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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14277	The blazon of iealousie· A subiect not written of by any heretofore· First written in Italian, by that learned gentleman Benedetto Varchi, sometimes Lord Chauncelor vnto the Signorie of Venice: and translated into English, with speciall notes vpon the same; by R.T. Gentleman.; Lettura sopra un sonetto della gelosia di mons. Dalla Casa. English	Varchi, Benedetto, 1503-1565.; Tofte, Robert, 1561-1620. aut	1615 (1615)	STC 24593; ESTC S119026	72,936	79

owne power created all things and as another saith excellent well God is beyond fraile sense to comprehend Hee first beganne All and of All is End b Amongst other laudable customes vsed among the better sort of learned Gentlemen in Italy their priuate Exercises called ACADEMIES are most commendable and praise-worthy of which the INTRONATI of Sienna the INFIAMMATI of Padoa the GELOSI of Rome the PAZZI the ZOPPI and such like are of most fame and note the manner whereof is after this sort A certaine number of Gentlemen the best Schollers and Courtiers of such Cities where they enhabit draw themselues into a Societie and Company together whereof the Duke himselfe or the chiefe Magistrate of that Citie is alwayes one These once a weeke at some houre set downe in the afternoone assemble and meete in a goodly Hall appoynted for that purpose where one of them mounteth vp to a place called the Harangue a little higher than the rest and in his owne naturall language maketh an Oration of an houre long of what Subiect or Theame soeuer himselfe shall like best this Orator hauing warning so to doe by an Officer a pretty while before his day For they chuse euery halfe yeere a Consull or chiefe Magistrate amongst them who appoynteth sundry men ●o the Harangue for sundry dayes and when the houre of their Assembly approacheth all the Gentlemen of that Company repayre to the Consuls house bringing him honourably to his Chayre where hee sitteth highest although the Duke or chiefe Gouernour of that Citie be there present And these be the Gentlemen of the fore-said Academies who in the Christmas and Carnouall time tearmed by vs Shroue-tide deuise many rare showes sports presenting before the Ladies and Gentlewomen there excellent witty and pleasant conceited Comedies with such like delightfull Exercises to their owne no small commendations and credit and to the wonderfull applause and conteutment as well of their owne Countrymen as of all other strangers whatsoeuer c He meaneth Aristotle Disciple to Plato who was an admirable singular wittie man inferiour to None Platoes Better in varietie of knowledge and all the worlds Superiour in disputation d Nature is that Spirit or diuine Reason which is the efficient Cause of naturall works and the preseruing cause of those things that haue beeing through the onely power of the heauenly Word e The exteriour Senses are the powers of the Soule and Body and are in number fiue viz. Seeing Hearing Smelling Tasting and Touching the right vse of which may be set downe thus Looke but aright and long but for your owne Heare all alike and Trust when Truth is knowne Taste but to feed yet feede not still to please Touch neuer more than lawfull is to sieze The Senses thus you rightly shall enioy Which oft makes many Seruants of annoy f The Soule is a created Substance invisible incorporall and immortall resembling the Image of her Creator Plato deuideth the Soule into three parts in his Timeus placing Anger in the Heart Concupiscence in the Lyuer and Splene and Reason the Lady and Gouernesse of the worke in the Braine g Plato saith that Affections in a man are like Nerues or little Sinewes or strings wherby Nature draweth vs forward into contraries as themselues are contrary but he that hath giuen his Reason once dominion ouer them shall finde their force of no effect worth esteeming and to this purpose one writeth very well thus Sad perturbations that Affections guide Should not giue iudgement till their Cause were ●ride h The Minde is that bright eye which guides the Soule and gouernes men in all their actions whatsoeuer and as one saith The Minde hath in it selfe a Deitie And in the stretching Circle of the eye All things are compast all things present still Will fram'd to power doth make vs what wee will i Passions are certaine internall Acts or Operations of the Soule bordering vpon Reason and Sense prosecuting some good thing or flying some ill thing causing therewithall some alteration in the Body k Viz. Loue Hate Ioy and Sorrow and they haue foure chiefe Gouernours Reason Patience Time and Experience l Loue according to Plato is three-fold the first imbraceth Vertue onely the second is infamous which preferreth bodily pleasure and the third is of the body and the soule nothing more noble than the first than the second nothing more vile the third is equall to both But this Loue of which our Author now speaketh is comprehended in these two lines onely Loue is a Fiend a Fire a Heauen a Hell Where Pleasure Paine Griefe and Repentance dwell But hee that will see a most liuely description of this kinde of Loue indeede and more at large let him reade Mr Michael Draitons Definition thereof in The Flowers of English Parnassus m Of Virgil it is said that for his great learning and iudgement hee encountred with Theocritus vanquisht Hesiodus and ranne the selfe-same race as fairely and as well as Homer himselfe did n The Stoickes hold that onely to be Will when a thing is firmely and constantly desired and therefore it is defined to be a Desire of any thing with Reason which is in a wise man onely but that which is against reason is called Lust or an inordinate desire being resident in all Fooles whereupon an English Poet setting downe the difference betwixt Will and Wit writes thus Will holds the royall Scepter in the Soule And o'er the Passions of the Heart doth raigne Wit is the Minds chiefe Iudge which doth controule Of Fancies Court the iudgement false and vaine Will puts in practise what the Wit deuiseth Will euer acts and Wit contemplates still And as in Wit the power of Wisedome riseth All other Vertues Daughters are to Will o And yet there are foure chiefe bridles by which Nature is curbed which are Want Authoritie Hope and Feare p To this sense one imitating Ariosto herein saith thus The ioyes of Louers if they still should last Without Affliction or Disquietnesse That worldly Chances doe amongst them cast Would be on earth too great a Blessednesse Liker to Heauen than to mortall wretchednesse Therefore the winged God to let them weete That here on earth is no true Happinesse A thousand sowres hath tempered with one sweet To make it seeme more dainty as is meete q A Tragedy so called presented by the Gentlemen of the ●●TRONATI in Sienna where all the Actors in the same came to seuerall vnfortunate and disasterous ends r Socrates saith Iealousie is a disease of the minde proceeding from a Feare which a man hath lest that thing be communicated to another which hee would not in any wise haue cōmon but priuate to himselfe s Beautie as a certaine graue and learned Gentleman our Country-man writeth is nothing else but a iust proportion of the parts with an apt correspondency in colours in these inferiour bodies of which Subiect● the immortall Muse of our euer memorable SPENSER singeth thus Nought vnder