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Hippocrates who cured so many Diseases, was not able to Recover himself: The Chaldeans who foretold other Peoples Death, at last: met with their own. Alexander, Pompey, and Julius Cæsar, who had destroyed so many Towns, and Cut-off so so many Thousands in the Field, were forc'd at last to March off themselves : Heraclitus who argued so much about the Worlds being set on Fire, perish'd himself by a Counter-Element, and was Drown'd in a Dropsy. Democritus was eaten up with 2 Lice, and Socrates was dispatched by another sort of Vermin, 3 And what are these Instances for? Why, to shew what we must all come to. Look you; You are got Abroad, you have made your Voyage and your Port; Debark then without any more ado; if you happen to Land upon another World, there will be Gods enough to take care of you : But if it be your Fortune to drop into nothing; why then your Virtue will be no more solicited with Pleasure and Pain; then you'll have done drudging for your Carcass : whereas as Matters go now, the best Moyety of you has sometimes the worst Office : For if I mistake not, the one is all Soul, and Spirit, whereas the other, is but Dirt, and Putrefaction.