English Examples of Incrementum.

*O my Parmeno, the beginner, the enterpri∣zer, performer and accomplisher of all my pleasures.

Neither silver, gold, nor precious stones may be compared to her vertues.

He was carelesse of doing well, a looseness of youth; he was inclined to do ill, a weak∣nesse of youth; his mind consented to offend, Page  129 a shrewd temptation, he committed the act, an unhappy fault; he accustomed himself to abuse, a sad imployment; yet he did not this alone, but infected others with his perswasion, and seduced them by his example: and not that on∣ly, but detained those he had drawn in, with fresh inventions, and disgraced the modesty of such as resisted his corruptions, with scorns and derisions, which could argue no lesse in him than a most pernicious and detestable resolu∣tion.