To affect, yea to effect their owne _death_ all _living_ things are importuned, not by _Nature_ only which perfects them, but by _Art_ and _Education_, which perfects her. _Plants_ quickened and inhabited by the moſt unworthy _ſoule_, which therefore neither _will_ nor _worke_, affect an _end_, a _perfection_, a _death_; this they ſpend their _ſpirits_ to attaine, this attained, they languiſh and wither. And by how much more they are by mans _Induſtry_ warmed, cheriſhed, and pampered; ſo much the more early they climbe to this _perfection_, this _death_. And if amongſt _Men_ not to _defend_ be to _kill_, what a hainous _ſelfe-murther_ is it, not to _defend it ſelfe_. This _defence_ becauſe _Beaſts_ neglect, they kill themſelves, becauſe they exceed us in _number_, _ſtrength_, and a _lawleſſe liberty_: yea, of _Horſes_ and other beaſts, they that inherit _moſt courage_ by being bred of _gallanteſt parents_, and by _Artificial nurſing_ are bettered, will runne to their owne _deaths_, neither ſollicited by _ſpurres_ which they need not, nor by _honour_ which they apprehend not. If then the _valiant_ kill himſelfe, who can excuſe the _coward_? Or how ſhall _Man_ bee free from this, ſince the _firſt Man_ taught us this, except we cannot kill our ſelves, becauſe he kill’d us all. Yet leſt ſomething ſhould repaire this _Common ruine_, we daily kill our _bodies_ with _ſurfeits_, and our mindes with _anguiſhes_. Of our _powers_, _remembring_ kils our _memory_; Of _Affections_, _Luſting_ our _luſt_; Of _vertues_, _Giving_ kils _liberality_. And if theſe kill themſelves, they do it in their beſt & ſupreme _perfection_: for after _perfection_ immediately follows _exceſſe_, which changeth the natures and the names, and makes them not the ſame things. If then the beſt things kill themſelves ſooneſt, (for no _affection_ endures, and all things labour to this _perfection_) all travell to their owne _death_, yea the frame of the whole _World_, if it were poſſible for _God_ to be _idle_, yet becauſe it _began_, muſt _dye_. Then in this _idleneſſe_ imagined in _God_, what could kill the _world_ but it ſelfe, ſince _out of it, nothing is_? [Decoration] 6. _That it is poſsible to find ſome vertue in ſome Women._ I am not of that ſeard _Impudence_ that I dare defend _Women_, or pronounce them good; yet we ſee _Phyſitians_ allow ſome _vertue_ in every _poyſon_. Alas! why ſhould we except _Women_? ſince certainely, they are good for _Phyſicke_ at leaſt, ſo as ſome _wine_ is good for a _feaver_. And though they be the _Occaſioners_ of many ſinnes, they are alſo the _Puniſhers_ and _Revengers_ of the ſame ſinnes: For I have ſeldome ſeene one which conſumes his _ſubſtance_ and _body_ upon them, eſcape _diſeaſes_, or _beggery_; and this is their _Iuſtice._ And if _ſuum cuiq; dare_, bee the fulfilling of all _Civill Iuſtice_, they are _moſt juſt_; for they deny that which is theirs to no man. _Tanquam non liceat nulla puella negat._