Chap. 17.
of Conſtancy.
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Chap. XVII.
Of the Necessity that is from Fate. Fate asserted, the universal assent both of the Learned and of the people to it; though some difference about its parts. How the ancients distinguished of Fate.
Langius had finished; and this discourse of his had almost drawn Tears from my Eyes, so clearly did it seem to represent those Mockeries that are in humane affairs. Insomuch that I cryed out; Alass! What are even we our selves; or what are all these things we sweat so much in the pursuit of?
Whats he that ha's a brighter Fame?
Or he that's of Obscurer name?
Man when summ'd at highest, he
Is but as dreams of Shaddows be?
Or he that's of Obscurer name?
Man when summ'd at highest, he
Is but as dreams of Shaddows be?
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