Bel-vedére, or, The Garden of the muses

Of Hate.

Hate, is loues enemie, and Friendships foe: Neighbourhoods bane, and Peaces ouerthrow.

HAte cannot worke, where nature planteth loue. Hates eies may slumber, but can hardly sleepe. Hatred is chiefest enemie to loue. That which is h••ld with hate, we feare to loose. Who hates himselfe to loue another man, Sencelesse should be esteemed of all men. The deadliest hate, with s••iles, securely stands. Where rancour rules, there hate doth most preuaile. Lewd loue, is hate; and base desire is shame. Youth old in will, age young in hate doth make. 'Tis incident to them who many feare, Many to them more grie••o••es hate doe beare. In meckenesse maskes the most distemperd hate.

True faithfull loue will neuer turne to hate. Men oft shew fauour to conceale the•••• hate. Hatred attendeth on prosperitie. The sweetest loue, changing his propertie: Turnes to the sowrest and most deadly hate. Loue so, thou maist haue little feare to hate▪ Few hate their faults; all hate of them to heare. A rooted hate will hardly be displac'd. Fie on the loue that hatcheth hate and death. These are the greatest spoilers of a state: Young ••••nsell, priuat gaine, and partiall hate. Hate without might comes euer more too late. A poore mans hate is very perillous. Mercie may mend, whome hatred made transgresse. From deepe desire••, oft comes the deadliest hate. Hatred must be beguil'd by some new course, Where states are strong, and Princes doubt their force. Neuer put trust in them that hate their blood. Hate seekes to salue his harmes by swist reuenge. Enforced wedlock breeds but secret hate. Hate euurmore is blind, and so is loue. In v••••lgar eares delight it alwaies breeds, To haue the hated authors of misdeeds. Where h••••e doth rule, Lordship small safetie hath. Hate nourisheth contempt, debate, and rage. Hate furrowes vp a graue to burie loue. But few will follow them whom princes hate. Hate and disdaine doe neuer brooke respect, Consisting in true louing hearts neglect. To colour ••a••e with kindnesse, some commend. Hid hate exce••deth open enmiti•••• Lookes oft ti•••••• hate, when as the heart doth loue▪ No hate like that of friends, once chang'd to foes. Who foster hate, can neuer find out loue.

Most happie he, to whome loue comes at last, And doth restore what hate before did wast. Hate many times is hid in smoothest lookes. The wrong of friends exceeds the soe-mans hate. Hate buried once, hurts deadly afterward. A b••d mans hate can neuer harme the good. With pleasing speech men promise and protest. When hatefull hearts l••e lurking in their breast. Whome all men hate, none is so fond to loue. Hate commonly doth most offend it selfe. Hates winking is a prep'ratiue to death.

Similies on the same subiect.

AS Lyons are discerned by their pawes, So hatefull men are by their qualities. As enuie braggeth and can draw no blood, So hate in stead of hurt, oft doth men good. As greenest wood lies long before it burne, So hate stands watching till fit time to harme. As blindnes, led by blindnes, needs must fall, So hate, vrg'de on by hate, harmes least of all. As children for their faults haue slye excuses, So hates smooth lookes hide very foule abuses. As crauen Cocks make shew, yet dare not fight, So hate makes proffers, when he dares nor bite.

Examples likewise on the same.

DEmetrius Phalerius did condemne Any that iustly could be said to hate. Stesilia did procure Themistocles, Euen to the death to hate Aristides. Cato and Caesar hated not each other, Vntill Seruilia made them enemies. Clodius did hate the men that lou'd him most,

And therefore was of all abandoned. Cicero saith, No honest citizen Can be procur' de to hate his enemie. Pindarus held no vice more odious, Than enuious hatred, in what man so ere.