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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19058	A table of humane passions With their causes and effects. Written by ye Reuerend Father in God F.N. Coeffeteau, Bishop of Dardania ... Translated into English by Edw. Grimeston Sergiant at Armes.; Tableau des passions humaines. English	Coeffeteau, Nicolas, 1574-1623.; Grimeston, Edward.	1621 (1621)	STC 5473; ESTC S108443	165,888	736

which the Ancients haue called the seate of modesty and therefore Plato brings in Socrates couering his eyes when as hee would make a discourse of Loue wherein hee thought there was some shame for a man making profession of deepe wisedom The reason therof is for that wee are ashamed to see our defects knowne to men whō we greatly respect and reuerence The Ancients did alwaies hold it for a good signe and presage in young men to see them blush easily wherefore they called this blushing The colour or vermillion of Vertue Yea that great Romane Censor said that hee loued them better that blusht then such as grew pale for that to be pale is a signe they feared some danger So as they that grow pale seeme to haue an apprehension to be called in question for some crime and punished whereas they that blush shew they are ashamed and apprehend euen the very suspition of doing ill But there is no kinde of people in whom an honest bashfulnesse is more commendable yea vpon the lightest occasions then in Virgins and Women for to blush for words for motions and for the least licencious actions is a signe of an exact modesty which is the rarest and the most rich ornament of their sexe But to returne to young men as it is a good signe to see them blush for that being naturally inclined to follow their passions by reason of this great heate of blood which abounds in them and enflames them it is a commendable thing to see that Shame is as it were a bridle to retire them from vice But this kinde of shame is not much commendable in men of ripe age who haue not this spurre to incite them to euill and moreouer vertue should haue taken deep root in their hearts whereby all their actions should be commendable and full of glory so as they haue no subiect to blush But if they fall into this defect it is a signe that they iudge themselues and that their vertue is not perfect nor compleat proportionable to their age Let vs now come to the effects which Shame produceth in the soule there are some good as we haue sayde in the beginning but she also produceth badde Many times shee hath made them valiant who were faint-hearted and feareful yea we haue seene whole Armies beeing amazed and terrified haue resumed courage by the presence of Caesars Alexanders Scipioes other great Commanders who haue brought backe their souldiers in battailes for that the great esteeme they had of such excellent Captains made them blush to flye before them yea to chuse a most certaine death rather then to be held cowards by such wotthy men Moreouer there haue beene souldiers who hauing faintly maintained an encounter the next day to wipe away this shame haue performed wonders whereof the Greeke and Romane histories furnish vs with many examples Besides Shame doth retire vs often from dishonest things as appeared in him who confessed freely that he plaid not at dice for that he was ashamed any one should see him lose his time in so bad an exercise But on the other side Shame diuerts vs many times from commendable things yea and from those which are profitable and which concerne the preseruation of our liues As for example you see at banquets some being prest to drink extraordinarily are ashamed to refuse them which inuite them and ouer-ruled by their vniust entreaties fall into surfeits which ruine their health Others in like manner seeing thēselues importuned or coniured in bad companies not to bee so modest before their friends suffer themselues to be carried away to commit great disorders as with women or at play or to do other execrable villanies for the which they are grieued in their soules but they haue not the courage to refuse such as presse them whereby it happens often that flying the smoake they runne headlong into the flame that is to say for that they are not able to resist an imaginary Shame they fall into an eternall reproach being blamed by all vertuous men when they heare of their basenesse There haue bene some also who fearing that there haue bene plots laid to kill them or to poyson them yet surmounted by Shame haue abandoned themselues to the danger So Dyon being aduertized of the conspiracy which was practized against him and his host and friend Calippus being ashamed to refuse to go whither they were both inuited which was the place where the murther was intended he went rashly to his death So Antipater the sonne of Cassander lost himselfe for that he durst not refuse to suppe with Demetrius where he was slaine Young Hercules the sonne of Alexander the Great was surprized by Polipherchon and Cassander being ashamed to refuse their requests to suppe with them who tended only to haue a meanes to murther him By all that we haue sayd we may gather that Shame is sometimes profitable and sometimes pernicious but it is alwayes commendable when it serues vs as a bridle to retire vs from vice Of Hope and Despaire CHAP. 1. HEe which sayd that Hope was a dreame which presents it selfe to them that wake hath excellently described the nature and effects of this Passion For as dreames in the night fill vs with illusions and vaine formes which abuse vs and which make vs imagine that wee are rich in our extreamest pouerty that we are happy in our greatest misery that wee enioy Scepters and Crownes in the midst of bonds and irons that wee command great Empires when we are restraided in a hard and slauish captiuity in like manner Hope abusing our imagination fills our soules with vaine contentments and represents vnto vs that all things are subiect to our power that the whole world should receiue a law from vs and if that there appeare any obstacle to hinder our dessignes and desires that we are able to surmount them Yea in the middest of our greatest disgraces wee flatter our selues with this conceit that humane calamities and miseries haue their bounds and that they are weary to be alwayes about one man as the winds and stormes in the end breake and are pacified after the most violent gustes Wee represent vnto our selues the constitution of heauen and earth wee call to mind that the Starres which are in the West returne suddenly to the East that the day followes the night that a calme season succedes a storme and that faire weather followes thunder and raine Finally we beleeue that wee must assure our selues to see a change in the course of this life and that the day which wee attend will make our condition better and conuert our misfortunes into incomparable felicities So as I doubt not but euen among those wretched slaues whom miseries consume in the Turkes gallies there are some which dreame and thinke of the Scepter of the Empire of Asia Wherefore an Ancient sayd that there was nothing so common in the life of men as Hope which remaines euen to them that are depriued