of this life, are now no more, and therefore death now touchech them not: for thou art not yet dead, neither if thou deceaſe, ſhall it concerne thee, for thou ſhalt then haue no more. Therefore, moſt vaine is that ſorrow which Axiochus maketh, for the thing which neyther is preſent, nor ſhall euer touch Axiochus himſelfe. And euen as fooliſh is it, as if one ſhould complaine and be afraid of Scylla, or the Centaures, which were monſters, of Poets broode, which neyther now belong to tee, nor to thy liues end ſhall appertaine; for feare is conceyued of ſuch things as be: but of ſuch things as be not, what feare can there be?

Truely Socrates, you haue fetched theſe things, out of the riche and moſt aboundant Storehouſe of your woonderfull wiſedome: And thereof riſeth that your mildeneſſe and lightneſſe of ſpeech, which you vſe to allure the mindes of yoong men to vertue. But the loſſe of theſe worldly commodities, dooth not a little vexe and diſquiet my minde; albeit theſe reaſons, which now to my great god liking you haue alledged, ſeeme to mee much more allowable, than thoſe which late you vſed; for my minde is not carryed away with error through the entiſement of your words, but