CHAP. XXXIIII.
WHat then? (••aith he) hath he requited a fauor that hath done no∣thing?* 1.1 He hath done much, he hath repaied good will with as great good will, and (which is a certaine signe of friendship) he hath done it with an equall affection. Moreouer, a debt is satis∣fied one way, and a benefit another. Thou art not to expect that I will shew thee my payment. This affaire is managed from will to will. That which I say vnto thee shall not seeme harsh and distastfull to thee, although at first it fight against thine opinion, if thou conforme thy selfe vnto me, and ima∣gine that there are more things than wordes. There are a great number of things without name, which we note not by their proper titles, but such as are both forraine and borrowed: We call the foot whereon we walke, a foot; the foot of a Bed, the foot of a Hanging, and the foot of a Verse: We call by the name of Dog, both a Hound, a Fish, and a Star: For we haue not words enow to giue a proper name vnto euery thing; and therefore when wee haue neede we borrow. Fortitude is a vertue that contemneth just dangers: or it is a Sci∣ence to repell perils, or to know how to sustaine them, or how to prouoke them: yet say wee, that a Fencer is a stout man, and a wicked slaue, whome rashnesse hath animated and enforced to contempt of death. Parsimonie is a Science to auoid extraordinarie expence, or an art to vse a mans estate and substance mo∣derately•• and yet we call him a very sparing man, which is of a niggardly and pinching mind, whereas notwithstanding there is infinite oddes betweene mo∣deration and niggardize. These are of diuers natures, and yet for want of words we are enforced to call both the one and the other a Sparer;* 1.2 and him likewise strong who despiseth casualties with reason, as that other also, who runnes headlong vpon dangers without judgement. So a benefit, as wee haue said, is a bounteous action, and that very thing which is giuen by that action, as money, a house, a garment; the name of them both is all one, but the vertue and power of them farre different.