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…

With respect unto this double Similitude, there is a double Love; the one, Natural; the other, acquired, or Habitual: the former is common with Men unto other Creatures: Thus in Aelian, Plutarch, and others, we read of the Natural¹ affection of Elephants; which seeing their young fallen into a deep Pit, will leap down after them, though it be present death; and of the marvellous cunning and valour which many other Birds and Beasts use to provide for the safety of their B•ood, exposing and offering themselves to danger, that they may be delivered: ⟨p. 86⟩Yea, the Pelican (if we believe the story) doth² feed her young ones, when they have been bitten with Serpents, with her own blood to recover them again: which Emblem John the second,³ king of Portugal is said to have chosen, whereby to express his Love to his Subjects: And Homer elegantly expresseth the care of a Bird seeding her young ones.

With respect unto this double Similitude, there is a double Love; the one, Naturall; the other, acquired, or Habituall: the former is common with Men unto other Creatures: Thus in Aelian, Plutarch, and others, we reade of the Naturall¹ affection of Elephants; which seeing their young fallen into a deepe Pit, will leape downe after them, though it be present death; and of the marvellous cunning and valour which many other Birds and Beasts use to provide for the safetie of their B•ood, exposing and offering themselves to danger, that they may be delivered: ⟨p. 86⟩Yea, the Pelican (if wee beleeve the story) doth² feed her young ones, when they have been bitten with Serpents, with her owne blood to recover them againe: which Embleme Iohn the second,