| Description Of Item | Notes on a ‘philosopher’ who saw ‘Dionysius to sit merrily in the theatre, after he was Explused’ from ‘his realm, Condemned the People who banished him’ because he thinks people who are fit to govern are the ones able to ‘moderate their affections, attemper their passions & Discover a cheerful countenance in troubled waters’.
Copied from Richard Brathwaite, History surveyed in a brief epitomy, or, A nursery for gentry comprised in an intermixt discourse upon historicall and poeticall relations: wherein is much variety of discourse and modest delight (1651).
Manuscript marginalia in a library copy of William Salmon, Iatrica: seu Praxis Medendi (1684) – library reference M.10.50.
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