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Chap. 3. of something, which will unclose afresh the wounds of your Griefes: Or if possibly you may rest awhile; it will prove but like to one of those shorter slumbers; that leave the awaked party, in the same or a greater Feaver. For there are a sort of desires which being interrupted do increase the more: And are sensibly the stronger for having had Vacations.

Away then Lipsius with these vain yea dangerous experiments; more like to poysons than remedies: And betake your self to those, which how severe soever, are yet the true ones. Are you about to change your Soile and Climb? O rather let it be your Mind: which you have unhappily withdrawn from the Obedience of Right Reason: for no other purpose than to make it a Slave to your Affections. The unsound temper of that is the Root of this despair; and thence are your languors because that is corrupted. Rh