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Chap. 21. of disputation. By whose dangers Lipsius we being warned let us rather choose to coast about the Shore, than to hazzard our selves too farr in the depths of this Ocean. Euclid to one that ask'd him many things concerning the Gods, made this apposite reply: Other things I know not; but this I know that they hate the curious. Think the same of Fate, which will be look'd upon, but not pry'd into; believ'd, but not known. I think it is the saying of Bias; of the Gods say that they are, which I may pertinently apply unto Fate, of which I advise you, that it is enough if you know it to be: in other matters about it, it is no Sin to be ignorant. That properly belongs to our Province (for I now return from this intangled path into the old and beaten way) that you believe there is a Necessity annex'd to publick evils: and that you derive from thence some consolation in your Griefs. What doth it concern you, Rh