e: he
excludes Venus alone as unkind to him.

Thy aid, O Venus, why should I invoke?

He thinks Venus too much employed in her own lust, to have regard to
anything else, as if he himself had not said and committed these shameful
things from lust.

XXXV. Now the cure for one who is affected in this manner, is to show, how
light, how contemptible, how very trifling he is in what he desires; how
he may turn his affections to another object, or accomplish his desires by
some other means; or else to persuade him that he may entirely disregard
it; sometimes he is to be led away to objects of another kind, to study,
business, or other different engagements and concerns: very often the cure
is effected by change of place, as sick people, that have not recovered
their strength, are benefited by change of air. Some people think an old
love may be driven out by a new one, as one nail drives out another: but
above all things the man thus afflicted should be advised what madness
love is: for of all the perturbations of the mind, there is not one which
is more vehement; for, (without charging it with rapes, debaucheries,
adultery, or even incest, the baseness of any of these being very
blameable; not, I say, to mention these,) the very perturbation of the
mind in love is base of itself, for, to pass over all its acts of
downright madness, what weakness do not those very things which are looked
upon as indifferent argue?

Affronts and jealousies, jars, squabbles, wars,
Then peace again.--The man who seeks to fix
These restless feelings, and to subjugate
Them to some regular law, is just as wise
As one who'd try to lay down rules by which
Men should go mad.(102)

Now is not this inconstancy and mutability of mind enough to deter any one
by its own deformity? We are to demonstrate, as was said of every
perturbation, that there are no such feelings which do not consist
entirely of opinion and judgment, and are not owing to ourselves. For if
love were natural, all would be in love, and always so, and all love the
same object; nor would one be deterred by shame, another by reflection,
another by satiety.

XXXVI. Anger, too, when it disturbs the mind any time, leaves no room to
doubt its being madness: by the instigation of which, we see such
contention as this between brothers:

Where was there ever impudence like thine?
Who on thy malice ever could refine?(103)

You know what fol