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Chap. 9.
of Conſtancy.
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many are concern'd in those losses: but because themselves are amongst those many.


Chap. IX.

A clearer discovery of this Simulation by Examples; something (by the way) of our true Country. Of that malice in Men, which occasions them to rejoyce in the Evils of others, when themselves are secure.

Be you therefore the Judge, and let this cause be pleaded before your own Tribunal; only (as I said before) let the disguise be taken off. As thus. Do you indeed feare this Warre? You do feare it. Upon what account? Because Pestilence and Slaughter are the companions of Warre. To whom

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