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benignitas hujus ul adolescentuli est. Saint Paul concludeth 
that severity of discipline was to be used to the Cretans, 
increpa eos dure, upon the disposition of their country, 
Cretenses semper mendaces, male bestia, ventres pigri. 
Sallust noteth: that it is usual with kings to desire con- 
tradictories: Sed plerumque regie voluntates, ut vehementes 
sunt, stc mobiles, sepeque ipse sibt adverse. ‘Tacitus ob- 
serveth how rarely raising of the fortune mendeth the 
disposition: solus Vespasianus mutatus in melius, Pin- 
darus maketh an observation, that great and sudden 
fortune for the most part defeateth men gui magnam feh- 
citatem concoquere non possunt, So the Psalm showeth it 
is more easy to keep a measure in the enjoying of for- 
’ tune, than in the increase of fortune: Drvitie st affuant, 
nolite cor apponere. ‘These observations and the like I 
deny not but are touched a little by Aristotle as in 
passage in his Rhetorics, and are handled in some 
scattered discourses: but they were never incorporate 
into moral philosophy, to which they do essentially apper- 
tain; as the knowledge of the diversity of grounds and 
moulds doth to agriculture, and the knowledge of the 
diversity of complexions and constitutions doth to the 
physician ; except we mean to follow the indiscretion 
of empirics, which minister the same medicines to all 
patients. 
6. Another article of this knowledge is the inquiry 
touching the affections; for as in medicining of the body, 
it is in order first to know the divers complexions and 
constitutions; secondly, the diseases; and lastly, the 
cures: so in medicining of the mind, after knowledge of 
the divers characters of men’s natures, it followeth in 
order to know the diseases and infirmities of the mind, 
which are no other than the perturbations and distempers 
