Eugenia's tears for Great Britons distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…Evgenia's teares for Great Brittaynes distractions, or, Some slender observations reflecting on those sad…

where must we seek this cure, whence shall we expect this remedy▪ if any should seem to make this question it is not to be doubted but their own thoughts have likewise resolved so needless a scruple, especially in these times where the world no less hates then admires the Physician, & where those Saints of the cross (for brevities sake now called Crouched Friars▪ ) with which our streets so lately swarmed, so much opposed the likelihood of a cure; O make not your religion thus from being ridiculous, to be come odious; forbear, forbear, with your Legends and false▪ miracles (most proper for the great Prince of ceremonies) thus to oppose so great an Assembly, least your desperate attempts (viewed with an intentive judgement) exceed• the bounds of pity; there is but one Master of Requests i• heaven, who will assuredly recompense your bad designs▪ neither think (with those fond Egyptians) sufficiently to satisfy divine justice by sacrificing the counterfeit shadows of some painted creatures, or with some fond invention to appease a substance •o essential; no, no, shake off that spirit of slumber which thus deludes you leave o• ⟨p. 34⟩hatching of such Cockatrice eggs, and thus sin no more least a worse thing happen unto you; and what cause have we by continual imploring of a supreme power to beg a prosperous event on the great endeavours of that high Assembly, that so it may never be said that the greatest folly should proceed from the subtlest wisdom, the extremest enmities from the greatest friendship, and that our Physic should bring infection with it; too much clearness may blind our sights and too deep an apprehension may at last bereave us of our senses; the curious pursuit of divers sciences hath brought many unto sottishness, and too much aptitude toward the exercise of the mind hath at last brought many without mind or exercise, but O God! Let not our mortallest diseases proceed from our soundest health, let not distempered & outrageous frenzies ensue from the rarest agitations of our minds, neither let the best spirits be overthrown by their own force, least thereby the enemies of thy truth have just cause to rejoice;