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…

Other causes of Desires are Infirmity, Rashness, and Mutability of Mind, Which three¹ I put in one, as having a near Relation and dependence within themselves. For commonly impotent Appetitions as those of Children, of sick, of incontinent Persons, are both Temerarious in precipitating the Mind, and anticipating the dictates of Reason which should regulate or re•raine them: as also mutable and wandering like •e Be from one Flour unto another; Infirmity […] suffering a man to hold fast his Decrees, and •rity not suffering him to resolve on any; and •stly▪ Mutability making him weary of those •ings which weakness and rashness had unadvisedly ⟨p. 178⟩transported him unto. Omnium Imperitorum ²animus in lubric• est: Weak minds have ever wavering and unfixed resolutions. Like fickle and nauseating stomachs, which long for many things and can eat none. Like sick bodies, qu• mutationi •us ut remedys utuntur, as Seneca speaks, which toss from side to side, and think by changing of their place they can leave their pain behind them. Like Achilles in the Poet:

Other causes of Desires are Infirmity, Rashnesse, and Mutability of Mind, Which three¹ I put in one, as having a neer Relation and dependance within themselves. For commonly impotent Appetions as those of Children, of sick, of incontinent Persons, are both Temerarious in •recipitating the Minde, and anticipating the •ictates of Reason which should regulate or re•raine them: as also mutable and wandring like e Bee from one Floure unto another; Infirmity suffering a man to hold fast his Decrees, and rity not suffering him to resolve on any; and stly Mutabilitie making him weary of those ings which weaknesse and rashnesse had unadvisedly