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cause_n	worthy_a	year_n	youth_n	12	3	7.2698	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17262	Problemes of beautie and all humane affections. VVritten in Italian by Tho: Buoni, cittizen of Lucca. With a discourse of beauty, by the same author. Translated into English, by S.L. Gent; Problemi della belleza. English	Buoni, Thommaso.; Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.	1606 (1606)	STC 4103.3; ESTC S106920	106,759	352

without the speciall helpe of him ●hat framed him immortall for being weake in himselfe he cannot by his ●wne strength ascend to so great a ma●●sty Or Perhaps because he being ●●aced in the middle of the Theater of 〈◊〉 many Beauties created both in things ●enerall and more speciall and indi●●duall and as it were dazeled and ●●inded with the light of them doth ●ot know howe to discerne the better ●●om the worse Not considering that 〈◊〉 was created to vnderstand and vn●●rstanding the excellency of the crea●●res of God by them to passe to the ●●owledge of the Creator and so from ●●e inferior Beauties to the supreme Or ●●rhaps because hauing fastned the eye of his sense vpon some earthly Beauty pleaseth himselfe so much with the present delight thereof that forgetting the greater Beautie and not knowing any greater delight he placeth therein his last end and chiefest felicity offending thereby both the law of reason and of God Or perhaps because man being made blinde by sense and loue of a momentary delight he desireth not by contemplation to enioy the Beauty of God For neither can the sense or any other powers exercise their operations in any degree of excellencie if not in one onely obiect and at one only time and therefore the eye being fastned in an earthly Beauty with an earthly loue how can he by contemplation behold the celestiall Beautie with angelicall loue How should a man that hath abased his lips by inordinate lust to the standing and stinking poole of a rotten Beauty dippe them in the pure fountaine of the onely fayre by a regular and orderly desire How should he gazing by a sensuall and brutish loue vpon a corporall and corruptible Beauty fasten the subtilitie of his vnderstanding vpon the first fayre who is meerely spirituall and heauenly what proportion hath the Sunne with darkenesse the day with night truth with a ●ye a Prince with a slaue fire with Ise snowe with durte golde with Iron honour with infamie diuine with earthly treasure with pouertie vertue with vice order with confusion infinite with finite immortall with mortall so long therefore as he fasteneth his eye vpon an inferiour Beauty he cannot possibly ascend by contempla●ion to the first fayre Or perhaps because the sense being debased to a thousand concupiscences the Appetite drowned with the lasciuious billowes of intemperancie the taste glutted with the honie of Cupids appearing ●ainties the will placed vpon fraile ob●ects and willing nothing but to satis●ie the desires of the flesh the body more then furiously and inconsiderate●y accustomed to Venus beddes the ●oynes alwayes walking to the common forge of euery brothelhouse the ●yes open to nothing but the spectacles ●f Sardanapalus the thoughts ascend●ng no higher then the contriuing of ●dulteries and wanton sports Religion ●anished the vailes of chastitie broken ●he bridle of the law nothing regarded All good counsell and ciuill discipline set at naught and man being made more then an enemy to himselfe hee cannot euen by the lawe of custome which is conuerted into an other nature yea a necessitie lift vp the eye of his vnderstanding to heauen and to the contemplation of the first Fayre Problemes of the Affections Where at full are set downe Their Causes properties offices vses and endes Of Loue. VVhy hath nature ordayned that their should be affections in the world Probleme 40. PErhaps because the world being a kinde of well ordered Common-weale where beholdicg the Beautifull ●i●position of all visible bodies both ●…ght and heauy neither light nor ●…eauy and contemplating the power●al workmāship of the celestial Speares which for the perpetuall generation of 〈◊〉 things are perpetually caried about ●hat great shop of those first Elements ●y them framing and fashioning all ●ompound natures and beholding in ●his Elementall and lower world ●he Citizens thereof which are all liuing creatures and among them the chiefe and principall which is man who is Lord and gouernour of the rest it was fit necessarie that there should be assigned vnto his perfection some order for his military strength which could not otherwise be done then by placing in the minde of man these affections which for the benefit of the whole world by Loue might defend by Hate might offend by Desire of victorie might attempt in the presence of greater forces by counterfeit flights might retire by Delight might reioyce in the benefit of peace by the death of the conquered be stirred vp to Griefe by Hope might willingly offer their neckes to the yoake of labour by Despaire might fight couragiously and not in vaine by Feare might learne to prouide for future wants either of victuall or munition by Boldnesse might not feare to vndergoe any danger for publicke honour and benefit by Anger might be enflamed to shed their bloud and to lose their liues for a generall peace And so all the workes of nature might remaine safely defended from their enemies and quietly enioy that benefit which nature hath bestowed on them Or Perhaps because it being impossible to preserue nature w●thout generation and generation not to be had without loue and Loue not working without desire and Desire not moued without hope and Hope not obtayning his wished end without audacitie and Audacitie not doing the vttermost without Anger nay without the violent motion of all the irascible pa●t and the irascible part not being thoroughly stirred and quickned without some feeling griefe and Griefes being not perfected without feare of greater and Feare being n●t cleared without the certaine delight of a present good ●t followeth that all the Affections are necessary for the preseruation of the whole VVhy is some speciall affection predominant ouer euery age Probleme 41. PErhaps because Nature seeketh in euery thing both the vniuersall be●efit and priuate good and therefore 〈◊〉 hath ordained that feare should be the predominant in all mothers ouer their tender infants to the ende that the vniuersall generation of humane kind might be preserued their owne children thereby to their owne benefit carefully guarded attended which by reason of their owne weaknes they cannot doe And for this cause it hath likewise giuen to Childhood delight in childish sports and pastimes Shame to be a bridle as it were to that age to withhold them from dishonest vntowardly actions To youth Loue desire of generation to men of riper yeares hope and courage to the performance of acts worthy glory immortallity to olde men pitty compassion in iudging and censuring humāe accidents feare to make thē circumspect and wary in that smale remnant of their life which is behinde to decrepite olde age paine griefe sorowes as forerunners and messengers of appoching death And that to the ende they may therby be driuen to despaire of all humane helpes and in god alone put their whole trust and confidence Or Perhaps to the end that man in the change and alteration of his life might likewise change his wil desires passing