Consider with your self, that People of all Conditions, Professions and Countrys, are forc'd to Dye: Cast your Eyes upon what sort of Mortals you please, and you'l find them go the Way of all Flesh. And we must take our turn too with the rest, and remove to the same place whither so many famous Orators, and Philosophers , Generals, Princes, and Heroes have shewn us the way. Those great Sages Heraclitus, Pythagoras, and Socrates; Those Celebrated Mathematicians Eudoxus, Hipparchus, and Archimedes, had no privilege, or protection against Fate. Not to mention a great many other extraordinary Genius's; Persons of Industry, Reach, and Spirit: They are all gone. Even those Buffoons, who like Menippus were always Flouting, and Fleering at Mankind, tho' they lived in Jest, they dyed in Earnest. Remember they are all in their Graves: And where's the harm of all this? Nay what are those the worse for't, that have not so much as left their own Names behind them? In a word. There's only one thing here worth the minding ; And that is, not to imitate the Degeneracy of Mortals: But to be True, Honest, and Good-natur'd, even amongst Knaves, and Sharpers.