["What they have sought they dress closely, and cause pain; on the lips fix the teeth, and every kiss indents: urged by latent stimulus the part to wound"--Lucretius, i. 4.] And so it is in everything: difficulty gives all things their estimation; the people of the march of Ancona more readily make their vows to St. James, and those of Galicia to Our Lady of Loreto; they make wonderful to-do at Liege about the baths of Lucca, and in Tuscany about those of Aspa: there are few Romans seen in the fencing school of Rome, which is full of French. That great Cato also, as much as us, nauseated his wife whilst she was his, and longed for her when in the possession of another. I was fain to turn out into the paddock an old horse, as he was not to be governed when he smelt a mare: the facility presently sated him as towards his own, but towards strange mares, and the first that passed by the pale of his pasture, he would again fall to his importunate neighings and his furious heats as before. Our appetite contemns and passes by what it has in possession, to run after that it has not: "Transvolat in medio posita, et fugientia captat." ["He slights her who is close at hand, and runs after her who flees from him."--Horace, Sat., i. 2, 108.] To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to't: "Nisi to servare puellam Incipis, incipiet desinere esse mea:" ["Unless you begin to guard your mistress, she will soon begin to be no longer mine."--Ovid, Amoy., ii. 19, 47.] to give it wholly up to us is to beget in us contempt. Want and abundance fall into the same inconvenience: "Tibi quod superest, mihi quod desit, dolet." ["Your superfluities trouble you, and what I want troubles me.--"Terence, Phoym., i. 3, 9.] Desire and fruition equally afflict us. The rigors of mistresses are troublesome, but facility, to say truth, still more so; forasmuch as discontent and anger spring from the esteem we have of the thing desired, heat and actuate love, but satiety begets disgust; 'tis a blunt, dull, stupid, tired, and slothful passion: "Si qua volet regnare diu, contemnat amantem." ["She who would long retain her power must use her lover ill." --Ovid, Amor., ii. 19, 33] "Contemnite, amantes: Sic hodie veniet, si qua negavit heri." ["Slight your mistress; she will to-day come who denied you yesterday.--"Propertius, ii. 14, 19.]