua
cupiditate
,
non
aliena
utilitate
impellitur
Temeritatis
potius
nomen
habet
quam
Fortitudinis
:
As
Knowledge
not
accompanied
with
Justice
,
is
rather
to
be
called
Craft
then
Wisdome
:
so
a
minde
readie
to
encounter
danger
,
if
it
be
driven
thereunto
by
its
owne
desire
and
pleasure
,
not
the
publick
profit
,
meriteth
rather
the
name
of
Temerity
then
Valour
.
In
the
same
place
,
hee
thus
defines
Fortitude
.
Fortitudo
est
immobilis
inter
adversa
gloriosa
animi
claritudo
res
arduas
pulchrè
administrans
,
quae
nec
adversis
infestando
frangitur
,
nec
prosperis
blandiendo
elevatur
:
Fortitude
is
an
unmoved
glorious
serenity
of
the
mind
fairly
administring
things
difficult
,
which
is
neither
broken
nor
dejected
with
the
frowns
of
Fortune
,
nor
puffed
up
with
her
smiles
.
This
Vertue
is
justly
admir'd
of
all
,
truly
understood
,
Mollitudinis
est
laboriosa
fugere
:
It
argues
a
man
of
Effeminacie
to
seek
by
Death
to
flie
from
the
troubles
,
and
labours
of
this
life
.
This
Philosopher
,
and
the
Pythagoreans
held
that
as
a
souldier
ought
not
to
leave
his
station
without
the
command
of
his
Generall
.
So
no
man
should
dare
to
goe
out
of
this
life
without
the
leave
of
God
,
and
Nature
that
gave
it
him
.
Wee
will
therefore
spare
the
proofe
of
a
thing
so
universally
granted
by
all
Christians
,
and
many
Philosophers
.
But
withall
the
strength
of
Divinity
and
Philosophy
,
I
shall
never
bee
able
to
convince
the
greater
part
of
Mankind
of
another
errour
almost
as
damnable
as
this
,
and
that
is
a
foolish
,
and
pernicious
Tenent
,
that
they
may
lawfully
send
Challenges
,
and
accept
of
them
,
though
the
occasion
of
the
quarrell
be
Wine
,
Dice
,
or
prostituted
Women
.
Nay
,
many
a
man
is
the
Martyr
of
Temperancie
,
and
is
kill'd
because
hee
will
not
excessively
drinke
.
I
knew
two
Gentlemen
of
great
qualitie
,
and
little
wit
,
fall
out
in
a
Taverne
upon
a
protestation
of
the
greatnesse
of
their
mutuall
love
each
to
other
.
In
this
ardencie
,
each
strove
for
prioritie
in
affection
.
One
said
,
Thou
art
dearer
to
me
then
I
to
thee
,
whereupon
the
other
replied
with
the
Lie
,
and
was
run
thorough
in
the
place
where
he
stood
.
Monsieur
de
la
Noue
a
g●●lant
and
learned
French
Captaine
demonstrates
the
misery
of
these
Duels
upon
slight
occasions
,
by
an
infortunitie
that
befell
himselfe
in
the
like
case
.
Hee
being
importun'd
by
a
Gentleman
of
his
Nation
,
not
Acquaintance
,
to
be
his
Second
;
willingly
,
and
thankfully
condiscended
to
his
Request
;
for
,
indeed
,
the
French
think
themselves
never
so
much
honour'd
as
when
their
friends
value
them
at
so
high
a
rate
,
as
to
put
their
Honours
,
and
Lives
into
their
custodie
.
Well
,
this
brave
Second
associated
his
Principall
into
the
Field
,
where
they
were
to
fight
two
to
two
.
He
no
sooner
arrived
there
,
but
with
grief
and
horrour
hee
beheld
his
neerest
Kinsman
,
and
dearest
friend
hee
had
in
the
World
ready
to
encounter
him
,
as
being
the
opposite
Second
.
You
may
easily
conceive
,
what
a
combat
there
was
in
his
noble
brest
betweene
Honour
and
Affection
,
but
the
former
being
a
Tyrant
quickly
overcame
,
and
suppress'd
the
later
,
and
violently
hal'd
this
great
Commander
to
combate
his
Friend
,
who
there
fell
under
his
sword
.
I
will
omit
all
other
examples
,
for
all
come
short
of
this
.
Non
mediocris
animi
est
fortitudo
,
saith
Saint
Ambrose
,
quae
sola
defendit
ornamenta
virtutum
omnium
:
Fortitude
beares
no
meane
dejected
minde
,
which
alone
defends
the
Graces
,
and
Ornaments
of
all
the
other
Vertues
.
Sure
I
am
,
the
most
part
of
our
Gentry
put
it
to
a
cleane
contrary
use
,
and
exercise
it
onely
in
the
defence
of
Vice
,
and
her
deformed
Litter
.
These
silly
brothers
of
the
Sword
either
by
the
force
of
Drinke
,
Fury
,
or
Ignorance
,
are
rendred
as
stupid
as
the
Natives
of
Barbary
are
with
the
excessive
eating
of
Opium
,
which
hurries
them
into
Quarrels
,
that
Grace
and
Nature
both
tremble
at
.
The
Spartans
ever
before
a
battaile
,
tempered
and
allaid
the
choler
of
their
Souldiers
with
the
melodie
of
the
Flute
,
and
other
instruments
,
that
so
their
anger
might
not
deface
their
Reason
.
We
had
need
of
some
charming
Musick
to
qualifie
the
heate
and
rage
of
our
Rorers
.
Hardly
will
they
endure
the
Test
of
the
Scripture
,
who
cannot
undergo
that
of
Aristotle
.
First
,
sayes
he
,
a
valiant
man
fights
not
for
feare
of
Infamy
,
or
Reprehension
.
Secondly
,
not
for
the
awe
hee
stands
in
of
Military
Discipline
.
Thirdly
,
not
out
of
confidence
of
his
skill
in
the
Military
Art
,
or
of
his
own
strength
and
armature
.
Fourthly
,
not
being
urged
thereto
by
the
violence
of
naturall
passions
,
as
Anger
,
Griefe
,
Lust
,
and
the
like
.
Fiftly
,
not
out
of
ignorance
of
his
enemies
force
,
nor
out
of
feare
of
servitude
,
or
hope
of
bootie
.
Sixtly
,
a
valiant
man
is
the
Champion
of
honestie
;
for
which
onely
hee
is
to
combate
all
that
oppose
it
.
He
could
not
imagine
any
thing
in
excellencie
above
Honesty
,
which
he
still
makes
his
utmost
scope
,
not
being
so
blessedly
subtile
as
to
discerne
God
and
his
Church
.
Examine
wel
all
these
Requisites
of
Valour
,
and
how
many
now
a
dayes
shall
we
discover
and
allow
valiant
;
most
men
fighting
against
all
the
Rules
of
Honesty
,
and
the
Laws
of
God
?
If
our
Nobility
and
Gentry
shall
diligently
peruse
ancient
Histories
,
they
shall
finde
that
their
renowned
Ancestours
never
ascended
to
the
Throne
of
Honour
this
way
.
Debaushes
,
Quarrels
,
and
Duels
were
not
the
degrees
by
which
they
mounted
.
They
singl'd
not
out
an
enemy
in
the
field
upon
exchange
of
idle
words
,
never
drawing
their
swords
but
to
rescue
their
Countrey
out
of
the
jawes
of
Ruine
,
or
their
Prince
from
the
Height
of
a
Breach
,
or
from
the
Centre
of
the
Enemies
Battalion
.
The
Valour
not
thus
nobly
imploy'd
,
they
reputed
no
other
then
a
womanish
choler
,
a
simple
passion
and
a
feeble
revenge
unworthy
of
a
man
magnanimous
.
Certainly
,
our
Gallants
cannot
but
imagine
the
great
Alexander
,
and
the
mightie
Iulius
to
be
nothing
inferiour
to
them
in
this
Vertue
,
yet
did
not
they
judge
that
a
foolish
hastie
word
should
be
put
in
ballance
with
a
Life
.
These
Masterspirits
of
the
World
were
utterly
ignorant
what
reparation
of
Honour
the
Lie
claimed
,
and
of
the
circumstances
in
managing
a
Quarrell
,
which
these
Hacksters
make
our
yonger
sort
believe
to
be
a
Mystery
,
and
by
this
ridiculous
Science
get
their
Livings
.
Those
great
Worthies
concluded
that
the
offence
alwayes
return'd
upon
his
head
that
offerd
it
.
From
these
single
,
bloudy
Encounters
,
what
can
Gentlemen
expect
other
then
if
they
kill
,
to
have
their
Lands
confiscated
to
the
King
,
and
(
if
married
)
to
have
their
Wives
and
Children
live
by
the
succour
of
the
Knapsack
,
to
leave
infamy
to
their
Posterity
,
and
to
have
no
other
Historiographer
then
the
Hangman
;
whereas
their
lives
lost
in
a
set
Battaile
,
would
make
them
ever
live
in
the
best
Chronicles
of
theirs
,
and
after
times
.
Now
suppose
they
fall
themselves
under
their
enemies
hands
,
what
can
ensue
but
a
burial
of
their
Names
together
with
their
bones
,
and
(
without
Gods
infinite
extraordinary
mercy
)
the
damnation
of
their
soules
?
These
Duels
,
and
the
Horse-races
of
our
Gentry
so
much
in
request
with
them
,
have
two
goodly
originals
.
The
first
began
amongst
the
slaves
of
Haniball
,
after
he
had
passed
the
Alpes
,
and
the
later
amongst
the
Butchers
of
Barnet
,
who
(
their
London
Markets
once
ended
)
soundly
dows'd
in
drinke
,
used
to
run
home
for
wagers
.
What
will
these
Fighters
say
,
if
I
prove
to
them
out
of
the
great
Secretary
of
Nature
,
Aristotle
,
that
a
man
may
feare
,
and
yet
be
valiant
?
First
,
saith
he
,
a
valiant
man
may
dread
all
things
shamefull
and
wicked
,
and
the
Infamy
of
himselfe
,
and
his
.
Secondly
,
he
may
feare
all
things
so
dreadfull
,
that
they
exceed
the
power
of
Humane
Nature
to
withstand
,
as
Thunder
,
Lightning
,
Earthquakes
,
Inundations
,
and
the
like
,
which
yet
he
feares
not
,
so
that
they
shall
make
him
forget
to
do
the
office
of
a
man
resolved
.
Nay
,
hee
stops
not
there
,
but
maintaines
that
a
valiant
man
may
flie
from
an
enemy
without
being
justly
branded
with
cowardise
,
in
case
hee
findes
his
Life
may
be
more
profitable
to
his
Countrey
then
his
Death
.
Hee
cannot
then
be
said
to
shun
death
out
of
pusillanimity
,
but
to
reserve
himselfe
for
a
greater
good
.
But
I
desire
to
be
read
by
my
owne
Light
;
for
I
would
not
have
any
man
thinke
that
I
inferre
by
this
Invective
against
the
abuse
of
this
Heroick
Vertue
,
that
I
counsell
any
Gentleman
to
endure
grosse
Injuries
of
a
high
nature
,
such
as
may
disparage
his
whole
Race
,
Countrey
,
Religion
,
or
hazard
the
safety
of
his
person
;
for
of
these
foule
wrongs
,
all
Nations
allow
a
Repulsion
,
and
the
Ancients
called
this
harmlesse
defence
,
Incorruptam
Tutelam
.
Therefore
Mars
was
pictured
with
his
Bosome
open
,
to
shew
unto
us
that
worthy
men
ought
to
expose
themselves
to
all
dangers
,
for
the
preservation
of
their
Honour
.
This
deare
Gentleman
,
whose
losse
wee
condole
,
had
not
yet
received
force
and
vigour
to
make
a
demonstration
of
the
externall
valour
,
but
the
internall
he
had
abundantly
,
as
appeared
by
many
seeds
of
true
Magnanimity
,
which
both
by
his
carriage
and
speech
,
were
easily
to
be
discern'd
in
him
.
Such
sparkes
as
these
of
a
great
minde
the
Romans
discover'd
in
Cato
yet
a
childe
,
and
by
those
judg'd
of
his
future
Caepio
,
being
educated
in
the
House
of
their
Unkle
Livius
Drusus
,
it
happened
that
the
Latines
were
at
that
time
suitours
for
the
obtaining
of
a
City
,
and
that
one
of
the
chiefe
of
them
,
Popedius
Silo
,
was
entertain'd
,
and
lodg'd
in
the
House
of
Drusus
.
Popedius
one
day
amongst
the
rest
talking
,
and
jesting
familiarly
with
the
children
,
said
to
them
,
Will
not
you
intercede
with
your
Unkle
that
wee
may
have
a
Citie
granted
us
?
To
this
Caepio
fairly
and
readily
assented
,
and
promis'd
his
utmost
aid
,
but
Cato
silent
and
sullen
,
look'd
on
him
with
a
brow
knit
,
which
Popedius
observing
,
in
a
feigned
fury
,
tooke
the
childe
up
in
his
armes
,
and
held
him
out
of
the
window
,
threatning
to
let
him
fall
,
unlesse
hee
granted
his
request
.
Notwithstanding
all
his
threats
,
Cato
still
continued
his
silence
,
and
his
frowns
;
whereupon
Popedius
set
him
down
againe
,
and
whispered
this
softly
to
his
friends
standing
by
.
What
will
this
childe
doe
when
he
comes
to
be
a
man
?
I
believe
wee
shall
not
obtaine
by
his
consent
one
voice
from
the
people
of
Rome
.
Another
proofe
of
his
Magnanimity
hee
gave
in
the
time
of
Sylla
.
Being
about
the
age
of
fourteen
,
Sarpedon
his
Tutour
carried
him
to
salute
Sylla
,
who
civilly
and
gently
receiv'd
him
,
in
remembrance
of
the
friendship
he
had
contracted
with
his
father
.
The
palace
of
Sylla
,
was
then
no
better
then
a
slaughter-house
,
into
which
men
were
carried
bound
,
and
there
suffered
all
kinde
of
wracks
and
tortures
,
and
after
those
death
it selfe
.
The
heads
of
proscribed
men
were
as
commonly
and
openly
carried
in
and
out
,
as
if
they
had
belong'd
to
beasts
:
which
Cato
at
severall
Visits
,
not
onely
took
notice
of
,
but
withall
mark'd
how
good
men
sigh'd
and
groan'd
at
this
cruelty
,
and
he
himselfe
abhorring
so
bloudy
a
Tyranny
,
with
a
resolute
minde
,
and
countenance
said
to
his
Tutour
;
Why
does
no
man
kill
this
monster
of
men
?
To
this
Sarpedo
replyed
,
Because
they
fear
him
more
then
they
hate
him
:
but
you
answered
Cato
,
have
given
me
a
Sword
that
I
may
dispatch
him
,
and
free
my
Countrey
from
servitude
.
Hee
utterd
this
with
such
fiercenesse
,
that
Sarpedo
after
that
time
seldome
or
never
presented
him
to
Sylla
,
or
,
if
he
did
,
it
was
not
without
preparation
of
him
by
his
authority
,
and
advise
.
From
the
vanquishing
of
outward
Enemies
,
We
are
by
much
more
vertuous
,
saith
Pliny
,
in
sicknesse
then
in
health
,
wee
then
make
God
and
Vertue
our
continuall
meditation
,
and
are
no
longer
ruled
by
our
passions
and
affections
.
We
are
not
then
Amorous
,
Ambitious
,
Covetous
,
Revengefull
.
Riot
is
like
a
fierce
untamed
Tiger
,
the
keeping
whereof
is
as
perillous
as
the
taking
.
Wee
must
here
imitate
Vlisses
,
not
his
followers
,
whom
Circes
turn'd
into
Swine
.
If
wee
lend
an
eare
to
the
inticing
,
ravishing
voice
of
pleasure
,
we
also
shall
be
transform'd
into
beasts
.
This
Vertue
is
exercis'd
in
brideling
,
and
restraining
the
inordinate
appetite
to
meat
,
drinke
,
and
Venery
.
The
Romans
used
ever
to
imbowell
their
dead
,
and
not
to
allow
those
ignoble
parts
,
the
panch
,
and
guts
buriall
,
as
being
the
onely
causers
of
our
Dissolution
.
Hee
is
unworthy
the
Name
,
and
Definition
of
man
,
who
lives
onely
to
eat
.
Diogenes
called
the
Belly
the
Charybdis
of
the
Life
.
Musonius
the
Philosopher
warns
us
that
it
is
decent
,
and
behoofefull
that
man
alone
,
amongst
all
Creatures
,
being
descended
from
the
Gods
should
chiefly
nourish
himselfe
,
as
they
do
,
with
contemplation
,
not
minding
food
farther
then
to
satisfy
nature
:
Drunkennesse
,
and
Gluttony
are
comprehended
under
excesse
,
who
is
the
common
mother
to
both
.
The
Ancients
represented
to
us
the
uglinesse
Neither
are
Surfeits
of
meate
lesse
odious
and
If
thou
bee
the
sonne
of
God
,
said
hee
,
command
these
stones
to
be
made
bread
.
Innocentius
thus
inveighes
against
this
superfluous
feeding
.
Gula
Paradisum
clausit
,
primogenituram
Vendidit
,
suspendit
pistorem
,
decollavit
Baptistam
,
Nabuzardam
Princeps
coquorum
Templum
incendit
,
&
Hierusalem
totam
evertit
:
Gluttony
first
shut
up
Paradise
,
sold
the
Birth-right
,
hang'd
the
Baker
,
beheaded
St.
John
Baptist
,
Nabuzardam
the
Master
Cooke
burnt
the
Temple
,
and
overthrew
the
Walls
of
Hierusalem
.
The
frequent
use
of
delicious
meates
and
drinkes
amongst
the
Romans
(
as
their
Jecur
Anserimum
,
their
Porcus
Trojanus
,
Sumen
,
Wedulae
,
Ficedulae
,
Phaenicopteri
,
and
their
generous
Wines
,
Cecuba
,
Falerna
,
&c.
)
caused
them
to
be
as
much
censur'd
by
succeeding
Historians
,
as
their
vertues
made
them
admir'd
.
The
Naturallists
report
,
that
the
Sea-horse
hath
his
heart
placed
in
his
belly
,
to
intimate
his
voracity
.
Philoxenes
wished
his
neck
were
as
long
as
a
Cranes
,
that
he
might
the
longer
feele
the
sweetnesse
of
his
meate
.
I
knew
an
old
witty
Epicure
of
this
nation
who
hath
often
in
the
presence
of
a
whole
Ordinary
,
wish'd
himselfe
a
Cowe
,
that
hee
might
eate
his
meate
over
twice
.
Alas
,
said
hee
,
a
man
hath
small
pleasure
in
feeding
twice
a
day
halfe
an
howre
at
a
time
,
I
would
bee
ever
eating
.
He
wished
if
hee
must
needes
goe
to
heaven
hee
mought
bee
wound
up
thether
by
a
Jacke
.
All
the
while
this
glutton
pamper'd
his
body
,
his
soule
starv'd
,
receiving
no
nutriment
,
but
what
was
uncleane
and
putrid
.
Sminderides
rode
a
wooing
attended
by
a
thousand
Cooks
,
a
thousand
Fowlers
,
and
as
many
Fishers
.
That
this
sin
of
gluttony
is
no
solitary
vice
,
but
is
ever
accompanied
by
Incontinency
.
St.
Hirome
tells
us
.
Semper
Saturitati
junct
a
est
Lascivia
:
Vicina
igitur
sunt
venter
,
&
genitalia
;
pro
membrorum
ordine
ordo
vitiorum
.
Lasciviousnesse
ever
associates
saturity
.
Therefore
are
the
Belly
,
and
the
secrets
placed
close
by
one
another
,
to
shew
that
they
are
as
neare
in
consequence
and
dependancy
as
in
scituation
,
the
one
feeding
and
maintaining
the
other
.
Wherefore
they
were
in
no
errour
,
who
stiled
hunger
the
friend
of
Virginity
,
in
that
it
cooles
the
boyling
blood
,
and
renders
the
Flesh
subject
to
the
Spirit
.
Water
,
Fruits
,
and
Rootes
were
mans
first
sustinance
.
Lord
how
farre
is
his
dyet
alter'd
from
its
first
simplicity
?
Remarkable
is
that
saying
of
Alexander
:
I
know
no
better
a
Cooke
to
procure
me
an
Appetite
to
my
dinner
,
than
to
rise
betimes
,
nor
to
my
Supper
,
than
to
eate
little
at
Dinner
.
Epictetus
Counsaileth
us
,
not
to
decke
our
Rooms
with
Tablets
and
Pictures
,
but
with
Sobriety
,
and
Temperancy
;
in
that
the
former
onely
feed
the
eyes
,
but
the
later
the
soule
,
to
which
they
are
eternall
Ornaments
.
This
our
sweetly
dispos'd
Lord
closely
followed
the
advice
of
this
Philosopher
,
who
in
all
his
Actions
did
nothing
without
the
consultation
,
and
approbation
of
Sobriety
,
and
Modesty
.
Hee
never
was
invited
to
a
feast
,
but
he
diligently
cal'd
to
minde
that
hee
had
two
guests
to
entertaine
,
the
body
,
and
the
soule
;
and
that
what
ever
he
bestowed
on
the
one
,
would
be
corrupted
,
and
converted
into
Excrements
;
but
what
hee
conferred
on
the
other
would
enjoy
the
same
Eternity
with
it
.
He
observ'd
such
a
beautifull
Order
in
all
his
desires
,
that
they
never
ranne
before
,
nor
lagg'd
behinde
,
but
ever
kept
that
rank
in
which
Reason
had
placed
them
.
He
lived
by
a
Rule
composed
,
and
confirm'd
by
either
Testament
,
and
taught
his
soule
to
affect
nothing
shee
might
not
lawfully
covet
.
Thus
wee
see
the
admirable
fruit
Temperancy
brought
forth
in
his
mind
,
and
will
in
all
other
wherein
shee
is
once
planted
.
I
will
give
a
period
to
the
discourse
of
this
Vertue
,
with
the
words
of
Prosper
,
who
thus
extolls
it
.
Temperantia
facit
abstinentem
,
parcum
,
sobrium
,
moderatum
,
pudicum
,
tacitum
,
&
Verecundum
.
Haec
Virtus
si
in
animo
habitat
libidines
fraenat
affectus'
temperat'
desideria
sancta
multiplicat
,
vitiosa
castigat
,
omnia
inter
nos
confusaordinat
,
cogitationes
pravas
removet
,
scientiam
inserit
,
ignem
libidinosae
cupiditatis
extinguit
,
mentem
placida
Tranquilitate
componit
,
&
totam
ab
omni
in
semper
tempestate
Vitiorum
defendit
.
Temperancy
makes
a
man
abstinent
,
sparing
,
sober
,
moderate
,
chast
,
silent
,
and
modest
.
This
Vertue
once
entred
into
the
mind
,
bridles
lust
,
tempers
affections
,
multiplyes
holy
desires
,
and
chastiseth
the
vitious
,
sets
our
confused
thoughts
in
order
,
and
removes
the
wicked
ones
,
inserts
knowledge
,
quencheth
all
libidinous
flames
within
us
,
composeth
and
setleth
the
minde
in
a
pleasing
Tranquility
,
and
evermore
defends
every
part
of
it
from
all
Stormes
raised
by
Vice
.
Justice
challengeth
a
place
here
,
and
deservedly
,
it
being
a
Cardinall
Vertue
,
and
of
great
Justitia
Virtutis
splendor
est
Maximus
,
ex
qua
viri
boni
nominamur
.
Justice
is
the
greatest
splendour
of
vertue
,
from
which
we
purchase
the
names
of
good
men
.
Most
elegantly
Cassiodorus
:
Iustitia
non
novit
Patrem
,
non
novit
Matrem
,
veritatem
novit
,
personam
no
accipit
,
Deum
imitatur
:
Iustice
knows
neither
Father
,
nor
mother
,
she
knowes
Truth
;
she
is
no
respector
of
persons
,
and
is
in
that
an
imitator
of
God
.
According
to
the
strict
or
slacke
practice
of
this
vertue
,
all
Common-wealths
have
flourish'd
,
or
decay'd
.
Without
her
what
were
Man-kinde
,
but
a
confused
multitude
of
ravenous
hungry
Lyons
,
living
by
rapines
,
and
murders
.
This
Vertue
consists
of
two
parts
,
the
distributive
,
and
commutative
.
The
distributive
is
chiefely
Regall
,
and
appropriate
to
Emperours
,
Kings
,
Princes
,
and
to
all
those
who
derive
their
Authority
from
them
.
The
Commutative
is
an
equall
and
just
dealing
betweene
all
men
,
of
what
Condition
soever
they
be
.
The
former
part
is
of
greatest
dignity
,
and
acted
but
by
a
few
,
and
they
of
great
ranke
,
and
quality
:
yet
of
those
few
how
many
shall
we
find
that
execute
the
great
Offices
committed
to
their
charge
by
God
himselfe
with
impartiality
and
equity
?
The
difference
Aristotle
puts
betweene
a
just
Prince
and
a
Tyrant
is
,
that
the
aime
of
the
former
is
the
publicke
good
,
the
scope
of
the
later
is
his
owne
profit
.
These
two
behold
their
Subjects
with
a
different
eye
,
no
otherwise
than
a
Shepherd
,
and
a
Butcher
looke
on
a
sheepe
to
different
ends
,
the
one
to
preserve
,
the
other
to
destroy
it
.
A
Tyrant
is
like
Boreas
,
that
ever
threatens
shipwrack
and
ruine
;
A
just
King
resembles
Zephyrus
,
whose
breath
begets
plentie
and
sweetnesse
.
That
a
just
King
,
or
Judge
ought
to
be
a
most
studious
,
and
carefull
Investigatour
of
the
Truth
,
is
taught
us
by
the
example
of
God
himselfe
,
who
said
,
I
will
descend
,
and
see
whether
the
cry
which
is
come
unto
mee
be
just
,
or
no
.
The
Ancients
pictur'd
Astraea
(
whom
they
made
a
Representour
of
Justice
)
without
a
head
,
which
they
said
was
in
Heaven
,
to
signifie
that
Justice
should
not
regard
men
,
but
have
her
eyes
fixed
on
God
.
In
Athens
the
Delinquents
ever
pleaded
before
the
Judges
with
their
faces
covered
,
lest
the
sweetnesse
of
some
pleasing
countenance
should
so
much
move
,
and
so
farre
work
upon
them
as
to
make
them
doe
injustice
.
Two
stupendious
presidents
of
Justice
wee
have
in
two
mighty
Monarchs
,
Seleuchus
,
and
Cambyses
.
Seleuchus
having
made
a
law
,
the
transgression
whereof
he
ordaind
to
be
punish'd
with
the
losse
of
both
eyes
:
it
most
unfortunately
happened
that
his
own
sonne
was
the
first
transgressour
of
it
,
whereupon
being
a
most
indulgent
Father
,
and
withall
a
most
severe
Justicer
,
to
satisfie
the
rigour
of
the
Law
,
he
caused
one
of
his
own
eyes
to
be
pulled
out
,
and
another
of
his
sonnes
.
Cambyses
having
condemned
a
cruell
and
corrupt
Judge
to
be
flead
alive
,
caused
the
chaire
of
Justice
to
be
covered
with
his
skin
,
and
make
the
sonne
of
this
monstrous
Oppressour
sit
,
and
give
judgement
in
it
,
for
an
astonishment
,
and
terrour
to
him
,
and
all
succeeding
Judges
.
Iunius
Brutus
executed
his
own
children
,
for
their
conspiring
against
the
liberty
of
their
Country
.
By
the
severe
Lawes
of
Draco
,
which
were
written
in
bloud
,
when
the
Authour
of
a
Crime
could
not
be
found
out
,
even
things
inanimate
were
cited
,
condemn'd
,
throwne
out
of
the
City
,
banished
for
ever
,
or
broken
in
pieces
,
according
to
the
Nature
of
the
Fact
.
As
a
Physician
,
or
Surgion
oftentimes
administers
stinking
and
lothsome
potions
,
nay
,
sometimes
cuts
off
a
limbe
,
and
all
this
for
the
preservation
of
his
patient
:
so
in
the
body
politick
,
a
just
Judge
alwayes
inflicts
bitter
punishments
on
the
putrid
,
wicked
members
of
the
Common-wealth
,
nay
,
sometimes
cuts
them
off
,
having
this
for
a
Statemaxime
,
that
hee
who
is
mercifull
to
the
bad
,
is
cruell
to
the
good
.
In
this
distributive
part
of
Justice
,
no
wise
man
can
look
that
this
our
mirrour
of
the
youthfull
Nobility
should
attaine
to
the
least
degree
of
perfection
,
since
neither
his
few
yeares
admitted
,
nor
his
Prince
called
him
to
sit
in
the
seat
of
Justice
.
In
the
commutative
part
hee
was
no
way
defective
,
doing
to
all
men
as
hee
would
be
done
unto
.
In
this
hee
strictly
in
all
points
obeyed
the
advice
of
Seneca
:
Quisquis
Justitiam
sectari
desideras
prius
Deum
time
,
&
ama
,
ut
ameris
à
Deo
.
Amabis
Deum
si
in
hoc
illum
imitaberis
,
ut
velis
omnibus
prodesse
,
nihil
nocere
.
Ab
alio
expectes
quod
alteri
feceris
.
Praestabis
parentibus
pietatem
,
cognatis
dilectionem
,
pacem
cum
hominibus
habebis
,
bellum
cum
vitiis
praestabis
,
amicis
fidem
,
omnibus
aequitatem
:
Whosoever
thou
art
that
desirest
to
follow
Iustice
,
first
feare
,
and
love
God
,
that
thou
mayst
be
beloved
of
God
.
Thou
shalt
shew
thou
lovest
God
,
if
in
imitation
of
him
thou
seekest
to
profit
all
,
to
hurt
none
.
Expect
from
another
what
thou
hast
done
to
him
.
Thou
shalt
make
an
expression
of
pietie
towards
thy
Parents
,
love
to
thy
Kinred
,
thou
shalt
have
peace
with
all
men
,
warre
with
vices
,
thou
shalt
keepe
thy
faith
unviolated
to
thy
friends
,
and
observe
the
Lawes
of
Equitie
towards
all
men
.
What
should
have
beene
placed
in
the
Front
,
comes
here
in
the
Reare
,
and
that
is
prudencie
,
I
had
not
thought
.
As
in
the
warres
,
though
the
Enemy
be
farre
off
,
the
Watch
is
still
constantly
set
:
so
she
is
alwayes
vigilant
,
and
hath
a
severall
ward
for
every
blow
of
Fortune
.
She
is
like
double-faced
Ianus
looking
two
severall
wayes
at
one
and
the
same
time
.
This
all
men
will
readily
grant
me
,
that
if
Fortune
cause
a
Tempest
to
rage
and
rore
,
shee
shall
not
so
soon
sink
him
,
that
fore-seeing
the
storme
hath
taken
in
his
sailes
,
as
him
,
who
mistrusting
nothing
,
beares
them
all
out
.
Prudencie
teacheth
us
that
in
this
rolling
,
tottering
World
there
is
nothing
stable
,
&
that
the
best
remedie
against
an
evill
is
the
prevention
of
it
.
To
be
briefe
,
her
assistance
is
more
necessary
,
cleane
through
all
the
affaires
of
this
life
,
then
on
the
Sea
is
the
government
of
a
Pilot
,
who
knows
not
how
to
asswage
the
violence
of
a
storme
,
nor
to
appease
the
fury
of
the
Windes
,
nor
to
gaine
his
desired
Port
at
his
pleasure
;
whereas
prudencie
will
for
the
most
part
either
prevent
,
or
frustrate
all
practices
that
tend
to
her
ruine
.
As
if
there
were
no
Sun
,
we
should
live
in
a
perpetuall
darknesse
,
for
all
the
comfort
,
and
light
the
other
Stars
could
afford
us
:
so
except
the
beams
of
this
bright
,
and
radiant
prudencie
reflect
on
all
our
actions
,
and
Negotiations
,
they
will
appeare
dimme
and
sordid
,
notwithstanding
all
the
light
the
other
Vertues
can
lend
us
.
This
vertue
was
in
such
repute
with
Agesilaus
,
that
hee
exhorted
his
souldiers
,
now
ready
for
the
combat
,
that
they
should
not
minde
the
multitude
of
their
Enemies
,
but
bend
all
their
forces
against
Epaminondas
their
Generall
;
for
hee
once
subdued
,
all
the
rest
would
in
a
trice
be
vanquish'd
:
For
,
said
hee
,
none
but
wise
and
prudent
men
know
how
to
prevent
a
defeat
,
or
obtain
a
victorie
.
This
Vertue
eminently
and
superlatively
appear'd
in
all
the
proceedings
of
Christ
himself
with
the
Iewish
Nation
.
When
hee
had
attain'd
to
the
age
of
twelve
yeares
,
hee
sate
in
the
Temple
amongst
the
grave
Doctours
,
questioning
,
answering
,
and
instructing
;
and
the
Text
witnesseth
,
that
all
who
heard
him
stood
amazed
at
his
prudent
demands
and
replies
.
Hee
also
deluded
the
Priests
and
Elders
of
the
Iewish
Synagogue
,
by
prudently
answering
one
question
with
another
.
When
they
asked
him
by
what
power
hee
did
those
Miracles
?
hee
demanded
of
them
,
Whence
the
Baptisme
of
John
was
?
When
again
they
demanded
of
him
if
he
were
the
Son
of
God
?
he
replyed
,
You
say
that
I
am
.
This
prudencie
(
next
to
the
Invocation
of
his
Father
)
was
the
onely
Engine
wherewith
hee
defended
himself
against
the
pernicious
plots
of
this
Generation
of
Vipers
.
As
no
Architecture
can
come
to
perfection
,
without
the
help
of
the
Compasses
&
the
Rule
:
so
stands
it
with
Human
Actions
,
without
the
aid
of
prudencie
,
none
of
them
can
receive
their
grace
,
and
accomplishment
.
Let
a
man
be
master
of
all
abilities
imaginable
,
if
he
be
not
withall
judicious
and
prudent
,
to
make
a
right
use
of
them
,
and
to
produce
them
in
their
proper
times
and
places
,
they
will
acquire
him
rather
shame
then
glory
.
If
one
could
have
Aristotle
and
Seneca
,
without
book
,
and
were
withall
injudicious
,
inconsiderate
,
&
undiscreet
,
he
would
oftener
purchase
laughter
then
applause
.
Diodorus
(
omitting
the
idle
Fables
of
Proteus
)
informes
us
that
hee
was
adopted
King
by
the
Egyptians
,
in
that
he
excell'd
all
men
in
Wisdome
,
which
made
him
so
cunning
in
giving
,
and
taking
counsell
,
and
in
changing
it
with
dexterity
when
opportunity
served
,
that
hence
arose
the
Fable
,
that
hee
could
turn
himselfe
into
so
many
formes
and
shapes
.
If
in
his
determinations
hee
altered
any
thing
,
you
could
not
so
properly
say
he
chang'd
as
hee
fitted
his
minde
to
the
present
occasion
;
as
we
see
the
hand
is
the
same
still
whether
it
be
shut
or
extended
.
Indeed
the
minde
of
a
Wiseman
is
,
as
Seneca
sayes
,
like
the
state
of
the
World
above
the
Moone
,
where
there
is
no
change
He
alwayes
returns
home
(
as
it
is
said
of
Socrates
)
with
the
same
countenance
hee
carried
out
;
and
,
according
to
Epictetus
,
is
like
himselfe
even
in
his
dreames
.
This
our
incomparable
Child
of
Honour
gave
strong
essayes
to
climbe
the
summity
of
this
vertue
,
both
by
diligent
reading
,
and
observation
of
all
the
writings
and
actions
of
the
wise
.
In
his
conversation
he
ever
applyed
himselfe
to
those
who
had
deservedly
gain'd
a
fame
in
good
Letters
,
or
had
acquir'd
wisedome
by
Experience
;
whose
sage
precepts
,
and
admonitions
,
hee
as
greedily
dranke
in
,
as
a
thirsty
Traveller
doth
Water
from
a
cleare
fountaine
.
These
he
made
the
mirrour
,
wherein
he
daily
dress'd
,
and
compos'd
his
mind
,
which
was
a
Paradise
into
which
the
Serpent
never
enter'd
,
but
he
receiv'd
a
suddaine
repulse
.
Two
times
especially
hee
made
choyse
of
,
to
prepare
and
examine
himself
,
the
Morning
,
&
the
Evening
.
In
the
first
he
forecast
what
was
that
day
to
bee
done
,
in
the
later
he
cald
to
minde
what
that
day
he
had
done
.
To
doe
good
was
his
fixed
resolution
,
and
when
he
had
the
power
to
doe
harme
(
like
the
true
sonne
of
Prudency
)
he
never
had
the
will
:
wheras
the
Nature
of
a
foole
is
,
when
he
hath
not
the
ability
,
then
to
have
the
will
to
doe
mischiefe
,
This
Vertue
was
defused
cleane
through
all
his
endeavours
,
nay
through
his
very
habit
,
gesture
,
and
discourse
;
which
were
neither
too
mimical
,
too
anticke
,
nor
too
grave
,
but
sutable
to
the
modesty
required
in
so
greene
an
Age
.
Impudency
(
which
Politicians
prophanely
call
the
gift
of
God
)
he
hated
so
in
others
,
that
hee
never
gave
it
countenance
,
nor
harbour
himselfe
.
In
his
Discourse
he
warily
proportion'd
his
words
to
the
bignesse
of
the
subject
he
spake
of
:
in
imitation
of
a
Mariner
,
that
fits
his
Sayles
to
the
smalnesse
or
vastnesse
of
his
Vessell
.
As
slender
men
lightly
weare
their
cloaths
loose
,
and
large
,
a
little
to
augment
their
bulke
:
so
small
wits
,
who
want
matter
,
enlarge
themselves
in
words
;
whereas
indeed
,
that
speech
is
best
which
comprehends
most
sence
in
fewest
words
;
as
wee
esteeme
that
Coyne
most
,
which
in
a
small
compasse
includes
a
great
value
.
Hee
was
not
hasty
to
speak
,
or
in
speaking
,
but
in
both
prudently
observ'd
a
decency
.
He
was
very
carefull
not
onely
what
he
vented
,
but
what
hee
heard
,
that
it
relished
not
of
Immodesty
,
Levity
,
or
Vice
;
for
he
held
that
,
what
ever
it
was
,
a
villany
to
act
,
it
was
also
a
villany
to
harken
to
.
Hee
talked
alwayes
opportunely
,
and
appositively
,
never
above
his
knowledge
.
He
derided
those
who
with
a
great
dinne
utter'd
nothing
but
high
profound
Non-sence
,
resembling
in
that
the
Cypresse
trees
,
which
are
great
,
and
tall
,
but
beare
no
fruit
.
A
visit
given
to
a
wise
,
but
sick
man
,
by
one
of
these
babling
,
curious
impertinents
,
afflicts
him
more
than
his
disease
.
His
owne
secrets
,
those
of
his
friends
,
or
of
the
state
,
he
neither
reveal'd
,
nor
pryed
into
;
for
he
was
sure
he
could
at
any
time
speake
what
he
had
conceal'd
,
but
he
could
not
conceale
what
he
had
once
spoken
.
En
la
boca
serada
moxca
no
entra
(
sayes
the
Spanish
Proverbe
)
Into
a
mouth
closed
a
Flie
never
enters
.
Hee
had
happily
read
,
or
heard
,
that
Anacharsis
the
Philosopher
was
accustomed
to
sleep
with
his
right
hand
on
his
mouth
,
and
his
left
on
his
secrets
,
being
of
opinion
,
that
the
Tongue
more
than
Concupiscence
needed
a
bridle
.
Not
to
be
tedious
,
I
may
boldly
,
because
truely
,
averre
that
Prudency
was
the
generall
of
his
Demeanour
,
Speech
,
and
Actions
,
and
gave
to
all
of
them
a
Wise
and
safe
Conduct
.
You
see
,
pious
Reader
,
what
embellishment
,
what
Ornaments
his
Life
,
like
a
sparkling
Jewell
,
Nature
,
ready
to
abandon
him
,
and
that
as
well
Necessity
forced
,
as
God
cald
him
hence
:
then
selfe-love
,
the
Lifes
Jaylour
could
no
longer
with-hold
him
from
readily
running
into
the
Armes
of
Death
,
who
he
knew
would
soone
usher
him
into
the
imbraces
of
his
Saviour
.
He
beheld
Death
no
otherwise
then
a
Pilot
does
the
Winds
and
the
Sayles
,
that
will
bring
him
to
his
desired
Haven
.
He
endured
the
terrible
approach
,
and
the
furious
assaults
of
Death
with
so
undaunted
a
resolution
of
a
man
,
and
so
firme
unmoved
a
beliefe
of
a
Christian
,
that
he
became
at
once
a
pleasing
,
and
sad
spectacle
to
his
friends
,
who
believed
he
could
not
so
patiently
undergoe
such
paine
and
torments
,
without
the
extraordinary
assistance
of
some
Beatificall
vision
.
We
see
many
in
the
darke
are
afraid
of
every
thing
,
but
the
comfortable
light
expells
all
feare
:
so
it
is
for
those
who
are
blinded
with
the
Mist
Atheisme
,
and
Impiety
,
have
cast
before
their
eyes
to
doubt
,
and
tremble
:
security
becomes
such
as
live
and
dye
in
the
true
Light
,
and
are
illustrated
with
the
beames
of
Gods
favour
,
as
was
this
Patient
of
Heaven
,
who
not
being
curable
here
,
was
thither
to
be
translated
.
Before
the
comming
of
the
Holy
Ghost
upon
the
Apostles
,
they
feared
Death
,
and
forsooke
their
Lord
,
but
when
they
were
once
illuminated
from
above
,
they
undauntedly
appear'd
before
Tyrants
,
and
constantly
suffer'd
Martyrdome
.
Having
sent
his
desires
long
before
to
cast
Anchor
in
Heaven
,
hee
longingly
expected
his
owne
passage
with
a
calme
,
patient
,
and
contented
minde
,
wherein
no
distemper
ever
stay'd
,
but
as
an
unwelcome
stranger
.
At
length
when
he
perceived
all
his
senses
were
ready
to
forsake
him
,
being
innocently
ambitious
to
retaine
to
the
last
his
knowledge
of
all
things
,
he
suddainly
by
a
holy
Art
drew
the
vastnesse
of
his
memory
into
a
Compendium
,
and
remembred
God
onely
in
whom
are
all
things
,
in
whose
Fatherly
eternall
protection
we
confident
,
and
submissively
leave
him
.
In
this
bud
of
Honour
two
things
are
deservedly
All
men
will
confesse
his
infortunity
was
great
in
departing
this
life
in
the
Reigne
of
a
As
concerning
the
immaturity
of
his
Death
,
To
apply
this
;
out
of
the
subitary
death
of
this
Noble
Gentleman
wee
may
cull
many
comforts
.
True
it
is
,
that
Death
is
sayd
to
kill
the
old
by
Maturity
,
and
the
young
by
Treachery
,
and
that
unripe
,
untimely
ends
,
are
by
all
extreamly
pittied
;
but
if
we
will
harken
to
Reason
,
issuing
out
of
the
mouths
of
the
most
profound
Philosophers
,
she
will
tell
us
that
brevity
Seneca
,
he
will
assure
us
that
Nature
never
bestowed
a
greater
Benefit
on
man
than
shortnesse
of
Life
,
it
being
so
full
of
Cares
,
Feares
,
Dangers
,
and
Miseries
,
that
Death
is
become
the
Common
wish
of
all
men
afflicted
.
He
who
dyes
soone
,
should
no
more
complaine
than
he
whose
Navigation
in
a
rough
troubled
sea
is
quickly
ended
.
We
account
not
those
the
best
trees
that
have
withstood
the
rage
of
many
Winters
,
but
those
who
in
the
least
time
have
borne
the
most
fruit
.
Not
hee
who
playes
longest
,
but
sweetliest
on
an
Instrument
is
to
bee
Commended
.
Compared
with
Eternity
,
the
longest
and
the
shortest
Life
differ
not
.
Life
is
not
a
constant
Fountaine
,
but
a
fickle
Floud
that
quickly
rises
,
and
as
suddainly
falls
.
Some
have
compared
life
to
a
Bird
in
a
Childes
hand
,
which
sometimes
flies
away
before
hee
can
well
fasten
his
hold
on
it
.
By
the
vertue
of
that
Organ
wherewith
wee
first
behold
the
shine
of
the
sun
,
by
the
defect
of
the
same
we
are
brought
into
the
darknesse
and
shadow
of
death
.
It
is
so
,
it
is
so
,
Hee
that
built
this
faire
Fabricke
would
have
nothing
stable
,
and
permanent
in
it
but
himselfe
.
This
goodly
,
rationall
,
subtle
creature
,
Man
,
above
the
Stars
themselves
,
and
next
to
God
himselfe
in
Dignity
,
able
to
penetrate
into
the
deepest
secrets
of
Nature
,
to
observe
the
motions
of
the
heavens
,
&
to
compasse
both
heaven
and
Earth
in
a
thought
,
is
onely
immortall
here
below
by
succession
;
Generation
being
as
restlesse
as
corruption
.
The
mistocles
rightly
affirmes
that
no
creature
is
so
miserable
as
Man
,
in
that
none
but
he
knows
the
use
of
life
,
yet
when
with
great
studie
and
industry
,
hee
hath
attain'd
to
that
knowledge
,
he
is
by
death
depriv'd
both
of
life
and
it
together
.
Age
brings
to
us
experience
in
one
hand
,
and
Death
in
the
other
.
Iust
were
the
teares
,
and
sweet
was
the
Humanity
,
saith
Pliny
,
of
that
Royall
and
youthful
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Xerxes
.
Graecian
,
who
wept
to
thinke
that
not
one
of
that
glorious
immense
Army
hee
then
commanded
should
survive
one
Age
.
Such
a
gentle
commiseration
of
humane
frailty
made
Anselme
thus
cry
out
.
O
durus
Casus
!
Heu
!
quid
perdit
homo
?
quid
invenit
?
perdi
dit
beat
itudinem
ad
quam
factus
est
,
&
invenit
mortem
,
ad
quam
factus
non
est
.
O
hard
hap
!
Alas
!
What
did
man
lose
?
What
did
he
finde
?
Hee
lost
the
blessednesse
to
which
he
was
made
,
and
found
death
to
which
he
was
not
made
.
Shal
then
the
valiant
,
&
the
learned
have
a
harder
fate
then
fools
,
in
so
soon
parting
with
those
Crownes
which
Mars
and
Apollo
have
placed
on
their
heads
?
shall
they
so
suddenly
be
deprived
of
the
comfort
of
that
faire
Fame
which
with
bloud
,
and
sweat
,
with
fasting
and
watching
they
have
purchas'd
?
Yes
,
yes
,
Caesar
shall
never
terrifie
the
World
again
with
his
valour
,
nor
Cicero
charme
it
with
his
eloquence
.
The
sword
of
the
one
,
and
the
pen
of
the
other
have
now
with
their
Lords
the
same
eternall
and
unprofitable
rest
.
Alas
,
alas
,
Mans
is
as
brittle
as
glasse
,
but
not
so
conserveable
.
As
he
encreases
in
growth
,
his
life
decreases
.
As
whether
one
sleeps
,
or
wakes
in
a
ship
under
saile
he
is
insensibly
,
as
it
were
,
carried
away
towards
his
intended
Port
;
so
what
ever
we
are
doing
,
we
unawares
sail
towards
the
region
of
death
.
Time
deals
with
man
Arithmetically
;
He
first
addes
to
his
Beauty
,
and
multiplies
his
Graces
,
and
then
hee
substracts
all
these
,
and
makes
a
long
lasting
Division
between
him
and
Nature
.
It
were
strange
,
if
we
should
think
wee
shall
never
arrive
there
,
whither
wee
are
ever
going
.
Plutarch
writes
of
creatures
in
a
certain
part
of
the
World
which
are
borne
in
the
morning
,
are
in
their
prime
at
noon
,
grow
aged
towards
the
evening
,
and
are
dead
ere
night
.
Had
these
reasonable
soules
as
wee
have
,
they
would
have
also
the
same
passions
.
They
would
after
our
womanish
custome
lament
their
untimely
death
who
die
before
noon
,
esteeme
them
happy
that
live
till
the
evening
,
and
yet
bewaile
them
too
who
depart
at
night
.
Our
fond
whining
were
seasonable
,
and
to
purpose
,
if
it
could
prevent
the
death
of
our
friends
,
or
call
them
from
the
dead
;
but
it
savours
of
a
vain
,
foolish
arrogant
ambition
to
desire
they
should
be
privileged
,
and
exempted
from
the
fatall
,
common
condition
of
Mankinde
,
since
wee
cannot
be
ignorant
that
God
hath
set
down
a
period
beyond
which
Nature
her self
shal
not
passe
.
Nothing
representeth
better
to
us
this
world
then
a
theater
;
Exits
:
So
we
poore
Mortals
who
are
sent
by
our
provident
omnipotent
Creator
into
this
world
,
to
undergo
several
charges
(
some
wherof
are
honorable
,
some
ignominious
)
have
al
an
egresse
out
of
this
life
,
aswel
as
an
ingresse
allotted
us
.
Some
a
long
time
be
at
this
earthly
Stage
with
the
Majestie
of
a
Tragedian
;
others
are
fools
&
sneak
up
&
down
to
the
laughter
of
all
men
;
others
again
lie
manacled
,
bed-rid
,
or
(
which
is
the
worst
of
Fates
)
distracted
.
Some
no
sooner
enter
but
they
go
out
again
,
as
did
that
child
in
the
besieged
,
depopulated
,
desolate
town
of
Saguntum
,
who
by
an
instinct
of
Nature
,
no
sooner
put
his
head
out
of
his
Mothers
wombe
,
but
he
pull'd
it
in
again
,
as
divining
the
approching
destruction
of
his
Citie
and
himself
.
To
continue
the
similitude
;
As
hee
who
acted
an
Emperor
(
the
Play
once
done
)
is
no
better
then
he
who
represented
a
slave
:
so
the
Grave
,
as
Horace
saith
,
equals
all
,
the
King
&
the
Beggar
.
Pertinently
to
this
S.
Ambrose
,
We
are
born
naked
,
saith
he
,
and
die
naked
,
&
there
is
no
difference
between
the
carcasses
of
the
rich
,
and
the
poore
,
save
that
the
former
stinke
worse
through
a
repletion
with
excrements
,
which
surfets
of
delicious
fare
have
left
behinde
.
This
world
is
Deaths
region
,
about
it
as
a
triumpher
over
all
flesh
he
rides
his
circuit
.
Since
then
his
coming
is
so
necessary
,
so
inevitable
,
whether
he
comes
in
the
dawne
,
the
noon
,
or
twilight
of
life
,
let
us
bid
him
welcome
.
What
should
hinder
us
to
doe
so
I
cannot
tell
;
since
as
there
is
no
ship
but
in
one
Voyage
or
other
dasheth
not
against
some
hidden
rock
,
or
shelf
:
so
the
most
happy
life
is
not
free
from
infinite
crosses
and
disasters
.
Yet
though
every
man
knows
the
inconveniences
&
perils
of
this
life
,
saith
S.
Austin
,
and
that
he
must
once
die
,
yet
all
men
seeke
to
shun
,
and
defer
the
houre
of
death
;
not
onely
the
heathen
,
but
they
to
who
believe
the
resurrection
of
the
body
,
and
the
life
everlasting
.
To
our
reproch
the
holy
Father
spake
this
;
for
though
it
be
no
shame
for
a
Gentile
to
fear
death
,
whose
onely
scope
of
life
is
to
see
and
be
seen
,
to
know
&
be
known
;
yet
to
a
Christian
it
is
,
whose
aime
and
desire
should
be
not
onely
to
serve
God
faithfully
here
,
but
also
to
raigne
gloriously
with
him
hereafter
.
What
is
necessarily
to
be
done
,
a
wiseman
does
voluntarily
;
let
us
not
therefore
with
the
foolish
Tyrant
in
Lucian
,
either
with
tears
,
prayers
,
or
bribes
vainly
think
to
perswade
inexorable
Death
,
but
wisely
consider
that
wee
are
neither
the
first
,
nor
the
last
;
All
have
gone
before
,
and
must
follow
us
.
Nay
,
not
a
man
dies
,
that
hath
not
at
the
same
time
many
to
accompany
him
,
who
arrive
at
the
house
of
Death
by
severall
waies
.
Life
is
a
due
debt
to
God
and
Nature
,
as
long
as
we
have
it
,
we
enjoy
a
benefit
,
when
wee
are
deprived
of
it
wee
have
no
wrong
.
Let
us
then
daily
render
it
backe
to
him
that
gave
it
,
since
hee
is
a
bad
debtour
who
unwillingly
payes
.
As
a
Souldier
,
the
signe
once
given
,
readily
obeyes
the
command
of
his
Generall
,
and
armed
at
all
poynts
,
followes
him
through
all
Dangers
,
and
faceth
Death
himselfe
:
so
must
we
chearefully
observe
the
very
Beck
of
our
Heavenly
Commander
,
and
through
all
miseries
and
destruction
it selfe
make
our
way
to
him
.
Death
should
be
no
longer
formidable
to
us
,
since
our
Redeemer
hath
taken
out
his
sting
,
and
hee
is
now
no
other
then
an
old
toothlesse
Dragon
.
It
is
a
foolish
thing
to
delight
in
sleep
,
and
abhorre
Death
,
sleepe
being
onely
a
continuall
imitation
of
it
.
Hee
that
seriously
contemplates
the
priviledges
,
and
advantages
that
accompany
a
Christian
Death
,
will
be
in
love
with
it
.
It
is
the
Refuge
of
the
afflicted
,
and
the
end
of
all
earthly
evils
.
It
takes
not
life
from
us
,
but
presents
it
to
the
custodie
of
Eternity
.
It
is
not
an
end
but
an
intermittance
The
prerogatives
of
Death
being
so
many
,
and
so
certaine
,
let
us
no
longer
condole
the
decease
of
this
our
compleatly
noble
Friend
,
but
congratulate
his
happy
departure
hence
,
and
his
safe
arrivall
in
the
Imperiall
Heaven
.
When
Proculus
Iulius
had
reported
to
the
Romans
that
hee
had
seene
Romulus
,
and
that
assuredly
hee
was
a
God
,
a
Wonder
it
was
,
saith
Livie
,
how
much
they
gave
credit
to
this
Tale
,
and
how
greatly
the
misse
of
Romulus
,
both
amongst
the
Commons
,
and
Souldiers
,
was
by
this
beliefe
of
his
Immortalitie
digested
.
Much
more
should
our
sorrow
be
mittigated
by
the
confidence
we
have
that
this
our
blessed
Friends
soule
is
ascended
to
him
from
whom
it
descended
.
When
Brasse
or
Gold
is
melted
to
make
the
Statue
of
some
great
deserving
Man
,
wee
say
not
that
the
Mettall
is
lost
,
but
dignified
:
In
like
case
when
a
Body
is
turn'd
into
its
first
Principles
,
Dust
,
and
Ashes
,
wee
who
have
an
eye
to
the
glorious
Resurrection
of
it
,
thinke
not
it
is
utterly
ruin'd
,
but
dissolv'd
to
be
refin'd
.
As
in
the
Eclipse
of
the
Sunne
or
Moone
,
wee
nothing
at
all
wonder
,
or
grieve
,
because
wee
know
either
Starre
will
reassume
its
former
splendour
:
So
wee
who
are
conscious
of
the
divine
promise
of
Immortality
should
undismay'd
,
believe
the
death
of
this
our
honour'd
friend
,
no
other
then
a
passage
to
a
better
eternal
life
.
I
wil
conclude
with
this
double
consolation
to
all
his
Honourers
.
First
,
that
hee
died
with
that
matchlesse
comfort
,
The
love
of
all
men
,
and
heard
yet
living
,
the
judgement
men
would
passe
on
him
dead
,
and
was
,
as
it
were
,
present
with
Posterity
.
Secondly
,
that
whereas
here
hee
ranne
a
perpetuall
hazard
,
in
that
hee
carried
a
heavenly
Treasure
in
an
Earthy
Vessell
,
hee
now
lives
in
an
unmoved
Securitie
,
and
that
Treasure
is
enclosed
in
a
Magazine
to
which
the
Heavens
are
Walls
,
and
the
Angels
Warders
.
It
is
now
high
time
to
cover
this
sweet
,
beautifull
issue
,
who
with
the
Rose
and
Violet
is
lay'd
downe
to
sleepe
in
the
Bosome
of
his
first
Mother
the
Earth
,
and
shal
enjoy
,
though
it
may
be
not
so
suddaine
,
yet
as
certaine
a
Spring
as
they
,
and
which
is
more
,
an
everlasting
.
FINIS
.