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202 how comes it to pass that this arrow of Calamities,

Why (I say) are some guiltless people rooted out? and what have our wretched posterity done, that they should rue the crimes of their ancestours? This is that thick and troublesome mist that is got before my Eyes; which (if you can) I pray dissolve and scatter with some ray of Reason. Langius frowning upon me, Young man (said he) dost thou thus again begin to wander from the path I set thee in? I may not suffer it; for as skillful Huntsmen, suffer not their Doggs to change; but force them to persist in the chase of that first buck they were lay'd into: So I am resolved you shall follow me in that track which I first trac'd out to you. I was dis- Rh