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death_n	body_n	love_n	soul_n	5,983	5	5.1532	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

this affection in whatsoeuer imminent danger that may bring eyther griefe or death with it though the avoydance thereof seeme neuer so hard yet with trembling of the members and beating of the heart and losse of sight and faltering of the tongue and disorderly gronings and gast countenance as much as in them lyeth they helpe themselues to auoid the fierce cruelty thereof Or perhap because an iminent danger beeing foreseene feare by the very conceipt and apprehension thereof maketh so strong an impression in the imagination that the danger beeing auoyded they neuer afterwards forget to flye eschewe the like which wee may obserue in the Asse who if hee chance to fall into a ditch where he hath made some proofe of perill vnto himselfe his danger past is an instruction vnto him to auoide the like to come and as much as in him lyeth hee will not come neere the place So likewise if a Dogge bee stricken by a man in such sorte that it sticke by him he euer afterwards feareth and flyeth his presence neyther will hee bee wonne by all the flattering alluring speeches that may be vsed to trust him any more which proceedeth from the remembrance of what is past and the Feare of that which may be to come So that we see that Feare helpeth the basest creatures euen the asse himselfe much more man who is furnished with the rarest excellencies of all the affections For by Naturall Feare he flyeth auoydeth the iniury of times of tempest of famines of pestilence and the like miseries that vsually fall out in the world and all this by that industrie and diligence that proceedeth from Feare By ciuil Feare he flyeth those punishments that the lawes impose which concerne either the losse of ●onour or of the goods of fortune or of the person it selfe and this by that careful obseruance of Iustice which Feare stirreth vp By supernaturall Feare he flyeth eternall death and damnation and that by the Loue of God and his neighbours So that by the first Feare he saueth his body by the second his honour by the third his Soule and therefore no man can deny but that Feare is necessarie nay beneficiall in Nature because it doth not onely instruct but preserue too VVhy doe Louers alwayes feare Probleme 113. PErhaps because it is the property of louers to be alwayes vigilant ouer that they loue and of Sentinelles that watch and guarde alwayes to Feare and therefore louers being imployed in the same kinde are subiect to the same passion Or Perhaps because they that loue do not so much Feare least that good which they loue be taken away by other louers which kinde of Feare men call ielowsye as least any euill or hard mischaunce should befall it or that they should be any way inferior in vertue to those that emulate them in their loues Or Perhaps because Feare is a certaine kinde of prouidence And therefore we see that fathers who are strongly mooued by the excellency of that Feare which is full of amorous zeale by such affection are stirred to prouide against whatsoeuer dangers shal any way threaten their children And therefore wise and prouident Nature would that Louers should be in continuall Feare of that they Loue to the ende that at euery neede they may prouide for their necessityes For Feare is as a spurre to make men fly what dangers soeuer generall or particular and especially in reasonable creatures Or Perhaps because humane loue being alwayes full of the swelling inflamation of some affection for neuer was the sea of loue free from the furious windes of such like cares Nature would that the hearts of louers should alwayes be accompained with Feare for the perfection not corruption therof for by Feare euill is foreseene danger auoyded things necessary are acquired and vertue increased OF BOLDNES OR COVRAGE VVhy hath Nature giuen Courage Probleme 114. PErhaps because that Courage which we see in al creatures is the strength or bulwarke of nature which then with much honour appeareth in euery particular kinde when they cannot attaine without speciall danger their purposed end For then they arme themselues with new forces and with all their powers abandoning all feares they make strange and incredible proofes of their strength and courage runne through all dangers beate downe all forces which if they should not doe they could neuer attayne that ende which is compassed with so many dangers so many difficulties for loue and desire are not sufficient as being both imployed about those things that bring only pleasure ease and delight with them without danger much lesse doth hope suffice which hopeth onely that which is simply good nor Feare which flyeth and dares not incounter a danger And therfore courage which is the fortresse which nature hath giuen to her workes was most necessary amongest other affections to serue the irascible part Or Perhaps because euery agent willeth his end as his good but many being by nature we●ke seeing some difficultie in the end are comforted by hope but finding not only difficulty but danger too if by this other affection of Boldnesse and Courage they were not strengthned they would neuer stirre farther to attayne their desired end For such and so greate are dangers many times that men are hardly stirred vp by this affectiō to vndergo them And therefore we reade of one only Horatius in all Rome that durst oppose himselfe against the Thuscane armies of one only Curtius that cast himselfe into the firy gulfe to free his country of one onely Mutius that passing to his enimies camp durst in the middest thereof assault the person of the king of onely three Horatij that committed their liues to the danger of a single combat to quit their countrie of their enimies forces Of one onely Caesar that durst commit his body to the mercylesse seas in the dead time of winter and that to fight with his enemie So that to the atchieuing of dangerous enterprises an vndaunted courage is alwayes necessary VVhy are yong men commonly bold and couragious Probleme 115. PErhaps because young men abound with much bloud heate by the vigor of Nature and consequently with much vitall spirits Whereby they are made strong and hardy in vndergoing dangerous enterprises insomuch that neither fearing death nor the dangers thereof euery thing to their ardency seemes casye Or Perhaps because young men are commonly ambitious and caried with a feruent zeale and desire of honour whereby being spurred forward there is not any enterprise so difficult or dangerous which can strike feare into them or they dare not vndertake Or Perhaps because being strangely possessed of an opinion of that shame and dishonour which feare and cowardly dastardlines bringes with it they will rather chuse to lose their liues with honour then liue with infamy Or Perhaps because young men by reason of the multitude of those affections which abound in them and those the most headlong and dangerous as Anger a feruent desire

and ability to exercise her works it cannot but greeue with it when sorrowes affflict it or contraries any way deforme it and therefore no maruell if the sorrowes of the body are communicated vnto the minde Or Perhaps because the reasonable soule for the time is tyed and vnited to the body dependeth vpon it as vpon her organe or instrument to exercise her natural powers for the inward discerning faculties in their operations depend vpō the outward discerning powers which do carry the sensible kindes to the inward sēses wherby it cometh to passe that the body being martyred consequētly the senses altered which in that masse of the body are conteyned they present those corporall kindes or species very imperfectly to the inward powers and therefore remaine likewise in their workes very confused and impotent whereby followeth that griefe and heauinesse of heart and affection of the minde which euery man findeth in himselfe by the passions and sufferings of the body Or Perhaps because in the composition of man there is a kinde of order or marshalling of the powers among themselues which hath the similitude or resemblance of a Monarchy all the parts in due place and order obeying the Empire and commaund of the first moouing power which is the will And therefore if the body and euery member thereof be well disposed to their worke it is all to doe seruice vnto the will and if by the power and puissance of the bodily forces it come to passe that any thing be acted worthy comendations worthy a crowne the honour is the willes which gaue in charge to the handes and other partes of the body to attempt so honorable an enterprise And so likewise if it come to passe that the hand cannot worke the foote cannot go the eye is dazeled the eare obserueth not and all the members of the body be weake and the whole body languishing it is a token that the Monarchy of the will is depriued of that traine of the vniuersall powers which shewed themselues so prompt and ready at her seruice and commaund And therefore no maruell if the minde be sorry for the griefe of the body because she seeth by the ill disposition thereof a greate part of her glory extinguished Or Perhaps because the minde by a kinde of foreknowledge seeth that the griefes of the body are but as precedent forerunners to the ruine and corruption of the whole by which ruine there followeth the seperation of the soule from the body which is so much more greeuous then any other by howe much the minde of all other substantiall formes is the more noble and this griefe contineweth so much the longer by how much longer it hath bin vnited vnto the body and therefore the minde seeing the naturall strength of the body by the extremity of griefe to decay and fearing a future ruine of all is many times opressed nay ouerwhelmed with melancholy and griefe The like may likewise be sayde of the griefes and sorrowes of the minde which the body doth so participate as if they were proper vnto it self For the body seing his naturall force the exercise of his powers his action and life to be placed in his Forme from which it taketh his beeing powers operations name and distinction it is no maruell the minde being Melancholike and full of heauinesse and griefe if the body likewise doe decay and languish For the soule being separated the eye seeth not the hand mooueth not the tongue speaketh not the eare harkneth not the foote goeth not the shoulder susteyneth not and the whole body as vnapt to do any thing like an earthly burthen falleth to the earth VVhy are the griefes of the body more sensible and violent in softe and delicate bodies as of women honorable personages then of those that are strong and valiant Probleme 102. PErhap● because the senses by how much more pure noble they are by so much the more excellently doe they apprehend those sensible kinds obiects that belong vnto thē Now the flesh being the organe or instrument of the sense of Feeling and that Organe in noble men their bodies being framed of purer bloud by reason of a purer diet in women by reason of a their thin delicate skin and excellent temperature of body most pure and noble it could not otherwise be but that womē noble men should more sensibly and strongly feele the bitternesse of any bodily griefe Which may likewise appeare in the Oxe and the Asse who stir more slowly with the pricke of the goad or spur then either the dog or the horse because they abounding with a nature very earthly melancholike receiue not the blowe with that feeling griefe that the dogge or the horse doth being beastes of a more noble and generous nature Or Perhaps because noble men being much giuen to the commodities of Nature and women to the delights of Bacchus and the wanton alluring pleasures of Venus they passe they whole time in ioy and pleasant recreations in so much that if it fall out that they are inforced eyther by chaunce or defect of Nature or violence to suffer any griefe of body they are farre more afflicted with it then men of baser estate conditiō who besides that they haue bodies eyther by nature or education of a harder temper consequently are lesse apt to feele the griefe and vexations of the body they are cōmonly accustomed to much variety of misfortunes and to suffer the discommodities of nature and the iniuries of all times VVhy are the griefes of the minde farre greater then those of the Body Probleme 103. PErhaps because the iudgement of the reasonable or intellectiue part is more perfect as hauing knowledge of causes remote and neare at hand then that of the sense which manye times erreth about his present sensible obiect whereby that griefe which the sense feeleth by the alteration of the bodily partes is ioyned to the confused iudgement of his owne passion doth only grieue without reason discourse but reason which seeketh all thinges by subtilty of wit vnderstandeth and iudgeth all things with equity and iustice doth not so much consider the offence of the sense as the iniury of that hand that offereth it the iniquity of that minde the vnhappy chaunce blind fury or whatsoeuer besides that offēdeth Or Perhaps because the sorrowes and griefs of the soule haue a more potent and effectuall obiect in their martyrdomes then the sense hath For the griefes of the body do many times proceede from those things that are contrary to nature from the violent assaults of bruit beasts from humane chaunces and the like which vse to change and alter the body but the sorrowes of the minde from those great and strange occurrents that happen eyther to our selues or to any thing that is ours especially from iniuries losse of honour or goods death of friends iniust persecution of mighty Princes treachery of friends iniust iudgments losse of children senses