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 woont to confirme thy elfe and trengthen others: for like as a cowardly champion, which at the firt comming forth as to the skirmih with tately teps and a vaunting viage, dooth oone after cat away his Target, and taketh him to flight: euen o eemet thou now, when there is need mot of al to flinch. Hat thou no more regarde of thy diuine and excellent nature, that ometime wat a man of o good life and calling, o obedient to reaons rule? and if there were nothing els, yet hou'd it be ufficient to mooue thee, that thou art an Athenian borne: and latly hould mooue thee that common aying, which is worne in all mens mouths; That this our life is a Pilgrimage, which when we haue ended with perfect meaure and tedfat trauell: it behoueth vs with like contancy of minde, and ioyfulnes of pirit, and as it were inging a merry Pæan, to enter into the purpoed place of ret. But thus to languih in dipaire and tenderharted out-cries, behauing thy elfe like a froward Babe, in thee is neither regard of thy wiedome, nor repect of thy age.

Axiochus.

True indeed O Socrates, and that which thou ayet, me eemeth right: But it commeth to pae I knowe not how, that when I drawe neere vnto preent daunger, than thoe great and