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Show ofWAr 4nJ Pt4Gl civil aas : ~venge' 6y the judgment of Law , is efteemed more juft than thq of .. ferd injury : ln~t if Nature judge , it Jprings out of the fame difeafe of minde. Wherefore it is repugnant to the nature of man, dealing with man, to be fatiated with a not hers pain, a~ it is pain. And by confequence , the lefs rational ~ny man is, the more .revengeful. Juvenal. Sat. I 3. Sir It. S. Revenge than life it [elf s a greater good. t Seneca de ira Thus fools tat no cauf-e, or at toyes, t4k,.c !· 1. J. ~tqt~i fire ; !r•ttmdij]imJ The /eaft occaflon ferves to Mow up ire. 'J/::~::t~:rl}. €hryjippus h!s opinion wtU not fuch , invalidum omne .Mtld natur d Thales would not fay thH$ 84lt~ra tJfltrU... much; tum tfi. The good old wMn, that qid a neigh~our "Terenr. li1Je ' To Jw~et I-Jymettu.s , would not, fetter' d, Pagritv oef t h. n-t h em lo c"t. '-m· h t·s cup m· .J~u s 'd , f.ven to, the Jlave by whom he was a'7 culd. Happy Philofophy! that by de1.rees . Kills vices firft , then fouls from errour frees. For to re joice,when thoJe we hate do [mart, firgues a feeble and a narrow heart : Which inftantly you may from hence col-left, , . . .ff.'.[f That wome,n * moft af all Revenge lt;J e • Jdecyra. . . · 1 Pueri irmr je(e qrtam pro le'Oih~M '1JOXJI6 _11'ai 1-mm • .!j(uapropter? q1~i~ e11im qrti tos gu~tr~~ anz~ru. J;Prmum itrrmt. 1 tidem mulieres font fer me ut puen ,levJ [tnt tnlll. . In 'The Jecdntl pdrt• ...... ~ In the fame fenfe La&antius : U11/earneJ. and unwife men , if at any time they re-ceive injury, tJtre drawn by a blind and un• · reafon~ble fury , and labour to repay the like to thofe that offend them. It is plain then, that man is not nghtly punilht by man,only for the punilhment fake.\Vhat utilities make the punilhment right, let us now fee. LXXXII. The utili~ o.f punifh-ment is thretfo/d. HEre is pertinent that partition of pu-nilhments, which Plato hath in his ,. Tria hze Gorgias, and Taurus the Philofopher up- '"e,~u.r,n~JM.:t,;; on that place, whofe words are rehearied dA~111r, cmenby Gel/ius. For thofe partitions are taken d_auon~m, fa-from the end, but tha~ , when Plato 'had !~[~~i~:m~~ fet down twb ends .Amendment and Ex- tiam Chryfoft. ample , Taurus. adds 2. third 'TJfA(jlkr'", ponic in 1, ad which Clemens of Alexandria defines, a ~or. 11. retrrbut1on of evil which is referred to 'Jthet. J.c.ro .. · ' . fl. * t Piutarchus the_pr.ofit of the exailor. :Jrt1.otle ,who qucq; urn otmtttng exemplary pumfhments , puts non omifir, down this fpecies t only, with amend- c(un dixi~: ment, faith it is ufed , fo,. the exaflors ~t'! facsnus [ak! , that he ma,r ke [atisf~ed. An~ this ~=~::£u:!~ ts properly that vvh1ch the bme Ariftotle non mod11 inpa4 ref errs to the juA:ice, which he calls Com- {Ierum inhihem mutative. But thefe chinos are to be exa- deli~queudi au· mined more narrow Iy. We will therefore 1a~,a~ ,.J.e~ & r • . 11... • • JntUrza aJ.,tiiJIJt uy, that 1U pummments lS refpeCl:ed ei ~ ma:xime &onfo· ther the utility of him chat hath offended, lautur. · or |
