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And in this respect it may fitly be compared unto a cruel tyrant, who having invaded the government of the common-wealth, doth overthrow counsel, law, and order, and over ruleth all by force and fury: so anger having obtained sovereignty over the mind, taketh away all judgement, counsel and reason, and overswayeth all by foolish affection and raging passion. And therefore Solomon saith well, that Anger resteth ¹in the bosom of fools, for either fools it findeth them, or fools it maketh them. The reason is apparent, because anger maketh men rash and unadvised in their deliberations, and so their counsels and designs prove imperfect and without life, like abortive births which are borne before their time.

And in this respect it may fitly bee compared vnto a cruell tyrant, who hauing inuaded the gouernment of the common-wealth, doth ouerthrow counsaile, lawe, and order, and ouer ruleth all by force and furie: so anger hauing obtayned soueraigntie ouer the minde, taketh away all iudgement, counsaile and reason, and ouerswayeth all by foolish affection and raging passion. And therefore Salomon saith well, that Anger resteth ¹in the bosome of fooles, for either fooles it findeth them, or fooles it maketh them. The reason is apparant, because anger maketh men rashe and vnaduised in their deliberations, and so their counsayles and designes prooue imperfect and without lyfe, lyke abortiue byrthes which are borne before theyr time.

1. 1Eccle. 7. 11

Examples hereof we have in Simeon ¹and Levi, who like mad men imbrued ⟨p. 54⟩