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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

PROBLEMES OF BEAVTIE and all humane affections Written in Italian by Tho Buoni cittizen of Lucca With a discourse of Beauty by the same Author Translated into English by S. L. Gent. AT LONDON Printed by G. Eld for Edward Blount and William Aspley 1606. To the right worthy and my honorable friend Maister Samson Lennard Esquire AMongst those many duties that are required in a man any way obliged for a benefit receaued Seneca setteth this downe for one Caue ne clam gratiam referas Take heed least thou smoother thy thankfulnesse in such a manner as if thou were ashamed either of him from whom thou receiuest or of thy selfe that thou shouldest receiue for Ingratus est qÃ¼i remotis arbitris gratias agit This is the reason right worshipfull that hath made me bold at this time to dedicate these my simple labours vnto your selfe not because I thinke them any way worthy your worthinesse or sufficient in the smallest proportion that may be to requite those infinite bounties I haue receiued from you but to make knowne vnto the world that I am not ashamed to acknowledge how much I am bound to bee thankfull and how little I am able to expresse my thankfulnesse as I should that haue no better meanes to requite then by crauing more that is by humbly intreating that you will bee pleased as a full recompence of your former goodnesse in supplying my wants in this little worke to protect my infirmities you shall thereby not onely adde much vnto your former kindnesses but giue quickning and spirit to my future studies and make me bold by your fauourable acceptance of this to vndertake matter of farre greater consequence and better befitting your worthy patronage Which I doe the more willingly promise because I want not will to performe it For pity it were but I should euer liue in wants if I should euer liue to want will euer to loue and honour him that hath euer supplied my wants And though this be reason enough to binde me to more then I can either doe or promise yet Nature and Name and bloud and neere alliance challenge a greater dutie at my hands and if none of these were yet forasmuch as I know not any vpon whom it hath pleased God with a more bountifull hand to poure down his earthly blessings in this life then vpon your selfe it cannot but be wisdome in me to make choise of him to blesse this worke whom God hath so blessed in this world Pardon me Good Sir if out of a true acknowledgment of Gods goodnes towards you and by you towards me and mine and not from any the least touch of vaine glory or flatterie or doubt of the like acknowledgement in your selfe I be bold to tell you for to my owne comfort I speake it that God hath from time to time euen from your cradle vnto this day cheered you vp with a bountifull change and variety of his blessings First with a Father whose prouident care for your education when you could not prouide for your selfe made you a man before you came to mans estate and layd a foundation so firme not onely for your owne future benefit but for the ensuing felicity both of yours and his posterity in this world as that I cannot but ioy in the remembrance of his wisedome and carefull foresight and congratulate the happy successe thereof in your selfe I meane in prouiding for you in your riper yeares and his declining time a better comfort to supply his want euen that honorable Lady your deare and louing wife who hath not onely multiplyed your happinesse in this life by her many vertues and euen vâ—speakable affection towards you but by her large and lawfull patrimony the reuenewes and honour of an ancient Baronie to yours and her heires for euer lineally dâ—scending from so many noble Lords her parents and honourable Progenitors From both whose loynes hath sprong a third blessing not much inferiour to the rest not onely numerosa proles many children but many good and among the rest your worthy sonne Sir Henry Lennard whose name and nature I must alwayes loue and honour as heire both to your honours and honourable vertues Thus hath God euer blest you a child a husband and a father and thus God euer blesse you and adde vnto these his blessings a long life that you may long liue to be a blessing to other men and to patronage this and my future labours in this kinde Touching which worke so vnworthy your acceptance let me intreate you not to sticke in the title or to thinke it a subiect vnworthy your grauitie being grauely handled It is one thing to write of passion and another to bee subiect to passion The best and grauest writers haue writte thereof and it vnbefittes not any man to reade what they haue written The Author I will not commend let the worke commend the Author The translation I must not commend onely I wish the volume had beene farre greater so lesse Philosophicall Howsoeuer if it finde fauour in your eye I haue my desire and I shall thinke it the greatest happinesse that euer befell me in this life to haue done any thing that may content him by whom I liue And so I end wishing you all happinesse in this life and after this life that which neuer hath end From my lodging in Westminster 30. Aprilis 1606. Your Worships in all duty to be commanded Sams Lennard A discourse of the Author vpon Beauty AMongst those cleare lights which in the middest of the darknesse of ignorance can direct the minde of man to the knowledge of the magnificence of our great God the clearest and most resplendant seemeth to be that of Beauty which shineth not in one only part of the vniuersall but in the whole appeareth not only in things animate but inanimate sheweth her greatnesse not onely in the accidents but in the substance layeth open her riches not onely in the Elements but in the compoundes not onely in the superficiall part of the earth but euen within the bowels thereof as within a safe treasury hideth her manifold beauties extendeth her golden rayes not onely to things visible but inuisible manifesteth her sparkling lustres not onely to things earthly but heauenly So that ascending euen from the lowest things that are vnto the highest we do still discouer the greater wonders of this so great a God communicated vnto vs by the arch-Arch-figure of al beauties Hence it is that the Platonists would that passing by the creatures as it were by so many steps or degrees of nature we should ascende to the knowledge of that supreme Monarch who with his infinite power and vnspeakeable wisedome causeth that ornament of Beauty to shine in euery part which to no other ende benigne nature hath framed an ingin so heigh and so wonderful then to direct vs to the knowledge of those attributes which in truth are dew vnto him And therefore saith the father of all Romaine eloquence Quid

mercilesse sea then not to enrich our selues by whatsoeuer shall come vnto our hands Here I passe with silence those benefits that arise vnto al liuing creatures being pricked forward by the spurre of Desire to exercise that strength and agility of their members that nature hath giuen vnto them and therefore no maruell if vigilant Nature alwayes working without wearinesse haue bestowed so excellent an affection vpon all creatures to keepe them from idlenesse VVhy is Desire the first lawfull birth or first borne of Loue Probleme 80. PErhaps because humane Loue not setling it selfe in that pleasing content which it hath from the Beauty of the aspect or countenance beloued which to the nature of Loue is intrinsicall yea formally loue it selfe but as being accompanied with sense and reason passeth likewise to the Desire thereof as it is delightfull in it selfe and possible to bee attayned and with all earnest endeuour seeketh the fruition thereof Or Perhaps because it is natural that Desire should be kindled in the hearts of those that Loue because delight by the meanes of Beauty touching the sense mooueth the sensible appetite at which motion the figure or Image of some excellent thing being framed to the inward sense the reasonable Desire maketh knowne his force by a willingnesse to possesse the thing that is framed And from hence it ariseth that Louers being prouoked by this inflamed Desire become bolde and venturous to any attempts prompt and ready to vndergo labour and toyle fly no dangers no cares to attaine their desired ende For the office of the mouing vertue is to serue that ready Desire which extendeth it selfe to all the members Or Perhaps because Desire is as it were a property which ariseth from his subiect Loue and therefore Desire is as the effect and Loue as the cause VVhy is Desire infinite and endlesse Probleme 81. PErhaps because the minde is of such excellencie that being made like vnto our great God it hath an appetite at least enclining to infinitenesse which alwayes searching alwaies seeketh with earnest desire which may plainly appeare in man who ascending by the creatures of God as by a Ladder to the contemplation of all sciences doth neuer by all the excellent knowledges that are rest fully satisfied but in his riper yeares hauing already tasted the sweetnesse of both humane and diuine wisdome he doth euery day more and more desire to clime higher and not contented to haue passed the highest Spheares of the heauens and all visible nature with a thousand speculations he attempteth the knowledge of visible nature euen the chiefest good which is God himselfe And forasmuch as euery nature is infinite and all knowledge thereof like vnto it selfe yea the very nature of the first Essens or being as it is comprehended by a created vnderstanding is also infinite it can neuer in this inferiour world by any length of time rest satisfied vntill it vnite it selfe to the chiefe Creator of all things and that by grace in another life And from hence likewise it commeth to passe that men being mocked by their sense and caryed by the force of that appetite and desire which they call reasonable desiring golde with an vnquenchable thirst they attempt the getting and possession of it and hauing obteined a full fruition thereof their desires are nothing alayde but as riches encrease so desires encrease with them for that which is capable of God himselfe whatsoeuer is lesse then God can neuer satisfie So likewise others bring spurred forward by a desire of delight in some subiect or other are strangely enflamed with a greedy kind of longing after it which they doe no sooner enioy but allured by the corrupt sense they are as much enflamed with the desire of new pleasures and assaye new meanes be they neuer so vnlawfull to attaine vnto it little dreaming in the meane time that that delight which can satisfie our desires no man hath euer found in those lower partes nor euer shall For it is God alone who in this life cannot be discerned by mortall eye that in the other life can giue vs absolute and eternall happinesse Or Perhaps the variety of things in the variety of interchangeable time being adorned with like variety of vnspeakable Beauties either of the parts or of the whole with the diuers states of the Bodily coÌ„plexions which beeing moued from their naturall and wonted seates carry men to diuers and sundry appetites may be a strong and mighty cause of this vnsatiable desire in man For euery thing presented vnto the sense whether it be truely fayre and good or appearingly like another Adamant which by a hidden vertue draweth the iron vnto it allureth the sense moueth the affection and being moued by a present intentiall delight it knowes not how to desire it that it may enioy it And forasmuch as the variety of beautyfull obiects fit to allure the sense is infinite no maruell if man in his desires be as infinite VVhy do diuers men desire diuersly Probleme 82. PErhaps because men beeing inflamed by the inuisible fire of wise â—rouident nature which especially wilâ—eth and desireth in humane kind a soâ—iable life by that commodity which â—he vnion of hearts bringeth with it â—hey are likewise inflamed to a feruent â—esire of some particular good to the â—nde that that beeing gotten by the â—weate both of their own other meÌ„s â—rowes they may prise it accordingly yet if honesty forbid it not nor coueâ—se thereof they might gently libeâ—ally communicate it vnto those who â—or the supply of their necessities desire â— So that both the one and the other â—hewing themselues prompt and ready â—t al occasioÌ„s there might arise a greate â—ond of amity friendship and a faâ—ter knot of good fellowship And therfore hath nature ordained that some desiring the knowledge both of diuine humane Sciences by dayly labours and nightly watchings should endeuour to attaine vnto them that hauing possest themselues of so riche a treasure they might impart some portion of their knowledge vnto others That others thirsting after golde and transitory riches by a thousand trickes and deuises they might heape vp mountaines of treasure that when they were possessed of them or rather glutted with them they might employ them both to the publicke good of the common weale and priuate benefit of as many as stand in need of them that others puffed vp with a desire of glory should follow the field and by their armes and valiant seruice mount themselues vp to the thrones of Kings and Emperours so communicate their honours to their whole families their trophies to their countries and drawe others by an honourable immitation to immortallitie That others drawne by the amiable chaine of vertue might by the helpe of good discipline adorne themselues with honourable conditions that therby they might be an ornament to their Citty and Cittizens a light vnto the Court a glory vnto themselues to all honourable mindes an excellent

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