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Chap. 13. enjoy, the Angry to revenge, the covetous to heap up, and so in the rest) to this alone you shall find nothing proposed besides it self. But lest my discourse should be too loose and forward; I shall curbe and restrain it within this compass. You lament you say your falling Country. But to what end I beseech ye? For what hope you, or what do you expect thereby? Is it that thou mayest repair it in its decayes, and underprop it where it yields? Or is it that by grieving you may keep off that Plague and mischief under which your Country labours? None of all these: It is only that you may use that thredbare saying, it troubles me; as to any thing else this lamentation is but vain and unprofitable. For it concernes a thing past; which to recover again, and to render undone; the Gods themselves would not have it in their own power. But is your Grief only vain? Yes, possibly it is Rh