Chap. 1.
of Conſtancy.
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Young Man said he, what kind of delicacy is this? Or what may be thy meaning to seek for safety by flight? I acknowledge your Country is full of Trouble and Turmoile; but what part of Europe is that which is at this day free? Insomuch as you may truly præsage according to that of Aristophanes,
Things that are high with awfull frown
High-thundring Jove will tumble down.
High-thundring Jove will tumble down.
And therefore not so much our Country (Lipsius) as our Passions are to be fled: and this Mind of ours is to be so fram'd and establish'd, as that we may find repose in the midst of troubles, and peace in the midst of Warrs. They are rather to be fled, Langius, (reply'd I with an ardour Youthfull enough) for certainly those evils that we hear of, do more lightly affect us, than those we behold: and withall our selves (as they say) are out of Gun-
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