unto him, Lest of all deaths I should die the worst kind of death,
said he: that is, not able to requite the good that hath been done
unto me. XXIV. In the ancient mystical letters of the Ephesians,
there was an item, that a man should always have in his mind
some one or other of the ancient worthies. XXV. The Pythagoreans
were wont betimes in the morning the first thing they did,
to look up unto the heavens, to put themselves in mind of them
who constantly and invariably did perform their task:
as also to put themselves in mind of orderliness, or good order,
and of purity, and of naked simplicity. For no star or planet
hath any cover before it.