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HAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; And would not stay for an Answer. Certainly there be, that delight in Giddinessegiddiness [sic], And count it a Bondage to fix a BeleefeBelief [sic]; Affecting Freewill in Thinking, as well as in Acting. And though the Sects of Philosophers of that KindeKind [sic] be gone, yet there remaineremain [sic] certainecertain [sic] discoursing Wits, which are of the same veinesveins [sic], though there be not so much BloudBlood [sic] in them, as was in those of the Ancients. But it is not onelyonly [sic] the DifficultieDifficulty [sic] and Labour, which men take in finding out of Truth; Nor againeagain [sic], that when it is found, it imposeth upon men's Thoughts, that doth bring Lies in favour; But a naturallnatural [sic] though corrupt Love of the Lie it selfeitself [sic]. One of the later SchooleSchool [sic] of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love Lies; Where neither they make for Pleasure, as with Poets; Nor for Advantage, as with the Merchant; but for the Lie's sake. But I cannot tell: this same

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