And as this kind of Love ariseth from Propinquity of Nature, so another there is growing out of Similitude of Manners. All flesh, as Syracides 1speaks, will resort to their like, and every man will keep company with such, as he is himself; as we see learned men hold correspondency with those2 that are learned, and good with those that are good: no man that excelleth in any quality, shall ever want Friends; because every man, that either hath or liketh that Quality, will love it in any other man, and him for it. For by the same reason that a man by the study or practice of any good things laboureth to commend himself to his own judgement, and to the love of others; he is engaged (unless he will be false to his own grounds) to love any other whom he observeth to study and practice the same thing: For how can I expect, that that in me should reap Love from other•, which in others reapeth nothing but Envy from me? And upon this reason it is, that a man can hardly permit another to love that, which he himself hateth; because we are too apt to make our Judgements or Passions the rule of another mans, and to dislike that ⟨p. 89⟩in him, which we do not allow in our selves: Which unruly affection, the Poet hath excellently described in Achilles, when his friend mediated a reconciliation between him and Agamemnon:
And as this kind of Love ariseth from Propinquitie of Nature, so another there is growing out of Similitude of Manners. All flesh, as Syracides 1speakes, will resort to their like, and every man will keepe company with such, as he is himselfe; as wee see learned men hold correspondency with those2 that are learned, and good with those that are good: no man that excelleth in any quality, shall ever want Friends; because every man, that either hath or liketh that Quality, will love it in any other man, and him for it. For by the same reason that a man by the study or practice of any good things laboureth to commend himselfe to his owne judgement, and to the love of others; he is ingaged (unlesse hee will bee false to his owne grounds) to love any other whom hee observeth to study and practice the same thing: For how can I expect, that that in mee should reape Love from other•, which in others reapeth nothing but Envie from me? And upon this reason it is, that a man can hardly permit another to love that, which he himselfe hateth; because we are too apt to make our Iudgements or Passions the rule of another mans, and to dislik• that ⟨p. 89⟩in him, which we doe not allow in our selves: Which unruly affection, the Poet hath excellently described in Achilles, when his friend mediated a reconciliation betweene him and Agamemnon:
- 1Eccles. 13. 17.
- 2[Greek or Hebrew] ▪ […] ▪ Thirsit is viti•, […] alter indicat Ho• qu•m quod esle• viris praestantissim is Achilli & Ul•ssi invis• ▪ Iliad 2. Vid. Aristot. Prob. §. 10. q. […]. [Greek or Hebrew], &c. […]. Id•. 9. [Greek or Hebrew]. S• apud D•og. Lat•i. in Zenon. l. 7. Maim▪ Tyriu• […]. 4.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ▪ 〈…〉 ▪ Thirsit is viti•, 〈…〉 al•ter indicat Ho• qu•m quod esle• viris praestantissim is Achilli & Vl•ssi invis• ▪ I•iad 2. Vid. Aristot. Prob. §. 10. q. 〈…〉. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c. 〈…〉. Id•. 9. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. S• apud D•og. Lati. in Zenon. l. 7. Mim Tyriu . 4.
