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…

Secondly, Another evil effect of hatred is a close and cunning Dissimulation in suppressing of it,¹ and palliating it with pretences of fairness and plausibility, till it have a full advantage to put forth it self. For by this means is the passion strengthened, and the Person, whom it respects, weakened: this by incautelousnesse and Credulity; (for common Charity, when it sees no signs of malice, will not easily suspect it) that by Restraint and Suppression; for any thing the more united, the more weighty it is: and as Wind, so Passions, the closer it is pent, the more strength it gathereth▪ Plutarch compareth it unto fire raked under ashes, and reserved until another day, when we have some use of it. Which disposition the Historian hath often observed in Tiberius (whose principal virtue was Dissimulation) who being offended in the Senate with some ⟨p. 145⟩words spoken by Hatevius and Scaurus; the Historians observation upon it is this. In Hat•vium statim invectus; Scaurum, cui implacabilius irascebatur, ²silentio tramisit. The one he rebuked; but the other whom he more implacably hated, he passed by with silence. And elsewhere upon occasion, Quae in praesens civiliter habuit, sed in animo revolvente ir as, etiamsi impetus affectionis langu•rat▪ memoria val•bat. Though he seemed to³ take what was spoken courteously, yet he laid it up in his mind, and though the heat of Passion, by being suppressed, did languish, the memory and grudge remained strong still. In which words the Historian hath expressed that excellent description of the same quality in Homer.

Secondly, Another evill effect of hatred is a close and cunning Dissimulation in suppressing of it,¹ and palliating it with pretences of fairenesse and plausibility, till it have a full advantage to put forth it selfe. For by this meanes is the passion strengthned, and the Person, whom it respects, weakned: this by incautelousnesse and Credulity; (for common Charity, when it sees no signes of malice, will not easily suspect it) that by Restraint and Suppression; for any thing the more united, the more weighty it is: and as Winde, so Passions, the closer it is pent, the more strength it gathereth Plutarch compareth it unto fire raked under ashes, and reserved untill another day, when we have some use of it. Which disposition the Historian hath often observed in Tiberius (whose principall vertue was Dissimulation) who being offended in the Senate with some