sputing with C. Cotta, makes mention of three several Cupids, all
differing in office. Felix Plater, in the first book of his observations,
boasts how he cured a widower in Basil, a patient of his, by this stratagem
alone, that doted upon a poor servant his maid, when friends, children, no
persuasion could serve to alienate his mind: they motioned him to another
honest man's daughter in the town, whom he loved, and lived with long
after, abhorring the very name and sight of the first. After the death of
Lucretia, [5696]Euryalus would admit of no comfort, till the Emperor
Sigismund married him to a noble lady of his court, and so in short space
he was freed.

SUBSECT. III.--_By counsel and persuasion, foulness of the fact, men's,
women's faults, miseries of marriage, events of lust, &c._

As there be divers causes of this burning lust, or heroical love, so there
be many good remedies to ease and help; amongst which, good counsel and
persuasion, which I should have handled in the first place, are of great
moment, and not to be omitted. Many are of opinion, that in this blind
headstrong passion counsel can do no good.

[5697] "Quae enim res in se neque consilium neque modum
Habet, ullo eam consilio regere non potes."

"Which thing hath neither judgment, or an end,
How should advice or counsel it amend?"

[5698]_Quis enim modus adsit amori_? But, without question, good counsel
and advice must needs be of great force, especially if it shall proceed
from a wise, fatherly, reverent, discreet person, a man of authority, whom
the parties do respect, stand in awe of, or from a judicious friend, of
itself alone it is able to divert and suffice. Gordonius, the physician,
attributes so much to it, that he would have it by all means used in the
first place. _Amoveatur ab illa, consilio viri quem timet, ostendendo
pericula saeculi, judicium inferni, gaudia Paradisi_. He would have some
discreet men to dissuade them, after the fury of passion is a little spent,
or by absence allayed; for it is as intempestive at first, to give counsel,
as to comfort parents when their children are in that instant departed; to
no purpose to prescribe narcotics, cordials, nectarines, potions, Homer's
nepenthes, or Helen's bowl, &c. _Non cessabit pectus tundere_, she will
lament and howl for a season: let passion have his course awhile, and then
he may proceed, by foreshowing the miserable events and dangers which will
surely