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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49177	Academical discourses upon several choice and pleasant subjects / written by the learned and famous Loredano ; Englished by J.B.	Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.; J. B.	1664 (1664)	Wing L3064; ESTC R30956	41,882	130

of Civility than of Conscience If I have not performed it sufficiently that cannot be esteemed a crime or make me deserve their hate since he acquits himself fully that performs what he is able and is not defective to his power in serving them X. Whether blushing be a sign of Vertue THose that believes that blushing is a sign of Vertues ought only know how to Blush But I who have by experience found the prejudice of blushing can affirme with reason that it is rather an argument of vice than of virtue An accident that flows from many unhandsome causes and imperfections cannot be a sign of merit since no man can be thought praise worthy for what he does accidently and therefore what esteem can he deserve for that which is not his but accidently They that blush do fear So Arist. will have it Rubescunt qui timore officiuntur He that fears is pusillanimous and base Degeneres animos timor arguit Sings Virg. Therefore who can affirm that fear the Of-spring and Issue of baseness can be a testimony of vertue Blushing be tokens shame for our errors Rubescunt says Alex. ab Alex. qui pudent He that is asham'd hath erred and shall we then believe that to be a good effect which proceeds from so bad a cause That the Plants of Vertue should spring from roots of Vice They that have such flames in their faces must needs have a fire in their bosomes and who can affirme that soul is not black that is ever exposed to so much heat or that heart not suffocated which is buried amidst so many Coales Cinders Blushing is a reproof for some guilt as if the bloud were sent from the heart into the face to correct or restrain the errors of the hand or tongue He that blushes cannot merit because that act is violent not voluntary and even as we cannot sin without the assent of the will so neither can one merit without the consent of the Soul or mind Blushing is an affect of the Ambition of the heart which perhaps would express its sentiments beyond the volibility of the tongue but wanting the power of speech imprints those Characters on the Cheeks to be the better understood The accidental signs and appearances in the face of Heaven can be token nothing but malignant effects 〈◊〉 do ever presage some evils The face of man is the Heaven of tha● Microcosme being marked therefore with those signs of blushes it cannot betoken any Vertue Blushing is nothing else but a concourse of blood Rubor says Simplicius fit cum sanguis recurrit à corde ad faciem Wrath Ambition Lust and a thousand other vices are occasioned by the concourse of blood and therefore cannot deserve praise or signifie vertue Blushing is an imperfection and therefore Women who are more imperfect and more enclined to commit errors than men are more subject to blush Lovers wax pale because knowing that blushing betokens no vertue or goodness it cannot help them to attain the affections or esteem of their beloved and indeed who would not suspect that heart of cruelty that wears those bloody Colours on the Face Wiser in this then any other thing are many Women who to conceale this sign of shame paint themselves to hide their blushing that so the most curious eye may not be able to find them guilty of the least crime or errour Wherefore do you think wise nature ordaines men old men especially to become bloodless pale and wan and their faces to be covered with overgrowing hair but only to hinder or hide their blushing it being convenient only for Women and Children as most subject to failings and guilty errours I have chosen to speak this whil'st every one was drouzy that I might not be seen to Blush And I have blamed it that I might not be thought to praise my self being so subject to this imbecillity And I would have said more did I not fear I should be forced to blush at my Prolixity XI Whether one can Kiss their beloved without Lasciviousness or Sensuality SOme verily esteem Kissing to be a thing of smal moment Rem ajunt esse oscula inanem Says Theoc. And this is so approved by Pi●istratus a Tyrant of Athens a man otherwise odious for his enormous cruelty who being instigated by his wife to chastize a youth that had Kissed her daughter openly in the street he smiling said what would'st thou have done to thy enemies since thou desirest I should punish him who by kissing thy daughter shows he is her friend Guarini likewise makes but smal reck'ning of it since he writes One Kiss for so much pain and trouble Cruel One Kiss for so much Faith my hearts dear Jewel The great reward you vow'd and promised me Cannot with empty Kisses payed be But that one can Kiss the beloved person without Lasciviousness or Sensuality I believe it an impossible supposition and a conceit of such an imagination as knows or has no other ground of truth than in their souls that know not the power of Kisses T is true that a Kiss as Plato says is a conjunction of the Soul more than the Lips transmitting sweet and lively spirits into eithers heart Dum semibulco suavio Meum puellum suavior Dulcemque florem spiritus Duco ex aperto tramite Anima tune aegra saucia Cucurrit ad labiae mihi c. Now this Conjunction withall being made with these humane and corporial organes it is impossible but they must impart some Lascivious sensuality thereby and affect the sences with it Which Plato also affirms saying that love is begotten by some certain invisible spirits which subtilly are transmitted from the beloved Eyes into the Lovers heart Qui videtis peccat qui non te viderit ergo Non cupiet facti crimina lumen habit If therefore it be true that the Eyes by vertue of their looks only have so much power to inchant a soul what cannot the Lips do which are so full of those Amorous Philters and can so easily call forth the Soul unto them There 's none shall either Hands or Lips controule I 'le Kiss thee through I 'le Kiss thy very Soul Quid enim aliud faciunt says Favorinus qui ora mutus tangunt quam animas conjungunt and Rufinus the Poet Tangit autem non in summis laboris sed trahens Os animam etiam ex unguibus extrahit A Kiss violated Claudius Caesar to the incestuous match with Agrippina Kisses are Lovers rewards to which they aspire with Myriads of Prayers and sighs and services And therefore if Kissing were without sensuality Lovers would never shew so much greedy desire and avidity for them nor would the beloved be so niggardly and sparing of them Petrarch who understood perhaps more than any other what were the effects of Love speaking of his Laura's Kisses says A Kiss it is makes every one rejoyce Now if the sight or beholding others only Kiss have