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Chap. 21.

Eave then those vulgar things Lipsius, and follow me to that comparison which you challenge me to make. By this I shall clear it to you, that as to all the sorts of Calamities, not only the like have happened of old, but also greater; and that the age we live in, ha's rather matter of triumph than complaint. We are engaged in a Warr say you. What? Were there then no Warrs amongst the ancients? Yes Lipsius they were begun with the world; nor are they like to end but with it. But possibly they were not so great, so grievous Rh