r objects, as love of money, covetousness, love of beauty, lust,
immoderate desire of any pleasure, concupiscence, friendship, love,
goodwill, &c. and is either virtue or vice, honest, dishonest, in excess,
defect, as shall be showed in his place. Heroical love, religious love, &c.
which may be reduced to a twofold division, according to the principal
parts which are affected, the brain and liver. _Amor et amicitia_, which
Scaliger _exercitat. 301._ Valesius and Melancthon warrant out of Plato
[Greek: philein] and [Greek: eran] from that speech of Pausanias belike,
that makes two Veneres and two loves. [4481]"One Venus is ancient without a
mother, and descended from heaven, whom we call celestial; the younger,
begotten of Jupiter and Dione, whom commonly we call Venus." Ficinus, in
his comment upon this place, _cap. 8._ following Plato, calls these two
loves, two devils, [4482]or good and bad angels according to us, which are
still hovering about our souls. [4483]"The one rears to heaven, the other
depresseth us to hell; the one good, which stirs us up to the contemplation
of that divine beauty for whose sake we perform justice and all godly
offices, study philosophy, &c.; the other base, and though bad yet to be
respected; for indeed both are good in their own natures: procreation of
children is as necessary as that finding out of truth, but therefore called
bad, because it is abused, and withdraws our souls from the speculation of
that other to viler objects," so far Ficinus. S. Austin, _lib. 15. de civ.
Dei et sup. Psal. lxiv._, hath delivered as much in effect. [4484]"Every
creature is good, and may be loved well or ill:" and [4485]"Two cities make
two loves, Jerusalem and Babylon, the love of God the one, the love of the
world the other; of these two cities we all are citizens, as by examination
of ourselves we may soon find, and of which." The one love is the root of
all mischief, the other of all good. So, in his _15. cap. lib. de amor.
Ecclesiae_, he will have those four cardinal virtues to be nought else but
love rightly composed; in his 15. book _de civ. Dei, cap. 22._ he calls
virtue the order of love, whom Thomas following _1. part. 2. quaest. 55.
art. 1._ and _quaest. 56. 3. quaest. 62. art. 2._ confirms as much, and
amplifies in many words. [4486]Lucian, to the same purpose, hath a division
of his own, "One love was born in the sea, which is as various and raging
in young men's breasts as the sea itself, and c