Discourse of the nature, offices, and measures of friendship (1657) [ Concepts ]
… to despise the smallness or the impropriety of them. Confirmatur amor beneficio accepto: A gift (saith Solomon) fastneth friendships; for as an eye that dwells long upon a starre must be refreshed with lesser beauties and strengthened with … love to be with him, do to him all the worthinesses of love and fair endear∣ment, according to thy capaci∣ty and his." … Friendship … Gift … Jeremy Taylor A discourse of the nature, offices, and measures of friendship with rules of conducting it / written in answer to a letter from the most ingenious and vertuous M.K.P. by …
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