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how affections are kindled and incited; and how pacified 
and refrained; and how again contained from act and 
further degree; how they disclose themselves ; how they 
work; how they vary; how they gather and fortify; how 
they are enwrapped one within another; and how they 
do fight and encounter one with another; and other the 
like particularities. Amongst the which this last is of 
special use in moral and civil matters; how, I say, to set 
affection against affection, and to master one by another; 
even as we use to hunt beast with beast, and fly bird 
with bird, which otherwise percase we could not so easily 
recover: upon which foundation is erected that excellent 
use of premium and pana, whereby civil states consist: 
employing the predominant affections of fear and hope, 
for the suppressing and bridling the rest. For as in the 
government of states it is sometimes necessary to bridle 
one faction with another, so it is in the government 
within. 
4. Now come we to those points which are within our 
own command, and have force and operation upon the 
mind, to affect the will and appetite, and to alter man- 
ners: wherein they ought to have handled custom, 
exercise, habit, education, example, imitation, emulation, 
company, friends, praise, reproof, exhortation, fame, laws, 
books, studies: these as they have determinate use in 
moralities, from these the mind suffereth; and of these 
are such receipts and regiments compounded and de- 
scribed, as may serve to recover or preserve the health 
and good estate of the mind, as far as pertaineth to 
human medicine: of which number we will insist upon 
some one or two, as an example of the rest, because it 
were too long to prosecute all; and therefore we do 
resume custom and habit to speak of. 
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