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sad Ray: Shc may reflect With eid fimilitude upon the party pitying, “"r nau oh 
‘camfe tt exciteth Fear... 9\s«. 
Light: Shame hurteth not, fede x ceiitraCleth the Sfirits a Tidy and then. tr 
|: diffufeth: them:: infomuch that /bamefac'd perfons commonly live. long :) but S 
'|fome great ignominy, and which affli€teth the pads sonetaeteaie the 
to faffocation, and is pernicious. - 
Léve,. if it be not unfortunate}: and! too deeply abot is. all , at 
fubjeG to the fame. Lawsiwhich we have fet down touching Joy, 22 he 
Hope is the moft beneficial of all the Affectons, and doth much to We 
tiomofidifey éf it be not too! often fruftrated, but entertaineth the Fancy’ wile prt a 
peGation of good: therefore they awhich| fix and propdund to themifelves fom ‘end, |) Hy 
asthe mark and {cope of:their life ,» aiid: continually and! by! degrees go: forward.in 
the fame; are, for the:moft part, long-liv ds: ansfo muchthat whtn they/are come.to | 
the.top of their hope,:and! can go no; y Higher therein, :they commonly. droop; and live. 
not long after ; So that eg isa fa ip which ee be beaten be ty 
fion, like: Gold 2i ti nom A Tei tb Aili | 
Admirationand light eatoaplaliea are ‘very comers to the cal Stitt af lifes for | 
they hold the jpirers in fach things as delight them, add. fuffer them not to tumultuare, 7 
| or tocatry.themfelves anquictly and «waywardly, ‘And therefore all the.Contemplators \* 
of Natural. things; which had fo many: and eminent Objects toadmire, (as Demo- | » 
\ critas, Plato, Parmedides, Apollonius’) were long liy’d:s alfo Rhetoricians, which tae aT 
ftedvbut lightly of thingsy and, {tudiedrather Exornation of fpeech thaniprofundity of | 
‘matters, werealfo long-liv'd ;.as Gorgias, Protagoras, Hotrates,. Seneca. And certain. 
ly;as old'men ‘are forsthémoft!part talkative, . fo talkatiyemen do often grow very 
for it fhews a light contemplation, and fuch as doth not much flain the Sfarts, oF 
them: but fubtil, and acute, cus eager Ree fhortens life; for it tireth the fpirit | 
and wafteth it) nolo me 
~ o Andzas: esting) chapel of wes Gace by thedfesBans. of hel Mind, thus nuch. | 
Now we will adde\certaih other general Objervations‘touching the seme befide the. H 
foriner, which fall noninto. the precedentdiftribution. » 1+ is #8) AW ie 
Efpecial care muft be taken that the Spirtts be not too atic refolved for’ attenua-. | a 
tion goeth before refolution, and the spirit once attenuared doth not very eafily retire, 
ortis: cokdenfed. Now Refalution ts cated by over-gréat labours, over-vehcment affe- |! 
ations of ithe mind, over: great fweats, “over: great evacuations, . hot Baths, and an un» 
temperate and unfeafonable ufe of Venus; ‘allo by over-great cares and carpings, me 
anxious expeétations ;° laftly,; by malignant difeafes, and intolerable painsand torm 
of the body -» all which, as much ee ‘be, C which our id ee ete alfo advife 
mutt be avoided. | q bie i29ages ct 
The fpiriss are snp both pei ool dl things, sg with; noms : ae it ‘maketh:| 
wonderfully to the confervation of the Sperits in. vigour, that we neither ule womted|| 
things to 4 -fatiety'and: glatting ; norwew things, before a quick, and, trong ; a ppetite. | 4a 
And therfore both cuffoms are to be broken off with judgment and care, . before they} ei 4 
brted-a fulnéfs.; and the lppetire after new things to. be reftrained for. a time watil | ” 
it grow more fharp and jocond.x:and moreover, the 4fe, as much as may. be;. dois at 
be ordered, that itamay have many renovations, and the Spirits by-penpetual C1 |. 
in the fame actions may not wax dull.’ For though at: were no: LilLaying of veneea's, | 
The fool'doth everrbecimto tive ; yet this, folly. aridsmany: more fuch;».are goad for. Pe 
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46 48-0 be obferved touching the! Tpsries (chough they ‘contrary. wfed:.to: be done ) 
hat when men perceive their fpirits tor be in good,» placid, ..and healthful. tan 
(that Which *wilP be:feen by: the tranquility, of their Mind, and. chearful. difpofi- | 
bon} ithatthey cherifh them, » cand ‘not change ‘them: but biahengeadae bulent J. 
nd untoward tiie p (which will: alfo: appear’ bys their fadnefss| Jumpithnefs ,: eae e) ae 
other indifpofi tion oftheir mind) that: then they ftraight overwhelm: them , >and | 
alter them): Now tlre Spirits’ are contained in the fame tate; byca refraining « of th ald 
affections » temperatencls of diet, abftinence from Venus; smodetation i in labour} 
andifter ent: ‘gett and: repofe : and ‘the contrary. to: thefe'do alter» and over 
the'ypirits; as narnely, ‘vehement ‘affe€tions, profafe -feaftings, ahimoderate 
difficult labours, earneft ftudies, and profecution of bufinefs. Yet men are 
when they are merrieft and beft a » them tovapply: Eee 
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