ghts she'll prosecute in haste,
And what to do she knows not at the last."

She will and will not, abhors: and yet as Medea did, doth it,

------"Trahit invitam nova via, aliudque cupido,
Mens aliud suadet; video meliora, proboque,
Deteriora sequor."------

"Reason pulls one way, burning lust another,
She sees and knows what's good, but she doth neither,"

"O fraus, amorque, et mentis emotae furor,
quo me abstulistis?"[5386]

The major part of lovers are carried headlong like so many brute beasts,
reason counsels one way, thy friends, fortunes, shame, disgrace, danger,
and an ocean of cares that will certainly follow; yet this furious lust
precipitates, counterpoiseth, weighs down on the other; though it be their
utter undoing, perpetual infamy, loss, yet they will do it, and become at
last _insensati_, void of sense; degenerate into dogs, hogs, asses, brutes;
as Jupiter into a bull, Apuleius an ass, Lycaon a wolf, Tereus a lapwing,
[5387]Calisto a bear, Elpenor and Grillus info swine by Circe. For what
else may we think those ingenious poets to have shadowed in their witty
fictions and poems but that a man once given over to his lust (as
[5388]Fulgentius interprets that of Apuleius, _Alciat of Tereus_) "is no
better than a beast."

"Rex fueram, sic crista docet, sed sordida vita
Immundam e tanto culmine fecit avem."[5389]

"I was a king, my crown my witness is,
But by my filthiness am come to this."

Their blindness is all out as great, as manifest as their weakness and
dotage, or rather an inseparable companion, an ordinary sign of it, [5390]
love is blind, as the saying is, Cupid's blind, and so are all his
followers. _Quisquis amat ranam, ranam putat esse Dianam_. Every lover
admires his mistress, though she be very deformed of herself, ill-favoured,
wrinkled, pimpled, pale, red, yellow, tanned, tallow-faced, have a swollen
juggler's platter face, or a thin, lean, chitty face, have clouds in her
face, be crooked, dry, bald, goggle-eyed, blear-eyed, or with staring eyes,
she looks like a squissed cat, hold her head still awry, heavy, dull,
hollow-eyed, black or yellow about the eyes, or squint-eyed,
sparrow-mouthed, Persian hook-nosed, have a sharp fox nose, a red nose,
China flat, great nose, _nare simo patuloque_, a nose like a promontory,
gubber-tushed, rotten teeth, black, uneven, brown teeth, beetle browed, a
wi