There are many infenfible diseases, as Apo-Q. Eliz, plexies, whofe vapours fuddainly extinguish the animal fpirits; and apofthumes both in the upper and middle region of man, that often drown and fuffocate both the animal and vital, who are like embodied twins, the one cannot fubfift without the other if the animal wits fail, the vital cannot fubfift: if the vitals perish, the animals give over their operation: and he that judgeth ill of fuch an act of providence, may have the same hand at the fame time writing within the palace-walls of his own body, the fame period to his lives earthly empire. His pofterity refused an apology offered in his behalf, upon this ground, that the things objected to him, were of the number of thofe little cavils, which come with that rule not holding in great accufations.

* Spreta exolefcunt, fi irafcare, agnita videntur.

* If you defpife little injuries, they will die away of themselves; if you are angry at them, you seem to shew that you deferve them.

The End of the Obfervations upon the Lives of the Statesmen and Favourites of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth.

End of VOL. I.