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were through a mist, and in which Pitty creeps to, and imposes upon you. But you will say it is Humanity to be affected with Pitty and compassion: Be it so; yet is it not therefore right. Suppose you that there is any Virtue in the Effeminacy and stoopage of the Mind? In Sighs, or Sobbs, or in the mingling of broken and disjoynted words with a Mourner? You are mistaken. If you think not, I can produce a sort of covetous old Women and some sordid Euclio's from whose Eyes it is much more easie to extract a thousand Tears, than one single Penny from their Purses. But now that truly mercifull Man (of whom I have been speaking) he will not indeed be pittiful; but yet he will performe the same, or better Offices, than he that is so. He will behold other mens Evils with a humane, but yet with a right Eye. He will discourse with the Sufferers, with a serious, but not