could never yet by any example attaine unto it, and is by ancient schooles rejected thence.  And this other Greeke licence is justly abhorred by our customes, which notwithstanding, because according to use it had so necessarie a disparitie of ages, and difference of offices betweene lovers, did no more sufficiently answer the perfect union and agreement, which here we require:  Quis est enim iste amor amicitiae? cur neque deformem adolescentem quisquam amat, neque formosum senem? [Footnote:  Cic.  Tusc.  Qu. lv. c. 33.] “For, what love is this of friendship? why doth no man love either a deformed young man, or a beautifull old man?” For even the picture the Academic makes of it, will not (as I suppose) disavowe mee, to say thus in her behalfe:  That the first furie, enspired by the son of Venus in the lovers hart, upon the object of tender youths-flower, to which they allow all insolent and passionate violences, an immoderate heat may produce, was simply grounded upon an externall beauty; a false image of corporall generation:  for in the spirit it had no power, the sight whereof was yet concealed, which was but in his infancie, and before the age of budding.  For, if this furie did seize upon a base minded courage, the meanes of its pursuit were riches, gifts, favour to the advancement of dignities, and such like vile merchandice, which they reprove.  If it fell into a more generous minde, the interpositions [Footnote:  Means of approach.] were likewise generous:  Philosophicall instructions, documents [Footnote:  Teachings.] to reverence religion, to obey the lawes, to die for the good of his countrie:  examples of valor, wisdome and justice; the lover endevoring and studying to make himselfe acceptable by the good grace and beauty of his minde (that of his body being long since decayed) hoping by this mentall society to establish a more firme and permanent bargaine.  When this pursuit attained the effect in due season (for by not requiring in a lover, he should bring leasure and discretion in his enterprise, they require it exactly in the beloved; forasmuch as he was to judge of an internall beauty, of difficile knowledge, and abstruse discovery) then by the interposition of a spiritual beauty was the desire of a spiritual conception engendred in the beloved.  The latter was here chiefest; the corporall, accidentall and second, altogether contrarie to the lover.  And therefore doe they preferre the beloved, and verifie that the gods likewise preferre the same:  and greatly blame the Poet AEschylus, who in the love betweene Achilles and Patroclus ascribeth the lovers part unto Achilles, who was in the first and beardlesse youth of his adolescency, and the fairest of the Graecians.  After this general communitie, the mistris and worthiest part of it, predominant and exercising her offices (they say the most availefull commodity did thereby redound both to the private and publike).  That it was the force of countries received the use of it, and the principall defence