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…

It foams and boils, and with a raging force, Fights with all Obstacles, that stop its course.

It foames and boyles, and with a raging force, Fights with all Obstacles, that stop its course.

So of these two Degrees of Contempt in Anger▪ the former as being only a Confining and Limiting Contempt, which shuts up a mans worth within too narrow and strait a judgement, works indeed a secret swelling of the Heart with Indignation at the conceit of such disesteem; but this breaks not out into that clamour (as S. Paul calls it) that noise of Anger, as the other doth, which a•iseth out of a direct opposition against our counsels or actions.

So of these two Degrees of Contempt in Anger▪ the former as being onely a Confining and Limiting Contempt, which shuts up a mans worth within too narrow and strait a judgement, works indeed a secret swelling of the Heart with Indignation at the conceipt of such disesteem; but this breaks not out into that clamour (as S. Paul cals it) that noise of Anger, as the other doth, which a•iseth out of a direct opposition against our counsels or actions.

Unto which opposition may be reduced all manner of injurious proceeding, which tends to the prejudice and disappointing of any mans¹ ends; whether it be by closeness and undermining, as cheats and cozenages in the preventing of lawful, or by other politic wisdom in hindering unlawful ends; or whether by open and professed Opposition, as in matters of Emulation, Competition, Commodity, and the like; or lastly, whether it be such as takes notice, and discovers ends which desired to be undiscerned. And therefore Tacitus reckoning the ambiguous and close