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he is almoft loft that built it 5 Time 

 hath fpared the Epitaph of Adrtms 

 horfe, confounded that of himfelf. la 

 vain we compute our felicities by the 

 advantage of our good names, fince bad 

 have equall durations ; and Tberf/tes is 

 like to live as long as Agamemnon^ without 

 Ihe favour of the everlafting BLegifter : 

 Who knows whether the beft of men be 

 known ? or whether there be not more 

 remarkable perfons forgot, then any 

 that (land remembred in the known ac 

 count of time. <? the fir It man had been 

 as unknown as the laft, and MethufeUbs 

 long life had been his only Chronicle. 

 Oblivion is not to be hired : The 

 greater part muft be content to be as 

 though they had not been, to be found 

 in the Regifter of God, not in the record 

 of man. Twenty (even Names make up 

 the firft ftory, and the recorded names 

 ever fince contain not one living Century. 

 The number of the dead long exceedetb 

 all that (hall live. The night of time far 

 furpafleth the day, and who knows 

 when was the -^Equinox ? Euery houre 

 addes unto that current Arithmetique, 

 which fcarce ftands one moment. And 



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