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A15775	The passions of the minde in generall. Corrected, enlarged, and with sundry new discourses augmented. By Thomas Wright. With a treatise thereto adioyning of the clymatericall yeare, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth	Wright, Thomas, d. 1624.; Wright, Thomas, d. 1624. Succinct philosophicall declaration of the nature of clymactericall yeeres, occasioned by the death of Queene Elizabeth. aut	1604 (1604)	STC 26040; ESTC S121118	206,045	400

THE PASSIONS OF THE minde in generall Corrected enlarged and with sundry new discourses augmented By Thomas Wright With a treatise thereto adioyning of the Clymatericall yeare occasioned by the death of Queene ELIZABETH Si ignoraste ô pulcherima inter mulieres egredere abi post vestegia gregum pasce haedos tuos iuxta tabernacula pastorum Cant. 1. If thou know not thy selfe O fayrest among women goe foorth and follow the steps of thy flocks and feede thy Kiddes by the tabernacles of Shepheards Cant. 1. LONDON Printed by Valentine Simmes for Walter Burre and are to be sold in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Crane Anno. 1604. TO The right Honorable my very good Lord the Earle of Southampton SOme seaven yeares ago right Honorable I was requested by divers worthy Gentlemē to write briefly some pithie discourse about the passions of the minde because as they sayd they were things ever in vse and seldome without abuse they were dayly yea and almost hourely felt no lesse craftie then dangerous much talkt of and as yet never well taught Their demaund seemed to me so reasonable honest profitable and delightfull as I deemed it discourtesie and incivilitie not to condescend to satisfie their sute A treatise hereupon I penned but I know not how in the inundation of my crosses it suffered shipwrack with the rest of my writings and at what time I supposed it had bin lying rotting in the bottome of the sea a favorable gale brought it ashoare where being found belike by some that liked it well was taken vp entertayned and dispersed abroad When I beheld it I wondred and could not tell whether to reioyce to see mine aborted infant revived or feare whether it had bin maymed and corrupted for I doubted it had passed by some hands which might have cavsed me speake in a language I never vnderstood At last I fell a perusing of it and in deede found it had not bin hardly vsed but kindly dealt withall what escapes were overslipped proceeded rather from the vncorrected copie for of three this was most vnpersit then from any vncivill entertaynement After that the whole impression was dispersed the Printer made meanes to have me adde what I thought wanting and to amend that I iudged amisse And so I have augmented this edition with as much more as the first copie conteyned The which after I had absolved it seemed of it selfe by a connaturall sympathie to present it selfe vnto your Honour For literall labours are vsually offered to such personages with whom they particularly consort and how could any passions finde out a person more proportionate then your Honour They concerne Gentlemen and Noblemen to guide them in the way of civill conversation Your Gentrie is well knowne they appertayne to souldiours to stirre them vp to courage and magnanimitie your martiall prowesse are patent at home and famous abroad They belong to Magistrates and officers for discovery and manage of subiects your place and evident hopes of further preserment presage that this part cannot but agree to you For me thinks as often as I consider your presence about his Maiestie it seemeth to me with mine eyes to behold an other matchlesse Parmenio for trust and fidelitie about our invincible Alexander of the North. Wherefore my passions being provided for Courts Fields and Senates finde in you vnited that they sought for dispersed for as it is di●●icill to determine which of them hath chiefest part in you so it is easie for me to resolve how fit this discourse is for you which levelleth at all three I doubt not but I might say to you as Plotinus a famous Philosopher in Rome sayd to Origen when he entred into his Schoole to heare him reade who presently at Origens aspect rubore suffusus blushing ceased to speake Origen Porphyr in vita Plot. requested him to proceede Plotinus replied that it was time for a professour to hold his peace when his auditors before-hand knew what he intended to teach You need not learne of me those things which both by studie and practise you have attayned vnto yet it is no small comfort for a man to see either that he knoweth confirmed or that he doeth approved If these sillie labours shall content your Honour I wish no other recompence for that which liketh you in this kinde I know will not dislike the best and that which pleaseth the best by right reason should be a good inducement to content all If these blasted leaves be acceptable to your Lordship when the fruites are ripe you shall receive a fatter crop in the meane time Christ Iesus preserve you in his grace protect you from your enemies and deliver you from inordinate Passions Your Honours devoted servant Thomas Wright THE PREFACE vnto the Reader I Have divers times weighed with my selfe whence-from it should proceed that Italians and Spaniardes with other inhabitants ●eyond the Alpes should account ● lemings Englishmen Scots and other Nations Tramontani sem●●● dwelling on this side simple vncircumspect vnwarie easie to be deceyved and circumvented by them And the cause of my doubting was for that I had perceived by long experience in Schooles both in Spaine Italie France and Flaunders that ●emings Scots and Englishmen were ever equall and rather deeper Schollers than eyther Italians or Spaniards so many for so many Whereunto we may adde the proofe of former ages wherein all the worlde will confesse that our Nation hath yeelded as profound and learned Schoole-men as any Nation vnder the Sunne in like quantity and pr●portion For what Countrie in any age did ever represent vnto the world such venerable w●ttes as England by yeelding our venerable Bede who borne in a corner of the world comprehended the whole world in his boundiesse apprehension iudgement what age ever see before our Alexander de Hales a Divine more ●rrefragable in all his doctrine and opinions the chiefe master of Schoole-men before that England sent him into ●rance In what Countrie ever appeared such a mirrour of learning of subtilitie of brevitie of perspicuitie in deepest matters and vnto worthy spirites as when Scotus shewed himselfe in the chayre at Oxford whom for his worth some other Countries with no lesse vntrueth than ambition have challenged for theirs and would have bereaved England of one of the worthies of the world What might I not say of O cams of Bacons of Middletons in forraine Nations more accounted of than prized at home whose doctrine the best highly esteeme whose wittes the wisest admire and whose opinions innumerable Doctors doe follow Wherefore we may well glory in this that our Countrie hath affoorded most of the masters of the chiefest Wits which at this time both Scotists Reals and Nominals do follow eyther in Philosophie or Divinitie And yet for all this our Nation is accounted simple and vnwise among divers others Moreover let vs cast our eyes vpon all sortes of Artes and Trades from the very shooe vnto the