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RV 383 (Chap. 13.) hath no Need of burning Pitch, or the torturing Wheel, to make him tell what he knows; but the Nod of a Girl, for Instance, will shake his Purpose; the Good-will of a Courtier, the Desire of a public Post, of an Inheritance; ten thousand other Things of that Sort. It must therefore be remembered in general, that secret Discourses require Fidelity, and a certain Sort of Principles. And where at this Time, are these easily to be found? Pray let any one show me a Person of such a Disposition as to say, I trouble myself only with those Things which are my own, incapable of Restraint, by Nature free. This I esteem the Essence of Good. Let the rest be as it may happen. It makes no Difference to me.

