Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: nurses of perseverance and constancie, the seed of valour and magnanimitie, the death ofsioath, and the breath of all vertue. Feare and dislikes are the scouts of discretion, the harbingers of wisdom andpolicie, killing idle repentance in the cradle, and curbingrashnesse with deliberation. Au- dacitie is the armor of strength, and the guide of glory, breaking the ice to the hardest exploits, and crowning valour with honourable victorie. Sorrow it the sister ofmercie, and a waker of compassion, weeping with others' teares, and grieved with their harmes. It is both the salve and smart of same, curing that which it chas- tiseth with true remorse, and preventing need of new cure with the detestation of the disease. Despaire of the successe is a bit against evitt attempts, and the hearse of idle //', ending end- lesse things in their Jint motion to begin. True joy is the rest and reward of vertue, seasoning difficulties with delight, and giving a present assay of future happinesse. Finally, there is no passion but hath a serviceable use, either in pursuit of good, or avoidance of evill, and they are nil, benefits of God, and hetpes of nature, so long as they are kept under vertue's correction. But as too much of the best is evill, and excesse in virtue, vice ; so passions let loose without limits, are imperfections, nothing being good that vanteth measure. And as the sea is unfit for trajfcke, not only w/ien the mndes are chapter{Section 4too toy si crows, but also when they are too still, and a middle gale and motion of the waves serveth best the sayler's purpose ; so neither too stormie, nor too calme a mimic giveth vertue the Jlrst course, but a middle temper betweene them both, in which the well ordered passions are wrought to prosecute, not suffered to pervert any vertuou...