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exprefled great joy in feeing me out of danger;
« deliverance which (he faid) he attributed ro two
copious bleedings that he had performed, and fome
pupping-glafles which he had the honour to apply.
This was another feather to be plucked from my
wing: I was fain to pay tribute to the furgpon
alfo. After fo many evacuations, my purfe be¬
came fo feeble, that it was little better than a
lifelefs corfe, fo little of the radical moiflure re¬
mained.
\ began to lofe courage, when I faw myfelf re-
lapfing into a ftate of mifery. I had, while I
' ferved my laft mailers, conceived too great af-
feftion for the conveniencies of life,'and could no
longer, as formerly, look upon indigence with the
i eye of a cynic philofopher. I will own, how¬
ever, that 1 was very much in the wrong, to let
myfelf fall a prey to melanchojy. After having fo
often experienced, that fortune no fooner over¬
threw than Hie railed me up again, J ought tp
, have regarded the troublefome Ctuation in which
t J was, as another introduction to profperity.
The End of the Seventh Poor,
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