Axiochus.
being deuoid of all contagious trouble. For beeing looſed and deliuered out of the darkeſome dungeons of this body, thou ſhalt paſſe to that place where is no lacke nor complaint, but all things full of reſt, and deuoid of euill. Moreouer there is calme and quiet liuing without all knowledge of vnreſt, peaceable and ſtill occupied in beholding the courſe & frame of Nature, and ſtudying Philoſophy, not to pleaſe the idle ignorant and common ſort, but with vpright and vndeceiuable truth.
Axiochus.
O Socrates with this thy gladſome ſpeech thou haſt now brought mee into a cleane contrary minde, for ſo farre am I nowe from dread of death, that I am euen ſet on fire and burne with deſire thereof. And that I may ſtay my ſelfe in the ſteppes of them which are counted workemaſters of ſpeech, I will ſay thus much more excellently, Now I begin to behold thoſe high matters, and doo ouerlooke that æternall and heauenly courſe of things, hauing now rayſed vp my ſelfe out of my weakenes, and being as it were renued and refreſhed of my former malady.
