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xviii. Silenus to King Midas.

The greatest Gift that from their loftie Thrones
The all-gouerning powers to men can giue
Is that hee neuer breath, or breathing once
A suckling end his dayes, and leaue to liue:
For then hee neither knowes the woe nor joy
Of life, nor feares the stigian lakes annoy.