be termed respect:  Friendship is nourished by communication, which by reason of the over-great disparitie cannot bee found in them, and would happly offend the duties of nature:  for neither all the secret thoughts of parents can be communicated unto children, lest it might engender an unbeseeming familiaritie betweene them, nor the admonitions and corrections (which are the chiefest offices of friendship) could be exercised from children to parents.  There have nations beene found, where, by custome, children killed their parents, and others where parents slew their children, thereby to avoid the hindrance of enterbearing [Footnote:  Mutually supporting.] one another in after-times:  for naturally one dependeth from the ruine of another.  There have Philosophers beene found disdaining this naturall conjunction:  witnesse Aristippus, who being urged with the affection he ought [Footnote:  Owed.] his children, as proceeding from his loyns, began to spit, saying, That also that excrement proceeded from him, and that also we engendred wormes and lice.  And that other man, whom Plutarke would have perswaded to agree with his brother, answered, “I care not a straw the more for him, though he came out of the same wombe I did.”  Verily the name of Brother is a glorious name, and full of loving kindnesse, and therefore did he and I terme one another sworne brother:  but this commixture, dividence, and sharing of goods, this joyning wealth to wealth, and that the riches of one shall be the povertie of another, doth exceedingly distemper and distract all brotherly alliance, and lovely conjunction:  If brothers should conduct the progresse of their advancement and thrift in one same path and course, they must necessarily oftentimes hinder and crosse one another.  Moreover, the correspondencie and relation that begetteth these true and mutually perfect amities, why shall it be found in these?  The father and the sonne may very well be of a farre differing complexion, and so many brothers:  He is my sonne, he is my kinsman; but he may be a foole, a bad, or a peevish-minded man.  And then according as they are friendships which the law and dutie of nature doth command us, so much the lesse of our owne voluntarie choice and libertie is there required unto it:  And our genuine libertie hath no production more properly her owne, than that of affection and amitie.  Sure I am, that concerning the same I have assaied all that might be, having had the best and most indulgent father that ever was, even to his extremest age, and who from father to sonne was descended of a famous house, and touching this rare-seene vertue of brotherly concord very exemplare: 

       ——­et ipse
     Notus in fratres animi paterni.
     [Footnote:  Hor. 1. ii.  Qd. li. 6.]

     To his brothers knowne so kinde. 
     As to beare a fathers minde.

To compare the affection toward women unto it, although it proceed from our owne free choice, a man cannot, nor may it be placed in this ranke:  Her fire, I confesse it to be more