Polemius) till he saw another, and then she was the sole subject of his thoughts.  In conclusion, her he loves best he saw last. [5692]Triton, the sea-god, first loved Leucothoe, till he came in presence of Milaene, she was the commandress of his heart, till he saw Galatea:  but (as [5693]she complains) he loved another eftsoons, another, and another.  ’Tis a thing which, by Hierom’s report, hath been usually practised. [5694]"Heathen philosophers drive out one love with another, as they do a peg, or pin with a pin.  Which those seven Persian princes did to Ahasuerus, that they might requite the desire of Queen Vashti with the love of others.”  Pausanias in Eliacis saith, that therefore one Cupid was painted to contend with another, and to take the garland from him, because one love drives out another, [5695]_Alterius vires subtrahit alter amor_; and Tully, 3.  Nat.  Deor. disputing 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,