Of h c 'ls t 5 t e u hataccompany 'Unger auger. are thusmonflrousin fo beautiful a lubiea' ?Howmon!lrour lydoth it deforme themind, when the fignesthereofbe..thus horrible in the body? But as it dcformeth the body , fo it eapofeth it to infinite dangers by prouoking men to enter inroprivatefraiesand needlcfe quarrel5,with fuchdefperaterefolution, that they wholly neglec`ì then;felucs that they may huit their enemy. Like to the Wafpc or Bee, which venture their owns liues, that they may but fling thole that anger them ; fo they,that they may fatisfie their fury by reuenging a (mall iniury are ready to receiue agreater, for they care nc t to defend them- films fo theymay offend their enemy : nay theyare defirous to glue wounds , though it be thorow their owne bodies. And hence it is, ;hat Tome painting anger haueput ineither hand a fword, as being fit tohurt another,but not to defend himfelfe. nemies,feeing the angry man when he hathnoliither foes to hurt him, doth with his ownehands offer violence vnto himfelfe ? as is eui dent in their example who in their ragewill not flick topull oft the hake oftheirowne heads andbeards, and co offer manyother furious outrages againfl their owne perfons . So that the vvife Sa/omonmight well fay, Thata rnovi ofmuch angerpallHer paqhment:for ifno manelfc will,hewill puniih himfelfe. And fo' much for the body. But anger bringeth no idleculls to the foule. Firfl likes darke cloud it ouerlhadoweth and blindeth the light area. fon , and for the time rnakethmen as though they vvere difltaught oftheir wits . Whereof it'is that anger is called madneffe,but in time . Sauing that herein it is farre work) in that he who. poifeffed with madncife' is niceflarily, will he,nill he, fubie& to that fury : but thispa(Eon is entred in. to wittingly and willingly . Madneire is theeuill ofpunilh- thrutis Iearon from it imperial] throne; but anger abufetfi reafon by forcing it with all violencc to bee a flaue to par. Z,ro §.SeE.G. exrofetb it todangers. *01119,19 r §. Sea.7. The mils vhirhanger bringethto the foule. ,it blinda! rearm. fion, And.
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