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of m}^ self, I despaire of a perfect cure, unless nature 

 as well as human governments could be civilized and 

 brought into a methodicall order, ruling the words 

 and actions with a supreme power of reason, and the 

 authority of discretion: but a rude nature is worse 

 than a brute nature, by so much more as man is 

 better than beast, but those that are of civil natures 

 and gentle dispositions, are as much nearer to celes- 

 tiall creatures, as those that are of rude or cruell are 

 to devils: but in fine, after I had been in England 

 a year and a half, in which time I gave some half a 

 score visits, and went with My Lord's brother to hear 

 music in one Mr. Lawes his house, three or four times, 

 as also some three or four times to Hide Park with 

 my sisters, to take the aire, else I never stirred out of 

 my lodgings, unless to see my brothers and sisters, 

 nor seldom did I dress my self, as taking no delight 

 to adorn my self, since he I onely desired to please 

 was absent, although report did dress me in a hun- 

 dred severall fashions: 'tis true when I did dress 

 myself, I did endeavour to do it to my best becoming, 

 both in respect to my self and those I went to visit, 

 or chanc't to meet, but after I had been in England 

 a year and a half, part of which time I writ a book of 

 poems, and a little book called my Philosophical 

 Fancies, to which I have writ a large addition, since 

 I returned out of England, besides this book and one 

 other: as for my book intitled The World's Ollio, I 

 writ most part of it before I went into England, but 

 being not of a merry, although not of a froward or 

 peevish disposition, became very melanchoh^ by 

 reason I was from My Lord, which made my mind so 

 restless, as it did break my sleeps, and distemper my 

 health, with which growing impatient of a longer 

 delay, I resolved to return, although I was grieved 



