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 being deuoid of all contagious trouble. For beeing looed and deliuered out of the darkeome dungeons of this body, thou halt pae to that place where is no lacke nor complaint, but all things full of ret, and deuoid of euill. Moreouer there is calme and quiet liuing without all knowledge of vnret, peaceable and till occupied in beholding the coure & frame of Nature, and tudying Philoophy, not to pleae the idle ignorant and common ort, but with vpright and vndeceiuable truth.

O Socrates with this thy gladome peech thou hat now brought mee into a cleane contrary minde, for o farre am I nowe from dread of death, that I am euen et on fire and burne with deire thereof. And that I may tay my elfe in the teppes of them which are counted workematers of peech, I will ay thus much more excellently, Now I begin to behold thoe high matters, and doo ouerlooke that æternall and heauenly coure of things, hauing now rayed vp my elfe out of my weakenes, and being as it were renued and refrehed of my former malady.

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