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…

5 Those things Delight every man which¹ are [Greek or Hebrew] ▪ as the Philosopher speaks, Suitable ²fitted▪ and accommodated to his Genius and frame▪ of Nature, as in the same Plant, the Bee seedeth on the flower, the Bird on the Seed, the Sheep on the Blade, the Swine on the Root. So in the same Author one man observeth the Rational▪ another the Historical, a third the Elegant and more Rhetorical passages, with special Delight, ⟨p. 215⟩according as they are best accommodated unto the Complexion of each Mind. And I³ find it observed out of Hippocrates, that even in the Body many times that kind of meat which Nature receiveth with Complacency, and with a⁴ more particular Delight, though in it self it may be •orse▪ yet proveth better nourishment unto that Body than such, as though better in it self, findeth yet a reluctancy and backwardness of Nature to close or correspond with it. The same seeds are not proper for the sand and for the clay▪ nor the same employments of Mind for Men of various and different Constitutions. Nor is there I believe any thing which would more conduce to the general advancement of Arts and Learning, than if every Mans Abilities were fixed and limited to that proper course, which his natural sufficiences did more particularly lead him unto. For hereupon would grow a double Delight, and by consequence improvement (for every thing grows most when it is best pleased) The one from Nature, the other from Custom and acquaintance, which conquereth and digesteth the difficulties⁵ of every thing we set about, and maketh them yet more natural unto us. And therefore