EMBLEMA
ANIMAE
:
OR
MORALL
DISCOVRSES
REFLECTING
UPON
HUMANITY
.
DISCOVRSE
.
1.
Of
Preparation
against
the
assaults
and
onsets
of
Passions
.
MANS
Happinesse
on
earth
,
(
next
to
the
knowledge
of
Christ
and
his
Maker
)
depends
upon
his
owne
Actions
,
which
duely
considered
,
and
that
the
Soule
is
,
as
it
were
,
the
fountaine
and
welspring
therof
,
our
chiefest
care
(
if
we
desire
to
lead
an
happy
life
)
ought
to
be
spent
in
quieting
and
making
calme
that
better
part
within
us
,
endeavoring
by
all
meanes
,
that
it
be
not
troubled
,
nor
diseased
by
vulgar
and
popular
opinions
,
they
being
things
much
contrary
to
the
excellency
of
the
nature
and
essence
thereof
.
A
Passion
is
a
violent
motion
of
the
soule
in
the
sensitive
part
thereof
,
which
is
either
made
to
follow
that
which
the
soule
thinketh
to
be
good
for
it
,
or
to
fly
that
which
it
takes
to
be
evill
:
And
there
are
sundry
sorts
of
them
,
which
are
therefore
called
Passions
;
to
put
a
difference
betwixt
them
and
the
fancies
of
the
soule
,
which
are
naturally
in-bred
in
it
.
Now
ther●
are
two
seasons
,
the
one
of
prosperity
,
the
other
of
adversity
wherein
the
soule
is
wont
to
be
vexed
and
tossed
with
those
of
the
inferiour
part
,
as
with
so
many
violent
&
impetuous
winds
.
And
therefore
wee
must
herein
imitate
Mariners
,
who
before
they
loose
off
from
the
Port
,
doe
furnish
themselves
with
all
things
necessary
and
needefull
for
resisting
of
Tempests
and
stormes
:
and
provide
our selves
aforehand
of
such
sound
and
substantiall
discourse
,
as
may
anchor
and
stay
the
mind
against
the
push
of
our
passions
,
when
as
they
,
like
so
many
surging
waves
,
doe
nil
we
,
will
wee
,
overflow
into
our
Boate
;
and
as
Xenophon
did
exhort
his
fellow
Citizens
to
sacrifice
unto
God
in
time
of
prosperity
,
to
the
end
they
might
finde
him
the
more
ready
and
favourable
,
when
as
they
should
invoke
him
in
their
adversity
:
So
must
we
doe
,
and
even
at
our
first
leasure
,
contract
acquaintance
with
rectified
reason
,
to
the
end
,
that
when
wee
shall
stand
in
neede
of
her
ayde
and
assistance
,
shee
may
come
running
to
us
,
as
knowing
us
by
our
voyce
,
and
having
already
an
affectionate
and
earnest
desire
for
our
defence
.
For
Reason
is
the
office
of
Vertue
,
and
not
of
fleeting
inconstant
Opinion
,
or
tumultuous
passion
;
but
is
mans
bonus
Genius
,
his
good
spirit
,
in
such
sort
,
that
he
cannot
without
shame
stumble
;
&
the
discourse
of
rectified
Reason
is
both
the
master
and
daunter
of
all
peevish
and
perverse
affections
:
for
,
when
as
we
have
once
taken
good
notice
of
them
by
an
earnest
examination
and
tryall
,
made
and
had
touching
the
same
;
and
that
wee
have
ripely
&
advisedly
weighed
both
what
power
they
have
over
us
,
and
what
Empire
wee
hold
over
them
:
They
are
not
thereafter
so
fierce
&
furious
in
our
behalfe
,
but
are
more
easily
,
and
with
much
lesse
labour
appeased
&
pacified
.
They
therin
not
a
little
resembling
our
little
dogs
,
which
will
barke
uncessantly
at
such
as
they
are
wont
to
see
and
know
;
but
by
and
by
are
quieted
as
soone
as
they
heare
the
voyces
of
them
.
The
Empiry
or
seate
of
the
minde
,
when
it
is
fixed
in
its
proper
Spheare
,
is
Wisedome
,
Science
and
Art
being
the
two
supporting
pillars
,
and
these
three
are
the
mistresse
parts
of
a
reasonable
soule
,
whose
governour
and
guide
being
the
minde
,
the
Wise
have
compared
the
commandement
of
it
above
this
sensuall
and
terrestriall
part
of
the
soule
,
out
of
which
our
passions
doe
spring
,
unto
the
office
of
a
Rider
,
who
teaching
and
training
his
Horse
,
and
sitting
within
the
sadle
,
manageth
and
turneth
him
at
his
will
.
But
if
he
should
bring
a
young
Horse
to
the
Turney
or
Tilt
,
which
had
never
before
borne
the
Bit
,
or
galloped
the
round
,
he
must
needes
reape
great
discredit
thereby
;
as
not
having
before
broken
him
with
convenient
Discipline
,
fit
for
a
management
of
so
great
importance
.
In
like
manner
,
before
we
put
our
backs
under
the
burthen
of
any
businesse
,
or
expose
our selves
unto
the
publicke
view
of
the
world
,
wee
must
endeavour
to
breake
and
bring
under
this
wilde
and
unbacked
part
of
the
soule
,
and
make
it
,
as
it
were
,
to
bite
upon
the
Bit
,
by
bringing
it
to
learne
the
lawes
and
measures
whereby
it
must
be
managed
,
and
mastered
in
all
occasions
,
and
at
all
occurrences
:
and
in
the
meane
time
,
we
must
not
forget
to
enhearten
and
encourage
it
,
by
acquainting
it
with
the
pleasure
and
contentment
,
wherewith
is
accompanied
the
issue
and
end
of
all
worthy
and
vertuous
actions
.
Meditation
is
a
secret
lifting
up
of
the
soule
from
vanity
,
and
a
fixation
of
the
minde
upon
things
really
good
and
honest
;
and
it
is
much
helpt
by
Eloquence
,
which
being
a
purity
and
elegancy
of
Speech
,
stirres
up
discourse
in
the
apprehensive
parts
of
man
:
and
when
it
is
connext
with
Meditation
,
they
both
give
an
edge
unto
the
soule
,
and
make
it
steele-hard
unpierceable
,
even
unto
the
sharpest
point
of
the
strongest
passions
;
and
usually
wee
prove
admirable
at
every
such
exercise
,
when
wee
have
before
hand
accustomed
our selves
unto
,
what
difficulty
soever
they
may
seeme
to
carry
with
them
.
On
the
other
side
,
there
is
nothing
(
bee
it
never
so
easie
)
which
will
not
seeme
hard
and
difficult
,
and
withall
much
trouble
us
,
if
we
are
found
but
novices
,
and
new
apprentices
therein
.
How
often
thinke
yee
,
must
Canius
have
meditated
upon
death
,
and
revolved
in
his
mind
what
thing
it
should
be
,
who
being
condemned
by
the
Tyrant
,
and
sent
to
the
place
of
execution
,
was
so
farre
from
being
any
whit
dismayed
thereat
in
his
minde
,
that
merrily
,
and
as
it
were
jestingly
,
he
bid
the
Centurion
,
who
came
for
him
,
remember
that
hee
was
stronger
by
the
advantage
of
one
Chesseman
,
then
he
against
whom
he
played
at
that
houre
?
And
who
taking
his
leave
of
his
nearest
and
dearest
Acquaintance
,
for
his
last
farewell
,
uttered
no
other
words
but
these
:
Now
my
deare
friends
,
I
shall
presently
finde
that
which
I
have
so
long
longed
after
,
and
so
much
desired
to
know
;
if
the
soule
bee
immortall
,
and
whether
men
in
dying
,
doe
feele
the
separation
of
the
Soule
&
Body
which
they
endure
?
We
must
needs
thinke
that
this
man
,
though
a
Heathen
,
had
a
long
time
exercised
himselfe
in
commanding
and
over-ruling
his
passions
;
and
that
hee
had
aforehand
armed
&
fenced
himselfe
with
faire
resolutions
,
seeing
that
with
such
constancy
and
gravity
he
went
to
undergoe
a
death
both
cruell
and
unjust
.
If
the
onely
desire
to
understand
what
should
become
of
the
soule
after
death
,
could
make
the
torment
and
torture
not
onely
tollerable
,
but
also
acceptable
unto
him
:
What
resolution
then
ought
the
certaine
and
assured
knowledge
of
the
Soules
immortality
,
together
with
the
hope
of
eternall
felicity
,
worke
in
such
as
doe
seriously
meditate
upon
the
same
in
their
mindes
?
May
not
these
goods
,
thinke
ye
,
make
unto
such
mindes
not
onely
supportable
,
but
even
comfortable
and
delectable
,
both
Death
it selfe
,
and
all
other
disastrous
afflictions
which
they
endure
,
seeing
they
are
as
waves
which
doe
push
us
forward
unto
the
sweet
and
sure
port
of
everlasting
rest
and
repose
?
DIS.
2.
Of
the
choyce
of
Callings
and
Affaires
.
EPAMINONDAS
Prince
of
Thebes
,
so
hated
idlenesse
,
that
finding
one
of
his
Captains
asleepe
in
the
day
time
,
he
slew
him
;
for
which
act
being
reprooved
by
his
Nobles
,
he
answered
,
I
left
him
as
I
found
him
;
comparing
idle
men
to
dead
men
.
And
truely
man
is
not
borne
to
live
idlely
;
but
rather
,
as
one
of
the
fairest
members
of
this
faire
frame
,
hee
must-conferre
,
and
contribute
his
whole
travaile
and
paine
to
the
conduction
and
conservation
of
that
civill
societie
and
condition
wherein
he
is
placed
.
And
because
in
the
choyce
which
men
make
of
a
calling
,
their
rest
and
quietnesse
doth
principally
depend
,
and
that
nothing
doth
so
much
availe
to
the
leading
of
a
contented
life
,
as
when
they
finde
themselves
fit
for
the
same
:
They
ought
before
all
other
things
,
to
take
a
tryall
and
survey
of
their
owne
strength
,
and
seriously
bethinke
themselves
of
that
charge
which
they
are
about
to
embrace
:
seeing
usually
we
presume
too
much
upon
our
owne
power
,
and
attempt
more
then
our
ability
is
fit
to
atchieve
;
this
errour
is
incident
almost
to
all
our
actions
.
And
hence
it
is
,
that
some
will
dispend
more
then
their
meanes
may
well
beare
:
And
others
in
labouring
and
toyling
,
goe
beyond
their
abilities
;
some
are
not
masters
of
their
own
anger
;
others
dallying
,
disporting
,
and
playing
the
pleasant
,
will
not
spare
any
person
,
no
not
the
Prince
,
although
thereby
they
should
incurre
the
danger
of
hazarding
their
Heads
.
Some
are
unapt
to
manage
publicke
affaires
,
being
either
of
a
fullen
and
solitary
humour
,
or
of
a
slacke
and
slow
disposition
.
Others
it
doth
not
beseeme
to
be
at
Court
;
for
that
they
be
either
obstinate
in
opinion
,
or
uncourteous
in
behaviour
.
And
that
which
maketh
us
to
fall
into
these
faults
,
is
that
we
doe
not
throughly
see
and
looke
into
our selves
.
Whence
it
commeth
to
passe
,
that
neglecting
to
take
a
true
tryall
of
our
owne
ability
,
wee
often
undertake
imployments
of
such
gravity
and
weight
,
as
that
afterwards
wee
must
either
abandon
them
with
ignorance
and
shame
;
or
else
if
we
goe
on
with
them
,
we
must
needs
suffer
much
trouble
and
anxiety
of
spirit
.
Now
that
a
man
may
the
more
warily
weigh
his
occasions
,
or
affaires
,
before
he
put
under
his
backe
;
let
him
remember
,
that
alwayes
the
bearer
must
have
more
pith
then
the
burthen
for
if
it
be
huge
&
too
heavy
,
who
seeth
not
that
the
undertaker
must
bee
constrained
either
to
leave
,
or
else
to
lye
downe
under
it
;
and
consider
,
that
there
are
divers
kinds
of
affaires
,
some
whereof
are
hard
and
uneasie
;
not
so
much
for
that
they
bee
weighty
&
important
of
themselves
,
as
for
that
they
be
matched
and
mingled
with
a
multitude
of
toylesome
and
troublesome
businesses
which
follow
them
?
Therefore
actions
of
this
kinde
,
are
to
be
shunned
,
because
they
doe
very
much
disquiet
the
minde
.
And
we
should
rather
make
choyce
of
such
affaires
,
as
we
may
well
and
easily
execute
,
or
at
least
with
a
reasonable
industry
bring
to
an
end
.
For
alwayes
it
is
a
good
thing
to
desist
from
the
profecuting
of
our
begun
businesses
,
when
as
we
shall
finde
,
that
they
take
not
such
a
course
and
way
,
as
in
the
beginning
was
proposed
and
expected
by
the
undertaker
.
I
say
not
this
to
affray
,
or
dismay
,
nor
so
to
discourage
any
man
,
as
to
make
him
decline
and
eschew
the
undertaking
of
necessary
and
needfull
imployments
,
because
of
the
manifold
encombrances
and
cares
wherewith
they
may
bee
accompanied
:
so
that
not
daring
to
intermeddle
with
any
matter
of
moment
,
hee
should
abide
without
some
businesse
and
charge
,
which
were
to
lead
a
life
both
unprofitable
and
unpleasant
:
Nature
prompting
every
man
to
listen
to
somewhat
,
and
chiefly
unto
such
things
as
be
expedient
and
profitable
for
the
Common-wealth
.
But
I
meane
to
insinuate
,
that
seeing
the
life
of
man
is
naturally
subject
unto
perplexities
and
paines
,
it
behooveth
him
so
wisely
,
and
warily
to
demeane
himselfe
,
that
if
it
be
his
fortune
to
be
called
to
the
undertaking
of
vertuous
and
laudable
actions
,
he
neither
be
so
feeble-hearted
,
as
to
shunne
or
relinquish
them
for
their
difficulty
;
nor
yet
so
foole-hardy
,
as
to
undertake
such
affaires
as
goe
beyond
the
reach
of
his
power
.
And
if
the
narrow
roome
of
Poverty
,
or
ample
pallace
of
Honour
hath
either
advanced
any
beyond
imployment
,
or
taken
them
from
it
,
there
is
no
Vocation
so
lawfull
and
just
as
Religion
:
Therefore
let
none
despaire
of
businesse
;
for
here
hee
shall
finde
both
labour
,
and
rest
;
labour
in
searching
out
the
Knowledge
of
God
,
and
himselfe
:
Of
God
,
repleate
with
Wisedome
and
Mercy
;
and
that
in
his
Sonne
,
humbled
,
weakned
,
debased
;
Of
himselfe
,
dust
,
ashes
,
earth
;
and
grasse
:
And
rest
,
in
the
saving
Love
of
the
one
,
and
well
performed
Duty
of
the
other
.
And
this
Exercise
is
most
fit
for
a
Christian
;
and
above
all
,
for
them
,
on
whom
God
hath
bestowed
no
other
Talent
.
DISC.
3.
Of
providence
and
fore
sight
.
A
Wise
man
in
time
of
peace
makes
his
preparation
for
war
:
a
good
Mariner
before
he
goe
forth
of
the
haven
,
makes
provision
of
what
is
necessary
to
resist
the
violence
of
a
tempest
;
it
is
too
late
to
provide
against
an
evill
,
when
it
is
already
come
,
and
O
how
much
are
we
deceived
,
and
how
little
judgement
have
we
,
when
we
thinke
that
that
which
hapneth
to
others
,
can
not
likewise
fall
upon
us
.
Therefore
take
order
that
ye
be
not
surprized
by
any
humane
accident
that
ye
have
not
before-hand
prudently
foreseene
,
which
thing
yee
shall
easily
performe
,
if
in
all
the
affaires
yee
shall
take
in
hand
,
ye
diligently
fore-think
your selfe
of
such
it
conveniences
and
crosse
encounters
as
may
fall
out
,
according
to
the
nature
,
quality
,
and
ordinary
issue
of
your
affaires
;
and
such
provisoes
do
marvailously
mitigate
,
sweeten
,
and
abate
the
sharpnesse
,
and
harshnesse
of
all
sinister
accidents
and
chances
:
which
cannot
then
bring
any
sensible
,
or
notable
alteration
,
by
reason
of
their
not
comming
unlooked
for
,
but
contrarily
doe
endamage
such
persons
as
suffer
themselves
to
be
surprized
,
not
considering
how
that
nature
sending
them
into
this
world
,
hath
allotted
them
rough
,
and
uneasie
feates
.
Such
men
doe
not
minde
how
that
about
their
owne
dore
;
many
times
they
have
with
theyr
eyes
seene
loving
wives
weeping
and
bewailing
their
deceased
husbands
,
and
husbands
with
dewy
eyes
burying
their
beloved
wives
,
&
deare
children
.
They
doe
not
ponder
how
that
such
persons
as
did
yesterday
walke
,
&
talke
with
them
,
to
day
dead
,
lye
buried
in
their
graves
.
So
ap●are
we
to
be
deceived
,
and
so
little
fore-sight
have
we
in
our
owne
fortune
,
that
what
wee
see
daily
with
our
eyes
happen
unto
others
,
we
never
or
seldome
consider
that
the
like
may
befall
our selves
.
If
wee
would
take
notice
of
things
as
wee
ought
,
we
should
rather
finde
occasion
to
marvaile
how
that
disasters
and
dangers
which
doe
follow
us
at
the
heeles
,
have
delaied
so
long
to
overtake
us
,
and
having
overtaken
us
,
how
it
could
bee
possible
that
they
should
have
handled
us
so
harmelesly
,
and
gently
as
they
have
don
.
But
we
grosly
deceive
our selves
,
when
as
for
feare
that
men
take
us
to
be
timerous
and
fearefull
,
we
thinke
ill
to
forecast
and
foresee
dangers
,
and
will
not
a
whit
mistrust
our
owne
judgement
.
It
behooveth
the
Pilot
who
is
minded
to
set
saile
,
to
know
that
hee
is
in
possibility
of
a
storme
;
so
wee
must
know
that
the
chance
which
hath
happened
to
one
,
may
likewise
befal
unto
us
,
and
that
which
hangeth
over
the
heads
of
all
,
may
fall
upon
any
one
,
without
exemption
or
exception
whatsoever
.
That
which
some
make
light
by
long
suffering
,
a
wife
man
makes
light
and
easie
by
long
Cogitation
.
He
considereth
exactly
the
nature
of
all
things
that
may
offend
him
,
and
presenteth
unto
himselfe
whatsoever
may
happen
unto
him
most
grievous
and
insuportable
,
as
sicknesse
,
poverty
,
injuries
and
examineth
in
them
all
that
which
is
according
to
nature
,
or
contrary
to
it
;
he
marketh
well
anothers
misfortune
as
a
thing
which
may
no
lesse
befall
unto
himselfe
,
then
it
hath
already
done
unto
his
fellow
,
and
hath
this
aduantage
,
that
before
any
such
mischance
take
hold
of
him
,
hee
is
already
armed
against
the
f●ry
and
force
of
the
evill
.
He
knowes
that
it
is
too
late
for
a
man
to
make
head
against
a
danger
,
when
it
is
already
come
,
and
bootlesse
to
say
,
I
did
not
thinke
,
that
such
a
misfortune
should
have
befalne
me
.
And
that
there
is
not
any
wealth
in
this
world
which
hath
not
following
after
it
poverty
,
or
any
health
that
is
not
apt
to
be
diminished
by
a
lingring
disease
,
or
any
honour
which
is
not
in
possibility
to
be
turned
into
dishonour
&
disgrace
?
or
any
high
rising
which
is
not
apt
to
downfall
?
or
any
estate
from
the
pedler
even
to
the
Prince
,
exempt
from
alteration
,
so
that
which
hath
befalne
to
one
may
likewise
befall
another
?
he
that
standeth
,
let
him
take
heed
lest
he
fall
:
it
is
a
thing
far
more
easie
to
be
cast
head-long
,
then
to
rise
up
to
eminency
,
&
in
a
mans
trouble
this
is
the
most
assured
comfort
,
that
in
his
pristine
providence
he
hath
armed
him selfe
agains
:
those
present
evills
which
now
have
light
upon
him
.
It
were
a
matter
both
tedious
,
and
contrary
to
our
designe
,
to
discourse
of
such
as
fortune
(
if
so
we
may
speake
)
from
high
degree
brought
low
;
and
of
mighty
men
in
a
moment
made
miserable
.
In
such
a
variety
and
vicissitude
of
matters
,
if
ye
doe
not
fore-thinke
how
that
all
humane
accidents
may
touch
you
,
as
well
as
others
,
ye
give
adversities
great
power
over
you
,
which
by
the
prudence
of
him
that
foreseeth
them
,
are
not
a
little
abated
,
and
made
more
milde
.
Against
publicke
evills
,
a
man
ought
to
consider
from
whom
and
by
whom
they
are
sent
,
and
to
marke
their
cause
.
It
is
God
his
providence
,
from
whence
commeth
&
dependeth
an
absolute
necessity
,
which
governeth
and
ruleth
all
,
and
whereunto
all
things
are
subiect
:
and
if
we
desire
in
any
thing
to
be
like
him
,
our
minds
out
of
question
,
would
bee
in
greater
rest
:
Let
every
man
therefore
employ
his
actions
about
such
things
as
bee
of
a
more
certaine
and
constant
condition
:
So
shall
he
sit
downe
with
content
,
and
enjoy
the
sweetnesse
and
commodity
of
tranquillity
and
ease
.
But
seeing
that
in
this
world
,
all
things
are
subject
to
tottering
and
turning
and
that
there
is
nothing
under
the
Cope
of
Heaven
stable
and
firme
:
the
Remedy
most
fit
unto
our
infirmity
;
is
to
fore-see
this
instability
,
and
not
to
passionate
,
and
turmoyle
ourselves
about
those
things
,
the
possession
whereof
is
no
lesse
toylesome
and
troublesome
,
then
was
the
acquisition
and
purchase
thereof
.
And
therefore
we
must
love
them
as
things
which
may
leave
us
,
and
withall
,
have
so
much
foresight
,
that
they
never
leave
us
first
.
When
on
a
time
it
was
told
Anaxagoras
that
his
Sonne
was
dead
:
I
knew
very
well
,
quoth
he
,
that
he
was
a
man
,
and
that
he
was
borne
to
dye
once
.
In
like
manner
,
must
wee
bee
prepared
for
all
adventures
.
My
Friend
hath
not
assisted
mee
:
well
,
I
knew
that
hee
was
a
man
,
and
one
that
might
change
.
My
Wife
was
very
vertuous
,
and
yet
was
she
but
a
Woman
.
Afflictions
of
Body
,
and
of
Minde
,
sicknesse
,
casualties
,
losses
,
imprisonments
are
befalne
mee
:
They
are
welcome
;
these
are
as
great
blessings
,
as
Dignity
,
Health
,
and
Pleasure
;
seeing
they
proceed
from
one
,
and
the
same
,
the
giver
of
all
things
.
And
hee
that
thus
before
hand
bethinketh
himselfe
of
humane
accidents
,
shall
never
betaken
at
unawares
,
neither
shall
hee
●ave
neede
to
say
,
as
customa●ly
the
unadvised
are
wont
,
〈◊〉
did
not
thinke
of
such
a
thing
:
●nto
whom
the
chances
of
For●une
doe
occasion
much
affliction
and
anguish
,
because
they
●inde
themselves
disarmed
of
●his
wise
foresight
.
Vlysses
over●assed
many
dangers
&
difficul●ies
,
and
yet
none
of
them
all
●●d
afflict
him
so
fore
,
as
one
●hing
which
did
take
him
at
unawares
;
even
the
death
of
a
dog
which
he
loved
dearely
.
And
●●ence
the
common
Proverbe
proveth
true
:
That
a
person
sur●rised
,
is
halfe
beaten
.
DISC
4.
Of
each
mans
Vocation
and
Calling
.
VErtue
and
Industry
are
the
chiefest
props
of
an
honest
calling
,
and
it
behove
tha●
wise
man
to
carry
himselfe
equally
betweene
them
both
,
taking
Vertue
for
the
guide
,
and
Fortune
for
the
Companion
,
and
follower
:
for
it
commeth
oftentimes
to
passe
,
that
such
as
do
not
thinke
diligently
of
that
which
they
doe
,
are
seene
to
fall
into
such
a
kinde
of
life
as
is
painefull
to
beare
,
and
uneasie
to
bee
abandoned
.
Which
is
certainely
a
great
streight
,
and
a
case
that
doth
require
much
prudence
,
and
patience
,
with
pietie
to
implore
the
aid
and
assistance
of
God
;
for
patience
with
humilitie
in
Gods
behalfe
,
is
the
remedie
which
doth
most
lighten
and
ease
the
evill
.
Consider
poore
prisoners
,
at
first
what
pains
they
endure
to
beare
the
burthen
that
is
laid
upon
their
legges
,
but
after
that
they
are
once
accustomed
thereunto
,
necessity
teacheth
them
,
and
use
maketh
all
such
hard
usage
easie
unto
them
.
There
is
no
manner
of
life
,
howsoever
hard
and
strict
it
be
,
which
hath
not
some
kinde
of
solace
and
refreshment
to
sweeten
it
.
And
truely
there
is
not
any
one
thing
,
wherein
Nature
hath
so
much
favored
us
,
as
in
this
;
that
she
maketh
us
to
finde
the
remedy
,
and
mitigation
of
our
mis-fortunes
in
the
sufferance
of
them
.
The
case
then
standing
as
it
doth
,
that
man
is
borne
obnoxious
and
subject
unto
all
manner
of
miseries
;
we
must
consequently
suppose
that
we
are
all
of
us
the
prisoners
of
Fortune
,
who
holdeth
us
,
tyed
and
fettered
hand
and
foote
;
and
that
there
is
no
difference
,
saving
that
the
fetters
and
chaines
of
some
,
are
of
Gold
,
and
of
other
some
of
Yron
.
We
are
all
of
is
in
one
and
in
the
same
prison
,
and
those
that
hold
others
captive
are
in
the
like
condition
and
case
themselves
in
regard
of
others
.
If
the
desire
of
honour
turmoileth
thee
,
the
desire
of
riches
doth
trouble
another
.
If
the
basenesse
,
and
obscurity
of
birth
doth
afflict
thee
,
to
others
Nobility
and
greatnesse
doth
bring
a
thousand
discontented
thoughts
:
Art
thou
subject
to
the
commandement
and
will
of
another
,
that
other
is
subject
at
least
to
his
owne
,
having
his
braines
and
his
breast
beaten
with
ten
thousand
heart-burnings
,
&
diseasements
which
thou
doest
not
espie
:
in
summe
,
if
yee
marke
all
things
well
,
our
whole
life
is
nothing
but
a
slavery
,
wherein
every
one
ought
to
take
good
heede
how
to
demeane
himselfe
in
his
calling
,
&
how
hee
may
content
himselfe
therein
,
winking
at
that
which
is
evill
in
it
,
and
applying
himselfe
unto
that
which
is
good
.
For
there
is
no
calling
,
howsoever
Painefull
and
toylesome
it
bee
,
wherein
the
patient
soule
doth
not
finde
some
contentment
and
gaine
,
though
that
cunning
and
skill
be
more
exquisite
in
time
of
adversity
,
then
of
prosperitie
.
For
when
as
calamities
and
crosses
doe
present
themselves
,
then
must
we
gather
all
the
forces
of
our
wits
together
,
and
set
our
whole
vigour
and
strength
against
such
imminent
or
present
evills
,
reposing
our
whole
confidence
in
God
.
Ionas
had
leisure
even
in
the
Whales
belly
to
make
his
supplication
and
prayer
unto
God
,
and
was
presently
heard
.
In
this
manner
all
accidents
,
how
grievous
&
uneasie
soever
they
be
,
may
be
sweetned
and
lightned
.
To
this
purpose
also
it
is
good
that
each
one
set
certaine
bounds
and
limits
to
the
hopes
of
this
life
,
and
that
hee
thinke
with
himselfe
,
that
howsoever
humane
thing
bee
different
and
various
in
the
outward
semblance
and
shew
:
yet
neverthelesse
inwardly
they
resemble
one
another
in
their
inconstancy
and
vanity
.
A
Calling
is
the
Tye
of
every
man
from
Sloth
;
it
gives
him
health
,
it
drawes
the
mind
from
thinking
on
such
things
as
precipitate
the
Soule
:
By
it
Common-wealths
have
their
true
decorum
,
and
are
therefore
permanent
;
because
upheld
by
continuall
employment
:
It
is
ever
best
,
when
Honesty
steeres
the
course
,
and
meane
ones
beare
not
envy
against
such
as
are
in
higher
places
then
they
;
for
oftentimes
that
which
wee
account
hight
,
is
as
a
steepe
hill
,
from
whence
a
man
with
very
little
adoe
is
hurled
downe
headlong
.
And
truely
such
as
have
lived
content
,
have
not
beene
alwayes
those
that
have
made
the
better
choice
:
but
rather
those
who
prudently
and
discreetly
could
carry
themselves
in
that
estate
and
calling
which
they
once
made
choice
of
,
taking
patiently
the
evill
that
fell
out
therein
,
and
endeavouring
to
redresse
such
accidents
as
did
crosse
their
desires
.
This
advice
likewise
is
required
to
keepe
discretion
,
which
seasoneth
,
and
giveth
a
taste
and
rellish
to
all
things
.
And
for
this
cause
Plato
did
compare
the
life
of
man
to
the
play
at
Dice
,
whereat
whosoever
doth
play
,
ought
alwayes
to
strive
to
have
a
faire
throw
,
and
yet
content
himselfe
with
any
cast
that
commeth
.
For
seeing
that
good
or
evill
lucke
is
not
in
our
power
,
at
least
wise
wee
must
labour
to
take
cheerefully
our
chance
,
and
withall
to
thanke
God
,
for
that
the
worst
that
could
,
is
not
fallen
out
.
Whereas
men
of
weake
wit
,
having
Fortune
at
will
,
are
so
transported
with
joy
,
that
scarcely
they
know
what
they
doe
,
they
are
so
insolent
,
that
no
man
can
keepe
them
company
;
they
can
abide
no
body
,
and
no
body
can
abide
them
.
Whereas
in
the
time
of
adversity
they
are
so
amazed
and
so
melancholy
,
that
they
are
almost
overwhelmed
with
sorrow
and
heavinesse
of
minde
,
yee
shall
see
them
like
unto
the
sicke
of
a
languishing
,
and
anguishing
disease
,
which
can
neither
abide
heate
nor
cold
.
Whatsoever
thy
fortune
be
,
beare
it
with
patience
,
if
thou
art
Low
,
strive
not
to
Emulate
those
above
thee
,
for
in
so
doing
the
bowe
which
thou
seekest
to
bend
,
wil
fly
back
upon
thee
;
and
if
thou
art
high
,
contemne
not
those
meaner
under
thee
:
for
that
is
to
take
up
a
stone
to
fling
at
thy selfe
;
but
so
weigh
both
thy
mind
,
and
it
,
as
that
a
golden
meane
may
be
the
Center
of
all
thy
hopes
.
The
Philosopher
Theodorus
was
wont
to
say
,
that
he
gave
his
Schollers
instructions
&
lessons
,
with
the
right
hand
,
but
that
they
received
them
with
the
left
,
and
so
doth
it
fare
often
times
not
with
a
few
,
who
with
the
left
hand
take
hold
of
the
lucke
which
fortune
(
I
meane
Gods
providence
)
reacheth
them
with
the
right
.
It
were
much
better
in
my
judgement
wisely
to
imitate
the
wise
diligence
of
the
Bees
,
the
which
of
Thyme
,
which
is
but
a
dry
and
harsh
hearb
,
do
make
the
sweet
and
pleasant
honey
.
So
should
wee
out
of
this
harsh
and
combersome
life
extract
and
draw
whatsoever
therein
is
good
and
chase
away
what
is
evill
therein
;
or
case
and
cover
it
closely
,
and
who
knoweth
not
but
that
such
as
are
exercised
in
the
actions
of
Vertue
,
can
draw
by
a
certaine
secret
and
supernaturall
kinde
of
Alchimy
,
good
out
of
evill
?
Diogenes
was
banished
,
but
hee
made
good
use
of
his
banishment
,
in
that
he
did
in
the
meane
time
betake
himselfe
unto
the
study
of
Wisedome
.
And
this
shall
not
be
so
difficult
and
hard
to
doe
,
as
it
seemeth
to
bee
,
if
by
frequent
exercise
yee
doe
endeavour
to
acquire
the
habitude
and
setled
custome
of
living
content
.
Can
yee
not
abide
in
the
Houses
of
Princes
and
Great
men
?
content
you
then
with
your
owne
.
Doe
yee
finde
your selfe
uncapable
of
government
in
the
Common
wealth
?
play
then
the
good
Citizens
part
,
and
be
content
to
obey
.
Thus
doing
ye
shall
make
unto
your selves
facile
,
and
casie
,
that
which
most
men
deeme
to
bee
strict
and
hard
in
the
course
of
your
life
.
Moreover
it
shall
much
availe
you
in
your
discontentments
,
to
represent
unto
your selfe
the
great
and
fame
us
personages
of
the
time
past
:
how
and
with
what
wisedome
,
and
courage
they
have
remedied
and
borne
the
crosses
and
calamities
which
befall
them
in
this
life
.
Doth
it
displease
you
that
you
are
destitute
of
children
?
Consider
how
many
Kings
,
Princes
,
and
Potentates
,
have
dyed
without
issue
.
If
poverty
doth
vexe
you
,
weigh
in
your
owne
minde
,
how
many
excellent
men
have
beene
likewise
poore
;
who
neverthelesse
have
lived
patiently
whithout
complaining
.
On
a
day
it
was
told
the
philosopher
Stilphon
,
that
his
daughter
had
done
amisse
:
the
fault
(
quoth
hee
)
is
not
in
mee
but
in
her
fortune
and
mine
.
To
live
is
a
gift
,
to
dye
is
a
debt
:
and
then
is
that
ransome
onely
paid
,
which
all
thy
life
time
was
due
to
Nature
for
thy
being
,
and
this
is
much
eased
by
the
patience
of
a
discreet
man
.
If
the
churlish
and
froward
conditions
of
your
owne
grieve
you
,
set
before
your
eyes
so
many
wise
,
honourable
and
illustrious
men
,
as
have
quietly
comported
with
the
importunities
of
theirs
,
Socrates
had
the
most
froward
wife
in
the
world
,
and
hee
said
that
by
enduring
of
her
at
home
,
hee
did
learne
to
bee
patient
abroad
.
Looke
upon
holy
David
,
a
man
after
Gods
owne
heart
,
who
yet
was
troubled
and
angred
by
his
owne
Children
.
The
world
is
full
of
such
examples
,
and
if
wee
did
not
love
our selves
so
much
as
wee
doe
,
it
is
certaine
that
in
the
greatest
crosses
and
encomberments
of
this
life
,
wee
should
finde
comfort
enough
.
For
there
is
not
any
prison
,
how
darke
or
streight
soever
it
be
,
which
will
not
give
place
unto
a
Song
,
to
refresh
somewhat
the
poore
prisoners
perplexed
minde
.
Finally
,
I
say
,
that
if
yee
serve
God
,
and
feare
him
,
Charity
shall
bee
able
of
it selfe
,
to
procure
peace
and
tranquillity
unto
your
spirit
:
which
the
whole
world
cannot
performe
,
although
every
one
should
offer
themselves
to
helpe
you
.
Let
Truth
guide
thee
,
whose
purity
will
cleanse
thy
heart
:
Aske
not
what
it
is
,
but
embrace
it
:
It
is
●he
Rule
of
Reason
,
and
Birth
of
Vprightnesse
;
by
it
thy
life
will
bee
full
of
sweetnesse
and
pleasantnesse
;
thy
profession
,
●hy
end
shall
be
better
then
thy
beginning
,
and
that
also
full
of
●ope
.
DIS.
5.
How
a
man
must
order
and
rale
his
life
.
NO
man
would
accept
of
life
,
if
hee
knew
what
it
were
:
for
all
men
doe
so
much
complaine
of
it
,
yea
,
even
the
wisest
;
that
if
that
length
of
dayes
which
those
in
the
first
Age
before
the
Flood
,
enioyed
,
were
given
them
,
it
would
but
increase
an●
augment
their
sorrow
;
and
thi●
happens
through
the
unconstancy
of
the
world
.
Therefore
〈◊〉
is
expedient
in
my
conceit
,
tha●
a
man
hold
,
and
keepe
a
certain●
stayed
and
setled
manner
of
living
,
and
that
he
varie
not
with
every
winde
.
Yee
shall
see
many
much
subject
to
this
vice
o●
changing
their
manner
of
living
from
day
to
day
;
so
tha●
they
cannot
ground
or
fett●
themselves
upon
any
thin●
whatsoever
.
Wherein
they
d●
resemble
such
as
have
neve●
beene
accustomed
to
be
at
Sea●
who
assoone
as
they
beginne
t●
saile
,
runne
out
of
one
vessel
into
another
,
leaving
the
bigger
,
to
put
themselves
into
〈◊〉
lesser
,
and
by
and
by
leaving
the
lesser
,
to
returne
to
the
bigger
againe
.
And
thus
they
continue
in
changing
,
untill
they
evidently
know
that
nothing
can
fit
them
;
because
that
whither
soever
they
goe
,
their
queasie
stomackes
doe
keepe
them
company
,
and
consequently
,
their
vomiting
disease
.
Also
,
there
are
others
that
bring
their
passions
with
them
unto
their
affaires
,
and
seeke
incessantly
after
a
new
manner
of
living
,
and
never
accomplish
what
they
have
once
begun
.
All
things
goe
against
their
stomacke
,
all
things
displease
them
:
whether
to
be
imployed
,
or
to
be
idle
;
to
serve
,
or
to
command
;
to
be
married
,
or
to
bee
single
;
to
have
children
,
or
to
have
none
at
all
:
finally
,
nothing
doth
fit
their
fancy
,
nothing
doth
satisfie
their
desire
,
save
onely
that
thing
they
have
not
:
and
such
folke
must
needes
live
as
miserable
as
prisoners
fettered
in
perpetuall
paine
.
There
is
likewise
another
maner
of
men
not
much
unlike
unto
the
former
,
that
cannot
keepe
themselves
quiet
,
nor
bee
at
any
stay
,
in
any
time
,
or
in
any
place
.
They
cease
not
to
goe
and
come
,
alwaies
intermedling
with
affaires
,
without
being
thereunto
called
,
and
busying
and
bestirring
themselves
about
that
which
no
wise
concerneth
them
.
These
men
when
they
goe
out
of
doores
,
if
yee
but
aske
them
whither
they
goe
,
they
will
answere
you
thus
;
I
know
not
,
I
goe
to
doe
as
the
rest
doe
.
They
runne
along
the
streets
,
they
haunt
the
publicke
places
,
and
then
they
returne
home
full
of
vexation
and
wearinesse
,
without
any
designe
:
for
there
is
nothing
that
doth
so
much
irke
and
weary
mens
mindes
,
as
to
labour
in
vaine
.
They
are
like
unto
little
Ants
,
which
doe
climbe
upwards
upon
trees
,
and
after
they
have
mounted
to
the
toppe
,
are
forced
to
creepe
downe
againe
the
same
way
they
went
up
,
without
bringing
downe
with
them
any
good
at
all
.
Many
doe
live
in
this
manner
,
whose
life
is
nothing
else
but
a
busied
leasure
full
of
tumults
and
toyles
,
yee
shall
see
them
posting
on
with
such
vehemency
and
speede
,
as
if
they
would
carry
away
with
them
all
that
they
finde
before
them
in
their
way
.
The
Streets
,
the
Churches
,
and
Markets
,
are
ordinarily
ful
of
them
.
These
bee
they
which
forge
,
and
frame
newes
:
they
will
bee
the
weighers
of
mens
worthes
,
and
the
givers
of
garlands
.
They
will
talke
lavishly
of
other
mens
lives
,
and
discourse
of
other
mens
offices
,
keeping
a
babling
coyle
.
It
is
a
principall
point
of
Wisedome
truly
to
know
how
to
esteem
of
life
;
he
that
esteemeth
and
loveth
his
life
for
the
love
of
it selfe
,
hee
lives
not
but
to
live
:
But
a
wise
man
lives
no
longer
,
then
that
his
life
may
be
worth
more
then
his
death
;
a
great
part
of
life
is
lost
to
those
that
doe
ill
;
a
greater
to
those
that
doe
nothing
;
and
all
to
those
that
doe
that
they
should
not
doe
;
some
beginne
to
live
when
they
should
dye
;
some
ended
before
they
beginne
;
and
amongst
other
evills
,
Folly
hath
this
,
that
it
alwaies
beginnes
to
live
.
But
the
actions
of
a
well
aduised
man
tend
alwaies
to
●●me
certaine
end
;
neither
doth
●e
burthen
himselfe
with
more
●usinesses
then
he
can
conveni●ntly
the
man
that
undertaketh
●●uch
,
must
needs
,
in
my
minde
,
●ive
Fortune
much
power
over
●im
.
DISC.
6.
Of
the
diversity
of
Actions
.
EVery
one
in
my
Opinion
ought
to
take
paines
in
ina●ling
himselfe
to
comport
with
the
time
and
matters
according
as
they
accidentally
happen
:
and
not
to
tye
themselves
so
much
to
one
manner
of
living
,
but
that
in
case
of
necessity
they
may
forsake
it
.
For
if
we
consider
man
according
to
the
life
wee
shall
finde
him
full
of
vanity
,
weaknesse
,
inconstancy
,
misery
and
presumption
;
a
fruitefull
argument
to
divert
him
from
singularity
.
For
even
a●
a
man
that
is
whole
and
sound
,
should
not
subject
himselfe
to
the
keeping
o●
one
certaine
rule
in
his
dyet
,
bu●
ought
rather
to
accustome
himselfe
to
eate
sometimes
more
,
&
sometimes
lesse
,
at
one
time
of
one
meat
,
and
at
another
time
of
another
meate
;
to
drinke
now
of
wine
,
and
then
of
water
,
to
abide
sometimes
in
the
sunne
,
&
somtimes
in
the
shade
,
sometimes
to
labour
,
and
sometimes
to
rest●
so
must
hee
frame
and
fashion
himselfe
to
all
manner
of
accidents
,
for
in
so
doing
,
any
new
chance
whatsoever
,
that
can
befall
(
for
there
are
infinite
in
the
course
of
our
life
)
shall
neither
trouble
him
,
nor
disquiet
him
:
yee
though
hee
be
driven
to
betake
himselfe
to
some
other
manner
of
living
,
yet
shall
hee
doe
it
without
much
trouble
(
provide
alwaies
that
temerity
and
rashnesse
be
away
)
by
reason
that
hee
shall
bee
so
well
inured
thereunto
before
hand
,
that
it
will
bee
easie
for
him
to
give
place
unto
the
time
that
offereth
it selfe
.
And
truely
the
impotency
and
weaknesse
is
all
one
,
not
to
be
able
to
change
in
time
of
need
,
and
not
to
be
able
to
continue
constant
in
a
good
course
,
for
he
that
loveth
riches
,
shall
not
bee
satisfied
with
it
;
and
hee
that
cannot
comport
with
necessity
has
not
the
valour
of
a
Christian
.
Moreover
,
wee
must
mingle
and
temper
our
matters
in
such
sort
that
they
may
be
fitted
proportionably
one
to
another
.
As
for
example
.
At
one
time
to
be
solitary
,
at
another
time
to
be
in
company
,
the
one
for
our
friends
sake
,
the
other
for
our selves
:
for
we
must
not
alwaies
remaine
in
our
grave
moode
,
for
that
will
make
us
abhorrec●
:
neither
must
wee
shew
our selves
continually
jocund
and
glad
,
for
that
will
render
us
despised
.
But
wee
must
carry
our selves
discreetly
,
observing
comelinesse
&
conveniercy
of
time
and
place
,
as
the
life
of
man
doth
require
.
For
it
is
a
needfull
thing
for
a
man
at
one
time
or
other
to
recreate
himselfe
by
giving
intermission
to
his
more
serious
affaires
.
Labour
in
some
is
a
weaknes
of
the
Spirits
,
in
others
a
waste
;
in
some
it
makes
the
heade
dizzy
,
in
others
the
backe
,
and
●ll
suffer
;
though
not
a
like
.
Recrea●ion
is
the
Physitian
that
●ures
all
those
,
and
makes
them
●gree
in
a
sweet
harmony
;
and
●herefore
he
that
will
not
mixe
●hese
two
together
,
is
guilty
of
his
owne
distemper
,
and
●n
enemy
to
the
Law
of
reason
.
We
read
of
Socrates
,
a
most
grave
Ph●osopher
,
that
hee
made
no
scruple
to
play
and
refresh
himselfe
with
litle
boies
:
&
of
Cato
,
a
very
austere
man
,
that
sometimes
hee
did
feast
his
friends
,
thereby
to
refresh
himselfe
with
the
pleasure
of
their
company
,
and
to
recreate
his
minde
,
wearied
with
the
weighty
affaires
of
the
Common-wealth
.
Also
of
Scipio
Africanus
,
that
he
would
delight
himselfe
with
dancing
.
And
this
we
have
said
to
shew
that
the
minde
of
man
requireth
some
release
.
Neither
hath
he
his
due
liberty
,
who
hath
not
the
meanes
sometimes
to
beatleasure
.
The
fruitefullest
grounds
if
they
are
not
laid
to
waste
,
become
barren
in
a
short
time
.
Continuall
labour
maketh
the
minde
of
man
to
become
slacke
and
weake
:
even
as
lasinesse
and
and
luxury
doth
make
it
heavy
,
feeble
,
and
faint
.
Our
recreation
ought
to
be
as
our
sleepe
,
which
restoreth
our
strength
,
and
giveth
us
breath
to
returne
more
gayly
,
and
joyfully
to
our
worke
.
For
if
we
should
sleepe
continually
,
it
would
bee
a
death
and
not
a
sleepe
.
The
law
of
reason
establishes
a
conveniency
in
the
ordering
of
all
things
;
and
knits
it
selfe
to
Nature
:
which
ordaines
foure
seasons
,
wherein
trees
ap●eare
,
Leaves
budde
,
beare
fruite
,
and
ripen
,
and
after
retire
their
●ap
into
the
body
of
the
earth
,
to
teach
even
men
,
that
rest
is
altogether
as
necessary
as
Labour
,
and
those
which
of
old
did
establish
lawes
,
have
ordained
there
should
bee
also
certaine
feastival
dayes
in
the
yeare
,
to
the
end
men
might
in
a
manner
bee
constrained
to
surcease
from
the
emploiments
of
their
ordinary
callings
,
and
take
some
pastime
after
their
toyle
:
and
of
old
we
finde
that
many
excellent
men
were
wont
to
allot
some
parcell
of
time
to
their
recreation
.
Asinius
Pollio
a
great
Orator
was
never
so
much
busied
in
affaires
,
but
hee
reserved
for
his
pleasure
and
pastime
the
two
last
houres
of
the
day
;
during
the
which
space
,
hee
would
not
so
much
as
read
the
Letters
which
hee
received
from
his
friends
,
fearing
lest
they
should
minister
unto
him
some
new
care
and
cogitation
.
Others
were
wont
to
labour
untill
noone
,
and
the
remnant
of
the
day
they
did
spend
about
meaner
matters
.
And
the
Canon
it selfe
allowes
civill
Recreations
,
and
that
on
the
Sabbath
,
to
those
whose
weekely
labour
hath
afforded
no
releasement
.
The
lights
which
they
distribute
to
servants
at
Court
,
doe
likewise
limit
and
bound
the
times
appointed
both
for
labour
and
rest
.
Conscience
also
which
is
placed
in
the
minde
of
man
,
to
decide
the
difference
betwixt
the
Body
and
the
Soule
,
even
in
holy
exercises
ordaines
a
repose
,
following
that
first
Institution
of
rendring
God
his
glory
,
and
man
his
right
.
And
there
was
a
Decree
of
the
Senate
of
Rome
,
which
did
beare
a
prohibition
,
that
no
new
thing
should
be
propounded
,
or
mentioned
in
the
last
two
houres
of
the
day
.
Furthermore
,
when
a
man
is
weary
of
his
worke
,
he
doth
finde
himselfe
marvailously
refreshed
and
restored
,
when
as
hee
goeth
out
into
an
open
and
spatious
place
;
and
it
seemeth
that
the
free
ayre
doth
repaire
and
renew
the
strength
and
vigour
of
his
dispersed
and
spent
spirits
.
For
conclusion
,
yee
ought
to
love
diversity
and
change
according
to
the
time
,
and
take
heed
lest
yee
nourish
,
and
cherish
your
mindes
too
delicately
and
daintily
.
For
that
having
of
its
owne
nature
great
strength
,
provided
that
it
bee
wakened
and
rouzed
up
,
it
were
not
reasonable
yee
should
suffer
it
through
voluptuous
and
delicious
living
to
waxe
feeble
and
faint
.
And
no
sooner
do
ye
come
to
that
point
to
be
impatient
and
delicate
,
but
assoone
all
things
beginne
to
crosse
your
good
liking
.
Divers
things
are
offensive
to
divers
men
,
which
to
others
are
not
so
:
and
that
is
a
Cure
to
this
man
,
which
to
another
is
hurtfull
.
To
eate
,
it
goeth
against
your
stomacke
;
to
be
hungry
,
it
hurteth
you
;
to
sleepe
,
it
slayeth
you
;
to
be
awake
,
it
vexeth
you
:
and
as
a
sicke
or
queazie
person
,
yee
goe
on
in
a
restlesse
maze
,
alwaies
searching
and
seeking
after
some
new
thing
:
such
delicacy
and
tendernes
hath
bin
the
cause
that
divers
have
had
much
adoe
to
comport
with
the
very
things
which
are
necessary
in
this
life
,
as
to
lie
,
to
sleepe
,
to
wake
,
to
rise
,
to
dine
,
to
suppe
,
to
talke
,
to
walke
,
to
cloath
and
uncloath
themselves
:
so
that
some
have
thought
it
a
death
to
be
alwayes
wearied
in
beginning
anew
againe
,
and
reiterating
so
often
the
same
things
.
Such
people
come
to
so
great
extremities
,
that
they
can
hardly
manage
,
or
maintaine
the
manly
courage
of
their
minde
;
neither
can
they
frame
themselves
in
al
,
to
know
and
tast
of
many
things
,
and
alwaies
in
every
of
them
to
carry
a
good
stomack
.
For
in
this
case
there
is
the
like
reason
&
condition
of
the
body
&
of
the
mind
.
Hence
it
is
that
yee
shall
espie
some
men
so
tenderly
disposed
,
that
a
small
noise
of
their
neighbour
will
annoy
them
,
and
the
sound
of
a
little
Bell
will
trouble
their
braine
.
For
as
unto
a
crazie
and
ill
complexioned
body
,
so
unto
a
drooping
and
languishing
minde
it
doth
semblably
befall
,
that
what
thing
soever
toucheth
it
,
doth
prick
it
and
sting
it
full
sore
.
DISC.
7.
Of
the
choyce
of
Friends
.
IT
is
not
with
Vertue
as
with
worldly
Princes
;
her
pride
consists
not
in
her
plumes
,
nor
the
glory
of
her
state
,
in
the
greatnesse
of
her
Traine
:
But
shee
is
as
well
contented
to
lodge
in
a
poore
Cottage
,
as
in
a
Kingly
Palace
:
Her
greatest
Glory
is
in
Friendship
,
where
two
hearts
are
mutually
connext
,
and
dare
lay
downe
their
lives
one
for
another
:
There
she
exults
,
and
esteemes
nothing
more
heavenly
;
to
this
purpose
shee
hath
disperst
her
rayes
,
that
Amitie
might
be
in
common
to
all
.
Therefore
seeing
that
the
life
of
man
necessarily
hath
neede
of
Friendship
and
Fellowship
;
for
it
is
a
matter
both
harsh
and
hard
for
a
man
to
have
alwayes
his
minde
bended
about
businesse
;
and
would
bee
yet
more
wearisome
,
if
hee
had
not
one
with
whom
he
might
take
some
release
;
and
that
wee
prove
commonly
too
negligent
and
carelesse
in
making
our
choice
:
We
ought
in
my
judgement
to
chuse
such
people
for
our
friends
as
be
of
a
mild
and
meeke
conversation
,
and
who
because
of
their
calme
and
quiet
disposition
deserve
to
be
beloved
,
for
there
is
not
any
thing
that
so
much
doth
content
,
and
deligh
:
the
minde
of
man
,
as
faithfull
and
trusty
friendship
.
It
being
a
great
contentment
to
find
a
person
so
disposed
,
unto
whom
yee
may
safely
impart
your
most
secret
affaires
:
whose
counsel
may
advise
you
,
whose
cheerefulnes
may
qualifie
all
your
cares
,
and
whose
presence
may
appease
all
your
paines
,
and
expell
your
pensivenesse
of
minde
:
And
therefore
yee
must
endeavour
to
chuse
such
friends
as
are
free
from
covetousnesse
,
and
all
notorious
vice
.
For
vice
like
the
fire
taketh
hold
of
that
which
is
neerest
unto
it
.
So
that
wee
must
doe
as
men
are
wont
in
the
time
of
plague
and
●estilence
:
which
is
to
separate
●nd
sever
the
sicke
from
the
whole
:
it
being
a
contagion
and
●n
occasion
of
sicknesse
to
let
●hem
live
together
.
Neverthe●esse
I
do
not
like
that
we
should
be
in
our
choice
too
scrupulous
,
but
seeing
we
cannot
finde
folks
together
perfect
,
wee
must
hold
those
for
good
which
bee
lesse
evill
.
Amity
is
a
sacred
flame
kindled
in
our
breasts
by
nature
,
and
hath
expressed
its
first
heate
,
betweene
husband
and
wife
,
brother
and
sister
,
friend
and
friend
,
it
is
the
soule
and
life
of
the
world
,
more
necessary
then
Fire
and
Water
.
Friendshippe
is
the
companion
of
Justice
,
the
bond
of
Nature
,
the
Defence
and
Safe-●●ard
of
a
Towne
or
City
the
comfort
of
old
age
,
and
the
quiet
harbour
of
mans
lif●●
By
it
all
things
consist
,
&
discord
decaies
,
&
therefore
in
the
election
of
friends
,
ye
ought
chiefly
to
avoide
such
as
be
extremely
sullen
or
sad
,
who
weepe
and
waile
at
all
things
,
and
despaire
of
all
things
,
although
otherwife
they
be
such
as
d●e
love
you
,
and
would
proove
faithfull
enough
unto
you
.
For
it
is
a
thing
that
must
needes
trouble
us
much
to
have
such
a
man
for
our
friend
as
is
alwaies
sad
,
sighing
and
sobbing
at
every
occasion
.
For
seeing
that
friendship
,
and
fellowship
is
ordained
to
drive
away
discontent
,
sorrow
,
and
griefe
,
it
were
neither
reasonable
no●
convenient
to
chuse
such
a
one
for
your
comforter
and
friend
,
as
in
stead
of
delighting
you
,
and
of
lightning
your
griefe
,
should
by
his
fullennesse
and
sadnesse
increase
your
sorrow
,
and
every
day
occasion
unto
you
some
new
vaine
apprehension
and
feare
.
DISC.
8.
Of
dissembling
or
disguising
of
humors
.
DIssimulation
comes
from
Distrust
,
which
is
the
Sciene
or
seed
plot
thereof
:
for
if
that
were
not
,
and
that
there
were
trust
and
fidelity
in
all
,
dissimulation
which
opneth
the
front
,
&
covereth
the
thought
,
could
have
no
place
.
Now
it
is
a
great
paine
,
&
a
testlesse
molestation
of
mind
,
for
men
to
labour
to
appeare
different
in
shew
from
that
which
they
are
in
substance
.
And
a
marvellous
trouble
and
torment
it
is
,
for
them
to
take
alwaies
heed
unto
themselves
,
for
feare
lest
they
should
be
discovered
.
Looke
how
often
men
looke
on
them
,
so
often
doe
they
think
that
they
are
espied
:
so
that
in
the
end
it
falleth
our
,
that
whether
they
will
or
no
,
they
doe
bewray
the
humour
and
inclination
which
beareth
rule
in
their
breast
.
The
excessive
care
they
have
to
hide
their
naturall
humour
,
putteth
them
to
an
unexplicable
paine
:
and
againe
,
to
be
discovered
,
it
putteth
them
to
almost
an
intolerable
shame
.
So
that
in
this
covered
and
masked
kind
of
carriage
there
is
not
that
pleasure
and
ease
,
which
is
to
be
felt
in
the
other
plain
&
simple
kind
of
conversation
that
Nature
doth
lead
each
man
unto
.
And
though
there
be
some
little
danger
accompanying
this
plainnesse
,
that
a
man
may
bee
the
lesse
esteemed
of
by
reason
of
this
his
inclination
when
it
is
discried
:
notwithstanding
in
my
mind
,
it
wer
better
for
him
to
be
a
little
lesse
accounted
of
,
and
to
live
openly
;
then
with
such
paine
to
disguise
and
carry
himselfe
dissemblingly
.
And
yet
in
both
the
two
there
is
to
be
kept
a
reasonable
mediocrity
and
meane
:
for
there
is
a
great
difference
betweene
a
franke
and
free
fashion
of
behaviour
,
and
a
negligent
or
carelesse
kind
of
carriage
.
To
understand
this
point
somwhat
better
,
wee
have
to
consider
,
how
that
Nature
hath
indued
man
with
two
diverse
qualities
and
properties
,
the
one
generall
and
common
to
us
all
,
in
making
us
reasonable
and
capable
of
discourse
,
wherein
we
surpasse
the
bruite
beasts
a
〈◊〉
other
particular
to
each
one
of
us
,
as
to
be
inclined
to
gravity
,
to
pollicy
,
to
melancholy
,
of
〈◊〉
some
such
humour
.
In
this
every
one
should
follow
his
naturall
inclination
,
provided
that
it
bee
not
absurd
,
unseemely
,
or
vitious
.
As
if
a
man
her
subject
to
too
much
laughter
,
in
behoveth
him
to
endeavour
to
amend
this
imperfection
.
But
in
such
qualities
,
as
are
not
blameable
,
it
is
good
not
to
use
counterfeiting
,
cloaking
,
or
dissembling
.
For
it
is
a
thing
very
uneasy
for
that
man
alwaies
to
Act
the
grave
,
who
is
not
naturally
enclined
to
gravity
,
as
to
change
his
countenance
,
to
enlarge
or
raise
swellingly
his
voyce
,
to
fashion
&
frame
his
eyes
&
lookes
to
austerity
,
majesty
,
and
greatnesse
:
The
which
gestures
if
a
man
chance
to
forget
through
negligence
and
oversight
,
by
&
by
hee
is
discovered
.
In
my
conceit
it
were
much
better
for
such
a
man
to
follow
his
in-bred
cheerefull
inclination
,
and
gay
humour
in
conversing
with
others
.
Notwithstanding
,
if
it
bee
a
mans
fortune
to
be
preferred
to
a
place
of
dignitie
and
honour
,
such
as
doth
require
a
grave
,
or
severe
countenance
and
cariage
,
then
in
this
case
it
behoveth
him
to
constraine
and
command
a
little
his
joviall
inclination
.
But
this
must
be
don
with
much
discretion
and
moderation
,
and
by
degrees
,
and
in
such
sort
that
this
change
offend
no
man
.
And
this
kinde
of
dissembling
,
or
disguising
of
humours
cannot
bee
blamed
;
seeing
the
quality
of
his
charge
doth
require
it
,
for
the
seemly
bearing
whereof
,
he
must
bee
content
to
take
the
paines
,
to
put
aside
;
or
rather
to
smother
a
little
of
his
fac●le
and
easie
disposition
.
But
there
are
some
light-headed
and
ridiculous
,
which
notwithstanding
men
take
for
grave
,
stayed
,
and
magnatimous
:
Others
there
are
,
and
some
great
ones
,
on
whom
God
hath
bestowed
both
Riches
and
Honour
,
and
yet
these
doe
give
themselves
over
to
a
depraved
and
loose
voluptuous
will
,
when
as
their
open
Carriage
preclaimes
them
wise
,
modest
and
discreet
:
And
there
are
others
againe
,
who
without
cause
labour
to
counterfeit
and
cover
,
or
rather
smother
their
good
inclination
;
for
being
borne
of
a
milde
and
meeke
disposition
,
they
endeavour
to
dawb
themselves
over
with
the
untempered
morter
of
inhumanitie
;
roughnesse
,
and
austerity
.
Also
others
there
are
,
who
being
very
cowards
,
will
yet
make
shew
as
if
they
were
the
most
valorous
in
the
World
,
and
by
no
meanes
can
they
be
brought
to
know
themselves
.
But
yet
this
their
coloured
and
constrained
courage
they
cannot
carry
farre
off
without
discovery
:
The
common
saying
alwayes
proving
true
,
That
no
violent
or
constrained
thing
hath
long
continuance
.
DISC.
9.
Of
Vanity
.
VAnity
is
the
most
essentiall
and
proper
quality
of
humane
Nature
:
there
is
nothing
so
much
in
man
,
bee
it
malice
,
infelicity
,
inconstancy
,
irresolution
,
(
and
of
all
these
there
is
abundance
)
as
base
feeblenesse
,
sottishnesse
,
and
ridiculous
vanity
:
And
therefore
Pi●darus
hath
exprest
it
more
to
the
life
then
any
other
,
by
the
two
vainest
things
in
the
world
;
calling
it
the
Dreame
of
a
shadow
.
So
that
is
a
very
hard
thing
,
yea
,
I
dare
say
impossible
,
that
a
vaine
and
ambitious
man
can
ever
attaine
to
taste
sweete
and
most
desirable
tranquillity
of
minde
,
which
the
●ise
have
so
diligently
sought
●or
,
by
Sea
and
by
Land
,
on
note
,
and
on
horse
,
sparing
no
●aines
:
For
hee
that
hath
his
●inde
and
heart
euen
with
the
●hawing
worme
of
Ambition
,
●annot
attaine
to
that
which
he
desireth
,
to
wit
,
that
place
,
credit
,
and
account
which
he
doth
●rave
.
And
as
of
himselfe
bee
promiseth
alwayes
more
then
he
can
performe
;
So
likewise
in
his
habits
,
attire
,
and
all
his
other
things
,
he
doth
usually
goe
beyond
his
measure
:
And
is
found
to
bee
in
the
selfe
same
paine
,
wherein
are
lodged
all
those
which
strive
against
the
streame
,
or
which
creepe
and
graspe
upwards
against
a
steepe
Rocke
,
and
because
in
setting
forwards
they
make
too
much
haste
,
therefore
they
lye
the
further
behinde
.
Moderati●
carries
a
soft
pace
,
and
submit
her selfe
to
the
rule
of
Temperance
,
shee
vayles
under
a
slo●
saile
,
and
by
little
and
littl●
creepes
along
;
yet
in
that
neglected
pace
goes
further
the●
the
galloping
scope
of
prodigality
:
the
true
meanes
to
attain
unto
ease
is
,
for
a
man
to
make
smaller
semblance
and
shew
then
indeed
his
power
and
ability
doth
beare
,
and
to
set
asid●
all
pompous
superfluity
and
vanity
,
as
well
in
his
attire
,
as
in
his
traine
:
and
to
hold
alwaies
for
his
measure
and
rule
that
which
is
necessary
,
not
that
which
hat●
no
other
ground
but
a
vaine
opinion
,
or
a
frivoulous
concei●●
yea
in
our
very
eating
and
apparelling
,
we
must
take
heed
there
appeare
nothing
so
singular
,
or
odde
,
that
men
may
in
an
extraordinary
manner
take
notice
thereof
.
It
is
likewise
very
expedient
and
profitable
,
that
wee
refraine
our
hopes
,
and
that
wee
extend
not
our
designes
further
then
wee
may
well
attaine
unto
.
As
for
riches
,
endeavour
to
come
by
them
rather
of
your selfe
,
then
of
fortune
:
And
every
way
it
is
a
principall
point
for
a
man
to
bee
moderate
as
well
in
his
actions
,
as
in
his
intentions
.
For
when
any
tempest
,
or
storme
of
fortune
shall
fall
out
,
it
shall
have
the
lesser
power
to
prevaile
upon
him
,
and
to
give
him
the
overthrow
,
if
it
finde
him
with
his
sailes
gathered
in
,
rather
then
hoysed
up
to
the
full
winde
.
Finally
,
a
man
ought
so
to
dispose
and
demeane
himselfe
,
that
although
fortune
should
frowne
on
him
,
by
reason
of
lacke
of
meanes
;
yet
let
him
beware
lost
hee
be
at
once
both
crossed
in
his
Condition
,
and
quelled
in
his
courage
by
the
incommodity
of
want
.
If
your
Minde
giveth
you
to
loue
Bookes
,
indeauour
to
make
them
serve
you
for
another
use
and
end
,
then
for
ornament
to
your
Chamber
wals
,
as
some
do
which
purchase
&
buy
many
,
only
for
Ostentation
;
therein
resembling
Asses
,
and
Mules
,
which
carry
good
Victualls
on
their
backes
,
and
yet
eate
not
thereof
at
all
.
The
immoderate
multitude
of
Servants
,
bringeth
unto
the
Master
a
multitude
of
charges
and
cares
,
with
an
excessiue
great
payne
:
And
they
on
the
other
side
,
are
marred
and
made
worse
,
by
reason
of
too
much
ease
.
For
conclusion
,
in
what
thing
soever
it
be
,
if
yee
intend
to
live
according
to
the
opinion
of
others
,
yee
shal
never
be
content
;
but
if
yee
do
live
according
to
Reason
,
and
that
which
Nature
doth
require
,
yee
shall
never
have
Want
.
O
how
securely
and
quietly
doth
the
Humble
and
Moderate
man
liue
,
and
how
little
paines
doth
he
take
,
to
provide
and
furnish
himselfe
!
And
truely
,
even
unto
the
very
brute
Beasts
which
we
do
feed
we
have
in
horrour
such
as
be
untameable
and
wilde
,
and
will
not
suffer
themselves
to
be
fed
and
led
after
our
fantasie
&
Will.
What
reason
have
wee
then
to
approve
of
wild
and
immoderate
men
,
which
come
so
neere
these
unmanageable
and
unsatiable
Beasts
?
In
briefe
,
and
for
a
good
advertisement
,
call
to
minde
how
that
the
Thunder
and
Lightnings
doe
fall
ordinarily
upon
the
tallest
Trees
,
the
highest
Hills
,
and
the
stateliest
Towers
.
DISC.
10.
Of
Prosperity
.
PRosperity
is
the
life
of
Peace
in
a
tumultuous
War
,
where
all
seeke
to
be
conquerours
over
poore
men
,
whose
weake
stability
can
hardly
support
it selfe
without
them
;
his
happinesse
being
not
much
unlike
a
faire
house
,
whose
foundation
is
rotten
and
decayed
.
And
therefore
when
fortune
smileth
on
us
,
and
(
as
they
say
)
every
thing
falleth
out
according
to
our
wish
,
it
is
then
,
yea
even
then
,
if
ever
at
any
time
,
that
wee
ought
heedfully
to
looke
unto
our
selves
,
to
hold
our
affections
in
raines
,
and
watchfully
to
order
our
actions
by
reason
.
For
adversity
may
procure
our
very
enemies
and
foes
to
pittie
our
affliction
;
but
prosperity
may
move
our
very
Friends
to
envy
our
fortunate
condition
.
If
wee
would
rehearse
in
this
place
all
those
which
have
miserably
miscarried
by
sudden
and
violent
Death
,
because
that
they
could
not
in
their
prosperity
moderate
and
master
themselves
.
The
Story
would
bee
too
tedious
;
it
being
our
intention
to
use
brevity
,
wee
will
therefore
leave
that
Discourse
:
For
scarcely
shall
wee
finde
any
man
,
who
hath
not
some
Knowledge
thereof
:
And
therefore
when
as
we
enjoy
the
smiling
favour
of
time
,
wee
ought
diligently
to
avoide
all
presmuption
,
and
pride
,
which
ordinarily
doth
accompany
prosperity
:
and
must
endeavour
to
diminish
,
and
abase
,
as
much
as
we
can
;
this
haughty
humour
,
and
strouting
be
haviour
which
alwaies
doth
follow
the
heeles
of
a
more
favourable
fortune
.
True
it
is
,
there
are
some
which
sustaine
such
a
ranke
and
dignity
,
that
they
cannot
conveniently
debase
themselves
,
except
they
either
fall
from
their
place
,
or
at
least
,
not
carry
themselves
in
the
same
as
they
ought
.
King
Xerxes
and
Cyrus
got
such
aboundance
of
wealth
by
warre
that
being
there
with
puffed
up
with
pride
to
take
enterprizes
in
hand
,
through
perswasion
of
of
wealth
;
the
one
after
hee
thought
to
robbe
and
spoile
all
Greece
was
slaine
by
Artabanus
,
the
other
thinking
to
subdue
all
Scythia
,
was
vanquished
by
Tomiris
,
the
Queene
thereof
:
see
heere
both
these
proud
Princes
,
how
by
having
too
much
wealth
,
nay
rather
for
not
using
it
wel
,
they
lost
both
it
and
their
lives
too
:
and
truely
men
most
imploy
their
prudence
and
wisedome
in
tempering
their
gravity
,
so
that
others
may
bee
brought
to
impute
it
to
their
charge
and
calling
,
and
not
to
the
naturall
disposition
of
their
minde
;
and
therefore
it
is
good
that
they
excuse
themselves
towards
their
friends
,
and
such
folkes
as
be
of
a
meaner
ranke
,
whom
they
have
knowne
familiarly
before
,
that
they
have
not
the
leasure
to
entertaine
them
,
and
to
make
much
of
them
,
by
bearing
them
company
,
as
otherwise
they
would
very
willingly
doe
:
Yet
so
,
that
they
use
in
the
meane
time
,
all
the
facility
and
affability
their
condition
and
calling
can
suffer
them
to
use
;
not
bewraying
or
shewing
any
stormy
,
or
angry
moode
,
by
their
visage
or
words
,
if
a
man
chance
to
come
to
them
at
an
unfit
houre
,
or
speake
to
them
somewhat
more
importunatly
,
or
undiscreetly
then
reason
would
require
.
For
it
is
a
like
vice
for
a
man
not
to
know
how
to
carry
himselfe
in
his
prosperity
,
as
not
to
be
able
to
comport
with
adversity
:
wee
ought
therefore
to
observe
an
equality
in
our
whole
life
,
and
to
shew
alwaies
(
if
it
be
possible
)
in
all
the
changes
and
chances
therof
one
and
the
same
countenance
,
full
of
curtesie
,
mildnesse
and
gentle
in
behaviour
.
Prosperity
is
very
dangerous
whatsoever
there
is
that
is
vaine
and
light
in
the
Soule
of
Man
,
is
raised
and
carried
with
the
first
favourable
winde
;
there
is
nothing
that
makes
a
man
so
much
to
lose
&
forget
himselfe
;
as
great
prosperity
;
and
therfore
it
is
necessary
that
a
man
looke
to
himselfe
,
and
take
heed
as
if
he
went
in
a
slippery
place
,
and
especially
of
insolence
,
pride
and
presumption
.
Alexander
the
great
did
far
out-run
his
father
Philip
King
of
Macedon
,
by
his
high
and
excellent
feats
of
warre
:
but
his
father
did
far
surmount
him
in
humanity
and
gentlenesse
of
minde
.
The
father
was
alwaies
vertuous
and
welbeloved
,
but
the
sonne
was
oftentimes
vitious
and
hated
:
In
such
sort
that
their
counsell
is
questionlesse
wholesome
and
sound
,
which
tell
us
that
the
higher
and
loftier
men
are
,
the
humbler
and
lowlier
ought
they
to
be
.
Antonius
Primus
overthrew
himselfe
and
his
whole
house
,
by
nothing
else
then
his
overmuch
glorying
in
his
valiant
deeds
,
and
found
this
Maxime
too
late
to
be
true
,
that
a
proud
and
insolent
carriage
towards
men
of
spirit
can
hardly
compasse
any
thing
,
unlesse
in
some
sort
or
other
he
that
useth
it
be
able
to
over
awe
them
.
Scipio
Africanus
was
wont
to
say
,
that
even
as
men
are
accustomed
to
put
wilde
and
untamed
horses
in
to
the
hands
of
Equitiers
and
Riders
,
that
being
daunted
and
tamed
,
they
may
serve
them
at
their
neede
;
So
likewise
is
it
needfull
to
tame
proud
and
insolent
persons
,
that
have
growne
wilde
through
the
aboundance
of
fortunes
favour
,
and
to
bring
them
againe
within
the
round
and
compasse
of
reason
,
by
setting
before
their
eye
the
wretchednesse
and
weaknesse
of
humane
matters
,
and
the
mutability
and
instablity
of
fortune
.
And
for
this
end
we
ought
in
our
greatest
prosperity
to
use
the
advice
and
counsell
of
our
friends
,
yea
,
then
we
should
give
them
more
authority
and
power
over
us
then
at
any
other
time
,
to
the
end
they
may
be
more
bold
towards
us
in
telling
us
the
truth
.
We
must
also
stoppe
our
eares
to
flatterers
,
which
may
very
easie
beguile
us
:
For
at
all
times
men
do
deeme
and
esteem
themselves
to
be
such
,
as
ought
to
bee
praised
and
extolled
,
but
most
of
all
in
time
of
prosperity
:
In
which
it
is
a
thing
very
rare
and
difficult
to
finde
a
man
who
doth
not
incline
to
attribute
unto
to
himselfe
the
cause
of
his
own
good
hap
.
Neither
is
there
any
other
Season
in
which
men
sooner
forget
God
,
then
when
they
enjoy
health
and
wealth
,
dignity
and
felicity
according
to
their
wish
.
So
that
mishap
whensoever
it
doth
happen
them
,
doth
serve
them
for
a
medicine
,
because
it
bringeth
them
home
againe
unto
the
knowledge
of
themselves
.
This
opinion
of
selfe-conceit
,
for
a
man
to
thinke
too
much
of
himselfe
,
and
to
give
credit
lightly
unto
the
fawning
lyes
of
flatterers
,
maketh
men
to
stumble
,
and
to
fall
into
many
grosse
faults
,
yea
,
giveth
occasion
of
mocking
and
bitter
reviling
,
and
out
of
all
question
,
it
is
a
great
over-sight
,
and
a
folly
,
for
a
man
to
relie
more
upon
anothers
judgment
concerning
himselfe
,
then
upon
his
owne
.
This
Philip
(
of
whom
we
spake
before
)
seeing
himselfe
very
mighty
and
victorious
,
and
considering
with
himselfe
,
as
a
wise
and
moderate
man
ought
to
do
,
how
that
humane
things
do
not
alwayes
abide
in
the
same
stay
,
appointed
that
one
of
his
Pages
should
each
Morning
salute
him
with
these
words
,
Philip
,
remember
that
thou
art
a
mortall
man
.
But
how
much
more
may
the
wise
and
well-disposed
Christian
say
every
day
to
himselfe
,
Remember
that
thou
art
earth
,
and
to
earth
thou
must
returne
.
DISC
11.
Of
the
comparing
of
our
fortune
with
that
of
others
.
IT
is
an
ancient
question
,
whether
Industry
and
Fortune
hath
most
credit
:
For
it
is
out
of
all
doubt
,
that
both
have
;
and
it
is
clearely
false
;
that
one
onely
doth
all
,
and
the
other
nothing
;
and
commonly
they
that
settle
themselves
unto
the
one
,
contemne
the
other
;
but
the
difficulty
is
to
joyne
them
together
,
and
to
attend
them
both
.
Therefore
it
is
much
availeable
for
the
attaining
of
this
tranquillity
of
minde
,
that
a
man
setting
aside
all
passions
,
consider
with
himselfe
what
meanes
and
commodities
hee
doth
enjoy
,
and
in
the
next
place
,
that
he
set
before
his
eyes
such
men
as
have
not
so
much
:
not
doing
as
many
are
wont
,
who
have
their
eyes
onely
upon
such
as
surpasse
them
,
admiring
and
reputing
them
onely
happy
and
blessed
.
The
prisoners
hold
them
happy
that
are
set
at
large
;
and
againe
,
those
esteeme
such
blessed
as
are
altogether
free
.
The
free
thinke
the
rich
onely
fortunate
,
and
the
rich
againe
those
that
command
.
They
that
command
,
account
Kings
of
all
other
most
blessed
,
and
Kings
those
of
their
degree
that
excell
them
in
ability
and
power
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
men
finding
themselves
unable
to
equall
such
as
surpasse
them
,
they
doe
remaine
discontented
,
and
no
wise
satisfied
with
their
fortune
,
wherein
they
both
bewray
their
ingratitude
towards
God
,
and
beget
a
torment
to
themselves
.
A
wise
man
will
not
be
male
content
,
though
many
surmount
him
in
meanes
,
but
rather
representing
to
himselfe
the
great
numbers
of
afflicted
and
miserable
men
the
world
doth
afford
,
he
will
rejoyce
and
bee
glad
of
his
condition
and
case
.
If
ye
see
then
a
man
well
mounted
and
furnished
with
faire
horses
,
richly
arayed
,
doe
but
cast
downe
a
little
your
eyes
,
and
consider
how
many
there
are
that
goe
a
foot
,
which
leading
a
poore
life
,
esteem
that
of
yours
to
be
happy
,
for
it
is
not
reasonable
that
the
good
fortune
of
one
,
or
of
a
few
,
should
have
greater
force
to
make
you
discontent
,
then
should
the
bad
fortune
of
many
have
to
move
you
to
be
content
.
How
many
poore
folkes
see
yee
daily
that
live
of
their
labours
;
and
are
laden
with
children
,
&
pinched
with
poverty
,
and
which
is
worst
of
all
,
have
no
hope
at
all
to
escape
out
of
their
misery
?
How
many
is
there
to
whom
your
life
,
which
ye
so
much
deplore
,
would
bring
much
consolation
and
ease
?
Fortune
may
make
a
man
poore
,
sick
,
afflicted
,
but
not
vitious
,
dissolute
,
dejected
:
many
times
a
man
complaineth
unjustly
,
for
though
he
be
sometimes
surprized
with
some
ill
accident
,
yet
hee
is
more
often
with
a
good
,
and
so
the
one
must
recompence
the
other
:
and
if
a
man
consider
wel
thereof
,
he
shall
finde
more
reason
to
content
himselfe
with
his
good
fortunes
,
then
to
complaine
of
his
bad
.
We
are
come
to
a
time
so
miserable
,
that
one
mans
life
dependeth
more
of
anothers
then
of
it selfe
;
and
the
good
of
our
Neighbour
doth
occasion
us
greater
griefe
then
is
the
gladnesse
we
reape
of
our
owne
.
But
if
it
were
possible
for
men
to
see
unfolded
the
fortune
of
such
as
they
esteeme
happy
,
they
would
feele
and
find
in
it
oftentimes
more
anxiety
and
paine
,
then
they
do
in
their
own
.
Who
is
he
that
doth
not
account
the
condition
of
Kings
of
all
other
to
be
most
happy
?
And
yet
harken
what
a
great
King
saith
of
himselfe
in
Homer
;
Great
Iupiter
hath
imprisoned
mee
with
great
perplexities
and
cares
.
O
how
happy
then
are
those
that
live
in
their
little
corners
out
of
these
dangers
and
feares
!
And
if
it
be
so
that
ten
thousand
folks
would
bee
content
with
the
estate
wherein
God
hath
established
you
,
what
reason
have
you
to
complaine
,
for
that
yee
have
not
the
estate
&
fortune
of
one
whom
yee
envy
?
Yee
have
no
cause
at
all
to
kill
your selfe
with
sorrow
and
care
,
for
to
attaine
unto
another
mans
ranke
,
seeing
there
is
nothing
that
so
much
roubleth
and
tormenteth
a
man
,
as
this
affection
and
immoderate
desire
of
mounting
from
one
degree
of
dignity
to
another
.
For
such
folkes
ordinarily
do
follow
without
consideration
any
hope
whatsoever
that
offereth
it selfe
;
the
which
if
it
faile
to
succeede
according
to
their
wish
,
they
presently
beginne
to
accuse
Fortune
,
and
to
accurse
their
hard
hap
;
whereas
they
ought
rather
to
blame
themselves
for
their
rashnesse
&
lightnesse
,
and
their
want
of
fore-sight
.
Neither
doe
they
consider
what
a
folly
it
is
for
them
,
to
impure
unto
another
the
blame
of
their
owne
weake
understanding
,
and
the
fault
they
have
fallen
into
,
by
following
that
which
was
either
uncertaine
,
or
impossible
for
them
to
attaine
unto
.
They
are
like
unto
those
,
in
my
conceit
,
which
fret
and
fume
for
that
they
cannot
fly
,
or
shoote
an
arrow
with
a
bow
as
big
as
a
plow-beame
.
The
cause
of
this
evill
,
is
the
excessive
affection
men
beare
unto
themselves
:
Whence
it
happens
,
that
in
all
things
they
will
needs
strive
and
labour
to
bee
the
first
.
It
is
nothing
in
their
eye
to
abound
in
Wealth
,
except
they
have
much
more
then
other
rich
men
have
.
Solon
the
Philosopher
saith
,
that
Wealth
is
the
Mother
of
Excesse
,
Excesse
the
Mother
of
Lust
,
Lust
the
Mother
of
Violence
,
and
Violence
the
Mother
of
Tyranny
.
Behold
how
this
vice
reigneth
,
or
rather
rangeth
in
all
estates
.
Dionysius
the
first
was
not
content
to
bee
King
of
Sicily
,
neither
esteemed
hee
his
dignity
accomplished
enough
,
because
Philoxenus
did
surpasse
him
in
Poësie
,
and
Plato
in
Philosophy
.
Wherupon
hee
was
so
furious
,
that
he
condemned
Philoxenus
to
the
quarries
,
there
to
wring
Verses
out
of
the
hard
rocks
,
and
banished
Plato
out
of
his
country
.
But
it
were
good
that
he
&
all
other
complainers
did
practise
the
saying
of
a
wise
man
,
that
if
al
the
evils
that
men
suffer
,
shold
be
compar'd
with
the
blessings
they
injoy
,
the
division
being
equally
made
they
may
see
by
the
overplus
of
that
good
they
enjoy
,
the
injustice
of
their
complaint
.
And
out
of
this
immoderate
love
it
doth
also
proceede
,
that
men
will
speake
of
all
things
,
thereby
to
shew
that
they
know
all
things
:
wherby
thy
make
themselves
often
to
bee
mocked
at
,
as
it
once
happened
to
Megabyses
the
Persian
,
a
man
otherwise
of
great
reputation
,
and
valour
who
having
upon
a
time
entred
into
the
lodging
where
the
famous
painter
Apelles
did
plye
and
practise
his
art
,
began
to
discourse
touching
the
same
,
and
would
needes
give
him
to
understand
,
that
hee
understood
the
nature
and
secrets
thereof
.
To
whom
Apelles
,
as
being
a
man
wise
,
and
well
conditioned
,
thus
answered
:
Truely
,
Megabyses
,
before
I
heard
you
speake
,
I
held
●ou
for
a
discreet
man
,
for
●our
silence
did
grace
your
●rave
apparell
,
but
since
yee
have
medled
to
talke
of
my
●rade
,
trust
me
,
there
is
not
the
●mallest
boy
heere
that
grindeth
the
colours
,
but
will
mocke
you
for
your
labour
.
Hannibal
that
great
Captaine
of
Carthage
,
after
that
the
Romanes
had
chased
him
out
of
Italy
and
Affricke
,
fled
to
the
King
of
Bithynia
,
where
hee
was
invited
to
goe
into
the
Scholes
,
to
heare
a
great
Philosopher
discoursing
of
the
stratagemes
,
tricks
,
and
subtilties
of
warre
,
his
auditors
wondering
at
his
eloquence
and
science
of
the
military
Art
,
asked
of
Hanibal
.
what
hee
thought
of
him
;
who
laughingly
answered
them
:
That
hee
had
knowne
many
old
fooles
,
but
that
hee
had
never
seen
,
nor
heard
any
man
uttering
so
many
fond
and
foolish
words
as
that
man
did
,
whom
they
all
so
much
admired
.
And
not
without
cause
did
he
answer
them
in
this
wise
:
considering
how
that
this
man
did
take
upon
him
to
discourse
largely
and
lavishly
of
a
matter
which
very
hardly
can
be
taught
or
learned
in
the
shade
of
a
Schoole
,
and
that
in
the
presence
and
audience
of
the
greatest
Captaine
,
and
most
experimented
warriour
that
was
then
in
the
whole
world
.
Which
may
teach
every
man
to
containe
himselfe
within
the
compasse
of
his
calling
,
without
medling
or
troubling
himselfe
with
that
of
another
mans
.
The
which
thing
the
Poets
also
have
taught
us
,
when
as
they
faine
that
their
gods
doe
content
themselves
each
one
with
his
owne
calling
and
charge
.
Mars
medleth
with
warre
,
Minerva
with
arts
,
Mercury
with
eloquence
,
Cupid
with
love
,
Neptune
with
the
sea
,
Pluto
with
Hell
,
Iupiter
with
the
heavens
,
and
so
of
the
rest
,
each
one
keeping
himselfe
within
the
bounds
and
lists
of
his
jurisdiction
.
And
if
that
any
of
them
had
encroched
upon
the
office
and
function
of
another
,
he
had
beene
scoffed
and
chastised
for
his
presumption
.
How
ill
a
fooles
cap
becomes
the
head
of
a
wise
man
;
and
yet
through
that
disguise
he
is
discerned
to
be
discreet
,
when
all
the
choisest
garments
in
the
world
cannot
cover
the
nakednesse
of
a
foole
.
And
hence
we
may
gather
,
that
all
things
doe
not
be
fit
,
nor
become
all
men
,
and
that
each
one
ought
to
consider
what
calling
hee
findeth
himselfe
most
apt
and
sufficient
for
,
and
that
hee
contenting
him
therewith
,
and
containing
himselfe
therein
.
They
that
follow
the
profession
of
letters
and
learning
,
have
neede
of
leasure
and
ease
.
Hee
that
will
follow
the
Court
,
and
laboureth
to
have
the
countenance
and
acquaintance
of
great
men
,
and
to
finde
accesse
unto
Princes
,
must
needs
undergoe
much
paines
.
So
that
these
conditions
,
and
the
like
,
are
not
sitting
for
all
:
and
it
standeth
each
one
upon
to
know
whereunto
he
is
most
apt
.
The
Horse
is
fit
for
riding
,
and
running
:
the
Oxe
for
opening
and
labouring
the
ground
.
The
man
that
is
sorry
that
he
cannot
beare
a
Lyon
in
his
bosome
,
as
he
may
a
little
dogge
,
is
hee
not
more
then
mad
?
If
Fortune
be
a
blessing
to
thee
,
why
shouldest
thou
contemne
it
in
another
?
or
if
not
,
why
despairest
thou
that
thy
neighbour
is
richer
:
dos
not
the
same
sunne
shine
upon
all
?
and
is
there
not
a
God
above
the
power
of
Fate
?
who
knowes
what
is
better
for
man
,
then
himselfe
:
if
so
,
thou
art
most
happy
in
being
the
least
:
in
that
thou
art
not
dayly
in
feare
to
bee
made
so
.
But
there
are
some
,
who
without
leaving
any
part
of
their
ease
,
and
of
their
vice
,
would
bee
as
wise
as
the
Philosophers
that
have
both
day
and
nigh
spent
their
time
in
study
.
The
good
wrestlers
of
old
contenting
themselves
with
their
prize
,
suffered
the
other
Champions
to
win
likewise
theirs
at
running
.
Contrariwise
such
as
despising
and
disdaining
their
owne
good
,
doe
sighingly
seeke
after
another
mans
do
they
not
live
in
displeasure
and
paine
?
They
say
,
that
in
times
past
,
there
was
a
notable
kinde
of
men
in
Baeotia
,
which
did
complaine
of
their
gods
because
that
their
figge
trees
did
not
beare
grapes
,
and
that
their
vines
did
not
bring
forth
figges
.
Wee
must
imagine
that
God
hath
fashioned
&
framed
diversly
men
for
divers
affairs
,
&
that
each
one
ought
to
content
himselfe
with
that
ability
or
place
which
God
hath
imparted
unto
him
,
without
passing
beyond
his
owne
,
to
pursue
,
and
follow
after
that
which
is
anothers
.
For
these
kind
of
people
make
no
account
at
all
of
that
which
they
have
,
but
onely
of
that
which
they
would
have
:
they
goe
alwaies
looking
a
farre
off
,
and
little
thinke
of
the
place
wherin
they
are
.
There
was
of
old
,
in
a
certaine
Temple
,
an
image
pourtraied
,
which
did
represent
the
manner
of
men
,
that
alwaies
wait
on
the
time
to
come
,
and
neglect
the
good
oportunity
of
the
time
present
.
The
picture
was
of
a
Rope-maker
who
did
stil
work
,
but
suffered
an
Asse
that
stood
behinde
him
to
eat
it
up
.
And
thus
doe
the
ingrate
people
in
Gods
behalfe
,
who
make
no
reckoning
of
the
goods
they
enjoy
,
but
suffer
them
to
be
buried
in
oblivion
,
and
are
alwaies
covetous
of
things
to
come
.
In
the
harmony
of
the
world
,
the
differences
,
or
distances
are
to
bee
observed
:
so
likewise
in
humane
things
,
all
are
not
of
one
sort
.
And
as
in
musick
there
are
tunes
and
sounds
,
some
grave
,
some
sharpe
,
and
some
meane
,
of
the
mingling
whereof
the
skilfull
Musitian
maketh
a
sweete
melody
:
so
doth
the
prudent
man
make
an
harmony
of
the
good
and
evill
that
occurreth
in
this
life
,
not
taking
the
good
or
the
evill
alone
,
but
consorting
and
tempering
the
one
with
the
other
,
as
things
which
in
this
world
can
never
bee
fully
severed
.
That
faire
proverbe
uttered
by
Eurypides
,
but
used
of
all
,
proving
true
:
That
sorrow
and
mans
life
are
sisters
of
one
wombe
.
DISC.
12.
Of
Adversity
.
WIth
what
a
Labyrinth
is
purblind
man
encompast
,
no
sooner
borne
with
hope
of
a
prosperous
life
,
but
that
is
cross't
with
variety
or
adversity
,
which
is
of
its
owne
nature
grievous
and
heavy
unto
our
hearts
,
in
sicknesse
,
the
losse
of
children
,
of
friends
,
with
such
like
other
disma●l
accidents
.
But
yet
in
part
we
follow
popular
opinion
in
the
apprehension
thereof
,
and
this
wee
doe
principally
in
our
owne
wants
necessities
and
in
matter
of
affronts
,
circumventions
and
scoffes
,
when
as
we
imagine
that
the
honour
is
deferred
us
which
we
deserve
.
Against
these
crosses
it
were
good
for
us
to
apply
unto
our selves
the
saying
of
the
Poet
Menander
,
That
which
hath
befallen
you
,
is
not
indeed
grievous
,
but
onely
seemeth
so
,
and
that
it
is
so
,
it
may
appeare
in
that
ye
have
your
mind
and
body
as
much
at
commandement
,
as
yee
had
before
the
crosse
did
befall
you
.
And
against
the
crosses
of
the
first
kinde
yee
ought
to
consider
how
that
yee
endure
nothing
contrary
to
the
Law
and
course
of
humane
things
,
in
regard
that
all
these
accidents
are
annexed
unto
mans
being
,
and
that
from
his
birth
they
are
allotted
to
him
for
ordinary
;
and
the
truth
is
nature
hath
not
framed
us
so
feeble
,
to
beare
out
adversity
,
as
wee
make
our selues
.
Let
us
alwaies
think
that
it
is
but
our
inferiour
part
which
is
subject
unto
fortune
,
and
that
wee
have
the
principall
in
our
owne
power
:
&
that
that
which
lyeth
in
us
,
as
concerning
vertue
,
cannot
bee
overcome
by
any
other
thing
,
without
our
consent
:
For
wee
know
that
wee
have
not
neede
of
any
great
forces
for
the
doing
hereof
,
wee
having
none
to
fight
against
,
but
our
owne
selves
,
and
the
better
part
of
the
victory
consisting
in
mastering
our
owne
will
:
whereunto
adde
this
,
that
God
will
alwaies
favour
the
man
who
through
the
ayde
of
rectified
reason
disposeth
himselfe
to
be
the
stronger
.
Fortune
(
if
so
it
bee
lawful
for
a
Christian
to
speake
)
may
well
make
thee
poore
,
abase
thee
and
afflict
thee
but
she
is
not
able
to
make
thee
vitious
,
lasie
,
or
il-conditioned
;
neither
can
shee
bereave
thee
of
the
courage
and
vigour
of
minde
,
wherein
doth
lie
greater
strength
to
governe
thy
soule
,
then
there
is
in
the
Art
of
Navigation
to
direct
a
ship
.
For
the
Mariner
,
let
him
be
never
so
skilfull
and
wife
in
his
Art
,
cannot
withall
his
skill
asswage
the
surging
tempest
of
the
Sea
,
nor
yet
take
away
fearefull
apprehensions
from
another
mans
fantasie
.
Whereas
Vertue
and
Wisedome
in
a
well
ordered
minde
doth
assure
and
settle
the
body
,
for
it
preserveth
it
from
diseases
through
temperance
,
and
pulleth
it
backe
from
wicked
and
vitious
dispositions
by
continence
:
and
whereas
any
thing
,
wherein
there
is
danger
,
shall
present
it selfe
unto
our
minde
(
as
if
it
were
in
a
quicksand
)
it
is
good
that
wee
leave
it
,
and
passe
further●
or
else
if
the
evill
be
unavoydable
,
let
him
comfort
himselfe
,
and
think
that
the
haven
is
not
very
far
off
:
and
that
his
soule
goeth
out
of
the
body
,
as
out
of
a
crazy
or
broken
bark
,
holding
death
for
a
sweete
and
assured
harbour
,
chiefly
considering
,
that
in
regard
of
the
nature
of
the
soule
,
her
out-going
from
this
life
,
is
her
in-going
to
a
better
.
Which
consideration
ought
to
adde
much
unto
the
courage
of
Christians
,
yea
,
and
make
them
not
to
feare
that
which
bringeth
affrightment
unto
others
.
And
truely
,
if
we
had
skill
and
courage
enough
to
looke
Fortune
in
the
face
,
and
to
meete
her
in
the
way
with
a
stou●
stomacke
,
prepared
to
sustaine
all
her
assaults
,
nothing
in
the
world
could
dismay
us
,
or
make
us
suffer
.
And
this
thing
would
certainely
come
to
passe
,
if
we
could
once
be
accustomed
never
to
promise
to
our selves
aney
great
or
assured
hopes
,
or
yet
any
certaine
and
settled
estate
,
during
this
miserable
life
,
and
if
wee
would
take
heede
diligently
,
considering
whether
those
things
wee
doe
account
as
evill
,
bee
so
evill
as
wee
deeme
them
to
bee
,
or
if
happely
they
bee
not
so
evill
,
but
rather
lesse
then
we
imagine
.
Finally
this
thing
would
happen
if
we
would
behold
a
far
off
,
&
wisely
foresee
frowning
fortune
,
for
in
so
doing
wee
might
assure
our selves
,
that
at
her
comming
shee
should
not
affright
us
,
but
the
neerer
she
came
to
us
,
the
bolder
wee
might
bee
to
looke
her
in
the
face
,
and
to
esteeme
her
not
to
be
so
lusty
and
strong
as
her
picture
doth
import
,
and
if
no
man
bee
able
to
boast
during
this
life
,
so
farre
as
to
say
,
I
am
exempted
from
this
bitter
potion
,
at
least
may
he
say
thus
,
though
I
must
swallow
it
downe
,
yet
shall
I
not
bee
agast
,
weepe
and
waile
I
will
not
,
neither
despaire
,
as
many
men
do
.
I
wil
not
bring
my selfe
into
so
deplorable
a
plight
as
divers
do
,
amidst
their
disasters
.
Though
poverty
pinch
me
more
then
many
others
,
for
al
that
wil
I
not
beguile
my
neighbour
,
nor
yet
take
that
to
my selfe
which
belongeth
to
another
:
I
will
not
lie
,
much
lesse
will
I
forsweare
my selfe
.
Briefly
there
shall
nothing
unto
mee
seeme
so
intolerable
,
as
that
for
to
shun
it
,
I
would
chuse
to
become
vitious
.
If
by
honest
meanes
I
cannot
avoide
indigence
and
neede
;
at
least
necessity
shall
make
this
necessity
of
mine
easie
to
bee
borne
.
Besides
,
the
common
law
of
humane
things
,
doth
not
allow
us
to
esteeme
that
thing
heavy
and
unbea●eable
,
which
so
many
daily
doe
carry
,
and
beare
on
their
backs
:
for
choose
what
manner
of
afflictions
yee
will
,
yee
shall
finde
more
men
burthened
therewith
,
then
exempted
there-from
.
Adversity
is
a
Penelopes
web
,
which
undoes
all
that
the
day
of
Prosperity
had
woven
:
In
the
day
of
Adversity
,
consider
,
saith
the
Wise
man
;
and
the
Ancients
give
a
clearer
revelation
of
the
Knowledge
of
God
unto
it
,
then
to
Prosperity
;
because
it
is
a
nearer
way
to
Heaven
.
Therefore
we
must
likewise
comfort
our selves
with
this
consideration
,
that
where
there
is
no
sinne
,
●here
can
be
no
true
evill
at
all
:
●nd
that
the
vertuous
man
is
more
came
and
quiet
in
his
deepest
adversity
;
then
is
the
vitious
man
in
his
highest
prosperity
:
And
such
were
the
crosses
of
the
righteous
men
of
old
,
which
by
the
helpe
of
the
divine
grace
,
were
so
accompanied
with
fortitude
,
patience
,
and
humility
,
that
how
sharpe
and
rough
soever
they
were
,
yet
they
brought
them
not
so
much
vexation
and
anguish
as
their
conscience
did
them
consolation
and
ease
,
and
even
as
those
that
are
sicke
of
a
Fever
,
feele
sooner
,
and
in
more
painefull
manner
,
the
heate
and
coldnesse
of
their
fit
,
then
doe
the
whole
and
sound
the
sharpest
cold
of
Winter
,
or
the
scorching
heate
of
Summer
:
So
likewise
doth
it
sure
with
those
that
are
trouble
with
the
fever
of
their
vitious
affections
,
the
which
do
burne
and
blister
extremely
and
continually
their
conscience
:
for
they
are
much
more
vexed
with
the
corrupt
and
vitious
qualities
they
do
beget
and
beare
in
their
bosomes
,
then
are
vertuous
men
with
all
their
adversities
.
For
the
vertuous
quell
pride
by
humility
,
covetousnesse
with
temperance
,
and
all
things
with
patience
:
and
these
having
the
inward
and
better
part
sound
and
without
wound
,
cannot
be
hurt
by
outward
accidents
,
wherunto
they
oppose
a
lively
and
lusty
courage
together
with
the
force
of
an
honest
and
inviolable
mind
,
which
is
more
strong
then
any
thing
else
whatsoever
.
Thinke
not
that
riches
,
howsoever
aboundant
they
be
,
can
afford
so
great
contentment
to
the
owner
thereof
,
as
vertue
doth
unto
the
vertuous
man
,
which
is
sufficient
to
make
him
content
:
For
vertue
in
whomsoever
it
be
,
is
alwaies
the
reward
and
recompence
of
her selfe
.
Wee
read
how
that
Aglaus
a
poore
shepherd
in
Arcadia
,
was
by
the
Oracle
of
Apollo
preferred
for
his
contentation
before
King
Craesus
of
Lydia
,
who
esteemed
himselfe
the
happiest
man
in
the
World
for
his
riches
:
and
even
as
the
most
precious
plants
&
sweet-smelling
trees
,
though
they
be
cut
in
pieces
and
dryed
,
keepe
alwaies
their
sweet
and
pleasant
sent
,
when
as
the
unsavoury
and
barren
doe
not
please
the
sence
,
even
then
when
they
are
whole
and
full
of
blossomes
and
flowers
:
even
so
the
vertuous
man
in
the
very
midst
of
his
adversity
reapeth
more
pleasure
and
contentment
of
his
vertue
and
honesty
,
then
the
vitious
can
doe
of
his
wealth
and
superfluity
,
being
beaten
and
scourged
with
a
cursed
conscience
.
In
one
word
,
in
what
time
,
place
,
or
condition
soever
yee
finde
the
vertuous
man
,
yee
shall
finde
him
alwaies
content
.
O
what
a
blessednesse
then
,
if
considered
aright
,
is
Adversity
?
which
though
common
to
all
,
yet
worketh
divers
effects
,
according
to
the
Subject
whereupon
it
lighteth
.
To
fooles
and
reprobate
persons
,
if
serves
to
drive
into
despaire
,
afflict
,
and
enrage
them
:
to
sinners
and
offenders
crosses
are
so
many
lively
instructions
and
compulsions
,
to
put
them
in
minde
of
their
duty
,
and
to
bring
them
to
the
Knowledge
of
God
:
To
vertuous
people
they
are
the
lists
wherein
to
exercise
their
Vertue
,
and
to
winne
to
them●elves
greater
commendations
,
●nd
a
nea●er
alliance
with
God
;
●nd
to
all
a
guide
,
that
leadeth
●ut
of
this
life
into
a
better
.
It
is
reported
that
Diogenes
●he
Philosopher
,
seeing
on
a
●ime
a
certaine
man
dressing
and
●ecking
himselfe
for
a
Festivall
●ay
,
sayd
unto
him
thus
:
Why
●oest
then
take
such
paines
to
●rimme
thy selfe
to
day
,
conside●ing
that
every
day
is
a
festivall
●ay
to
the
vertuous
man
?
And
●uely
every
day
of
the
life
of
●he
vertuous
man
is
a
Solemne
●ay
,
and
fit
for
a
moderate
re●oycing
and
mirth
.
For
if
wee
●ooke
well
unto
the
matter
,
the
world
is
no
other
thing
else
but
〈◊〉
faire
and
holy
Temple
,
into
which
a
man
is
brought
so
soone
●s
he
is
borne
:
and
within
this
Temple
there
is
to
be
seene
two
bright
Lampes
or
Torches
set
up
,
the
Sun
and
the
Moone
,
with
many
other
Starry
lights
.
There
may
we
see
and
behold
divers
kinds
of
Creatures
,
by
meanes
whereof
,
Man
attaineth
to
the
Knowledge
of
other
Essences
,
that
cannot
be
seene
.
What
a
sweet
sight
is
it
to
see
so
many
faire
floods
,
and
cleare
running
Rivers
,
which
send
out
alwaies
fresh
Water
,
to
behold
so
many
fruitfull
and
flourishing
Trees
,
Plants
,
Herbes
,
and
Roots
:
the
beautifull
variety
of
Beasts
,
and
of
stones
,
together
with
graffie
hils
,
and
high
Mountains
on
the
one
hand
,
and
low
Valleyes
and
pleasant
playnes
on
the
other
?
if
man
were
so
wise
as
hee
should
be
,
this
same
sight
&
shew
might
serve
him
for
a
passe-time
,
and
a
delight
.
For
what
thing
is
there
in
this
Life
more
worthy
to
be
seene
,
then
the
passe-times
and
pleasures
which
God
doth
afford
and
offer
us
in
his
Creatures
,
if
wee
could
use
the
same
as
wee
ought
?
Why
do
we
take
greater
delight
in
any
artificiall
sport
of
Beasts
,
then
we
do
to
behold
them
acting
their
severall
parts
of
Natures
play
,
each
kinde
of
them
their
owne
part
,
upon
this
faire
&
wide
stage
of
the
world
?
Or
is
there
any
Musicke
sweeter
then
the
chirping
and
singing
of
Birds
?
In
briefe
,
it
is
a
great
delectation
to
see
and
observe
the
diversity
of
creatures
which
God
hath
framed
and
formed
each
one
to
his
kind
:
we
consume
and
spend
away
our
life
about
so
many
purposes
and
practises
,
so
many
toiles
&
broyles
,
that
hardly
wee
doe
enjoy
any
part
thereof
,
and
yet
for
all
that
wee
leave
not
to
enjoy
the
other
good
creatures
of
God
.
If
a
man
could
once
attair
to
this
point
of
perfection
,
as
to
●id
his
mind
ou●
of
these
manifold
entanglements
,
and
to
give
it
some
space
and
place
to
entertaine
,
cherish
,
and
nourish
it selfe
with
the
knowledge
of
the
creatures
,
and
of
the
Almighty
Creator
,
nothing
should
,
or
could
cast
it
into
any
excessive
sorrow
,
except
it
were
sinne
:
for
the
Soule
being
once
unite
I
with
him
that
made
it
,
by
contemplation
and
meditation
,
by
knowledge
and
love
,
it
would
gather
it selfe
together
calmely
and
quietly
,
and
man
lead
and
live
continually
a
gladsome
life
,
considering
that
at
one
time
or
other
some
evill
hath
befaln
him
,
yet
oftner
hath
he
tasted
of
good
.
So
that
requiting
,
as
it
were
,
the
one
with
the
other
,
hee
may
well
say
that
hee
hath
greater
occasion
to
rejoyce
of
his
good
successe
,
then
to
complaine
of
the
evill
adventure
of
another
time
;
as
wee
are
accustomed
to
turne
our
eyes
away
from
such
things
as
offend
us
,
and
to
cast
them
upon
greene
,
and
gay
colours
that
please
us
:
so
should
wee
divert
the
eyes
of
our
understanding
together
with
our
thoughts
,
from
sad
and
sorrowfull
objects
,
and
apply
them
to
such
as
are
more
pleasing
and
agreeable
thereunto
,
neither
must
wee
bee
like
unto
the
malitious
man
,
who
beholdeth
another
mans
faults
with
the
eyes
of
an
Eagle
,
but
his
owne
with
the
eyes
of
an
Owle
.
But
our
perversnes
is
such
,
that
very
often
we
do
resemble
the
boxin-glasses
,
which
draw
and
drinke
up
the
corrupt
blood
,
and
leave
the
pure
and
cleane
blood
behind
.
There
was
in
former
times
a
certaine
rich
wretch
,
who
had
in
his
house
great
store
of
wine
;
but
yet
was
so
nigardish
and
neere
,
that
hee
sold
the
best
,
and
kept
the
worst
for
his
owne
use
;
a
certaine
servant
of
his
,
observing
this
pinching
and
preposterous
nigardlines
of
his
Master
,
fled
away
from
him
:
and
being
asked
afterwards
why
he
left
his
Lord
,
answered
thus
:
Because
I
could
not
endure
to
stay
with
a
man
,
who
having
that
which
was
good
,
made
choise
of
that
which
was
evill
.
The
Philosopher
Aristippus
,
made
yet
a
farre
better
reply
,
who
having
lost
on
of
his
three
Farmes
,
said
thus
unto
his
friends
,
That
it
was
babishnes
to
bee
sorry
for
one
Farme
lost
,
and
not
to
be
merry
for
the
other
two
that
did
rest
in
his
hands
,
seeing
that
all
of
them
had
laine
open
to
the
same
adventure
.
Wee
are
like
unto
little
Children
,
from
whom
,
if
yee
pull
but
one
of
their
Rattles
or
Knackes
,
they
will
presently
,
without
more
adoe
,
fling
away
all
the
rest
in
despite
.
For
if
,
of
many
good
things
that
we
enjoy
,
it
chance
that
one
of
them
,
eyther
be
taken
from
us
,
or
that
it
be
lost
,
by
and
by
we
beginne
to
bewayle
it
,
forgetting
all
that
resteth
behind
in
our
hands
.
But
some
man
bewailingly
will
aske
me
,
saying
:
alas
!
what
haue
we
?
To
whom
askingly
I
would
answere
:
But
what
rather
haue
we
not
?
One
hath
great
reputation
and
credit
,
another
hath
Wealth
,
and
another
health
,
one
hath
a
Wife
according
to
his
wish
and
wil
,
another
hath
sweet
Children
,
and
another
faithfull
and
trusty
friends
.
Comforters
in
Adversity
,
are
diverse
,
and
most
of
them
such
as
Iob
had
:
if
they
see
a
man
forsaken
,
by
those
who
perhaps
were
his
dearest
friends
in
a
better
fortune
;
they
thinke
him
forsaken
of
God
also
,
and
few
there
are
that
attribute
his
fall
to
a
tryal
of
his
patience
or
love
:
censure
not
thy
brother
,
for
as
his
afflictions
are
greater
,
so
are
his
comforts
,
and
the
one
would
not
be
given
but
that
it
makes
the
other
greater
.
Antipater
of
Thrase
did
reckon
it
among
his
other
good
fortunes
,
that
he
had
sailed
prosperously
betweene
Sicile
and
Athens
,
but
wee
each
one
of
us
would
have
all
,
though
we
have
not
in
the
meane
time
the
understanding
to
thanke
God
,
for
the
smallest
thing
.
Neither
make
wee
any
account
or
reckoning
of
the
greatest
goods
because
they
seeme
to
us
to
bee
too
common
,
as
to
live
,
to
be
in
health
,
to
see
,
to
heare
,
to
speak
,
to
enjoy
peace
,
to
eat
and
drink
,
to
have
foode
for
our
belly
,
and
cloathes
for
our
back
,
to
see
and
enjoy
the
fruites
of
the
labourable
ground
,
together
with
the
commodities
of
the
saileable
Sea
,
that
we
can
talk
,
or
hold
our
tongue
,
sit
,
or
stand
,
sleepe
or
wake
as
we
will
.
If
men
would
but
consider
in
their
mindes
,
what
displeasure
and
griefe
redoundeth
unto
such
as
doe
lacke
any
of
these
abilities
,
they
would
no
doubt
,
live
much
more
content
then
they
doe
.
What
thinke
ye
would
the
sicke
give
for
the
benefit
of
health
?
the
blind
for
the
use
of
his
eyes
?
and
such
as
are
despised
for
a
small
measure
of
renowne
?
we
wretches
are
so
blockish
and
blind
,
that
we
can
never
prize
the
goods
that
we
have
,
untill
that
wee
bee
deprived
of
them
;
and
have
them
no
more
.
For
we
care
not
if
what
we
doe
bee
right
or
wrong
,
so
it
make
for
the
raising
of
our
fortune
,
and
thus
hath
vice
by
the
contempt
of
adversity
bin
entertained
.
That
which
resteth
,
I
wish
you
alwaies
to
bee
advised
that
yee
fall
never
so
farre
in
love
with
the
things
of
this
life
,
that
the
feare
ye
have
to
loose
them
vexe
you
with
unrest
,
or
yet
having
lost
them
,
immoderate
sorrow
for
them
hurle
you
headlong
into
despaire
.
DISC.
13.
Of
sadnesse
and
sorrow
.
SAdnesse
,
or
heavinesse
of
heart
,
is
a
languishing
feeblenesse
of
the
spirit
,
and
a
kinde
of
discouragement
ingendred
by
the
opinion
that
wee
have
of
the
greatnesse
of
those
evills
that
afflict
us
.
It
is
a
dangerous
enemy
to
our
rest
,
which
presently
weakneth
and
quelleth
our
Soules
:
it
corrupteth
the
whole
man
,
brings
his
vertues
asleepe
;
and
it
is
the
Daughter
of
Adversity
,
which
doth
beget
in
us
vexation
and
griefe
,
according
to
the
greatnesse
or
smalnesse
thereof
:
whence
likewise
there
hapneth
some
fault
:
For
now
adayes
wee
may
see
men
ordinarily
mourning
and
moaning
excessively
for
many
things
,
not
so
much
for
that
they
have
cause
,
as
because
it
is
the
custome
.
One
lamenteth
the
mishaps
of
his
neighbour
,
or
friend
,
and
carrieth
a
pale
and
heavy
countenance
,
to
shew
that
he
is
very
pensive
,
although
he
be
nothing
sorry
at
all
.
This
kind
of
customable
compassion
is
altogether
unprofitable
,
in
regard
that
even
in
your
owne
adversity
,
yee
ought
not
to
bee
sad
,
but
onely
so
farre
forth
as
reason
doth
require
,
and
not
as
custome
doth
command
.
There
are
sixe
kind
of
men
that
are
never
without
sorrow
:
Hee
that
cannot
forget
his
trouble
;
an
envious
man
that
dwelleth
by
Neighbours
newly
enriched
;
he
that
dwelleth
in
a
place
and
cannot
thrive
,
where
another
did
thrive
before
:
A
rich
man
decayed
,
and
fallen
into
poverty
:
He
that
would
obtaine
that
hee
cannot
get
:
And
hee
that
dwelleth
with
a
wise
man
,
and
can
get
nothing
of
him
.
And
besides
these
,
how
many
is
there
who
weepe
when
others
looke
on
them
,
and
doe
thinke
it
should
be
a
very
ill
favoured
thing
,
not
to
shed
teares
when
as
others
doe
mourne
?
How
many
frivolous
sorrows
hath
it
made
many
to
slide
into
,
to
leane
too
much
upon
the
tottering
and
unstayed
proppe
of
opinion
?
How
much
better
were
it
in
such
cases
,
to
devise
some
new
fashion
,
and
to
feele
humane
accidents
after
that
mood
which
best
becommeth
wise
and
moderate
men
?
What
good
doe
their
immoderate
sighs
and
sobs
,
either
to
the
living
,
or
to
the
dead
?
Doth
there
any
other
thing
flow
there-from
,
save
that
they
waste
themselves
wretchedly
and
retchlesly
away
?
For
tho
it
be
true
,
that
oftentimes
such
disasters
and
accidents
fall
out
,
that
it
is
impossible
for
men
to
passe
them
over
without
being
touched
with
sorrow
for
the
same
:
neverthelesse
we
must
alwaies
be
ware
to
be
more
sorry
then
reason
doth
allow
;
and
seeing
that
time
ought
to
heale
us
in
the
end
,
it
were
a
babishnesse
not
to
prevent
it
wisely
,
and
to
do
that
betimes
,
which
at
one
time
or
other
we
must
doe
perforce
.
How
many
men
shortly
after
the
death
of
their
children
,
or
wives
,
have
recomforted
themselves
,
esteeming
the
time
lost
which
they
had
spent
in
sadnesse
and
in
sorrow
?
For
although
though
it
bee
true
,
that
such
persons
are
worthy
to
bee
renewed
in
our
remembrance
,
yet
wee
ought
to
bring
thereunto
that
moderation
and
remedy
,
which
at
last
will
needs
offer
and
apply
it selfe
,
though
ye
would
never
so
faine
resist
it
.
DISC.
14.
Of
the
affliction
of
good
men
.
GRiefe
is
the
next
friend
unto
solitarinesse
,
enemy
to
company
,
and
heire
of
desperation
;
and
it
is
not
a
smal
occasion
of
sorrow
unto
vigorous
minds
,
and
such
as
are
touched
with
humanity
,
to
see
vertuous
men
vilipended
or
wronged
:
and
truely
it
seemeth
to
be
nothing
lesse
then
a
heavy
heart-breake
,
and
almost
an
unsupportable
paine
to
behold
wise
and
peaceable
men
afflicted
,
troubled
,
and
vexed
,
yea
to
bee
ill-used
,
and
trampled
;
as
it
were
,
under
feet
by
the
vaine
world
,
and
to
say
the
truth
,
it
seemeth
that
this
doth
touch
us
very
neere
:
for
when
as
wee
weigh
with
our selves
that
the
portion
and
lot
of
vertuous
men
is
no
other
but
affliction
,
and
labour
of
minde
,
we
do
thereupon
presently
imagine
,
that
thereby
our
best
hopes
are
hemmed
in
.
If
then
such
a
case
disquiet
you
thinke
with
your selfe
,
that
if
they
be
honest
and
patient
men
,
then
are
they
in
that
case
so
much
the
more
happy
,
because
that
in
this
life
which
is
so
short
,
they
purchase
to
themselves
a
life
eternall
in
the
heavens
,
for
ye
must
know
that
the
first
good
which
such
as
go
to
rest
in
Gods
house
doe
obtaine
,
is
to
bee
quit
and
discharged
from
the
tentations
and
torments
of
this
troublesome
life
.
Afflictions
on
earth
are
as
so
many
good
companions
unto
the
godly
;
which
though
of
themselves
unworthy
,
yet
make
their
cause
the
better
,
who
ayme
at
a
higher
end
then
the
blinded
eyes
of
the
ignorant
without
dazling
can
behold
;
and
so
becomes
the
master
of
their
owne
hopes
,
before
others
perceive
them
in
trouble
.
The
heavens
are
their
onely
prospect
where
they
behold
the
creator
of
Nature
in
his
height
of
wonder
,
and
themselves
are
the
Mine
into
which
they
dive
,
to
finde
reason
Tryumphant
by
which
they
governe
their
insurrective
passions
.
Moreover
,
set
before
your
eyes
the
roll
and
scroll
of
holy
men
of
old
,
the
blessed
Martyrs
of
Christ
,
of
whom
some
have
beene
beheaded
,
others
have
beene
hanged
;
some
have
beene
burnt
,
and
others
have
beene
broyled
;
some
haue
beene
cut
in
peeces
,
and
others
have
had
their
skinne
pulled
off
.
Besides
that
during
their
life
they
have
been
afflicted
with
hunger
,
nakednes
,
and
neede
:
of
whom
certainely
the
world
was
not
worthy
,
and
therefore
it
had
them
in
horrour
as
those
in
whom
it
had
no
interest
at
al.
But
God
loved
them
deerely
,
and
by
his
divine
providence
,
which
cannot
bee
deceived
,
appointed
them
to
passe
through
such
Tribulations
,
as
through
a
needles
eye
,
into
the
place
of
perpetuall
repose
.
Yea
the
paines
and
perplexities
that
vertuous
men
doe
endure
,
doe
even
pricke
them
forwards
to
have
a
more
earnest
desire
to
loath
,
and
to
leave
this
wretched
world
.
So
that
in
the
end
they
dislodge
out
of
a
bad
and
sad
prison
,
they
escape
and
slip
out
of
the
darke
caves
and
obscure
corners
,
and
having
no
deepe
apprehension
of
death
,
they
finde
the
faire
beaten
way
that
leadeth
them
to
a
better
life
.
DIS.
15.
Of
other
mens
faults
and
imperfections
.
NOw
joy
begins
to
budde
,
and
the
blossomes
of
felicity
appeare
,
yet
after
that
yee
have
thus
disposed
of
yourselfe
,
and
have
appeased
your
owne
passions
;
yet
shall
yee
have
the
vices
of
others
,
and
the
faults
which
are
done
in
publicke
,
making
an
on-set
against
you
to
trouble
your
minde
.
Considering
the
great
disorder
that
is
amongst
men
;
which
is
so
great
,
that
scarsely
there
cannot
any
thing
be
found
in
the
roome
where
it
ought
to
be
;
and
that
there
is
hardly
any
one
that
doth
the
duty
whereunto
by
birth
and
calling
hee
was
ordained
.
The
man
who
should
prove
a
wise
Judge
,
is
a
simple
Citizen
:
and
he
that
ought
to
be
but
a
meere
citizen
is
made
a
Judge
,
and
that
man
doth
command
who
ought
to
obey
.
It
is
a
strange
thing
to
consider
,
how
that
almost
every
thing
is
corrupt
and
sold
,
and
how
that
,
as
it
were
;
all
things
are
turned
upside
downe
.
To
see
how
that
the
poore
man
is
punished
for
every
petty
trespasse
,
and
the
puisant
and
wealthy
person
is
spared
:
to
see
,
I
say
,
how
the
whole
plotting
&
plodding
of
men
now
a
daies
,
is
altogether
for
money
;
when
as
riches
are
but
the
gifts
of
Nature
;
but
goodnesse
of
God
himselfe
;
and
canst
thou
thinke
that
hee
that
created
man
good
,
hath
not
bestowed
a
greater
portion
on
him
,
then
those
whom
fortune
hath
made
rich
:
what
if
thou
beest
poore
,
content
thy selfe
,
thou
shalt
finde
greater
consolation
in
that
,
and
goodnesse
,
then
the
bad
,
and
rich
shall
with
all
their
store
.
Againe
,
it
cannot
but
bring
griefe
unto
a
good
mans
minde
,
to
consider
how
small
occasion
and
example
of
living
vertuously
such
persons
do
minister
unto
us
,
as
hold
the
chiefe
offices
,
and
the
first
rankes
in
the
Common
wealth
.
The
vertuous
man
is
holden
every
where
as
a
monster
;
abhorred
,
despised
,
and
disdained
.
And
what
shall
a
man
say
,
when
as
hee
weigheth
with
himselfe
the
variable
&
mutable
disposition
of
the
multitude
,
one
while
loving
,
and
another
while
loathing
,
at
one
time
praising
,
at
another
time
dispraising
,
one
and
the
same
thing
,
one
and
the
same
party
?
How
many
bee
the
miserable
changes
that
fall
out
amongst
men
?
And
what
a
hard
case
is
it
,
when
men
make
none
account
of
that
they
should
diligently
heare
:
and
on
the
other
side
harken
to
that
whereunto
they
should
rather
stop
the
eare
.
The
despite
and
dislike
that
many
have
conceived
,
by
reason
of
such
courses
,
hath
made
them
bid
the
world
fare
well
,
and
moved
them
to
withdraw
themselves
into
deserts
and
solitarie
aboads
,
as
not
being
able
to
behold
with
their
eyes
,
that
which
did
breed
,
&
bring
so
much
displeasure
to
their
mindes
,
whose
intentions
were
wholy
bent
upon
that
which
was
really
good
,
laudable
,
and
honest
.
And
therfore
such
have
chosen
to
live
rather
amongst
the
wild
beasts
,
amidst
the
vaste
wildernesse
,
and
rocky
mountains
,
then
amongst
so
many
wilde
men
,
swarming
with
vile
and
wicked
manners
.
Neverthelesse
,
in
these
,
and
such
other
occurrents
as
cannot
be
amended
,
man
must
command
and
master
his
minde
,
and
carry
himselfe
in
such
sort
,
that
these
unamendable
evills
make
him
not
to
abhorre
the
company
and
societie
of
men
:
but
rather
hee
must
take
occasion
thereof
,
to
bee
the
more
watchfull
and
wary
,
lest
he
become
one
of
those
that
forget
to
carry
themselves
discreetly
amongst
men
;
he
must
also
beware
lest
hee
minister
occasion
to
another
,
to
blame
in
himselfe
that
which
he
doth
blame
in
his
neighbour
.
A
man
must
hold
more
on
Democritus
then
on
Heraclitus
,
for
he
did
weepe
alwaies
at
the
faults
he
saw
men
fall
into
;
but
Democritus
did
laugh
at
them
:
To
the
one
,
all
that
men
doe
,
did
seeme
to
be
but
misery
,
to
the
other
fondnesse
and
folly
.
And
it
seemeth
to
be
the
better
of
the
twaine
,
when
as
things
amisse
cannot
be
amended
,
that
wee
sweeten
them
a
little
,
if
it
were
but
in
covering
them
with
the
cloake
of
a
faire
shew
,
it
being
a
likely-hood
more
consonant
to
mans
nature
,
to
laugh
at
the
manifold
miseries
of
our
life
,
then
mourningly
to
bewaile
them
with
teares
.
But
yet
yee
shall
do
better
,
if
that
for
the
vices
of
other
men
,
and
such
as
are
done
in
publick
,
yee
do
keepe
a
mediocrity
and
meane
,
neither
alwayes
lamenting
,
not
yet
alwayes
laughing
at
them
:
for
it
is
both
a
miserable
kinde
of
disposition
,
for
a
man
to
afflict
himselfe
excessively
,
by
reason
of
another
mans
miscarriage
,
and
a
pittilesse
kinde
of
passe-time
to
be
laughing
alwayes
thereat
.
But
there
be
some
,
to
whom
this
advice
will
seeme
to
be
of
no
weight
:
for
not
onely
they
cannot
comport
with
the
imperfections
of
their
friends
,
but
also
those
of
their
enemies
do
afflict
them
.
Their
honours
,
precedencies
,
wrongs
,
and
incompetencies
vexe
them
:
the
importunities
of
their
friends
,
the
way
wardnesse
and
peevishnesse
of
their
Servants
,
and
Acquaintance
trouble
and
torment
them
daily
.
But
how
much
better
were
it
to
have
patience
in
such
accidents
,
chiefly
seeing
they
winne
so
little
by
willing
and
wishing
the
amendment
therof
:
Ye
must
rather
imagine
&
think
with
your selfe
,
tha●
these
men
,
which
thus
take
pleasure
to
annoy
you
,
are
as
dogs
which
be
borne
to
barke
.
And
impute
all
this
evill
to
their
perverse
nature
,
wherein
they
are
enough
punished
by
the
means
of
a
perpetuall
peoplexity
,
which
pricketh
and
peirceth
their
mind
.
But
if
your
weaknesse
be
such
,
as
to
stumble
at
al
that
yee
see
ill
done
,
by
such
as
are
about
you
,
yee
are
then
,
in
that
case
meere●y
forlorne
.
For
if
the
vices
of
strangers
,
or
of
those
that
be
your
owne
,
come
once
to
win
ground
on
you
,
to
close
with
you
,
and
to
overcome
you
,
yee
shal
be
abashed
,
and
amazed
to
see
how
that
all
such
importunities
and
troubles
,
like
water
,
shall
run
into
you
,
as
the
raine
doth
from
the
gutter
into
the
base
cour●
,
or
from
a
steepe
hill
into
a
low
valley
.
And
out
of
all
question
it
is
to
be
undiscreetly
tender-hearted
for
a
man
to
be
alwayes
sorry
,
when
those
with
whom
we
do
hant
,
do
not
entertaine
us
so
carefully
,
or
respectively
as
we
desire
.
Hee
that
avoideth
conversation
,
doth
nothing
else
in
effect
,
but
contradict
the
power
of
his
Creation
;
therefore
hee
ought
so
to
principle
himselfe
,
as
that
his
carriage
may
be
pleasing
and
acceptable
unto
all
men
,
to
the
intent
that
Love
,
Peace
,
and
Charity
may
be
preserved
.
The
immoderate
affection
wee
beare
unto
our selves
,
doth
deceive
us
,
and
the
delicacy
of
our
owne
condition
maketh
that
we
cannot
beare
with
the
defects
and
neglects
of
our
servants
,
we
not
considering
how
that
very
often
they
know
not
how
to
do
any
better
.
We
require
at
their
hands
perfect
things
,
when
as
yet
we
our selves
doe
fall
into
so
many
faults
,
and
are
subject
unto
so
many
imperfections
.
And
most
often
wee
play
the
passionate
and
fretting
mans
part
in
our
servants
behalfe
,
either
being
moved
by
the
distastes
that
our
owne
ill
conditions
doe
occasion
unto
us
,
or
by
the
quality
and
kind
of
the
businesse
we
have
in
hand
:
and
thus
foolishly
wee
cast
the
fault
upon
them
which
are
innocent
,
and
do
the
best
they
can
.
The
angry
was
never
a
good
man
,
and
hee
that
perversely
followes
his
owne
passions
,
without
balancing
his
actions
,
shuts
himselfe
out
of
this
Kingdome
of
reason
and
Humane
society
:
be
not
rash
,
but
weigh
anothers
faults
in
thine
owne
scalls
,
so
when
thou
commest
to
bee
weighed
in
them
thy selfe
;
thou
shalt
finde
thy
sinnes
so
much
the
lighter
,
by
how
much
thou
hast
borne
with
the
errors
of
others
.
There
is
also
another
thing
which
doth
bring
unto
us
much
disquiet
,
and
that
is
to
affect
too
much
one
and
the
same
thing
,
and
therupon
to
fall
into
debate
with
our
friends
.
For
there
was
never
yet
any
perfect
friendship
amongst
them
which
are
led
and
miscaried
with
an
obstinate
emulation
and
contention
who
shall
overcome
.
If
ye
belabor
,
&
accustome
your selfe
,
through
exercise
,
to
frame
your selfe
to
times
and
persons
,
ye
may
easily
governe
and
rule
men
at
your
wil
,
and
withal
purge
them
from
such
evill
humours
as
yee
finde
them
subject
unto
.
And
whensoever
it
shall
fall
out
,
that
it
shall
seeme
unto
you
a
thing
impossible
to
comport
with
them
;
thinke
that
it
is
your
fault
,
and
that
this
floweth
from
your
owne
inability
:
considering
how
that
so
many
others
could
,
and
yet
can
very
well
comport
with
the
same
.
You
must
not
strive
or
contend
to
goe
beyond
others
in
apprehension
,
Sinne
,
Iudgement
,
or
Conceit
,
but
Moderate
your
understanding
,
and
somewhat
abase
the
value
and
estimation
of
your
worth
;
so
shal
you
sayle
with
much
more
safety
,
and
by
a
surer
compasse
,
then
those
that
shall
doe
otherwise
.
For
even
as
the
sicke
are
wont
to
say
,
that
they
finde
all
meates
bitter
,
and
contrary
to
their
taste
,
thinking
that
the
fault
is
either
in
the
meates
,
or
in
the
man
name
into
●●ared
them
:
but
as
soone
〈…〉
●ther
men
eate
them
,
wit●●●●ren
requ●●●●ny
whit
against
their
stomac●●●●tledness
●o
know
that
the
imperfection
●ieth
in
themselves
.
In
like
manner
,
as
often
as
yee
call
to
minde
,
how
that
many
others
have
suffered
,
and
yet
doe
suffer
,
with
a
gaye
and
couragious
heart
,
the
most
troublesome
,
and
toylesome
accidents
of
the
world
,
yee
must
confesse
that
the
fault
must
bee
imputed
to
your
owne
feeblenesse
,
and
to
nothing
else
.
Regall
Government
is
that
of
a
King
,
domestick
of
a
Master
,
as
the
first
is
sometimes
mercifull
,
somtimes
severe
to
his
subjects
,
so
should
the
latter
be
to
his
Family
.
Oeconomy
is
that
which
every
man
may
practice
,
and
finde
sufficient
employment
:
there
is
power
given
to
wh●●
Tyrannize
,
and
pow●●
out
,
that
it
●●erne
well
:
theref●●●
you
a●●
thin●●●●vised
,
and
re●●●
comp●●
that
onely
the
go●●●●inke
tha●
wise
receive
the
blessed
reward
of
doing
happily
.
If
the
manners
and
conditions
of
your
wife
vexe
you
,
ye
must
bend
them
,
and
bow
them
gently
and
softly
,
if
it
be
possible
,
and
that
by
using
all
kinde
of
milde
and
amiable
meanes
.
But
if
your
mis-fortune
be
such
●hat
yee
cannot
prevaile
with
her
,
by
way
of
pleasing
and
peaceable
perswasions
,
then
it
behooveth
that
wisedome
and
discretion
teach
you
to
endure
patiently
her
crosse
conditions
,
and
to
master
and
dissemble
the
evill
which
yee
cannot
amend
:
otherwise
yee
shall
turne
your
house
into
a
prison
,
your
quiet
rest
into
restlesse
coyle
,
and
your
good
name
into
an
intolerable
shame
.
In
your
children
require
not
that
sagenesse
and
settlednesse
,
which
ye
finde
in
old
folkes
:
seeing
that
they
were
not
borne
old
:
This
age
carrieth
in
it
many
things
,
the
which
if
ye
should
endeavour
on
a
suddaine
to
draw
to
a
perfection
,
ye
should
undertake
a
taske
of
no
small
trouble
,
and
if
in
yong
trees
,
ye
are
content
that
they
beare
leaves
and
buds
,
why
doe
yee
require
ripe
fruite
in
your
children
before
the
time
?
Who
craveth
the
thing
▪
that
cannot
bee
had
,
laboureth
for
that
hee
shall
not
obtaine
.
The
meane
is
to
touch
and
in
instruct
them
diligently
,
to
bring
them
up
vertuously
,
and
not
to
chide
them
continually
,
or
check
them
immoderately
:
if
peradventure
they
faile
to
do
a
thing
as
they
ought
.
DISC.
16.
Of
Iniuries
and
Indignations
.
THree
things
a
rise
of
an
Injury
done
to
us
;
first
hatred
in
our
affection
,
secondly
the
signe
of
this
anger
is
,
when
it
appeareth
in
the
countenance
;
thirdly
when
we
intend
action
by
law
for
wrongs
;
we
are
bound
to
pardon
the
first
,
although
our
enemy
sue
it
not
of
us
;
wee
are
bound
to
pardon
the
second
,
when
our
enemy
sues
it
of
us
;
but
wee
are
not
bonud
alwaies
to
pardon
the
third
;
for
there
are
some
men
,
which
could
patiently
comport
with
all
other
kinde
of
affliction
,
onely
they
cannot
away
with
an
indignity
and
wrong
.
The
which
thing
,
neverthelesse
,
befalleth
them
more
for
being
perswaded
that
the
injury
offered
them
is
unsupportable
,
then
for
that
it
is
so
of
its
owne
nature
.
In
which
case
one
thing
may
availe
you
much
;
if
yee
can
resolve
with
your selfe
to
keepe
you
aloofe
from
the
common
opinion
,
and
if
yee
can
consider
without
passion
,
each
one
of
the
things
that
are
wont
thus
to
toile
,
and
turmoile
mens
mindes
.
For
in
so
doing
,
yee
shall
see
,
if
yee
have
reason
to
thinke
upon
the
wrong
offered
you
so
immoderately
as
yee
doe
.
There
is
one
kinde
of
displeasure
,
which
we
call
an
injury
,
or
wrong
,
that
is
,
when
any
one
overthwarteth
us
in
our
affaires
against
all
equity
and
right
.
And
there
is
another
kinde
which
we
call
an
indignity
,
or
affront
,
when
as
in
our
body
,
or
name
,
wee
are
used
by
word
or
deede
otherwise
then
is
fitting
.
For
both
these
kindes
,
yee
ought
to
know
,
that
the
vertuous
man
is
not
subject
to
receive
any
wrong
:
not
that
I
doe
meane
that
there
is
none
to
offer
and
to
inferre
wrong
,
for
there
is
nothing
so
sacred
,
but
there
will
be
found
sacrilegious
hands
to
touch
it
.
But
that
though
there
bee
not
wanting
multitudes
of
men
,
whose
tongues
and
hands
have
no
other
,
imployment
,
but
to
defile
,
and
diminish
,
so
much
as
in
them
lyeth
,
the
honour
of
God
,
and
of
men
:
yet
,
for
all
that
,
the
vertuous
mans
mind
is
not
a
whit
the
lesse
assured
:
&
though
that
such
mischievous
,
and
malicious
men
,
levell
right
at
him
to
hit
,
and
to
hurt
him
with
their
harmefull
shaft
,
yet
doe
they
come
short
of
their
aime
;
for
either
they
hit
him
not
,
or
if
they
do
,
they
hurt
him
not
all
:
for
an
inviolable
thing
is
not
simply
that
which
cannot
be
hit
,
but
rather
that
which
being
hit
,
receiveth
thereby
no
hurt
or
at
least
,
careth
not
at
all
for
it
.
And
thus
doth
it
fare
with
the
vertuous
man
,
who
of
himselfe
offereth
no
man
any
occasion
of
offering
him
any
wrong
.
But
his
carriage
is
so
levell
and
even
,
his
love
so
meeke
and
humble
,
that
even
the
vicious
admire
him
.
And
if
it
fall
out
,
that
a
man
,
out
of
a
proud
&
haughty
stomack
,
or
rather
out
of
a
malitious
disposition
set
upon
him
,
and
assaile
him
,
hee
is
then
in
that
case
like
a
brazen
wall
,
which
the
darts
of
the
wicked
cannot
pierce
through
.
Moreover
;
we
know
that
the
vertue
and
vigour
of
him
,
who
in
fighting
hath
vanquished
his
adversary
,
is
alwayes
greater
then
his
who
never
did
try
the
combate
at
all
.
And
even
the
very
same
must
wee
thinke
and
say
of
the
vertuous
wight
,
and
well
disposed
person
:
who
,
like
to
good
mettall
,
the
more
he
is
fired
,
the
more
he
is
fined
;
the
more
he
is
opposed
,
the
more
is
he
approved
.
Wrongs
may
wel
try
him
,
touch
him
,
or
pricke
him
,
but
they
cannot
imprint
in
him
any
false
stampe
.
And
if
(
peradventure
)
some
flout
,
or
affront
be
flung
upon
him
,
yet
doth
hee
in
the
meane
time
remaine
firme
and
unremoved
;
he
maketh
no
reckoning
,
nor
yet
taketh
any
notice
thereof
,
as
assuring
himselfe
that
it
doth
not
reach
so
farre
as
unto
him
.
Adde
also
hereunto
,
that
there
is
almost
no
man
,
but
hee
will
hold
the
wrong-offerer
for
wicked
,
and
the
wrong-sufferer
for
honest
,
as
not
deserving
any
such
outragious
usage
.
The
force
and
strength
of
his
Vertue
appeareth
so
much
the
more
in
this
kind
of
adversity
,
and
his
mildnes
and
meeknesse
of
mind
,
shineth
so
much
the
more
cleerly
,
by
how
much
the
more
bitter
and
grievous
the
wrong
offered
was
.
But
unto
such
as
are
of
a
more
cowardly
and
base
courage
,
an
indignity
is
more
uneasie
to
be
borne
withall
.
But
would
you
see
how
men
doe
measure
wrongs
by
opinion
?
Such
vanity
there
is
in
the
things
of
this
World
,
that
some
will
make
lesse
adoe
for
a
bloudy
blow
,
then
for
a
light
boxe
on
the
eare
.
Yea
,
some
will
make
a
greater
stirre
for
a
vanishing
hard
word
,
then
they
would
doe
for
a
deadly
blow
with
a
sharpe
weapon
.
We
are
fallen
into
such
blindnesse
and
babishnesse
,
that
opinion
annoyeth
us
more
then
the
Soare
it selfe
,
being
like
unto
little
children
,
which
are
amazed
at
a
mummers
maske
.
If
it
chance
that
a
man
bee
hindered
,
or
wronged
in
his
goods
,
it
is
a
wonder
to
consider
what
a
coyle
hee
doth
keepe
about
them
.
But
the
discreet
and
welstayed
person
;
who
judgeth
of
things
according
to
reason
,
not
measuring
them
by
opinion
,
as
he
holdeth
all
things
,
even
as
if
it
were
by
borrowing
,
so
hee
feeleth
the
losse
of
them
,
as
if
they
were
things
in
no
part
his
.
And
even
as
he
should
not
cease
to
be
content
,
though
he
had
never
had
them
at
all
,
so
he
taketh
the
losse
of
any
part
of
them
,
as
the
necessary
out-casting
or
forgoing
of
one
portion
to
save
another
,
in
the
middest
of
a
tempestuous
storme
.
Yea
the
forgoing
of
his
whole
goods
wil
not
make
him
to
forget
his
owne
worth
and
vigour
of
minde
:
he
knowing
well
that
not
onely
his
goods
,
but
also
his
life
,
honour
,
and
whole
happinesse
doth
onely
depend
upon
him
who
is
the
giver
of
every
good
thing
.
Such
a
one
perhaps
hath
couzened
you
of
so
many
crownes
,
hath
deceived
you
of
so
many
Ducates
.
Well
,
it
is
a
damage
he
hath
done
you
,
yet
is
it
a
losse
but
of
a
part
onely
of
your
goods
,
&
not
of
the
whole
.
And
the
man
that
hath
the
heart
to
give
or
forgoe
the
whole
,
can
he
bee
much
sorry
to
let
goe
,
or
loose
apart
.
But
if
it
bee
the
manner
of
your
losse
which
doth
most
vexe
you
:
then
yee
have
to
thinke
,
that
as
your
vertue
would
have
you
comport
with
Fortune
and
her
frownes
;
so
ought
yee
likewise
to
beare
with
insolent
and
audacious
men
,
which
are
no
thing
else
but
the
hookish
hands
of
the
same
hard
fortune
.
And
trust
me
,
our
impatiency
doth
us
much
more
harme
,
then
those
of
whose
violence
and
injustice
we
do
so
bitterly
complaine
.
What
?
(
will
some
say
)
such
a
one
did
disdaine
to
put
off
his
hat
to
me
;
such
another
in
speaking
to
me
did
not
use
that
respect
in
my
behalfe
as
hee
ought
,
and
I
thought
he
should
have
don
such
a
one
did
not
give
me
place
,
but
sate
him
down
before
me
,
and
such
another
would
not
give
mee
the
wall
.
What
tearmes
,
I
pray
you
,
be
all
these
,
but
meere
plaints
flowing
from
the
soft
and
feeble
courage
of
an
effeminate
mind
?
Divers
things
displease
us
,
which
otherwise
would
not
doe
so
,
if
we
had
the
will
to
conster
them
aright
,
and
to
take
them
in
the
better
part
;
whereas
through
our
owne
indiscretion
,
and
distrust
of
our selves
,
wee
make
that
an
indignity
which
of
its
owne
nature
is
none
;
in
so
doing
wee
judge
our selves
well
worthy
thereof
,
and
what
other
thing
is
this
but
lack
of
courage
,
thogh
we
feele
the
wrong
never
so
sensible
,
not
to
be
able
to
tread
it
,
and
to
trample
it
under
our
feet
?
And
if
wee
will
but
weigh
and
observe
how
,
and
in
what
manner
the
nightly
visions
and
imaginations
of
dangers
,
which
do
present
themselves
in
our
dreames
do
suddenly
vanish
,
and
sometimes
doe
make
us
laugh
when
we
remember
them
,
wee
should
doe
well
to
endeavour
to
doe
the
like
in
our
injuries
,
to
thinke
when
as
any
wrong
is
done
us
,
that
we
doe
but
awake
out
of
a
dreaming
sleepe
:
a
vertuous
and
well-disposed
man
(
assure
your selfe
)
will
bee
loath
to
wrong
you
in
your
body
,
goods
or
good
name
;
and
as
for
any
ill-disposed
wretch
,
what
shall
it
availe
you
to
complaine
,
seeing
that
he
is
no
more
his
owne
man
,
then
if
hee
were
madde
?
If
the
good
affect
you
,
and
applaud
your
laudable
endeavours
,
why
should
you
feare
the
malice
of
the
wicked
,
seeing
that
the
first
are
rewarded
with
a
crowne
,
but
these
with
folly
;
ye
will
willingly
endure
any
thing
at
the
hands
of
a
man
that
is
out
of
his
wits
,
neither
will
he
make
any
complaint
for
ought
he
hath
said
or
don
to
you
,
but
wil
rather
pity
his
case
:
even
so
must
yee
beare
with
the
mis-behaviour
of
a
foolish
undiscreet
person
,
who
is
no
better
then
a
man
distracted
:
yee
will
endure
well
enough
what
a
Jester
or
sporter
will
say
unto
you
,
be
it
never
so
unpleasant
,
and
would
thinke
it
but
a
base
part
for
you
to
enforme
against
,
or
to
complaine
upon
such
a
person
,
as
if
hee
chance
to
utter
any
pleasing
word
amidst
his
carping
discourse
,
yee
take
it
and
taste
it
as
a
savory
disport
.
Consider
therfore
how
unfitting
and
unseemely
a
thing
it
were
that
the
same
word
uttered
by
one
,
should
cause
you
to
laugh
,
and
by
another
to
lowre
:
the
case
so
standing
,
that
the
man
that
is
in
choler
,
hath
no
more
judgment
then
a
simple
Jester
hath
;
if
hee
have
so
much
.
The
Hebrewes
say
,
if
a
man
have
offended
his
neighbour
,
he
must
goe
and
seeke
reconciliation
of
him
;
but
if
he
will
not
be
reconciled
,
hee
shall
take
three
men
with
him
,
who
shall
intercede
for
him
,
and
seeke
reconciliation
:
but
if
hee
yet
will
not
pardon
him
,
this
is
a
great
iniquity
to
be
so
cruell
,
and
then
he
leaves
his
neighbour
inexcusable
.
But
what
shall
we
say
of
those
that
are
offended
with
little
boyes
,
and
silly
women
?
persons
that
doe
offend
rather
of
weaknesse
,
then
of
a
wilfull
or
wicked
designe
?
for
conclusion
yee
shall
never
attaine
to
tranquillity
of
minde
,
if
yee
take
in
ill
part
every
crosse
chance
that
doth
offer
it selfe
.
Some
will
say
,
this
offence
may
bee
well
borne
with
'
,
but
that
others
must
not
bee
borne
with
at
all
.
But
these
men
doe
shut
up
vertue
into
a
too
straite
roome
,
and
confine
her
abilities
within
too
narrow
bounds
,
as
i●
they
should
say
,
vertue
may
we●
vanquish
this
wrong
,
but
no●
that
other
:
truely
if
Fortune
b●
not
wholly
beaten
downe
and
defeated
,
shee
will
remaine
mistresse
.
But
what
then
wil●
yee
say
,
occasion
of
affront
is
given
me
?
how
then
shall
I
,
or
can
I
beare
it
patiently
,
and
go
with
an
open
face
?
If
the
injury
hath
his
birth
from
your
mis-behaviour
,
yee
must
thinke
then
,
that
it
is
not
so
much
a
wrong
as
a
correction
:
and
this
yee
ought
to
receive
discreetly
,
and
withall
make
use
of
it
as
a
chastisement
of
your
owne
misdemeanour
.
If
it
chance
that
a
man
flout
you
for
some
imperfection
of
your
person
,
because
the
features
of
your
body
are
not
to
their
minde
,
take
not
this
to
heart
as
a
revengable
wrong
:
for
it
is
but
a
meere
folly
,
for
a
man
to
care
much
for
that
which
falleth
not
out
through
his
owne
fault
.
Fidus
Cornelius
did
weepe
for
very
anger
in
the
Senate
,
because
Corduba
S●●thio
said
to
him
scoffingly
that
hee
did
resemble
much
a
pilde
Camell
:
Behold
,
if
one
counterfeit
our
gesture
,
we
are
by
and
by
offended
.
But
what
miserable
blindnesse
is
it
for
a
man
to
vexe
himselfe
,
because
another
doth
imitate
his
moode
or
manner
of
going
.
The
remedy
rather
were
this
,
if
Nature
,
hath
laid
upon
you
any
defect
or
blemish
which
doth
deforme
your
body
,
speake
of
it
first
your selfe
,
as
knowing
it
better
then
any
other
:
for
by
this
meanes
yee
shall
take
away
from
others
all
occasion
of
scorning
or
flouting
you
for
it
.
Thus
Vatinius
was
wont
to
mocke
himselfe
,
in
regard
of
his
necke
,
and
feet
which
were
somewhat
deformed
:
so
that
his
enemies
and
il-willers
could
not
take
any
advantage
thereof
to
breake
upon
him
any
bitter
jest
.
Moreover
it
is
not
a
smal
policy
to
deprive
the
party
that
doth
you
wrong
,
of
all
the
pleasure
hee
entendeth
to
reape
,
by
holding
your
peace
,
as
not
thinking
him
worthy
of
so
much
as
one
word
of
your
mouth
,
of
by
leaving
him
there
where
ye
found
him
,
disdaining
to
brable
or
quarell
with
him
,
to
take
any
notice
of
the
man
,
or
of
his
manners
:
if
ye
will
be
advised
by
me
,
make
never
answer
to
an
insolent
malapert
person
,
for
in
holding
your
tongue
ye
leave
with
him
lying
in
his
mouth
,
yea
in
his
minde
,
his
vice
,
folly
and
rashneffe
,
whereas
in
answering
him
,
ye
shall
conforme
your selfe
to
his
naughty
nature
.
There
is
nothing
that
equalizeth
so
much
men
among
themselves
,
as
the
participation
of
one
and
the
same
vice
:
neither
can
there
any
such
chastisement
befall
unto
an
ill-humored
man
as
to
make
no
reckoning
,
but
to
let
vanish
with
the
winde
his
vaine
and
unsavory
words
,
for
both
by
your
silence
are
his
speeches
condemned
of
impertinency
,
and
he
deprived
of
the
pleasure
he
promised
to
himselfe
by
provoking
him
to
anger
.
Jeasts
are
the
superfluity
of
their
discretion
who
make
it
a
pastime
,
to
revile
,
and
a
sport
to
condemne
others
;
they
spare
non
,
&
had
rather
suffer
then
suppresse
their
thoughts
:
they
are
like
a
woman
with
child
,
who
longs
to
be
delivered
,
although
the
birth
may
prove
abortive
;
and
therefore
it
likewise
behoveth
a
man
to
bee
very
circumspect
and
wary
in
his
jesting
at
others
.
For
we
finde
by
experience
,
that
men
doe
commonly
flie
the
company
of
such
as
make
profession
of
scoffing
and
deriding
.
Wee
finde
likewise
,
that
no
man
can
entertaine
a
certaine
Amity
and
unfaileable
Friendship
with
such
a
one
as
is
averse
from
pardoning
such
as
have
offended
him
.
For
a
generous
and
Heroicke
spirit
will
yeeld
to
fortune
as
he
sees
occasion
:
He
will
not
strive
to
swim
against
the
streame
,
nor
sayle
against
the
Winde
.
The
greatnesse
of
his
minde
gives
place
to
the
weaknesse
of
his
meanes
:
when
he
cannot
what
he
would
,
he
wills
but
what
hee
can
,
and
●hinkes
these
plots
and
counsels
●o
be
best
,
which
though
they
●ee
inglorious
,
and
want
that
●ustre
which
prosperity
might
●end
them
,
are
yet
convenient
●o
be
followed
in
regard
of
Circumstance
.
The
Emperour
Caius
Caesar
,
a
man
of
an
injurious
inclination
,
and
in
his
Army
a
certaine
Tribune
,
Che●ea
by
name
,
a
man
of
a
shrill
,
small
,
and
womanish
voyce
in
speaking
,
and
therefore
one
of
whom
they
had
no
great
opinion
.
This
effeminate
voiced
man
having
on
a
time
asked
the
Emperor
what
shold
be
the
watch-word
,
he
of
purpose
to
scorne
him
,
gave
him
such
a
word
as
was
dishonest
.
By
reason
of
which
indignity
the
Tribune
was
so
deepely
offended
,
that
thereafter
associating
himselfe
among
the
murtherers
which
did
wickedly
seaze
upo●
the
Emperour
,
he
was
the
ma●
that
did
beate
out
the
one
halfe
of
his
braines
.
So
that
he
who
seemed
unto
Caesar
to
come
somewhat
short
of
a
man
,
proved
most
the
man
(
though
indeed
he
had
more
malice
then
man-hood
)
in
cutting
him
impiously
off
,
from
being
any
more
a
Monarch
among
men
.
To
use
such
bitter
taunts
bewrayeth
want
of
discretion
,
and
not
to
be
able
to
digest
them
,
doth
argue
lacke
of
courage
.
Socrates
hearing
himselfe
flouted
to
his
face
,
did
no
other
thing
but
laugh
thereat
,
without
making
any
shew
of
a
displeased
mind
.
It
is
reported
of
him
and
of
Lelius
the
Romane
,
that
they
two
did
so
happily
entertaine
this
Tranquillity
of
minde
,
that
they
were
never
seene
to
change
their
countenance
.
How
ill
did
Michals
jeasting
become
her
,
when
David
with
such
zeale
danced
before
the
Arke
?
cannot
religion
be
spared
?
One
would
have
thought
his
greatnesse
might
have
freed
him
from
reviling
:
but
whom
will
impiety
not
offend
,
when
it
spares
not
the
greate
not
the
holy
;
yet
even
he
sets
her
words
at
naught
,
and
was
for
all
that
no
way
hindred
in
performing
holy
duties
.
Furthermore
yee
ought
diligently
to
avoide
all
noyse
,
brabbles
and
strife
:
for
this
brawling
and
quarrelling
humour
altereth
not
a
little
the
whole
man
,
and
maketh
him
ill-conditioned
.
Bee
not
lavish
of
your
language
,
but
rather
sparing
of
speech
.
Let
your
words
bee
such
as
carry
with
them
their
due
authority
and
weight
.
And
withall
accustome
your selfe
to
passe
divers
things
under
the
great
Seale
of
silence
:
It
being
the
part
of
a
wise
man
,
to
make
a
vertue
of
necessity
,
and
with
a
settled
countenance
to
swallow
downe
upon
an
urgent
extremity
,
the
bitter
potion
of
indignity
;
if
when
the
winds
doe
storme
,
he
cannot
harbour
where
hee
would
,
he
will
anchor
where
he
may
.
Suffer
not
your selfe
to
be
beguiled
by
the
unreasonable
opinion
of
the
miscrdred
multitude
,
which
doe
hold
such
folkes
onely
to
bee
free
as
may
doe
what
they
list
,
be
it
never
so
evill
;
and
such
onely
to
be
couragious
and
generous
spirits
as
can
put
up
no
wrong
.
It
is
true
liberty
for
a
man
to
live
not
according
as
his
lawlesse
lust
doth
lead
him
,
but
as
reason
doth
rule
him
:
and
to
do
not
what
ever
sensually
hee
would
,
but
what
reasonable
hee
should
.
And
it
is
true
courage
and
magnanimity
,
for
a
man
to
put
up
wrongs
,
to
dis-esteeme
,
and
not
to
be
moved
by
them
,
but
to
command
his
affections
,
and
to
overcome
his
passions
.
That
which
he
shall
never
be
able
to
doe
,
who
hath
not
his
spirit
composed
,
and
his
minde
ordered
to
despise
these
vanities
and
delicacies
,
which
doe
shake
the
feebler
sort
:
finally
,
endeauour
to
have
the
upper
hand
in
fetting
light
by
all
humane
crosses
,
and
popular
conceits
:
for
it
is
no
signe
of
good
,
when
a
man
is
alwayes
crying
and
complaining
that
they
touch
him
;
and
so
it
fareth
with
the
mind
.
Let
that
therefore
bee
mollified
with
comfortable
and
peaceable
playsters
,
such
as
are
joy
,
exultation
,
and
delight
;
and
these
will
bring
unto
you
greater
content
,
then
Humanity
can
imagine
.
DISC.
17.
Of
Poverty
.
THere
is
a
twofold
Poverty
,
the
one
extreame
,
which
is
the
want
of
things
necessary
and
requisite
unto
Nature
:
The
other
is
the
want
of
things
that
are
more
then
sufficient
,
required
for
pleasure
,
pompe
,
and
delicacy
.
This
is
a
kinde
of
Mediocrity
,
and
that
which
we
feare
to
lose
,
is
our
riches
,
and
moveables
,
when
such
poverty
is
rather
to
be
desired
,
then
feared
:
And
therfore
the
Wise
man
asked
of
God
neither
Poverty
nor
Riches
,
but
things
necessary
.
He
that
can
make
that
reckoning
of
life
and
death
that
he
ought
,
poverty
can
never
afflict
or
bereave
him
of
his
rest
:
For
it
were
a
thing
very
unfitting
,
that
he
who
can
despise
death
,
should
suffer
his
courage
to
be
cast
downe
,
or
to
be
quite
quelled
by
poverty
and
need
which
neverthelesse
is
that
the
common
people
doe
most
apprehend
,
and
most
complaine
on
,
when
as
they
cannot
attaine
unto
a
sufficiency
of
goods
whereupon
to
maintaine
themselves
in
a
gay
and
gallant
manner
.
They
not
being
able
to
content
themselves
with
such
things
as
may
serve
for
their
necessity
;
but
esteeming
Wealth
mans
soveraigne
good
;
and
Poverty
and
Want
his
chiefest
evill
.
And
yet
were
it
not
better
for
a
man
not
to
have
at
all
,
then
to
lose
it
when
hee
hath
it
?
And
how
is
it
possible
in
this
life
that
some
should
not
lose
,
seeing
that
one
cannot
be
rich
,
except
many
other
bee
poore
,
and
many
cannot
inherit
,
except
others
do
die
?
And
yet
there
is
in
poverty
this
consolation
,
that
as
it
is
not
subject
to
the
receiving
and
incurring
of
great
damages
,
so
is
it
not
accompanied
with
so
many
monstrous
turmoiles
as
plenty
and
aboundance
is
.
Wisedome
if
shee
be
poore
is
never
respected
:
fooles
haue
the
fortune
,
and
that
not
without
good
reason
;
for
they
have
the
most
neede
of
it
.
Desert
if
she
be
meane
,
may
to
the
Cart
,
there
is
no
roome
for
her
in
Court
,
where
judgement
lookes
a
squint
,
and
casts
her
eyes
but
upon
outward
adjuncts
,
unlesse
she
be
perfumed
and
ruffle
in
her
silkes
;
let
her
avoide
the
gates
of
greatnesse
.
And
to
thinke
that
rich
men
have
more
courage
to
comport
with
losses
then
other
men
have
,
is
an
errour
.
For
the
paine
of
a
soare
is
as
sensible
and
dolorous
in
a
bigge
body
,
as
in
a
small
;
yea
wee
see
ordinarily
,
that
the
greatest
men
are
the
most
tender
and
delicate
.
The
Philosopher
Bion
was
wont
to
say
,
that
the
paine
is
alike
which
is
felt
by
plucking
,
or
pulling
the
haires
from
an
head
that
hath
many
,
and
from
that
which
hath
few
.
All
the
difference
that
can
be
,
is
this
;
that
the
balde
head
hath
lesse
haire
to
loose
,
and
consequently
cannot
feele
so
much
smart
as
the
other
doth
that
is
full
of
haires
.
If
thou
wilt
live
according
to
nature
,
thou
shalt
never
bee
poore
;
if
according
to
opinion
,
never
rich
:
Nature
desireth
little
,
opinion
much
,
and
beyond
measure
.
Moderate
and
quiet
poverty
by
the
law
of
nature
is
great
riches
,
and
godlinesse
is
great
gain
with
sufficiency
,
and
hence
it
is
that
we
see
,
for
the
most
part
,
the
poorer
sort
of
people
to
bee
more
jocund
and
joyfull
then
commonly
the
richer
sort
are
,
because
they
have
not
so
great
care
as
they
have
,
neither
doe
they
feare
so
deeply
the
storme
of
adversity
,
as
they
doe
.
For
they
are
eaten
up
with
this
double
worm
,
the
care
of
conserving
and
increasing
the
goods
they
have
got
,
&
the
feare
of
losing
that
which
they
enjoy
.
But
poverty
is
a
castle
and
fort
,
assured
and
fenced
against
fortune
,
yea
the
whole
world
.
Shee
feareth
nothing
,
and
is
able
withall
to
defend
her selfe
against
all
her
enemies
.
Thouman
who
soever
thou
art
that
goest
drooping
and
dying
for
riches
,
for
worldly
pelfe
,
and
wealth
,
tell
me
I
pray
thee
,
if
since
thou
hast
got
them
,
they
have
brought
unto
thee
any
more
knowledge
unto
thy
minde
,
or
more
Tranquillity
and
peace
unto
thy
spirit
,
or
more
rest
and
happinesse
unto
thine
heart
,
then
thou
hadst
before
thy
came
into
thine
hands
?
The
wise
men
among
the
heathen
have
taught
us
,
how
much
poverty
is
to
be
prised
and
praised
,
when
as
they
did
portrait
and
paint
their
Gods
naked
,
attributing
unto
them
all
things
according
as
they
conceited
to
be
most
befitting
their
natures
:
and
as
for
my selfe
,
I
shall
never
repute
that
man
poore
,
who
is
placed
without
the
reach
and
power
of
fortune
.
There
is
one
thing
sufficient
to
expresse
unto
us
the
nature
of
poverty
,
to
wit
,
that
no
vertuous
man
speaketh
thereof
,
but
hee
praiseth
it
;
and
avoucheth
that
the
wisest
have
bin
those
who
have
suffered
the
same
with
most
contentment
,
and
truely
it
is
a
great
weaknesse
and
tendernesse
in
us
,
not
to
bee
able
to
endure
that
which
so
many
others
have
passed
through
,
and
it
can
be
no
other
thing
but
a
vaine
apprehension
and
frivolous
feare
to
endure
and
suffer
,
which
maketh
us
so
feeble
hearted
;
for
if
we
were
indeede
of
a
generous
and
magnanimous
disposition
,
we
would
love
and
like
that
for
our selves
which
we
approve
in
others
:
and
therefore
howsoever
this
peevishnesse
and
softnesse
of
ours
is
not
altogether
to
be
comported
with
;
we
ought
at
least
to
limite
our
affections
,
and
dresse
our selves
in
such
sort
that
fortune
may
finde
the
lesse
advantage
to
offend
us
:
for
a
smal
body
that
can
cover
and
gather
it selfe
together
under
a
buckler
,
marcheth
on
towards
the
enemy
with
more
surely
then
a
bigger
body
doth
,
that
lyeth
at
large
&
open
unto
blowes
.
If
it
were
not
mine
intention
to
husband
the
time
,
and
to
spare
paper
,
I
could
enlarge
my
discourse
by
reciting
of
almost
●nnumerable
examples
as
well
of
Heathens
as
of
Christians
,
which
have
placed
a
great
part
of
their
perfection
in
poverty
.
But
ye
ought
to
consider
one
thing
for
all
,
that
Iesus
Christ
was
poore
,
who
was
Lord
of
the
whole
world
:
his
Disciples
were
poore
,
which
did
possesse
all
things
,
and
the
Saints
were
poore
which
might
have
beene
rich
.
If
yee
should
never
dye
,
I
would
advise
you
to
set
your
affection
upon
riches
:
but
I
see
to
that
those
to
whom
they
most
befall
,
doe
finde
sooner
the
end
of
their
living
then
of
their
longing
.
Why
then
should
a
man
torment
himselfe
for
a
thing
that
he
must
necessarily
leave
?
and
why
is
he
not
rather
content
quietly
with
that
which
is
needfull
,
chiefly
considering
that
the
fairest
kind
of
wealth
is
for
a
man
to
be
neither
too
poore
,
nor
yet
too
far
off
from
poverty
?
DISC.
18.
Of
Death
.
CAesar
sayd
well
,
that
the
best
death
was
that
which
was
least
premeditated
;
and
to
say
truth
,
the
preparation
before
death
hath
bin
to
many
a
greater
torment
,
then
the
execution
it selfe
.
The
Mexicans
salute
their
Infants
comming
forth
of
their
Mothers
wombe
,
thus
;
Infant
,
thou
art
come
into
the
world
to
suffer
;
endure
,
suffer
,
and
hold
thy
peace
.
Why
then
should
a
man
bee
sorry
to
dye
,
when
nothing
but
life
is
miserable
.
And
it
seemeth
,
that
all
incommodities
and
misfortunes
may
bee
borne
with
,
either
by
the
meanes
of
a
long
custome
,
or
by
the
helpe
of
a
strong
discourse
,
onely
Death
and
the
apprehension
thereof
,
is
the
thing
that
putteth
us
in
greatest
feare
.
Now
the
onely
remedy
and
true
easing
of
this
evill
,
is
that
yee
make
this
reckoning
of
the
world
,
and
all
that
is
therein
,
that
yee
have
nothing
which
is
your
owne
,
neither
life
,
nor
living
,
no
not
so
much
as
your
owne
selfe
;
but
that
yee
live
alwayes
borrowing
and
holding
your
very
life
,
not
in
property
,
but
on
condition
to
restore
it
unto
him
againe
,
who
hath
lent
it
you
,
whensoever
he
shall
require
it
at
your
hands
:
yet
for
all
this
yee
must
not
neglect
it
as
a
thing
not
yours
,
but
must
keepe
it
faithfully
and
carefully
,
in
regard
that
God
hath
trusted
you
with
the
custody
thereof
,
and
when
it
is
time
,
to
render
it
to
him
that
gave
it
,
not
grudgingly
,
but
gladly
,
and
with
a
cheerefull
countenance
:
in
the
meane
time
thanking
GOD
,
the
giver
of
all
good
things
,
for
the
time
yee
have
had
the
use
and
aide
thereof
,
and
saying
unto
him
in
this
,
or
the
like
manner
;
Lord
,
I
render
unto
thee
againe
this
Soule
and
Life
,
with
as
good
an
heart
as
it
pleased
thee
to
give
mee
the
same
,
yea
,
even
with
a
better
and
readier
will
then
I
did
receive
it
:
for
when
thou
gavest
it
me
,
thou
gavest
it
to
a
little
weake
Creature
,
which
knew
not
the
good
thou
then
didst
bestow
,
but
now
thou
dost
receive
it
againe
at
the
hands
of
a
Creature
more
accomplished
,
who
knoweth
what
it
is
he
commendeth
into
thine
hands
,
and
therfore
rendereth
it
unto
thee
withall
franknesse
and
readinesse
of
will
:
and
truely
we
may
easily
imagine
that
it
is
not
a
hard
thing
for
a
substance
to
returne
to
the
place
whence
it
first
came
,
the
body
returning
to
the
earth
,
and
the
soule
(
if
it
goe
the
right
way
)
must
goe
to
him
that
gave
it
.
To
bee
short
,
that
man
doubtlesse
never
learned
well
to
live
,
who
knoweth
not
how
to
die
:
wee
must
therefore
in
this
case
bee
so
affected
towards
our selves
,
as
wee
are
wont
to
be
in
the
behalfe
of
fencers
which
must
fight
in
a
barred
field
:
for
wee
commonly
hate
him
that
beareth
himselfe
faint-heartedly
,
and
favour
the
other
,
who
out
of
a
brave
courage
had
rather
chose
to
dye
then
to
bee
overcome
.
Besides
the
feare
of
death
is
sometimes
the
cause
,
or
occasion
of
it
,
to
him
that
flyeth
fastest
from
it
.
And
seeing
yee
know
well
,
that
life
was
given
you
upon
condition
to
render
it
againe
;
●e
ought
not
to
be
so
unjust
,
as
●o
desire
to
enjoy
that
thing
for
ever
,
which
was
given
unto
you
for
a
day
,
by
making
your selfe
Lord
,
and
owner
of
the
thing
whereof
yee
are
onely
a
depositary
or
keeper
.
Moreover
men
wil
say
,
that
it
is
a
matter
of
great
import
,
to
wit
,
the
feare
,
and
apprehension
of
death
,
and
that
it
is
the
extreame
of
all
terrible
things
.
But
ye
ought
to
understand
that
Death
is
not
to
bee
found
fault
with
for
this
,
seeing
that
it
proceedeth
not
from
the
nature
of
Death
,
but
from
our
owne
imbecillity
:
who
are
commonly
overtaken
and
intangled
with
delights
,
with
a
desire
of
this
transitory
life
,
and
with
an
immoderate
love
of
this
miserable
flesh
?
And
if
yee
take
good
heed
,
it
is
not
so
much
Death
i●
selfe
that
is
dreadfull
,
as
the
opinion
which
wee
hold
concerning
the
same
.
For
every
man
feareth
it
according
to
his
judgment
,
apprehension
,
and
conscience
.
And
if
it
bee
so
,
that
yee
have
no
feare
thereof
,
but
onely
for
this
occasion
,
then
lay
the
blame
upon
your selfe
,
and
no●
upon
it
.
For
it
fareth
with
men
of
an
evill
conscience
,
when
they
must
dye
,
as
it
doth
with
riotous
spend-thrifts
when
they
must
pay
their
debts
.
They
will
not
come
to
an
account
for
the
distrust
which
they
have
of
their
ability
,
to
satisfie
for
what
they
have
done
.
And
to
say
that
ye
feare
death
●y
reason
that
it
is
the
last
point
●●d
period
of
man
,
hath
but
lit●●e
reason
in
it
.
For
the
Soule
〈◊〉
alwaies
,
it
liveth
ever
,
and
●●nnot
dye
.
The
Greekes
call
mans
decease
●●e
end
,
giving
us
thereby
to
●nderstand
,
that
it
is
the
period
●nd
end
of
wearisome
life
.
O●●ers
a
death
,
of
which
there
●re
foure
kinds
;
the
first
is
the
●aturall
death
,
or
separation
be●weene
the
Body
and
the
Soule
;
●he
second
is
a
spirituall
death
,
●r
a
separation
betweene
the
grace
of
God
and
us
;
the
third
●s
a
ghostly
death
,
or
a
separation
betweene
our
sinnes
and
us
;
and
the
fourth
is
an
everlasting
death
,
or
a
separation
betweene
Heaven
and
us
for
ever
.
But
the
Holy
Scripture
calleth
death
a
sleepe
,
to
assure
us
of
an
assured
Resurrection
,
and
to
the
end
wee
weepe
not
as
Infidels
doe
,
which
are
withou●
hope
.
Let
us
consider
with
ou●
selves
how
many
holy
men
and
women
have
prized
it
,
and
desired
it
as
the
onely
easemen●
of
all
their
anguish
.
The
writings
of
Solomon
,
Iob
and
the
histories
of
Gods
Saints
are
full
of
the
praises
of
this
Christian
desire
of
death
.
What
a
vanity
is
it
to
love
so
much
this
miserable
life
,
this
Jaile
,
this
prison
,
this
vale
of
●eares
,
seeing
that
the
longer
we
live
,
the
longer
we
live
in
sinne
,
the
more
daies
wee
spend
,
the
more
wee
erre
,
and
so
goe
on
,
each
houre
purchasing
unto
our selves
a
new
paine
and
punishment
?
The
day
of
Death
is
the
Master-day
,
and
Judge
of
all
other
dayes
;
the
tryall
and
Touchstone
of
all
the
actions
of
our
●●fe
:
Then
do
we
make
our
grea●●st
assay
,
and
gather
the
whole
●●uite
of
all
our
studies
.
He
that
●●dgeth
of
the
Life
of
a
man
,
●ust
looke
how
hee
carrieth
●imselfe
at
his
Death
:
for
the
●nd
Crowneth
the
Workes
,
●nd
a
good
Death
honoureth
a
●ans
whole
life
,
as
an
evill
de●●meth
it
.
Therefore
feare
it
●ot
(
On
Christian
)
for
that
day
which
thou
fearest
as
thy
last
,
is
●●e
Birth-day
of
Eternity
.
Divers
dayes
have
beene
●appy
and
unlucky
to
divers
,
●en
;
as
Friday
to
that
great
Captaine
Gonsalvo
in
the
Wars
of
Naples
;
the
twenty
fourth
day
of
February
,
to
Charles
the
fifth
;
Wednesday
to
Pope
Six●us
the
fifth
:
Sunday
to
Henry
the
seventh
of
England
:
And
Saturday
in
the
three
times
taking
of
Ierusalem
by
Pompey
,
Herod
,
and
Titus
.
But
no
day
〈◊〉
either
happy
or
averse
to
a
ch●●stian
,
but
his
day
of
death
:
Ho●●
carefull
ought
ye
then
to
bee
〈◊〉
prepare
himselfe
against
th●
day
,
wherein
he
shall
be
rewa●ded
according
to
his
worke●
which
if
good
,
with
a
Crow●
of
blessednesse
,
but
if
bad
,
wi●●
unquenchable
fire
.
It
was
a
custome
among
th●
Indians
,
when
any
of
the
m●dyed
,
his
wives
with
their
mo●●
glorious
Habits
and
greate●
pompe
as
if
it
were
on
the●●
nuptiall
day
,
threw
themselv●●
into
the
fire
,
she
accounting
h●●
selfe
happiest
that
was
the
firs●
and
those
that
refused
,
were
fo●
ever
after
rejected
and
mad●
slaves
.
Let
not
Heathens
ou●
strippe
thee
O
Christian
,
let
th●
death
bee
more
honourable
CHRIST
is
the
Spouse
of
th●
Church
,
follow
him
therefore
,
●●t
not
thy
life
onely
but
thy
●eath
be
godly
:
otherwise
thou
●●t
no
better
then
a
slave
to
sin
●nd
Satan
,
despised
not
of
men
●nely
,
but
of
the
Divells
them●elves
.
This
consideration
of
our
death
〈◊〉
a
great
helpe
,
not
onely
to
●rovoke
us
to
live
a
good
life
,
●ut
besides
that
to
dye
well
:
In
●hings
that
be
hard
and
dificult
,
foresight
and
preparation
before
●and
is
a
very
great
helpe
to
●ring
them
well
to
passe
.
Now
so
great
a
leape
,
as
is
the
leape
of
death
(
which
reacheth
from
this
life
to
the
everlasting
life
to
come
)
cannot
well
be
leaped
,
unlesse
we
make
a
great
course
,
and
fetch
a
long
race
to
runne
the
same
.
No
great
thing
can
bee
well
and
perfectly
done
at
the
first
time
;
seeing
therefore
it
is
so
great
a
matter
to
dye
;
and
so
necessary
to
dye
well
,
it
shall
be
very
expedient
for
us
to
dye
oftentimes
in
our
life
,
that
wee
may
dye
well
at
the
very
time
of
our
death
.
Wee
must
not
be
unwilling
to
dye
,
and
to
yeel●
our
bodies
as
a
debt
due
to
Nature
:
no
,
for
the
Body
at
the
best
is
but
the
Coffin
of
the
Soule
,
as
the
Graue
is
the
coffin
of
the
Body
.
The
souliders
that
bee
appointed
to
fight
,
doe
first
practice
themselves
in
such
postures
and
exercises
,
as
whereby
the
may
learne
in
time
of
peace
,
what
they
must
do
in
time
of
warre
;
the
Horse
also
that
must
runne
at
the
Tilt
,
traverseth
all
the
ground
before
,
and
tryeth
all
the
steps
thereof
;
that
at
such
times
as
hee
commeth
to
make
his
course
,
he
bee
not
found
new
and
strange
in
doing
his
feat
.
Wherefore
seeing
wee
all
must
runne
this
course
(
insomuch
as
there
is
no
man
alive
but
must
dye
)
considering
also
that
the
way
is
so
obscure
&
stony
(
as
all
men
know
)
and
the
danger
so
great
,
that
whosoever
falleth
shall
be
tumbled
downe
headlong
into
the
bottomlesse
pit
of
hell
fire
;
it
is
very
requisite
that
we
tread
diligently
before
hand
all
this
way
,
and
consider
particularly
,
all
the
steppes
and
places
thereof
one
by
one
,
because
that
in
every
one
of
them
there
is
much
to
bee
considered
;
and
let
us
not
thinke
it
enough
to
consider
onely
what
passeth
outwardly
in
our
conversation
,
but
let
us
endeavour
much
more
to
understand
what
passeth
inwardly
within
the
heart
,
so
shall
both
our
life
and
and
death
be
acceptable
.
And
to
shut
the
doore
unto
all
fearefull
apprehensions
of
death
,
we
must
learne
to
do
two
things
which
the
world
can
never
teach
us
;
the
one
is
to
live
well
,
for
a
vertuous
and
Christian
life
maketh
even
agreeable
the
very
memory
of
death
:
the
other
is
that
wee
beleeve
that
the
thing
which
it
hath
pleased
God
to
afford
us
for
a
remedy
,
and
easement
of
our
manifold
labours
,
and
toyles
,
is
not
so
harsh
,
nor
so
horrible
,
as
we
do
imagine
.
And
for
a
finall
conclusion
,
let
us
remember
how
that
the
Saints
have
held
life
a
paine
,
and
death
an
ease
.
And
that
every
part
of
Heaven
shall
together
shine
upon
us
;
who
wholly
shall
behold
all
the
glory
therof
in
his
due
place
,
which
now
through
the
streight
and
narrow
passage
of
the
sight
,
wee
doe
but
see
and
discerne
a
farre
off
:
And
let
us
close
all
up
with
this
,
that
though
our
mortall
bodies
are
dissolved
heere
on
earth
,
yet
God
will
raise
up
both
Soule
and
Body
at
the
latter
Day
,
to
Crowne
them
with
Everlasting
Happinesse
.
The
Authors
Conclusion
.
BEHOLD
heere
th●
Flowers
that
I
hav●
gathered
heere
an●
there
out
of
the
garde●
of
the
flourishing
Wits
and
Wri●tings
of
the
Wise
.
Them
I
lay
open
in
common
betweene
you
an●
mee
,
even
as
busie
Bees
doe
their
Honey
which
they
have
reaped
i●
faire
and
well
furnished
Gardens
▪
and
flowery
Fields
,
to
the
end
we●
together
may
draw
from
thence
the
sugred
sweetnesse
of
this
pleasant
Embleme
,
or
Happinesse
of
the
Minde
.
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
of
the
ancient
Poets
had
throughly
knowne
this
,
they
would
not
have
composed
any
other
Nectar
,
or
brewed
any
other
Ambrosiacke
for
the
dye●
of
their
Gods
:
but
should
have
thought
them
well
feasted
in
serving
them
with
●his
dish
alone
,
for
all
messes
and
●neales
.
Seeing
therefore
wee
have
the
opportunity
offered
us
●f
finding
out
,
and
using
so
di●ine
a
thing
,
let
us
make
use
of
●t
in
the
most
thrifty
manner
we
●ossible
may
:
Acknowledging
in
●he
meane
time
that
this
Happi●esse
we
talke
of
,
is
a
Gift
from
Heaven
,
which
the
bountifull
influence
of
the
Worlds
maker
must
distill
into
our
Mindes
;
Hee
being
the
true
and
living
Well-spring
whence
floweth
all
our
Felicity
and
Blisse
.
Whose
Name
therefore
(
according
as
wee
are
bound
)
we
blesse
and
magnifie
for
ever
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.