CHAP. XXV.
* 1.1FRom thence, doth this follow, that wee be not exasperated by the smallest and most ••ordid thinges. The Page is scarce seruiceable that either ministreth water to warme for our wine, or a bed to sit vpon vnmade, or a table negligently furnished. To bee angrie hereat, is but madnsse, hee is sicke, and of an euill constitution whom a little breath of winde causeth to quiuer. Those eyes are verie weake, which are dimmed by beholding a white vesture: he is ouer delicate that swea∣teth to see another man labour. It is reported that there was a certaine man of Sibaris who was called Mindyrides who beholding one that digged the Earth, and lifted his mattocke too high, began too commplaine himselfe as if he him∣selfe had trauelled much, and forbad the other to worke any more in his pre∣sence. The same man likewise complained oftentimes, because he lay vpon a bed of rose leaues. Whereas pleasures haue inthraled both the minde and the bodie there is nothing that seemeth tolerable, not because they are hard, but in that effeminate men suffer them. For what is the cause, why any mans cough, or sneesing, or a Flie not curiously enough driuen away, should incense vs, or a cup ouerturned, or a key lost by the carelessenesse of a negligent seruant should trouble vs? Will such a man peaceably endure a publike slander, and reproches vrged against him, in declamations and open Court, that cannot a∣bide to beare the scraping of a stoole that is drawne by him? will he suffer hun∣ger and extreme thirst in a winters voyage, who is angrie with his Page, because he hath not mixed his snow with his wine cunningly.