va dolet lapsis"------

they looked like cropped trees. [2333]At Nancy in Lorraine, when Claudia
Valesia, Henry the Second French king's sister, and the duke's wife
deceased, the temples for forty days were all shut up, no prayers nor
masses, but in that room where she was. The senators all seen in black,
"and for a twelvemonth's space throughout the city, they were forbid to
sing or dance."

[2334] "Non ulli pastos illis egre diebus
Frigida (Daphne) boves ad flumina, nulla nec amnem
Libavit quadrupes, nec graminis attigit herbam."

"The swains forgot their sheep, nor near the brink
Of running waters brought their herds to drink;
The thirsty cattle, of themselves, abstained
From water, and their grassy fare disdain'd."

How were we affected here in England for our Titus, _deliciae, humani
generis_, Prince Henry's immature death, as if all our dearest friends'
lives had exhaled with his? [2335]Scanderbeg's death was not so much
lamented in Epirus. In a word, as [2336]he saith of Edward the First at the
news of Edward of Caernarvon his son's birth, _immortaliter gavisus_, he
was immortally glad, may we say on the contrary of friends' deaths,
_immortaliter gementes_, we are diverse of us as so many turtles, eternally
dejected with it.

There is another sorrow, which arises from the loss of temporal goods and
fortunes, which equally afflicts, and may go hand in hand with the
preceding; loss of time, loss of honour, office, of good name, of labour,
frustrate hopes, will much torment; but in my judgment, there is no torture
like unto it, or that sooner procureth this malady and mischief:

[2337] "Ploratur lachrymis amissa pecunia veris:"

"Lost money is bewailed with grief sincere."

it wrings true tears from our eyes, many sighs, much sorrow from our
hearts, and often causes habitual melancholy itself, Guianerius _tract. 15.
5._ repeats this for an especial cause: [2338]"Loss of friends, and loss of
goods, make many men melancholy, as I have often seen by continual
meditation of such things." The same causes Arnoldus Villanovanus
inculcates, _Breviar. l. 1. c. 18._ _ex rerum amissione, damno, amicorum
morte_, &c. Want alone will make a man mad, to be _Sans argent_ will cause
a deep and grievous melancholy. Many persons are affected like [2339]
Irishmen in this behalf, who if they have a good scimitar, had rather have
a blow on their arm, than their weapon hurt: t