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enter there, I forthwith command all base and servile cares to absent themselves; and (asmuch as I may) with an elevated Mind, I despise the studies of the prophane vulgar, and this great vanity in the affairs of Men. Yes, I seem to my self to be wholly divested of humanity; and to be transported into Heaven it self, in the fiery Chariot of Wisdome. Do you think it there troubles me, what the French or Spaniard are designing? Who keeps, or loses the Scepter of Belgia? That the Tyrant of Asia, now threatens us by Land or by Sea? Or to conclude;
What Plots that King is forging in his brains,
That in the North and frozen Climate raigns?
That in the North and frozen Climate raigns?
none of all these I will assure you. Securely fortify'd against all that is external; I retreat within my self, free
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