For which Reaſon, we hope, That learned Faculty, for whom we have ſo profound a Reſpect, will pardon us the violent Hands we have been neceſſitated to lay on ſeveral Words and Phraſes, which of Right belong to them, and without which our Deſcriptions muſt have been often unintelligible.
Now there is no one Circumſtance in which the Diſtempers of the Mind bear a more exact Analogy to thoſe which are called Bodily, than that Aptneſs which both have to a Relapſe. This is plain, in the violent Diſeaſes of Ambition and Avarice. I have known Ambition, when cured at Court by frequent Diſappointments, (which are the only Phyſic for it,) to break out again in a Conteſt for Foreman of the Grand Jury at an Aſſizes; and have heard of a Man who had ſo far conquered Avarice, as to give away many a Sixpence, that comforted himſelf, at laſt, on his Death-bed, by making a crafty and advantagious Bargain concerning his enſuing Funeral, with an Undertaker who had married his only Child.
In the Affair of Love, which out of ſtrict Conformity with the Stoic Philoſophy, we ſhall here treat as a Diſeaſe, this Proneneſs to relapſe is no leſs conſpicuous. Thus ithap-
