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…

SO little in love hav• I e•er bin with this affection of […] (as I find it managed by many, who make no other use of it, then children do of straw, with which they stuff empty clothes, that they may look like men) as that when first I writ this Tractate, I passed it over rather as a Vice, than an Affection of the Soul, and said nothing of it. And being no more friends with it now then I was then, I should be contented to have left it out still. But that I would not have the Treatise defective in such a member, whereof¹ there may be so good and so ill use made, as experience showeth us there is of this. For as *Plutarch ⟨p. 259⟩notes of Egypt, that it bringeth forth multa vene•a, & multa salubria, many Good things, and many Bad: like those Creatures, some parts whereof are poison, and others restorative: so may we say of the Men in whom this Affection is predominant, that they are usually Instruments either of much Good, or of much Evil to the places² that nourish them: as once Themistocles his Tutor said of him. The best mixture that I can call to mind of this Passion, was in Hannibal, of whom the Historian tells us, That he was marvellous […] to put upon Dangers; and yet marvellous Wise in managing of them: His courage not working Temerity, nor precipitating his resolutions: And his counsel not working slowness, nor retarding his courage.

SO little in love hav• I e•er bin with this affection of 〈…〉 (as I find it mannaged by many, who make no other use of it, then children do of straw, with which they stuffe empty clothes, that they may looke like men) as that when first I writ this Tractate, I passed it over rather as a Vice, than an Affection of the Soule, and said nothing of it. And being no more friends with it now then I was then, I should be contented to have left it out still. But that I would not have the Treatise defective in such a member, whereof