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…

The next two Causes, which I conceive, of Love, I will join in one; namely, the absence from, and contrarily, the presence with the thing loved; both which, in a different respect, do exercise Love. And therefore, first, I like not that speech of Aristotle, that though distance of place¹ do not dissolve the root and habit yet it doth the exercise and acts of Love; except he meant it (as I suppose he doth) of the transient acts thereof, whereby each friend doth the office of Love and beneficence to another. For, as in natural bodies there is not only a Compl•encie or Delight in their proper place, when they enjoy it; but an innate ⟨p. 96⟩propension and motion thereunto, when they² are absent from it; so in the mind of man (whose a Love in his Weight) there is not only a Love of Delight in the fruition, but a Love likewise of Desire, in the privation of a Good; which, the more it wanteth, the more it fixeth it self upon it: b as some things do naturally attract fire at a distance. Thus the Poet expresseth the Love of Dido to Aeneas:³

The next two Causes, which I conceive, of Love, I will joyne in one; namely, the absence from, and contrarily, the presence with the thing loved; both which, in a different respect, doe exercise Love. And therefore, first, I like not that speech of Aristotle, that though distance of place¹ doe not dissolve the root and habit yet it doth the exercise and acts of Love; except he meant it (as I suppose he doth) of the transient acts thereof, whereby each friend doth the office of Love and •eneficence to another. For, as in naturall bodies there is not onely a Compl•encie or Delight in their proper place, when they enjoy it; but an innate ⟨p. 96⟩propension and motion thereunto, when they