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Chap. 2. but rather carry it elsewhere. He that ha's broke an Arm or Leg does not use to call for a Horse or Coach, but for a Chirurgion: What kind of Vanitie then is that of yours; that causes you to seek the Cure of an inward wound, by motion and gadding up and down? For certainly it is the mind which is sick; and all this outward weakness, despair and langour, arises from this one Fountain, that it languishes and is cast down. That Princely and Diviner part hath cast away the Scepter; and hath humbled it self to that Degree of baseness; as to become a voluntary slave to its own Vassailes.

Tell me now in this Case; what advantage is to be hop'd for, from Place or Motion? Unless possibly there is any such Region, which can temper our Fears, or bridle our hopes; or make us discharge our selves again of that filthy matter of Vices, which we have so liberally taken down. But Rh