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Rh get up in the Morning, ays he, and o conduct yourelves, as if that Day was to be your lat, and lie down at Night, as if you never expected to ee this World any more. This may be done, ays he, without abating of your Chearfulnes, for you are not to conider Death as an Evil, but as a Convenience, as an ueful Pilot, who is to convey you to a Place of greater Happines: Therefore, play my dear Children, and be merry; but be innocent and good. The good Man ets Death at Defiance, for his Darts are only dreadful to the Wicked.

After this, he permitted the Children to bury the little Dormoue, and deired one of them to write his Epitaph, and here it is. Rh