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A Diſcourſe
Book I.

yet speaking, the door opened; and a Boy from Levinus Torrentius came to tell us it was supper time? Langius as one awak'd, what sayes he, has this discourse so fair impos'd upon me? and is the day thus privily slipp'd away? And with that rising and taking me by the Arme; let's go Lipsius said he to this my wish'd Supper. Let us rather sit still, said I (being unwilling to go) for this to me is preferrable to all other food; which I may justly call the banquet of the Gods. In these entertainments I alwayes hunger and can never be satisfy'd. But Langius compell'd me, and said he, let us now performe our promise; to morrow if you will we will finish our Sacrifice to Constancy.

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