CENTURY VIII. 425 



and as it were with consent. Of the cause of this, 

 and to what axiom it may be referred, consider at 

 tentively ; for as for the petty assertion, that matter 

 is like a common strumpet, that desireth all forms, 

 it is but a wandering notion. Only flame doth not 

 content itself to take in any other body, but either 

 to overcome and turn another body into itself, as by 

 victory ; or itself to die, and go out. 



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