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6
A Diſcourſe
Book I.

shot and the dust of this contention. Do you not hear how craftily Homer advises?

Get out o'th compass of the Arrows flight,
Lest a new wound upon the former light.


Chap. II.

That Travaile availes not against those Diseases which are within us. It is rather a Symptome than a Cure: unless in some first and light motion of the Affections.

Yes I hear him, said Langius, with a kind of Nod: but I had rather you would hear the Voice of Wisdom and Reason. For those Clouds and Mists which enwrap you Lipsius, are ingendered by the Vapours of Opinion. And therefore in this Case (as Diogenes saies) you have more need of

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