1 ^6 Of the Advancement of Learning. L i b. VI. 



IfyoH regard not the Honour of an Nobles by bloody look too often bac^ 

 ancient Hoiife : Then what difference in the courfe , rvhich is the quality 

 *n>iU there be betvpeen the Race of of an ill Racer, 

 Alen, and the Race of Beajis .<? 



Nobility removes Vertue from En- 

 vy ; recommends it to Grace and 

 Favour. 



BEAUTY. IL 



Pro: Contra. 



Deformed perfons commonly have Vertue is like a rich Stone^ beji 



their revenge of Nature. plain fet. 



Vertue is nothing elfe but invpard What a fair vefimenf is to a de- 

 Beauty:, and Beauty nothing elfe but formed Body, the fame is a comely BO' 

 an outTpard Vertue. dy to a deformed Mind. 



Deformed perfons feek. to refcue They ufnally are of no great partt^ 



themfelves from/corn^ by malice and whom Beauty commendeth or mO" 



boldmfs. veth. 



Beauty makes Vertues flnne^ vices 

 hlujij. 



YOUTH, m. 



Pro, Contra. 



Ourfirjl cogitations^ and the conn- Youth is the field of Repentance^ 

 Jets of Touthjlream more divinely, "tJjere is in Touth an inbred dif- 



Oldmenare more wife for them- ejieem of the Authority of Age, that 

 felves, than they are for others and every Qne may grow wife at his own 

 the Repub. peril. 



If it could be made vifible^ Old Thofe Counfels to which Time was 

 age doth more deform the mind than not calTd^ Time will not ratifie. 

 the body. In old men Venus is changed in-* 



Old men fear all things fave the to the Graces. 

 Gods. 



HEALrja.,jv-. 



Pro. Contra. 



The regard of Health makes the Often to recover health, is often to 



Mind humble, and ohfequious to the grow young again, 



^"'^y' Indifpofition of Health is a com* 



A found Body is the Souls Hoft, vion excufe, hither we fiy even when 



hut ajickly her ]ayloT. we are well. 



Nothing fo promotes the f urn m of Health unites the Soul and the 



Biijincfs, as a profperousjiatc of Bo. Body in too fir iB a league, 



^hbut on the contrary^ afickly con- The Couch hath govern d mighty 



Jtitution makes too many Holy-days. Empires ; and Litter mighty Armies 



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