is to be set on fire, and elsewhere the shrubs of Passions are to be grubb'd up by the very Roots. But shall we continue our walk; or whether is it not better and most convenient for us to sit? To sit reply'd I, for I begin to be hot, and that upon divers accounts: So assoon as Langius had caus'd Chairs to be brought into the same Court, and that we were both sate; turning himself towards me, he again thus began.
Hitherto Lipsius I have been laying the Foundations whereupon I might safely erect my discourse: Now if you will I shall draw a little nearer to you, enquire out the causes of your Grief, and as they say, lay my Finger upon the very sore. There are two things that lay Battery to this fort of Constancy within us. False Goods and false Ills. Both which I thus define. THINGS NOT WITHIN BUT ABOUT US and WHICH PROPERLY DO NEITHER DAM-
