Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . A fie rider fame now cauje then titles vaint Injomefew letters toremaine,Becaufe their famous names in bookes we reade, fomewee by them to know the dead:Ton dying then remembred are by none, Normyfamecanm^ if yon thinks jw liHe euen *fter dtath, Tour names borne vp with mortal/breath:When length of time takes this away hkiwife, AJeconddeathfttll yoHJurpr\z*e% *ACon(til]of Rome,who madewarrewithVirrhutKmg«f*theFpirotes,by whomtee couldnot be corruptedbybnbes,and,to whornehe fentoncthat offereeto kill him*> The firft CoDfuIlofRorae* wh
Five books of philosophicall comfort ... . A fie rider fame now cauje then titles vaint Injomefew letters toremaine,Becaufe their famous names in bookes we reade, fomewee by them to know the dead:Ton dying then remembred are by none, Normyfamecanm^ if yon thinks jw liHe euen *fter dtath, Tour names borne vp with mortal/breath:When length of time takes this away hkiwife, AJeconddeathfttll yoHJurpr\z*e% *ACon(til]of Rome,who madewarrewithVirrhutKmg«f*theFpirotes,by whomtee couldnot be corruptedbybnbes,and,to whornehe fentoncthat offereeto kill him*> The firft CoDfuIlofRorae* who reuenged Luerecids rape. c A noble Romane,whome nothing could corrupt, Lucan, V$Brixcuufadti$pUcutt,feJVifla Catont%meaning oiCtfar,and Pempey* The VIII- Prose. jiduerjitie more profitable tbenprofpe- VTleaf!: thou fliouldeft:thinke, that I am at vnpla-cable warrewith fortune, there cBoetiushis * The vti. luieofad-uerfitie. ^ Fortane is ttacly knowce. there is a time, when this thy de-ceitfull GoddeflTe deferueth forhe-what well of men^to wit,when fhedeclareth her ielfe,when fhee difco-uereth her face, and flieweth herfelfe in her owne colours. Per-haps thou vnderfhndeft not yet,what I fiy. I would vtter awon-derfull thing, infomuch as leanscarcely explicate my minde inwords* Forlthinke, thatafortunewhen fhee is oppofifeis more pro*fitableto men,thcn when fhee is fa-uonrable* For in. profperitie fheefalfely counterfeited* a fhew ofhappineffe_, but in adueifitie1 fheefheweth her felfe truely vnconfhntby changing. In that fhee decei-uethjin this die inftructeth^n that,fhee imprifoneth the mindes ofmen with falfely feeming goods,which they enioy: In this fbeefet- , VhikfopbicallComfort, j \9 tern them at liber tie by difcoue-iri£ the c vncertaintie of them*Wherforein that, thou
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