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CHAP. XXXV.
How Kings ought to carry themselues towards their Fauourites.
FOr to resolue this Question, and to giue satisfaction to that which is here propo∣sed in this Chapter, it being a matter of so tender and dangerous a touch: I will first lay for my foundation, a true point of doctrine in naturall Philosophie, cele∣brated with that sentence of the glorious Saint Austen; Amor meus, pondus me∣um, illo feror, quocunque feror: The plummet which peaseth man, and the wings wherewith the heart makes it's flight, is loue, which doth leade the dance to all the other passions of the soule. And as those that saile in a deepe sea, with full sailes, runne on their course without any danger; but when they draw neare the shore, they take them downe and ruffle them that they may not runne their ship vpon some shelfe, or split it selfe against some rocke; so likewise, when the heart is lift∣ed vp vnto the loue of God, which is infinite goodnesse, it may without perill plough the seas of this world, and with full sayles cut the Maine, without danger of shelues, quick∣sands, or rockes. For (according to that saying of the glori∣ous Saint Bernard) as the cause of our louing God, is God himselfe: so, the measure of louing him, is to loue him with∣out measure. Causa diligendi Deum, Deus est; modus dilectio∣nis, sine modo diligere. As the cause of our loue is infinite; so must it be without taxe or limitation, wherein there can be no excesse. But when the heart drawes but little water, and touches too close vpon these things of the earth, which haue