almost incurable A talkative fellow is the unbrac'd drum which beats a wise man out of his wits Love LOve in the interpretation of the envious is sofâ—ness in the wicked good men suspect it for lust and in the good some spiritual men have given it the name oâ— Charity And these are but terms to this which seems a more considerate defâ—nition That indefinite Love is Lust and Lust when it is determinâ—d to one is Love This definition â—oo does but intrude it self on what I was about to say which is and spoken with soberness though like a Lay-man that Love is the most acceptable imposition of nature the cause and preservation of life and the very healthfulness of the minde as well as of the body But Lust our raging feaver is more dangerous in Cities then the Calenture in ships Sir William Davenant in his Preface to Gondibert Love in the most obnoxious interpretation is natures preparative to her greatest works which is the making of life ibid. Love in humane nature is both the source and center of all passionâ— for not only hope fâ—ar and joy but even anger and hatred rise first out of the spring of love Mr. Montagu To be in love is the most intensive appropriaâ—ion of all the powers of our minde to one design ibid. Sensual love is the most fatal plague among all passions It is not a simple malady but one composed of all the evils in the world it hath the shiverings and heats of Feavers the ach and prickings of the Meagrum the rage of Teeth the stupeâ—action of the Virâ—â—go the furies of Frenzie the black vapors of the Hypocondry the disturbances of the Waking the stupidities of the Lethargy the fits of the Falling-sickness the faintness of the Tysick the heavings of the passions of the heart the pangs of the Colick the infections of the Leprosie the venom of Vlcers the malignity of the Plague the putrifaction of the Gangrene and all which is hoâ—rible in nature Holy Court Love Care is thy Court Tyranny thy Raign Slaves thy Subjects Folly thy Attendance Lust thy Law Sin thy Service and Repentance thy Wages Fear breedeth Wit Anger is the cradle of courage Joy opens and enables the Heart Sorrow weakneth it but love is engendred betwixt lust and idleness his companions are unquietness longings fond comforts faint discomforts hopes jâ—alousies ungrounded rages causeless yieldings the highest end it aspires to is a little pleasure with much pain before and great repentance after At that time the flames of his chast love began to burn more forcible then ever He loved her with a love mingled with respect of merit and compassion of her persecuted innocency To love is natural not to love is monstrous H.C. Such was the unresistable force of his unlimitable affection that in spite of reason he was enforced to do homage unto passion Her love was a rich rock of defence against all Syrene songs It received such an impression of that wonderful passion which to be defined is impossible because no words reach to express the strange effects of it they only know it who inwardly feel it it is called Love He besought him not to make account of his speech which if it had been over passionate yet was it to be born withal because it proceeded out of an affection much more vehement Humanity enjoyns you to love me seeing I hold my life an easie sacrifice to enjoy you It is no pilgrimage to travel to your lips Worldly loves are the true Gardens of Adonis where wâ— can gather nothing but trivial flowers surrounded with many bryars Christian Diary A silent expression gives the pregnant'st testimony of a deep grounded affection where every look darts forth love Nothing shall have power to alien my love from you Let me draw from your look one blush of love or line of fancy Let me become an abject in the eyes of fame an object oâ— contempt to the world if my faithful devotion and observance supply not all my defects I am he who either you have great cause to love or no cause to hate She loved him as the pledge-bearer of her heart You towards whom I know not whether my love or admiration be greater Your affection hath got a Lordship in my thoughts Love to a yielding heart is a King but to a resisting is a Tyrant Sealing up all thoughts of love under the image of her memory The extream bent of my affection compells me to Love in the heart is an exhalation in a cloud it cannot continue idle there it daily forms a thousand imaginations and brings forth a thousand cares it findes out an infinity of inventions to advance the good of the beloved c. H.C. Death may end my life but not my love which as it is infinite must be immortal Him whose love went beyond the bounds of conceit much more of utterance that in her hands the ballance of his life or death did stand Such a love as mine wedded to vertue can never be so adulterated by any accident no nor yet ravish'd by passion as to bring forth a bastard disobedience whereof my very conscience not being able to accuse my thoughts I come to clear my self The proportion of my love is infinite So perfect a thing my love is to you as it suffers no question so it seems to receive injury by addition of any words unto it The more notable demonstrations you make of the love so far beyond my desert with which it pleaseth you to make me happy the more am I even in course of huâ—anity bâ—und to seek requitals witness Having embarked my careful love in the ship of my desire Good God! what sublimate is made in the lymbeck of Love His eyes were so eager in bâ—â—â—lding her that they were like those of the Bird that â—atches her eggs with her looks Stratonica He expected her at A. with so great impatience of love that he would have willingly hastned the course of the Sun to measure it by his affections He beholding her so accomplished easily felt the glances shot from her eyes were rays from her but arrows for his heart from whence he could receive nought but honorable wounds If you have as much confidence in me as I have love towards you Love is in effect a force pardon the exorbitancy of the word that is unresistable so strong a war is that which the appetite wageth against reason Then then in the pride of your perfections you paradized me in the heaven of your love The rare Idea that thus through the applause of mine eye hath bewitched my heart is the beautious image of your sweet self pardon me if I presume when the extremity of love pricks me forward Faults that grow by affection ought to be forgiven because they come of constraint Then Madam read with favor and censure with mercy Why should not that which is one rest in unity Bacon His bosom was the Cell wherein I hid my secrets
his mouth was the Oracle whereby I directed my actions As I could not be without his presence so I never would do any thing without his counsel When I am from you I am dead till I be with you when I am with you I am not satisfied but would still be nearer you vnited souls are not satisfied with imbraces Rel. Med. In the intercourse of affection my love surmounts yours Fire comes out of the hardest Flint with a steel oyl out of the driest jet by fire love out of the stoniest heart by faith by trust by time Eupheus I cannot but admire thy love knowing from what height of vertue it proceeds as I will not envy thee thy death so I wish a glory may await thy end great as the constancy that advanc'd thee to it Her Two neighbouring Lillies whom rude winds disperse ' mongst restless dust may sooner meet upon their stacles again and kiss each other in a second growth then we our loves renew Love is the good which by being diffused is corrupted she that loves one another and a thrid takes in men at the coyle and loves onely for her pleasure The object of true love is but one From the Infancy of Time to her decrepitude the love between two hath been held most honorable Heroinae Our mutuall mindes thus combined was like the Garden of Eden wherein grew more delights then either Nature now affords or Art can expâ—ess Graâ—ious is the face that promiseth nothing but love and most celestiall the resolution that lives upon chastity She had a pure flame shot from heaven into her breast from no other place could so generous a mind be fired My love shall never end but with my life There is nothing that belongs to us both that can be divided our wills united make but one mind which ruling all our actions it seems we are in like manner but one body Ariana He was so rapt with these dear engagements that the commotions of his heart disturbed his mind and stop'd the freedom of his thoughts I must confess my self in prison but 't is a prison of love where my desires my thoughts my hopes my joys are chains H.C. Chast love She changes the fire of Babylon into that of Jerusalem Her hâ—irs which were the nets wherein so many captive souls did sigh under the yoke of wanâ—â—n love are now as the Ensignes and Standards of wicked Cupid traâ—pled under the feet of the Conqueror Those kisses which carried the poyson of a luxurious passion in her heart do now breath fâ—om her nothing but thâ— delicacies of chasâ—iâ—y Her leasing odâ—urs which before were vowed to sensuality are now become the sweetest exhalations from that Amber Isle which brings forth an odoriferous perfume Entertainments for Lent My passion hath for its object a thing too perfect to permit me a thought that may be unworthy of the cause of it I like that love which by a soft ascension does degree it self in the soul Feltham Your presence is like Homers Nepenthe that can banish the sadness of the mind The heart of a lover is a Citie in which upon one and the same day are seen sports and bankets battels and funerals Plutarch Who does not know that love took away the senses of wise Solomon and made him violate the sacred law Love moved Biblis to be enamoured on her own brother Caunus and Pasiphae to accompany vvith a Bull Love is like a pan of Charcoal vvhich meeting vvith the vvind its contrary makes it turn more ardent or like a rapid torrent vvhich justing against adam swells higher so love meeting with opposition grows hotter and stronger Dodona's Grove These two hearts being dissolved into love spake in thoughts not having language enough to express their affection H.C. Since then I cannot retaliate your love or retribute your favours yet vvill I receive them vvith a desire â—o pay The vvorthy St. Dionysius in the book of Divine Attributes distinguisheth three sorts of love one is called circular the other love in a right line and the third oblique Love saâ—th an ancient Lover hath made a But of my heart vvhere so soon as it had shot all its arrows it threw it self as an inflamed dart into the bottom of my heart to set me all on fire There is nothing comparable to the Martyrdom of love It is an exhalation in a cloud It is a fire in a Mine a torrent shut up in ditches a night of sâ—paration lasteth ages and all waxeth old for it but its desires The life of this young Hero vvhich vvas ever hanging about the heart of his Mistress ever in the contemplation of her goodness perpetually in the furnace of love vvholly tranformed it self into his vvel-beloved as one vvax melted into another as a drop of vvater poured into a great vessell of Wine as incense wasted in flames H. Court He said what a warm lover when desire makes eloquent could speak he said she was both Star and Pilot. No birth or estate can chalenge a prerogative in love The deep wound of his love being rubbed afresh with began to bleed again Love is to the soul that which vvings are to Birds to carry us to its fruition For vvant of vvell loving vve apply the most precious thing which is love to gain wretched creatures as if one used a golden hook to fish for frogs and a scepter to shake hay I 'le always dwell with you like your shade I 'le keep a Jubile to your memory My eyes pay tribute where my heart pays love I vvill repay your love vvith usury Love making in the field of his memory a muster of the vertues of that Lady The man that applies not himself to some love is like a body vvithout life Love is the Wine of the soul Love is the greatest Philosopher in the vvorld He can transmute substances vvithout altering the accidents Man commended MAn is the pride of Heavens creation 〈◊〉 A man vvhose life needs no Advocate vvhom detraction it self cannot mention vvithout addition of some Epithetes of respect to conclude him in a vvord no object for any evill passion but envy and a subject for no discourse but vvhat ends vvith admiration It seems Nature from above had been dispatch'd as a brave Harbinger to score out a lodging for this great Soul and give him a Body suitable to the vigor of his Spirit so vvel vvas it composed c. H. Court What he is according to nature a Master piece vvhere many prerogatives meet together a Body composed of a marvellous Architecture a Soule endowed vvith He is the Orpheus vvho vvith his looks onely vvithout setting his hand to the Lyre enchants and ravishes the most savage of our Wilderness Aristotle that Linceus of Nature Nature vvas sent by God as a gallant Harbinger to compose a Body for him suitable to his great Spirit He did vvith great nobleness and bounty which vertues at that time had their turns in his Nature restore Lo. Bacon
making The thing containing for the thing or person contained As the the City met the Generall for the Citizens The adjunct property or quality for the subject of it As deserts are preferred for men deserving Take heed young idleness for idle youth Give room to the quoif for the Serjeant with the like SYNECDOCHE is an exchange of the name of the part for the whole or of the name of the whole for the part There are two kinds of totall comprehensions An entire body or a generall name As my name is tossed and censured by many toÌ„gues for many men where the part of an intire body goes for the whole Contrariwise he carries a Goldsmiths shop on his fingers for Rings He fell into the water and swallowed the Thames for the water So the generall name for the speciall Put up your weapon for your Dagger And the speciall for the particular As the Admirall is gone to sea for Admirall Blake The particular for the speciall As I would willingly make you a Sir Philip Sidney for an eloquent learned valiant Gentleman or for many as the Hollander they say comes against us for the Hollanders and such like which because they are easie I have exemplified familiarly Both these figures serve well when you have mentioned somthing before that may require Variety in repetition CATACHRESIS in English Abuse is now grown in fashion as most abuses are It is somewhat more desperate then a Metaphor And is the expressing of one matter by the name of another which is incompatible with and sometimes clean contrary to it As I gave order to some servants of mine whom I thought as apt for such charities as my self to lead him out into a Forrest and there kill him where Charity is used for Cruelty But this may also be by the Figure IRONIA The abuse of a word drawn from things far differing As a voyce beautiful to his ears Accusing in himself no great trouble in mind by his behaviour or action Do you grudge me part of your sorrow being sister in Nature I would I were not so far off a Kin in fortune This is a usuall figure with the fine conversants of our time when they strain for extraordinary expressions As I am in danger of preferment I am not guilty of those praises I have hardly escaped good fortune He threatens me a good turn All by the contrary And as he said that misliked a picture with a crooked Nose The elbow of his Nose is disproportionable The ear is not onely pleased with store and variety of words but takes great delight in the repetition of the same words which because they may be at the beginning at the middle in the end and in sundry correspondencies of each of these places one to another it happens that it has purchased severall names of Figures As Repetition of the same word or sound immediatly without interposition of any other is called EPIZEUXIS O let not let not from you be powred upon me destruction Tormented tormented torment of my soul Philoclea tormented This figure is not to be used but in passion ANADIPLOSIS is a repetition in the end of a former sentence and beginning of the next As you fear lest you should offend offend O how know you that you should offend Because she doth deny deny now in earnest I could laugh c. Why loved I alas alas why loved I to die wretched and to be the example of the heavens hate and hate spare not for â—our worst blow is given From whom they have commonly such respect and respect soon opens the door to perswasion c. This figure is often and handsomly used by Sir William Davenant in his Preface to Gondibert And as no man strikes in thought upon any thing but for some vehemency or distrust so in speech there is no repetition without importance CLIMAX is a kinde of ANADIPLOSIS by degrees making the last word a step to a further meaning If it be turned to an argument it is a SORITES A young man of great beauty beautified with great honor honored with great valor You could not enjoy your goods without government no Government without a Magistrate no Magistrate without obedience and no obedience where every one upon his private passion doth interpret the Rulers actions Now to make it a SORITES or climing argument joyn the first and the last with an ERGO As ERGO you cannot enjoy your own goods where every man upon his own private passions doth c This in a penned speech is too Academicall but in discourse more passable and plausible Seeing to like liking to love loving to c. Deceived me after deceit abused me after abuse forsaken me What doth better become wisdom then to discern what is worthy loving What more agreeable to goodness then to love it so discerned and what to greatness of heart then to be constant in it once loved Where the last word or some one word in the last sentence begets the next clause This Figure hath his time when you are well entred into discourse have procured attention mean to rise and amplifie ANAPHORA is when many clauses have the like beginning You whom vertue hath made the Princess of Felicity be not the minister of ruine You whom my choyce hath made the Goddess of my safety You whom Nature hath made the Load-starr of comfort be not the rock of shipwrack This figure beats upon one thing to cause the quicker apprehension of it in the audience and to awake a sleepy or dull passion EPISTROPHE is contrary to the former when many clauses end with the same words Where the richness did invite the eyes the fashion did enâ—ertain the eyes and the device did teach the eyes And all the night did nothing but weep Philoclea sigh Philoclea and cry out Philoclea c. Either arm their lives or take away their lives This is rather a Figure of Narration or Instruction then of motion SIMPLOCE or COMPLEXIO is when severall sentences have the same beginning and the same ending The most covetous man longs not to get riches out of that ground which can bear nothing Why Because it is impossible The most ambitious person vexes not his wits to climb to heaven Why because it is impossible This is the wantonest of Repetitions and is not to be used in serious matters EPANALEPSIS is the same in one sentence which SIMPLOCE or COMPLEXIO is in severall As Severe to his servants to his children severe Or the same sound reiterated first or last in a sentence As His superior in means in place his superior In sorrow was I born and must die in sorrow Vnkindness moved me and what can so trouble my courses or wrack my thoughts as unkindness This is a mild and sweet Figure and of much use though single and by it self not usuall in the Arcadia unless thus Overthrow of my desires recompence of my overthrow EPANADOS is when the midst and the end or
the midst and the beginning are the same As If there were any true pleasure in sleep and idleness then no doubt the Heathen Philosophers would have placed some part of the felicity of their heathen Gods in sleep and idleness Your diligence to speak well must be great but you shall be abundantly recompenced for the greatness of your diligence in the success of perswasion If I should ever wish the perfection of your eloquence it is for your instruction and for your benefit that I would wish you eloquent This kind of Repetition and the former EPANALEPSIS are most easily admitted into discourse and are freest from the opinion of affectation because words recited at the beginning of many sentences or at both ends of the same are more remarkable ANTIMETABOLE or COMMUTATIO is a sentence inverst or turn'd back as If any for love of honor or honor of love c. That as you are the child of a mother so you may be mother of a child c. They misliked what themselves did and yet still did what themselves misliked c. If before he languished because he could not obtain his desiring he now lamented because he could not desire the obtaining Either not striving because he was contented or contented because he would not strive Just to exercise his might mighty to exercise his justice Learned Sir Philip slipt often into this Figure yet he sometimes conceald the particularity of his affection to it by not turning the words wholly back as they lay To account it not a purse for treasure but as a treasure it self worthy to be purs'd up c. Men venture lives to conquer she conquers lives without venturing c. Shewed such fury in his force such stay in his fury which is rather EPANADOS Sometimes the same sense inverst in contrary words As Parthenia desir'd above all things to have Argalus Argalus feared nothing but to misse Parthenia Where he returns fear to misse in stead of desire Neither could you have thought so well of me if extremity of love had not made your judgement partiall nor could you have loved me so intirely if you had not been apt to make so great undeserved judgment of me Where he returns for extremity of love loving intirely and for partiall judgement great undeserved judgement Though this be a sharp and witty Figure and shews out of the same words a pretty distinction of meaning very convenient for Schoolmen yet to â—â—e this or any other unreasonably or unseasonably is ridiculous Let discretion therefore be the greatest and most generall Figure of Figures PARANOMASIA is a present touch of the same letter syllable or word with a different meaning And as for the running upon the letter more then very little is more then too much Sir Philip Sidney in Astropell and Stella calls it the Dictionary method and verses so made Rimes running in ratling rowes which is is an example of it There is an old Swinish Poem made of it in Latine call'd PUGNA PORCORUM Hector Hanno Haniball dead Pompey Pyrrhus spild Cyrus Scipio Caesar slain And Alexander kill'd Agnomination of some syllables is somtimes found in the Arcadia as Alas what can saying make them believe whom seeing cannot perswade And while he was so followed by the valiantest he made a way for the vilest She went away repining but not repenting Our Alms-deeds are turned into all Mis-deeds our praying into playing our fasting into feasting That kinde of breaking words into another meaning is much sed in Drolerie and youthful Discourse as you will have but a bare gain out of this bargain A man not only fit for the gown but for the gun for the pen but for the pike for the book but for the blade The garnish of this figure hath been in much request in less serious matters but the more learned have avoided this kinde of flourish lest their writings should savour more of the general humor then of private judgement POLEPTOTON or TRADUCTIO is a repetition of words of the same linage that differ only in termination as exceedingly exceeding His faulty using of our faults Sometimes the same word in several cases as for fear conceal'd his fear Sometimes the same word in several voyces as forsaken by all friends and forsaken by all comfort Sometimes the same adjective in several comparisons as much may be said in my defence much more for love and most of all for that divine creature who hath joyned me and love together This is a good figure and may be used with or without passion yet so as the use of it come from choice and not from barrenness To Amplifie and Illustrate are two of the principal Ornaments of Eloquence and gain mens mindes to the chiefest advantages Admiration and Belief For how can you commend any thing more acceptable to our Attention then by telling us it is extraordinary and by demonstrating it to be evident We love to look upon a Commet above all Stars for these two excellencies its Greatness and its Clearness such in speech is Amplification and Illustration We amplifie five ways by Comparison Division Accumulation Intimation and Progression Comparison is either of things contrary or equal or things different Equal as Themistoâ—les and Coriolanus both great States-men both of great deserts to their Countrey both banished both dead at one tâ—me Themistocles his Councel could not prevail against the Ingratitude of the Athenians nor Coriolanus his Discretion overcome the unkindeness of the Romans the one was too excellent the other too noble for the envious eyes of their Countrymen to endure such is the force of vertue above all quarrels of Nations or divisions of Allegiances that their exiles were honorably entertained Coriolanus by the Volsci Themistocles by the Persians both by their enemies and both leading great Armies against those Countreys which so ingratefully expelled them were so inwardly restrained with a conscience of sacking their native soil that they rather chose violence to their own lives then to the lives of their fellow Citizens and took it for a sufficient revenge to make it evident that they might be revenged But this is not so forcible an Amplification of things equal indeed wherein as you see all the several points of a consorted equality are to be searched out as when things seeming unequal are compared and that in Similitudes as well as in Examples for instance where a woman is compared to a ship out of Plautus both ask much tacking and sometimes rigging And you shall profit most of all by inventing matter of agreement in things most unlike London and the Tennis-Court are like for in both all the gains go to thâ— hazard Policy is like the Sea it serves for intercourse of profit for defence against inâ—asions theâ—â— are both â—â—bings and flowings calms and tempests the observation whereof may make a man first wise then rich But as the water serves for many outward uses so can it not please if it be inwardly
Self-condemning minde An un-Sun-seen cave Love-distilling tears This Heaven-displeasing war Liver-scalding lust Marble-hearted cruelty Time-beguiling pleasure This Blood-be-dabled Kingdom People-pleasing Lectures Corner-haunting lust A Life-Conferring form c. Formulae Majores OR COMMON PLACES Absence AS thou art the food of my thoughts the relief of my wishes and the onely life and repast of all my desires So is thy love to me a continual hunger and thine absence an extream famine In absence my grief grows in finding my present estate so weak in fortune and my desâ—rts so slender in nature that not knowing wâ—th Anthony how to requite his Cleopatra I onely rest with Anthony to dye for my Cleopatra Tell him my love doth burn like vestaâ— fire which with his memory richer then all â—pices disperseth odours round about my foul and did reâ—ress it when 't was dull and sad with thinking of his absence He more breathâ—d A.B. then the ayr it self and all her absences were to him so many deaths I want no part of welfare but your wished presence The love which he bare to her at her return was as a torrent which aâ—teâ— it hath a long time been restrained breaks the forced dammâ— and with vigorous impetuousness drowns the fields Holy Court Hoping forgetfulness which commonly waits upon absence might possess him he departed Since your absence melancholy hath been my Concomâ—tant and youâ— remembrance my greatest comfort I departed from you like a hungry infant pull'd from his nurses breast or a thirsty Hart chased from a sweet fountain Live I pray you in repose as much as you may during this absence and if my being away causes sorrow in you let the assurance of my affection diminish it forced a tedious separation of those sacred bodies whose souls are entirely link'd in divine affection Acknowledgement MY acknowledgement of your favours shall appear in my willingness to do you servâ—ce And my self shall not onely acknowledge this favour with humbâ—est thankfulness but c. The acknowledgement of your favours shall be my meanest thanks and to thank you for those favours must be my best acknowledgement I can do no more I will do no less They acknowledge with more or less degrees of homage some kinde of fealty It shâ—ll not be without a just confession of the bond your benefits have and ever shall hold upon me Affection THe construction of his Speech might best be made by the Grammer-Rules of affection It is the flaming Agony of affection that works the chilling access of your fever The coals of his affection were so kindled with wonder and blown with delight that Suffering neither his unworthyness nor his wrongs to cover with forgetfulness or diminish with consideration the affection she had born him to whom with words which affection endited but amazement uttered he delivered Looking down upon her from the high-top of affections Tower If you retain as yet any spark of affection which you have often given me witness of kiss this paper in remembrance of him who c. My affections no less love the light and witness then they have conscience of your vertue The high tide of overflowing affection restraining his tongue with astonishment as unable to express an unexpressable passion The blood of her face ebbing and flowing according to the tyde of affection He grafted his affection in the stock of her constanâ—y Testimoâ—ies of a never-silent hearty affection But perceiving his affection so grounded that striving against it did more anger then heal the wound and rather call his friendship in question then give place to any friendly Counsel The large testimony of your affection makes me willinâ— to suppresse a great number of errours She in an instant was made an unfortunate winter of affection To intrinsecate my self in your affection My affection shall finde no parallel in its well-wishes to you The tender tinder of his affection began to sparkle Striving to match her matchless beauty with a maâ—chless affection He whâ—se affection clymed by another stair In â—rue affection two so become one as they both become two Rel. Med. You in whom my affection holds a steady mansion Nor life nor death shall divorce my affection from you Upon what bryars the roses of his affection grow I conjure you to this by my affâ—ction that never had equal Ar. The sight of this place doth call my thoughts to appear at the Court of affection held by that 〈◊〉 Steward Remembrance Thâ—se lines â—epresent in the poverty of fancy the riches of my affâ—ction Good offices are the marks and ciment of true affection H.C. The heart is the Continent of affection Affection flows uncompelled Anger ANger is the feaver of the Soul which makes the tongue talk idle it puts a man into a tumult that he cannot hear what counsel speaks t is a raging sea a troubled waâ—er that cannot be wholsom for the use of aâ—y Feltham They are things below the merit of my indignation objects of scorn which a little slighted and not inflamed by opposition or countenanced to a reply by confutation will within a whilâ— of themselves extinguish and vanish like sâ—me dispersed roving winds which without encâ—unter are dispirited and dye Doctor Wats upon Bacon Beauty THen was plainly to be seen the Empire which humane beauty and an eloquent tongue have over earthly powers Beauty consists in complexion in lineaments and in harmony You are the most excellent star that shines in the bright element of Beauty Some became Petitioners and Prisoners to her Beauty others did homage to her vertues Beauty is to be reckoned but as an outward fading benefit that nature hath bestowed The Idol of beauty ought not to be honored with such oblations My eyes drank much more eagerly of her beauty then my mouth did of any other liquor Her face is such a spark of beauty as is able to enâ—â—ame a world of love She who in a definite compass can set forth infinite beauty The excellency of her returned beauty was a credible embassador of her health Where beauty is there needs no other plea. Sâ—ll not your soul for such a vanity as eye-pleasiâ—g beauty Vertue is nothing else but inward beauty and beauty nothing else but an outward vertue Bacon Making her beautiful beams to thaw away the former icyness of his Two sisters about whom as about two Poles the sky of Beauty was turned Rather then those eyes should over-flow their own beauties or the sky of your beauty should be over clouded with sorrow Beauty in the heaven of her face two Suns eclipsed was wrapped up in paleness Beauty which hath no grace is a bait floating on the water without a hook to be taken and to catch nothing Eustatius Beauty is like the herb Larix cool in the water but hot in the stomack I cannot but applaud the wonder of your beauty Such is the divine power of loves deity such the vertuous force of your heavenly beauty and such the happy issue of our decreed
severall pieces of stuff others to Anacrâ—ons Swan which had neither blood flesh nor bone The fourth is Respect to discern what befits your self him to whom you write and the matter you treat of which is a quality fit to conclude the rest because it does include the rest and that must proceed from ripeness of judgment which as an Author truly says is gotten by four ways by the gift of God by Nature diligence and conversation serve the first well and the rest will serve you In the close of your letter you must by all means endeavour to come off handsomly by avoyding those trite and over-worn conclusions Thus I rest So I remain Thus I take my leave the like and by taking rise from the next precedent matter of your letter make your subscription appendent thereto For the Hand-writing if you attain not to perfection it ought at least to be legible and the matter fairly written and truly pointed with Comma Colon Semicolon Period Parentheses Interrogation and Admiration points as the matter requires The last is the Orthography or true writing of words which though not much valued by some yet I hold a quality so incident to a good Pen-man that he cannot be said to be perfect in that faculty without it nor do I beleeve that one of ten even among Scholars are well skild therein And of this Orthography as it were too long to be here treated of so may I haply give you hereafter some observations thereupon LETTERS I. A Letter to revive Freindship in the Son by remembrance of the Fathers love SIR AS worth is not confin'd to place so not the affection of friends to presence your excellent deserts command my respects where ever your absence drawes these following salutes as the testimonies of my esteems and well-wishes In your noble Father I lost a worthy friend in you I find him again you no less inherit his goodness then estate this entitles me your neighbour that makes his loves lineall and sure and as neither with decrease so both to the augmentation of my acknowledgements The power of my friend is a shelter and joy his faithfulness my security yet I love for worth not-profit This name of Friendship I grant is spreadly appellative but the thing it self as rare in experience as lowd in vogue Your fathers love I enjoy'd in calm times I prove yours in the tempests of Fortune My confidence assures me he would not have faild the Test my triall proves you do not a certainty that precludes doubt and no less obliges my proportion'd gratitude It were easie now Sir to say were you under my Stars I would be the same I find you I would so nay should hate my self did I feel but an inclination to the contrary Yet all this evinces no more then what you please to believe Professions and Performances are not the same what I would be will not surmount conjecture your nobleness shews it self in effects irrefragable I know nothing can make me truly miserable but my self and as well I know and feel in lowring times how consolatory is the countenance of a reall friend such your best self to whom I shall always subsign my self Sir A most humble servant D.W. LETTER II. SIR A Great Philosopher complain'd that the Fabrick of mans body was defective For said he Nature should have made a window in the Breast by which we might look into the bottom of his heart to see when he speaks whether his words be conform to the dictates of his heart and whether that which we see without have an uniform relation to that within Trust me Sir though I quarrel not with Nature in this kind yet I wish my Breast transparent that you might see in what deep characters your affection is ingraven in my heart and how really I am what you â—ave made me Sir Your most faithfull servant T. B. III. A Letter of Acknowledgement SIR I Have long studied an acknowledgment in some sort answerable to your many favours but Fortune hath dealâ— so sparingly with me that â— who have most desire aâ— least able to shew my remerciaments otherwiâ—◠〈…〉 a course paper present yet I wish I 〈…〉 some â—aâ—ing monument that migh◠〈…〉 my engagements wâ—ereby 〈…〉 might know that though I had no◠〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 yet I had a heart to be thankfull which shall always pronounce me Sir Your most obliged friend and servant T. B. IV. Another THough my acquaintance with you for time conversation hath had the misfortune to be but small yet is my experience of your excellent worths both full and satisfied even to admiration With some natures I confesse much salt is to be eaten before judgement can be prudentially setled Others like the Sun or Light have power to blazon themselves in a moment This excellency seems to shine in your nobler constitution and this commands my so sudden esteem and affections Sir you have then a servant but he wants power to express how much he is so If I say all I am is at your devotion 't is not all I am ready to perform because desire and readiness surpass in me my too much limited abilities You see then your creature and instrument expects but your pleasure for operation as far as he is apt yet some offices he wilâ— undertake uncommanded viz his daily oraisons for your good chiefly that which is soveraign In which to make him more active your consent and call shall be the welcomâ—st imployment the world can lay upon him Future occasions may enlarge my expressions I shall now content my self that I have presumed to salute you with these generals whâ—m I have devoted my selfe to honour in all particulars Now let me thank you for all received favours for those immerited regards that began my obligations and continue my gratitude for your late kind token which was of multiplied value drawn from the senderâ—â—lf these find acceptance and their presumption pardon 't will animate him hereafter not to be silent that shall live by being if he may be as he would Sir Intirely yours D.W. V. A Letter to excuse silence Madam MY teeming hopes have been fed even with an assurance that London should e're this have been made happy with your presence else I had not thus long hazarded the loss of your good opinion by my silence since I confesse to owe a debt to your goodness which all the respect and service my poore abilities are able to perform can never throughly satisfie I beg at present but a continuance of your favours towards me and because I know you just shall onely expect them hereafter according to the measure of my services which I have faithfully devoted to your best sel in quality of Madam Your vertues humble honourer T. B. VI. A Letter from a Gentleman banished the Lines of Communication to a Lady in London Madam IF I could decline the thought of a necessity of being here and believe this Banishment to be a
frustrate the two first motives by being issue-less Yet if she have so many fill'd baggs as you mention it may bee a shrewd temptation But in marriage Love as you well observe is most preferrable provided there be a competency of fewel which is riches to keep it warm Now t is like I might love the Lady you motion mee unto with an ordinary conjugall love but perhaps not with an eminent dear affection and on this subject I remember to have read these old but well meaning verses Who makes the object of his fancy gold Grows cold-in fancy when his money 's told And she who faines to love to live a Lady Is honors fawn I know not what she may be Examples are too frequent in this age of the infelicity of those Matches which are meerly concluded for wealth without love Therefore in this as a choise whereon the happines of my whole life depends I shall be very deliberate in resolving yet ever glad to receive your advise as being Sir Your most respective nephew and humble servant XXXIX The first addresse to his Mistresse Madam THat fear is an individuall companion to sincere affection and that the heartiest devotions are brokenly expressed are Maximes in humanity and however Errors yet veniall The discreetest love is seldome without some annexed passion which oft-times fetters the faculties and leads understanding captive that which did and justly might deter doth now animate The moon in her farthest distance from the Sun and greatest opposition receives most light The poorer they bee to whom charity is extended the greater the merit Worth gaines most honour by enobling unworthiness Nature never ordaind two Suns to shine in one firmament I list not to expatiate in this kind In the discription of your worth this short expression shall suffice That would Earths Monarch pay his devotions before perfections Altar he need seek no further then your breast To express my devoted affection by deep protests and multiplyed vowes doth nothing please my Motto is rather in deed then in word Till matters be maturely discussed and the advise of friends on both sides had I aime no higher then to be enstil'd your servant Deliberation if in any case in this most necessary I honour you too much to wish you the smallest amiss though the sum of my earthly felicity depended thereon My affection is no frenzy if my Starrs mean mee not the enjoying of such happiness I must frame a content For conclusion I will only add that though you may have your choice of many in all points more accomplishd yet none that shall so truely love you My lines are confused like my thoughts your milder censure hee persumes on who truely honours your worth and rests Solely devoted to your virtues T. B. LX. In answer to an expostulatory letter SIR THe receipt of yours brought with it some amazement to see my self almost ship-wrackt in your good opinion when my own Vessel was full fraught with respect which I intended to di-simbark at your haven I am first to thank you for your plainness and ingenuity in my charge and shall assume the same freedome in my own acquitall The story told you by Mr. W. from Mris. P. a womans discourse for those I suppose the parties mentioned in yours I deny to have been either Author or Promulgator of and must assure you that such like with other volatile reports were here before my return yet I must tell you since it so much concernes mee that I had Commission to make some inquisition in the Country upon a preconceived neglect in you and other rumours but do assure you what I said was with such modesty and so short of what common fame delivered nay with such regret to have said any thing at all that it will hereafter appeare I have been so far from being disaffected to this your service that I have run my self into an Oblique opinion elsewhere for promoting it and I am confident the young Lady when you shall be felicitated with her enjoyment will assure you asmuch nor indeed could I possibly have said less in performance of that trust which was reposed in mee Sir if this give you not satisfaction I shall be glad to know what may because I professe to owe you much service and the more in order to that approaching happiness which your Starrs have assigned you whereto no wishes of a happy confarreation shall more readily concurr then those of Sir Your very humble servant T. B. XLI A REPLY Lady TIll I was bless'd with the happy sight of yours I labour'd in a strange perplexity believing that either the attempt of mine had purchased your disfavour or otherwise by some harder fate I had suffered in your good opinion then which Peru is to mee of lesse value These feares I must confesse with-held mee till now from a second addresse of service though not from offering continuall thoughts of respect to your merit and of perfect obedience to your commands nor shall I longer live then breath the air of such devotion being professedly Lady Yours in firme affection T. B. XLII IN ANSWER SIR I Am as you say indeed alwayes pleased to accept what time permits you to write Your lines please and cannot chuse being full of erudition full of love and guided by a judgement not vulgar And what ever your time is your menâ—all store â—ailes not what others with many a scâ—atched brow cannot invent you with facility dictate and as copiously pen Then for my acceptance there 's no benignity required but gratitude and gratitude not common but such as ought to quadre with merits impararelld That you daigne to entertain mine but with a superficiall view adds honour and value adds courage and alacrity We see many things carry price not from innate worth but the esteemers fancy So Jewells and other rarities which humane estimate and not nature have made pretious The rule is Opinion and if any mans approbation could make my lines accurate that is what they are not sooner to yours should I yeeld the efficiency and with much reason for there 's none I approve more Whilst I am jejune and empty you are polite and even upon my deficiencies raise Trophies to your own Genius Thus what I am not my self I make you by accident So increases a black spot the candour of a blanchd vesture So gloomy shades seem to augment the Phaebean radiances and so are your perfections set off by the foiles of Sir Your servant W.D. XLIII A conceited letter of thanks for favours SIR YOu know that I with friendship and affection my sureties stand already bound to you in an obligation for requitall of a larger summe of favours then my poore abilities can any wayes satisfy yet now you make a large addition to the principall debt by Till fortune better enable mee I much beg your acceptance of thankfulnes which I designe in liew of interest and for you better security my Bond renewed for the rest
Genius If I had abilitys to expatiate upon this subject I could not be held a Patelin but rather a suffragran to truth what I want words to express silent admiration shall speak in the thoughts of Sir Your obliged servant T.B. LXV An Answer Sir 'T Is well you are as you are the Rendevouz where all perfections meet otherwise I should in this intercourse have one and one onely advantage of you For whilst you at every return of the Tabellary have your Theme to seek and yet no sooner sought but found such is the magazin of your invention I have a plentifull subject alwaies ready at hand If I had answerable abilitys to make my election and to word it accordingly and that is news news which whilst there are men will never cease to bee in vogue And since this week affords that which is somewhat palaticall I shall no longer tantalize you with a proletarious Exordium Then know c. I humbly kiss your hands and remain Sir Your faithfull servant T.B. LXVI REPLY SIR I Am assaulted by your Martiall metaphors yet with this favour that where others erect their engines to ruine your levell aimes to strengthen the weak fort you direct against your continued Elogies at last mean to perswade me I see into some Ability and could you infuse what you commend in stead of blush your Rhetorique would make me doubtless eloquent I will not say with that keen Satyrist recuso Euge tuum Belle. No I will with a modest guilt of non-desert embrace them to profit and that nec te quaesiveris extra of the same Poet was a good Monition But our Muse is not so stoicall Quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia si tollas Sir honour is the reward of Artes and fame the tongue of honour nor are either honour or fame more the guerdons then the incentives of Proficience Do you see my friend how I hug your attributions My vanity yet in it may be your lesson not to be vain but ingenuous Be not so squeamish hence forward Accept your Baies offered or merit it confer'd What praise finds not answerable let it incite to answer I know my insufficiencies but utterly despair not amendment If by your encouragement I amend not I shall confesse my Brutish nature to be past cure If I grant you an advantage over me 't is but what you have asserted I answer the same Post and to many besides yours But what is this my both matter and the couching shewes it to be suddainly slight and rude an odd perfection and but suitable to both my leisure and me you have a ready subject for your pen and how gratefully and ably you paint it forth give me leave to be the Judge that receive the delight and I must keep it to my self for you are as coy to receive the titles of your worth as I am conscious they are due Be then still higher then words can express you so I may still bee Sir Excessively yours W.D. LXVII The first Address to his Mistris Most honoured Lady IN a cause whereon the felicity of my whole life depends and wherein I have most will I find least power to unbosome the secrets of my heart such force has love to captivate my faculties Hence 't is I rather chose this then that other way of verball delivery For though in either I should discover my own imperfections yet in these lines my guiltles blushes will pass unseen Hitherto I have onely appear'd a servant to your affaires and in that quality had continued if the excellency of your personall endowments had not by some kind of heavenly impulse driven mee on to more aspiring thoughts Thoughts which with truth I speak it were engendred by the onely object of your goodnes without any adulterate commixture of estate which however valued by others is not of weight sufficient to turn the ballance of my scale if not otherwise well laden with pure and unbiass'd affection which I profess to owe to none but you and to you all things even the being of Your most faithfull and devoted servant T.B. LXVIII Another to the same My inestimable Jewell IF the fumes of those corrosives you gave me last night from other hands had not been qualified with the sweet odors of your own cordialls I had unfeignedly speaking wholly sacrifiz'd the ensuing night to the vigils of a disquiet mind But as your goodnesse had not the will onely but the power to raise mee from a hell of tormenting thoughts to a Paradise of expected comfort so does it multiply my endeared affections which no misfortune shall have power to alienate nor shall any thing but death determine I am with much sollicitude setting all my imaginations upon the tenter in order to the removall of those Rocks which seem and but seem to threaten Shipwrack to our approaching happiness whereto your utmost contribution is by all the ties of true love most earnestly implored together with the continuance of him in your best thoughts who is Your own beyond expresses T.B. LXIX ANOTHER Dear pledge of my soul AMong all the obloquies which the unrelenting malice of mine and by consequence your enimies hath cast upon mee none appears so gastly in my thoughts as that pretended want of love towards you which the heavens will witness was never imbreasted in any mortall with more purity and plenitude For 't is the foundation whereon I intend by divine assistance to build a frame of mutuall and interminable happines a happines that will be admired by some but envied by others Please to remember that you are now filia emancipata as divines terme you at your own dispose and that you have of mee a servant who only breathes by your favour and lives through your love who will ever owe you fealty for the one and still do you homage for the other a servant who with unwearied expectation only waits for the happy houre wherein that fiat shall be by you pronounc'd which will in an instant Elixar-like turn all my drossy cares and anxieties into true contentments and make me live eternally Yours without change T.B. LXX ANOTHER My happy Choice IF a more pressing occasion had not detain'd me I should have thought the foulnesse of the weather but an easie penance in respect of the solace which the sweets of your presence would have afforded me for the enjoyment whereof I must with much regret adjourn my expectation till to morrow Mean time I send you the promised pictures if the sight of which do at any time erect your thoughts to heaven-ward even then remember him who on earth desires no greater happines then to live and die loving and beloved by you in quality of Your second self T.B. LXXI To excuse the not taking leave of a Lady of quality Madam THough it be held a readier way to gain pardon by acknowledging then excusing a fault yet the Eminency of your Ladyships person doth so aggravate it in me