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533 À PANEGYRICK Relation of it. Now therefore, like Homer's wandring Muſe, PI take my Leave of Heaven, and come down again here Below, where we fhall find nothing happy, nay, nothing tolerable, without my Prefence and Affiftance. And in the firit place confider how providentJy Naturc'has took Care-that in all her Works: there fhould be fome piquant Smack and Reliſh of Folly: For fince the Stoicks define Wiſdom to be condutted by Reafon, and Folly nothing elfe but the being hurried by Paffion, leftour Life ſhould otherwiſe have been too dull and unattive, that Creator, whoout of Clay firſt tempered and made usup, put into the Compofition of our Humanity more than a Pound of Paffions to an Ounce of Reaſon; and Reaſon he” confined within the narrow Cells‘of the Brazz, whereas he left Paſſions the whole Body to range in. Farther, he fet up Two fturdy Champions to ftand perpetually on the Guard, that Reaſon might make no Affault, Surprize, nor Inroad: Anger, which keeps its Station in the Fortrefs of the Heart; and Luſt, which like the Signs Virgo and Scorpio, rules the Belly and Secret Members. Againſt the Forces of thefe Two Warriors how unable is Reaſon to bear up and withſtand every Day's Experience does abundantly witneſs ; while,Jet Reafon be never fo importunate in urging and reinforcing her Admonitions to Virtue yet the Paffions bear all before them, and by the leaft Offer of Curb or Reftraint grow but more imperious, till Reafon itfelf, for Quietneſs fake, is forced to defift from all farther Remonftrance. But becaufe it feem’d expedient ©
