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…

I shall end this particular with naming one Species of Love more (for all this hitherto hath been Amor Amiciti•, a Love of a Person for ⟨p. 93⟩himself) and it is that which the Schools call Amor Concupiscenti•, a love of Concupiscence, or a Circular love, that which begins and ends in a Mans self, when his Affections having gone forth to some object, doth again return home, and loves it not directly for any absolute goodness which it hath in it self, but as it is conducible and bears a relation of Convenience to him that loves it. For though all affection of love (as Aristotle observed) be Circular, in as much as the Object first moves the Appetite, and then the Appetite moves to the Object, and so the motion ceaseth where it began (which is a circle;) (which also by the way shows us in an Emblem the firmness and strength which love works amongst men; because of all Forms and Fabrics, those which are Circular are the strongest; as we see in Arches, wherein every part doth mutually touch and clasp in that which is next it:) Yet in this love which I here speak of, there is a greater circle; in that, after all this, there is another Regress from the Object to the Appetite, applying the goodness thereof unto the same, and loving it only for the commodity and benefit, which the mind is likely to receive from it.

I shall end this particular with naming one Species of Love more (for all this hitherto hath been Amor Amiciti•, a Love of a Person for ⟨p. 93⟩himselfe) and it is that which the Schooles call Amor Concupiscenti•, a love of Concupiscence, or a Circular love, that which begins and ends in a Mans selfe, when his Affections having gone forth to some object, doth againe returne home, and loves it not directly for any absolute goodnesse which it hath in it selfe, but as it is conducible and beares a relation of Convenience to him that loves it. For though all affection of love (as Aristotle observed) bee Circular, in as much as the Object first moves the Appetite, and then the Appetite moves to the Object, and so the motion ceaseth where it began (which is a circle;) (which also by the way shewes us in an Embleme the firmenesse and strength which love workes amongst men; because of all Formes and Fabriques, those which are Circular are the strongest; as we see in Arches, wherein every part doth mutually touch and claspe in that which is next it:) Yet in this love which I here speake of, there is a greater circle; in that, after all this, there is another Regresse from the Object to the Appetite, applying the goodnesse thereof unto the same, and loving it onely for the commodity and benefit, which the mind is likely to receive from it.