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238 before the Meenger can deliver his Errand: Would it not be Better, without going o far about, to Pray to Him that can Save us without Help? Upon This, they turn’d their Prayers to God Himelf, and the Wind preently fell.

Cook was Frying a Dih of Live Fih, and o oon as ever they felt the Heat of the Pan. There's no Enduring of This, cry’d one, and o they all Leapt into the Fire; and intead of Mending the Matter, they were Wore now then Before.

LET a Man's Preent State be never o Uneay, he hould do well however to Bethink himelf before he Changes, for fear his Next Remove hould be Wore. Thus is according to the Common Undertanding of the Alluion, though not o Agreeable perhaps to the True Reaon of the Cae: For it was not either Levity, or Impatience; but intolerable Pain, and Abolute Neceity, that made the Fih hift their Condition: So that the Moral would have born This Doctrine rather: That where we have Certain Death before us, and only This Choice, whether it hall be a Speedy or a Lingring Death, That which puts us oonet out of our Pain (though never o Sharp) is the more Eligible of the Two. But to take it