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 and tout-hearted wordes which I was wont to cat at death, doo cloely flit away and downe are trodden vnderfoote. And then that Tormentor feare, the meenger of dreaded daungers, dooth undrye wayes wound and gall my grieued minde, whipering continually in mine eare that if I bee once depriued of this worldly light, and bereft of goods: I hall like a rotten blocke lye in the darkeome deapth, neither eene nor heard of any, beeing reolued into dut and wormes.

O Axiochus thy talke is very foolih, for reaoning thus without reaon, and eeking to make ome ence of enceles wordes, thou both dot and ayet cleane contrary to thy elfe, not marking, how at one time thou dot both complaine for the lacke of ence which thou halt haue: and alo art greatly vexed for the rotting of thy carrion Carcae, and depoyling of thy former delights: as if by this death thou houldet not pae into another life, or houldet be o depoyled of all ence and feeling, as thou wert before thou wat firt brought into this world. For euen as in thoe yeares when Draco and Callithenes gouerned the common wealth of Athens, thou then wat vexed with no euil, for in the beginning thou wat no uch as to whome