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bcnigniias hujus ut 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, males bestice, venires pigri. 

 Sallust noteth that it is usual with kings to desire con 

 tradictories : Sed phrumque regies voluntates, ut vehementes 

 sunt&amp;gt; sic mobiles, s&pcque ipsce sibi adversce. Tacitus ob- 

 serveth how rarely raising of the fortune mendeth the 

 disposition : solus Vespasianus mutatus in melius. Pin- 

 dams maketh an observation, that great and sudden 

 fortune for the most part defeateth men qui magnamfeli- 

 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 : Divitia si affluant, 

 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 



