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Ocean where he may behold a Shipwrack, he will possibly be affected, but not without a certain pleasing titillation of the Mind; as one that beholds other Mens extremities without his own: But place the same Man in the same endangered Ship, and then hee'l grieve (I'le warrant ye) after another fashion. It is the same here when we have said and done all that we can: And we do bewaile our own Miseries truly and unfeignedly; while we lament those that are publick only to be talk'd of, or because it is a custom. Excellently Pindar
Our own misfortunes when they light
they wound us very near,
But let another feel the spite
Our hearts are quickly clear.
they wound us very near,
But let another feel the spite
Our hearts are quickly clear.
Wherefore at the last Lipsius, draw aside this Scenick Tapestry, fold up this Veile of the Stage, and without
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