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70 with a mournfull or dejected Countenance. He will comfort couragiously, he will assist liberally, and will do more nobly, than he will speak, and will more readily lend his hand than words to a necessitous or fallen Man. And all these things he will performe with Caution and Circumspection; lest as in some very mischievous Contagion; the Disease of another should transferre it self to him: Or lest (as they say of Gladiatours) a wound surprize him through anothers side. What is there here (I beseech you) of severe and rigid? and such is the whole Body of Wisdom, which to them that look upon it at a distance, seems to be sterne and lowring: But as many as make nearer approaches, it is found to be so gentle and complaisant, as that the Goddess of Love her self is not more amicable and obliging. But enough of these three Affections; which I have partly put to the foyle Rh