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A Diſcourſe
Book I.

there is alass no such, no not in the Fortunate Islands themselves; or if there be, be so kind as to shew us it, and we will all embody and fort with march thither. You will say that very Motion, and change of place it self hath that force; and that those daily sights, that variety of Customes men and places, which we meet with in travell; doth recreate and rouse afresh the dejected Mind.

You are deceiv'd Lipsius, for (to speak seriously and as the matter doth require) I do not so far forth depress travail as to grant it no kind of power over Man, and his Affections. Yes, let it be yielded that it hath, but hitherto only, that it may possibly remove some lighter tædium; or as it were loathings of the Mind: but as for the Diseases of it, they have lodg'd themselves so deep therein, as to mock the Virtues of any external Medicines. Musick, Wine, Sleep have frequently cur'd those first and lesser

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