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…

And in these two, the Corruption chiefly is not to let Judgement come between them and our Hopes.

And in these two, the Corruption chiefly is not to let Iudgement come betweene them and our Hopes.

For as he said of Lovers, we may of Hopes too, that oftentimes sibi somnia fing•nt, they build more upon Imagination than Reality. And then if what Tacitus speaks in another sense, fingunt, creduntque if our facility feign assistances, and our credulity rely upon them, there will issue no other than Ixious Hope, a Cloud for Inno. And therefore¹ Aristotle out of an easiness to Hope, collects in young men, an easiness to be deceived, credulity very often meets with Impostures. And he ⟨p. 252⟩elsewhere placeth credulous, modest, quiet and² friendly men amongst those who are obnoxious to injuries and abuses. Proud and abusive men making it one of their pleasures to delude and mislead the ingenuity of others: and as once Apelles, to deceive the expectation of another with a Curtain for a Picture.

For as he said of Lovers, we may of Hopes too, that oftentimes sibi somnia fing•nt, they build more upon Imagination than Reality. And then if what Tacitus speakes in another sense, fingunt, creduntque if our facility faine assistances, and our credulity rely upon them, there will issue no other than Ixious Hope, a Cloud for Inno. And therefore¹ Aristotle out of an easinesse to Hope, collects in young men, an easinesse to be deceived, credulity very often m•ets with Impostures. And hee