to consider of it hath bene known and is recorded in credible historie that some haue bene brought vp from their youth and alwayes haue bene sustained and fed with poyson which being so the nourishments of the bodie not onely receaue preparation by naturall concoction by which they become that in deede effect which before they were in power possibilitie but seeme to be made out of whatsoeuer is receaued where it findeth a nature of sufficient strength to frame it and not as it was wont to be sayd Mercurie is not made of euery tree so nature maketh euerie thing of any thing not by Anaxagoras art for then should breade containe really corporally and substantially flesh bloud and bone but by a power and vertue whereof the matter hath no part more then the gold for the framing of a iewell partaketh of the gold smithes cunning CHAP. IIII. The answer to the former obiections THESE shewes and semblances of truthes may seeme to ouerthrowe that which hath bene set downe as the ground and matter of humours lay it rather in the nature of the thing nourished to transforme and assimulate whatsoeuer it hath receaued though it be of neuer so straunge a qualitie but as I haue set downe these obiections to the end that trueth being compared with vntruth may the better appeare by reason of comparison so marke for your fuller satisfying in this point howe yet nothing is hereby lost but sufficiently it maintaineth it selfe and by strength of reason the only pillar of humane truthes it is vpholden It was declared before how nourishments as of all other humours so of melancholie they affoord the matter to the which nature applying her proper temper as an instrument and practizing that skill which she hath learned of God worketh out both humours and substance for preseruation and nourishment of our bodies nowe that the earth within small distance affoordeth nourishment both to henbane lettis to hemlocke and the mallow to poison and wholsome herbs that the same floure nourisheth the spider and yeldeth honie to the bee that the pastinacamarina carieth the instrument of death in her tayle and wholsome foode in her substance and all what hath bene before obiected from Cantharides the Ostridges Psilli and Marsi neesing powder hemlocke and toades whereof wholesome birds do aduenture for nourishment and from that virgine fed and sustained with poison sent vnto Alexander to infect him with hir companie all I say that may out of these particulars encounter the former truthes being considered and wayed adde this thereunto taking away nothing that to the disposition of the matter it is also necessarie an outward skill and science in the worker concurre whereby that matter may receaue conuenient forme agreable to the workers intention For as it is impossible to make a rope of sande so likewise hempe maketh it not without the art of the craftes man who ioyning his worke with conuenient stuffe findeth the end of his labour and as some workemen exceede other in skill diligence and of the same matter the worke either excelleth or wanteth according thereunto in like manner the nourishment being all one as it falleth to a nature of good or bad temper weake or strong bringeth forth nourishment and excrement accordingly Touching the earth it containeth in it inuisible seedes of all things in a maner to which it storeth vp and importeth also food meet and conuenient these seeds lye not distinct in place but in nature no more then the partes of bloud which before I mentioned so that although it were possible for hemlocke and the vine to grow in one bodie and occupie one place yet could not the proper nourishment to either be auoyded such harmonie and agreement is there betwixt them in nature and with such earnest desire doth the one affect the other This then is the cause why life and death dwell so nigh together and yet as they are of the vehementest sort of aduersaries without entercommunication Euen so the bodie containeth partes linked notwithstanding in one communitie of diuerse natures which drawe out of the masse of nourishment that which is meete ech one for it self which though it in apparance shew semeth vniforme yet containeth it diuersity as the sundrie parts require which diuersity being distinct in nature confused as it appeareth in one by the cloke garment of an vniuersall forme by natures Mechanical operation the very patern of all arts both liberall and seruile is discouered brought into an actuall substance consisting of his single proper nature which before had only a potentiall subsistence as members parts haue in the whole Which producing I vnderstand not a discouerie only as by withdrawing a vaile to shew that which lay behind it but a generation and coupling of matter with the forme which forme it bringeth not with it but receaueth it as it were an impression from the part So then as euerie thing is not made of any thing in art neither is foode ministred for all things in euerie thing in nature but requireth apt preparation of matter by naturall vertue to be appropriate to euerie part Nowe if it be replied this answer as it may suffice against that which is obiected out of the earth yet leaueth it doubtin the pastinaca Cantharides and Psilli by reason the matter of these things through natures working groweth more particular is not stored with such varietie as I may so call them of potentiall natures whereby it might seeme the verie indiuiduall substance indifferently to subiect it selfe either for nourishment or poison let the consideration of the earth carrie vs yet farther to the dissoluing of this knot also True it is that the particular nourishment containeth not so manie sutes as the earth the nourisher of all things doth yet it answereth in proportiō to the part which it hath to sustaine So that the masse of bloud being the vniuersall soile wāteth not for the relief entertainment of al the mēbers of the bodie choise of substance according to their variety Hereof is the bone nourished as hard as mettall and the braine as tender as a posset curd the kidneyes grosse and thicke and the lights loose and subtile the eye as cleere as cristall and the splene as blacke and darke as inke Now let vs apply this more particularly to Pastinaca Cantharis and the rest of that sort The Pastinaca substance and fish is nourished with that which in it selfe is wholesome the fish being of the same substance or disposition but so that that nourishment hath in it an execremental substance which being considered alone though it be not yet poyson hath in it a power meeting with a former to become of like hurtfull qualitie which we see in execrements being permitted to putrifie and to degenerate of them selues howe by corruption they become most daungerous much more finding an actiue and liuely nature furnished with power as it were to animate and waken that
to be accōpted These two pointes being sufficiently proued establish euidently the simple and vniforme faculties of the soule For hereby it is most manifest that by reason of the simple nature thereof it cannot beare any mixture or be support of diuerse thinges neither that diuerse will so neighbour it together as to dwell in one indiuiduall subiect Then seing that they which of al the disagreers least disagree will not so nighly be linked neither can any diuersity of faculty in the minde in a nature so simple and impartible be coupled together where ther is no disagreemēt of substance nor dissent of mixture but euery parte like the whole and ech like other Againe these pluralities being essentiall can be but one seing essence is not many and nature alwayes farre vnlike the sword of Delphos which serued for diuerse vses euer employeth one to one and not to many otherwise wāt should enforce her which she abounding with sufficiency refuseth in all her actions Moreouer being in euery part like it selfe and ech parte like other no dissimilitude can arise by distinction of faculty Accidentall if they be then is the minde in daunger of loosing all faculty which it cannot do seing it is subiect to no force but of God himselfe that made it Now whatsoeuer naturall faculty in any thing fadeth it is by reason the thing first fadeth which enioyeth that faculty else would they alwayes continue wherefore the minde being euerlasting and exempt from chaunge and corruption her faculty is also essentiall and of like perpetuity I neede not yeeld reason why contrary faculties or such as we call disparates in logicke can haue no roome in a nature so simple as the soule is both in respect of the repugnance within themselues and vnitie of the subiect seing such as are diuerse only refuse that cohabitation and neighbourhood Thus much shal suffice to proue the simple faculty of the soule it followeth to proue the spirite and body to be wholly organicall by organicall I meane a disposition aptnes only without any free worke or action otherwise then at the mindes commādement else should there be mo beginninges causes of action then one in one nature which popularity of administratiō nature will none of nor yet with any holygarcicall or mixt but commandeth only by one souerainty the rest being vassals at the beck of the soueraigne commander The kindes of instruments are of two sorts the one dead in it selfe and destitute of all motion as a saw before it be moued of the workman and a ship before it be stirred with winde and hoised of saile the other sorte is liuely and carrieth in it selfe aptnes and disposition of motiō as the hound to hunt with and the hauke to fowle with both caried with hope of pray the hand to moue at our pleasure and to vse any other kinde of instrument or toole The second sort of these twaine is also to be distinguished in twaine whereof the one obtaineth power in it selfe and requireth derection only as the beast and fowle aboue mentioned and the other not only direction but impulsion also from an inward vertue and forcible power as the motion of the hand and the variety of the hand actions do most euidently declare Of these three kinds of instruments I place the spirit and bodie both to the mind as the saw or axe in the workmans hand or to the lute touched of the Musician according to the sundry qualities conditions of the instruments of the body in the thirde sort but so as the spirit in comparison of the bodie fareth as the hand to the dead instrumentes Of the first sort they are not because they partake of life of the second they may not be because of them selues they haue no impulsion as it appeareth euidently in animall and voluntarie actions and although more obscurely to be seene in such as be called naturall For the spirit being either withdrawne from the outwarde parts by vehement passiō of griefe or ouer prodigally scattered by ioy or wasted by paine the outward partes not only faile in their sense and motion but euen nourishment growth therby are hindered and contrarily though the spirit be present except the part be also well disposed not only feeling is impaired such actions as require sense and motion but also concoction and nourishment Againe the spirit it self without impulsion of minde lieth idle in the bodie This appeareth in animall actions more plainly as the mind imploying vehemently the spirit an other way we neither see that is set before our eyes nor heare nor feele that which otherwise with delight or displeasure would vehemently affect vs. In naturall actions and parts it is more obscure either because the spirit can not be altogether so separated by the order of nature being rooted so in the part or because the verie presence of the soule in an organicall bodie without further facultie or action carieth the life withal and is not subiect to arbitrement and will as the royall estate of a Prince moueth silence reuerence and expectation although there be no charge or commaundement therof giuen nor such purpose of presence so life lieth rather in the essence or substance of the soule giuing it to a fit organed body rather then by any such facultie resident therein except we may thinke that lesse portion of spirit serueth for life onely then for life sense and motion so the parts contented with smaller prouision thereof are entertained with life though sense and mouing require more plenty But howsoeuer this be obscure in naturall actions the mind transporting the spirits another way by sudden conceit study or passion yet most certaine it is if it holde on long and release not the nourishment will also faile the increase of the body diminish and the flower of beautie fade and finally death take his fatall hold which commeth to passe not onely by expence of spirit but by leauing destitute the parts whereby declining to decay they become at length vnmeete for the entertainement of so noble an inhabitant as is the soule of stocke diuine of immortall perpetuity and exempt from all corruption Then seeing neither body nor spirit are admitted in the first or second sort of instruments they fall to the third kinde which being liuely or at the least apt for life require direction and also foreine impulsion foraine in respect of them selues destitute of facultie otherwise then disposition but inward and domesticall in that it proceedeth from a naturall power resident in these corporall members which we call the soule not working as ingens by a force voide of skill and cunning in it selfe by a motion giuen by deuise of the Mechenist but farre otherwise indued with science possessed of the mouer as if Architas had bin him selfe within his flying doues Vulcanne within his walking stooles and the mouing engine as it were animated with the minde of the worker therein excelling farre all
heauines first of all instruction out of the Scriptures of God is to be ministred and embraced which offering the assuraunce of farre better thinges then the price of all wordly treasures may swallow vp whatsoeuer calamitie this vale of miserie presseth vpon vs next preceptes of morall vertue and patience with examples of constancie and moderaton in like cases ought to moue and consideration of that vncertaintie of pleasure in this world which is only constant in inconstancie and as the heauens them selues stand not still and the nature of things receaue continual cōsuming like a streame that passeth euen so our state is subiect vnto like mutabilitie and with no other condition is our life deliuered vnto vs of nature through that original disobedience nor is to be otherwise accepted of wise men In this case I referre the melancholick to the bookes of the Scriptures and morall precepts of Philosophers to the godly instructions of the diuines and comfort of their friends If loue not aunswered againe with like kindnesse procure this passion either amendes is that way to be made or the melancholick is to be perswaded the subiect of that he liketh is not so louely and all mention and signification of that kind is not once to be called into minde but whatsoeuer iustly may be alleadged to the parties disgrace is to be obiected vnto the amorous melancholicke and other delights brought in in steed and more highly commended which all I leaue to the prudencie of those that attend vpon this kind of cure And if no other perswasion will serue a vehement passion of another sort is to be kindeled that may withdrawe that vaine and foolish sorowe into some other extremity as of anger of some feare ministred by another occasion then that which first was authour of this sadnesse For although they both breed a dislike yet that proceedeth of other cause rebateth the force of it which gaue first occasion and as one pinne is driuen out with another so the later may expell the former but this is to be vsed in regard of the conceit and affection If the body therby be altered and the bloud thickened into melancholie then all kind of greeuance is to be shunned and onely pleasaunt and delectable things to be admitted Thus much for the melancholicke affection how it is to be moderated and guided other kinds of actions of body are not any causes of this passion except in such as were wont by periods to be purged of certayne melancholick bloud which if it faile and minister cause or increase of this humour is to be diminished by opening a vaine that may most conueniently supply that want of nature and disburthen it of the superfluitie as cause shall require and force strength will permit Ease and rest although it be alone of small power to ingender yet may it be an helping cause to the passion increase of this humour so that here in mediocritie is to be kept and exercise of one sort or other neuer to be omitted as the chiefe temper of the spirits with the humours quicknesse of corporall actions Fot as sleepe resembleth death and rest of the members is their kind of sleepe doth that in particulars which sleepe doth in the whole so if it exceede as ech resemble other in nature in effect they will not be much vnlike but as the one cooleth the bodie and corrupteth the bloud and extinguisheth naturall heate whose extinction is death it selfe euen so the other in a degree hinder the present expressing of that liuely vigour which they possesse and disableth them afterwarde to make proofe of the facultie wherewith they are indued And thus haue you in these two Chapters what gouernment melancholicke persons are to obserue in their actions and deedes that concerne maintenance of health in the next I will lay open vnto you of the outwarde meanes of sustentation of life what choise is to be made and with what discretion such reliefe is to be vsed CHAP. XXXIX Howe melancholick persons are to order thē selues in the rest of their diet and what choise they are to make of ayre meate and drinke house and apparell THe rest of diet consisteth in the right vse of outward sustentation of life which is either taken inward or is outwardly vsed only The inward and such as is to be receaued into our bodies is either aire or sustenance The ayre meet for melancholicke folke ought to be thinne pure and subtile open and patent to all winds in respect of their tēper especially to the South and Southeast except some other imbecillity of their bodies dissuade therefrom and in the contrarie part marrish mistie and foggie ayre is to be eschued as an increase of both humour and passion Sustenaunce is either meate or drinke Their meates ought not onely to be chosen such as of their owne nature do ingender to pure and thinne iuyce but if the nature of the nourishment be otherwise the preparation ought to giue it a correction of that fault and generallie they should be liquide and in forme of brothes that both by the moyst qualitie thereof the drinesse of the humour and their bodies might be refourmed and that the passage concoction might also be more easie and speedy in all their partes Nourishmentes of their owne nature among meats wholsome and meet for melancholicke folke and of vegetable things are parsnep carret and skerret roots And sallet herbs lettice mallowes and endiue mixed with a quantitie of rocket and taragon are not to be refused no more is aretch sorell and purslane with the late twaine aboue mentioned or with persley charuell and fenell with litle vineger plenty of oyle and suger Of sorts of bread cheat bread is meetest for them and if they be charged with store of bloud and the vaines full some oates barley or millet flower mingled with the wheat meele shall abate the aboundant nourishment of the wheat Of frutes such as are moyst soft and sweet are meetest for them as the iuyce damsing cherrie figges grapes and abricots neither are newe walnuts and greene almonds hurtfull in this case Capers washed from the salt and vineger and eaten with suger and oyle are meeter for them then oliues Of flesh the young is fittest for their diet and the younger the better in respect of their colde and drie bodies and grosse humours which require plentifull moystening and warming which is supplyed by the tender age of those things whereof we feede being fuller of vitall heate and naturall moysture then the older of the same kind Neither is it requisite that they be young onely but also well liking and of the same kinde the tame and domesticall is meete for correction of their melancholicke state then the wilde Againe of flesh the foule is to be preferred for their vse before the beast and that foule rather which vseth much the feete and lesse the wing Of foule these are of especciall choyce for melancholicke persons the partridge
thereto belongeth and calleth in question the immortalitie of the soule except you will say it is a facultie whereof the soule hath no part being common with brute beastes which carieth with it these absurdities First this facultie must needs haue her seate either in soule or bodie if it be not in soule then in bodie if in bodie then should the instrument possesse the facultie which is as one would attribute the facultie of the harmonie to the harp and the writing to the pen and not to the scriuener esteeming the skilfull harps and skilfull pens which are dead instruments and haue no being of motion in them selues Now middle subiect is there none whereto this facultie should fall except we will vainly and against reason and philosophie admit mo soules then one in our bodies Againe to place any facultie otherwise then of disposition and aptnesse in the bodie without the soule were to disturb the vniforme gouernment and that oeconomicall order wherby our nature is ruled in placing mo commanders then one So we see howe age and course of times affect the bodie not only by alteration of facultie as it should seeme but also by breeding new Nowe the order of life region and diet seeme to presse the matter further and as it were to turne the mind about with euerie blast of corporall chaunge We may obserue the nature of mariners occupied in the sea surges who haue their maners not much vnlike framed tempestuous and stormie likewise the villager who busieth him selfe about his plow and cattell only hath his wits of no higher conceit butchers acquainted with slaughter are accōpted therby to be of a more cruell disposition and therefore amongst vs are discharged from iuries of life death these experiences maintaine the quarel against the vnmoueable and vnchaungeable facultie of the soule whereof I haue before made mention Howe region and aire make demonstration of the same the comparison of the gentle and constant aire of Asia with the sharpe vnstable of Europe doth declare vnto vs wherby the Asians are milde and gentle vnfitte for warre and giuen to subiection the Europians naturally rough hardie stearne right martiall impes and harder to be subdued and raunged vnder obedience and of the same region such people as inhabite places barren open and dry and subiect to mutabilitie of weather are more fierce bolder sharp and obstinate in opinion then people of contrary habitation Neither hath diet lesse part in this case of affecting the soule then the rest for we see howe the chearfull fruite of the vine maketh the hart merie and giueth with moderation vsed an edge of wit and quicknesse to the spirits and those nourishmentes that are moyst grosse and not firmely compacted aggrauateth the vnderstanding and maketh the conceit blunt and disableth much the faculties of the minde which a thinner drier and more subtile foode doth entertaine To these obiectiōs may be added what alteration of minde diuersitie of complexion excesse of the foure humours choler fleume bloud and melancholie do procure not only to the affections as sanguine cheerefulnesse melancholicke sadnesse fleume heauinesse choler anger but to the wits and such faculties as approch nigher to the soueraigne partes of our nature the mind it selfe as choler procureth rashnesse and vnaduisednesse with mobilitie vnstablenesse of purpose melancholie contrarily pertinacie with aduised deliberatiō sanguine simplicitie and fleume flat foolishnesse and these are so farre as my memory serueth me all that is wonted to be obiected from the state of our bodies being in health against the perpetuall immoueable tranquillitie of our minds and immortall vnchaungeable and incorruptible faculties therof which all in the next Chapter I will satisfie with full aunswer nowe a fewe wordes touching the perturbarions and alterations through sicknesse and so will I ende this Chapter and in the next proceede to seuerall aunswers I my selfe haue obserued it diuerse times not onely perturbation of minde to arise by certaine diseases whereby it fancieth and reasoneth disorderly but some faculties euen amended by the same neither faculties of base action as for the eye to see clearer after an inflammation and conuulsions to be helped by agues and in feuers the hearing more quicke then before and the smelling more subtile and in phrenticke persons the strength doubled vpō them but also euen apprehension more perfect and memory amended and deliuerance of tale more free and eloquent without all comparison which are actions of the greatest organical practises of the mind in such sort that I haue knowen children languishing of the splene obstructed and altered in temper talke with grauitie and wisedome surpassing those tender yeares and their iudgement carying a maruelous imitation of the wisedome of the ancient hauing after a sorte attained that by disease which other haue by course of yeares whereupon I take it the prouerbe ariseth that they be of short life who are of wit so pregnant because their bodies do receaue by nature so speedie a ripenesse as thereby age is hastened through a certaine temper of their bodies either the whole or in some animall part which ripenesse as in other creatures it easily yeeldeth to rottennesse so in our nature that speedy maturitie hasteth to declination and sooner decayeth Thus for your full satisfying I haue called to minde such obiections as do chiefly giue checke vnto that which I haue propounded touching the passions which the body chargeth the soule with now shall you vnderstand the solution clearing of these doubts If you will descend into the consideration of the effectes of poisons in our natures as of henbane coriander hemlock night shade and such like they will giue greater euidence vnto that which these obiections import by which the mind seemeth greatly to be altered quite put beside the reasonable vse of her ingenerate faculties during the force of the poysons which being maistred or at least rebated by cōuenient remedies it recouereth those gifts whero fit was in daunger to suffer wracke before and if it be true which Plato affirmeth that cōmon wealths alter by change of musicke what stablenesse shall we account in the mind which is in this sort subiect to euery blast of chaunge CHAP. XII The aunswere to the former obiections and of the simple facultie of the soule and only organicall of spirite and bodie THESE doubtes before mentioned I will answere in such order as they were in the former chapter obiected beginning with those alterations which the soule seemeth to sustaine from the bodie while it enioyeth health and good state of all his partes of which sorte age yeares first inferre against vs. For the generall aunswere whereof as also for the rest we are to hold two pointes as vnfallible before mentioned the one is the simple faculty of the minde and the other the organicall vse only of the body and spirite which two groundes before I enter into the particular disciphiring of the obiections I will first establish
past you haue bene a patterne to others and there keepe the straightest hand where the lists of reason are most like to be broke through You haue had declared how the excessiue trauaile of animall actions or such as springe from the braine waist and spende that spirite which as it is in the world the only cheerer of all thinges dispenseth that life imparted of God to al other creatures so in mans nature is the only comfort of the terrestriall members which spirite being consumed or empaired leaueth the Massy patrs more heauie grosse and dull and farther of remoued from all prompt and laudable action of life this effect as it is wrought by that kinde of disorder in like manner a perturbation wheron reason sitteth not and holdeth not the raine is of the same aptnes to disturbe the goodly order disposed by iust proportion in our bodies putting the parts of that most consonāt pleasant harmony out of tune deliuer a note to the great discontentment of reason and much against the mindes will which intendeth far other then the corporall instrument effecteth If you will call to minde histories you may remember how some haue died of sorrow and othersome of ioy and some with feare some with ielousie and othersome with loue haue bin bereaued of their witts euen those most excellent in al the parts of reason and sound vnderstanding and therby haue made such perturbance of spirit in their braines that for credite of wisedome and in steade of reputation of discreite men they haue through these latter kindes of vnbridled affections worthely caried the name of fooles and men voide of all discreete consideration in the whole race of their life following This commeth to passe in some by troubling of spirite only which require not alone due quantity and temper but a calme setling and tranquillity moued indifferently as iust matter of perturbation shall giue occasion In othersome by lauish waste and predigall expence of the spirite in one passion which dispensed with iudgement would suffice the execution of many worthy actions besides Hereto may furthermore adde that as a member of the corporall body ouer vehemētly forced by straining is in perill of luxation sometimes thereby becommeth altogether disioynted and the parte looseth the freedome of flexible motion euen so the spirite ouerforcible strained to one vehement passion carieth the disposition of the parte therewith and in giuing ouer by too much yeelding to the violence of our passion stādeth as it were crooked that way and with an ouer reach of the raigning perturbation being past recouery inclineth wholly whereto it was forcibly driuen Wherefore the perturbations are discreetely so to be ruled as alwayes there do remaine sufficient power in reasons hande to restraine Of these some perturbations directly immediatly increase both passion and humour of which sorte are saddenes and feare Other some passing measure not so much of thēselues procure either as they doe feeble the melācholicke bodies as anger and ioy both by excessiue effusion of spirites and suddaine alteration from the heartes contraction to such dilatation as those affections procure In ioy if it breake forth into immoderat laughter then doth it more feeble the melancholickes and breath out there spirites and leaue a paine in their sides and bellies which partes are greatly trauailed in laughter For although it should seeme meete in respect of the thinning of the humor by flowing of spirite and blood into the outward partes from the inward center and alteration of the passion by the contrary affection yet the feeblenes of their bodies and skant of spirites their humors being vnapt for plentiful supplie respect not that consideration but require such an expulsion of one affection by the other that the bodie it selfe notwithstanding sustaine no detrement otherwise the combate would be so sore that nature not being able to beare the force of ech passion would be dissolued by violence of that contention So that as all matter of feare is to be abandonned excessiue ioy is also to be eschewed as a great feebler of melancholick persons chiefly if they be women or of tender and rare habite If the melancholie rise of any perturbation that especially is to be altered brought into a mediocrity wherof the passion take first beginning Among them feare and heauines are of most force and as they are procured according to the vehemency of the cause so the kinde of heauines and feare more or lesse encoūtereth reason and frighteth the melancholicke heart We both feare and are sadde for the losse of those things which with delight and pleasure in time past we enioyed and are tormented with despaire and griefe when in those thinges which we desire there is no hope to lay hold on Among the sundrie sortes of subiectes to these passions some are of necessity and some of pleasure Such as are of necessity either respect the natural maintenance of our bodies and liues or honest reputation amongest men The naturall maintenāce of life is of such force in this case that it moueth beyonde measure euen the wisest and most setled and admitteth no moderation If it be imbecillitie of body voide of paine it is borne more tolerable Reputation mē of vertuous and couragious disposition tender as their liues wherby they are in a manner in like case and sometimes more affected with hazard thereof then if life were in daunger The reason is because credite and estimation toucheth the whole person of the man and not either minde or body onely hath the least meanes being oncelost to be recouered againe and besides the disgrace in this life man being immortall in soule standeth in awe of the perpetual note of infamy which may remaine after his death This passion is most hardlie borne of the ambitious and proude man in respect of that opinion he entertaineth of his owne worthines next vnto him it setleth deep in the minde enlarged with the vertue called magnanimitie in respect his honor aunswereth not his merites The obiectes which are pleasant if they be naturall and not helonging to any one part but vnto the whole nature of which sorte is that loue which vpholdeth the propagation of kinde and is the onely glue to couple the ioynts of this great frame of the world together Here reason is often times failed of the passion and carried captiue submitteth where it should haue preeminēce rule If it be of other things which nature hath not so wedded together the losse is borne with more tolleration and where there is peril of want in them despaire toucheth more lightly In respect of their owne nature such is the condition of the thinges we desire in this world But because the diuerse qualities of men taketh them sometimes otherwise therfore that passion and those occasions most vrge as the partie is therwith most passionate some one way some an other as nature bendeth or education hath framed In these cases of griefe and