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Chap. 15. others in those of their posterity. You complain of Dionysius in Sicily that for many years with impunity, he exercises his Lusts, Rapine, and Murthers: Forbear awhile, and you shall behold him inglorious, exiled, pennyless; and from a Sceptre (who would believe it) reduc'd to a Ferula. The King of that great Island shall teach School at Corinth, being himself become the mockery of Fortune: On the other side you resent it with passion that Pompey and his Army of Patricians should be vanquished in the Plains of Pharsalia; and that the conquerour for some time, doth wanton and even sport himself with Civill blood. I do not wonder at you: For I see here the helm of right reason wrested out of the hands of Cato himself, and this faltering expression falls from him: Divine things have much of obscurity in them. But yet thou Lipsius, thou Cato, turn your eyes this way a little. One sight shall reconcile Rh