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…

Cur• leves loqu•ntur, ingentes stupent: And, Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet. Our tongues can lighter Cares repeat, When silence swallows up the great: He grieves indeed, who on his friend Untestified tears doth spend.

Cur• leves loqu•ntur, ingentes stupent: And, Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet. Our tongues can lighter Cares repeat, When silence swallowes up the great: He grieves indeed, who on his friend Vntestified teares doth spend.

That Grief commonly is the most heavy, which hath fewest vents, by which to diffuse it self: which, I take it, will be one occasion of the heaviness of infernal torment; because there, Grief shall not be any whit transient, to work commiseration in any spectator, but altogether immanent and reflexive upon it self.

That Griefe commonly is the most heavie, which hath fewest vents, by which to diffuse it selfe: which, I take it, will be one occasion of the heavinesse of infernall torment; because there, Griefe shall not be any whit transient, to work commiseration in any spectator, but altogether immanent and reflexive upon it selfe.

Thus likewise we see (to instance in that other particular branch, of diffusing the Passions upon diverse objects) how the multitude of these, if they be Hererogeneall and unsubordinate, doth oftentimes remit a Passion: for example, in Love; I take it, that that man who hath a more general Love, hath a less vehement Love; and the spreading of Affection, is the weakening of it, (I mean still in things not absolute subordinate; for, a man may love a Wife more with Children, than without them, because they are the Seals and Pledges of that Love) as a River, when it is cut into many lesser streams, runs weaker & shallower. And this, I conceive, is the reason, why Solomon, when he