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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 tole¬
rable, without my Prefence and Affiftance.
And in the firit place confider how provident¬
Jy Naturc'has took Care-that in all her Works:
there fhould be fome piquant Smack and Re¬
liſh 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 Compo¬
fition 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 For¬
ces 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 Quiet¬
neſs fake, is forced to defift from all farther
Remonftrance. But becaufe it feem’d expe¬
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