OF SORROW No man living is more free from this passion than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in others, and yet generally the world, as a settled thing, is pleased to grace it with a particular esteem, clothing therewith wisdom, virtue, and conscience.

Foolish and sordid guise! -- ["No man is more free from this passion than I, for I neither love nor regard it: albeit the world hath undertaken, as it were upon covenant, to grace it with a particular favour.

Therewith they adorne age, vertue, and conscience.

Oh foolish and base ornament!" Florio, 1613, p.

3] -- The Italians have more fitly baptized by this name--[La tristezza]-- malignity; for 'tis a quality always hurtful, always idle and vain; and as being cowardly, mean, and base, it is by the Stoics expressly and particularly forbidden to their sages.
But the story--[Herodotus, iii.