Part.z.Sect.6. Cure ofMelancholy. · Memb. 5 • 340 V os valete &plaudite, CaUiopeuu recen{t•i. ---mul,t we bid the world farewell, (Exit Calliopeius) and having now plaid our.pans, fo; ever be gone.. Tombs and monu~ents have thelikefate, data fient tpjis quoiJrfota (epulchrt<, kmgdomes, provmces ,towns, and ciries have their periods,and a~e. c?nfumed. In thofe flourilhing times ofTroy, Mycen£ was the fa1reft c1t1em Greece, Gr£Ct£ cun&£imperitabat, but it alas and * AJ!yriorum that* A/fyrianNinive are quiteoverthrowne;the like fate hath t!TarEgyptian .epofunauu' and Brcotian Thebes, Delos, commune Gr£ci£ conciliabulllm, the common ;·~~~ium quot councellhoufe of Greece,! and Baby/on thegreatdl: citie that ever the fun unfuamsot a(- !hone on, hathnow nothmg but walls, and rubb1lhlefr. · pwturbtum * ~dPandioni£reffatnijinomen Athen,e~ ':~";,~~ Thus t Pau{ani.u complained in his times. And where is Troy it felfe now · t Ar<ad.tib. s. Ferfepolis, Carthage, Cizicum, Sparta, Argos, and all rhofe Grecian cities; SyrACufe and Agrigentum, the fairefttownes in Sicily ,which had fometimes 7ooooo inhabitants,are now decayed, the names of Hieron, Empedoclu &c. ofthofemighty numbers ofpeople, only left. One vfnacharfts is re~ membredamongft theScythians, the world it felfmuft have an end. And as to atraveller gr.eat mountains feem plains afar off, at laQare not difccrned at all, cities,men, monuments decay, ---neefolidis prod eft foamachina terris, . · the names are only lefr, thofeat length forgotten, and are involved in perpetuall night. o Epijf. Tu/1. · 0 Returning outofA(ia, when I '(ailed from .!Egina towards Megara, I be.' ltb.J. gan (faithServius Sulj}itius in a con(olatoryepifrleofbistoTuUy) to view the country roundabout. .!Egina w.u behind mee, Megara before, Pyraeus on ,;. the right hand, Corinthontheleft,what jlourijhing townes heretofore, now pr0ftrate and overwhelmedheforemineeyes? I began to thinke with my felft, ~um tot op- Al.u, why are we 111enfo much difquietedwith the departure ofafriend, whoft ~idDrum cada- li(e is muchfborttr?PWhen fo many goodly cities lyeburiedheforc us .Remember '!ltr<aMeocu· 0 Servius thou art a man,& with that I w.u much confirmed, &corretfed my !%f."1'tf" 1"" feif.Correchhenlikewife,andcomfort thy felfin this, that we mufr neceft Hor.lib. ' · farilydye,& all dye,that we lhall rifeagain;as Tully he!d,'jumndior~mHI. ~;,;;;meJ. to congrelfus nofter fieturus,quaminfuavis & acerbus digrejftM, Ouriecond fortuit. meeting !hall be much more pleafant, then our departure wasgrievous. ;;;;~'{';:::- I but he was my moft deareand loving friend, my foie friend, ~uoafaulfam t Jl!!Js dtjiderro(it pudor aut modus a~~cbor.m{la- Tamcharic4pitis ?-And who canhlamef!JJ 1voe f ~~iutrum,et Thoumaift bealhamed, I fay with q Seneca,to confeffe it, in (uch a,. tempeft morbidum, .uthistohavebllt~neanchor, goefeekeanother: and for hiS partthoudofr Ji!~d':~t%~- him ~reati':ljury to delire his longer life.f~i/t t~ou have him cra(~d? ftckly ~uoJbf, malis fttll, hke atired traveller that comes weane to h1s Inne,beg1~ne his JOUrney liberatus fit. _ afrelh, or to beefreedfrom /m miferter? thsu haft more need rqoyce that hee ts •;:;;;~;n;ft7, gone.Another complains ofamoft fweet.wife,a young wife,Nondui?J (ujlllaut Jicfecifii1 leratj!avttmProferpina crinem, fuch aw1fe as no morrall man ever had, fo ~!;:':Z'l.:~· good a wif~,b~t lhe is n?wdead ~nd gone,leth~oi jacet condita forcophago. re,. poJ!eex I reply to htmm Seneca s words,1ffuch awoma atleafr ever was to be had, bocinteUiga-. 'He dideither(ojinde., makeher; if hefoundher, hee 1114:( .uhapptlyftnde an. ~;;jf.{;;j.~. other; ifhemade her, as Critohulus in Xenophon did by Ius, hee may as good '1/Urefl<~~tijex. cheap informanother, he need not dtfpaJie,fo long as theJamemafrer JS to be
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