ned and
expressed." Those other senses, hearing, touching, may much penetrate and
affect, but none so much, none so forcible as sight. _Forma Briseis mediis
in armis movit Achillem_, Achilles was moved in the midst of a battle by
fair Briseis, Ajax by Tecmessa; Judith captivated that great Captain
Holofernes: Dalilah, Samson; Rosamund, [4897]Henry the Second; Roxolana,
Suleiman the Magnificent, &c.

[4898] "[Greek: nika de kai sidaeron
kai pur kalae tis ousa.]"

"A fair woman overcomes fire and sword."

[4899] "Nought under heaven so strongly doth allure
The sense of man and all his mind possess,
As beauty's loveliest bait, that doth procure
Great warriors erst their rigour to suppress,
And mighty hands forget their manliness,
Driven with the power of an heart-burning eye,
And lapt in flowers of a golden tress.
That can with melting pleasure mollify
Their harden'd hearts inur'd to cruelty."

[4900]Clitiphon ingenuously confesseth, that he no sooner came in
Leucippe's presence, but that he did _corde tremere, et oculis lascivius
intueri_; [4901]he was wounded at the first sight, his heart panted, and he
could not possibly turn his eyes from her. So doth Calysiris in Heliodorus,
_lib. 2._ Isis Priest, a reverend old man, complain, who by chance at
Memphis seeing that Thracian Rodophe, might not hold his eyes off her:
[4902]"I will not conceal it, she overcame me with her presence, and quite
assaulted my continency which I had kept unto mine old age; I resisted a
long time my bodily eyes with the eyes of my understanding; at last I was
conquered, and as in a tempest carried headlong." [4903] Xenophiles, a
philosopher, railed at women downright for many years together, scorned,
hated, scoffed at them; coming at last into Daphnis a fair maid's company
(as he condoles his mishap to his friend Demaritis), though free before,
_Intactus nullis ante cupidinibus_, was far in love, and quite overcome
upon a sudden. _Victus sum fateor a Daphnide_, &c. I confess I am taken,

[4904] "Sola haec inflexit sensus, animumque labentem
Impulit"------

I could hold out no longer. Such another mishap, but worse, had Stratocles
the physician, that blear-eyed old man, _muco plenus_ (so [4905]Prodromus
describes him); he was a severe woman's-hater all his life, _foeda et
contumeliosa semper in faeminas profatus_, a bitter persecutor of the whole
sex, _humanas