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Rh Take Delight in, and frequent the Company of Good Men, for it will give you a Tincture of their Manners too.

''Take heed of that Vulgar Error, of thinking that there is any Good in Evil. It is a Mitake when Men talk of Profitable Knavery, or of Starving Honetly; for Virtue and Jutice carry All that is Good and Profitable along with them.''

Let Every Man mind his own Buines, for Curioity is Retles.

Speak Ill of No body, and you are no more to Hear Calumnies then to Report them: Beide that, they that Practice the One, Commonly Love the Other.

Propoe Honet Things; Follow Wholeome Councells, and Leave the Event to God.

Let no man Depair in Adverity, nor preume in Properity, for All Things are Changeable.

Rie Early to your Buines, Learn Good Things, and Oblige Good Men; Thee are three Things you hall never Repent of.

Have a Care of Luxury and Gluttony; but of Drunkennes Epecicially; for Wine as well as Age makes a Man a Child.

Watch for the Opportunities of doing things, for there's Nothing Well done, but what's done in Seaon.

Love and Honour Kings, Princes and Magitrates, for they are the Bands of Society, in Punihing the Guilty, and Protecting the Innocent.

Thee, or uch as thee, were the Leons that Æop read daily to his Son; but o far was he from mending upon Them, that he grew Every Day wore and wore, hewing that it is not in the power of Art or Dicipline to Rectify a Pervere Nature, or (as Euripides ays) to Make a Man Wie that has no Soul. But however, according to Neveletus, he came oon after to be Touched in Concience for his Barbarous Ingratitude, and Dyed in a Rageing Remore for what he had done.

The Spring was now at Hand, and Æop was preparing for the Task he had Undertaken About the Building of a Tower in the Air, and Reolving All Manner of Questions: But I hall ay no more of That Romantick part of the Hitory, then that he went into Ægypt, and Acquitted himelfe of his Commiion to Amais with Greate Reputation. From thence back again to Labynetus, Laden with Honours and Rewards; from whom he got leave to Return into Greece; but upon Condition of Repaing to Babylon by the Firt Opportunity.