Chap. 1.
of Conſtancy.
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The high-rais'd Temples which the Wise
By learning make to top the Skies.
By learning make to top the Skies.
For one hot Afternoon (as being towards the end of June) while we walk'd in the Court before his House: In very obliging Termes he ask'd me concerning my Journey, and the Reasons that had mov'd me to it. After I had spoken many things with equal Freedom and Truth, concerning the troubles of Belgia: I told him at last, that howsoever I had pretended another; yet this was the very Reason of my departure. For who, O Langius said I, is there to be found of so flinty and hard a heart; as longer to endure these evils? We are toss'd as you see, for so many Years together in the stormes of a Civil War: and are whirl'd up and down in a Tempestuous Sea with the different Winds of Trouble and Sedition. Doth my temper incline me to ease and quiet?
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