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CAP. 17. Privants.

Q. What are Privants?

A. Privants are contraries denying, of which one denieth in the same Subject only, in which the Affirmative (of its own nature) is.

Q. What is the Affirmative called?

A. The Habit.

Q. And what the Negative?

A. Privation.

Q. Make this plainer?

A. Motion and Rest, Drunkenness and Sobriety, are com∣prised under this Head.

Q. Give example?

A. Mart. Lib. 3.

Th'art drunken sure, sober thou would'st not do't.

Q. What may further be under this Head?

A. To be blinde, and to see.

Give example?

A. Pro Celio. There is therefore one of this family, and he truly is greatly blinde: for he shall take no grief who shall not see her.

Q. What may further be under this Head?

A. Poverty and Riches are thus opposed.

Q. Give example?

A. Mart. Lib. 5.

Poor shalt thou be Emilian, if poor; Wealth's never given but to the rich before.

Q. What further?

A. Death and Life.

A. Give example?

A. Cont. Mil. Sit ye still, O revengers of this mans death, whose life if you thought you could restore, would you?

Q. What further?

A. Silence and Speech.

Give example?

A. Primo Cat. What expectest thou the authority of the Speakers, whose silence thou beholdest to be their pleasures?

Q. What more?

A. Mortality and Immortality.

Q. Give example?

A. Pro Marc. I grieve when as the Common Wealth ought to be immortal, that it consisteth of one mortal life.

And this sufficeth to be spoken of disagreeing, from whence every thing may differ from another by certain means.