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Chap. 2. Reason than a Rope: I mean such a ray as may enlighten the darkness of your understanding. You are about to leave your Country, but tell me seriously, when you forsake it, can you also forsake your self? Take heed lest you experience the contrary; and carry with you even in that bosome of yours, the source and fountain of all your evils. As those who are sick of a Feaver do continually toss and tumble, and shift their Beds, with a vain hope of finding some ease thereby: In the same manner it is with us, who do in vain pass from one Climate to another; while the sickness is in our Minds. For this is to manifest, not to remove the disease: to make a discovery of this Internal heat; but not at all to asswage it. The wise Roman speaks excellently well. 'Tis the property of the sick not to endure any thing long: and to make use of change it self, instead of a Remedy. Hence are those straggling peregrinations, and Rh