236                            OF DEFORMITY.

that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion,
certainly it is no marvel, though persons in years
seem many times more amiable—pulchroriim autum-
nus pulcher—for no youth can be comely but by
pardon, and considering the youth as to make up
the comeliness. Beauty is as summer fruits, which
are easy to corrupt and cannot last, and, for the
most part, it makes a dissolute youth and an age a
little out of countenance ; but yet certainly again,
if it light well, it maketh virtue shine and vices
blush.
 

XLIV.

OF DEFORMITY.

Deformed persons are commonly even with nature,
for, as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by
nature, being, for the most part (as the Scripture
saith) void of natural affection, and so they have
their revenge of nature. Certainly there is a consent
between the body and the mind, and where nature