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58 Erasmus the better know how to command or obey Fools; and who though he please his like, ’tis yet the greater number; one that is kind to his Wife, merry among his Friends, a Boon Companion, and easie to be livd with; and lastly one that thinks nothing of Humanity should be a stranger to him? But I am weary of this Wise Man, and therefore Pll proceed to some other advantages. Go to then. Suppose a man in some lofty high Tower, and that he could look round him, as the Poets say Jupiter was now and then wont. To how many misfortunes would he find the life of man subject? How miserable, to say no worse, our Birth, how difficult our Education ; to how many wrongs our Childhood expos’d, to what pains our Youth; how unsupportable our Old-age, and grievous our unavoidable Death? as also what Troups of Diseases beset us, how many Casualties hang over our Heads, how many Troubles invade us, and how little there is that is not steept in Gall ? to say nothing of those evils one man brings upon another, as Poverty, Imprisonment, Infamy, Dishonesty, Racks, Snares, Treachery, Reproaches, Actions,
