of, and the other not; for _no air pleaseth but for a time_, no more doth imitation. Also the pleasures of the _eye_ consist in a certain _equality_ of _colour_: for _light_, the most glorious of all colours, is made by _equal_ operation of the object; whereas _colour_ is _perturbed_, that is to say, unequal light, as hath been said, chapter II. section 8. And therefore colours, the more equality is in them, the more resplendent they are; and as _harmony_ is pleasure to the _ear_, which consisteth of _divers sounds_; so perhaps may some mixture of _divers colours_ be _harmony_ to the _eye_, more than another mixture. There is yet another delight by the _ear_, which happeneth only to men of skill in music, which is of another nature, and not, as these, conception of the present, but rejoicing of their own skill; of which nature are the passions of which I am to speak next. [Sidenote: Of the imagination, or conception of power in man.] 3. Conception of the _future_, is but a _supposition_ of the _same_, proceeding from _remembrance_ of what is past; and we so far _conceive_ that anything _will be hereafter_, as we _know_ there is _something at the present_ that hath power to produce it: and that anything hath power now to produce another thing hereafter, we cannot conceive, but by remembrance that it hath produced the like heretofore. Wherefore all conception of future, is conception of power able to produce something. Whosoever therefore expecteth pleasure to come, must conceive withal some power in himself by which the same may be attained. And because the passions, whereof I am to speak next, consist in conception of the future, that is to say, in conception of power past, and the act to come; before I go any further, I must in the next place speak somewhat concerning this power. 4. By this power I mean the same with the faculties of the _body_, _nutritive_, _generative_, _motive_, and of the _mind_, _knowledge_; and besides these, such _further_ power as by them is acquired, _viz._ _riches_, _place_ of authority, _friendship_ or _favour_, and _good fortune_; _which_ last is really nothing else but the favour of God Almighty. The _contraries_ of these are _impotencies_, _infirmities_, or _defects_ of the said powers respectively. And because the power of one man resisteth and hindereth the effects of the power of another, _power_ simply is no more, but the _excess_ of the power of one above that of another: for equal powers opposed, destroy one another; and such their opposition is called contention. [Sidenote: Honour, honourable, worth.]