Paulus Jovius, in the fourth book of the life and deeds of Pope Leo Decimus, his noble patron, concludes in these words, [4582]"Because I cannot honour him as other rich men do, with like endeavour, affection, and piety, I have undertaken to write his life; since my fortunes will not give me leave to make a more sumptuous monument, I will perform those rites to his sacred ashes, which a small, perhaps, but a liberal wit can afford.”  But I rove.  Where this true love is wanting, there can be no firm peace, friendship from teeth outward, counterfeit, or for some by-respects, so long dissembled, till they have satisfied their own ends, which, upon every small occasion, breaks out into enmity, open war, defiance, heart-burnings, whispering, calumnies, contentions, and all manner of bitter melancholy discontents.  And those men which have no other object of their love, than greatness, wealth, authority, &c., are rather feared than beloved; nec amant quemquam, nec amantur ab ullo:  and howsoever borne with for a time, yet for their tyranny and oppression, griping, covetousness, currish hardness, folly, intemperance, imprudence, and such like vices, they are generally odious, abhorred of all, both God and men.

“Non uxor salvum te vult, non filius, omnes
Vicini oderunt,”------

“wife and children, friends, neighbours, all the world forsakes them, would feign be rid of them,” and are compelled many times to lay violent hands on them, or else God’s judgments overtake them:  instead of graces, come furies.  So when fair [4583]Abigail, a woman of singular wisdom, was acceptable to David, Nabal was churlish and evil-conditioned; and therefore [4584]Mordecai was received, when Haman was executed, Haman the favourite, “that had his seat above the other princes, to whom all the king’s servants that stood in the gates, bowed their knees and reverenced.”  Though they flourished many times, such hypocrites, such temporising foxes, and blear the world’s eyes by flattery, bribery, dissembling their natures, or other men’s weakness, that cannot so apprehend their tricks, yet in the end they will be discerned, and precipitated in a moment:  “surely,” saith David, “thou hast set them in slippery places,” Psal. xxxvii. 5. as so many Sejani, they will come down to the Gemonian scales; and as Eusebius in [4585] Ammianus, that was in such authority, ad jubendum Imperatorem, be cast down headlong on a sudden.  Or put case they escape, and rest unmasked to their lives’ end, yet after their death their memory stinks as a snuff of a candle put out, and those that durst not so much as mutter against them in their lives, will prosecute their name with satires, libels, and bitter imprecations, they shall male audire in all succeeding ages, and be odious to the world’s end.

MEMB.  III.
Charity composed of all three Kinds, Pleasant, Profitable, Honest.