aspides et viperas appellabat_, he forswore them all still,
and mocked them wheresoever he came, in such vile terms, _ut matrem et
sorores odisses_, that if thou hadst heard him, thou wouldst have loathed
thine own mother and sisters for his word's sake. Yet this old doting fool
was taken at last with that celestial and divine look of Myrilla, the
daughter of Anticles the gardener, that smirking wench, that he shaved off
his bushy beard, painted his face, [4906]curled his hair, wore a laurel
crown to cover his bald pate, and for her love besides was ready to run
mad. For the very day that he married he was so furious, _ut solis occasum
minus expectare posset_ (a terrible, a monstrous long day), he could not
stay till it was night, _sed omnibus insalutatis in thalamum festinans
irrupit_, the meat scarce out of his mouth, without any leave taking, he
would needs go presently to bed. What young man, therefore, if old men be
so intemperate, can secure himself? Who can say I will not be taken with a
beautiful object? I can, I will contain. No, saith [4907]Lucian of his
mistress, she is so fair, that if thou dost but see her, she will stupefy
thee, kill thee straight, and, Medusa like, turn thee to a stone; thou
canst not pull thine eyes from her, but, as an adamant doth iron, she will
carry thee bound headlong whither she will herself, infect thee like a
basilisk. It holds both in men and women. Dido was amazed at Aeneas'
presence; _Obstupuit primo aspectu Sidonia Dido_; and as he feelingly
verified out of his experience;

[4908] "Quam ego postquam vidi, non ita amavi ut sani solent
Homines, sed eodem pacto ut insani solent."

"I lov'd her not as others soberly,
But as a madman rageth, so did I."

So Museus of Leander, _nusquam lumen detorquet ab illa_; and [4909]Chaucer
of Palamon,

_He cast his eye upon Emilia,
And therewith he blent and cried ha, ha,
As though he had been stroke unto the hearta_.

If you desire to know more particularly what this beauty is, how it doth
_Influere_, how it doth fascinate (for, as all hold, love is a
fascination), thus in brief. [4910]"This comeliness or beauty ariseth from
the due proportion of the whole, or from each several part." For an exact
delineation of which, I refer you to poets, historiographers, and those
amorous writers, to Lucian's Images, and Charidemus, Xenophon's description
of Panthea, Petronius Catalectes, Heliodorus Char