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*Prognostic, Subject; eagerness as a melancholy, Relation A achievements;
qualification B, the end of life.*
We might assume a greater thing is that which we hath achieved than that which we hath not; for the latter is merely an object of speculation, in posession of no imperant temperature, whilst the former certainly is, and trully holdeth the fantastic judgement unto our life. This is no introspectus hiat tantarum in semina rerum, I hath not examined beyond the fact [who fears from near at hand, fears often less] of Adromache, whereof, in our subject of this insecurity, which is closest to our displeasure over Death in the relation to our aspirement, as how, being compelled to tears, in the being informed by a philosopher that there were possibly some variety of unseen worlds, which he should be never able to conquer, Alexander didst approve this point: that we must pay some attention to that melancholy which ariseth out of the insecurity, wherein it encroacheth upon our right in this world to hath been given a legacy by the world. I would insert a pasage of Sophocles, [my sufferings past I could forget; but oh! I dread the woes to come; for well I know when once the mind's corrupted it brings forth unnumbered crimes, and ills to ills succeed.] for if we let this delicious fault to spread, ut rapido cursu fati suprema morantem consumsere locum: parva tellure diremti, inde manus spectant, no other one of our humours becomes anything less then a glutton o'er it, and we hath detained the ends to our own fate, when, as Cinesias saith in Aristophanes, [what time we've wasted we might have drenched with Paphian laughter, flung on Aphrodite's Mysteries,] yet rather worried, [and you, ye heavenly orbs that roll around me, how will ye bear to see me linked with those Who have destroyed me?] about the compromises of our lives.
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