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CHAP. VI.
* 1.1THinke what solitude and desolation there would bee in this Citie (in which a World of people going and comming incessantly by the spacious streetes cease not to justle one another as oftentimes as something hindereth their walke which is as a violent torrent which a man would staie, in which three streetes are requisite at one time, for three Theaters and in which as much corne is consumed as is ga∣thered in many Countries) if a man should leaue none but such, as a seuere Iudge would absolue. Who is hee amongst the receiuers and treasurers that shall get his Quietus est, if he be as strictly examined: as he doth others? Is there euer an accuser without a fault? And I know not whether there be any man more dif∣ficult to giue pardon then he that hath often deserued to begge the same. Wee are all faultie, the one more, the other lesse, the one of deliberate purpose, the other being driuen there vnto by aduenture, or drawne by other mens wic∣kednesse. Sometimes we haue not constantly perseuered in one good resoluti∣on, and haue lost our innocence with griefe, and in spight of our selues; neither only ••or the present doe we amisse, but vntill the last houre of our life, we shall be still full of sinne. Although a man hath so well purged his minde that no∣thing can trouble or deceiue him any more yet by sinning hee attainted his in∣nocencie.