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NOW what is not only more pittiful, but also more ugly and odious, than a man in Ad∣versity abandon'd to grief, and no ways moving to help himself? To which Misery he is next Neigh∣bour, who fears any approaching Evil, and with∣out coming to some Resolution, is lost in endless Debates: which Oppression of Evil, the Poets signifie when they make a ponderous Stone hang∣ing over the Head of Tantalus in Hell, for his Im∣pieties,
the ungovernableness of his Spirit, and his irreverent Speeches against the Deity; that is a punishment common to all Folly: For there is al∣ways impending over all whose heart is harden'd against the advice of Reason, some such Terrour. Now as these are Consumptive Passions of the Mind, I mean Discontent and Fear; so those pleasanter Concupiscence, always greedily desiring somewhat, and empty Mirth, that is, extravagant Jollity, do not much differ from madness. From whence is understood, what temper of mind he is of, whom, at times, we call Moderate or Modest, Grave, So∣ber, and Constant; sometimes we love to rank these Names under the Notion of Frugality or Honesty, as its general Head; because unless these Vertues were comprehended under that Term, that saying would never have been so common, as that it is now past into a Proverb; that a Frugal, or honest, man doth all things well; which very Character, when the Stoicks attribute to their wise man, we take it for a meer Rant and Bravado.