Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...

Love that observes Formality is seated rather in the brain, then in the heart.

BY formality, I mean something more then ceremony and Complement (which are the gesture and phrase of dissemblers,) even a solemn reservedness, which may well consist with honesty: not but that I admire a constant gravity, which upon no assurance will bewray the least im∣perfection to any: but confess, I am far from suspecting simplicity, which (careful to observe more real duties towards all) is bold to trespass in points of Decorum amongst some, which without blushing could not be confest to others. A sign, from whence the greatest Reasoner draws an Argument of good affection, which (as divine Charity covers many offences) in the experience of com∣mon humanity is content to dispence with. And although Policy shews it to be the safest course to give advantage to none, yet an ingenuous nature thinks that he is scarce able to distinguish betwixt an enemy and a friend, that stands wholly upon his own guard.