LADY of mine exceedingly controlled by the gout symptoms, being quickly solicited simply by his Physitions, to keep all manner of salt-meats, was will not to answer nicely, that when the fits or perhaps pangs with the disease tooke him, hee would have someone to quarell with, and that crying and cursing, today against Bolonie-sausage, and sometimes by railing against salt neats-tongues, and gammons of bakon, he located some ease.
But in good earnest at the same time the artillerie being raised up to reach, if the heart stroke hit certainly not, but show up void, early feele a few paine in it, and many times reach it out of joynt, which to yeeld our look pleasant, it must not always be lost and dispiersed in the vast ayre, but should rather to experience a limited bound to sustaine that by a sensible distance. Ventus ut amittit vires, nisi robore densæ Occurrant silvæ, spatio diffasus inani. Lucan, 1 . 3. 362.
While windes in emptie ayre diffusd, durability lose, Unlesse thick-old-growne forest their strength go against sb/sth ? disobey. So seemes it the fact that soule relocated and thrown, if your woman have not a few hold for taking, loseth it selfe in it selfe, and need to ever be stored with some object, on what it lumination and worke. Plutarch saith fitly of people affectionate themselves to Monkies and very little Dogges, which the loving portion which is in us, for want of any lawful hold, rather than it will be idle, doth forge a false and careless hold unto itselfe.
And wee notice that the soule in her passions doth rather deceive itselfe, by simply framing a false and fantasticall subject on to itselfe, yes against her owne selfishness, than to not worke after something. Therefore doth their particular owne craze transport monsters to set after the rock or weapon that hath hurt them, yea and frequently with irefull teeth to revenge themselves against themselves, for the hurt or perhaps smart that they feele.
Pannonis haud aliter post utum sævior ursa Cui jaculum parva Lybis amentavit habena, Se rotat in vulnus, telumque irata receptum Impetit, et secum fugientem signal hastam. Lucan, lib. ni. 220. Having said that the wound-enraged Austrian beare, On whom a Moore hath thirld his slinged speare, Wheeles on her wound, and flaming bites the dart, Circling that lures with her, and are not able to part. What causes doe early not invent, for the crosses that happen unto us? bee it right, or incorrect: what take we not hold of, to acquire something to strive withall?
It is not the golden a lock thou tearest, nor the whitenesse in the breast, which thou through vexation and so cruelly dost smite, which have by meanes of an unluckie bullet, shed thy deere-beloved brother: on something else shouldest thou wreake thyselfe. Livius speaking of the Romane armed service in Spaine, after the losse of two great Captaines that were brethren. Flere omnes repente, et offensare household: They all wept and often conquer their heades. It is an ordidarie custome: Plus the philosopher Byon was very pleasant while using king, that for griefe tore his haire, when he said, Doth this guy thinke, that baldnesse is going to asswage his griefe? ho hath not really seene several to chew and consume cardes, aw : wel-nigh choake themselves with bales of dice, just to be revenged for the losse of some money? Xerxes whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the slope Athos: And Cyrus for a lot of daies together ammused his whole armie to be revenged of the riv Gyndus, to get the feare be tooke passing in the same: And Caligula brought on a verie faire home to be defaced, for the pleasure his mother had received inside the same.
When I was youthful, my countrimen were wont to say, That one of our neigbbour- Kings, having received a blow by Gods palm, sware to get revenged on him, and ordained, that for ten yeares space no guy should pray unto him, nor speak of him, nor so long as this individual were in authority, beleeve in him. By which statement, they doe not so much distribute the sottishnesse, as the ambitious glorie, peculiar unto that region of who it was spoken. They are vices that ever goe together: But in fact such actions enclime alternatively unto selfe-conceit, than to fondnes.
Augustus Cæsar having beene beaten by a tempest on the ocean, defied the God Neptune, and in the celebration with the Circensian games, that therefore he might end up being avenged upon him, he caused his image to get removed from out your place, wherever it was standing amongst the additional Gods, in which he is also less justifiable, than the former, and lesse than hee was after, when having lost a battel, underneath Quintilius Varus in Germanie, all in a rage and desperate, he went up and downe beating his bead resistant to the walls, primarily crying out: Oh yea!
Varus, bring back me my personal Souldiers againe: For, these exceed, most follie forsomuch as impietie is joyned unto that that will wreake themselves against God, or perhaps fortune, like she acquired eares susceptible to our timbale: In fake of the Thracians, who in order to lightens or thunders, begin with a Titanian revenge to shoot against heaven, considering by capturing of arrowes to attract God for some reason.
Today, as saith that historical Poet in Plutarch, Stage ne ze faut corroucer aux affaires, Il eine leur chaut de chaque noz coleres. Plutar. Of Contentment, ch. iv. in Amyots transl. We should not upset be for what God dooth, To get he cares not who beares a great angry teeth. But we need to never raile enough resistant to the disorder and unrulinesse of our minde.
