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…

It is not courteous, that where I hate, you Should love, except you'd have me hate you too: But take this rule, if you'll be thought my friend; The man that offends me, do you offend.

It is not courteous, that where I hate, you Should love, except you'ld have me hate you too: But take this rule, if you'l be thought my friend; The man that offends me, doe you offend.

So much naturally are men in love with their own likeness, that many times they can be content to have their very deformities imitated:¹ and therefore, the chief art of flatterers, is to commend and imitate every thing of him, of whom they would make a prey.

So much naturally are men in love with their owne likenesse, that many times they can be content to have their very deformities imitated:¹ and therefore, the chiefe art of flatterers, is to commend and imitate every thing of him, of whom they would make a prey.

1. 1Plutarch. de Adulat. & A•icis.

It is true, that in some cases, similitude is the cause of Envy; but this is only then, when first the quality wherein men agree, is a litigating and contentious quality: in which case, the meeting of such men in one disposition, is but like the meeting of two rough Streams, which makes them run with the more noise • Therefore, a wise and a meek-tempered man shall sooner win and hold the love of an angry man, than he, who is like unto him in that distemper; because such a man (though indeed he be Conqueror, in regard of his Wisdom) yet by