ABSTRACT
Nicolas Coeffeteau was a French Dominican theologian and historian who rose to become preacher at the court of the King of France and, briefly before his death, bishop of Marseilles. Rich men in like manner, and such as are powerful, are full of this vain ambition to seem great, by the outrages they doe to their inferiors, imagining that this insolvency is a mark of their greatness. Rich men also will be referenced and respected by the poorer sort, who are inferior into them in the goods of fortune. And he that is endowed with singular eloquence, desires that such as hue not attained to the like perfection, should acknowledge the advantage he hath over them. Aristotle calls those that are subject to this passion, sudden, active, choleric, and adjust; for that this suddenness to be mooned, risen from the abundance of adjust choler, or from the gall.
