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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…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Non capta assurgunt turres, non arma juventu• Exercet; portusvè, aut propugnacula bello1 Tuta parant; pendent opera interrupta— The Towers long since begun, rose up no more, And Arms did rust, which ere▪ while brave youth wore. No Ports, no Sconces, no defence went on, But all their works hung broken, and half done.
Non capta assurgunt turres, non arma juventu• Exercet; portusvè, aut propugnacula bello1 Tuta parant; pendent opera interrupta— The Towers long since begun, rose up no more, And Armes did rust, which ere▪ while brave youth wore. No Ports, no Sconces, no defence went on, But all their works hung broken, and halfe done.
- 1Aenead. l. 4.
Thus, as Plutarch hath observed, the Images of things in the fancies of other men are like words written in water, which suddenly vanish; but the Impressions which love makes, ar• as it were, written with an hot iron, which leaveth fixed and abiding prints in the memory.
Love and Knowledge have mutual sharpening and causality each on other: for as Knowledge doth generate Love, so Love doth nourish and exercise! ⟨p. 104⟩