9月12日
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set;and surely virture is best, in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features;and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. Neither is almost seem,that very beautiful persons, are otherwise of great virtue; as if nature were rather busy, not to err, than in labour to produce excellency. And therefore, they prove accomplished,but not of great spirit; and study rather behavior,than virtue; but his holds not always: for Augustus Caesar, Titus Ves Pasianus, Philip Le Belle of France, Edward the Fourth of England, Alcibiades of Athens, Ismael the Sophy of Persia, were all high and great spirits; and yet the most beautiful men of their times. In beauty, that of favour, is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour.