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 Meditations. 53

XXII.

"\T TANT of prudence, as well as piety, hath

' ' brought men into great inconveniencys; but

he that is well ftored with both, feldom is fo infnared.

XXIII.

npHE fkillfull filher hath his feverall baits for fev- -*- erall fifh, but there is a hooke vnder all; Satan, that great Angler, hath his fundry baits for fundry tempers of men, which they all catch gredily at, but few perceiues the hook till it be to late.

��'T^HERE is no new thing vnder the fun, there is

��XXIV.

HERE is no new

nothing that can be fayd or done, but either that or fomething like it hath been both done and fayd before.

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��XXV.

N akeing head requires a foft pillow; and a drooping heart a ftrong fupport.

XXVI.

��\ SORE finger may difquiet the whole body, but •^ -^^ an vlcer within deflroys it: fo an enemy with- out may difturb a Commonwealth, but diflentions within ouer throw it.

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