A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pride and Ill-nature beget in him Envy and Malice; and thcle fet all his Vices, and Paf- fions at work. And then his Plottings and Cares never let him rell: His Difappoint- ments, and Vexations continually fcourge him: His Revenge and Rage burn like Hell in his Heart. Bat his Guilt, Jealoufies, and Frights, thefe caufe Convulfioris of Soul, utmoft An- guHh, and Agonies unlupportable Continuo fontes ultrix accinEta flagelfo Tifiphone quatit in fit Items; torvofq\ Jiniftrd Intentans angues, vocat agmina Jieva fo- rorum. Virg. iEn. 6.f . 5Jo. Examples of fuch great Wretches were in all Ages plenty: but (that I may keep fafe from giving Offence) I'll run back almoft eighteen hundred Years ; and (ingle out that of Mithridates King of Rontm. \Pliny faith he was Maximus fud estate Regum, the greateft King in his Age; and his Dominions were Rars magna terrarum, a large Part of the Earth. His Riches were immenfe ; his.Sumptuouf- nefs fo aftonifhing, that even the Scabbard of his Sword coft four hundred Talents. He was, as to his own Perfon, a Man of extraordinary natural Parts; and had impro¬ ved them, by Learning and long Experience: He was a ihining Orator (as Sylla in R hit arch alloweth ) had fearched deep into the Natures and