it begets in others, and so doth multiply.

IX. Either teach them better if it be in thy power;
or if it be not, remember that for this use, to bear with
them patiently, was mildness and goodness granted unto thee.
The Gods themselves are good unto such; yea and in some things,
(as in matter of health, of wealth, of honour,) are content often
to further their endeavours: so good and gracious are they.
And mightest thou not be so too? or, tell me, what doth hinder thee?

X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched,
nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired;
but let this be thine only care and desire; so always and in
all things to prosecute or to forbear, as the law of charity,
or mutual society doth require. XI. This day I did come
out of all my trouble. Nay I have cast out all my trouble;
it should rather be for that which troubled thee, whatsoever it was,
was not without anywhere that thou shouldest come out of it,
but within in thine own opinions, from whence it must be cast out,
before thou canst truly and constantly be at ease.

XII. All those things, for matter of experience are usual and ordinary;
for their continuance but for a day; and for their matter, most base
and filthy. As they were in the days of those whom we have buried,
so are they now also, and no otherwise.

XIII. The things themselves that affect us, they stand without doors,
neither knowing anything themselves nor able to utter anything unto others
concerning themselves. What then is it, that passeth verdict on them?
The understanding XIV. As virtue and wickedness consist not in passion,