L. VIVES.
TUlly (a) vpon] Hee had two children, Marke a sonne, and Tullia a daughter, marryed first to Piso-frugus Crassipes, and afterwards to Cornel. Dolabella, and dyed in child-bed. Tully tooke her death with extreame griefe. Pompey, Caesar, Sulpitius, and many other wor∣thy men sought to comfort him, both by letters and visitation, but all being in vaine, hee set vp his rest to bee his owne comforter, and wrote his booke called Consolatio, vpon this sub∣iect: which is not now extant, yet it is cited often, both by him and others. There-in hee saith hee bewailed the life of man in generall, and comforted him-selfe in particular. Tusc. quest. 1.
(b) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, is, to goe to any acte with vehemencie and vigor, to goe roundly to worke. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, is the violence of passion that carieth euery creature head-long to affect or to auoyde: and are conuersant onely about things naturally to bee affected, or auoyded, as the Stoikes say, and Cato for one, in Tully. (c) Which they] The instinct where-by wee affect our owne preseruation is of as high esteeme as eyther the witte or memorie: for turne it away, and the creature cannot liue long after. (d) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] Of this before. (e) Of Iustice] It comprehendeth both that distributiue change of estate, and also vnto the line of reason and religion. (f) They confesse] Cic. de fin. lib. 3. & Tusc. quaest. 4. (g) Were blinde] It is a wise mans duty (saith Cato the Stoike in Tully) some-times to renounce the happiest 〈◊〉〈◊〉. So saith Seneca often. (h) Ouer-passing infirmitie] A diuersity of reading in the texts of Bruges and Basil: but it is not to bee stood vpon. (i) Natures first] Cic. off. 1. and De 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 3. and 5.