A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…

and Desire by Fear; as in him of whom Tacitus ¹speaks, •ingebat & m•m, quò mag is concupisceret▪ ⟨p. 53⟩That to justify his Desires, he pretended his Fears: So likewise are some Passions stopped, or at least bridled & moderated by others; Amor soràs mittit timorem, ²Perfect Love casteth out Fear. It •aring in this, as Plutarch hath noted in the hunting of Beasts, that³ they are then easiest taken, when they who hunt them, put on the skins of Beasts. As we see, the light and heat of the Sun shining upon fire, is apt to discourage it, & to put it out. And this was that which made Saul, when he was possessed with those strong sits of Melancholy, working in him Fury, Grief, and Horror, to have recourse unto such a Remedy, as is most forcible for the producing of other Passions of a lighter nature; and so by consequence, for expelling those. Thus, as we see in the Body Military, (as Tacitus hath observed) Unus tumultus est alterius remedium, ⁴That one tumult is the cure of another; and in the Body Natural, some Diseases are expelled by others: so likewise in the Mind, Passions, as they mutually generate, so they mutually weaken each other. It often falleth out, that the voluntary admission of one loss, is the prevention of a greater: as when a Merchant casteth out his ware, to prevent a shipwreck; and in a public Fire, men pull down some houses untouched, to prevent the spreading of the flame: Thus is it in the Passions of the Mind; when any of them are excessive, the way to remit them, is by admitting of some further perturbation from others, and so distracting the forces of the former: Whether the Passions we admit, be contrary; as when a dead Palsy is cured with a burning Fever, and Soldiers suppress the fear of Death, by the shame of Baseness;

and Desire by Feare; as in him of whom Tacitus