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ANSELM. in Protolog. cap. 1.
O miserable condition of mankind, that has lost that for which he was created! Alas What has he left? And what has hee found? He has lost happinesse for which he was made, and found misery for which he was not made: What is gone? and what is left? That thing is gone, without which hee is unhappy; that thing is left, by which he is miserable: O wretched men! From whence are we expell'd? To what are we impell'd? Whence are we throwne? And whether are we burried? From our home into banishment; from the slight of God into our own blindnesse; from the pleasure of immortality to the bitternesse of death: Miserable change! From how great a good, to how great an evill? Ah me; What have I enterprized? What have I done? Whither did I goe? Whither am I come?