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xlvi necessary, that good men are powerful, and euil men weake. Thou runnest rightly (quoth she) and it is (as Physitions are wont to hope) a token of an erected and resisting nature.

In 1664 appeared a free metrical version of the whole work, the prose being rendered in eight-syllable rhyming couplets (the metre of Hudibras), and the verse in quatrains of a peculiar metre, a$8$ b$8$ a$8$ b$8$. This was written by Harry Coningsby, a Royalist. The copy in the British Museum has a dedication, in the translator's handwriting, to Sir Thomas Hyde.

Book iii, metr. 2.

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