Essay

 1        2|          fame, and extinguisheth envy. —Extinctus amabitur idem.~
 2        9|                               OF ENVY~There be none of the affections,
 3        9|         or bewitch, but love and envy. They both have vehement
 4        9|  likewise, the Scripture calleth envy an evil eye; and the astrologers,
 5        9|      acknowledged, in the act of envy, an ejaculation or irradiation
 6        9|       for that sets an edge upon envy: and besides, at such times
 7        9|          what persons are apt to envy others; what persons are
 8        9|       between public and private envy.~A man that hath no virtue
 9        9|   business, find much matter for envy. For envy is a gadding passion,
10        9|        much matter for envy. For envy is a gadding passion, and
11        9|        together, are more apt to envy their equals, when they
12        9|          the note of others; and envy ever redoubleth from speech
13        9|          speech and fame. Cain’s envy was the more vile and malignant,
14        9|       for those, that are apt to envy.~Concerning those that are
15        9|          more or less subject to envy: First, persons of eminent
16        9|        liberality rather. Again, envy is ever joined with the
17        9|       there is no comparison, no envy; and therefore kings are
18        9|      added to their fortune; and envy is as the sunbeams, that
19        9|      perils, are less subject to envy. For men think that they
20        9| sometimes; and pity ever healeth envy. Wherefore you shall observe,
21        9|        only to abate the edge of envy. But this is to be understood,
22        9|           For nothing increaseth envy more, than an unnecessary
23        9|          nothing doth extinguish envy than for a great person
24        9|          screens between him and envy.~Above all, those are most
25        9|        those are most subject to envy, which carry the greatness
26        9|      will rather do sacrifice to envy, in suffering themselves
27        9|       vain glory) doth draw less envy, than if it be in a more
28        9|        doth but teach others, to envy him.~Lastly, to conclude
29        9|       beginning, that the act of envy had somewhat in it of witchcraft,
30        9|        there is no other cure of envy, but the cure of witchcraft;
31        9|          upon whom to derive the envy, that would come upon themselves;
32        9|          Now, to speak of public envy. There is yet some good
33        9|          yet some good in public envy, whereas in private, there
34        9|        there is none. For public envy, is as an ostracism, that
35        9|         them within bounds.~This envy, being in the Latin word
36        9|         and tainteth it; so when envy is gotten once into a state,
37        9|          a weakness, and fear of envy, which hurteth so much the
38        9|       them upon you.~This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly
39        9|         a sure rule, that if the envy upon the minister be great,
40        9|          him is small; or if the envy be general, in a manner
41        9| ministers of an estate; then the envy (though hidden) is truly
42        9|    itself. And so much of public envy or discontentment, and the
43        9|  difference thereof from private envy, which was handled in the
44        9|        touching the affection of envy; that of all other affections,
45        9|        also noted, that love and envy do make a man pine, which
46        9|      always cometh to pass, that envy worketh subtilly, and in
47       12|          but the deeper sort, to envy and mere mischief. Such
48       13|          hardly avoid motions of envy. On the other side, nobility
49       13|        extinguisheth the passive envy from others, towards them;
50       14|     traduced: for that shows the envy great, as Tacitus saith;
51       29|       studies of the mind; avoid envy, anxious fears; anger fretting
52       35|         in matters of danger and envy; for no man will take that
53       39|         wise men, to decline the envy of their own virtues, use
54       47|         and make him a return in envy. There is a kind of followers
55       52|      their hurt, thereby to stir envy and jealousy towards them:
56       52|       contradiction, and procure envy and scorn. To praise a man’
57       54|        fama a domesticis emanat. Envy, which is the canker of