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152 met with the Utopian Philoopher, or the wie Man of the Mountain, as he is called, and thought in him he had found the Friend he wanted; for though he often pretended to be in Ditres, and abandoned to the Frowns of Fortune, this Man always relieved him, and with uch Chearfulnes and Sincerity, that concluding he had found out the only Man to whom be ought to open both his Pure and his Heart, he let him o far into his Secrets, as to deire his Aitance in hiding a large Sum of Money, which he wanted to conceal, let the Prince of the Country, who was abolute, mould, by the Advice of his wicked Miniter, put him to Death for his Gold. The two Philoophers met and hid the Money, which the Stranger, after ome Days, went to ee, but found it gone. How was he truck, to the Heart, when he found that his Friend, whom he had often tried, and who had relieved him in his Ditres, could not withtand this Temptation, but broke through the shared Bonds of Friendhip, and turned even a Thief