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READER
H AT there cannot be Two more
Fortunate Properties, than to
have a little of the Fool, and not
too much of the Knave, mas an Obferva¬
tion of „hin, who (if the Servants Extortion
reflet noton the Mafters Integrity, or Fudg¬
ment) was neither of both; the Learned.
Lord Bacon. What that ColleZing Politician
did coyly Remark is here in a greater Ad¬
vance more pofitively made good, “namely,
That not only Fortune, but, what is more
comprebenfive, Happinefs, in: all Refpe&s,
does devoutly attend füch as whom either
Nature or Diftemper barb firſt Molded, or
afterward Corrupted, into Fools and Mad¬
men. And certainly if the Abfence of
Grief, the Reprieve from Care, the Unrelenp
wig at Difappoinrments, and fuch like well.
efleemd. Accidents, do any Way pertain #6
(as perbaps in the Pbil ofopby of bare Nature
they wholly make up) the Notion of Happi¬
A nefs ;