198 JEROME CARDAN. 



mislykings without assurance or eternity) can scarcely 

 expresse their joyes in loue: Happy, yea thrise happy is 

 this heauenly lover, who forgettinge all others, wythe his 

 one love is united. For within this kingdom he loveth 

 and liueth in the sight of him, that can do all thinges, and 

 therefore lyke a good sonne to his father is ever readye 

 to do his pleasure." 



So wrote the first among the atheists of the second 

 order. 



