Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . But oh mtfbapye mojt badde,Which detb the wtckedfwordto cruelpoyfon adde I a Nero kil-led manyof the Se-cateurs without anycaufc bHccanfedRome toburnc for awecke, thathe mightconceiuethcouer-throw , feucn Starrer io Vrfa maior,\vhich represent a wainc, with fewenOxen, which in old time were called Trioaes,for which caufe thc(e Ftarsare by Botttus cJled, Scfttm£*fiAi trioner, frona whence cpqunelb Septentrto, to figniSe the \6i th. HE cBoetius his 2 The dan-ger of themoft ThbVII. Prose. O


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