OF ANGER.
_Anger_ is desire of revenge, joined with grief, for that he, or some of
his, is, or seems to be, _neglected_.
The object of anger is always some particular or individual thing.
In anger there is also pleasure proceeding from the imagination of
revenge to come.
To _neglect_, is to esteem little or nothing; and of three kinds: 1
_Contempt_, 2 _Crossing_, 3 _Contumely_.
_Contempt_, is when a man thinks another of little worth in comparison
to himself.
_Crossing_, is the hinderance of another man’s will without design to
profit himself.
_Contumely_, is the disgracing of another for his own pastime.
The _common opinions_ concerning anger are therefore such as follow.
They are easily angry, that think they are neglected. That think they
excel others; as the rich with the poor; the noble with the obscure, &c.
And such as think they deserve well. And such as grieve to be hindered,
opposed, or not assisted; and therefore sick men, poor men, lovers, and
generally all that desire and attain not, are angry with those that,
standing by, are not moved by their wants. And such as having expected
good, find evil.
Those that men are angry with, are: such as mock, deride, or jest at
them. And such as shew any kind of contumely towards them. And such as
despise those things which we spend most labour and study upon; and the
more, by how much we seem the less advanced therein. And our friends,
rather than those that are not our friends. And such as have honoured
us, if they continue not. And such as requite not our courtesy. And such
as follow contrary courses, if they be our inferiors. And our friends,
if they have said or done us evil, or not good. And such as give not ear
to our entreaty. And such as are joyful or calm in our distress. And
such as troubling us, are not themselves troubled. And such as willingly
hear or see our disgraces. And such as neglect us in the presence of our
competitors, of those we admire, of those we would have admire us, of
those we reverence, and of those that reverence us. And such as should
help us, and neglect it. And such as are in jest, when we are in
earnest. And such as forget us, or our names.
An orator therefore must so frame his judge or auditor by his oration,
as to make him apt to _anger_: and then make his adversary appear such
as men use to be _angry withal_.
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