Politeuphuia VVits common wealth.

Of Teares.

Defi. Teares or sorrow, is a griefe or heauines for things which are done and past, they are the onely friends to solitarines, the enemies to company, and the heyres to desperation.

TEares are no cures for distresse, neyther can present plaints ease a passed harme.

There is no sovver but may bee qualified with sweet potions, nor any dolefull maladie but may be allayed with some delightful mu∣sicke.

Teares craue compassion, & submission de∣serueth forgiuenes. Greg.

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be stryuen withall; because it is like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following, then o∣uerthrowne by withstanding.

VVoe makes the shortest time seeme long. S. P. S.

VVomen are most prone to teares, & haue them soonest at commaund. Eurip.

Sorrowe bringeth foorth teares, as a tree bringeth foorth fruite.

That griefe is best digested that brings not open shame.

Bury the dead, but weepe not aboue one day. Homer.

Teares are the signes of penitence.

VVe shall sooner want teares, then cause of mourning in this life. Seneca.

Sorrowes concealed, are more sower, and smothered griefes, if they burst not out, will breake the hart.

The hart that is greatly grieued, takes hys best comfort when hee findes tims to lament his losse.

Teares are the vnfittest salue that any man can apply for to cure sorrowes.

Teares and sighes declare the hart to bee greatly grieued.

A teare in the eye of a strumpet, is like heat drops in a bright sunne-shine, and as much to be pittied as the weeping of a Crocodile.

Of sorrow and lamentation, commeth wat∣ching and bleared eyes.

It is better to waile at the first, then to weep at the last.

Teares are the badges of sorrow. Archim.

Passion is a most combersome guest to it selfe. S. P. S.

Deepe conceited sorrowes are like to Sea-Iuie, which the older it is, the greater roote it hath.

Passions are like the arrovves of Cupid, which if they touch lightly, proue but toyes, but once piercing the skin, they proue deepe wounds.

As the hotest thunders are not alwaies quē∣ched with raine, so the deepest griefes are not alwaies discouered with teares.

VVhere the smallest show of teares is, there is oft-times the greatest effect of sorrow.

Teares in many ease the grieued hart; for griefe is like to ••••re, the more it is couered, the more it rageth. Plutar.

Humble teares put the accusor to silence, ouer-come the inuinsible, & pacifie the dis∣pleased.

Great is the vertue and povver of teares, vvhich tye the hands of the omnipotent, pa∣cifie the rage of an aduersary, appease the ire of the Iudge, & change his minde from ven∣geance to mercy.

Teares are the fruits of passion, the strength of women, the signes of dissimulation, the re∣concilers of displeasures, and the tokens of a broken hart.

Teares are the foode of the soule. Basil.

There are in the eyes three sorts of teares, the first of ••oy, which in old men shew theyr kindnesse; the second of sorrow, vvhich in

wretched men shew theyr misery; the thyrd, of dissimulation, which in women shew their nature.

Lay thy hand on thy hart when thy vvife hath the teare in her eye, for then shee inten∣deth eyther to found thee, or to finck thee.

VVhen griefe doth approach, if it be small, let vs abide it, because it is easie to be borne, but if it be grieuous, let vs beare with it, be∣cause our glory shall be the greater.

Care not for sorrow, it will eyther dissolue or be dissolued.

How miserable is that griefe, vvhich can vt∣ter nothing in the torment.

Men take a certaine pleasure in weeping, when they lament the losse of theyr best be∣loued friends.

Solon hauing buried his sonne, dyd vveepe very bitterly, to whom when one sayde, hys teares were all in vaine; for that cause, quoth he, doe I weepe the more, because I cannot profit with weeping.

He hath a hard hart that neuer lamenteth, and his hart is effeminate, that sorroweth too much for the death of his friends.

Too much sadnesse in a man, is as much to be condemned, as ouer-much boldnesse in a woman is to be despised.

By the Lawe of the twelue tables at Rome, all weeping & funerall teares are sharply for∣bidden.

Lepidus by a long griefe conceiued of the misbehauiour of his wife, shortned his owne dayes.

To lament with tears the follies of our for∣mer life, is profitable, but to grieue too much for worldly losses, is a signe of foolishnesse.

Per lachrymas argumentū desiderij quaerimus, et dolorem non sequinum sed ostendinus: nemo enim sibi tristis est.

Curae leues loquitur, ingentes stupent.

Seneca.