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Chap. 2. Motions of Anger, Grief, or Love: But never the Disease, when once it hath been fix'd and hath fastned its Roots deep. The case is the same here; Travail will possibly heal some lighter languors, but it can never cure the true ones. For those First Motions which do arise from the Body, do after a sort still remain in the Body; or at most (if I may say so) in the superficies of the Mind: and therefore it is no marvail, if some lesser spunge be able to wipe them out. But it is not so with those inveterate Affections; which have their Seat, yea throne in the very Soul of the Mind. When therefore you have gone far, and spent much time in travail, when you have circled both Sea and Land: Yet no Seas will suffice to wash them out, nor any Earth to overwhelme them. They will follow you, and whether on Foot or on Horse-back, that I may use the Phrase of the Poet; these black cares will sit behind you. Rh