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upon FOLLY. 29 fortable, or indeed tolerable, without my Aſſiſtance ; there could be no right Underflanding betwixt Prince and People, Lord and Servant, Tutor and Pupil, Friend and Friend, Man and Wife, Buyer and Seller, or any Perſon however otherwiſe related, if they did not cowardly put up ſmall Abufes, fneakingly Cringe and Submit, or after all fawningly Scratch and Flatter cach other. This you'll fay is much, but you fhall yet hear what is more; tell me then, can any one love another’ that firft hates himfelf? Is it likely any one ſhould agree with a Friend that is firt fallen: out with his own Judgment? Or isit probable he fhould be any Way pleafing to anòther, who is‘a perpetual Plague and Trouble to himſelf? This is ſuch a Paradox that none can be ſo mad as to maintain. Well, but if 1am excluded and barr’d out, every Man would be fo far from being able to bear with others, that he would be Burdenfome to himfelf, and confequently uncapable of any Eafe or Satiffation. Nature, that toward fome of her Produ&s plays the Stepmother rather than the indulgent Parent, has endowed fome Men with that unhappy Peevifhnefs of Difpofition, as to naufeate and diflike whatever is their own, and much admire what belongs to other Perfons, fo as they cannot in any wife enjoy what: their Birth or Fortunes has beftowed upom them: For what Grace is there in the greateſt Beauty, if it be alway clouded with Frowns: and Sullennefs ? Or what: Vigour im Youth, if it be harraffed with a pettifh, dogged, waſ pith, ill Humour? None: fure.. Nor indeed! D 3 san
