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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43357	Heraclitus Christianus, or, The man of sorrow being a reflection on all states and conditions of human life : in three books.		1677 (1677)	Wing H1487; ESTC R12496	69,902	193

is nothing else than a Family of envious Persons 't is the most ancient and eldest of all yet nevertheless is it the most practised in our age and seemeth to return to its first insancy The Ancients have had experience of it in Adam and the Serpent in Abel and Cain in Jacob and Esau in Joseph and his Brethren in Saul and David in Ahcitophel and Cush who persecuted one another not so much for the Riches which either of them possessed but for Envy and Hatred which they had one towards another but this is little in respect of what we experience every day amongst Christians for our age is come to that pass that if there could be one found amongst us who had the beauty of Absalom the strength of Sampson the wisdom of Solomon the Agility of Azael the Riches of Cresus the Liberality of Alexander the Vigor and dexterity of Hector the Eloquence of Homer the Fortune of Augustus the Justice of Trajan the zeal of Cicero yet let him be certain of this that the number of his Vertues shall not be greater than the number of those who will envy him and this cursed Vice seizes not only on them who are of a moderate Fortune but those who are of a higher Condition for when they are on the top of the Wheel and think themselves in a peaceable possession of the favours of Kings and Princes some one or other through Envy gives them a cast down from their height and greatness Wherefore the Sage Emperour Marc. Aurelius was wont to say That Envy was such a venomous Serpent that there was scarce ever any Mortal but has been bitten with her teeth and scratched with her claws and trampled on with her feet and poysoned with her venome I have read saith he many Books and conversed with many knowing men in order to the finding out a Remedy against Envy And after much debate and consultation I have found no other means of privation than for one to banish himself from a prosperous Fortune the reason is because that we are the sons of Envy born with Envy and he that shall leave the most goods behind him shall leave the most of Envy And for this cause the Ancients counselled the Rich that they should not dwell near the Poor and the Poor that they should not dwell near the Rich for from the Riches of the Rich sprung the seed of the envy of the Poor Consider we now the Ambition and Pride which reigneth this day amongst us for whoever saw such excessive Pomp in all Estates as we see now so that we may well call our time the age of Satin Plush Purple and Silk wherein is such care and sollicitude taken to adorn and set out this Carcass and in the mean time think not upon nor make no reckoning of our poor Soul which is full of ulcerous sores and wounds and torn and shattered with a great number of sins and enormities with which it is beset and surrounded but let us have a care that after all these things there cometh not that upon us which the Prophet threatned the Women of Jerusalem with who after having reproached them of their proud Gate and D●marche their impudent and lascivious Looks the motions of their Eyes their Head-dressings their Chains Bracelets Rings Girdles Pendants and other their gaudy pompous Dresse He telleth them plainly That instead of Perfumes and sweet Smells they should have stinking and noisom Odours instead of Girdles Cords instead of Curled locks baldness and that their comliest men should pass on the edg of the Sword and the strong and valiant should be slain in the War CHAP. XI Of Love ADD we now to the preceding Miseries another Malady and affliction of spirit which they call Love but so contagious that all States in the World are therewith tainted an Evil so pestilentially venomous that it mingles and plunges promiscuously with all Ages like the Devils who are in all the Elements without sparing any person either old or young wise or foolish weak or strong and the great danger of this Distemper is that they become in the end frantick and transported from their Senses if they are not well looked to and diverted Wherefore Paul Aeginetain in his third Book prescribeth to them who are affected with this Malady the same Physick and Rules of living as he does to Fools Ideots and Mad-men which Empiricles following the counsel of Plato ordained also who defined two sorts of madness one of which he calls Erotakin which signifies in English Love I have seen some persone anatomiz'd who died of this Distemper having their entrails shrivled and shrunk up their Hearts burned their Liver smoaked their Lungs roasted all the ventricles of their Brain damnified their spirits exhausted and dryed up by the excessive heat which they endured when the Feaver of Love had surprized them and as the cure of this Malady is hard and difficult so also is the original doubtful amongst them who have writ of it The Thysicians say That this fury of Love which rageth so vehemently and which so entangleth the whole World proceedeth from the correspondent quality of the blood and that the affection engendreth this Distemper The Astrologers would be a party and have also put their Sickle in the Harvest of Lovers saying That Love proceedeth when two meet having the same ascendant or when they conform in some Constellation for then they are constrained to love each other Philosophers say That when we come to cast our eyes on the thing which we desire suddenly the spirits which are engendred of the subtilest and most perfect part of the Blood part from the heart of the thing which we love and suddenly ascend and mount up to the Eyes and afterwards burst themselves into invisible vapors and so enter into our Eyes which are disposed to represent them just as a spot on a Looking-glass which being looked on from thence penetrateth even to the heart and by little and little dilateth it self every where the miserable Lover being drawn by these new spirits which desire continually to joyn themselves and approach to their principal and natural abode and is constrained to grieve and lament his lost liherty Others after a thousand conceits and guesses were fain to give over their Enquiries as not being able to find out the source and original of so furious a Malady saying That Love was I know not what and came I know not how was enflamed after an unknown manner A thing perhaps not untrue For whosoever shall consider the gestures countenances and behaviour of these poor passionate wretches he will confess that he never saw a more strange Metamorphosis nor a more ridiculous Spectacle Sometimes you shall see them altogether melted into Tears making the air sound with their shreekings and lamentations murmurings and imprecations Sometimes you see them frozen benumb'd pale despairing sliding up and down like-Larves and Phantasms Other times when they have received some comfortable Speeches

good and favourable Looks and kind reception from them whom they love you shall see them gay jocund and airy in so much that you 'l think they are changed into some other shape Sometimes they love private and solitary places that they may talk alone reason design and dispute with themselves Sometimes you 'l see them pass five or six times in a day through the same street to espy and watch that they may have a favourable look from them whom they Love and the poor Varlets have their Skins broken with running their Arms wearied and aking with serubbing rubbing dressing and adorning their Master and if there happens to them any sparks of Jealousie then they mount up to the highest degree of fury and are then in inexpressible peril and danger there being no sensible part about them which is not ulcerated becoming rash bold and ventursom there being no Art Invention or Machine which they produce not becoming Lycanthropes and running up and down in the Nights like howling Wolves and although the Malady be of it self fantastical enough yet according to the humour which it meets withal it worketh strange and wonderful effects For if the Lover be poor there shall be no office of Humanity which he employeth not even to the sacrificing and cutting himself in pieces if need be If he be Rich His Purse as say the Greeks is tied and fastned by a hair If he be Covetous he becometh immediately prodigal and open-handed which moved Plautus to say That Love must be the first Invention of the Wallet If the Person affected be a man of Letters and has any measure of Spirit and Fancy you shall then see him feigning a Sea of Tears a Lake of Miseries redoubling his Cryes accusing the Heavens anatomizing his Heart freezing the Summer burning the Winter adoring idolizing admiring feigning of Paradises forging of Hells making himself a Sisiphus Tantalus Titius and if it happen that he would extol that which he loves then her Hair is nothing but fine Gold her Eye-lids Arches and Vaults of Ivory her Eyes stars her Looks Lightning her Mouth Coral her Teeth Eastern Pearls her Breath Balm Amber and Musk her Throat Snow her Breasts Alabaster and generally all the rest of her Body is nothing else but the prodigality and Treasure of Heaven and of Nature who had reserved her as a choice Vessel wherein she would pour in those eminent and incomparable perfections for which he loves and adores her and thus this cruel Malady of Love torments those who are therewith affected and yet nevertheless there is so many People Nations and Provinces troubled with these furious assaults that were there an Army to be raised of all the Lovers which are in the World there 's no Emperour Monarch or Potentate whatsoever but would tremble at the sight of so many fools in a Company and this Pestilent evil by custom and habit hath gained and prevailed so far on mankind that there cannot be found any Remedy although that many Greek and Arabian Physicians have employed all their most excellent Medicines to deliver them from their Martyrdom Samocrasius Cigidus and Ovid have written many great Tomes and Volumes of the remedy of Love in which they shew Remedies for others but the mischief on it is that they could not find any for themselves they all three dying pursued and destroyed not for the hurt or ill which they did at Rome but for the Amours which they invented at Capua The Emperour Marc. Aurelius knowing that Faustina his wife was enamoured with a Fencer and that so ardently that she was ready to die and pine away for the love of him assembled together a great number of Learned men in all Faculties and Sciences for to advise with and counsel him how he might put out that Fire wherewith his Wife was enflamed but after many consultations some Empericks counselled him That he should cause him on whom she so much doted to be killed and the blood of him to be secretly given her to drink which was speedily executed This indeed was a great Remedy for her affection was cooled but yet was it not of so great efficacy as writeth Capitolin but that Anton. Com. whom they begot afterwards was bloody and cruel and more resembled the Fencer than his Father and conversed ordinarily with those sort of people and delighted more in their than in any other Company so that the passion of the Mother seemed to be translated into the Child But yet is all this but little in respect of what I have read in many Histories the matter coming to that pass that when this foolish Frenzy seizeth and taketh hold on our spirits it maketh us brutish and sensless as is evidently and manifestly shown in a Youth of one of the richest Families in Athens and well known by all the Inhabitants of that City who having oftentimes contemplated an excellently well-made Statue of Marble which was fixed in a publick place in Athens He was so exceedingly taken with it that he could not part from the sight of it as if it had been endued with Life and motion and was so greatly affected that when he was out of the sight of it he cryed and lamented with so great passion that 't would have moved the most harden'd to pity and in the end this passion gained so much upon him that he was reduced to such extremity that he desired the Senate to sell it him at what prize they pleased that he might carry it about with him and have it at home and all places wherever he went Which they would not agree to because it was belonging to the Publick and that their power extended not so far At which being much troubled He caused a Crown of Gold with other rich and sumptuous Ornaments to be made and went towards the Statue putting the Crown on its Head and adorning it with rich Vestments and then began to contemplate and adore it with such obstinacy and pertinaciousness that the Vulgar being scandalized with his foolish and ridiculous Amours he was at last deterred by the Magistrates from coming near it At vvhich he vvas so grievously cast down and troubled that at the end he killed himself For the operations of this passion is so great that since it hath made entrance into the hearts of Men it vvalketh incurable through all the vital and sensible parts of the Body and being in full possession of us causeth an infinite of trouble and sorrow and that so sharply that it many times puts an end and period to our lives vvhich the great Philosopher A Pollonice Thiance confirmed to the King of Babylon vvho vvith importunate Entreaties desired him that he would tell him vvhich vvas the most cruel and painful of all Torments which could be invented by all the secrets of Philosophy that therewith he might punish and chastise a young Gentleman vvhom he had found in Bed vvith a beautiful Damosel whom he affected The greatest Torment saith the