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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12220	Essayes or rather, Encomions prayses of sadnesse: and of the emperour Iulian the Apostata. By Sir William Cornewallis, the younger knight.	Cornwallis, William, Sir, d. 1631?	1616 (1616)	STC 5778; ESTC S105079	38,445	91

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 obseruatiō 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