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CAP. 13. Disparates.

Q. What are Opposites?

A. Opposites are disagreeings, which disagree in reason and thing; therefore cannot be attributed to the same ac∣cording to the same, and at the same time.

Q. Make this plain by example?

A. So Socrates cannot be black and white of one and the same part; father and son of the same man; whole and sick at the same time: but he may be white on the one part, black on another; father of this, son of that man; sound to day, sick to morrow.

Q. It should seem by this, that the one being affirmed, the other is denied?

A. So it is.

Q. What are the kindes of Opposites?

A. Disparates, or Contraries.

Q. What are Disparates?

A. Disparates are opposites whereof one is opposed equal∣ly to many.

A. Give example?

A. Green, Ash-colour, Red, are means between White and Black, which are Disparates, both with the extreams and a∣mong themselves. So liberality and covetousness are Dis∣parates among themselves. So, a man, a tree, a stone, and in∣finite of this kinde are Disparates; neither can one thing be, a man, a tree, a stone.

Q. Give example out of some Poet?

A. Virgil. Aeneid. 1. disputeth by this argument.

O virgin, how shall I remember thee! Whose countenance not mortal seems to be: Toy voice is sure above the humane reach, Both which thee Goddeses proves, and so do teach.