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 To the Reader. nothing of being in danger of being ubjected, and enlaved to the pleaure of Princes, and of becoming intrumental to their luxury, and tyranny, as alo being deprived of all liberty, as once Raimundus Lullius. The truth is, the greatet matter that Philoophers aime at, is the enjoyment of themelves, for which caue they have equetred themelves from the world, and become Hermites: Well therefore and like a philoopher pake Sandivogius, when he aid, Beleeve me, if I were not a man of that tate and condition that I am of nothing would be more pleant to me, then a olitary life or with Diogenes to live hid under a tub; for I ee all things in this world to be but vaniry, and that deceit, and covetounee prevaile much, that all things are vendible, and that vice doth excel vertue. I ee the better things of the life to come before mine eyes, I rejoice in thee: Now I doe not wonder, as before I did, why Philoophers when they have attained thus medicine, have not cared to have their daies hortned (although by the vertue of their medicine they could have prolonged them) for every Philo- opher