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…

thrice then unhappy shall we be if our plants are thus choked with over-much moisture, if our Lamps are thus damned with too much oil, and the actions of our mind overwhelmed with the abundance of too needless a study; and O that those dissenting spirits were equally balanced to prevent all turbulent motions, and to measure things with an indifferent poise • least the discordance of opinions, and diversity of languages occasion the like confusion in this unhappy state, as it once did in the overthrow of that proudly-raised Pile, & heaven-menacing Tower; but what power but the highest can direct this [Greek or Hebrew]; we may un-use our selves to the secrets of the Stars, yet still have a continual bondage before our eyes▪ or like those Grammarians (at whom Dionysius ⟨p. 35⟩scoffeth) labour to know the Mysteries of Ulysses, & yet be ignorant of our own; and with those Orators we may be derided who study to speak of justice, yet can never frame away of execution, unless some director from above teach us Servare modum, finemque tenere; neither I hope shall we have reason hereafter to mistrust, but that those eminent States-men (which like discreet Pilots, are now appointed to steer the weather-beaten vessel of this tottering kingdom) sufficiently know sometimes how to loose a sail, now and then hoist to the main, for if they once chance to loose the Helm (unless they be good swimmers) needs must they be drowned. As also that by an over▪multiplying and subdividing we fall again into the infinity of Epicurus Atoms, and so by opening of the matter, spill it by distempering the ingredients;

thrice then unhappy shall we be if our plants are thus choaked with over-much moysture, if our Lampes are thus damn'd with too much oyle, and the actions of our minde overwhelm'd with the aboundance of too needlesse a study; and O that those dissenting spirits were equally ballanced to prevent all turbulent motions, and to measure things with an indifferent poyse • least the discordance of opinions, and diversity of languages occasion the like confusion in this unhappy state, as it once did in the overthrow of that proudly-rais'd Pile, & heaven-menacing Tower; but what power but the highest can direct this 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; we may un-use our selves to the secrets of the Stars, yet still have a continuall bondage before our eyes or like those Grammarians (at whom Dionisius