D. Sir, I perceive your Majefty (for the firft

Race were certainly all Monarchs as great as Kings, to their immediate Poflerity) to be greatly difturb'd of late, your Countenance is chang'd,
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yournoble Chearfulnefs (the Glories of your Face) are ftrangely funk and gone, and you are not the Man you ufed to be> pleafe yourMajefty to com municate your Griefs to us your Children, you may be fuf e, that if it be poflible, we would pro cure you Relief, and reftore your Delights, the Lofs of which, if thus you go on tofubjecl: yourfelf to too much Mejancholy, will be very hurtful to you, and in the End deftroy you.
Cain. It is very kind, my dear Children, to {hew your Refpect thus to your true Progenitor, and to offer your Afliftance : I confefs, as you fay, my Mind is opprefs'd and difpleafed , but tho' 'tis very heayy, yet I know not which way to look for Relief, for the Diftemper is above our Reach, no Cure can be found for it on Earth.