and divination: there thou hast the death of a whole court together.
Proceed now on to the rest that have been since that of Augustus.
Hath death dwelt with them otherwise, though so many and so stately
whilst they lived, than it doth use to deal with any one particular man?
Consider now the death of a whole kindred and family,
as of that of the Pompeys, as that also that useth to be written
upon some monuments, HE WASS THE LAST OF HIS OWN KINDRED.
O what care did his predecessors take, that they might leave a successor,
yet behold at last one or other must of necessity be THE LAST.
Here again therefore consider the death of a whole kindred.

XXX. Contract thy whole life to the measure and proportion of one
single action. And if in every particular action thou dost perform
what is fitting to the utmost of thy power, let it suffice thee.
And who can hinder thee, but that thou mayest perform what
is fitting? But there may be some outward let and impediment.
Not any, that can hinder thee, but that whatsoever thou dost,
thou may do it, justly, temperately, and with the praise of God.
Yea, but there may be somewhat, whereby some operation or other
of thine may he hindered. And then, with that very thing that
doth hinder, thou mayest he well pleased, and so by this gentle
and equanimious conversion of thy mind unto that which may be,
instead of that which at first thou didst intend, in the room
of that former action there succeedeth another, which agrees
as well with this contraction of thy life, that we now speak of.

XXXI. Receive temporal blessings without ostentation, when they are sent
and thou shalt be able to part with them with all readiness and facility
when they are taken from thee again.