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68 Erasmus expos’d with t other to so many hazzards. Nor does Homer, that Father of trifles, dissent from me; who not only call’d all men 1¢ wretched and full of calamity’, but often his great pattern of Wisedom, Ulysses, 2‘ Miserable ’ ; Paris, Ajax, and Achilles no where. And why, I pray? but that, like a cunning fellow and one that was his craft’s-master, he did nothing without the advice of Pallas. In a word he was too wise, and by that means ran wide of Nature. As therefore amongst men they are least happy that study Wisedom, as being in this twice-Fools, that when they are born men they should yet so far forget their condition as to affect the life of Gods; and after the Example of the Gyants, with their Philosophical gimcracks make a War upon Nature : so they on the other side seem as little miserable as is possible, who come nearest to Beasts and never attempt any thing beyond Man. Go to then, let’s try how demonstrable this is; not by Enthymems or the imperfect Syllogisms of the Stoicks, but by plain, downright and ordinary Examples. And now, by the immortal Gods! I think 1 SerXods rai pox@npods. 2 SvaTnvov.
