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…

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 ⟨p. 90⟩his Patience he seemeth to yield: and there is nothing which a mans Passion loves so much as victory. Whereas between Anger and Anger there must needs be fighting of affections, which is the remotest temper from Love.

It is true, that in some cases, similitude is the cause of Envie; but this is onely then, when first the qualitie wherein men agree, is a litigating and contentious qualitie: in which case, the meeting of such men in one disposition, is but like the meeting of two rough Streames, which makes them runne with the more noyse Therefore, a wise and a meek-tempered man shall sooner winne 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 Conquerour, in regard of his Wisdome) yet by