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MOreouer those thinges which wee ought to esteeme good, are the better, and more to be desired, the greater they be. If justice bee good, no man will say, that it is like to bee better, if any thing should be taken from it; if Fortitude be good•• no man wil desire that it should be diminished in any part, & wrath the greater it is
the better that is,* 1.1 for who refuseth the increase of any good thing? but the in∣crease of wrath is vnprofitable, and consequently the bearing of the same is vn∣profitable. It is no good thing that by increase becommeth euill. Wrath (saith he) is profitable: because it maketh men more hardie to fight. In this manner Drunkennesse is profitable, for it maketh men more insolent and audacious, and many that haue drunken ouer freely, are more readie at their weapons, In this manner say, that both ••renzie, and Madnesse, are necessarie for valiant men: because oftentimes Furie maketh men more strong and able. VVhat? hath not feare sometimes made a Coward valiant, and the feare of death like∣wise enkindled, the weakest hearted men to the battle? But Wrath, Drunken∣nesse, Feare, and such like, are but filthie and fraile prouocations, neither confirme V••rtue which hath no need of vice, but doe sometimes a little quic∣ken a slow and idle mind. No man is strengthened by his anger, except he haue beene strong before his anger. To them anger assisteth not, but supplieth the place of Vertue. In briefe, if this passion were recommendable, it would fol∣low euerie one that were most perfect; but they that are the most tetchie, are infants, old-men, and sick-men, and euery Creature that is by na••ure weake and feeble, is ordinarily froward.
The increase of wrath is vnpro∣fitable, and there••ore wrath it selfe.