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A14592	A paterne of a passionate minde conteining a briefe description of the sundry straunge affects of the minde of man : in the ende where-of is set downe a lesson, meete to be learned of all estates in generall.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616. Philosophical discourse, entituled, The anatomie of the minde.; H. W.	1580 (1580)	STC 24905.3; ESTC S2952	14,715	50

Sadnesse is to be condempned but grauitie is commendable Of Pensiuenesse Pensiuenesse is a dolefull or wéeping sorrowfulnes and withereth the body of man Of Mourning Mourning is a sorrow conceiued of y e death of him which was dere to vs. Their deathes whose lyues haue béne good and without any notorious crime shoulde alwayes be a comforte vnto vs by a continual remembrance Patiently should that be borne which no strength can ouercome nor counsayle auoyd He dyeth not vntimely which dyeth vertuously Of Troublesomnesse Troublesomnesse is a laborsome sorrow No dolour nor daunger ought we to shunne and auoyd if there-by we may doe good Of Lamentation Lamentation is a sorrowfulnesse shewed by a certeine howlyng crying out Of Carefulnesse Carefulnesse is a sorrowfulnesse of the minde procéeding frō some great and déepe cogitation fixed at the hart Study carefulnes in a naughty disposed persō causeth gret hurt but in a good and vertuous person it conuerteth all his endeuors to good exercises Of Molestation and Affliction Molestation is a griefe of minde not ceasing but continuing Of Desperation Despayre is a sorrowfulnesse with-out all hope of better fortune Who contrary to the wil and time prescribed of God will parte the soule from the body perpetually he is to be punished Of mortall vertues lyfe and of the chiefest felicity SOme men haue supposed the delight of the minde to be the chiefest felicicitie Others the beastly pleasure of the body Others a good constitution of the body and perpetuall health without sicknesse Some haue thought honesty linked with pleasure Some to be frée frō sorrow and griefe of minde some learning profound knowledge some to liue honestly and to folow vertue some not to declyne from the law of nature some in the goods of nature fortune and the minde so that howe many sectes so many sentences how many men so many opynions Felicity is a vertuous prosperity or a floryshing estate ioyned wyth an honest conuersation or els a way sufficiently of it self teaching how to liue well or a lyfe indued with al kinde of pleasure quiet and gloryous Of the goodes of Fortune The goods of Fortune are riches and will of men Nobility Fame Authority Honour many and vertuous Children and such lyke Riches do rather stir to vices then prycke to vertue We shoulde rather gather wealth both to relieue our want and also to succour the necessity of others Riches are according to theyr vse good if they be well vsed bad if they be abused Riches with-out wisedome to vse them can-not honest a man Uertue or good qualityes with-out riches are as it were a candel vnder a bushell Riches without vertue do litle profit A true friende is he whose care is to pleasure his friend in al honest things moued ther-vnto by a méere good-will which he beareth vnto him Noblenesse of byrth is eyther vniuersall or perticuler Uniuersall as to be borne in a noble and famous countrey Perticuler to come of noble parentage An obscure countrey bringeth no credit to a man be he neuer so vertuous And to come of noble parentage and not to be indued with noble qualities is rather a defamation then a glory It is better by vertue and good déedes to get renoune then to depend vpon the opynion of a noble house Then a good name nothing is sooner lost and nothing harder to be recouered As fier cast into the water is quickly quenched so a false accusatiō against an honest lyfe is soone extinguished Honour is the rewarde of vertue Those men haue most excellent wits whiche are pricked with the desire of glory The getting of children in honest wedlocke is one of the chiefest benefits that can be in a common weale Better vnborne then vntaught Of the goodes of Nature By this worde Nature is vnderstoode the vertue force and property of euery thing In this place the goodes of Nature be also vnderstoode all such thinges as are in the body of man as health strength beauty and bignesse If a man want the goodes of Nature he can-not be happy in this lyfe Necessary it is for him that is insolent to be brought to the acknowledging of him selfe by sicknesse or other misery Moste couetous is hee which is desirous to get carefull to kéepe and vnwilling to forgoe He is not valiaunter which killeth a Lyon then he which mortifieth his wilde concupiscences Beauty riches pleasure prosperity causeth forgetfulnesse of our selues Of the goodes of the minde Sweeter and more comfortable are the pleasures of the minde then the delyghtes of the flesh Of ciuill or actiue felicitie A man should not lyue to himselfe but should haue a care of his parents of his children and countrey-men He is a ryght good man which serueth God deuoutly and dealeth vprightly with all men The diffinition of Vertue and hir partes Uertue is nothing but auoydinge wickednesse Fortitude when it excéedeth falleth in-to rashnés when it faynteth in-to childysh fearefulnesse Liberality when it lauisheth out of reason is called prodigality when it is not extended any whit purchaseth the name of Couetousnesse In good thinges nothing is eyther wanting or superfluous Wickednes cannot be cōprehended but godlynesse may Therfore easier it is to become wicked then vertuous Uertue is deuided into foure partes the first is Prudence y e second Temperāce y e third Fortitude y e fourth iustice Of Prudence and hir partes Prudence is a knowledge of good things bad things things indifferent The very cause of all goodnesse is only wisedome by that we know what to eschew as hurtful and againe what to chuse as profitable Socrates much giuen to wickednes by wisdome reformed him selfe and became a good example of a godly man Wisedome doth not commit or do any thing for which she may afterward say Non putaram The partes of which Prudence dependeth are Reason Iudgement Circumspectiō Prouidēce Docility Héede Aristotle adioyneth warines Iolines Craftines Subtilty Righteousnesse Of Reason Reason is an order to do all things by the consideration of things to come Before a man begin any thing consultation shoùlde be had but hauing delyberated spéedy execution Of Vnderstanding Understanding consisteth in descerning truth from falshood and in taking heede least the minde be ouer-much delighted and so deceaued by the vain pleasures of the body By Idlenes mē learn to liue naghtely The way to extinguish the burning passion of loue is to beware of Idlenes He which ruleth others ought to be frée from all affections for anger suffereth not a man to sée that whiche is expedient hatred hasteneth to vniustice loue weakneth the Iudgement lust offereth wrong griefe stirreth to reuengment and enuy ouerthroweth a man Euil manners come by euil company To al men shew a good countenance yet enter familiarity with none but such as are of good conuersation Sodeine coūsail bring spéedy repētance Of Circumspection Circumspection in an especiall care of the minde to bring those things which we haue in hand to a

secretes of our hartes and fréely communicate as if we weare alone those thinges which any way trouble vs whose wisdome is great with whome we may talke boldly familiarly without fayling without dissembling with-out hiding anye thing from him A faythfull friend come wealth come wo come prosperity come aduertie is no chaungeling example of godlinesse then by the thing it self doth corrupt the manners of his subiects For the common sorte of men perswade them selues al y t to be well done which is done by example It is the parte of euery Prince and Magistrate that he beware least by euil example he bring a wicked custome in-to his dominion The vertues of the law are foure to beare sway to forbid to punish suffer The precepts of the law may be comprehended vnder these thrée thinges to liue honestly to hurt no man wilfully to render euery man his due carefully Of Innocency Innocencie is an affection of the mynde which will not molest iniurye nor hurt any man An innocent man in respect of a good cōscience contēneth al worldly things A rumour raysed of nothing vanysheth of his owne accorde Innocency may for a tyme be oppressed but it will ryse againe it may be obscured but it will shine againe it may be ouerwhelmed but it can neuer be drowned The remembraunce of a good conscience is a comfort in aduersitie Euery man should consider that hée is borne to helpe and not to hurt hys felow neighbours Of Friendship Friendship is a naturall good-will of well disposed persons caused through sicknesse of manners and motions of the minde fancying ech other for nothing els but only for y e increase of vertue not for any pleasure or profit The kindes of friendship are three naturall friendship Ciuill and Hospitall Of naturall Friendship Naturall Friendship is deuided into pittie kockring and kynred Againe it is deuided into the loue towards God towardes our parentes and towardes our countrey We ought to behaue our selues towards our parents as we would haue our children loue vs. Nothing is more according to nature then to loue thē of whom we are borne No man is borne for him-selfe but a parte of our byrth our countrey a part of our parents a part our friends should not be ashamed to confesse the same Thankefulnes doth consist in truth and Iustice truth doth acknowledge what is receiued Iustice doth render good-will for good-will and one good tourne for another There is no more manifest signe of an vngratefull minde then to dissemble a debt when we are not able to discharge it He is an vngratefull man with whome the benefite perisheth but he more vngratefull which will forgette the same It is impietie not to loue our Parents but not to acknowledge them is more then madnesse That is not well giuen which is not willyngly giuen How much a benefite is lyngered before it is bestowed so much it léeseth of his grace We had rather léese all then long for a thing The gift of an enemie better vntaken then receiued As good it were to eate meat from a serpents mouth as to take a benefite of our enimy in both daunger in both death Hee which receiueth a benefite should not onely remember it but requite the same lyberally and fruitfully according to the nature of y e earth which rendereth more frut then it receiueth séede Pietie is onely a gratefull good wil towards our parents Of Gentlenesse Greatly are inferiours bent to perfect obedience whē they perceiue their Prince gentle and easie to be spoken with-all not scornefull or full of disdaine A Prince shoulde bée for countenaunce so amiable and for behauiour so gentle to towards his subiects as none at any time should goe from his presence pensiue or troubled in minde Of Faithfulnesse Faith is a constancie and performaunce of that which is promised FINIS Neither doth prosperitie manifest a friend nor aduersitie hide a flatterer Of Hospitalitie This friendship of Hospitalitie is deuided into foure parts wher-off one is called a glorious enterteinment of men onely to be thought off an other is a couetous kinde of hospitalitie only for the penny the third is a courteous receiuing either of our friends or straungers the last is a relygious enterteinment of al such as truly without hipocrisie serue God Hospitalitie should be only for the release of such as are pinched with pouertie Of Concord Concord is a tower of strength inuincible against all inuasions The common weale with common aide is defended if men cleaue not vnto parts Of Godlinesse Godlines is a Religious worshipping of God In defending Religion both with others and alone oughte we to fight against our foes Rare few are those men which call them-selues from the world and are taken with an earnest desire of heuenly things With-out the vnderstanding of the wil of God by his word our sight is but blindnesse our vnderstanding ignoraunce our wisedome foolishnes and our deuotion diuelyshnesse Of Humanitie Humanitie is to be obserued of such as will be called humaine or courteous for nothing should be more contrary to mans Nature then to offer iniury to any Humanitie teacheth vs to abandon crueltie to loue cherish one another euen bicause we are men of one nature reasonable by y e reason gentle with-out crueltie not fierce without mercie as are sauage beasts According as man doth excell in riches let him towards the poore excéede in lyberalytie Of Gratefulnesse Gratefulnesse is nothing els but to kéepe a benefite in memory He which doth receiue a good tourne THe giuer of all goodnesse God almightie so assist vs with his holye Spirit that affections may so remaine with-in vs as they doe not raunge and stirre to wickednesse but that they being rather banished or abated and brideled by the Spirite of God we may embrace Uertue which God hath promised in this worlde to reward and in the world to come not to sée vnrequited WHo will sée more of this matter at large let him reade Master Rogers Booke of Morall Philosophie Entituled The Anatomie of the Minde FINIS H.W. ¶ A BRIEFE LESSON for all estates KEepe counsell Use not manye words Tell the trueth Bridle thine anger Appease debate Hinder no mans good name Take héede of drinke Remember thy ende Be mercifull Trye before thou trust Repose no confidence in a reconciled aduersary Sorow not for that which can-not be got again Reioice not in thy neighbours crosse Striue not with thy ouer-match Reueale not thy secretes to thy wife nor to thy children For women children say all they know Three things vndid the Romaines raigne priuie grude young heads priuate gaine Beare with others as thou wouldst haue others beare with thée Be not too rash hastie bold nor wise in thine owne conceipt Doe not speake all thou knowst Doe not beleeue all thou hearest Doe not doe all thou canst Doe not say all thou seest Behold the ende ere thou begin Haue minde on death feare to sin For death shall reap y t life hath sown And lyfe shall spring where death hath mowen Though Fortune haue set thee on hie Remember yet that thou shalt die Abstinence is good for the health and vvealth of the Soule Abstinence is good for the health and vvealth of the Minde Abstinence is good for the health and vvealth of the and Body If thou flye Idlenesse Cupid hath no might His Bowe lyeth broken his fire hath no light FEARE GOD. And kéepe his Commaundements FINIS Printed by Thomas East 1580.

Not the inequality of power but the dissētion of mindes maketh dissention By discord the greatest things come to nought and by the same the world and all thynges els shall perysh An angry man in his heate dyffereth not from a mad man beholde his lookes his colour his iesture voice wordes and behauiour and no difference shall you finde Of Loue. Loue is a diuine mistery giuen vnto man for his conseruation comforte The greatest and moste burning affection is Loue for Loue is the bond of friendshyp A wise man may loue so long as it is without care and sighing The cause of Loue is delyght which by the aspect and sight of beauty is taken whosoeuer in viewing and beholding taketh no pleasure can at no tyme loue in déede Loue is an vnsatiable desire intruding it self into man by some wonderfull beautye a passion vnméete for a noble man The effects of loue are straunge more to be shunned then anye other perturbation This loue vexeth the minde and casteth the body into sickenesse Loue is the cause of deadly hatred and can abide no partner in the same Loue makes valyant captains most vile captiues and those which are subduers of the stoutest to be in subiection to the most abiects Through loue whoredome deflouring adultery incest are committed Loue is remedied either by fasting by time or w t an halter for good chéere nourisheth and increaseth loue time doth take away or at y e least asswage the same But if neither fasting nor time wil do good then the next remedy is to take an halter hang him selfe Of desire and longing Longing is an immoderate desire of a thing wished for and therefore hastening is a lyngring to him which longeth Euery thing is most estéemed whē either it beginneth to want or we altogether lack it wherfore it appeareth that we know what a thing is and of what estimatiō when we haue it not It is vnméete for any wise bodye whose part is to beare patiētly which must néedes be borne to be subiect to this perturbation of longing Of Feare and Sorrow Feare is an opinion of some euill comming towards vs which séemeth to be intollerable A wise and valyant man shoulde alwayes bée héedefull but neuer fearefull for there is more euil in fering then that which is feared A mā wer better to repēt him of his il fortune thē to be ashamed of y e victory Of Slothfulnesse Slothfulnesse is a feare of labour to ensue as dilygence helpeth prospereth al enterprises so contrariwise Slothfulnesse marreth euery thing Slothfulnes riseth of too much abūdance Idlenes maketh of men womē of womē beasts of beasts mōsters It commeth to passe often-times that industrious and dilygent men by their paynes excell euen those to whō Nature hath bene most beneficiall Of Bashfulnesse Bashfulnesse is a feare of iust reprehension or it is a vehement motion of the minde flying shame desiring commendation it is the best ruler of the lusts when it is raysed by the care and studie of honestie Bashfulnes is raised somtime by ill déedes but shamefastnesse is alwayes through consideration of goodnesse Of Terror Terror is a certein fere springing frō y e imaginatiō of an vnacustomed thing He is properly called a valiāt man to whom y e feare of an honest death doth strike no terror Of Dread Dread is a feare that troubleth the minde before any euil doth happen Dread maketh vs not to enioy our riches nor other commodities of this lyfe through a feare of death It is the propertie of a wise man with a quiet minde to suffer al things whome prosperitie can-not inflame with disdaine nor aduersitie ouerthrow but those things which he possesseth he inioyeth and those thinges which he hath not he doth not greatly couet Unto euery wise man it belongeth to haue a fore-cast of those thinges which may happen God will not suffer man to haue the knowledge of things to come for if he had a prescience of his prosperitie hée would be carelesse and vnderstanding of his aduersitie he would be senceles Hope of all paissions is the swéetest and most pleasant and héere-off it is sayd that hope cōforteth captaines Of Trembling Tremblyng is a sodain motion of the minde ioyned with an amazednes of the same He is but a wretch who can-not kéepe his griefe in secrete Wicked men séeke the destruction of those which meane best Of Conturbation Conturbation is an affection contrary vnto Fortitude without which nothing can be accomplished worthelye and with commendation The whole glory of a battaile consisteth in the pollycie of a Captaine The head being troubled the mēbers cannot fulfill their dueties Of Fearefulnesse Fearefulnesse is when the minde being mooued doth as it were forsake the body Fearefulnesse is an imbecilitie or weakenesse of Nature in respecte of yeares in childhood or doting olde age or by sickenes or it riseth from a conscience conuict and guiltie of some offence Of Sorrow Sorrow doth cause in the minde of man a biting grief vexation Feare causeth a fight and departinge of the minde Pleasure rayseth an ouer prodigall merinesse and Lust an vnbrideled appetite Sorrow is an vnmeasurable contrition of the minde Of Pitie or Compassion Pitie is a sorrow conceiued by the miseryes of an other man Pitie and mercifulnes brings credite both with God and man A mercifull conquerour a friendly foe Wherefore euery man ought to endeauour to séeme and to be mercifull Of Enuie Enuie is a sorrow taken at the prosperitie or welfare of an other mā As the Auker eateth and destroyeth yron so doth Enuie eate and consume the hearts of the enuyous Such are most enuied as either by wealth riches renoume authoritie or vertue are better then the rest Enuie gotten by vertue obscureth not the name of any man The enuious like of none but such as are causers to bring those which ar at rest and in felycitie into misery Of Emulation Emulation is defined to be a grief of the minde bicause one doth inioye that which we are desirous to haue That man is sayde to emulate which labours with tooth and nayle to get the praise and glorye which an other hath vnto vnto himselfe Emulation brings Infamie vnto those which are infected with y e same when they will contend and chalenge their better Emulation is naught and necessary nought when it springs of an ambitious Enuie and necessarye when it riseth of a vertuous Studye Of Obtrectation Obtrectation is a griefe of minde bicause others woulde haue that which our selues inioy A good thing the more common the more commendable Of Fretting Fretting is a sorrow of the minde mightely bringing downe a man and altering his constitution Of Sadnesse Sadnesse is a sorrow continuing déepely rooted in the minde Melancholyke persons are continually vexed both in minde and body they are very seldome wel at ease bicause they disgest their meate verye ill they are strong in imaginations and for sharpenesse of witte they excell