The Wilmingtonian., 1824-03-25
OPINIONS OF oLD ENGLISH AurHois.
LOVE.

The force of love to those poor folk that feel
Ii, is in many ways very strange. but no way
stranger than that it doth so enchain the lovers
Judgment upon her that holds the rclns OF his
lmind, that whatsoever she doth, is ever III his
|bes; and that best being turned by her to any 9th
ler thing. that thing again becometh best SO that
Inaure in each kind suffering hut one superlative,
1.-The lover only admits no positice If she SIT still
that is best, for so is the conspiracy OF her seve-
lral graces held best together, to make one per-
fleet figure of beauty. Ii she walk, no doubt that
lis best for besides the making happy the more
|places by her steps, the very stirring adds pleas
ling life to her native perfectons If she be SILENT
bat, without comparison, is best, since by that
lmeans, the untroubed eye most freely may de-
YOUR the sweetness ofis object; but if she speak,
The will take it upon his death. tina, is best; the
|quintessence of each word heinr distilled down
INTO his affected soul. Sir Philip Sydney
| Love utterly suhverts the course of nature, in
making reason give place to sense, and man to
woman And truly / think hereupon II hrst got
1.-The name of love for, indeed, the true love ma u
that excellent nature in it, that it doth transform
the very essence OF the lover into the thing loved
uniting, and, as it were, Incorporating 1t, with
secret and inward working Aud herein do these
tlkints Of love initiate the excellent; for AS the
Hove of heaven makes one heavenly, the love ol
make one woi Idly and tins eifeminate love o
woman doth so nomanise man, that ifhe yield
10 il, it will not only make him an Amszon, bu
MA launder, a distaff, spinner, OF whatsoever 0
eher vile occupation their idle heads can imagine
. and their weak hands perform.
Sir Philip Sydney.
4 1t is strange thing to note the excess of thi
q hpassion, and how it braves the nature and value
lof things by this, that the speaking in perpet
IS lual h, pcrbole is comely in nothing bat in love
$ Neither is it merely in the phrase; for whereas
it has been well said, that the arch fatterer. witt
1lwhom all the petty fatterers have Intelligence
d g mans self, certainly the lover is more TO
oIthere never was proud man thought so absurd
Ily well of himself, as the lover doth Of the per
|san loved and therefore, it was well said, tha
lit is impossible to love, and be wise" Neithe
doth this weakness appear 10 others only, and No
Ito the party loved but to the loved most Of al
Except the love be reciproGue; for y ls tru
Y 'hue, that love is ever rewarded either with tn
.lreciproque, or with an inward and secret cor
. sltempt. But how much the more ought men I
: beware ofthis passion, which loseth not only G
ther things, but itself! As for the other losses
the roet's relation doth we'll figure them, that h
u Una, preferred Helena, quilted the gifts Of Jun
.lnd Pallss; for whosoever esleemeih too niue
: ; or smorous affection, quitteth both riches an
! ,'|wisdom. Lofd Baeon.
'e They do best who if they cannot but adm
$ 1--we, yet make it keep quarter, and sever it who
J v from their serious affairs and actions of life
af,r if it check once with business it troublet
mems fortunes. and maketh men that they can n
ways be true to their own ends. know not how
but martial men are given to love; think 1t
hut as they are given to wine; for perlls CON
:. monty ask to be paid in pleasures.
Nuptial love maketh mankind friendly low
ipertrcteth it; but wanton love corrnpteth an
eHebaseth it, Lord Bacon.
). owe is the pleasant frenzy Of the mind,
And frantic men in their mad actions show
/, A happiness that nore but madmen know;
RI lis an enrhantmeni, where the reasons bound
}. But Paradise is in tl' enchated ground.
II Dryden.