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upon FoLLYy, : ne'er fo fpacious) to ju/Ple for E bowBut it is not fufficient eee SE ape that I am the Source and Original of all Pine except I likewife fhew that all the Benefits of Life are equally at my Diſpoſal And what \ are fuch ? Why, can any one be faid proper] | to live to whom Pleafure is denied ? You'll | give me your Affent ; for there is none I know _ among you fo wiſe ſhall I ſay, or fo filly, as te _ be of a contrary Opinion. The Stoicks indeed contemn, and pretend to baniſh Pleaſure 3 but this is only a diffembling Trick, and « | putting the Vulgar out of Conceit with ity that they may more quietly engrofs it to them. | felves: But I dare them now to confefs what one Stage of Life is not Melancholly, Dull, Tirefome, Tedious and Uneafie, unlefs we > it with Pleafure, that Hautgouft of oLLy. Of the Truth whereof the never enough to be commended Sophocles is fufficienr Authority, who gives me the higheft Chara@ter jin that Sentence of his, To know nothing ès the ſweeteſt Life. | Yer abating from this, Iet us examine the (Cafe more narrowly. Who knows not that | the firft Scene of Infancy is far the moft pleafant and delightfome ¢ What then is it in | Children that makes us fo kifs, hug and play | with them, and that the Bloodieft Enemy can ſcarce have the Heart to hurt them, but their Ingredience of Innocence and Folly, of which | Nature out of Providence did purpofely compound and blend their tender Infancy, | C BATA | | dei
