THE
PRAYSE
OF
SADNESSE
.
THey
that
haue
blessed
their
time
with
drawing
into
their
owne
bosomes
the
consideration
of
the
world
and
her
mutabilities
;
and
kept
them
there
,
to
strengthen
their
reason
against
the
vanity
&
waywardnesse
of
their
affections
and
passions
,
know
already
,
I
may
offend
opinion
,
but
not
truth
,
vndertaking
as
impertinent
a
worke
,
as
he
that
intended
to
prayse
Hercules
:
to
these
I
addresse
not
my self
,
vnlesse
they
wil
please
to
perfect
me
,
since
I
cannot
them
.
But
to
those
I
am
directed
,
that
either
the
smyles
of
Fortune
haue
depriued
of
the
true
knowledge
of
the
condition
of
man
,
or
youth
hath
not
yet
ripened
;
or
such
vulgar
and
earthly
creatures
,
whose
iudgement
dazeled
with
beholding
the
outward
splendor
of
Fortunes
Minions
(
the
miserablest
of
all
)
cannot
or
will
not
see
with
what
terrible
cares
and
discontentments
,
the
purple
robe
is
lined
.
I
know
,
but
feare
not
,
the
danger
of
cherishing
and
defending
so
vnwelcome
a
guest
as
sadnesse
;
so
shunned
,
so
abhorred
:
For
since
I
am
well
assured
,
they
haue
condemned
rather
her
countenance
,
then
her selfe
:
and
that
both
her
Iudge
,
Iury
,
and
hangman
,
hath
bin
that
acrie
monster
Opinion
;
that
taketh
all
vpon
trust
,
and
answers
nothing
with
reason
;
I
was
the
rather
inclyned
to
be
her
friend
,
because
opinion
was
her
enemy
;
the
first
proofe
of
her
goodnes
,
First
then
,
because
our
humane
weaknesse
,
and
chiefely
those
that
I
desire
to
instruct
,
vnderstand
best
by
contraryes
;
as
health
is
best
knowne
by
sicknesse
,
plenty
by
want
,
it
is
fit
I
shew
them
what
mirth
is
made
of
:
and
ouer
what
a
troupe
she
commands
;
that
beholding
her
,
and
her
band
disrobed
and
anatomized
,
wearie
and
ashamed
of
the
sight
,
they
may
by
putting
off
their
preiudicat
obstinacies
,
be
made
first
hearers
,
and
consequently
obeyors
,
of
a
worthier
conductor
.
Wee
haue
touched
the
ayme
,
and
end
:
Let
vs
now
see
the
pursuers
and
adorers
of
mirth
;
and
they
that
make
her
the
goddesse
of
their
actions
,
a
people
either
so
light
and
imperciptible
,
as
nothing
can
come
beyond
their
senses
:
or
so
opinionatiue
and
obstinate
,
or
rather
so
drunke
with
pleasure
,
as
they
will
not
knowe
,
what
they
may
and
must
:
or
a
third
sort
,
that
clap
myrth
between
them
and
their
consciences
,
for
feare
of
corrasiues
,
that
keepe
her
vp
like
a
ball
,
and
run
after
her
,
to
bee
the
further
off
from
themselues
,
who
might
know
,
though
Vinum
,
cantus
,
somnus
,
commot
iunculas
illas
primas
,
non
raro
sanarunt
irae
doloris
,
amoris
at
nunquam
aegritudinem
,
quae
radices
egit
et
fixit
pedem
,
to
caracterize
these
further
then
in
generality
,
were
needlesse
:
for
what
shall
the
picture
need
,
where
the
originall
is
so
common
?
with
what
other
are
brothell-houses
,
and
Tauerns
stuffed
?
Voluptas
,
humile
,
seruile
,
imbecillem
,
caducum
;
cuius
Statio
et
formices
et
popinae
sunt
,
what
are
the
inhabitants
of
theaters
,
meetings
,
feasts
,
tryumphes
,
but
such
as
either
acknowledge
no
God
so
willingly
as
Mirth
and
Pleasure
;
or
such
as
dare
not
come
home
into
themselues
,
for
feare
of
their
errors
and
miscarriage
?
In
the
meane
time
,
O
poore
reason
,
at
how
base
a
price
art
thou
sold
?
Or
art
thou
but
a
name
without
an
essence
?
Or
a
broken
Reed
that
the
will
of
man
dares
not
stay
it selfe
vpon
,
for
feare
of
falling
?
Or
els
what
a
blue-eyed
choyse
is
theirs
,
that
for
the
most
idle
,
momentary
,
and
sicke
effects
of
mirth
,
and
pleasure
,
impawne
not
onely
their
time
,
(
which
is
vnredeemeable
)
but
themselues
,
which
they
thinke
too
well
sold
to
repurchase
.
But
now
it
is
fit
I
hasten
to
them
,
who
seeke
not
mirth
,
but
are
sought
of
her
:
for
such
is
the
lust
of
Fortunes
benefits
,
as
whilest
the
body
feeleth
her selfe
able
to
purchase
her
desires
,
and
to
gorge
her
senses
,
she
abandons
herselfe
to
all
sensualities
,
and
reioyceth
in
her
owne
fulnesse
:
to
you
then
,
vpon
whom
none
but
fayre
winds
haue
euer
blowne
in
this
careire
of
your
supposed
happinesse
:
can
you
see
for
all
your
high
and
ouertopping
places
,
your
end
and
resting
place
?
Or
are
you
not
rather
the
arrowes
of
the
Omnipotent
arme
,
that
are
yet
flying
,
not
at
yours
,
but
at
his
marke
:
and
are
no
more
owners
of
your
owne
purposed
ends
,
then
you
were
guilty
of
your
owne
beginnings
?
In
the
meane
time
effeminated
with
your
prosperity
,
and
as
it
were
still
sucking
vpon
the
brest
of
Fortune
,
if
she
turnes
her
backe
and
retires
,
how
miserable
doth
shee
leaue
you
?
Still
bleating
after
the
teat
,
and
like
those
nice
creatures
,
that
become
tame
with
taking
their
bread
from
others
hands
,
vnable
to
administer
to
your selues
the
least
helpe
or
comfort
.
Wee
doe
see
that
Nature
and
all
her
productions
support
them
and
her selfe
by
incessant
changes
,
and
reuolutions
;
generation
and
corruption
being
to
the
earth
like
riuers
to
the
sea
,
in
a
restlesse
current
,
and
perpetuall
progresse
:
doe
wee
see
the
flourishing
and
falling
,
not
only
of
Kings
and
Princes
;
but
of
Kingdomes
and
Commonwealths
,
Citties
,
Trophies
,
and
whatsoeuer
the
vaine
imagination
of
man
hath
contriued
for
the
ouercomming
of
time
?
and
can
we
vpon
some
small
remnant
of
Fortunes
bounty
,
thinke
to
establish
a
perpetuity
of
mirth
and
pleasure
?
No
,
no
,
he
that
takes
not
this
time
to
prouide
for
a
world
,
and
in
the
midst
of
his
pleasures
doth
not
thinke
how
fraile
and
transitory
they
are
,
will
pay
dearely
for
his
iollity
;
when
surprised
by
death
,
or
some
disaster
,
they
leaue
him
in
an
instant
,
so
much
more
miserable
then
others
;
as
he
hath
depended
vpon
such
vncertainties
:
without
which
,
his
life
is
most
lothsome
vnto
him
,
and
with
which
,
death
most
fearefull
and
abhorred
.
But
to
what
end
is
all
this
tendred
to
the
adorers
and
louers
of
mirth
?
Their
heads
and
hearts
are
all
ready
filled
with
their
own
delights
:
which
must
be
consumed
by
affliction
,
before
the
precious
balm
of
Sadnesse
can
either
enter
or
worke
.
Fabius
said
,
he
feared
more
Minutius
victories
than
ouerthrows
:
which
may
be
rightly
applied
to
the
generall
disposition
of
man
,
his
successes
infecting
him
with
an
ignorant
confidence
,
intoxicating
his
reason
with
presumption
and
ostentation
,
which
are
such
dayly
effects
of
worldly
prosperities
,
as
they
that
thinke
themselues
Lords
,
are
often
the
vnworthiest
sort
of
slaues
:
and
their
opinionatiue
happinesse
,
the
most
wretched
misery
:
not
vnlike
the
madde
Athenian
,
that
imagined
himself
possessed
of
al
,
when
indeed
he
was
true
honor
but
of
his
own
distemper
&
lunacy
.
To
young
men
there
belongs
more
pitty
,
aswell
because
nature
hath
her
hand
in
this
their
thirst
of
pleasure
:
they
beeing
yet
by
the
heate
of
bloud
,
and
the
quicknesse
of
their
spirits
,
and
the
strength
of
their
senses
,
iolly
and
gamesome
:
as
also
that
it
must
be
time
,
and
the
wounds
and
skars
,
gotten
by
their
wretched
carelesnesse
,
that
must
make
them
capable
of
aduice
:
since
(
as
Plutarch
sayth
)
their
heady
passions
and
pleasures
set
ouer
them
,
more
cruell
and
tyrannous
Gouernours
,
then
those
that
had
the
charge
of
their
minorities
:
now
who
is
it
that
leadeth
this
distracted
dance
,
of
youth
,
but
mirth
?
for
whose
sake
and
pleasures
they
are
inseparable
companions
:
what
is
irregular
,
indiscreet
,
vnlawfull
,
dishonest
;
nay
,
what
lawes
,
either
of
mans
natures
,
or
Gods
,
are
in
these
apprehensions
,
strong
enough
to
containe
them
within
their
bounds
?
Galba
in
his
adoption
of
Piso
,
amongst
his
other
prayses
sayth
;
you
whose
youth
hath
needed
no
excuse
:
a
commendation
so
rare
and
glorious
,
as
there
needed
no
more
to
illustrate
his
name
and
fame
to
all
posterity
;
for
who
els
,
vnlesse
fettered
and
chained
with
nature
or
fortune
,
but
in
their
first
wearing
the
fresh
garment
of
youth
,
haue
not
soyled
and
spotted
it
;
as
their
whole
life
after
(
though
painefully
and
industriously
directed
)
hath
not
bin
able
to
wipe
out
their
faults
,
and
refresh
the
glose
of
their
reputation
?
hence
it
is
,
that
Delicta
inuentutis
meae
&
ignorantias
meas
ne
memineris
Domine
,
is
taught
by
all
,
and
vsed
by
all
;
so
ineuitable
a
disease
is
youth
:
of
which
we
need
no
witnesse
,
since
euery
mans
conscience
doth
iustifie
it
;
the
generality
and
antiquity
,
hauing
made
it
veniall
:
and
by
consent
,
we
bind
none
from
these
slips
and
stumbles
,
but
old
men
and
and
women
:
the
rest
passe
the
musters
so
farre
from
checking
,
as
they
produce
many
of
their
follies
as
the
markes
of
spirit
,
and
generosity
:
and
by
their
will
would
make
of
an
old
vice
,
a
young
vertue
:
who
can
hope
now
to
deliuer
this
flourishing
season
of
youth
,
from
these
Caterpillers
?
since
mirth
and
pleasure
allures
;
opinion
animates
;
and
community
hides
them
from
the
sight
of
themselues
and
actions
:
this
it
is
that
makes
nothing
more
currannt
,
then
to
pay
one
another
with
our
faults
,
and
no
man
trusts
so
much
to
his
owne
vertue
,
as
to
his
neighbours
or
Companions
vices
;
wee
repose
our selues
in
the
defect
of
others
,
and
no
man
striues
further
,
then
to
be
comparatiuely
good
:
we
aduance
our selues
vpon
ruins
,
and
thinke
our selues
well
,
because
another
is
worse
:
O
lame
shift
!
O
drunken
remedie
!
I
will
then
say
but
this
,
to
those
young
men
that
will
heare
me
,
Since
you
know
not
the
way
to
true
happinesse
and
contentment
;
ask
not
of
them
that
are
yet
in
the
race
;
but
of
them
that
haue
passed
it
:
propose
vnto
your selues
some
patterne
to
imitate
,
(
nisi
ad
regulam
prauam
non
corrigas
)
and
to
strengthen
your
iudgements
,
behold
those
that
haue
already
acted
their
parts
:
take
one
of
these
admirers
of
mirth
and
pleasure
;
and
an
other
that
hath
euer
made
his
reason
the
taster
of
all
his
actions
:
and
compare
these
together
,
and
then
chuse
which
of
them
you
would
be
:
there
cannot
thus
farre
off
bee
so
corrupted
a
iudgement
,
as
not
to
know
the
best
;
the
difference
is
then
a
little
time
,
&
hoc
quod
senectus
vocatur
,
pauci
sunt
circuitus
amorum
:
Behold
then
the
match
,
for
a
few
yeeres
to
boote
,
this
vicious
hatefull
person
is
taken
,
that
deuoured
his
owne
honour
and
reputation
:
and
with
his
pleasure
swallowed
euen
his
very
soule
,
and
that
liues
now
but
in
his
infamy
:
rather
then
that
well
ordered
spirit
,
that
hath
left
a
true
and
perfect
circle
of
a
discreet
gouern'd
life
and
death
,
and
left
the
world
heire
of
many
rich
and
worthy
examples
:
who
in
this
consideration
,
but
must
crie
out
with
the
Psalmist
,
O
what
is
man
,
that
thou
art
so
mindfull
of
him
,
&
c
?
or
why
hauing
taken
our
iudgements
thus
halting
,
should
wee
reply
vpon
it
?
carrying
vs
through
the
world
;
that
in
our
entrance
hath
thus
stumbled
and
fallen
:
he
hath
then
the
first
signe
of
recouerie
,
that
in
this
his
beginning
mistrusts
his
owne
wayes
;
and
dares
offer
his
wounds
to
the
Surgeon
:
it
is
an
incurable
ignorance
,
that
dares
not
put
it selfe
to
mending
.
Plato
would
haue
offenders
repaire
to
the
Iudge
and
Magistrate
,
as
to
the
Physicions
of
the
soule
,
and
submit
themselues
to
punishment
,
as
to
the
medicine
of
recouery
,
but
this
was
too
high
an
imagination
for
practise
;
yet
thus
farre
we
may
goe
,
and
vpon
the
ground
;
and
not
in
the
ayre
:
hauing
,
vpon
a
due
examination
,
found
it
fit
to
mistrust
our selues
,
it
followes
euen
in
common
reason
,
not
to
throw
our selues
rashly
into
any
action
:
but
to
assist
our
weaknesse
with
gaining
consideration
time
:
this
disarms
our
passions
of
their
violence
,
for
their
motion
being
out
of
heat
,
and
neuer
going
but
running
,
being
once
stayed
,
and
ouertaken
by
reason
,
they
after
willingly
submit
themselues
vnto
her
▪
and
are
easily
managed
:
It
is
an
axiome
in
Philosophy
,
that
our
first
motions
are
not
in
our
owne
power
:
which
is
true
no
longer
then
we
list
:
for
he
that
will
not
imbarke
himselfe
,
without
a
pause
and
deliberation
,
dissolues
the
Acrimony
of
his
affections
;
and
makes
them
of
the
cruellest
Tyrants
the
most
profitable
seruants
.
It
is
true
,
our
ignorance
and
sloth
make
euery
thing
terrible
vnto
vs
:
and
we
wil
not
because
we
dare
not
,
and
dare
not
because
we
will
not
:
this
makes
vs
submit
our selues
to
any
thing
that
doth
either
flatter
or
threaten
vs
:
and
like
some
sottish
weaklings
,
that
giue
the
reines
of
their
gouernment
,
into
the
hands
of
their
wiues
or
seruants
;
thinking
then
they
buy
their
peace
,
when
they
sell
it
:
thus
do
they
grow
vpon
vs
,
and
by
composition
,
not
force
,
become
masters
of
the
place
;
being
iust
so
strong
as
we
are
weake
.
The
scouts
of
Antigonus
relating
vnto
him
the
multitude
of
his
enemies
,
and
aduising
by
way
of
information
the
danger
of
a
conflict
,
that
should
be
vndertaken
with
so
great
an
vnequality
:
he
replied
,
And
at
how
many
do
you
valew
me
?
In
this
ciuill
wars
of
our selues
the
first
disorder
and
consequently
our
ouerthrow
proceeds
from
a
false
valuation
of
our
owne
strength
:
we
are
content
to
imbrace
our
owne
true
naturall
worth
,
so
wee
may
haue
leaue
to
yeeld
our selues
to
some
furious
passion
or
soothing
affection
:
but
would
we
now
take
a
true
knowledge
of
our
owne
valew
,
we
might
easily
redeeme
our selues
:
God
and
nature
haue
not
dealt
so
tyrannically
with
man
,
as
to
giue
him
charge
of
that
he
cannot
hold
:
if
we
lose
the
game
it
must
be
by
play
:
wherefore
since
we
are
likely
to
bee
besieged
by
the
world
,
and
her
allurements
;
lest
famine
or
treason
surprise
,
let
vs
turne
out
of
the
walls
,
all
vnprofitable
pleasures
;
and
knowe
betimes
that
mirth
becommeth
neither
the
fortune
,
nor
condition
of
man
:
so
is
hee
enuironed
with
dangers
,
and
so
subiect
to
intrappings
,
omnis
vita
supplicium
est
,
there
is
no
day
,
houre
,
or
moment
,
that
brings
a
certaine
cessation
of
armes
:
but
to
the
contrary
,
our
life
is
a
continuall
war-fare
,
representing
vnto
vs
incessant
dangers
and
perils
:
wherefore
wee
must
alwayes
stand
vpon
our
guard
,
and
keep
a
straight
watch
vpon
our selues
;
not
only
examining
the
humors
that
goe
in
and
out
,
their
arrants
,
and
pretences
:
but
euen
euery
motion
and
thought
;
for
of
so
many
different
pieces
is
the
little
world
of
man
compounded
:
so
stirring
,
so
infatigable
,
so
full
of
changes
and
counter-changes
,
so
sodainely
eleuated
,
as
soone
deiected
:
and
in
a
word
,
such
a
composition
of
contrarieties
;
as
he
that
doth
not
continually
obserue
himselfe
,
and
steddily
fixe
his
eyes
vpon
all
his
actions
;
shall
sodainely
grow
a
stranger
to
himselfe
,
and
be
vtterly
ignorant
of
his
owne
proceedings
:
if
this
then
be
a
time
for
mirth
,
we
may
easily
imagine
;
who
doth
not
alone
call
all
the
parts
and
faculties
of
man
from
their
duties
and
charge
,
to
feast
and
glut
themselues
with
sensualities
;
but
returneth
them
so
corrupt
and
debaunched
,
as
like
Hannibals
army
,
after
their
wintering
in
Campania
,
they
cannot
bee
knowne
for
the
same
men
;
so
haue
they
melted
their
courages
with
delicacie
,
and
with
ryot
made
themselues
impatient
,
and
almost
incapable
of
discipline
.
To
conclude
,
such
is
the
weaknesse
of
man
,
and
so
strong
are
his
bodily
inclinations
,
as
if
he
doth
not
diuert
or
breake
the
force
of
his
affections
,
reason
alone
is
not
able
to
resist
them
:
wherefore
as
Plato
allowed
old
men
,
mirth
and
wine
,
to
reuiue
nature
almost
tyred
in
her
long
iourney
,
and
to
refresh
their
spirits
benummed
with
the
coldnesse
of
their
dwelling
:
by
the
same
reason
,
it
is
forbidden
youth
,
whose
bloud
being
now
at
the
hottest
,
by
the
least
addition
,
or
increase
,
falls
into
the
diseases
of
excesse
,
the
most
violent
and
vnresistable
extremes
:
wee
see
then
it
is
prescribed
but
for
a
medicine
,
and
by
the
difference
of
the
constitutions
of
young
men
and
old
,
it
can
bee
no
more
wholsome
for
the
one
,
then
dangerous
for
the
other
:
howsoeuer
since
it
is
prescribed
medicinably
,
the
too
frequent
vse
,
must
either
destroy
the
operation
,
or
leaue
onely
the
malignant
quality
aliue
and
vncorrected
,
vnto
those
whom
the
out-side
of
Fortune
dazels
and
allures
,
there
is
nothing
to
be
sayd
by
way
of
aduice
;
being
such
,
as
neither
nature
,
nor
education
hath
fauoured
,
but
are
left
to
act
the
base
and
illiberal
parts
vpon
this
stage
of
the
world
:
this
is
the
multitude
,
the
vulgar
,
the
people
that
are
bought
and
sold
,
and
reckoned
by
the
hundred
and
the
thousand
,
and
beare
no
price
single
and
alone
;
a
madnesse
it
were
then
,
to
thinke
to
moue
and
conuert
them
together
,
when
our
Sauiour
that
fedde
5000.
of
them
,
and
as
many
heard
him
,
could
neither
with
the
admirablenesse
of
his
miracles
,
nor
the
excellency
of
his
doctrine
preuaile
with
them
all
,
and
returne
them
all
beleeuers
:
this
were
sufficient
to
deterre
mee
euen
from
but
touching
vpon
this
quick-sand
,
were
they
not
the
harbour
of
opinion
,
where
shee
is
still
rescued
from
the
louers
of
truth
:
neither
is
it
impossible
that
some
,
yet
of
her
and
their
party
,
vpon
a
truer
information
may
forsake
and
bee
ashamed
of
their
station
,
or
to
be
a
piece
of
the
body
of
this
great
Beast
.
There
is
nothing
can
enter
into
consideration
more
strange
and
improbable
,
then
to
see
euen
the
most
actiue
and
vnderstanding
spirits
,
to
refer
themselues
and
their
proceedings
to
the
multitude
,
to
esteeme
themselues
at
their
price
,
exceeds
their
memories
and
powers
of
satisfaction
.
The
young
man
that
thought
to
escape
the
being
seene
in
a
Tauerne
,
with
retiring
further
into
it
,
was
iustly
reprehended
for
going
further
in
:
but
such
is
the
nature
of
vice
,
it
hath
an
alluring
looke
,
and
a
detayning
tayle
,
our
desires
first
allure
vs
to
things
vnlawfull
,
and
when
we
are
there
,
our
feare
bars
vs
in
;
but
if
euery
man
knew
how
much
more
right
he
might
haue
from
his
owne
tribunall
,
if
he
will
freely
and
sincerely
giue
his
reason
her
owne
power
,
and
how
iustly
an
vnabused
conscience
will
proceed
,
and
how
sweetly
and
securely
he
sleeps
,
that
hath
receiued
from
them
his
quietus
est
,
he
would
for
euer
disclaime
the
censure
of
opinion
;
and
with
Phocion
mistrust
himselfe
,
because
the
people
praysed
him
:
erubuit
quasi
peccasset
quod
placuerit
:
and
as
the
Prince
of
morality
aduiseth
,
Non
respuit
quid
homines
turpe
iudicent
aut
miserum
,
not
it
,
qua
populus
;
sed
vt
scidera
contrarium
mundo
iter
intendunt
,
ita
hic
aduersus
opinionem
omnium
radit
:
but
thus
far
had
I
gone
out
of
the
way
,
had
I
not
pursued
opinion
.
To
come
now
neere
our
purpose
,
in
examinations
,
circumstances
are
not
neglected
,
if
they
any
way
conduce
to
the
end
of
our
inquiry
:
thus
Iudges
and
Magistrates
make
their
vses
&
aduantages
of
names
,
and
countenances
,
though
it
be
impossible
to
make
either
so
much
as
accessary
:
first
then
we
finde
,
that
Sadnesse
hath
euer
beene
receiued
as
a
witnesse
of
truth
;
as
In
Sadnesse
amongst
honest
men
,
is
taken
for
an
infallible
asseueration
:
whereas
mirth
hath
so
little
credit
,
as
when
rashnesse
or
falsenesse
hath
made
an
escape
,
by
the
tongue
,
the
refuge
is
to
lay
it
to
mirths
charge
:
who
as
a
licensed
Buffone
,
hath
often
leaue
to
passe
the
bounds
of
modesty
&
truth
:
againe
,
mirth
is
so
like
drunkennesse
,
that
they
are
at
this
day
,
but
as
two
names
of
one
thing
,
and
merry
,
meanes
drunke
,
and
drunke
merry
:
whereas
sober
expresseth
a
discreet
temper
,
to
rayse
and
deiect
themselues
at
the
pleasure
of
their
breathes
,
to
take
warrant
from
their
countenances
:
and
in
a
word
,
to
liue
and
dye
at
their
appointments
:
when
single
,
they
scorne
and
despise
them
,
and
thinke
euen
their
best
thoughts
scarce
worthy
of
their
foot-boy
,
yet
the
patterne
and
piece
differeth
not
;
and
any
one
as
farre
as
sufficiency
expresseth
the
whole
,
as
Physicions
say
of
the
diseases
of
the
body
that
are
,
and
the
same
may
come
from
different
causes
:
so
this
of
the
mind
,
which
proceedeth
either
from
the
laying
their
ambitious
hopes
vpon
popularity
,
or
such
as
guilty
of
their
owne
intentions
,
dare
not
put
themselues
vpon
the
tryall
of
their
consciences
.
A
third
sort
there
are
,
that
feede
,
and
cloath
,
and
talke
,
and
walke
,
and
haue
deliuered
themselues
and
their
behauiour
to
bee
brought
vp
by
Opinion
;
these
since
they
cannot
be
separated
from
the
multitude
,
neither
can
be
,
nor
are
worth
the
singling
:
for
those
that
Ambition
hath
perswaded
to
this
popular
folly
,
they
are
worthy
to
bee
deceiued
:
and
were
it
not
,
that
in
all
inordinate
desires
reason
is
first
vanquished
,
they
could
not
but
know
;
this
beast
is
tame
but
in
fayre
weather
;
they
loue
that
part
of
you
which
they
vnderstand
,
which
is
your
fortune
,
loue
and
friendshippe
begins
in
the
soule
,
and
ends
in
the
body
:
and
theirs
begin
in
the
body
and
ends
in
the
fortune
:
the
two
lignaments
that
tie
the
men
to
a
iustnesse
and
decorum
in
all
their
actions
,
are
wit
and
honesty
;
which
they
being
defectiue
in
,
can
no
more
loue
truely
;
then
hee
can
speake
that
is
borne
dumbe
.
Wherefore
further
then
commiseration
,
and
the
common
duties
of
humanity
,
it
is
a
madnesse
to
be
popular
:
for
as
they
say
,
the
chiefe
strength
of
the
Lyon
lieth
in
his
tayle
,
so
theirs
in
their
mouthes
;
which
as
it
deuoures
all
you
giue
,
so
they
goe
no
further
to
pay
for
all
they
take
.
It
is
true
,
Vbicunque
homo
est
,
ibi
beneficio
locus
ect
:
thus
farre
charity
commands
,
and
further
is
ridiculous
,
or
dangerous
,
or
both
:
in
Princes
vnto
whom
they
belong
as
a
charge
,
and
who
hath
power
to
make
them
feare
,
if
they
will
not
loue
,
popularity
is
no
vice
,
but
a
part
of
vse
,
and
as
dangerous
for
them
to
neglect
,
as
for
a
priuate
man
and
a
subiect
to
follow
and
affect
.
We
haue
nothing
more
common
and
in
practice
amongst
decayed
beauties
,
banquerouted
by
time
or
accidents
,
then
to
hide
it
from
others
eyes
with
art
,
and
from
their
owne
with
false
glasses
:
no
otherwise
is
it
with
them
,
that
from
the
reflection
of
opinion
behold
the
state
and
condition
of
their
minds
;
surely
hee
is
afraid
to
heare
truth
,
that
dares
not
inquire
of
himselfe
:
it
is
against
our
wils
,
if
we
transport
to
forraine
eyes
,
or
eares
,
any
wares
that
are
not
substantiall
,
or
at
least
formall
:
they
are
in
the
darke
,
and
visible
but
to
our selues
,
that
are
fit
for
reformation
:
and
as
we
know
best
their
begettings
and
births
,
so
are
they
the
naturall
subiects
for
our
owne
consciences
to
worke
vpon
:
it
is
long
since
receiued
,
that
in
one
,
and
the
selfe
same
man
,
there
may
be
a
good
man
,
and
an
ill
Citizen
;
men
and
lawes
take
knowledge
of
vice
,
no
farther
then
their
owne
interest
:
diseases
that
threaten
but
one
,
are
opposed
but
by
one
,
they
are
contagious
and
infectious
,
that
are
resisted
by
generality
.
They
then
that
goe
to
opinion
,
to
knowe
the
temper
and
disposition
of
their
minds
,
go
to
the
market
,
rather
to
sell
then
to
buy
:
and
loue
better
to
paint
the
walles
and
outsides
of
themselues
,
then
to
rectifie
and
repaire
their
inward
errors
and
defects
:
but
farre
worse
it
is
with
them
that
dare
not
come
to
tryall
,
where
their
facts
and
actions
are
knowne
,
which
is
at
home
:
is
not
this
like
children
,
which
shunning
the
reprehension
and
chastisements
of
one
fault
,
multiply
it
to
many
?
Or
like
the
carelesse
debtor
,
that
suffers
the
interest
to
outgrow
the
principall
?
How
truely
doth
this
proue
the
cowardise
of
vice
,
or
rather
the
sottishnesse
,
since
he
considers
not
,
that
as
fast
as
hee
runs
from
feare
,
the
same
haste
he
makes
to
desperation
,
where
they
ineuitably
end
,
that
neuer
reckon
with
themselues
,
till
the
summe
vnimpeached
by
drinke
or
any
other
excesse
?
For
the
continuance
,
what
men
carry
more
mistrust
before
them
,
then
those
,
that
haue
worne
out
the
sobrietie
of
an
honest
looke
,
with
a
continuall
girning
or
laughing
?
a
marke
of
natures
,
so
seldome
failing
,
as
it
is
in
euery
obseruation
held
,
for
an
irrecouerable
defect
either
of
wit
or
honestie
:
of
such
stuffe
are
commonly
flatterers
,
time-pleasers
,
&
faunguists
made
:
people
so
obnoxious
to
vertue
and
worth
,
as
were
it
not
that
they
breed
&
liue
only
vpon
the
lust
of
Fortune
,
it
were
impossible
to
keepe
them
from
a
generall
extirpation
.
For
it
is
they
that
haue
bereaued
greatnesse
and
riches
of
innocency
,
and
made
it
of
a
dead
and
indifferent
instrument
in
the
power
of
the
disposer
,
to
haue
hatched
more
monsters
then
all
the
broode
of
vices
besides
:
and
in
a
word
haue
been
the
visablest
and
chiefest
procurers
of
the
heauy
sentence
of
our
Sauiour
against
rich
men
;
that
it
is
easier
for
a
Camell
to
passe
through
a
needles
eye
,
then
for
a
rich
man
to
enter
into
the
kingdome
of
heauen
.
In
the
contemplating
Sadnesse
,
and
mirth
,
mee
thinks
,
I
see
the
true
formes
of
the
two
Ladies
that
offered
themselues
to
Hercules
,
at
his
entrance
into
the
way
of
the
world
,
Vertue
,
and
Pleasure
,
the
first
with
a
settled
composed
countenance
(
not
vnlike
the
South
sea
)
full
of
peace
,
certainty
,
and
truth
:
no
ouerruling
passion
disordering
or
raising
the
least
billow
,
or
moouing
the
smallest
breath
of
perturbation
:
the
other
like
a
shop
that
sets
out
the
best
wares
to
the
view
,
and
offers
many
pleasing
morsels
to
the
senses
,
and
at
the
first
seemes
to
resemble
bounty
it selfe
in
freenesse
and
sweetnesse
;
but
alas
,
she
is
too
soone
wonne
to
be
constant
,
shee
brings
not
in
your
reckoning
,
til
you
haue
consumed
what
she
set
before
you
,
and
then
you
shal
know
they
are
too
deare
,
when
it
is
too
late
to
refuse
them
:
her
smiles
and
allurements
,
are
like
the
sun-shine
daies
of
winter
,
storm-breeders
:
her
cleerenesse
,
warmth
,
and
calmenesse
,
produce
euer
cloudes
and
tempests
;
repentance
,
griefes
and
anxieties
of
the
soule
;
and
as
Phisicians
hold
,
a
continuall
requiring
stomake
an
infallible
Symptomie
of
a
corrupt
and
diseased
body
:
so
may
be
said
of
the
louers
of
Mirth
,
that
passe
from
one
pleasure
to
another
,
and
dare
not
let
their
braines
settle
,
lest
they
should
see
their
owne
deformities
,
their
corrupted
manners
and
the
leprosie
of
their
minds
.
Hitherto
Sadnesse
hath
gotten
but
a
preeminence
,
and
hath
but
prooued
her selfe
better
then
a
worse
;
not
approoued
her
owne
goodnesse
:
it
is
now
time
,
to
display
her
in
her
owne
excellency
,
not
such
a
one
as
reuerts
all
things
vpon
it selfe
,
and
regards
no
quality
that
returnes
not
laden
with
profit
;
but
such
a
communatiue
goodnesse
,
as
growes
not
poore
by
imparting
;
but
redoubles
it
owne
strength
,
riches
,
and
splendor
,
with
lending
,
assisting
and
diuiding
it
influence
on
others
:
but
before
I
offer
her
,
and
her
qualities
to
the
view
,
it
is
necessary
I
decipher
her
:
Philopamen
,
for
want
of
an
interpretor
,
was
set
to
cleaue
wood
by
his
hostesse
,
for
his
owne
entertainment
:
the
eye
is
a
nice
,
busie
&
vndertaking
sence
,
if
reason
or
iudgement
prepare
not
her
way
.
I
meane
not
then
,
vnder
the
name
of
Sadnesse
,
to
defend
effeminate
bewailings
and
lamentations
;
let
them
a
gods-name
,
that
subiect
themselues
to
this
weakest
impatience
,
be
also
subiect
to
the
Lycian
law
;
that
bound
these
kind
of
lamentors
to
be
arraied
like
women
;
nor
am
I
an
approuer
,
of
a
ridgid
,
sowre
,
morose
austerity
,
since
it
is
seldom
other
then
the
visard
of
enuy
,
or
vain-glory
:
such
were
Nero
his
Philosophers
,
nec
deerant
qui
voce
vultuque
tristi
inter
oblectamenta
Regia
spectari
cuperent
:
neyther
is
it
a
small
motiue
to
their
condemnation
,
that
the
nouice
and
inquirer
after
vertue
is
deterred
,
to
see
her
disciples
so
ouer-clowded
and
drowned
in
heauines
:
rather
like
the
followers
of
a
Funerall
,
then
her
minions
and
beloued
,
whose
power
and
bounty
doth
not
alone
extend
it selfe
vnto
all
deseruers
,
but
makes
all
liues
,
fortunes
,
and
accidents
,
not
alone
tolerable
and
to
bee
indured
;
but
sweet
,
wholsome
,
easie
and
oft
times
glorious
,
and
exemplare
:
neither
will
I
prayse
a
sorrow
,
that
as
Pythagoras
sayth
,
eates
his
owne
heart
;
that
abandons
the
rudder
in
a
storm
,
and
dares
not
liue
for
feare
of
dying
.
Wise
men
know
,
it
is
the
condition
of
humanity
to
be
tossed
with
contrary
winds
,
and
those
are
the
seasons
of
distinction
between
wise
men
and
fooles
:
euery
man
lookes
gayly
in
a
holiday
fortune
,
but
to
be
basely
set
by
,
and
to
shine
through
an
obscure
fortune
,
illustrates
the
riches
and
pretiousnesse
of
the
mind
:
man
hath
not
the
throwing
of
the
dice
,
but
the
playing
of
the
cast
:
he
is
Lord
ouer
his
intentions
,
the
other
part
reacheth
vp
to
heauen
:
where
successes
and
effects
are
deliuered
backe
,
not
according
to
the
appetite
of
man
,
but
the
inscrutable
wisdome
of
God
,
and
vpon
that
wee
ought
to
rest
our selues
,
not
onely
with
patience
,
but
with
comfort
;
that
the
onely
fountaine
of
knowledge
hath
taken
it
into
his
owne
hands
,
of
whose
better
disposing
,
it
were
the
greatest
impiety
and
infidelity
to
make
the
least
doubt
or
question
:
but
it
is
sadnesse
that
prepares
vs
for
the
acting
of
this
and
the
rest
of
our
life
truely
;
and
as
we
ought
:
who
must
not
be
vnderstood
to
be
of
the
discent
of
Niobe
,
still
labouring
in
teares
and
exclamations
:
nor
a
vaine-glorious
or
enuious
Philosopher
,
that
bigge
with
his
owne
profession
,
labours
to
proclaime
it
in
his
lookes
:
nor
a
silent
fretting
sorrow
,
that
will
needs
marry
his
afflictions
:
To
reduce
these
into
a
shorter
and
sounder
way
,
what
knowledge
,
art
,
or
science
is
there
,
more
necessary
and
important
,
then
that
which
is
wholly
deuoted
to
the
ordering
of
our
life
?
this
doth
Sadnesse
most
aptly
and
effectually
:
first
instructing
,
then
adorning
,
and
lastly
,
gouerning
the
life
of
man
,
with
so
much
tranquillity
,
certainty
,
and
happinesse
,
as
if
we
will
trust
either
reason
or
example
,
we
shall
find
no
liues
to
carry
so
continual
a
contentment
as
these
:
nor
none
so
often
,
and
so
continually
miscarry
as
the
contrary
.
Since
then
in
these
are
comprehended
the
whole
course
of
mans
life
,
we
will
draw
the
picture
of
Sadnesse
within
this
compasse
:
so
shall
I
not
prayse
her
more
then
profit
my
Reader
:
or
if
I
faile
,
an
vnskilfull
Painter
may
spoyle
a
picture
,
but
not
a
face
;
which
a
worthier
vndertaking
,
may
purchase
glory
,
by
the
spoyles
of
my
imperfections
:
since
it
is
not
then
with
man
,
as
with
other
creatures
,
that
are
indowed
with
the
greatest
part
of
their
vnderstanding
,
at
the
very
entrance
into
the
World
,
which
being
bounded
and
limited
within
a
selfe
preseruation
,
extends
no
further
then
to
a
present
consideration
of
them
and
theirs
:
as
it
is
a
naturall
propertie
infused
rather
into
their
being
,
then
into
them
;
&
rather
to
the
profit
of
nature
,
and
her
conseruation
,
then
for
their
particular
benefit
:
as
at
the
first
it
is
straight
,
and
narrow
,
so
time
ripens
it
not
,
nor
dilates
it
:
farre
otherwise
it
is
with
man
,
whose
reason
growes
with
him
,
and
whose
iudgement
(
as
not
compatible
with
his
youth
)
is
deliuered
vnto
him
when
he
comes
to
age
:
at
least
his
minority
is
but
the
seed-time
:
in
his
Autumne
comes
his
haruest
,
that
is
the
time
of
his
instruction
;
this
of
vse
.
But
neither
to
offend
them
,
nor
stay
further
from
my
subiect
;
their
dispositions
will
not
take
the
rich
colour
of
Sadnesse
,
which
euer
yeeldes
that
tranquillity
&
settlednesse
of
mind
,
that
can
propose
the
end
,
and
prosecute
the
way
,
without
diuersion
,
or
error
:
at
least
,
without
those
that
disioyne
our
intentions
;
and
ouerthrow
our
purposes
:
wheras
(
the
very
springs
of
passions
&
affections
)
take
&
change
their
forms
,
at
the
pleasure
of
euery
representation
,
not
vpon
a
deliberated
iudgement
;
but
according
to
the
consultation
and
conclusions
of
their
sences
.
Thus
when
we
may
see
the
power
of
Sadnesse
,
for
instruction
;
since
they
that
want
it
,
are
not
to
be
trusted
with
education
,
yet
not
to
leaue
enemies
behind
vs
,
though
I
wish
we
might
obserue
their
order
,
that
set
wild
birds
egges
,
vnder
those
that
are
domesticke
and
tame
,
to
alter
their
wild
condition
into
their
foster-mothers
more
milde
and
familiar
:
and
so
could
wish
our
dry
nurses
were
men
,
&
such
as
could
teach
them
words
made
of
reason
,
as
well
as
winde
;
and
though
there
be
many
seuere
,
(
if
not
malicious
)
censures
giuen
vs
,
by
our
forefathers
,
against
them
in
all
ages
,
and
by
all
countries
,
and
by
all
professions
;
of
which
infinit
concurrence
of
censures
,
I
will
giue
but
one
instance
,
nelle
cose
di
consiglio
in
vna
d●nna
,
e
capace
di
poterlo
dare
ne
meno
di
pigliarlo
per
se
e
tanto
p●ggio
da
teneclo
secreto
mat
;
yet
doubt
I
not
,
but
they
are
owners
of
such
perfections
,
as
bounded
,
and
kept
in
their
owne
circumference
,
are
of
much
vse
and
pleasure
:
and
they
are
to
be
honoured
by
vs
,
no
lesse
then
our
mother
earth
,
from
whom
wee
no
sooner
come
,
but
wee
striue
to
returne
againe
:
to
conclude
,
since
we
cannot
be
without
them
,
it
is
great
reason
,
they
should
be
entertained
with
a
due
respect
:
which
is
rather
sweetly
,
then
seriously
:
let
them
haue
their
owne
interest
religiously
answered
;
and
for
more
,
since
it
but
corrupts
them
,
and
shackles
vs
;
whatsoeuer
old
men
and
mad
men
doe
,
or
haue
done
;
wise
men
for
their
sakes
,
will
attend
their
charge
,
with
more
circumspection
.
If
then
we
desire
to
frame
a
man
that
shall
deserue
his
being
,
and
to
be
master
of
himselfe
and
time
:
let
vs
begin
betimes
,
to
set
such
Gouernours
ouer
him
,
as
may
both
by
their
examples
,
and
instructions
,
dayly
reflect
vpon
him
,
and
infuse
into
him
the
grace
,
and
most
instructiue
influence
of
Sadnesse
,
for
by
this
meanes
hee
liues
fortified
against
the
grand
corrupter
of
youth
Pleasure
:
and
the
violent
enemy
of
Age
,
Griefe
.
Surely
the
beame
that
keeps
the
cogitations
of
man
euen
,
is
none
other
then
Sadnesse
:
for
hee
that
thinkes
to
buy
his
peace
with
accumulating
riches
,
or
to
be
too
strong
for
fortune
,
with
making
himselfe
powerfull
,
doth
but
apply
an
outward
medicine
for
an
inward
disease
:
which
though
it
may
sometimes
ease
,
seldome
cures
:
but
Sadnesse
,
that
keepes
vs
at
home
,
daily
shewes
vs
the
brittle
frailty
of
all
exterior
things
(
which
makes
vs
like
an
Army
pestered
with
too
much
carriage
,
neither
fit
to
fly
nor
fight
)
vnites
our
inward
powers
,
defends
our
reason
,
from
the
vapours
and
mists
of
our
affections
;
and
standing
betweene
the
extremes
of
mirth
and
sorrow
,
is
the
onely
perfit
moderator
of
our
humane
actions
.
Cato
,
though
he
had
many
learned
slaues
,
would
not
commit
the
education
of
his
son
to
them
,
but
himselfe
became
his
instructor
:
which
I
attribute
to
no
other
consideration
,
then
that
he
rather
chose
,
to
frame
him
to
a
wel
composed
Sadnesse
,
then
to
be
excellent
in
any
Art
or
Profession
:
vt
modestior
,
non
vt
lepidior
fiat
,
a
perfection
fitter
for
a
mechanicke
earner
,
then
a
true
owner
of
himselfe
:
since
it
is
the
forming
of
the
minde
,
not
the
tongue
or
hand
,
that
can
preferre
vs
to
true
felicity
.
Now
that
we
may
touch
as
it
were
with
our
finger
how
much
Sadnesse
conferres
,
towards
a
perfit
instruction
;
what
is
more
proper
and
peculiar
to
the
forming
and
framing
of
the
mind
to
wisedome
and
goodnesse
,
then
first
to
keepe
out
vice
,
and
then
so
to
worke
,
prepare
,
and
temper
the
mind
,
as
it
shall
be
alwaies
fit
to
receiue
&
containe
the
wholesome
documents
of
vertue
and
honestie
?
Which
doth
Sadnesse
,
so
naturally
and
effectually
,
as
all
other
things
,
that
offer
themselues
for
this
vse
,
are
in
comparison
,
left-handed
,
and
stepmothers
to
education
.
First
then
,
as
one
sayth
pretily
in
his
imagined
wife
,
that
he
would
haue
her
,
of
a
denying
behauiour
;
as
if
a
fort
accessiuely
scituated
,
could
not
bee
impregnable
,
since
assaultable
:
and
as
he
saith
therefore
,
he
comes
too
neere
,
that
comes
to
bee
denyed
,
and
as
Ouid
,
that
great
trader
into
those
parts
,
could
neuer
find
armor
of
proofe
for
Chastity
,
but
not
to
be
prooued
,
casta
est
quam
nemo
rogauit
,
she
's
chaste
,
whom
no
tongue
yet
did
taste
:
so
doubtlesse
,
he
shall
passe
the
narrow
way
of
Vertue
,
with
fewer
impediments
,
that
his
owner
of
this
sober
preuentiue
behauiour
,
then
those
alluring
countenances
,
which
keep
open
house
for
all
commers
:
one
Phylosopher
would
haue
bolsters
made
,
to
stop
the
eares
of
yong
men
,
from
contagious
noysome
sounds
;
but
he
that
hath
made
Sadnesse
his
Porter
,
shall
not
need
them
,
since
his
very
presence
deters
and
checks
their
loose
imaginations
,
and
they
dare
not
confesse
themselues
to
him
,
that
hath
their
condemnation
written
in
his
face
:
hoc
secum
certe
tulisset
,
neminem
coram
Catonem
peccare
.
Pedlers
open
their
wares
willingest
to
women
and
children
:
in
a
word
,
as
they
say
the
Amatist
preuents
drunkennesse
,
so
is
Sadnesse
the
preseruatiue
against
the
entrance
of
a
number
of
vices
.
Will
wee
then
frame
a
man
fit
to
command
and
obey
?
to
gouerne
others
and
direct
himselfe
?
a
man
so
squared
by
the
vnfaileable
rules
of
wisedome
and
iudgement
,
as
to
know
how
to
become
all
places
,
and
to
vse
all
fortunes
?
Bind
his
tender
youth
to
a
disposition
tempered
with
Sadnesse
:
for
this
man
can
neither
seduce
his
minority
with
ill
examples
,
nor
marre
his
waxen
age
,
with
a
false
impression
,
too
common
a
condition
of
these
dissolute
times
:
where
our
children
with
their
milke
,
and
their
very
first
words
,
sucke
in
obscene
speeches
,
and
dissolute
behauiour
:
and
imitation
,
and
custome
,
hath
giuen
them
the
very
habite
of
vice
,
before
they
haue
either
loued
,
or
chosen
them
.
But
this
falls
not
out
to
the
pupils
that
are
gouerned
by
men
of
this
carriage
:
for
since
it
is
resolued
,
that
this
Sadnesse
is
not
an
accident
of
their
complexions
,
but
a
gard
hammered
out
of
their
discourse
and
the
issue
of
a
happie
matched
discretion
and
experience
:
they
doe
already
so
well
know
,
that
all
the
allurements
of
vice
offer
themselues
,
but
like
players
and
iugglers
,
to
shew
you
sport
,
and
to
gaine
by
you
:
and
this
word
recreation
,
is
but
the
outside
of
times
wastfull
and
wilfull
consumption
:
and
that
not
onely
the
houres
so
spent
,
are
vtterly
lost
;
but
which
is
farre
worse
,
this
continuall
excitation
of
the
bestiall
part
of
man
,
prouokes
his
lustes
and
sensualities
vnto
an
vnquenchable
dropsie
.
Doubtlesse
,
as
complexions
are
apter
to
the
infection
of
bodily
diseases
,
one
then
the
other
;
so
behauiours
to
the
contagion
of
the
mind
:
mirth
is
made
of
pleasure
,
and
with
pleasure
all
vices
are
baited
;
whereas
this
Sadnesse
is
the
complexion
of
a
mind
that
knoweth
this
,
and
therefore
hates
and
disdaines
Mirth
:
I
know
experience
is
the
chiefest
euidence
,
that
age
can
produce
to
proue
their
right
to
wisedome
;
but
that
which
makes
their
iudgements
strong
inough
,
to
make
their
experience
of
more
vse
,
then
a
bare
tale
,
is
a
decay
of
their
senses
,
growne
too
weake
to
trade
for
themselues
,
and
the
fitter
to
be
set
to
our
reason
to
make
vp
a
true
harmony
of
all
the
parts
,
to
the
good
and
preseruation
of
the
whole
:
the
same
effect
hath
Sadnesse
with
young
men
,
that
this
decay
of
nature
hath
with
old
;
for
when
the
consenting
part
,
or
will
of
man
,
is
so
rectified
with
a
sad
consideration
of
the
true
valew
of
all
that
the
senses
present
vnto
her
;
well
may
they
long
to
please
themselues
,
with
their
seuerall
obiects
:
but
when
that
desire
hath
no
other
aduocate
but
it selfe
;
it
soone
languisheth
and
forsaketh
it
suite
:
Eschines
aduice
to
an
inquirer
after
the
best
course
of
life
,
was
,
to
goe
to
the
Church
willingly
,
to
the
Warres
vpon
necessity
,
but
to
Feasts
vpon
no
tearmes
:
what
was
this
,
but
to
praise
the
conseruation
of
Sadnesse
,
which
in
these
assemblies
,
is
for
the
most
part
betraied
:
and
in
the
heat
of
Wine
,
meat
,
and
company
,
melted
,
into
the
customes
of
dissolute
mirth
?
which
made
the
wise
Romane
complaine
,
that
hee
neuer
came
amongst
men
,
but
returned
lesse
man
,
then
when
hee
went
out
.
This
made
the
Phylosopher
that
fell
a
sleepe
at
a
feast
,
hold
his
tongue
with
one
hand
,
and
with
the
other
,
the
part
that
they
say
women
loue
best
,
but
not
to
speake
of
:
as
the
two
taps
,
at
which
Mirth
and
Pleasure
are
drawne
out
.
But
may
I
not
seeme
to
go
too
much
of
one
hand
,
when
proposing
instructions
,
I
incline
rather
to
preuentions
then
additions
:
surely
if
the
nature
of
man
were
so
pure
&
simple
,
as
it
had
no
participation
nor
commixture
with
contrarieties
&
repugnances
,
there
were
no
way
but
one
;
and
that
one
direct
:
but
as
he
is
first
in
his
masse
,
or
corporial
substance
,
the
issue
or
production
of
the
4
grand
Heterogimical
bodies
,
and
after
by
the
seuerall
and
most
differing
powers
of
his
reason
and
will
,
as
vnlike
in
their
likenesse
and
natures
,
as
light
and
darkenesse
:
there
being
as
much
to
shun
,
as
to
follow
:
I
hope
I
shall
not
erre
in
my
way
,
if
the
scituation
of
the
end
proposed
,
drawes
me
sometimes
about
,
since
I
vndertake
to
conduct
,
not
the
eye
,
but
the
vnderstanding
.
Neither
will
my
Reader
(
I
hope
)
hold
himselfe
deceiued
,
if
Sadnesse
alone
,
and
by
it selfe
,
onely
brings
not
in
all
the
materialls
necessary
to
the
composing
of
a
perfit
man
,
and
the
framing
a
happinesse
to
the
full
extent
of
our
earthly
condition
:
for
such
an
extract
is
not
to
be
drawne
,
from
a
knowledge
so
ouer-clowded
as
mine
,
let
it
suffice
then
and
it
will
:
(
my
indifferent
Iudge
)
that
it
is
of
so
much
vse
and
importance
,
as
though
with
it
onely
you
cannot
make
this
purchase
,
yet
without
it
,
if
it
be
not
impossible
,
yet
at
least
most
difficult
,
and
withall
,
that
though
the
soule
in
her
reuoluings
and
trauels
,
may
meet
those
solid
considerations
,
that
are
most
like
her selfe
,
wherein
as
in
a
glasse
she
beholds
her
own
beauties
:
yet
are
they
transitory
,
and
but
the
flashes
of
her
agitation
:
the
habituall
possession
of
the
graces
of
the
mind
,
being
to
be
fixed
vpon
no
body
,
that
Sadnesse
hath
not
first
prepared
.
This
made
so
many
of
the
Ancients
,
and
of
those
most
memorable
,
for
the
excellencies
of
the
minde
:
some
to
throw
away
their
wealth
,
others
to
refuse
riches
,
the
graces
of
Princes
,
and
the
fauour
of
the
people
:
others
pull
out
their
owne
eyes
,
and
some
to
abandon
the
society
of
man
;
and
euen
he
that
might
truliest
be
intituled
,
Deliciae
humani
generis
,
he
that
had
the
attribute
,
Alexander
in
the
excesse
of
abundance
,
killed
Clytus
,
Fabritius
in
his
pouerty
,
refused
the
golden
bribes
of
the
Samnites
;
vpon
abundance
waits
mirth
and
pleasure
,
and
vpon
them
all
,
the
leprosies
and
deformities
of
our
minds
.
There
is
not
so
incorrigible
a
creature
as
man
in
prosperity
,
nor
so
modest
and
reformed
as
they
that
Fortune
hath
not
rockt
but
wak't
,
the
consequence
of
which
being
Mirth
and
Sadnesse
:
behold
them
in
their
operations
,
and
wee
must
reiect
the
one
,
as
a
most
dangerous
poyson
,
and
imbrace
the
other
,
for
the
most
precious
preseruatiue
.
If
yet
I
haue
not
proued
Sadnesse
,
instruction
it selfe
:
yet
I
hope
she
doth
not
look
with
so
disfigured
a
countenance
,
as
when
Opinion
paints
her
:
and
though
I
cannot
say
,
she
is
the
end
of
knowledge
,
yet
I
may
well
maintaine
her
the
beginning
:
since
it
is
Sadnesse
onely
that
prepares
the
vnderstanding
,
and
makes
euery
man
,
Idoneus
auditor
,
fit
to
philosophize
,
and
to
be
disciples
in
the
schoole
of
Vertue
.
If
now
it
be
determined
and
truely
,
that
the
graces
and
beauties
of
the
soule
,
ought
to
haue
the
place
and
honour
,
aboue
those
of
the
body
:
and
the
sweetnes
,
beauty
and
louely
proportion
of
the
body
,
to
be
preferred
before
the
effeminate
deckings
,
that
the
body
doth
rather
carry
then
enioy
:
since
it
often
happens
,
that
a
foule
and
deformed
carkase
hath
a
faire
and
rich
wardrop
:
and
if
all
these
in
their
originall
estimations
,
were
first
valued
,
not
for
their
owne
sakes
,
but
as
the
Ambassadours
of
those
inward
qualities
and
excellencies
,
that
such
complections
,
shapes
,
and
proportions
,
inseparably
fore-shew
:
Sadnesse
,
I
doubt
not
,
both
for
her
outward
louelinesse
,
and
inward
vertue
and
vse
,
will
be
allowed
for
an
adornement
,
First
then
,
though
I
am
not
ignorant
,
these
merry
companions
are
the
most
acceptable
to
the
most
:
yet
not
alwayes
to
the
best
,
and
if
they
be
at
times
welcome
to
the
vnderstanding
sort
,
To
conclude
,
if
one
of
the
greatest
Philosophers
determined
silence
,
a
more
excellent
quality
then
eloquence
:
I
haue
the
ayd
of
his
authority
,
since
Sadnesse
is
the
seate
of
silence
,
where
shee
onely
resides
in
safety
,
and
where
without
all
noyse
,
trouble
or
tumult
,
she
enioyes
the
intelligence
and
contemplations
of
the
soule
:
which
the
children
of
mirth
cannot
heare
;
for
their
owne
noyse
:
nor
taste
,
their
mouthes
are
so
furd
with
bodily
pleasures
.
And
now
I
will
appeale
to
the
eye
,
if
these
ligniaments
and
features
of
Sadnesse
,
be
not
more
goodly
and
becomming
then
those
of
mirth
:
surely
if
they
be
not
more
delightfull
,
they
are
more
contenting
:
the
difference
of
which
,
I
refer
to
the
Iudiciall
,
and
to
those
that
valew
things
by
their
neerenesse
,
and
resemblance
of
those
of
Heauen
.
Lastly
,
for
gouernment
,
though
the
world
be
not
made
of
Attomes
,
yet
the
body
of
mans
reputation
,
is
the
concurrence
of
his
speeches
,
actions
and
passions
:
which
ought
to
aduise
all
men
,
not
to
neglect
the
least
motion
,
either
of
mind
or
body
:
lest
it
fastens
a
deformity
vpon
all
:
shall
we
expect
this
from
mirth
?
it
were
in
vaine
,
and
to
prescribe
it
,
were
lost
labour
;
it
is
composed
wholly
of
contrarieties
:
for
take
a
quantity
of
idle
breath
,
sublimated
into
a
iest
,
a
proportion
of
laughter
,
some
mimicke
trickes
,
either
of
the
face
or
the
body
,
and
boyle
them
so
thorowly
in
wine
,
that
you
cannot
know
one
from
another
,
and
you
haue
the
most
receiued
receit
of
mirth
:
but
who
will
vndertake
to
giue
assurance
,
that
this
inspired
crue
,
shall
not
violate
the
dignity
of
men
:
and
so
gouerne
themselues
,
that
shame
and
derision
shall
not
haue
more
right
to
them
,
then
they
to
themselues
?
Vlisses
dranke
of
Circes
cuppe
,
and
was
not
transformed
:
the
morall
is
,
a
wise
man
may
wash
his
mouth
,
but
not
quench
his
thirst
,
with
pleasure
:
for
,
he
that
aymes
onely
at
mirth
and
pleasure
,
hits
sorrow
and
repentance
;
as
well
because
it
makes
him
rash
and
inconsiderate
in
his
courses
,
when
to
buy
mirth
,
he
sells
all
the
respects
and
duties
that
hee
owes
to
inestimable
vertue
,
and
his
owne
preseruation
:
as
that
it
being
to
the
mind
,
as
a
stoaue
to
the
body
,
that
so
opens
the
pores
,
as
the
least
ayre
giues
a
blow
to
the
health
,
so
the
least
aduersity
or
frowne
of
fortune
,
deiects
their
minds
,
and
layes
them
open
,
either
to
a
rauening
fury
,
or
a
base
bewayling
:
wherfore
he
that
will
not
seale
the
worst
of
sorrow
,
let
him
beware
of
deuoting
himselfe
to
mirth
,
for
they
only
feele
the
water
intolerable
cold
,
that
goe
into
it
extraordinary
hot
.
The
Philosophers
that
imposed
silence
vpon
their
Schollers
for
their
first
instruction
,
could
intend
nothing
else
,
but
the
settling
and
composing
the
mind
:
from
whence
ariseth
that
habite
of
Sadnesse
,
that
gaue
them
power
of
themselues
;
and
withall
of
all
things
that
came
within
the
bounds
of
their
knowledge
:
if
not
to
gaine
by
,
yet
not
to
lose
.
To
what
end
should
I
produce
the
witnesse
of
many
famous
ancients
,
from
whome
scarce
a
smile
was
euer
drawne
,
and
yet
were
such
,
as
neuer
lost
oppurtunity
;
that
presented
it selfe
,
to
do
others
good
,
or
themselues
right
:
nor
euer
lost
that
power
,
force
,
and
tranquillity
of
their
owne
minds
,
in
any
of
Fortunes
transmutations
,
that
is
wont
so
to
ouercome
the
reason
of
men
,
as
like
transformed
creatures
,
there
can
bee
nothing
more
different
then
them
to
themselues
?
Neither
will
I
authorize
my
opinion
,
by
the
example
of
our
blessed
Sauiour
,
who
was
neuer
seene
to
laugh
:
nor
Salomons
sacred
counsell
,
that
it
was
better
to
go
to
the
house
of
mourning
,
then
mirth
,
lest
the
worldly
man
,
that
makes
prouision
only
for
the
building
of
his
Babel
,
cast
me
off
as
an
vnseasonable
and
impertinent
counsellor
:
though
it
shal
then
(
gentle
Reader
)
insensibly
,
and
without
thy
trouble
prepare
thee
for
the
best
worke
of
thy
life
,
which
is
the
life
eternall
:
yet
whilest
thou
wilt
be
attentiue
to
thy
temporall
imployments
,
it
is
also
of
most
effectuall
importance
.
Desirest
thou
to
be
reputed
wise
?
It
is
her
visiblest
forme
;
not
to
bee
importuned
with
vaine
and
idle
company
?
they
feare
Sadnes
too
much
to
follow
thee
.
To
bee
the
safe
Cabinet
of
thy
owne
and
thy
friends
secrets
?
Sadnesse
is
the
parent
of
silence
,
silence
of
secrecy
.
To
be
temperate
?
where
Sadnesse
is
Porter
,
few
vaine
desires
are
admitted
.
Not
to
bee
precipitate
in
thy
actions
?
Where
Sadnesse
keepes
the
lists
of
consideration
,
alwaies
cleere
and
free
,
from
the
intrusions
of
passion
,
the
soule
cannot
but
gouerne
all
things
by
the
regular
and
iudiciall
power
of
reason
,
as
shee
that
knowes
time
call
to
consultations
,
shuts
out
repentance
.
In
a
word
,
if
there
be
any
way
to
be
troad
in
by
our
feete
of
clay
,
we
are
out
of
the
reach
of
Fortune
,
out
of
the
power
of
our
passions
,
and
in
the
full
possession
of
our selues
,
wee
may
liue
in
a
continuall
calme
:
where
from
the
height
of
a
cleere
&
impregnable
iudgement
,
wee
may
safely
and
insensibly
behold
the
world
,
by
this
time
so
farre
vnder
vs
,
as
all
such
vaine
desires
,
as
had
wont
to
make
vs
suiters
and
followers
to
her
,
haue
lost
sight
of
their
inamored
obiects
,
it
is
by
the
way
of
Sadnesse
:
who
doth
not
alone
inrich
vs
by
that
it
brings
,
but
preserues
vs
so
by
keeping
out
all
inordinate
appetites
,
distempered
affections
,
and
those
humors
of
bloud
and
opinion
,
who
where
they
are
fauoured
,
do
vsually
destroy
and
expell
,
not
onely
all
honest
and
vertuous
actions
,
but
euen
the
very
thoughts
that
doe
but
seeme
to
be
well
affected
.
Thus
haue
I
(
good
Reader
)
presented
to
thy
acquaintance
the
sweetest
,
and
best
conditioned
companion
of
the
life
of
man
,
which
if
you
will
but
beleeue
vpon
tryall
,
I
desire
no
more
:
be
not
seduced
by
opinion
,
and
thou
maist
bee
as
happie
as
this
world
can
make
thee
:
for
though
the
outward
power
makes
men
great
,
yet
is
the
inward
,
that
makes
men
vertuous
,
and
vertue
onely
that
produceth
a
happinesse
,
that
can
indure
the
test
of
all
times
and
changes
.
Neither
must
I
omit
to
answere
them
that
would
hide
their
base
choice
in
the
confusion
of
words
,
and
so
will
haue
their
mirth
to
be
ioy
;
but
he
is
worse
then
blind
that
knowes
them
not
a
sunder
,
mirth
being
rather
an
apish
vnquietnesse
,
then
a
solide
contentment
:
besides
,
it
liues
not
of
it selfe
,
it
depends
vpon
fortune
,
vpon
time
,
health
,
and
many
outward
accidents
;
and
liues
but
vpon
borrowing
,
whereas
ioy
being
as
the
shadow
of
vertue
,
or
the
effect
of
the
inward
and
inseparable
cause
of
a
good
life
,
is
neuer
from
home
,
neuer
in
a
cloude
,
neuer
subiect
to
alteration
,
alwayes
one
,
and
therefore
not
only
alwaies
happie
,
but
therefore
happinesse
it selfe
:
and
yet
to
make
the
difference
more
apparant
,
behold
their
pictures
drawne
by
two
excellent
Masters
,
res
seuera
est
verum
gaudium
,
which
if
Sadnesse
resembles
not
more
liuely
then
mirth
,
let
your
iudgement
determine
,
and
now
for
mirth
,
I
am
sure
this
was
made
,
it
is
so
like
her
,
risu
inepto
,
res
ineptior
nulla
est
;
if
you
define
mirth
without
laughing
,
you
speake
of
somewhat
els
,
and
leaue
your
errand
behind
you
,
but
it
hath
been
so
often
determined
,
that
they
are
so
farre
from
all
one
,
as
they
are
not
so
much
as
alike
:
as
further
to
labour
in
so
manifest
a
truth
,
will
rather
obscure
,
then
inlighten
it
.
I
will
then
include
this
question
in
this
definitiue
sentence
,
falso
de
laetitia
opinantur
siquidem
ab
vtrisque
gaudio
scilicet
&
natura
,
diuersa
est
,
it
hath
not
onely
lost
the
challenge
to
ioy
,
but
to
nature
;
hee
then
that
drew
man
within
the
compasse
of
animal
risibile
,
was
rather
a
confessor
to
good
companions
,
then
a
wise
suruey
or
of
the
little
world
of
man
.
And
now
to
conclude
,
if
thou
hast
but
Melancholy
enough
to
suspend
thy
opinion
,
whatsoeuer
thou
art
,
thou
hast
me
in
the
power
of
thy
censure
:
I
doubt
not
but
you
shall
bee
beholding
to
your
iudgement
,
to
free
mee
from
the
heresie
of
Paradoxes
.
If
some
other
thinke
,
that
I
haue
restrained
the
liberty
of
man
,
in
commending
Sadnesse
vnto
him
:
let
him
know
,
I
haue
not
determined
it
the
end
,
but
the
way
onely
;
an
entry
or
passage
,
that
of
the
other
side
,
hath
a
world
much
more
spacious
and
pleasant
,
then
that
of
this
side
,
comprehended
by
mirth
:
which
is
little
,
poore
and
transitory
:
if
yet
there
be
some
that
will
bring
this
euidence
for
their
libertie
,
Laetitia
tuuenem
,
fraus
decet
tristis
senem
,
it
is
but
like
a
licence
to
eate
flesh
in
Lent
,
for
them
that
are
weake
and
sickly
;
or
like
a
lawe
that
prohibited
all
persons
to
weare
gay
clothes
,
and
Iewels
,
but
players
and
curtisans
:
which
was
then
taken
for
a
marke
of
scorne
,
not
for
a
priuiledge
of
grace
and
aduantage
:
which
if
they
shall
please
to
take
so
too
,
they
shall
haue
the
lesse
to
answere
for
,
and
I
shall
neither
haue
lost
my
labour
,
nor
their
fauour
:
if
not
,
I
must
yet
challenge
the
allowance
of
the
wisest
,
which
are
the
oldest
,
who
if
they
should
yeeld
to
an
extreme
,
would
rather
ratifie
that
Philosopher
that
euer
wept
,
then
this
that
tooke
no
more
pittie
of
himselfe
,
and
of
the
madnes
of
mankind
,
then
to
spend
his
life
in
laughter
.
FINIS
.
THE
PRAYSE
OF
the
Emperour
Iulian
the
APOSTATA
:
His
Princely
vertues
,
and
finall
Apostacie
.
I
Dare
not
affirme
him
temperate
,
that
shuns
surfets
;
nor
him
graue
,
that
despiseth
lightnesse
;
nor
him
valiant
,
that
loues
to
conuerse
with
danger
:
It
is
no
precious
thing
,
my
opinion
,
and
yet
I
am
afraid
to
spend
it
:
let
Physicians
,
a
Gods
name
,
be
thought
trim
fellowes
for
determining
of
the
liues
of
men
,
as
if
they
had
come
yesterday
from
the
Fates
;
for
my
part
,
except
I
may
haue
leaue
to
passe
through
the
inside
of
them
,
I
can
say
nothing
:
for
all
these
are
no
more
a
kin
to
Vertue
,
then
basenesse
may
challenge
of
Nobility
,
because
their
names
sound
alike
:
it
being
not
Temperance
,
not
grauity
,
not
Fortitude
;
except
the
cause
that
moues
these
effects
,
bee
vertues
.
The
World
affoords
not
a
more
apt
example
then
this
Emperour
,
the
Historie
of
whose
life
is
full
of
so
many
excellent
things
,
as
hardly
he
that
is
a
votary
against
the
world
,
and
hath
nothing
to
thinke
of
,
but
keeping
his
vow
,
may
equall
him
in
all
these
outward
apparances
,
that
fauourable
iudgements
call
the
way
to
heauen
;
but
in
the
depth
of
impiety
;
againe
,
not
the
most
reprobate
,
First
,
let
me
not
be
condemned
for
my
Subiect
:
he
was
an
ill
man
,
that
was
his
losse
,
but
this
ill
was
only
ill
at
the
iourneyes
end
;
for
most
of
his
actions
were
good
here
,
and
had
been
good
for
euer
,
if
they
had
not
serued
an
ill
master
:
but
at
the
worst
,
Vertue
is
not
so
proud
as
not
to
extract
what
may
bee
made
good
,
out
of
ill
for
there
is
a
spirit
in
vice
,
that
being
cunningly
drawne
out
,
will
serue
euen
the
best
:
so
ful
it
is
of
a
quick
and
peircing
vigour
:
he
hath
a
poore
Library
to
behold
,
that
reades
onely
the
good
;
let
him
turne
ouer
all
,
that
desires
to
bee
profound
;
let
him
earne
Vertue
with
digging
it
out
of
vice
,
and
he
will
keepe
it
the
better
:
let
him
fetch
it
out
of
the
entrals
of
ill
,
that
will
glory
of
his
conquest
;
from
those
soft
ministers
of
the
mind
,
the
Arts
which
make
the
soule
read
to
the
body
,
and
make
practice
but
a
slight
,
through
the
minds
foreknowledge
.
This
Prince
came
to
the
managing
Armes
,
not
with
such
a
people
whose
weakenesse
was
fit
to
nourish
a
nouice
,
but
with
those
fierce
and
warlike
;
yet
was
he
victorious
,
and
made
those
that
were
wont
to
be
feared
,
feare
:
Qui
alijs
terrore
esse
consueuerat
,
ipsum
sibi
timere
coegit
:
who
allowes
not
of
such
an
excellent
beginning
?
When
I
heare
of
any
great
Souldier
,
I
aske
his
age
,
when
if
old
,
it
takes
away
mine
admiration
;
for
vpon
a
wise
minority
I
looke
with
greatest
affection
:
But
here
comes
a
priuy
token
to
know
intents
by
,
Sed
haec
laus
etiam
miserrima
ambitionis
labe
contaminata
est
,
cum
se
Augustum
salutari
voluit
:
so
greedy
are
those
minds
that
intend
onely
to
serue
their
owne
turne
;
no
sooner
haue
they
attained
to
an
atchieuement
commendable
,
but
they
enforce
prayses
out
of
the
mouthes
of
men
;
they
will
swagger
for
titles
and
respect
;
yea
,
it
becomes
Lord
,
euen
of
themselues
;
for
reason
of
more
waight
,
that
in
another
mans
case
should
haue
preuailed
,
with
the
eyes
of
ambition
seemes
dwarfish
,
weake
,
and
little
.
That
wise
and
warlike
seruant
to
the
kingdome
of
Spaine
,
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of
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the
Duke
of
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hath
much
of
his
glory
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,
by
an
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Don
Antonio
Prior
of
Crato
,
commonly
called
the
King
of
Portugall
.
Prior
of
Crato
would
haue
come
to
a
good
composition
:
but
hee
would
not
heare
of
it
,
because
it
could
not
haue
bin
then
said
,
he
conquered
Portugal
with
the
sword
:
of
such
a
valew
were
a
few
idle
words
,
as
his
masters
profit
and
his
own
truth
were
thought
things
meete
to
giue
place
to
this
wind
,
to
this
nothing
:
But
behold
how
Fortune
sometimes
playes
the
same
part
that
wisedome
doth
,
and
brings
a
succesfull
end
to
false
beginnings
:
Vnde
bellum
ciuile
atrocissimum
esset
consecutum
,
nisi
mors
pene
repentina
constantium
ante
sustulisset
:
thus
doth
that
blinde
guide
make
arguments
to
ouerthrow
iudgement
:
thus
vpon
the
death
of
Alexander
de
medicis
,
Cosimo
was
inthroned
,
being
scarce
out
of
the
downe
of
his
childhood
,
without
much
paine
or
study
,
that
had
cost
his
predecessors
much
trouble
,
much
care
:
so
doth
it
please
the
diuine
wisedome
,
to
demonstrate
to
mortall
eyes
their
impotency
;
for
it
is
hee
,
there
is
no
fortune
,
it
is
hee
that
makes
those
things
that
seeme
to
haue
idle
beginnings
,
proue
profitable
at
the
end
.
Both
these
examples
,
though
in
some
things
different
,
yet
agree
in
the
demonstrating
:
those
things
that
wee
vnderstand
not
,
and
therefore
call
chances
,
haue
often
as
faire
an
end
as
things
proposed
;
which
is
the
will
of
heauen
to
teach
vs
earthlings
,
that
our
purposes
cannot
go
whither
they
are
commanded
,
without
his
pleasure
.
At
his
Coronation
,
After
his
possession
of
the
Empire
,
hee
inuaded
Persia
,
drawne
the
more
willingly
,
by
a
perswasion
,
that
his
body
had
gotten
Alexander
his
soule
,
and
should
haue
his
successe
.
Good
Lord
,
into
what
vncertaine
and
ridiculous
imaginations
are
they
led
,
that
haue
not
the
anchor-hold
of
Religion
!
Went
it
no
further
,
then
this
,
it
were
most
precious
,
for
it
keepes
our
thoughts
in
good
order
,
which
otherwise
would
make
vs
all
as
wilde
as
mad-men
:
for
we
bred
Monsters
and
mis-shapen
things
in
our
braine
,
which
did
not
the
conscience
reduce
into
fashion
(
which
conscience
is
the
childe
of
Diuinity
)
wee
should
not
touch
one
another
for
feare
of
breaking
:
but
sometime
such
a
perswasion
carrieth
higher
and
handsomer
then
euer
meant
,
inforcing
imitation
.
I
knew
once
a
fellow
,
meane
enough
,
and
as
meanly
qualited
,
being
sayd
to
be
like
a
great
man
,
began
to
ingender
stirring
thoughts
,
of
spirit
,
of
well
doing
,
and
,
at
the
last
,
arriued
at
the
pitch
of
an
indifferent
worthy
fellow
;
but
within
a
while
this
must
be
cast
off
.
It
is
not
amisse
at
the
first
to
giue
children
plummes
for
learning
their
lesson
,
but
afterwards
they
must
loue
learning
for
knowledges
sake
,
these
for
vertues
.
Of
the
happinesse
of
his
perfections
,
and
then
of
his
imperfections
:
his
temperance
Seneca
,
Frons
nostra
,
populo
conueniat
,
and
after
more
thorowly
,
Id
agamus
,
vt
meliorem
vitam
sequamur
quam
vulgus
,
non
vt
contrariam
:
I
am
glad
yet
that
Seneca's
time
was
troubled
with
these
inke-horne
Bragards
,
as
well
as
wee
.
vtile
&
honestum
with
them
,
and
vs
,
is
not
all
one
,
our
states
and
our
professions
differ
,
and
all
one
instrument
will
not
serue
vs
.
IVLIANS
Dialogue
of
the
Caesars
.
It
is
not
my
maner
to
be
busie
about
the
maner
of
the
feast
,
the
place
,
nor
other
circumstances
,
let
it
suffice
the
Author
makes
Romulus
inuite
his
successours
to
a
feast
,
at
whose
entrance
Sylenus
,
Iupiters
buffone
hits
them
where
they
were
left
vnarmed
by
Vertue
.
I
promise
neither
method
nor
antiquitie
;
but
after
my
fashion
thus
:
Iulius
Caesar
enters
,
of
whom
Sylenus
bids
Iupiter
beware
,
lest
he
plots
his
deposing
;
for
hee
is
(
sayth
hee
)
great
and
fayre
;
thus
dangerous
is
the
neighbour-hood
of
Ambition
:
Then
Tiberius
with
a
graue
&
cruel
countenance
,
After
Silenus
assaults
his
abominable
life
in
the
Iland
Caprea
,
in
no
life
doe
the
blemishes
of
life
appeare
so
visibly
as
in
Princes
,
whose
height
and
power
,
as
it
may
do
much
,
so
is
it
most
obserued
.
I
wonder
hee
lets
him
scape
for
Seianus
,
his
doting
vpon
whom
,
was
much
more
impardonable
then
the
simple
Claudius
,
because
the
former
professed
craft
,
the
other
alwaies
gouerned
by
smocks
and
slaues
.
At
Claudius
entrance
It
had
been
a
good
time
for
Sylenus
,
to
haue
asked
this
,
what
it
was
he
repented
him
of
,
whether
it
were
his
louing
his
brothers
wife
to
wed
,
or
not
,
hating
his
brother
inough
,
or
else
his
fearing
the
people
,
more
then
louing
Berenice
.
Domitian
Debere
vnumquemque
suis
fortunis
acquiescere
,
a
speech
fit
for
a
warme
chamber
,
and
no
businesse
,
questionlesse
he
sought
not
the
Empire
,
but
the
Empire
him
:
so
doe
the
Fates
or
chance
,
or
if
you
will
,
more
high
and
certaine
powers
constitute
ignorant
men
in
high
places
,
to
distemper
all
,
to
giue
after
the
more
grace
to
the
reorderer
.
There
follows
more
,
but
I
will
not
follow
all
,
nor
stand
vpon
the
Authors
Poetry
,
or
by-speeches
,
I
write
vpon
him
,
not
him
out
,
they
that
will
haue
it
more
orderly
,
were
best
goe
thither
for
it
.
Comparison
betweene
Alexander
and
Caesar
.
NOw
to
the
comparison
betweene
Alexander
and
Caesar
:
Caesar
loued
a
wench
,
as
well
as
Alexander
wine
,
both
faults
,
but
which
most
dangerous
disputable
,
they
both
impaire
the
vnderstanding
,
the
one
with
laying
too
much
vpon
the
head
,
the
other
with
taking
too
much
from
the
head
:
wine
drownes
reason
,
lust
prefers
his
wench
before
the
World
:
in
wine
Alexander
killed
Clytus
,
Caesar
proclaimes
loue
letters
in
the
Senate
:
both
breaches
likely
to
waste
authority
,
but
which
of
them
most
dangerous
,
I
leaue
to
the
censurers
,
both
of
them
doubtlesse
full
of
danger
,
for
they
are
the
priuy
gates
,
whereat
Conspirators
get
entrance
.
More
early
did
Alexander
begin
to
busie
fame
,
but
that
was
his
fortune
.
Caesar
more
worthily
,
if
not
at
last
vnworthily
;
for
,
hee
ouerthrew
the
hinderance
of
a
meane
state
,
and
made
way
through
the
obscurity
of
his
birth
,
which
he
confesseth
difficult
.
Difficilius
se
principem
ciuitatis
a
primo
ordine
in
secundum
,
quam
a
secundo
in
nouissimum
detrudi
;
how
he
did
this
deserues
note
:
I
find
all
his
actions
,
euen
his
youngest
,
to
be
carried
with
great
maiesty
,
and
an
intent
to
lay
the
foundation
of
a
reuerend
opinion
of
him
in
the
harts
of
men
;
his
behauiour
amongst
the
Pirats
was
one
,
the
refusing
the
friendship
of
Lepidus
another
,
he
being
the
author
of
restoring
the
Tribunes
office
:
these
for
example
,
vpon
which
time
will
not
suffer
me
to
worke
my
will
,
the
wise
obseruer
may
for
me
,
and
gaine
by
it
.
Alexander
was
not
idle
in
his
childs
age
,
his
managing
Bucephalus
,
argued
courage
;
his
vse
of
Embassadors
,
wisedome
;
the
denying
to
run
without
Kings
,
maiestie
:
but
these
were
beautified
with
being
the
actions
of
a
Prince
,
for
they
would
not
become
Caesar
halfe
so
well
,
because
a
priuate
man
;
that
Caesar
wept
at
the
sight
of
Alexanders
picture
,
is
no
aduantage
,
for
he
had
the
ods
of
him
by
birth
:
then
both
were
happy
,
in
not
hauing
the
first
growth
of
their
indeuours
,
ouer-driped
by
men
already
great
;
Greece
at
this
time
,
not
hauing
any
great
Souldier
.
Caesar
in
his
first
Consulship
,
being
matched
with
a
heauy
fellow
,
that
not
able
to
keep
way
with
his
swiftnesse
,
and
strength
of
his
spirit
,
gaue
him
leaue
to
manage
all
matters
alone
,
whereupon
his
two
names
serued
for
the
names
of
both
the
Consuls
,
Nonnulli
vrbanorum
cum
quid
per
iocum
testandi
gratia
signarent
,
non
Caesare
&
Bibulo
,
sed
Iulio
&
Caesare
Consule
actum
scriberent
:
they
tried
how
the
world
would
like
their
authorities
,
by
two
different
meanes
.
Alexander
an
absolute
Prince
inuaded
Greece
,
by
which
hee
made
them
vnderstand
that
his
youth
deserued
not
contempt
,
and
brought
them
to
be
assistants
in
the
wars
against
Persia
.
Caesar
lower
,
but
no
lesse
politikely
,
he
tooke
the
occasion
of
his
daughters
death
,
and
in
an
office
of
affection
presented
the
people
with
pleasures
and
nouelties
:
munus
populo
aepulumque
pronuntiauit
in
filiae
memoriam
,
quod
ante
eum
nemo
fecit
;
this
was
a
taste
of
their
likings
,
a
loue
letter
of
an
Amorist
,
which
if
taken
,
more
wil
be
taken
:
Caesar
seems
in
the
difficulty
of
their
conquests
the
worthier
,
no
nation
of
Alexanders
being
comparable
,
either
to
the
Gaules
or
Heluetians
,
but
in
the
vpshot
alike
,
both
the
Persian
&
Pompey
being
greater
in
reputation
then
truth
:
they
did
well
,
as
long
as
they
went
with
the
tyde
:
it
was
the
generation
long
before
spent
,
that
made
the
Persian
diademe
shine
with
Imperiall
title
,
the
vigor
of
necessity
,
that
is
wont
to
moue
magnanimity
,
was
taken
away
,
and
now
left
an
ouerflowing
of
fortune
,
which
makes
men
degenerate
and
become
slothfull
.
Pompey
became
great
by
the
trauels
of
Lucullus
and
others
;
neither
his
managing
the
ciuil
wars
was
as
it
should
be
,
nor
his
aduersity
rightly
managed
;
so
that
,
me
thinks
,
beholding
him
,
I
behold
nothing
but
a
bubble
of
fortunes
:
for
their
particular
valours
,
they
were
both
valiant
,
in
their
military
discipline
,
they
differed
,
which
might
be
by
the
difference
of
their
aduersaries
,
nature
and
country
:
in
the
speciall
point
of
Armes
they
agreed
,
to
encounter
the
hearts
of
men
,
as
well
as
bodies
.
Therfore
did
Alexander
deny
Parmenio
the
inuading
his
enemies
by
night
,
answering
the
conquests
of
their
hearts
generally
,
not
of
a
particular
army
was
the
way
:
the
Empire
of
Persia
being
aboundant
in
men
,
could
neuer
haue
bin
ouercome
,
if
their
discourse
could
haue
laid
the
Macedonian
conquests
vpon
any
accident
,
but
then
vanquished
,
when
feare
should
make
them
superstitiously
adde
,
to
the
valour
of
their
enemies
,
and
think
basely
of
their
owne
strengths
:
not
thus
,
but
to
the
same
purpose
,
Caesar
neuer
misliked
the
multitude
of
his
enemies
,
difficulty
being
euer
a
spurre
to
his
actions
.
That
humor
that
Caesar
possest
his
Souldiers
with
,
at
the
scorning
life
at
the
hands
of
Caesars
enemies
,
I
find
not
in
Alexanders
,
yet
had
he
one
of
the
chiefe
instigators
,
the
being
stil
a
Conqueror
;
for
had
Caesar
sometimes
lost
,
they
would
haue
growne
weary
.
This
branch
came
first
from
the
root
of
successe
,
seconded
by
some
gallant
spirits
of
Caesars
side
,
emulated
by
their
followers
,
rewarded
by
Caesar
;
both
held
the
hearts
of
the
souldiers
by
liberality
,
the
onely
meanes
to
make
them
apt
for
great
matters
,
and
his
meanes
that
attempts
great
matters
,
that
which
wee
call
the
common
good
,
this
is
a
chiefe
limbe
of
,
the
ingrossing
which
alienates
the
harts
of
subiects
more
then
any
thing
,
and
with
those
natures
that
must
feele
the
effects
of
vertue
,
with
their
hand
:
no
doubt
liberality
makes
them
daring
,
the
contrary
,
Cowards
:
Alexander
maintained
this
honestest
,
thankes
to
his
Patrimony
:
for
a
spirit
that
aimes
at
so
great
matters
,
cannot
determine
those
things
dishonest
that
are
any
thing
auaileable
.
Suetonius
sayth
of
Caesar
,
Vrbes
diruit
saepius
ob
praedam
quam
delictum
,
an
impardonable
fault
,
for
though
fury
,
smart
,
or
rapine
may
carry
the
common
Souldier
past
the
bounds
of
reason
;
yet
should
the
Generals
minde
be
still
one
,
and
behold
nothing
with
so
much
loue
as
iustice
,
but
this
was
the
violence
of
Ambition
,
who
dares
displease
right
,
then
her
assistants
.
Caesar
,
after
his
victories
,
vsed
to
giue
his
souldiers
an
accustomed
liberty
,
a
president
for
all
the
successe
dangerous
,
for
of
all
rewards
and
incouragements
,
libertie
is
the
most
dangerous
to
the
giuer
.
Contrariwise
,
Alexander
then
curbed
his
Souldiers
,
doubting
insolency
,
the
destinate
disease
of
successe
,
which
he
did
by
giuing
education
to
the
Persian
youth
,
and
after
imploying
them
,
a
designe
full
of
wisedome
,
for
his
conquests
hauing
layd
all
things
at
her
feete
,
they
had
no
need
of
his
direction
,
but
hee
of
their
loyalties
,
which
had
they
found
,
and
found
before
his
possession
of
other
strengths
,
doubtlesse
they
would
haue
made
him
their
slaue
,
that
counted
himselfe
Monarch
of
the
World
:
but
this
I
find
it
discommodious
,
to
rely
vpon
one
assistant
,
for
two
are
not
so
likely
to
fayle
as
one
;
and
to
say
truth
,
both
will
be
the
more
true
,
because
they
are
two
.
Equally
did
they
subiect
their
bodies
to
rayse
their
reputations
,
they
knew
the
force
of
example
,
and
restrayned
appetite
for
honours
sake
.
Alexander
would
not
adde
to
the
thirst
of
his
companions
,
with
the
quenching
of
his
owne
.
Caesar
in
a
straight
lodging
gaue
his
friends
the
house
,
and
lay
himself
in
the
ayre
;
I
cannot
say
in
the
cold
,
for
he
that
is
wrapt
in
the
fiery
thoughts
of
ambition
,
cannot
feele
heate
nor
cold
,
nor
any
of
these
distemperatures
:
it
is
idlenesse
that
betraies
vs
to
the
opinion
of
aches
and
infirmities
;
for
he
that
imploies
his
minde
,
carrieth
his
body
about
without
feeling
the
burthen
:
the
vse
of
these
is
an
excellent
remedy
against
enuy
,
meane
fortunes
thinking
greatnesse
,
loues
greatnesse
to
nourish
delicacy
;
but
this
is
disproued
by
partaking
with
their
extremities
.
Both
intertained
a
sweetnesse
of
nature
in
bewayling
the
misery
or
death
of
their
enemies
,
which
,
whether
it
came
from
the
grounds
of
clemency
,
or
otherwise
to
wrap
some
other
purpose
in
,
is
hardly
to
be
discerned
,
for
there
is
no
such
counterfaiter
to
the
life
,
as
an
aspiring
disposition
:
Thus
Caesar
sate
vp
the
statues
of
Silla
and
Pompey
;
thus
Alexander
kindly
and
honestly
entertained
the
wife
and
mother
of
Darius
:
Caesar
took
to
mercy
the
relikes
of
Pompeys
ouerthrowne
Army
:
Alexander
suffered
the
mother
of
Darius
to
solemnize
the
burials
of
his
slaine
enemies
,
which
compassion
is
the
onely
balme
to
heale
vp
the
wound
of
reuenge
.
Lastly
,
Caesar
wept
at
the
sight
of
Pompeys
head
:
and
Alexander
sharply
executed
the
murtherer
of
Darius
;
In
the
first
,
I
see
how
pretily
dissimulation
can
apply
her selfe
sometimes
;
for
surely
Caesar
felt
no
remorse
in
the
hardnesse
of
his
labours
,
such
thoughts
attend
decay'd
estates
,
not
the
summer
of
fortune
.
In
the
other
,
one
death
serues
two
turnes
,
for
death
rewarded
him
,
and
death
mitigated
the
rancor
,
likely
to
spring
out
of
the
ashes
of
Darius
.
About
conspiracies
,
Alexander
spake
as
Caesar
thought
,
Satius
est
,
alieno
me
mori
scelere
,
quam
metu
meo
,
they
might
haue
liued
longer
,
if
they
had
been
of
another
minde
;
yet
I
thinke
they
chose
well
,
for
they
chose
the
easiest
:
for
feare
runnes
diuision
vpon
death
,
euery
thought
being
an
instrument
of
torment
,
at
the
end
they
meete
in
the
last
course
of
greatnesse
:
Alexander
was
a
King
,
and
would
needs
be
a
god
:
Caesar
,
because
not
a
King
,
a
King
;
thus
doe
the
baits
of
fortune
coozen
vs
,
and
stuffe
vs
with
monstrous
and
vnnatural
thoughts
;
they
dyed
both
violent
deaths
,
the
end
of
violent
ambition
:
for
who
mislikes
not
that
one
should
possesse
so
much
of
honour
,
fame
and
dominion
as
would
serue
many
?
Octauius
comes
againe
,
whose
beginning
to
speake
,
resembles
his
life
,
busie
in
the
separating
enuy
and
greatnesse
,
which
he
did
by
giuing
euery
state
a
taste
of
his
gouernment
:
by
turnes
they
felt
it
all
,
euen
the
meanest
and
youngest
,
the
surest
strengthener
of
authority
:
only
this
Prince
gaue
occasion
leaue
to
chuse
,
which
was
to
be
entertained
of
peace
or
warres
:
an
excellent
temper
,
the
which
many
of
his
Predecessors
and
Successors
had
lost
by
,
whiles
they
regarded
not
which
was
most
fit
for
their
Countries
,
but
which
was
most
fitting
their
natures
:
it
were
too
long
to
touch
all
the
particulars
of
his
life
;
let
it
suffice
,
they
all
tended
to
settle
the
troubled
estate
of
his
time
,
the
testimonies
of
dishonour
that
the
Romanes
suffered
vnder
Crassus
and
Anthonie
,
by
the
hands
of
the
Parthians
,
he
solued
,
as
much
as
the
restoring
the
military
ornaments
,
arested
by
the
Victors
might
,
which
witnesseth
wisedome
is
a
more
preuailing
assister
then
strength
;
hee
enforced
all
the
Knights
of
Rome
,
to
yeeld
an
account
of
their
liues
,
an
ordinance
,
looke
on
which
side
you
will
,
full
of
health
,
for
idlenesse
brings
barrennesse
;
his
Epistle
to
his
adopted
sonne
illustrates
another
l●mbe
of
his
wisedome
:
Noli
in
hac
re
nimium
indignari
,
quenquam
esse
qui
de
me
male
loquatur
,
&c.
These
ill
speakers
are
rather
troublesome
then
dangerous
,
an
humour
arising
rather
out
of
some
light
passion
or
wanton
gadding
of
the
tongue
,
then
from
malice
;
who
is
more
silent
,
more
full
of
poyson
;
ouer
those
care
,
but
ouer
the
other
,
neglect
is
the
best
medicine
:
he
refused
the
name
of
Dictator
,
though
his
authority
farre
exceeded
it
,
the
onely
course
to
make
greatnesse
stand
firmely
;
for
by
the
common
eye
,
names
are
more
plainely
seene
,
then
executions
,
which
silently
enioy
a
more
ample
and
safe
rule
,
then
those
that
make
their
titles
march
before
their
power
.
Our
Dialoguist
omits
some
,
and
I
some
.
Traiane
speakes
next
,
a
Prince
full
of
merits
;
especially
in
his
warlike
actions
,
but
me
thinkes
it
was
to
the
same
end
,
that
he
made
warre
vpon
a
Country
:
sed
reuera
id
bellum
suscepit
adductus
gloriae
cupiditate
;
it
often
falls
out
thus
,
and
as
often
that
our
dispositions
without
any
great
paines
giue
vs
pretty
graces
:
therefore
say
I
,
a
young
man
not
couetous
,
and
an
olde
man
no
lecher
,
deserues
neither
thanks
nor
maruell
,
but
their
exchange
doth
well
,
come
they
from
what
cause
they
will
,
they
are
well
;
he
was
an
excellent
Prince
,
and
that
title
his
subiects
gaue
him
,
optimus
cognominatus
est
,
he
deserued
it
for
he
abstained
as
much
from
depriuing
his
subiects
from
their
goods
,
as
from
vnlawfull
slaughters
,
both
the
one
and
the
other
,
the
maine
vertues
of
a
Prince
,
for
to
pill
them
,
is
no
lesse
horrible
,
then
the
tutor
of
an
Infant
to
betray
his
charge
,
the
other
is
bloudy
,
which
though
their
ielosies
thinke
the
way
of
freedome
,
they
are
deceiued
;
for
an
vniust
death
raiseth
tenne
enemies
out
of
one
:
Non
ei
vnquam
accidit
(
quod
●uenire
in
huiusmodi
solet
)
vt
millites
feroces
se
&
insolentes
praebuerint
,
as
great
a
praise
as
memory
can
giue
a
Commander
;
for
nothing
is
so
sure
an
euidence
of
a
wise
man
,
as
to
bring
his
souldiers
to
fetch
all
their
determinations
from
him
,
and
not
to
let
them
entertaine
insolency
,
when
victors
;
nor
basenesse
,
when
vanquished
;
but
still
to
reade
his
will
,
and
to
hold
that
will
a
lawe
:
hee
carefully
visited
the
wounded
,
honourably
buried
the
dead
,
marched
on
foote
with
them
,
suffered
part
of
their
extremities
.
I
like
this
better
then
the
saluting
them
commilitones
:
suffer
with
them
,
giue
them
,
care
for
them
;
but
no
fellowes
,
nor
companions
;
these
words
kill
all
the
actions
of
greatnesse
,
of
commiseration
,
of
pitie
,
with
contempt
;
for
neuer
can
one
man
play
two
parts
well
,
you
cannot
bee
their
Iudge
and
companion
;
for
this
equality
taketh
away
the
regard
of
your
sentence
:
loue
them
,
but
doe
not
play
with
them
.
Marcus
enters
,
a
slowe
wise
fellow
,
whose
opinion
was
;
non
decere
Imperatorem
,
propere
quicquam
agere
:
I
like
consideration
well
,
but
not
to
sticke
fast
vpon
a
designe
;
sure
he
was
naturally
a
dull
flegmaticke
fellow
;
and
so
was
honest
whether
he
would
or
no
,
he
sayth
little
in
this
Dialogue
,
and
little
is
sayd
to
him
;
but
only
he
was
a
wise
man
,
because
he
knew
when
to
speake
,
and
when
to
hold
his
peace
,
which
is
wisdome
,
but
the
lowest
forme
of
wisedome
:
for
the
highest
is
,
when
to
doe
and
not
to
doe
.
Post
hunc
Constantium
vt
diceret
,
admonuerunt
;
vnder
this
Prince
things
of
note
were
done
;
but
not
by
him
:
thus
search
the
diuine
natures
into
mens
actions
,
the
strength
of
whose
sight
,
is
neither
to
be
deceiued
,
nor
corrupted
;
he
rooted
out
two
Tyrants
,
not
hee
but
himselfe
the
first
,
being
weake
and
slothfull
,
two
diseases
that
make
the
thus
diseased
,
vncapable
of
great
matters
;
the
other
,
being
the
impediment
of
fortune
,
had
the
impediment
of
age
,
a
heauy
clogge
and
the
opposite
to
expedition
:
both
of
them
had
both
the
mislike
of
God
and
men
,
and
would
haue
ruined
themselues
without
helpe
:
he
was
subiect
to
delicacy
and
luxury
,
which
being
vices
vncounteruailed
with
vertue
,
made
him
reiected
of
the
gods
,
and
banished
into
the
orbe
of
the
Moone
:
the
Author
thinkes
he
enforced
not
enough
how
behouefull
these
warres
were
to
the
world
,
rooting
out
Tyrants
,
(
the
curse
of
mankinde
)
where
Caesar
and
others
made
their
ambition
destroy
their
Country-men
,
and
subuert
their
Common-wealths
;
the
rest
,
or
at
least
many
of
them
,
picking
quarrels
with
their
neighbours
to
feed
their
owne
insatiable
appetite
:
Si
quis
sinus
obditus
vltra
,
si
qua
foret
tellus
quae
fuluum
mittere
aurum
,
hostis
erat
;
but
others
faults
mend
not
his
,
and
perhaps
it
was
his
enemies
that
made
his
quarrell
good
,
for
be
they
neuer
so
worthy
,
ambitious
Princes
will
finde
causes
to
be
troublesome
.