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146246 [sic] you change your Country. A wise Man wheresoever he is, is but a sojourner; a Fool is ever banished. But I daily expect Death from the Tyrant: As if you did not do the same from Nature. But that is an infamous Death that comes by the Ax or Halter: Fool! nor that nor any other Death is infamous; unless your life be so. Recall to your thoughts all the excellent and more illustrious persons since the world began; and you shall find them snatched away by a violent and untimely Death. Thus Lipsius you must examine (for I have given you but a tast) all those things which have so frightfull an appearance, you must look upon them naked and apart, from those vizards and disguises; which opinion hath put upon them. But alass poor creatures; we gaze only upon the vain outsides of things: Nor do we dread the things themselves, so much as we do the circumstantial dresses of them. If you put to Sea, and it swell high, your Rh