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 last Effect which I shall observe of this¹ Passion is that which we call Liquefaction or Languor, a melting, as it were, of the heart to receive ⟨p. 109⟩the more easy impressions from the thing which² it loveth, and a decay of the Spirits, by reason of that intensive fixing of them thereon, and of the painful and lingering expectation of the heart to enjoy it. Love is of all other the inmost and most visceral affection. And therefore called by the³ Apostle, Bowels of Love. And we read of the yearning of Josephs bowels over Benjamin his mothers son, and of the true Mother over her child. Incaluerunt viscera, they felt a fervour and agitation of their bowels, which the more vehement it is, doth work the more sudden and sensible decay and languishing of Spirits. So Ammon out of wanton and incestuous Love is said to grow lean ⁴from day to day, and to have been sick with vexation for his sister Tamar.

The last Effect which I shall observe of this¹ Passion is that which we call Liquefaction or Laugnor, a melting, as it were, of the heart to receive ⟨p. 109⟩the more easie impressions from the thing which² it loveth, and a decay of the Spirits, by reason of that intensive fixing of them thereon, and of the painefull and lingring expectation of the heart to enjoy it. Love is of all other the inmost and most viscerall affection. And therefore called by the³ Apostle, Bowels of Love. And we read of the yearning of Iosephs bowels over Benjamin his mothers sonne, and of the true Mother over her child. Incaluerunt viscera, they felt a fervour and agitation of their bowells, which the more vehement it is, doth worke the more sudden and sensible decay and languishing of Spirits. So Ammon out of wanton and incestuous Love is said to grow leane