mothers in their children’s, lest if absent they should be misled or sick, and are continually expecting news from them, how they do fare, and what is become of them, they cannot endure to have them long out of their sight:  oh my sweet son, O my dear child, &c.  Paul was jealous over the Church of Corinth, as he confesseth, 2 Cor. xi. 12.  “With a godly jealousy, to present them a pure virgin to Christ;” and he was afraid still, lest as the serpent beguiled Eve, through his subtlety, so their minds should be corrupt from the simplicity that is in Christ.  God himself, in some sense, is said to be jealous, [5991]"I am a jealous God, and will visit:”  so Psalm lxxix. 5.  “Shall thy jealousy burn like fire for ever?” But these are improperly called jealousies, and by a metaphor, to show the care and solicitude they have of them.  Although some jealousies express all the symptoms of this which we treat of, fear, sorrow, anguish, anxiety, suspicion, hatred, &c., the object only varied.  That of some fathers is very eminent, to their sons and heirs; for though they love them dearly being children, yet now coming towards man’s estate they may not well abide them, the son and heir is commonly sick of the father, and the father again may not well brook his eldest son, inde simultates, plerumque contentiones et inimicitiae; but that of princes is most notorious, as when they fear co-rivals (if I may so call them) successors, emulators, subjects, or such as they have offended. [5992] Omnisque potestas impatiens consortis erit:  “they are still suspicious, lest their authority should be diminished,” [5993]as one observes; and as Comineus hath it, [5994]"it cannot be expressed what slender causes they have of their grief and suspicion, a secret disease, that commonly lurks and breeds in princes’ families.”  Sometimes it is for their honour only, as that of Adrian the emperor, [5995]"that killed all his emulators.”  Saul envied David; Domitian Agricola, because he did excel him, obscure his honour, as he thought, eclipse his fame.  Juno turned Praetus’ daughters into kine, for that they contended with her for beauty; [5996]Cyparissae, king Eteocles’ children, were envied of the goddesses for their excellent good parts, and dancing amongst the rest, saith [5997]Constantine, “and for that cause flung headlong from heaven, and buried in a pit, but the earth took pity of them, and brought out cypress trees to preserve their memories.” [5998]Niobe, Arachne, and Marsyas, can testify as much.  But it is most grievous when it is for a kingdom itself, or matters of commodity, it produceth lamentable effects, especially amongst tyrants, in despotico Imperio, and such as are more feared than beloved of their subjects, that get and keep their sovereignty by force and fear. [5999]_Quod civibus tenere te invitis scias_, &c., as Phalaris, Dionysius, Periander held theirs.  For though fear, cowardice, and jealousy, in Plutarch’s opinion, be the common causes of tyranny, as in Nero,