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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 Obfervation of „hin, who (if the Servants Extortion reflet noton the Mafters Integrity, or Fudgment) was neither of both; the Learned. Lord Bacon. What that ColleZing Politician did coyly Remark is here in a greater Advance 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 Madmen. 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 HappiA nefs ;
