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only the Veil of his outward happiness.

A drawn Sword hangs in a twine thread
Over the wretches impious head.

Hear that Roman lamenting, let the God's and Goddesses destroy me worse then I every day perceive my self to perish. Hear that other thus sighing; Am I then that only one, who have neither Friend nor Enemy? These Lipsius are the true torments and agonies of Souls; to be in perpetual Anguish, Sorrow, Dread, and which are incomparably beyond any Racks; or other invented wayes for the torture of the Body.