Parr. 1,Set\.2. Caufts of Melancholy. 124 written in former ages, fcarceone ofa thoufands workes remaines, 110111 ; 114 & libri fimul ctlm corporibm interierum , their bookes and bodies are perifhcd together. It is not as they vainely thinke, they !hall furely be admired and immortall, as one told Philip of tMacedon infulting afcer a victory that his !hadow was no longer than before, we may fay to them, ' Nos demiramur,fodnM cum defide vulgo, Sedvtlut HarpytU, Gorg~na, & F11rias. We marvaile too, not as the vulgar we, But as we Gorgoos, Harpy, or Furies fee. Or ifwe doe applaud, honour and admire; quot4pars,how fmall a pattin r~ fpec:tofthe whole world, never fo much as hears our names; how few rake notice ofus, how !lender a Tract, as fcant as Alcibiades his land in a Map : Orbem terramm viSor Romanm habebat, as he crackt in Petronim, all the world was under vfugu.flm : and fo in Conjlantines time, Etifebitu brags he governed all the world, univerfum mundum preclar< ·admodtJm adminiflr 4 • vit,--& omne.s orbis gentes Imperatori fubj~Eli: [o of vf lexander it i.s given out, the 4• Monarchtes, &c. when as nenher Greeks nor Romans, ever had the fifteenth part ofthe now known world, nor halfe of that which was then defcribed. What Braggadocians are they and we then ~ quam brevi< gTHifo"!flip. hie de nobis fermo, asg he faid, 'pudehit au.1i mminu, how !hort a time, how h B«thllld. little a while doth this fame ~fours continue~ Eve.ryprivate Province, cycryfmall territory, and city, w.hen we have all d~ne, will yeeld asgeher6us fpirits, as brave_ example~ in all refpccrs, as famm~s as our felves, Cadwallader in Wales, RoUo in N~rmandy, Robbin-bood and Little IDhn, areas much renowned inSher"'o~d,asc .. (arinR~m"e, <.Alexander in Greece, orbis Rei P•tMz.ci{atp. phejlion, i Omnil .et .a Dmnifque pDpulm in ex,emplum & admirationem vmiet, bifiJ•h.•. Every town, city, book, is full otbrave Souldiers, Senators, Schollers,and ~":41<11. Ly- though k BrA<JdtU was a wonhy Captaine, a good man, and as they thought · not to be matched in Laced..mon,yet as his mother truely faid, plures habet Sparta Bracyda meliDres, Sparta hadmany better men than ever he was; and howfoeverthouadmireft thy felfe, my friend, many an obfcure fellow the world never took notice of, had he been in place or action,would have done much better than he or he, or thou thy felfe. Another kind ofmad men there is oppofite to thefe, that are infenfibly mad, and know not ofit, fuch as contemne all praifeand glory, think themfdves moft free, when as indeed they are moft mad: ea/cant fod aliofajlu:a company of Cynicks, fuch as arc Monkes, Hermites, Anachorires, that contemne the world, contemne themfelves,contemneall titles,honours,officcs: and yet in that contempt, are more proud than any man livingwharfoever. They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud, (:tpe homo de -van£ gl~ri£ contemptu, vanius gl~riatur, as Aujlin bath it, confej{.lib. ro. cap. 38 .like Diogenes, i111114 gl~riantur, they brag inwardly,and feed themfclves fat with a felfe conceit offaoc!lity,which is no betterthan hypocri!Jc. They goe in !heepes rutfet, many great men, that might maintaine them[dves in cloath ofgold, and feeme to be dejeCted, humble by their outward cariage, when as inwardly they are fwolne full ofpride, arrogancy, and felf-conceir. And
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