Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . hilie anfwered, I will willingly doeSo for thy fake, buta firft I wilicn-deuourto declare that, which isbetter knowne vntothee, that ha-uing through lyvnderftoodit,by re-fit ctmg of the contrary thou maieftdifcouer a glirnpfe of perfect bleffedneflc, H 5 The TZoetius his Th e LVer s e, Falfe felicitje tnufi bee fotfahn, that \true happinejje may be HE that afrHtifpilficldvfill/oWycDothftrfi thegraftedfrGmbujbcsfree,All Fearne and Brjerf/ifypfje mov?yThat he his Harm ft great may feewes fleeter to our tafi$Ifcloydwith noyfomefoode i
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