Plutarch de cobib,irac. Secó. ; . The fecond means to with - draw a mans felfeout of company. x.Samuzo.34 Prou.ri, i6 Setf.4. The third manes to re- JIrainitfor a whilefrom iturRingout intofury. Of themeones to exvell or bridle dweAv_ with the like,andfo to adde new matter to theold flame.As well therefore may we think toquench the fire with wood, as anger with words , for as wood is the nourifhment of the fire, fowords arc the nourifhnment ofanger . Let vs rather in our anger imitate the wife Socrates whowhen hewas molt angry,vledmo(i mode(ly, mildneilc of fpeech, & loaneiTe ofvoice, and fo withdrawingthe nourifhment from the fire ofan act,it will (coneofítkitebe extinguí lhed. The fecond meancs to fubduc anger, is togerout ofthe company of others , cfpecially of themwho haue offended vs accordingto the example ofIonathan, r. San, .20.34.who being . prouokcdby his vr.iuf and cruel! father, role from the table and departed, leaf} byNsfathers prouocati- ons, he might havedone or laid that which did not befceme him : whore pradife ifwe would imitate, we fhould not onc- lyappeafe our anger by remouing out ofour fight theobicá andcaufe thereof, &preucnt furtheroccafìons of i:icreafing it,but alfocouerour infirmities,wlaich otherwife we (Mould difcouer by theviolenceofthe paon. As therefore theywho arcvexedwith the falling ficknes, (if they cannot by their owns ordinary remedies preuent their fit)will go out ofthe companyofothcrs,that falling fe- cretly, they may haue no witneffe of their deform itic : fo theywho arcnot able to corbe intheir anger, with the reync of reafon, were bell towithdraw themfelues, and to keepe private, while their fitlalleth : that fo theymay hide thevg.. 'Male oftheirvice,which being fcencdothoftenmoue their aducr fades to fcorne and laughter, and their friends to for- row and pitie. And this is made a note ufa wife manby the wife(}. `Prow. i 2. r6. Afoole is a day(hall be knowne by his anger, but he that coserethhisfhame is wi fe. The third meancs to vanqutfh anger, is for a while to bridle and rcllraine it from bur(ling out into preuent re- ucnge. For ifwe refi(} it in the l rft encounter, we (hall finde the firengththercofmuch weakened ,and this the wife thenedorut knewwell who being todepart fromAugt us, was
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