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1 5| OF ADVERSITY~It was an high speech of 2 5| good things, that belong to adversity, are to be admired. Bona 3 5| nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech 4 5| temperance; the virtue of adversity, is fortitude; which in 5 5| blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; 6 5| fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts 7 5| best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.~ ~ 8 10| great prosperity, and great adversity; though this latter hath