Part.z.• Sett. 3· Crmof Melancholy. Memb. 5 • 3,p anxietie!, li'Vor, love, co'Uetoufnejfe, hAtred,mvie,malice, that Ift•rno moro ----th~wes,tyrant~,entmt~s M yuud•. · t virgil. t <.Ad cinerem& ,,.,,, credi< curart foprtltos? Do theyconcern us at all,think you,when we are once dead~ Condole not others then overmuch,w1lh not or fear thine own death. J~-Hor. * Summrtm nee eptes diemnee metrNu, 'tis to no purpofe. 'Exceji <. '1Jit.e .e~umnu focilifrJ: lubenfi,, · Ne pe]oratp[a morte dehmc '1Jtdeam, I left this irkfome life with all mine heart, . Left worfe then death lhould happen to my part. t C!Ytre.. J<li- t Cardmal! Bru?dujinru caufed this Epitaph in Rometo be infcribedonhis eiu E""P·•· tomb,to !hew h1s wlllmgneffe to dye,and taxe thofe that were [o loth to de. part.Weep and howl no morethen,'tis to [mall purpofe;AndasTuOy ad vi• . feth us in thelike cafe, Non quos avzijimru,fed quantum lugereparfit cogite. ?11tH: Think what we do,not whom we have loll:. So Daviddid,, Sam•.,, While the childw,u yet ali'Ve, I fafted &1vept, but being now dead, whyjhould l fajl? Can! bring him again? I jhaOgotohim,bllt hecannot returntome.He that cloth otherwife is an intemperate, aweak, afilly, and undifcreet man. Though Ariftotle deny any part of intemperance to bee convcrfant about * Iipifl .s 5 • forrow,Iam of* Seneca's minde,hethat uwife ic temperate, & hethatiue111 • perate u conftant,fi'cefrom pajion,andhe th,,t ic fuch aone, u without forrow:as , sard"' de aU wife men fhould be. The ' Thracian1 wept frill when achild was born, feafied and mademirth when any man was buried: and fo ihould we rather be glad for fuch as die well,that they are fo happily freed from the miferies m~r.gcn. ofthis life. When Eteoncru that nobl' young Greeke was fo generally ]a. mented by his friends,Pindarru the Poet faines fome God C.<ying,Siltte hominet,non ertim mi(er e~, &c. be quiet good folks, this young man is not fo miferableas you think, he is neither gone to Styx nor Acheron,fedgloriof"' & (enii expert heros, helives for ever in the Elijian fields. He now enjoyes that happineffe, which your great Kings fo e~rneflly feek, and weares that garland for which ye contend. If our prefent weakneffe be fuch,we cannot moderare our paffions in this behalf; we mull: divert them by all means, by doing fometbing elfe, thinking ofanother fubjecr. The Italians mol! part lleep away care and grief,ifin unfeafonably feife upon them;Da.rm ,Dutch. tmn,Polanders and Bohemians drmkit down; our countrymen go to playes: . . do fomething or other,let it not tranfpofethee ;or by b premeditationmake ~i~~j.~~;'; (t~et accidentsfamiliar ,as VlyJfes that wept for his dog,but nor for his wife, reildm quemi quodparatru e/Jet ammo objirmato, (Plut.de anim.tranq.) accu!l:ome thy felf, ~:[~~;~~:~;: and harden before hand by feeing other mens calamities, & applying them one ad Apollo- to thy prefentefiate: Pr;e'Vf:Jitm eft lwttu quodfrut ante ma~r''?'· nium. Aj/ue- I wlll conclude With t Eptc1etu<, Ifthou lo'Uefl: ap•t,remembcr tu hilt apot 7,"'~"r ea- thou lo'Vejf, & tho" wilt not be troubledwhen'tu broken: Ifthott loveft afon or ;:~. 1it.~~· !Vife ,remevzber they were mortal!,& thou wilt not befo impatient. And fo for Tufiulan. falfe feares and all other fortuite inconveniences,mifchances,calamities,to l~'f{s.siol- rdilbndprep:lr,eour fdves,nottofaintis. beft; ~ Stnltlltn<jl timerequod lam Jiliga., vttart nonpotejl, us afolly to fearthat wh1ch cannot be av01ded, or to bee meme'!.t~tcol- difcouraaed at all. lam dil1gere, b nonperturbaberU.eJ 'o,.jra£td; fi filium_aut ~xoremJ memento bominew d t~dilfgi~ (!}',. ,. Sene,a.
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