pposite of their several
ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets; [4528]
Cicogna, to concord and discord of spirits; but most to outward graces. A
merry companion is welcome and acceptable to all men, and therefore, saith
[4529]Gomesius, princes and great men entertain jesters and players
commonly in their courts. But [4530]_Pares cum paribus facillime
congregantur_, 'tis that [4531]similitude of manners, which ties most men
in an inseparable link, as if they be addicted to the same studies or
disports, they delight in one another's companies, "birds of a feather will
gather together:" if they be of divers inclinations, or opposite in
manners, they can seldom agree. Secondly, [4532]affability, custom, and
familiarity, may convert nature many times, though they be different in
manners, as if they be countrymen, fellow-students, colleagues, or have
been fellow-soldiers, [4533]brethren in affliction, ([4534]_acerba
calamitatum societas, diversi etiam ingenii homines conjungit_) affinity,
or some such accidental occasion, though they cannot agree amongst
themselves, they will stick together like burrs, and bold against a third;
so after some discontinuance, or death, enmity ceaseth; or in a foreign
place:

"Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit:
Et cecidere odia, et tristes mors obruit iras."

A third cause of love and hate, may be mutual offices, _acceptum
beneficium_, [4535]commend him, use him kindly, take his part in a quarrel,
relieve him in his misery, thou winnest him for ever; do the opposite, and
be sure of a perpetual enemy. Praise and dispraise of each other, do as
much, though unknown, as [4536]Schoppius by Scaliger and Casaubonus: _mulus
mulum scabit_; who but Scaliger with him? what encomiums, epithets,
eulogiums? _Antistes sapientiae, perpetuus dictator, literarum ornamentum,
Europae miraculum_, noble Scaliger, [4537] _incredibilis ingenii
praestantia, &c., diis potius quam hominibus per omnia comparandus, scripta
ejus aurea ancylia de coelo delapsa poplitibus veneramur flexis_,
&c.,[4538] but when they began to vary, none so absurd as Scaliger, so vile
and base, as his books _de Burdonum familia_, and other satirical
invectives may witness, Ovid, _in Ibin_, Archilocus himself was not so
bitter. Another great tie or cause of love, is consanguinity: parents are
clear to their children, children to their parents, brothers and sisters,
cousins of all sorts, as a hen