Loves Power andextent. Memb. 1 .Subf,2 • !Iefiesfonneli,rcverend old age in the Elders that would v~olate Sufanna, ---.1£._. filial! d11ty in Ab.(oton to his llepmother, brotherly love m "!"'"""to- · wards his filler. Humane, divine !awes, precepts, exhorrauons, feare o! God and men faire,foule meanes, fame, fortunes, lhame, difgrace, honour cannot oppGfe, llave off, or with!land thdury of it. omnia vin. cit amor,&c. The fco·rching Qcames under the .AiquinotliAII, or extremity ofcold within t~ecircle ~rtique where t~e very Seas are frozen, . cold ortorid zone cannotavo1d, or cxpcll th1s heat , fury and uge of).~;~~~~~: morca!lmcn. . rum ioexh<UJ· t f!!!_o fugio ah derrnens ,nuUa eH fuga ,ttllictt ufir fl•ljbidine lu· .AdTant~im fugiM ,t~[ii fequetttr amor. ·· . ~;~~o~:f:e~':: Ofwomens unnaturall, hunfatiablcluft, what country, whatVillage 1"'""''"" doth not complainc~ Mother and daughter fomctimes dote on the fame ;::}!~~;f•fi'• man, lather an9.lon ne, mafter and fer vane on one woman. srepb. -Sedamor,fed efrenata libido, ! PlautU<. _ fl!!_id caJ111m in terris intenwumrj, reliqt~itl . g•~~~:.~~~- What breach ot vowes & oathes, fury ,dorage,madnelft·,mtght I reckon gra~iter .,.. up? Yet this is more tolerable in youth, and fucb as are ll:ill in their hot diunr,capilli blood; but for an old foole to dote,to fee an old leacher, what more o- ~::;;; ~,;;~ dious, what can b~ more abfurd? and yet what fo comm(}n? Who fo fu- olct, r~JJ" rious~ t A mare ea £fate Ji occeptrint,multo infanitmt acriits, f;'bcypri••· Ssme dote then more then everthey did in their youth. How many de~ R•ffi~~; _'Pifl· crepite,hoarie,harlh,writhcn, burfien bellied, crooked,toothlelf~, bald, ;_ Hiar4,turpu bleare.eyed, impotenr, rotten old men !hallyou fee flickering frill in e- ~~,",""~"' very place? One gets hima young wife, another a Curtifan,and wben he k ~.J.~::if. can fcarce lift his leggc over a filk, ·anQ bath one foot already in charons 7" "'ab in· boat, when he bath the trembling in his joyncs,thegout in h.is f:ct; a per. :r;;,~~":J peruall rhume in his head, acontinuate cQttgh," hi5 fight foiles him, thick ~11/t aJbu.c • ofhe .ring, hu hrwhffinkes ,all his moifture is dried up and gone, may f~"01"· not fpit trom him; avery child againc, that cannot drelfe himfelfe, or tri~:S;; r;;· cut his own mear, yet he will be dreaming of,and honing after wenches, J'fPeCiu•n fewh~tcanbe mor~~nfeemely? Worfeitis in women the~ in men, when ;:/;~"'"' lhe IS t £tale dultvu ,d:u vtdtta, m4ter ol:m, p.rum de coN m•trimoni11m m Ji0jiJ ,.,1 flqt~i videtttr, an old widdow, amother fo long fince (t in Plini(s opini- rerraru~ orbt on) !he dothveryuefecmely feeketomarry, yet whilcllfhe is ; fo olde ~~:"'~~;;;, a crone, a beldamc, lhe can neithedee, nor heare,goe nor ftand,a meere q11od oppid;m kkar_calle,a witch~ and fcarce feele; fi1e catterwaule~ , and mufi have a ;::,:.{~~~~ fialhon, a Champion, !he mufi and wtllnurry agame, and betroth her rumexemplur felfe to fome young man, I that hates to !ooke on, but for her goods; ab- vEne"'- sit· horresthefighrofher, rotheprejudice of her good name, her ow3 un. ;•;"'quu rndoing, griele of friends, and ruin of her children. .;,,. :::,7..••· But to enlargeor illuftrate rhis power and effects of love, is to fet a nullum•mori& ~and le in ~he Sunne.m Ir ragerh with all forts and conditions ofmen,yet ;:;{:/';.~~' IS moll ev1denr among fuch as are young and lufiy,in the Jlowre oftheir ma,ego Je ,. yeares, nobly defGended, high fed,fuchas live idly and at cafe. and for {';"'""J•· that caule(which our Divines call burning lull:) this n ferimu i~(antu a-.;;::.;;::;:. tMr, this mad and beaftly pa!Iion,as I havelaid,isnamed l)y our Phyfi-periculamtftt , tians, Hmiralllove, and a more honourable title put upon it, 4m~r no hi- ;i:,~fl"" lil,
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