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Book II.
Warr, or if there be peace, it is conjoyned with a base subjection to petty Rulers; and not a whit eligible before Warr it self. Which way soever you turn your Eyes or thoughts, you will find all things full of suspition and suspense: And as in a house that is ill underpropt; many visible signes of an approaching ruine. To conclude Langius as there is a General rendezvous of all Rivers at the Ocean: So all sorts of Calamities seem to Centre in this Age. And yet I now speak only of such as are at present upon us; what are those that await us? Of which I may justly sing that of Euripides,
Such spacious Seas of ills I see
As cannot safely passed be.
As cannot safely passed be.
Langius looking severely upon me; do you again (said he) cast your self down with these complainings? I thought by this time you had stood
firme;
