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MORAL REFLECTION.
ALL the Lines of this Picture are instructive, and the very shadows of it are luminous, and enlighten the understanding. We learn from the unfortunate Beauty of Camma, that as there be flowers which impoison, so there are Riches which render those unhappy who possess them: And that very often we are only slung with what glit∣ters about us, as well as with what pleaseth and adorns us. We are taught likewise by her Courage, that in the Combats of Vertue, Victory consists in the strength of the Minde, and not of the Bodie: That the weakest Sex may herein Dispute in point of advantage with the stron∣gest: and that a Crown is more for the Heart, then for the Arms or for the Head. On the other side we learn from the Crime of Sinorix, that unchast Love is a dangerous Guest: It enters with Nosegayes in its Hand, and Garlands on his Head; And assoon as it comes into a House, and hath there setled it self, it exhibits poisons and swords. We gather also from his punnishment, that Divine Justice, though it sets forth late, yet it fails not to arrive in due time: And that without causing Exe∣cutioners to come afar off, it often makes our Idols become our Tor∣mentors, and our sins our punishments.