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Chap. 20. firme; and that your wound had been closed: But you relapse. If ever you will recover, it is requisite, that there be a kind of calmness in your Mind. This Age say you is the most unhappy. It is an old complaint; I know your Gransier said the same, and so likewise your Father; I know also your posterity will have the same complaint. Nature has riveted this into the Disposition of Man; to look fixedly upon his Evils; and to shut his Eyes upon his mercies. As Flyes and other Insects, do not rest long upon smooth and polished places, but stick to those that are rough and soiled: So this querulous Mind of ours, lightly overpasses our better fortunes: But will not be withdrawn from its contemplations of that which is worse. It handles and pryes into its evils, and for the most part shews it self witty, in the aggravating comments that it maks upon them. As lovers ever find some- Rh