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 perceiueth them well, neither doe thoe things greatly mooue my minde, which onely haue a colour and hadowed howe of truth, being et out with lanting pride, and glory of words, but yet truth haue they none.

Thou art farre wide Axiochus, and reaonet vnskilfully, ioyning the feeling of euill, with the wante of good things, forgetting thy elfe that then thou halt bee in the number of the encelee dead. For him indeed which is bereft of all good things, dooth the contrary force of euill things greatly vexe. But he which hath no being, can take nor feele nothing, in place of thoe things whereof he is depoiled. Then by what reaon can any griefe bee conceyued of that thing, which breedeth no ence nor pereuerance of any thing which hurteth. For if in the beginning O Axiochus, thou didt not, thought indeed in vayne, ioyne ence and feeling to death, mot vnwiely, thou houldet neuer had caue to feare death. But now thou doet confound thy elfe, and peaket contrarie to thy elfe, oft fearing that thou halt bee depriued of oule and ence together, and oft thinking, that with thy ence thou halt feele that thing, whereof there is no ence nor feeling. And to this purpoe do all thoe excellent and