alities, it should be dejected in
adversity, or over elevated in prosperity: to the world, if it would settle
itself in its vain delights and studies." Many such partitions of love I
could repeat, and subdivisions, but least (which Scaliger objects to
Cardan, _Exercitat. 501._) [4488]"I confound filthy burning lust with pure
and divine love," I will follow that accurate division of Leon Hebreus,
dial. 2. betwixt Sophia and Philo, where he speaks of natural, sensible,
and rational love, and handleth each apart. Natural love or hatred, is that
sympathy or antipathy which is to be seen in animate and inanimate
creatures, in the four elements, metals, stones, _gravia tendunt deorsum_,
as a stone to his centre, fire upward, and rivers to the sea. The sun,
moon, and stars go still around, [4489]_Amantes naturae, debita exercere_,
for love of perfection. This love is manifest, I say, in inanimate
creatures. How comes a loadstone to draw iron to it? jet chaff? the ground
to covet showers, but for love? No creature, S. Hierom concludes, is to be
found, _quod non aliquid amat_, no stock, no stone, that hath not some
feeling of love, 'Tis more eminent in plants, herbs, and is especially
observed in vegetables; as between the vine and elm a great sympathy,
between the vine and the cabbage, between the vine and the olive, [4490]
_Virgo fugit Bromium_, between the vine and bays a great antipathy, the
vine loves not the bay, [4491]"nor his smell, and will kill him, if he grow
near him;" the bur and the lentil cannot endure one another, the olive
[4492]and the myrtle embrace each other, in roots and branches if they grow
near. Read more of this in Picolomineus _grad. 7. cap. 1._ Crescentius
_lib. 5. de agric._ Baptista Porta _de mag. lib. 1. cap. de plant. dodio et
element. sym._ Fracastorius _de sym. et antip._ of the love and hatred of
planets, consult with every astrologer. Leon Hebreus gives many fabulous
reasons, and moraliseth them withal.

Sensible love is that of brute beasts, of which the same Leon Hebreus
_dial. 2._ assigns these causes. First for the pleasure they take in the
act of generation, male and female love one another. Secondly, for the
preservation of the species, and desire of young brood. Thirdly, for the
mutual agreement, as being of the same kind: _Sus sui, canis cani, bos
bovi, et asinus asino pulcherrimus videtur_, as Epicharmus held, and
according to that adage of Diogenianus, _Adsidet usque graculus apud
gra