Chap. 3.
of Conſtancy.
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Chap. III.
That the true Diseases of the Mind are not removed by travail, but are thereby the more exasperated. That it is the Mind which is sick; a remedy for which is to be sought for from Wisdom and Constancy.
You will say then: doth not travail call us away from those truer evils? will not the prospect of Fields, Rivers, and Mountains place us beyond the sense of our Grief? They may possibly call you off; and place you beyond: but neither for any time nor with any firmness. As the eye is not long delighted with a picture how excellent soever: So all that varietie of Men and places, may affect us with the Novelty; but it will not last long. This is indeed a kind of wandring from Evils; but not the
flight
