A Consolatorie Letter Or Discourse Sent By Plutarch of Chronea Unto His Owne W
A Consolatorie Letter Or Discourse Sent By Plutarch of Chronea Unto His Owne W
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But my selfe verily made no great wonder that you ( who never took pride and pleasure to be seen, either in Theater or in publick pro- cession, but rather alwayes esteemed all such magnificence so vain, and sumptuosity super- fluous, even in those things that tended to delight) have observed the most safe way of plainnesse and simplicity, in these occasions of sorrow and sadness. For a vertuous and chaste Matron ought not to onely keep her selfe pure and inviolate in Bacchanal feasts ; but also... to think thus with her selfe, that the turbulent storms of sorrow and passionate motions of anguish had no lesse need of continency to re- sist and vvdthstand, not the naturall love and affection of mothers to their children, as many think, but intemperance of the mind. For we 14 OR DISCOURSE allow and graunt unto this natural kindnesse, a certain affection to bewaile, to reverence, to wish for, to long after, and to beare in mind those that are departed ; but the excessive and insatiable desire of lamentations, which forceth men and women to loud out-cries, to knock, beat, and mangle their own bodies, is no lesse unseemly and shamefull, than incontinence in pleasures : howbeit, it seemeth by good right to deserve excuse and pardon, for that in this un- decency, there is grief and bitterness of sorrow adjo}Tied, whereas, in the other, pleasure and delight : for what is more absurd and senslesse, than to seem for to take away excesse of laugh- ter and mirth ; but contrariwise to give head unto streams of tears which proceed from one fountain and to suffer folk to give themselves over to weeping and lamentation as much as they will ; as also that which some use to do, namely, to chide and rebuke their wives for some sweet perfumes, odoriferous pomanders, or purple garments, which they are desirous 15 A LETTER to have ; and in the meanwhile permit them to tear their hair in time of mourning, to shave their heads, to put on black, to sit unseemly upon the bare ground, or in ashes, and in most painful manner to cry out upon God and man ; yea, and that which of all others is worst, when their wives chastise excessively, or punish un- justly their servants, to come between and stay their hands ; but when they rigorously and cruelly torment themselves, to let them alone and neglect them in those crosse accidents, which contrariwise had need of facility and humanity ?
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But my selfe verily made no great wonder that you ( who never took pride and pleasure to be seen, either in Theater or in publick pro- cession, but rather alwayes esteemed all such magnificence so vain, and sumptuosity super- fluous, even in those things that tended to delight) have observed the most safe way of plainnesse and simplicity, in these occasions of sorrow and sadness. For a vertuous and chaste Matron ought not to onely keep her selfe pure and inviolate in Bacchanal feasts ; but also... to think thus with her selfe, that the turbulent storms of sorrow and passionate motions of anguish had no lesse need of continency to re- sist and vvdthstand, not the naturall love and affection of mothers to their children, as many think, but intemperance of the mind. For we 14 OR DISCOURSE allow and graunt unto this natural kindnesse, a certain affection to bewaile, to reverence, to wish for, to long after, and to beare in mind those that are departed ; but the excessive and insatiable desire of lamentations, which forceth men and women to loud out-cries, to knock, beat, and mangle their own bodies, is no lesse unseemly and shamefull, than incontinence in pleasures : howbeit, it seemeth by good right to deserve excuse and pardon, for that in this un- decency, there is grief and bitterness of sorrow adjo}Tied, whereas, in the other, pleasure and delight : for what is more absurd and senslesse, than to seem for to take away excesse of laugh- ter and mirth ; but contrariwise to give head unto streams of tears which proceed from one fountain and to suffer folk to give themselves over to weeping and lamentation as much as they will ; as also that which some use to do, namely, to chide and rebuke their wives for some sweet perfumes, odoriferous pomanders, or purple garments, which they are desirous 15 A LETTER to have ; and in the meanwhile permit them to tear their hair in time of mourning, to shave their heads, to put on black, to sit unseemly upon the bare ground, or in ashes, and in most painful manner to cry out upon God and man ; yea, and that which of all others is worst, when their wives chastise excessively, or punish un- justly their servants, to come between and stay their hands ; but when they rigorously and cruelly torment themselves, to let them alone and neglect them in those crosse accidents, which contrariwise had need of facility and humanity ?
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