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 If the ox when he is disjoined from his fellow, with whom he was wont in the same yoke to be coupled, with bellowing doth express his sorrow, what sobs, what sighs wilt thou fetch, when thou shalt perceive thyself to be violently pulled from these thy confederates.

Consider, also, that anxiety wherewith the mind of the dying is tormented, when abstracted from all corporal business, he only thinketh what shall become of his body, and what shall betide his soul, how his body must be cast seven foot into the earth, to be eaten of worms; and what will become of his soul, where it is to remain, he is altogether uncertain; which cogitation doth surely much trouble the mind of him that dieth, when he certainly knoweth there is heaven or hell to be expected, and he, at equal distance, from them both, neither can he tell which of these two contraries will fall to his share.

Another no less affliction followeth, that presently he must give a strict account of all his forepassed life, to the eternal judge, which men of great sanctity were wont to fear, when Arsenius in the last point of life, was seen of his disciples to weep and tremble, they asked him why he feared death, he answered: Revera filioli, metus hie quo me videtis affiei nunquam omnino a me recessil ex quo factus sum Monachtis. Indeed, my children, the fear where-