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Chap. 9. easy and quiet? He indulges them liberty: The Venetians of a temper betwixt both? He fits them with a middle way of Government; and will possibly change all these hereafter; as the persons shall vary their Conditions. Nevertheless, we complain, and why (say we) are we longer harras'd with war than others? and why are we crush'd under a heavier Yoke of servitude? Thou Fool, and now really sick! Art thou wiser than thy Maker? Tell me why doth the Physitian prescribe more Wormwood or Hellebore for this than for that Man? Is it not because his Disease or Constitution requires it? Think the same here; possibly he sees this people more stubborn, and therefore to be subdued by stripes; that other more tractable and apt to be reduced with the shaking of the Rod. But you do not think so: It may be so. Our Parents will not trust a Knife or Rh