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Chap. 19. Cloud, and examine things by a clearer light. For instance, you fear Poverty amongst these publick Evils, Banishment, Death: All which notwithstanding, if you look upon them with a perfect and setled Eye, what are they? If you examine them by their own just weights, how light are they? This Warr or Tyranny by multiplyed contributions will exhaust you; what then? You shall be a poor Man. Did not Nature it self bring you into the World so? And will it not hurry you thence in the same manner? But if the despised and infamous name of it, displease you; change it, call your self free and delivered. For Fortune (if you know it not) hath disburdened you and placed you in a securer station, where none shall exhaust you any more: So that what you esteemed a loss, is no other than a remedy. But say you I shall be an exile; call it (if you please) a stranger. If you change your affection; Rh