sorrow, I voluntarily omit; read more of them in [1671]Carolus Pascalius,
[1672]Dandinus, &c.


SUBSECT. VI.--_Shame and Disgrace, Causes_.

Shame and disgrace cause most violent passions and bitter pangs. _Ob
pudorem et dedecus publicum, ob errorum commissum saepe moventur generosi
animi_ (Felix Plater, _lib. 3. de alienat mentis_.) Generous minds are
often moved with shame, to despair for some public disgrace. And he, saith
Philo, _lib. 2. de provid. dei_, [1673]"that subjects himself to fear,
grief, ambition, shame, is not happy, but altogether miserable, tortured
with continual labour, care, and misery." It is as forcible a batterer as
any of the rest: [1674]"Many men neglect the tumults of the world, and care
not for glory, and yet they are afraid of infamy, repulse, disgrace,"
(_Tul. offic. l. 1_,) "they can severely contemn pleasure, bear grief
indifferently, but they are quite [1675]battered and broken, with reproach
and obloquy:" (_siquidem vita et fama pari passu ambulant_) and are so
dejected many times for some public injury, disgrace, as a box on the ear
by their inferior, to be overcome of their adversary, foiled in the field,
to be out in a speech, some foul fact committed or disclosed, &c. that they
dare not come abroad all their lives after, but melancholise in corners,
and keep in holes. The most generous spirits are most subject to it;
_Spiritus altos frangit et generosos_: Hieronymus. Aristotle, because he
could not understand the motion of Euripus, for grief and shame drowned
himself: Caelius Rodigimus _antiquar. lec. lib. 29. cap. 8._ _Homerus
pudore consumptus_, was swallowed up with this passion of shame [1676]
"because he could not unfold the fisherman's riddle." Sophocles killed
himself, [1677]"for that a tragedy of his was hissed off the stage:"
_Valer. max. lib. 9. cap. 12._ Lucretia stabbed herself, and so did