the PAPHIAN Prince The CYPRIAN Queen's blind boy subdues all things All things are subdued by the CYPRIAN Queens blind Boy Meiôsis Tapeinôsis seu Diminutio Love overcometh many things Love overcometh great things Love overcometh no few things Litotes Love overcometh no small things Heterôsis seu mutati◠affirmativorum negativis All things yield to love There is nothing that doth not yield to love There is nothing that is not overcome by love There can be nothing that love doth not overcome Love triumphs over all things There is nothing over which Love doth not triumph Love reigns as Lord and King in all things There are no things in which love doth not reign as Lord and King Mutatu◠Verbu◠Nomine Love is the Conquerour of all things There is nothing of which Love is not the Conquerour Love exerciseth his power in all things There is nothing in which Love exerciseth not his power Love is the strongest of all things There neither is nor can be any thing stronger than Love All things crouch to Love There is nothing that doth not crouch to Love All things feel the power of Love There is nothing that doth not feel the power of Love All things adore the Majesty of Love There is nothing that doth not adore the Majesty of Love Nothing ever overcame Love Nothing can overcome Love Nothing ever yet withstood Love All things obey Love There is nothing that doth not obey Love All things serve Love There is nothing that doth not serve Love All things wait on Love There is nothing that doth not wait on Love Love commands all things There is nothing which Love doth not command Love is powerfull even to Victory Heterôsis seu Mutatio Adjectivorum Substantivis in all things Love is of great power even to Victory in all things What overcomes all things Love Erotêsis seu Interrogatio What doth not Love overcome What overcomes all things but Love What overcomes all things if not Love What overcomes all things more then Love Can any thing overcome all things more then Love What doth not Love overcome all things Is there any thing that Love doth not overcome Can there be any thing that Love doth not overcome What can be stronger then Love What can overcome Love Can any thing overcome Love Hath the wide world any thing that Love doth not overcome In what secret and unknown corner lieth that thing which Love doth not overcome What is that at last which Love doth not overcome Where shall we find those things that Love doth not overcome What unfound land contains those things which Love doth not overcome Ecphonesis seu Exciamatio Oh the great Majesty and Power of Love over all things Oh the many and great Victories that Love bears away from all things Oh the incredible strength and force of Love above all things Oh the innumerable Triumphs Trophies and Spoils of Love Oh the infinite number of things that are overcome by Love Oh the unmeasurable and vast limits of Love's Empire Admiratio Good God! how doth Love overcome all things Good Gods How do all things lye crouching at the feet of Love Immortal God! How doth Love prescribe Laws to all things Good lack How doth Love bear the victory from all things Oh what a powerfull thing is Love Oh what an imperious thing is Love Oh How all things lye trembling under the hand of Love Oh How suppliantly all things lick the dust under Love's feet Oh How true is that old saying Love overcomes all things Oh ye Gods above How are all things under the power of Love Oh ye Immortal Gods How is the Power of Love above all things Adjuratio Oh ye Gods and Goddesses all How doth the Empire of Love extend to all even to you your selves also a Nè vivam Let me not live If I do not think it most true that Love overcometh all things b Emoriar Let me die If I do not think it most true that Love overcometh all things c Nè valeam Let me not enjoy my health If I do not think it most true that Love overcometh all things d Dispeream male Let me perish miserably If I do not think it most true that Love overcometh all things e Sic me Musae ament So may the Muses love me As I think it most true that al things are overcome by Love f Ita mihi Dii faveant So let the Gods favour me As I think it most true that al things are overcome by Love g Sic mihi coelos propitios habeam So may the Heavens be propitious to me As I think it most true that al things are overcome by Love Commiseratio Alass how weak are all things compared to Love Ah in vain do men strive to resist the power of Love Dubitatio I do not know whether there be any thing overcomes more things than Love I much doubt whether there be any thing whose power is equal to the power of Love Abominatio Fy upon the Tyrannical and Invincible power of Love Out upon the Cowardise of all things when Love appears O shame how the greatest things quake for fear if the little God CUPID do but shew his face Isodynamia periphrastica ab Adjunctis Consequentibus Concomitantibus c. The Trophies of Love are erected in every place Love rides every where in a Triumphant Chariot All things are Love's subjects Kings themselves are Love's Slaves and Subjects Distributio partium Kings are Kings before their subjects but Subjects before Love Collatio Antithesis Enantiôsis Kings are as much under Love as above their Subjects CUPID's dart wounds more and deeper than JOVE's Thunderbolt The very gods are subject to Love Climax Incrementum Not only brute creatures but men nor they only but likewise gods yield to the violence of Love Metonymia Subjecti Both Heaven and Earth know the power of Love Distributio partium The hardest Hearts are overcome by Love The cruellest Natures grow gentle by Love An Heart of Flint doth melt by Love Gentle Natures Love draws and entises froward Natures it forceth and compels all at length it subdues and conquers Love is always either an entising Siren or ravenous Harpy one way or other it is always a Conquerour Distributio partium Hirmos Asyndeton seu Dialyton Love overcomes Majesty Power Strength Riches Beauty Eloquence Learning Wit Wisdom and what not The Liberal Sciences are not free from Love's Empire and the Mechanical Arts can by no Engine elude his Power Grammatica No power of Grammar can decline the power of Love Rhetorick easily perswades her self Rhetorica to be silent and is dumb when Love appears in the Oratory Logica All Logick's Arguments are inartificiall and invalid when Love opposeth Musica The most delicious streams of
saucy chaps which dare †Metaphora bark against this Truth Hypothesis Ironica If he be not blind enough make him blinder that doth not see and acknowledge this palpable Truth He must either shut his eies or put them out to whom the light of this Truth doth not clearly shine that self-love is deprived of sight He is hardened against all Truth that denies this manifest Truth Aste ismus Let him go deny Principles that will not confess this Maxim He must have a Forehead of Brass a Brain of Lead and a tongue of Iron that dares oppose so confessed a Truth that self-love is deprived of sight Confirmatio ab Exemplo Narcissus through self-love was so blind that to enjoy himself he drown'd himself to find himself he lost himself Oxymoron Narcissus through self-love was so blind that he doted on his own Image which he beholds in the fountain and while he embraceth himself he is buried in his own embraces Paroemia Because self-self-love is blind hence Confirmatio à â—estimonio Socrates that Oracle of human wisdome said very well as indeed he did always that The Midwife judgeth better of the Infant then the Mother Hence they say Nothing which a man loves but seems beautiful and Every King pleaseth his Queen And hence the filthy Polypus ab Exemplo on Agna's nose in Horace pleased her lover Balbinus ab exemplo fabuloso And so self-love in the Fable made the Ape bring her ugly ridiculous young ones to Jupiter as the fairest of all living creatures à Testimonio self-Self-love is so blind that she sees not what reason saith what truth adviseth but assents to what her self judgeth as Stobaeus gathereth excellently out of most grave Authours self-Self-love attributes more to her self than truth permits and more then she attributes to truth it self as the same Stoboeus testifieth so great is her blindness Ironia self-Self-love sees all things is very quick-sighted I assure you believe me that will Tapeinôsis Meiôsis Litotes self-Self-love sees not many things self-Self-love sees no great things Few are the things self-love sees They must be strange things which self-love sees Climax Incrementum Self-love is not only not clear-sighted not only dimm-sighted not only purblind but down right-blind Self-love self-love alas can nothing Epizeuxis see Anadiplôsis Oh what can be more blind than is self-love Self-love that doting folly of the soul Anaphora Self-love is blind self-love can nothing see Self-love from errours then can not be free Epistrophe All things have eyes compared to self-love Stones seem to see compared with self-love Symploce We through self-love the maze of errours tread We through self-love are to all errours lead Epanalepsis Self-love is blind a Beetle is self-love Epanodos Self-love is blind what then can self-love see Nought sees self love for blind self-love's eyes be Epiphonêma The most palpable things are unseen to self-love so great â—o incredible is his blindness The most palpable did I say Epanorthosis indeed all things without exception are unseen to Self-love Aposiopesis So blind is self-love that but shame forbids me to utter it Apostrophe Oh Self-love how great is thy blindness Synoeceiôsis Plain things and things that are not plain are alike to self-love Oxymoron The greatest light is darkness to self-love To self-love the clearest day is night The clearest things to self-love are obscure Anacoenosis Communicatiâ— Tell me Narcissus what was it that wrought in thee such an obstinate contempt of so many young men and maids that desired to enjoy thy company What was it that made thee so disdainfully to fly from them till wandring solitarily by thy self thou becamest foolishly the unhappy authour of thine own untimely death Is it not all to be ascribed to the blindness of self-love Paralipsis Self-love is blind not to say any thing of his dotage folly and rashness Pleonasmus I have heard with these Ears and seen with these Eies many men and women confessing too late not without much sorrow the blindness of self-love Parenthesis I believe nor is my belief vain that self-love is the blindest thing in the world I hold and judge and why may I not confess it that nothing is blinder then self-love Aporia Addubitatio Where shall I first begin or what shall I first complain of in the blindness of self-love Shall I tell you it is so blind that it alwaies errs judging all things amiss shall I tell you it is so blind that it cannot distinguish foule from fair good from bad honest from dishonest shall I ascend something higher and tell you plainly it is so blind that nothing either is was will be or can be ever blinder than it This is much and yet not more then truth Anti-Metabole Self-love in its own conceit sees amongst the blind but I am sure in the judgment of all it is blind amongst them that see Me thinks I hear Narcissus pitifully Prosopopoeia lamenting and thus with much grief and despair breathing out his last and most sad complaints against self-love Anaphora O Accursed self-love how great cause have I to exclaim against thee and thy folly thee and thy madness thee and thy detestable blindness Alas it was thy blindness that brought me to such an heighth of pride and disdain Thy blindness lead me or rather seduced me into the Labyrinth of inextricable errours Thy blindness threw me head-long into that deep gulf of doting folly and miserable despair But for thee I had never contemned so many young men and maids that were enamoured on me But for thee I had never so neglected Eccho a Nymph so taken with my beauty that she pined away with grief through my disdain into a mere voyce But for thee I had never killed with pride and contempt so many Nymphs of the woods and fountains But for thee I had never come to that dotage and madness at last to burn and consume with the love of my self to desire what I already enjoyed to seek what I already possessed to pine away for love of mine own Image to burn in the flames which I my self kindle and for love of my self to destroy my self Inversio Self-love is not blind may some man say for it hath eyes as well as those that see Nay therefore is self-love blind because it hath eyes and yet hath no use of them for if self-love never had eyes and so were uncapable of sight it could not properly be said to be blind Amplificatio per Impossibile ubi obiter variantur Impossibile Nunquam It is Impossible It is not possible How is it possible It cannot be Can it be How can it be It can by no means be but that self-love should be blind All things may sooner be than that self-love
of question and needs no dispute It is a Truth approved of by the Testimony and Judgment of the whole World It is as true as either Jove's or Apollo's Oracle It is as true as the Dodonean Ammonian or Delphick Oracle It is a Truth that requires not many words or a long Oration to confirm That Every thing submits to Love It appears more clearly then the mid-day-Sun That Every thing submits to Love The Sun needs no other light that it may be seen nor a Trumpeter to proclaim the brightness of his Beams so is it in this evident Truth That Every thing submits to Love He †Lat. Sâ—lâ— lucernam accendere lights a Candle in the Sun-shine who goes about to explain this Truth That Every thing submits to Love It is a Truth than which what can be more certain That Every thing submits to Love That Every thing submits to Love Asteismus It is a Truth so out of all Controversy that Love overcometh all things that he who would prove it may go tell men The Sun-shines when he triumphs in his meridian Glory He must be of very great boldness or very little wit who denies that All things are under the command of Love He who seriously considers it is blind if he do not see obstinate if seeing he do not confess that All things are under the command of Love They are but as Sibyll's leaves whatsoever are objected against this Truth Confutatio The Arguments against this Truth are lighter than the leaves of the Sibylls Collatio They are but Ropes of sand Towers of Lamia that is Castles in the Air Old-wive's Tales vain Dreams Metaphora that men prattle against this Truth Pectines Solis There is neither crumb nor drop of sense or reason in those things that are spoken against this Truth As one said of the Nightingal that * Vox praetereà nihil she was but a Voyce and nothing else so they are words and wind and no more that are objected against this Truth That Love triumphs over all things Paradiastole It comes not from Apollo's Tripos but the Old-Wive's Trivet whatsoever is objected against this Truth Epitrope Let him be rich let him be noble let him be great let him be what you will fool he must needs be and fool-hardy too who dares to mutter against this Truth I could wish my self turn'd into a Squinancy to stop his saucy chaps who dare †Metaphora bark against this Truth That All things obey Love Confirmatio If he be not blind enough make him blinder who doth not see and acknowledge this palpable Truth He must either shut his eies or put them out to whom the light of this Truth doth not clearly shine He is hardened against all Truth who denies this manifest Truth Asteismus Let him go deny Principles who will not confess this Maxim He must have a Forehead of Brass a Mouth of Iron and a Brain of Lead who dares oppose so confessed a Truth That All things are ruled by Love The Lacedemonians sacrificing Confirmatio ab Exemplo to Love before they joyned Battail with the Enemy shew That they acknowledged the power of Love in overcoming The Grecians in their Wars sacrificing to Love by the fairest Boys in their Army declare their Opinion of the force of Love in all things Confirmatio à â—estimonio Love can be cured by no Herbs nor can any Medicines prevail against Love as no less wittily than truly said Ovid the best of the Latin Poets Aetiologia for Love doth not yield to †Metalep sis Nobility cannot profit against Love ancient Images as excellently Propertius writes There is no hope to fly from Love though you had the Wings of Pegasus Perseus and Mercury though you fly as far as the River Tanais as the same Propertius most elegantly declares Ironia Love is weak for sooth and every thing overcomes it yes indeed Epizeuxis Love Love is it that all things overcomes Anadiplâ—sis What i' st that all things overcomes but Love Love that imperious passion of the mind Anaphora Love conquers all Love makes the proudest yield Love ever Triumphs ever wins the Field Epistrophe All things submit unto the pow'r of Love Ev'n Kings are Subjects to the power of Love Symploce What i' st that conquers all but Lov 's imperious hand What conquers great and small but Love's imperious hand Epanalepsis Love conquers all of all things King is Love Epanados Love conquers all things Love makes all to yield Polyptâ—ton Yielding they fly and conquer'd leave the Field Ecâ—honesis Oh the divine power of Love which while I express my Tongue falters as unable to express it Epiphonema Love conquers all things So great and unspeakable is the power of Love Love made Jove but we must Aposiopesis speak nothing rashly of the gods Apostrophe O Love thou little but puissant and imperious god what doest not thou overcome Prosâ—popoeia Me thinks I hear Love speaking and thus vaunting himself of his strength and power Cum amplicatione per Exem pla ex distributione partium Ferocitaâ— Robur The Tygers are fierce even to a Proverb yet how oft hath my force made them tame Hercules was strong even to a Miracle yet so did I effeminate him that in Woman's apparel he spun in the company * Lat Sequioris sâ—xûs of the other Sex Majestas What is greater than Jupiter yet him have I transformed into Gold a Swan a Bull. Epanorthosis Sapienâ—ia Apollo was wise nay the god of Wisdom yet did I make him as an Heards-man feed Admetus his Herds Eloquentia Mercury was a nimble god the Deity of Eloquence yet did I force him to take upon him the shape of a stinking Goat Opulen iâ— Neptune is a wealthy god lord of all the Riches which the Seas and the vast Ocean contain yet did I force him to deform himself with the shape of an Horse Foâ—ma Venus was fair the Queen of Beauty yet did I force her to be inflamed with the love of Mortals and to take upon her the shape of an earth-born Woman Fortitudo Ira. Couragious Angry and Châ—rlish god yet have I entangled him in the embracements of Venus so oft and so long that Vulcan hath entangled them †Lat. Vtrumâ—ue nudum Syllepsis Implicita both naked in his nets and he and Sol exposed them to the * Lat. risus visui oculis jâ—culis Paâ—onomasia Mars is an Heroick Valiant view and laughter of all the gods Râ—capitutatio Polysyndeâ—on Illatio ab Inductione And now since Cruelty and Strength and Majesty and Wisdom and Eloquence and Beauty and Wealth and Courage both Beasts and Men and Gods and Goddesses yield to me who dare deny my strength or resist my
power Anacoenosis Communicati◠Tell me O Hercules what made thee so obsequious a servant to Omphale was it not Love I ask of you O ye Gods and Goddesses what made you so often to visit Earth and put on humane shapes nay some of you the forms of Beasts and those filthy Beasts was it not Love Paraleipsis Love conquers both Men and Gods not to say any thing of his dominion over brute Creatures Pleonasmus I have heard with these very Ears many declaiming of the force of Love some not without sorrow confessing others with great joy acknowledging that Love at last overcomes all things Parenthesis I believe nor is my belief vain that the power of Love is above all things I hold and judge and why may I not confess it that all things obey the command of Love Anti-Metabole Kings are Lords to their Subjects but Subjects to this Lord. Synoeceiosis Strong things and things that are not strong are alike in the hands of Love Oxymoron Who can express the great littleness and little Greatness the childish Manliness and manly Childishness of that blind God Aporia What shall I say shall I tell you Love overcomes many things that is much Shall I tell you he overcomes the Climax greatest things that is more but that is not all What then at last shall I tell you that Love overcomes all things that is the greatest and that is enough all that I can speak or Love do Inversio Love doth not overcome all things may some man say because the most things yield to it of their own accord Nay therefore doth Love overcome all things because the most yield of their own accord For that doth not take away the victory though it argue the easiness and declare both the known power of Love and that most things despair of doing any good by resisting Amplificatio per Impossible ubi obiter variantur Impossibile Nunquam It is Impossible It is not possible It cannot be It can by no means be All things may sooner be than that there should be any thing which Love doth not overcome a Lat. Abire non potest It is not to be avoided b Lat Non est recusandum It is not to be refused but Love will overcome all things It must needs be It cannot but be that Love should overcome all things It cannot otherwise be How should it otherwise be but that Love should overcome all things Paroemia The Wolfe shall marry the Sheep A Locust shal bring forth an Elephant The Sea shall bring forth Vines The Snayl shall out-run the Hare and the Tortoyse the Eagle Brambles shall bring forth Violets and Thorns Roses The Rivers shall be carried towards their Fountains The Fountains themselves shall thirst The Earth shall fly The Beetle shall make honey and the Gnat milk before any thing be found which Love doth not overcome The Crabs shall go strait forward The Nightingale shall cease to Sing The Owle shall sing like the Nightingale The Heaven shall fall The Earth shall ascend above the Skie Mountains shal be transplaced The Mule shall bring forth Water and Fire shall agree together The Fire shall be kindled with Snow A Tempest shall be calmed with a song The Earth shall be bored thorough before any thing be found which Love doth not overcome The Sun shall change his course The Loadstone shall turn from the North Groves shall grow on the Waves Sea-weeds shall be found on the Mountains when any thing surpasseth the power of Love The Stars shall fall The motion of each starr shall be irregular Day shall be turned to night The waters of the Sea shall leave their saltness The Sea shall be plowed A Crop shall be reaped from the Sand Past moments shall be recalled The Meadows shall never more have flowers The Heavens shall want Stars Day shall want Light No sweetness shall be in Roses The Fish shall burn in the Ocean No Joy shall be in Heaven nor Pain in Hell The Flames shall descend The Mountains forgetting their weights shall fly like Atoms through the skie when any thing surpasseth the power of Love The Heavens shall rest The Sun and Stars shall shine together when ◠any thing surpasseth the power of Love The Pibbles shall mount up to the Stars The Earth shall be adorned with Stars The Flocks shall invite the Lions to their folds The Skies shall endure the heavy plough The Water shall give flames and Fire waters The Sun shall rise in the West The Ants shall leave their industry The Bees shall forget to make Honey Maenalian Hounds shall fly from the Hare Nature shall become preposterous No Element shall keep his proper seat Fire shall be cold and Water give heat Summer shall give Snow if ever any thing overcome Love Does shall fright Lions The Crows shall fly thorough the Aire whiter then Snow Swans shall be as black as pitch Oxen shall cut the Aire with their wings Marbles shall be softer then Wax The Chickens shall prey upon the Kite if ever any thing overcome Love Confirmatio à perpetuitate veritatis ubi obiter variantur Perpetuò Semper Whilst Sun and Stars shall run their course While Stars shall embellish Heaven and Flowers the Earth Whilst Neptune's arms shall embrace the earth Whilst Cynthia shall renew her Horns Whilst Lucifer foretells th' approaching Morn Whilst Arctos shuns the Sea Whilst Mountains give their shades Whilst Streams their tribute to the Ocean pay ever will Love overcome All things Whilst Day hath Light and Night succeeds the Day Whilst Summer follows the Spring and Autumn succeeds Summer Whilst the Sun casts light or Earth shadows Whilst the Land bounds the Sea and Aire the Land Whilst the River carries Waters or those waters Fishes Whilst the Earth hath Trees Whilst the Bore loves the tops of Mountains Note that all those Proverbial phrases that we made to signify Never will also signify Ever by prefixing only Till or Vntil as will appear by one or two Examples Whilst Bees love thy me and Bears honey Ever will Love overcome All things Till time and memory shall be no more Till time shall have no plumes Till time shall be as bald before as he is behind Till time shall be swallowed by Eternity Till Lachesis have no more thread to draw will all things ever submit to Love Till the Woolfe shall marry the Sheep Till the Sun shall change his course Till the Sun shall rise in the West To the last Syllable of recorded time Till time that gives all things shall have his end will all things ever submit to Love Conclusio But the end of time puts me in mind that it is time to make an end lest my discourse be as endless as is the power of Love To make at last an end There is no end of Love's majesty and power To come
at last to an end It is to no end either to resist the strength of Love or discourse further of his power The end of the first Sentence varied Sentence II. Self-love is blind SElf-love is without eyes Self-love is without sight Self-love is deprived of sight Self-love wants eyes and sight Self-love is destitute of sight Self-love enjoyes neither sight nor light Self-love hath no use of eyes No use of eyes is there to Self-love â—â—pro habeo Self-love see 's nothing Heterosis seu Mâ—tatio Activorum passivis Affirmativorum negâ—tivis Nothing is seen by self-love Self-love see 's not at all Nothing is blind if not self-love Nothing is blinder than self-love Nothing is more blind then self-love There is nothing but is less blind than self-love Nothing can be blinder than self-love Mutatio numeri Heterôsis seu Mutatio Adjectivorum Substantivis Never did self-love see the light of the Sun All things are unseen to self-love Every thing is unseen to self-love Self-love is blind even to wonder above all things Great is the blindness of self-love even to wonder above all things Great blindness is in self-love Self-love is a thing of great blindness Erotesis seu Interrogatio What is blind Self-love What is blind but self-love What is blind if not self-love What is not self-love blind What is blinder than self-love What is more blind than self-love What can be more blind than self-love Can any thing be blinder than self-love How should any thing be blinder than self-love Is there any thing so blind as self-love Hath the wide World any thing so blind as self-love In what dark and blind corner lyeth that thing that is so blind as self-love What from East to West is so blind as self-love In what secret and unknown region lieth that thing that is so blind as self-love What Region in the Earth hath not heard of the blindness of self-love What is that at last which is so blind as self-love Where shall we find those things that are blinder than self-love What unfound Land doth contain those things that are blinder than self-love What new America not yet discovered hath any thing blinder than self-love What unknown Land amongst the Antipodes breeds any thing so blind as self-love Ecphonesis Exclamatio O blind self-love O the intolerable O the great O the strange O the wonderful O the incredible O the unspeakable O the unexpressible O the unconceivable blindness of self-love O the innumerable O the infinite errors which the blindness of self-love occasioneth Admiratio Good God! how blind is self-love Good gods what blindness is in the eies of self-love Immortal God! what thick darkness doth possess the eies of self-love Immortal Gods what a thick mist covers the eies of self-love Good lack how little doth self-love see O what a darkness doth beset the eies of self-love O what a darkness dwells in the eies of self-love O how true is that old saying self-love is blind O ye Gods above how blind is self-love here below Oh ye Gods and Goddesses how is self-self-love bewiddowed of his eies Let me not live Let me die Let me not enjoy my health Let me perish miserably If I do not think it most Adjuratio true that self-self-love is blind So let the Muses love me So may the Gods favour me So may the Heavens be propitious to me So may I ever be master of my desire As I think it most true that self-love is blind Alass self-love is very blind Ah in vain doth self-love hope to be freed from her blindness Woe is me it irketh me to see the blindness of self-love Dubitatio I do much doubt whether there be any thing blinder than self-love I much doubt whether there is any thing whose blindness is equall to the blindness of self-love I am not certain whether self-love be not the blindest thing in the World without exception Abominatio Fie upon the intolerable blindness of self-love Out upon the gross errors that proceed from self-love's blindness O shame how plain open and palpable is self-love's blindness Oxymoron O burning shame how shameful yet shameless is self-love's blindness Isodynamia periphrastica How blind must he needs be that sees not and confesseth the blindness of self-self-love Hyperbole Auxesis There is no blindness to the blindness of self-self-love Give me any blindness but the blindness of self-self-love None are so blind as they that love themselves Self-love is as blind as a Beetle Collatio ad simile Paroemia Collatio ad minus Self-love is blinder than Tyresias Self love is blinder than Hypsaea that old hagg Self-love is blinder than a Mole Self-love is like Polyphemus a Monster without eies Self-love is blinder than blindness it self Hyperbolica Epanorthôsis Self-love is blind nay rather blindness it self Let none complain of Fortune's blindness that consider the blindness of self-love Collatio Fortune is blind I confess but shee seems to see clearly compared to self-love Collatio à Genere All love is dimm-sighted but self-love is is stark-blind Collatio per contrarium Enantiôsis The Eagle which doth not winke at the brightest beams of the Sun is not more quick-sighted than self-love is blind Litoâ—es Charientismus Confiâ—matio Demonstratio Collatio ad Sim. The Sea is not more deaf than self-love is blind No spectacles or prospective can profit self-love So blind is self-love that it perceives not its own blindness Self-love is like that old-woman in Seneca that complained of the darkness of her house when she her self was blind Self-love is so blind that it commends its own vices and calumniates others vertues Self-love is so blind that it counts his foulest things fair Paâ—oemia Allegorica Ironia So blind is self-love that he thinks all his Geese Swans So blind and foolish is self-love that it makes men think they fart frankincense and their worst things best So blind is self-love that it sees no faults of its own and yet thinks it seeâ— plainly the faults of others Metaphora Self-love is a meer Suffoenus Self-love is blind beyond all belief Hâ—perbâ—le Auxesis Self-love is blind beyond the help of art or nature Distributio partium The liberal Sciences cannot free self-love from her blindness and the Mechanical arts can by no Engine cure it Grammatica No Case in Grammar can amend the condition of self-love nor are all the Parts of Speech enough to express the greatness of his Blindness Rhetorica Rhetorick had rather be eternally dumb then speak a word to prove that self-love hath eyes Logica All Logick's arguments are inartificial invalid and absurd when she goes about to defend that self-love is not blind Musica The delicious strains of Musick may please and tickle the ears but never open the blind eyes of selflove