one highly rapt with the exquisitenesse of his art,
proposed him that Modell for a taske, which hee of
all others, affected most; commanding him on a
time to paint Campaspe, a beautifull woman, naked;
which Apelles hauing done, such impression wrought
the Picture in his affection, as Apelles fell in loue with
her, which Alexander perceiuing, gaue him her. It
is incredible, what rare effects were sometimes
drawne from a Morian-Picture, being onely hung
vp in a Ladies Chamber. If such impressiue motiues
of affection draw life from a Picture, what may bee
conceiued by the Substance? Oris Apollo writeth, that
the Egyptians, when they would describe the heart,
& fit her with a proper Embleme, paint the bird Ibis:
because they thinke that no Creature, for proportion
of the body, hath so great an heart as the Ibis hath.
It is the Bird of loue must be the Embleme of your
heart. It is neither picture nor posture can content
her. Much lesse these inferiour pictures, which we call
m••neyes: which are so farre from satisfying the affe∣ction,
as they are onely for the Mold or Worldling:
whose grosser thoughts neuer yet aspired to the
knowledge of loues definition. As then, the precious
stone Diacletes, though it haue many rare and excel∣lent
soueraignties in it, yet it loseth them all, if it be
put in a dead mans mouth: so Loue, though it bee a
subiect so pure, as none of a more refined nature; so
firm••, as none of a more holding temper; so hot, as
none of a more lasting feruour: yet becomes her
splendour darkened, her vigor weakened, her feruor
cooled, when she is in a cold brest entertained. Re∣semble,
rather, the Iuniper-tree, whose coale is the
hottest, and whose shadow is the coolest: be hot in
your affection, but coole in your passion. If you finde
any thing which cooleth loue in you, remoue it; if
any thing which vrgeth passion, quench it: contra∣riwise,