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When People treat you ill, blame your Conduct, or report any thing to your Disadvantage ; shoot your self into the very Soul of them; rummage their Understandings, and see how their Heads are Furnish'd; A thorough Enquiry into this Matter will set you at rest: You'l be fully convinc'd that the Opinion of such Mortals is not worth one troublesome Thought. However you must be kind to them, for Nature has made them your Relations. Besides, the God's 11 give them all sort of Countenance, Advertise them by Dreams and Prophecy, and help them to those things they have a Mind to.

Translator Notes

  1. 11.
    Whose pattern ought to be follow'd.