Their familiar attendants are, [2001] "Pallentes morbi, luctus, curaeque laborque Et metus, et malesuada fames, et turpis egestas, Terribiles visu formae" "Grief, labour, care, pale sickness, miseries, Fear, filthy poverty, hunger that cries, Terrible monsters to be seen with eyes.

And the face especially gives a lustre to the rest: the face is it that commonly denominates a fair or foul: arx formae facies, the face is beauty's tower; and though the other parts be deformed, yet a good face carries it (facies non uxor amatur) that alone is most part respected, principally valued, deliciis suis ferox, and of itself able to captivate.

Occidit ille risus et formae lepos, Ille nitor, illa gratia, et verus decor, Illae aemulantes purpuram, et rosas genae, Oculique vinctaeque aureo nodo comae.

2. Si quem conspexerit speciosae formae invenem, venustate ejus sumitur, et in eum animum intorquet.

Be she present or absent, all is one; [5340] "Et quamvis aberat placidae praesentia formae Quem dederat praesens forma, manebat amor.

When the hirsute cyclopical Polyphemus courted Galatea; [5510] "Jamque tibi formae, jamque est tibi cura placendi, Jam rigidos pectis rastris Polypheme capillos, Jam libet hirsutam tibi falce recidere barbam, Et spectare feros in aqua et componere vultus.

by this invention he was cured, and alienated from his pristine love-thoughts"Injuries, slanders, contempts, disgracesspretaeque injuria formae, "the insult of her slighted beauty," are very forcible means to withdraw men's affections, contumelia affecti amatores amare desinunt, as Lucian saith, lovers reviled or neglected, contemned or misused, turn love to hate; redeam?

If she be fair, as the saying is, she is commonly a fool: if proud, scornful, sequiturque superbia formam, or dishonest, rara est concordia formae, atque pudicitiae, "can she be fair and honest too?" Aristo, the son of Agasicles, married a Spartan lass, the fairest lady in all Greece next to Helen, but for her conditions the most abominable and beastly creature of the world.

[5890]Leontius, a philosopher of Athens, had a fair daughter called Athenais, multo corporis lepore ac Venere, (saith mine author) of a comely carriage, he gave her no portion but her bringing up, occulto formae, praesagio, out of some secret foreknowledge of her fortune, bestowing that little which he had amongst his other children.

[6069] "Saepe etenim oculuit picta sese hydra sub herba, Sub specie formae, incauto se saepe marito Nequam animus vendit," He that marries a wife that is snowy fair alone, let him look, saith

Spretaeque injuria formae.

Spretaeque injuria formae. 2378.

Corporum complexus, cantus, ludi, formae, &c. 3511.

1. Cephalus egregiae formae juvenis ab aurora raptus quod ejus amore capta esset. 4785.

Formae majestatem Barbari verentur, nec alii majores quam quos eximia forma natura donata est, Herod, lib.

Var. hist, tanta formae elegantia ut ab ea nuda, &c. 4833.

Tantae formae fuit ut cum vincta loris, feris exposita foret, equorum calcibus obterenda, ipsis jumentis admiratione fuit; laedere noluerunt. 4844.

Veteres Gorgonis fabulam confinxerunt, eximium formae decus stupidos reddens.

Met. de Polyphemo: uritur oblitus pecorum, antrorumque suorum; jamque tibi formae, &c. 5370.

Cum in mulierem incident, quae cum forma morum suavitatem conjunctam habet, et jam oculos persenserit formae ad se imaginem cum aviditate quadam rapere cum eadem, &c. 5636.

1. flos omnium pulcherrimus statim languescit, formae typus.

rara est concordia formae atque pudicitiae. 6067.

Dum formae curandae intenta capillum in sole pectit, a marito per lusum leviter percussa furtirm superveniente virga, risu suborto, mi Landrice dixit, frontem vir fortis petet, &c. Marito conspecto attonita, cum Landrico mox in ejus mortem conspirat, et statim inter venandum efficit.

But England has insisted on ripping up old wounds, and has undone the healing work of fifty years; for nations do not reason, they only feel, and the spretae injuria formae rankles in their minds as bitterly as in that of a woman.

It was an odd variety of the spretae injuria formae.