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or of other affections there is occasion given Chen, and therefore it was well said, "Invidia ait:" for it is ever working upon some or Vald is also noted, that love and envy do make a which other affections do not, because they are not It is also the vilest affection, and the most 1, for which cause it is the proper attribute of the 1, who is called "The envious man, that soweth tares st the wheat by night;"m as it always cometh to pass da uy worketh subtilely, and in the dark, and to the jaslice of good things, such as is the wheat.

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X.-OF LOVE.

THE stage is more beholding to love than the life of man ; tor as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, ometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury. You may observe, that amongst all the great and worthy persons (Acroof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent), Fuc is not one that hath been transported to the mad digice of love, which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion. You must except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half partner of the empire of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the Decemvir and lavgiver; whereof the former was indeed a voluptuous man, and inordinate; but the latter was an austere and wise man: and menfure it seems (though rarely) that love can find Kalakult, pok only into an open heart, but also into a heart Kabuliol, if watch he not well kept. It is a poor saying Habla magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus:'

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whez had been employed in framing the code of Foron na "The Laws of the Twelve Tables." They Tomás korak alive by the infuriated populace. #mulerak Mesme for contemplation, the one for the

as if man, made for the contemplation of heaven and all noble objects, should do nothing but kneel before a little idol, and make himself subject, though not of the mouth (as beasts are), yet of the eye, which was given him for higher purposes. It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature and value of things by this, that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love; neither is it merely in the phrase; for whereas it hath been well said, "That the arch flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self;" certainly the lover is more; for there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, "That it is impossible to love and to be wise." Neither doth this weakness appear to others only, and not to the party loved, but to the loved most of all, except the love be reciprocal; for it is a true rule, that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciprocal, or with an inward and secret contempt; by how much the more men ought to beware of this passion, which loseth not only other things, but itself. As for the other losses, the poet's relation doth well figure them: “That he that preferred Helena, quitted the gifts of Juno and Pallas;" for whosoever esteemeth too much of amorous affection, quitteth both riches and wisdom. This passion hath his floods in the very times of weakness, which are, great prosperity and great adversity, though this latter hath been less observed; both which times kindle love, and make it more fervent, and therefore show it to be the child of folly. They do best who, if they cannot but admit love, yet make it keep quarter, and sever it wholly from their

other." Pope seems, notwithstanding this censure of Bacon to have
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"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan.
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Essay on Man, Ep. ii. 1, 2.

Indeed Lord Bacon seems to have misunderstood the saying of Epicurus, who did not mean to recommend man as the sole object of the bodily vision, but as the proper theme for mental contemplation.

He refers here to the judgment of Paris, mentioned by Ovid in his Epistles, of the Heroines.

serious athis and actions of life; for if it check once with boramose if troubleth men's fortunes, and maketh men that phoy van Howiso be true to their own ends. I know not how, bur wateral mon are given to love: I think it is, but as they are given to wine, for perils commonly ask to be paid in plates There is in man's nature a secret inclination and Mokion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon suus pup or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, at maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is g sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, Houdly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and baseth it.

XI.-OF GREAT PLACE.

MEN in great place are thrice servants-servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of busi; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power ver others, and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing: "Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere." Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither till they when it were reason; but are impatient of privatetes even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; k old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street4, though thereby they offer age to scorn. Certainly s persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to Chink themselves happy; for if they judge by their own

ng, they cannot find it but if they think with themwhat other men think of them, and that other men rund fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were

Hings you are not what you were, there is no reason why you should wish to live"

by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within; for they are the first that find their own griefs, though they be the last that find their own faults. Certainly men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind. "Illi mors gravis incubat, qui notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi." "b In place there is license to do good and evil; whereof the latter is a curse: for in evil the best condition is not to will, the second not to can. But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring; for good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest: for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest. “Et conversus Deus, ut aspiceret opera, quæ fecerunt manus suæ, vidit quod omnia essent bona nimis ;"c and then the Sabbath.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts; and after a time set before thee thine own example; and examine thyself strictly whether thou didst not best at first. Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried themselves ill in the same place; not to set off thyself by taxing their memory, but to direct thyself what to avoid. Reform, therefore, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons; but yet set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them. Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherein and how they have degenerated; but yet ask counsel of both times— of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect; but be not too positive and peremptory; and express thyself well when

b"Death presses heavily upon him, who, well-known to all others, dies unknown to himself."

"And God turned to behold the works which his hands had made, and he saw that everything was very good."-See Gen, i. 31.

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