Is it becauſe it is nearer the earth? But they whoſe profeſſion it is to ſee that nothing be done in heaven without their conſent (as _Re_ — ſays in himſelf of _Aſtrologers_) have bid _Mercury_ to be nearer. Is it becauſe the works of _Venus_ want ſhadowing, covering and dignifying? But thoſe of _Mercury_ need it more; For Eloquence, his occupation, is all ſhadow and colours; let our life be a ſea, and then our reaſons and even paſſions are wide enough to carry us whether we ſhould go, but Eloquence is a ſtorm and tempeſt that miſcarries: and who doubts that Eloquence which muſt perſwade people to take a yoke of ſoveraignty (and then beg and make Laws to tye them faſter, and then give money to the invention, repair and ſtrengthen it) needs more ſhadows and coloring, then to perſwade any man or woman to that which is natural. And _Venus_ markets are ſo natural, that when we ſolicite the beſt way (which is by _marriage_) our perſwaſions work not ſo much to draw a woman to us, as againſt her nature to draw her from all other beſides. And ſo when we go againſt nature, and from _Venus-work_ (for marriage is chaſtitie) we need ſhadowes and colours, but not elſe. In _Seneca’s_ time, it was a courſe, an un-_Roman_ and a contemptible thing even in a _Matron_, not to have had a _Love_ beſide her huſband, which though the Law required not at their hands, yet they did it _zealouſly_ out of the Council of Cuſtom and faſhion, which was _venery_ of _ſupererrogation_: _Et te ſpectator pluſquam delectat Adulter_, saith _Martial_: And _Horace_, becauſe many lights would not ſhew him enough, created many _Images_ of the ſame Object by wainſcoting his chamber with looking-glaſſes: ſo that _Venus_ flies not light, as much as _Mercury_, who creeping into our underſtanding, our darkneſs would be defeated, if he were perceived. Then either this _ſhadow_ confeſſeth that ſame dark Melancholy Repentance which accompanies; or that ſo violent fires, needs ſome ſhadowy refreſhing and intermiſſion: Or elſe light ſignifying both day and youth, and ſhadow both night and age, ſhe pronounceth by this that ſhe profeſſeth both all perſons and times. [Decoration] 9. _Why is Venus-ſtar multinominous, called both =Heſperus= and =Veſper=._