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Atqne Deot atque Afira vocat Crudelia Mater, "^' "'' 



JButon the other fide, where the evil is derived from a man's own fault, 

 there the grief ftrikes inward, and does more deeply wound and pierce 

 the heart. 



The Reprehenjioh, 



THe Fdllax oiiKxs Colour is, firft in refpeft of Hope^ which is a great 

 Antidote againft Evih : for the reformation of a fault is many times 

 in our own power, but the amendment of fortune is not. Wherefore 

 in many of his Orations Defftojihenet faith thus to the People of Athens : Demofi, 

 That which having regard to the time paji, it the worji Point and Ciratm- ®'^^^'- 

 fiance of all the reji j that as to the time to conte^ is the beji : what is that .<? 

 Even this, that by your Jloth, irrejolution^ and mifgovernment, your af- 

 fairs are grown to this declination and Decay -^ for had yon ufedand orde' 

 red your means and forces to the ^ei?, and done your parts every way to 

 the full, and notwithjianding your tHatters fiould have gone backward in 

 this point as they do, there had been no hope left of recovery or reputation 

 for hereafter 3 btit fince it hath been only by your own errors chiefly, you 

 may have good ajfurance, that thofe errors amended, you may again recover 

 the honour of your former Jiate. So Epi&etus (peaking of the Degrees of £p'^t«' 

 thcTranquillity of mind, faith the woriijiate of man is to accufe extern 

 things^ better then that, to accuje antansfelf'-y aftd beH of all to accufe 

 neither. Secondly this colour deceivs in refpefl: of that pride which is 

 implanted in the minds of men, whereby they are with much ado in- 

 duced to an acknowledgement of their own perfonal errors 5 but that 

 they may (hift ofFthis acknowledgement, they can fufFer with far great- 

 er patience fuch evils, as they have by their own overfights drawn upon 

 themfelves. For as we (ee it comes to pafs that when a fault is commit- 

 ted, and it is not yet known who is the delinquent, men make much 

 ado J grow hot and impatient above meafure upon the matter ; but af- 

 ter, if it appear to be done by a fbn 5 or by a wife, or by a near friend- 

 then it is light made of, and prefently all is quiet : fo it is when any 

 thing falls out ill, the blame whereof muft needs lite upon our felves: 

 And this is commonly feen to come to pafs in women, who if they have 

 done any thing unfortunately againft their Parents or Friends confents, 

 what ill (bever betide them upon it,yet you ftiall fee them feldom com* 

 ^lain, but ftt a good face on it. 



The Colour. 



p The Degree of Trivationfeems greater than the Degree of Diminution i 

 and again^ the Degree of inception, feems greater than the Degree of in* 

 creafe. 



It is a pofition in the Mathematicks ; that then- is no proportion between 



Jomewhat and nothing : therefore the Degrees of Nullity and ^iddity.feem 



larger J than the Degrees oflncreajc and Decreafe, As to a Monoculus, it 



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