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wt lo é obey-reason, and not to invade it. The end d of yatenigs to 
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fill the i to second reason, and 1 not to oppress it: 
- for these abuses of arts come in but ex oddiguo, for caution, 
3. And therefore it was great injustice in Plato, though 
springing out of a just hatred to the thetoricians of his 
time, to esteem of rhetoric but as a voluptuary art, re- 
sembling it to cookery, that did mar wholesome. meats, 
and help unwholesome by variety of sauces to the plea- 
sure of the taste. For we see that speech is much more 
conversant in adorning that which is good, than in 
colouring that which is evil; for there is no man but 
speaketh more honestly than he can do or think: and 
it was excellently noted by Thucydides in Cleon, that 
because he used to hold on the bad side in causes of 
estate, therefore he was ever inveighing against elo- 
quence and good speech; knowing that no man can 
speak fair of courses sordid and base. And therefore 
os Us as Plato said elegantly, Zhat wirtue, if she could be seen, 
4 would move £ great love and affection ; so seeing that she \| 
£ =. cannot be showed to the sense by corporal shape, the V 
a» next degree is to show her to the imagination in lively 
..{ Yepresentation: for to show her to reason only in sub- R 
ad _ tility of argument was a thing ever derided in Chrysip- 
- “| Sypus and many of the Stoics, who thought to thrust 
a virtue upon men by sharp disputations and conclusions, 
which have no sympathy with the\will of man. 
4. Again, if the affections in themselves were pliant and 
\ / obedient to reason, it were true there should be no great 
use of persuasions and insinuations to the will, more than 
of naked proposition and proofs; but in regard of the 
continual mutinies and seditions of the affections, 
Video meliora, proboque, 
Deteriora sequor, 
