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OF TRUTH,

*^What is truth T said jesting Pilate, and would not
stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight
in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief,
affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting.
And though the sects of philosophers of that kind
be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits
which are of the same veins, though there be not so
much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
But it is not only the difficulty and labour which
men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that
when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts
that doth bring lies in favour, but a natural though
corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later
school of the Grecians examlnetli the matter, and is
at a stand to think what should be  in  it that  men

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