diminish it, as a great river cut into many channels runs low at last. [5683]_Hortor et ut pariter binas habeatis amicas_, &c.  If you suspect to be taken, be sure, saith the poet, to have two mistresses at once, or go from one to another:  as he that goes from a good fire in cold weather is both to depart from it, though in the next room there be a better which will refresh him as much; there’s as much difference of haec as hac ignis; or bring him to some public shows, plays, meetings, where he may see variety, and he shall likely loathe his first choice:  carry him but to the next town, yea peradventure to the next house, and as Paris lost Oenone’s love by seeing Helen, and Cressida forsook Troilus by conversing with Diomede, he will dislike his former mistress, and leave her quite behind him, as [5684]Theseus left Ariadne fast asleep in the island of Dia, to seek her fortune, that was erst his loving mistress. [5685]_Nunc primum Dorida vetus amator contempsi_, as he said, Doris is but a dowdy to this.  As he that looks himself in a glass forgets his physiognomy forthwith, this flattering glass of love will be diminished by remove; after a little absence it will be remitted, the next fair object will likely alter it.  A young man in [5686]Lucian was pitifully in love, he came to the theatre by chance, and by seeing other fair objects there, mentis sanitatem recepit, was fully recovered, [5687] “and went merrily home, as if he had taken a dram of oblivion.” [5688]A mouse (saith an apologer) was brought up in a chest, there fed with fragments of bread and cheese, though there could be no better meat, till coming forth at last, and feeding liberally of other variety of viands, loathed his former life:  moralise this fable by thyself.  Plato, in. his seventh book De Legibus, hath a pretty fiction of a city under ground, [5689]to which by little holes some small store of light came; the inhabitants thought there could not be a better place, and at their first coming abroad they might not endure the light, aegerrime solem intueri; but after they were accustomed a little to it, [5690]"they deplored their fellows’ misery that lived under ground.”  A silly lover is in like state, none so fair as his mistress at first, he cares for none but her; yet after a while, when he hath compared her with others, he abhors her name, sight, and memory.  ’Tis generally true; for as he observes, [5691]_Priorem flammam novus ignis extrudit; et ea multorum natura, ut praesentes maxime ament_, one fire drives out another; and such is women’s weakness, that they love commonly him that is present.  And so do many men; as he confessed, he loved Amye, till he saw Florial, and when he saw Cynthia, forgat them both:  but fair Phillis was incomparably beyond, them all, Cloris surpassed her, and yet when he espied Amaryllis, she was his sole mistress; O divine Amaryllis:  quam procera, cupressi ad instar, quam elegans, quam decens, &c.  How lovely, how tall, how comely she was (saith